Vancouver: Mass Protests

vancouver: But with a citrus-skinned con man now installed in the Oval Office, are such mass protests too little too late I think back to the winter and spring of 2003, when 36 million people took part in nearly 3,000 anti-war protests across the world, including Vancouver, according to Vancouver Courier. There was no discernible effect on U.S. policymakers, but it may have been a different story up here. The hugely successful Women's March on Washington on Jan. 21 swept across the Potomac to Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Auckland and beyond. Just three days prior to the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq, Prime Minister Jean Chr tien signaled that Canada would not commit troops to another Coalition of the Kicking and Screaming. Holding out the promise of hope and change, the smooth-talking Democrat senator became the first African-American U.S. president on the strength of his stirring rhetoric. The odds for world peace seemed better in 2008, with the rise of a career politician from Chicago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.