supported the family, in an attempt to escape from the warring nation. “I failed to bring part of the extended family to Canada because of Ottawa’s requirements for documents, They didn't deserve to die,” said Tina Kurdi on Thursday, to the reporters in Coquitlam, B.C. Critics say that Canada has not been taking concrete steps to speed up the procedure of resettling Syrian refugee families to the country. On Thursday, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, responded to the recent tragedy,…
One of the recent ones was the suicide of Amanda Todd. She committed suicide on October 10, 2012 at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. She was 16 years old when she died. On September 7, 2012, she posted a 9-minute video on YouTube titled My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self-harm, which showed her using flash cards telling her experiences…
Stories that’ll get your motor running A good old-fashioned restoration story will fuel any classic car aficionado’s passion. These three tales will get you fired up. Found on Craigslist John Glass of Columbus, Ohio happened on an ad for a turbocharged 1963 Corvair Monza 900 Spyder on Craigslist for $1,300. That was the year that Chevy introduced the turbocharged engine. It was also the year they test ran the Spyder before it went into production in ’64. Because the Spyder was an option and…
closes his eyes. Sometimes it is hard to make the feeling come true. Sometimes the feeling in his stomach is too strong. Not today. Today it is easy and, with closed eyes, and with skinny arms held out, he slowly sprinkles crushed Cheerios into the Coquitlam River." Bruyere, Gord, Strength and Struggle, pg. 113. 23) He shares the cereal and the night by the end of the book; this shows his growth towards sharing the good with his family and being more responsible and grown up. In addition, the…
Woodfibre LNG is planning to build a liquified natural gas (LNG) facility seven kilometres south-west of Squamish. The facility will be a link to the tankers that will bring the LNG to the rest of the world to meet rising energy demand. With the building of this facility there will be a new liquid natural gas pipeline from Greater Vancouver. LNG occurs when natural gas is cooled to -160C° and condensates from a gaseous state to a liquid state. Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon…
1. Directive: The Personal is Political Central to the United States’ Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s, and prompted by urgency for collectivity; protests, advocacies, and feminist theory spurred the progressive unshackling of women from “male supremacy” and systemic oppression. “The personal is political” has since etched itself into a slogan, an outcry and a representation for women against the backdrop of systematically-indoctrinated patriarchal society. As…
lessen the cost associated with it. In Vancouver, the North Shore Search and Rescue has created a team that is specifically trained to fly drones. Within the team are trained commercial pilots, aircraft engineers, and other professionals. As well, Coquitlam SAR has run a pilot project to see how drones can help their operations. In an article they stated that “it’s pretty obvious that if you put a camera in the sky, you can see more than you would on the ground” (Ferreras, 2014). However, some…
video called “My story:struggling, bullying, suicide, self harm”. It was a story of all the things that happened and what she went through. She put that video on youtube on September 7th. On October 10th she committed suicide in her hometown of Port Coquitlam. Suicide is the leading cause of deaths among young people, a statistic shows 4,400 deaths per year, for every suicide there is 100 suicide attempts according to bullyingstatistics.com. Amanda Todd…
The Thoughtless Killing Of John Fulton; The Kimberly Noyes Case After the brutal murder of John Fulton an autistic twelve-year-old boy, Kimberly Noyes was declared not criminally responsible due to mental disorder. This is a Canadian law that states, “No person is criminally responsible for an act committed or an omission made while suffering from a mental disorder that rendered the person incapable of appreciating the nature and quality of the act or omission or of knowing that it was…
Super H Mart Company operates a chain of grocery. The company sells ready to serve food products, noodles, side dishes, snacks, kelp, powders, and blends. It also offers drinks, sauces, and flavors. Besides food products, it sells various kitchen items such as rice cookers, blenders, as well as copper to restorative cleansers and chemicals cleaners for kitchen and restroom needs. The international supply chain management is one of the key activities that determine the success of a company. Super…