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Below are some great events happening over the next few weeks:
Save the Douglas Street Trees!
BC Transit is proposing to remove the wonderful mature and healthy Heritage trees on the west side of Douglas Street between Hillside and Tolmie. You can read more about this proposal and the campaign to save the trees at::
<http://vi-can.ca/wp-content/uploads/160310-Presentation-to-Council.pdf>
To remove those trees would be an act of urban desecration that would drastically reduce the liveability of this area of Douglas, which is potentially the urban village for Burnside-Gorge, in which I and 6,500 others live.
There's more information in the succession of posts on the Victoria Citizens Action Network (ViCAN) web site:
<http://vi-can.ca/> and an action alert at <http://savethesetrees.ca/>
Kill Bill C-51?
Repeal or reform? A public forum
Young 201, Camosun College, Lansdowne Campus
Tuesday March 29, 7-9pm
Intense public opposition failed to stop the Stephen Harper government from passing Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015. But before he was elected, Justin Trudeau promised to revise the legislation. It’s time for Trudeau to keep his promise.
But can the act be reformed, or must it be repealed entirely?
Add your voice to the debate in a forum featuring:
Colin Bennett, Professor, Department of Political Science, UVic, and a specialist in the study of new information technologies and privacy protection.
Alan Breakspear, a retired professional intelligence officer who has worked for the Communications Security Establishment and CSIS.
Sofija Vrbaski, a Victoria activist who has led protests against C-51 and who is an MA candidate in Dispute Resolution at UVic. Her BA studies at Carleton University focused on human rights.
Reg Whitaker, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University, author of many books and articles about security intelligence.
Sponsored by the Human Rights and International Solidarity Committee of the Camosun College Faculty Association
Further information: Larry Hannant This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The Victoria Council of Canadians -The Shiv Chopra Tour
In Victoria on Sunday, April 10, 7:00-9:00 pm.
At the University of Victoria in the David Turpin Building A104
(Formerly known as the Social Sciences and Math Building
it is the grey building next to the David Strong Building.)
The closest parking lot is lot 4 & Free Parking on Sundays!
Dr. Shiv Chopra, a world-renowned scientist is the author of numerous publications in science, society and religion. Dr. Chopra was employed as a senior scientific advisor at the Canadian ministry of health (1969-2004), where he refused to approve various harmful drugs for food-producing animals. He spoke out publicly, testified at Senate committees, and won many federal court cases against the Government of Canada. His contributions on food and public health safety are featured in many internationally acclaimed documentaries. His book, CORRUPT TO THE CORE: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower (2010) provides a bristling account of how corporate corruption endangers public safety. It also contains his famously illumined “Five Pillars of Food Safety”, which is a blueprint for the future establishment of global food security.
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Alan Cassels has been immersed in pharmaceutical policy research for the past 22 years, primarily working on studies of how prescription drugs are regulated, marketed, prescribed and used. He has lectured and published widely on what he sees as the large gap between the marketing and the science behind prescribing. Alan is co-director of a consulting firm that advises unions on drug benefits issues and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, in Victoria British Columbia. His latest book is “The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine’s Best Kept Secret”.
Co-Sponsored by the University of Victoria Social Justice Studies!
À tout à l’heure, Barbara
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