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"We're cancelling part of our national championships to prevent the possibility of the bearded boxer's facial hair injuring his opponent." "I thought that was the whole idea..."
Year: 1999
Names: Raeside, Adrian
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
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COPE [Committee of Progressive Electors] press conference, city hall
Year: 1979
Description: COPE's Bruce Eriksen (left) and Bruce Yorke launch campaign for ward system in Vancouver at a news conference.
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Fishery opposition to Oil Ports press conference, UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union] board room
Year: 1977
Description: Photograph shows Bruce Yorke (center) and Jack Nichol (right).
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B.C. Federation of Agriculture president Pat Hibbert at press conference
Year: 1978
Description: B.C. Federation of Agriculture president Pat Hibbert at press conference outlining the federation's campaign in opposition to government's plan to reduce benefits of the B.C. Farm Assurance Program and leave vegetable farmers outside the program entirely.
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Co-ordinator Mike Kaufman at press conference founding GVUU [Greater Vancouver Union of the Unemployed]
Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows Michael Kaufman at right, together with Colin Snell, chair of the Vancouver and District Labour Council's unemployment committee.
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Co-ordinator Mike Kaufman at press conference founding GVUU [Greater Vancouver Union of the Unemployed]
Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows Michael Kaufman at the news conference.
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Dene, Yukon Indians, Nishga press conference on native rights campaign
Year: 1979
Description: Council of Yukon Indians representative Mary Easterson speaks at a news conference in Vancouver as the Dene Nation and the Nisga'a Tribal Council joined forces in launching a Northern Native Rights campaign across the country.
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Dene, Yukon Indians, Nishga press conference on native rights campaign
Year: 1979
Description: Percy Tait (left), Nisga'a Tribal Council, Richard Nerysoo, Dene Nation and Mary Easterson, Council of Yukon Indians at a news conference in Vancouver as the Dene Nation and the Nisga'a Tribal Council joined forces in launching a Northern Native Rights campaign across the country.
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Dene, Yukon Indians, Nishga press conference on native rights campaign
Year: 1979
Description: Percy Tait (left), Nisga'a Tribal Council, Richard Nerysoo, Dene Nation and Mary Easterson, Council of Yukon Indians at a news conference in Vancouver as the Dene Nation and the Nisga'a Tribal Council joined forces in launching a Northern Native Rights campaign across the country.
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Press conference at Burnaby NDP Svend Robinson's office for Chilean Galindo Madrid
Year: 1979
Description: Lawyer and MP Svend Robinson (right) with Chilean refugee Galindo Madrid, whom Robinson provided with sanctuary in his own home while assisting him in fighting his deportation back to Chile. Although Madrid had been granted authority to apply to a third country for asylum, he was suddenly told to report to Vancouver airport to be deported and immigration officials admitted that the intention was to take him back to the ship Star Pride from which he had fled two years earlier. After a lengthy…
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] press conference
Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows UFAWU president Jack Nichol talking with reporters following the first day of the trial against the UFAWU Seven — Homer Stevens, Dave McIntosh, Jack Nichol, George Hewison, Ken Robinson, Walter Tickson, and Bert Ogden — charged with impeding an inquiry because of their protests during a Combines branch investigation of the union.
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Truong Tan in Vancouver, press conference, Queen Elizabeth Playhouse rally
Year: 1975
Description: Dr. Alan Inglis, chair of the Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians, presents a cheque for $5,000 to Truon Tan, representative of the Provisional Revolutionary government of South Vietnam at a benefit concert at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse for medical aid to Vietnam. The money represented only one per cent of the half a million dollars in medical aid raised by CAVC by 1975.
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Truong Tan in Vancouver, press conference (Sept. 19/75)
Year: 1975
Description: Truon Tan, representative of the Provisional Revolutionary government of South Vietnam, at a news conference in Vancouver.
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