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Human rights in Canada have come under increasing public attention and legal protection since World War II. Inspired by Canada's involvement in the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, [ 1 ] the current legal framework for human rights in Canada consists of constitutional entitlements , and statutory human rights codes ...
According to Statistics Canada data from 2016, police reported 611 homicides across Canada in 2016, a rate of 1.68 per 100,000 people. [8] Canada's national homicide rate 2017 was the highest it's been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings.
The Vancouver Sun newspaper reports that Canada has more Hells Angels members per capita than any other country, including the U.S., where there are chapters in about twenty states. [4] The Canadian Hells Angels have partnered the Medellín Cartel , [ 5 ] the Rizzuto crime family , [ 6 ] the Sinaloa Cartel [ 7 ] and the West End Gang [ 8 ] in ...
The leaky condo crisis, also known as the leaky condo syndrome and rotten condo crisis, is an ongoing construction, financial, and legal crisis in Canada. It primarily involves multi-unit condominium (or strata) buildings damaged by rainwater infiltration in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island regions of coastal British Columbia (B.C.). In ...
Devil's Disciples Motorcycle Club – Quebec based Club that was allied with Satan's Choice, dissolved after Canada's first biker conflict with the Popeyes Motorcycle Club the event is known as the Satan's Choice-Popeyes War. Death Riders MC – Former Hells Angels support club, was involved in the Quebec Biker War, now defunct. [203]
In the House of Commons of Canada, Vancouver has five constituencies. In the 2004 federal elections, the Liberal Party of Canada won four seats, while the New Democratic Party won one. In the 2006 federal elections, all the same MPs were re-elected, although David Emerson of Vancouver Kingsway later defected to the Conservative Party.
Cannabis in British Columbia (BC) relates to a number of legislative, legal, and cultural events surrounding the use and cultivation of cannabis in the Canadian province of British Columbia. As with the rest of Canada, cannabis became legalized on 17 October 2018, following the enactment of the Cannabis Act , or Bill C-45.