Because it can be easy to forget what it means to grow up in a safe neighborhood with a good school and a nice backyard. To spend more time with our families than we do in traffic. And to watch the sun set in our big skies and the stars shine over our beautiful fields..

Don Matthews is a team leader and supervisor at the Fraserside Community Services Society in New Westminster. The society is in need of a new van after one of theirs was stolen and destroyed. Photo by Jason Payne /PNGIt’s mobile work crew is a social enterprise for adults with developmental disabilities, which generates revenue from landscaping, rubbish removal, power washing and other outdoor maintenance to pay for the crew’s salaries.

Officers from the police national security department arrested 52 year old Wan Yiu sing on a charge of “seditious intent”, according to a police statement.The radio personality, better known by his DJ name “Giggs”, has hosted programmes discussing anti government demonstrations and previously called for donations to support young Hong Kongers who have fled to nearby Taiwan.Hong Kong sedition law is separate to a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on the city last summer in a bid to stamp out dissent.Instead it dates back to the mid 19th century during British colonial rule.It remained on the books after the 1997 handover to China but was never used in a city that has enjoyed political freedoms unseen on the Chinese mainland.But after 2019 huge and often violent democracy protests, prosecutors dusted off the law.Last September another pro democracy radio host, Tam Tak chi, became the first person to be charged with sedition since the handover.He is currently in custody awaiting trial.Prosecutors allege that popular protest slogans he uttered, such as “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” and “Disband the police”, were seditious.Sedition is classified as words that incite “hatred or contempt” for the government or cause discontent and dissatisfaction among residents.Tam coming trial will be a legal test case for how sedition sits with the freedoms of speech supposedly guaranteed by Hong Kong mini constitution and its bill of rights.Beijing national security law has peeled back on those liberties.At the time the police national security department said they suspected Wan had illegally processed funds to support people or organisations that advocate secessionist activities a potential reference to donations for Hong Kongers in Taiwan.He has yet to be charged with a national security offence, and his arrest on sedition may indicate police have decided to use the colonial era law instead.Internet access restored as Myanmar coup protests growAs enthusiastic crowds of tens of thousands marched through the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city on Sunday to protest last week’s coup ousting Aung San Suu Kyi elected government, their spirits were lifted by the return of internet services that had been blocked a day earlier. Separate protests that began in various parts of Yangon converged at Sule Pagoda, situated in the center of a roundabout in the city’s downtown area. Protesters chanted “Long live Mother Suu” and “Down with military dictatorship.”UK vaccine gambles paid off, while EU caution slowed it downSAINT HERBLAIN, France (AP) French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate.