In my opinion, Bill C-51 is not a response to terror. This bill is “fear itself.” Across Canada on March 14, Canadians will come out to show courage and strength and protest Bill C-51.
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Bill C-51 could be the biggest bait and switch Canada has ever seen: Opinion
In the spring of 2011 the Government of Canada was renamed the Harper Government. While to some it may seem a relatively minor issue of semantics, in retrospect it has come to signify something much greater: the dismantling of the Canada you grew up in, and its replacement with a strange and frightening new Canada birthed behind the closed doors of the Prime Minister’s Office. While Canadians have complained about the unchecked power of majority governments in the past, this one feels like a landslide that just keeps coming.
Continue readingCity hopes Downtown Eastside plan will transform neighbourhood, stabilize low-income community
“Wes Regan of the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association also has concerns with the plan, and says business owners were forgotten. “We have felt this has largely been a housing and social planning focused plan. Businesses in many respects were unfortunately an afterthought. Now we are working with the city to play catch-up.”
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Meet Wes Regan. Member of a few boards, Executive Director of the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association, a founding Director of the Vancouver Urban Farming Society and a founding partner at Urban Stream Innovation, which is a food systems tech startup.
Continue readingPechaKucha Volume 30
I was honoured and excited to speak at PechaKucha volume 30 where I spoke about this… “Our next speaker’s career
Continue readingCredible Conversations panel: Will new oil pipelines benefit BC businesses?
VIDEO: The first experts’ panel explored the economic impact of oil pipeline development on the province’s economy as a whole.
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