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The shelter has a total annual budget of around $1.1 million per year, of which approximately $600,000 is funded by the government of British Columbia. [7]In March 2019, the Vancouver City Council announced that it would stop awarding an annual $34,312 grant to the organisation and would not award future funding unless the organisation extended accommodations to transgender women. [8]
This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails. In Canada , all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).
In 2015, its $24m budget was 45% funded by the Canadian federal government, the rest mostly provided by Government of British Columbia and private donations from groups including the Law Society of British Columbia. [1] Nine per cent of revenue is generated from the sale of translations services. [1] In 2015, MOSAIC employed over 300 staff. [1]
MV Sun Sea is a Thai cargo ship that brought 492 Sri Lankan Tamils into British Columbia, Canada, in August 2010. [1] [2] Following their arrival, the passengers—seeking refuge in Canada after the Sri Lankan Civil War—were transferred to detention facilities in the Lower Mainland, [3] for which the Canadian Government would garner heavy criticism from various Canadian advocacy groups.
The former Salvation Army Grace Maternity Hospital began providing care in 1927 at Heather Street and West 29th Avenue. In 1982, both the Grace Maternity Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital's Willow Pavilion Maternity care moved to the current location at 4500 Oak Street, at which it shared the campus with Shaughnessy Hospital.
The Ismaili Centre, Vancouver is an Ismaili Jama'at Khana, located in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, in British Columbia, Canada. Completed in 1985, it is one of six Ismaili Centres worldwide. and was the first purpose-built jamatkhana and Ismaili centre in North America .
Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre; Location: 4216 Wilkinson Road, Saanich, British Columbia: Population: 300 (as of Sep 27, 2013) Opened: September 12, 1914: Former name: Wilkinson Road Jail Colquitz Gaol Saanich Prison Farm (1913-16) Colquitz Centre for the Criminally Insane (1916-1954) Provincial Government Pheasant Farm (1918-1919)
GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre is the largest rehabilitation hospital in British Columbia. [1] It is located in the South Cambie neighbourhood of Vancouver.. It provides inpatient, outpatient, outreach and clinical support services to clients/patients across British Columbia and the Yukon in four programs: acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, and neuromusculoskeletal.