Sanctuary Health: United for Refugee and Migrant Health is coordinating with our friends in the Latin American community to celebrate the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). This is an event open to all members of our communities to honour our friends and family who have died. We will also be noting the death of Interim Federal Health benefits for most refugees in Canada and recent changes in Canadian law and government policy that threaten the lives and wellbeing of refugees and migrants in our communities.  Please join us outside First United Church (Hastings and Gore) for  a procession through the neighbourhood.

Where: Meet near First United Church at Hastings and Gore, Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
When: 6:00pm Thursday November 1
Contact: 604-446-1823

By Karl Nerenberg

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2012/10/right-wing-hate-roma-people-and-jason-kenneys-trip-hungary

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a tweet can be worth at least a 100 carefully crafted news releases.

Take the following tweet, for example: “…now get them the f — outta here cuz most are false asylum seekers. They had their free vacay, now it’s time to go!”

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Jason Kenney to vote in favour of the abortion motion M-312 that the Canadian Medical Association is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion.
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By Glen McGregor, Ottawa Citizen

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Recipients+Kenney+missive+wondering+government+knows+their+sexual+orientation/7290682/story.html#ixzz27PKJqSTp

Jonathan Woodward, CTV British Columbia

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/canada-s-tough-talk-on-tamil-migrants-backfires-1.967043