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Indigenous youths occupy office and secure meeting with Advanced Education Minister Melanie Mark

George Shafe

B.C. NDP MLA Melanie Mark is envisioned to produce a letter currently (February 24) to Leading John Horgan on behalf of two-spirit and Indigiqueer youths who oppose the development of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline.

The youths are demanding that the RCMP retreat from Wet’suwet’en territory and chorus from utilizing drive to clear away Indigenous folks from their lands, amid other points.

Mark agreed to produce the letter on Friday (February 21), after 8 two-spirit and queer Indigenous youths occupied her East Vancouver place of work and demanded she fulfill with them. The place of work profession, in solidarity with the

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Entertainment News
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$35M lawsuit hits reality TV company over alleged unpaid wages

George Shafe

An award-winning Toronto-dependent creation enterprise behind a slew of popular actuality displays is experiencing a $35-million course-action lawsuit around alleged work benchmarks violations.

A news launch suggests legislation firm Cavalluzzo LLP submitted the match in an Ontario court on Friday from Insight Productions.

The enterprise has worked on sequence like The Wonderful Race Canada, Massive Brother Canada and CBC original series Fight of the Blades.

Media union CWA/SCA Canada suggests it and fellow union IATSE assist the match, which is in search of damages on behalf of impartial contractors and present-day and former workers.

The match claims Insight

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Local Arts
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Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo

George Shafe

When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo’s Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous physique, she fulfilled a desire of female magnificence practically 3 many years previous.

Prins suggests she initial realized she preferred to be a lady at a Carnival bash at age eleven, when, like the other boys, she was allowed to gown like a girl as aspect of the burlesque festivities.

On Saturday, she turned the initial transgender lady to lead the drum area of a best samba faculty in either of the renowned Carnival parades set in Sao Paulo and Rio de

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Music Arts
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Justin Bieber’s Changes beats Elvis Presley’s 60-year record

George Shafe

Pop star Justin Beiber is now the youngest solo artist to release 7 consecutive Billboard No. one albums, breaking a practically 60-calendar year-aged record. 

At 25, the Stratford, Ont.-raised musician took the crown from Elvis Presley with the release of Variations. Presley experienced held that record given that the 1961 release of Blue Hawaii, a soundtrack to his movie of the similar title.

Presley produced that album when he was 26 years and 11 months aged. Bieber will flip 26 on March one. 

As a team, The Beatles hold a similar record. All four members were underneath 26 when

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Original Arts
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B.C. overdose deaths declined in 2019 but health officials caution the fentanyl crisis continues

George Shafe

The province’s first initial count of overdose deaths in 2019 shows a sharp decline from preceding several years but a selection that continues to be miles earlier mentioned what was once regarded “normal” for British Columbia.

There had been 981 illicit-drug-overdose deaths in B.C. last 12 months, according to a B.C. Coroners Company (BCCS) report unveiled these days (February 24).

Which is down about a third from 1,543 deaths in 2018 and 1,495 the 12 months right before that.

B.C. main coroner Lisa Lapointe observed that the full for 2019 is virtually the correct selection of deaths B.C. saw in

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