Dozens of people scoured a beach in Vancouver looking for little pieces of plastic and other litter to mark World Oceans Day, one of several similar events held across Canada.
Since 2002, people around the world have come together on June 8 to collectively honour the importance of oceans.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Vancouver Monday afternoon to help kick off the official opening of the Women Deliver 2019 global conference.
The four-day summit is described as "the world's largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and well-being of girls and women."
Zero emission vehicles are quickly gaining traction in B.C. — sales went from four per cent of new cars last year to six per cent in the first quarter of 2019 — but the provincial government is aiming for much more than that.
The mayor of Burnaby, B.C., says he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss his concerns about the risk of a fire at a tank farm in his city, which would be the terminus of an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline.
Mike Hurley said he told Trudeau on Saturday that the facility on Burnaby Mountain is within five kilometres of forests and a residential area that would put thousands of lives in danger.
Pro-life movie Unplanned has been rejected by all of Canada. Domestically, the movie has done much better at the box office than initially anticipated. The movie cost Pure Flix an estimated $6 million to produce and it has brought in over $18 million since hitting theaters at the end of March. Obviously, abortion is big in the news right now, which helped Unplanned do well at the box office. However, despite its stateside success, it will not be playing in any Canadian movie theaters.
Chuck Konzelman, Unplanned's co-director and co-writer revealed the rejection news. With that being said, they were able to pull off a free screening earlier this month in Edmonton. 3000 people allegedly watched the movie. Abortion is legal in Canada throughout all stages of pregnancy, which is more than likely why Pure Flix wanted their movie to be shown in the country. However, Cineplex Entertainment and Landmark Cinemas, refused to screen the movie, citing "the content as being the issue rather than a lack of consumer demand," according to Konzelman.
Unplanned was unable to secure any distribution in Canada at all, despite the free screenings in Edmonton and another in Ottawa. With that being said, the movie has been gaining headlines, which was more than likely the plan all along. With a movie as divisive as Unplanned, any press is good press, even if that means the Canadian government won't allow your movie to be shown in theaters. Some theaters in the United States declined to show the movie too, which makes the $18 million box office earnings even more impressive.
Unplanned is based on the real events in Abby Johnson's life. Johnson is a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, who later changed her mind and became a pro-life activist. As for her reasoning for changing her mind, part of it was seeing an ultrasound-guided abortion of a 13-week old fetus. She says, "Seeing that child fight and struggle for his life against the abortion instrument. There was life in the womb, humanity in the womb." Unplanned tells her story in often graphic detail. The movie comes at a time when abortion laws are being changed and even outlawed in certain states in an effort to overturn Roe v Wade.
Abby Johnson says she is not surprised that the Canadian government decided to reject Unplanned, which she calls censorship. "I have to wonder what they're afraid of," says Johnson. In another reason for leaving her old life behind, Johnson claims the clinic was supposed to "double our abortion quota, the number of abortions we had to sell," a statement which Planned Parenthood vehemently denies. Whatever the case may be, Unplanned isn't going anywhere, but it definitely won't be going to Canada any time soon. The Unplanned Canadian rejection news was first reported by The Epoch Times.
A court fight between two Vancouver real estate companies details an alleged scheme to evade B.C.'s property transfer tax.
A notice of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court alleges Realtors closed deals with overseas clients so they could pay a reduced property transfer tax while avoiding the troublesome issue of bringing cash into Canada.
Metro Vancouver politicians vote to keep their pay the same — sort of
After having an independent panel study how much they should be paid, Metro Vancouver board members have approved the status quo.
The regional board, which oversees local governments from Lions Bay to Langley Township, approved on Friday recommendations that kept the current formula for calculating pay, and opted against including a "retirement allowance" for departing members.
