A memorial honouring the seniors lost to COVID-19 in Vancouver’s West End and Coal Harbour communities was unveiled Tuesday at the southeast corner of Davie and Thurlow streets. The memorial features a poster of physiotherapist Garry Monckton, who died April …
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West End memorial honours seniors who died from coronavirus
West End memorial honours seniors who died from coronavirus ‘Recognize, celebrate, remember and put the names, faces and stories to the numbers we hear daily of those lost to COVID-19 … Our friends, neighbourhoods, our parents and our grandparents’ Kevin …
A Second Pride Parade Has Called Out the BC Liberals For Failing to Take Action on an Anti-LGBTQ MLA
Victoria’s Pride Society issues statement warning BC Liberals they could be excluded from future Pride Parades July 20, 2020 Andrew Wilkinson’s BC Liberals have been condemned by a second Pride parade society after BC Liberal MLA Laurie Throness publicly defended …
Province outlines repayment framework to support tenants, landlords
The Province has laid out the details of a repayment framework to be put in place later this summer, helping renters and landlords to transition and tenants in arrears to maintain their housing when the ban on evictions for non-payment …
Vancouver Pride ‘Shocked’ BC Liberals Have Not Sanctioned or Removed MLA Over Anti-LGBTQ Views
Vancouver’s Pride Society says lack of action by BC Liberals could put their inclusion in future pride parades in jeopardy July 15, 2020 Vancouver’s Pride Society says it is “shocked” that BC Liberal MLA Laurie Throness is facing no consequences …
Throness remains silent as Wilkinson avoids questions on MLA’s future in BC Liberal caucus
BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson dodged questions about whether MLA Laurie Throness would remain in the BC Liberal caucus. Wilkinson was responding to a request from BC NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert that Throness be removed after he defended an …
Vancouver MLA calls for removal of Chilliwack MLA Laurie Throness from B.C. Liberal caucus due to anti-LGBT views
Georgia Straight by Craig Takeuchi on July 15th, 2020 at 4:00 PM Chilliwack-Kent MLA Laurie Throness has expressed anti-LGBT stances, including criticizing SOGI 123 and defending conversion therapy. An NDP MLA from Vancouver is calling for a Liberal MLA to be removed …
If there’s no room for homophobia and transphobia in your party @Wilkinson4BC you need to act. Action means more than words. Start with your MLA who believes there’s space for anti LGBTQ conversion therapy.
Minister Fleming responds to BC Liberal ads in The Light
NDP MLA calls out BC Liberals for advertising in magazine with ‘anti-LGBTQ values’
by Liza Yuzda and Kathryn Tindale Posted Jun 30, 2020 1 FILE: B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson answers questions from the media following the speech from the throne in the legislative assembly in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, February 13, 2018. …