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Good afternoon and welcome to BC's Multiculturalism and Anti-racism Awards. I'm Hannah Wildeyes, a member of the province's Multiculturalism Advisory Council, which provides advice to government on issues related to multiculturalism and anti-racism. I'm excited to be your MC. I'm joining you here today from Danceded, Ancestral and Traditional Territories of the Musqueam, Skamish and Swelettish Nations land. I'm honored to be a part of this event to recognize the inspiring and incredible work that's being done across BC to make this a more just, equitable and inclusive province. Joining us today is Premier John Horgan and Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-racism Initiative, Ro Chan Singh. Spoken word artist Julian Christmas will be performing for us and will be hearing from our five award recipients. To begin, I would like to introduce Kevin Kelly and his son, Michael Kelly Guerrero, from Quadland First Nations to welcome us to this event. Oh, Sam, I'll start with my traditional name, my traditional name, Salasulta. I'm originally from Swally First Nations up in Coltis Lake. I'm married to the hereditary chief of the Quadland First Nations. My wife's traditional name is Stackelson. I'm honored to be here today with my son. I think it's really important that we're all here, the people that they showed. My name is Pete Milan, and I thank the organizers, the recorders that are doing all the video. It takes everybody to make this successful. Anti-racism, racism, the awards, I'm glad you have this, but every day we get to stick together and make it better for my children, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren. This is why we're all here today. I thank the Premier for being here, John Horgan. We've done work with him numerous times, and they always respect our people as First Nations. I thank you for being here because to me it proves that you're here because you're here for yourself and you're here to support the people that are carrying out this work. And this shows to us the respect that you have for all colors, all races, who we are as human beings. We should do this every day. So with that, I'm going to let my son carry on, but I'm honored to be here. Thank you very much. Hey, C.M. Ciaia. I start today off by thanking our Cheetsle C.M. and our language that's our creator. Thanking our ancestors before us because without them we wouldn't be able to share this good medicine. Our elders that sit along with us, I've seen a couple of them in our local communities, and we're planting the seeds and paving the way for the next generation. Thanking the youth for making our community and our chief and council work hard in all the leadership, and the ones that are unborn yet. My name is Michael Kelly Gabriel. My mom is Horette Chief of Maryland, Gabriel. Her traditional name is StacroSan. With me I have my dad, Kevin Kelly, his traditional name is Lossleton. I'm so grateful to be here to honor you to ground you in the most beautiful way that we can with our prayer. I ask everybody to come here. There's lots of mud in our language. That's one mind, one heart. Ciaia is still working together. Lots of Xueli. We're all one spirit. In our communities and our cultures, you often see us sit around in circles in our lawn houses, or even when we get chairs and sit around because when you walk in, nobody's better than anyone else. Everybody's voices matter, you know. That's what our old ones share with us. The day you're born, the day you take your first breath, you're born as a gift and a purpose to bring to this world. And that's what we keep telling our children, and that's what we do in our communities, is when we, our chief and council sit at a table with our elders, they don't think of themselves, they think of the next seven generations. So we're here humbly here to raise our hands. Hi, thank you for acknowledging the traditional territory and this might be a little bit of you, a little bit of for you guys, but it means so much to our community because we've been here since time immemorial and you're recognizing the first people of the land. It's a big step and we want to honor you in the best way possible for all the gifts, all the people that are sitting with us that are going to receive these good awards for the good work that they do and share a song because there's an old one that shared with me when I was in Vancouver when there's no higher way of giving thanks in our traditional language and even in English language, you share a song. And these songs aren't, this is not a performance, this is our way of prayer. And I asked my uncle, Stephen, who used to be Lieutenant Governor, why are people so drawn to the drum?  And he says, you remember when you're nine months being created in your mom's womb, what did you hear? Your heartbeat. It's a heartbeat of the people, but also the heartbeat of our ancestors. So we don't know what you're going through personally, you know, through this pandemic or through the journeys of life. These songs are meant to ground you so that you're here to enjoy this very moment while you're here. This is why you sit here.  The song that I'm going to share with you today, it's a song that came to me. It's called Ocean of Use. It came to me when I was in my partner's community to house it. I was looking out in the water and the sun was bouncing off the water and it was sparkling. It looked so beautiful. And we were surrounded by the House of People's Medicine, which is the spruce and our Stola People's Medicine, which is cedar, which is our hats. It cleanses us, it grounds us. And I remember the teachings of an old one shared with me. She shared, all water has shweli, all water has spirit. And if that's river, lake, or ocean, or even any body of water. And she says, whenever you're feeling down mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually, go dip your hand, go dip your foot, speak what's in your mind and your heart to that water and that water will take it away. So when this song came to me, I sang it and it made me feel really late. So whenever I share this song, when I pray in our ways, it's for each and every one of you, no matter what you're going through along your journey. If you need to be uplifted, if you need to feel a little bit better today to continue good work, this song is for you. It's meant to take off, but it's not supposed to be there and our ancestors are going to brush it away. So the song is called Ocean Views. And this is how we're going to start the day. If you ever came to our ceremonies, you would welcome me ashore if you came through canoes with the song to make sure that you came in a good way to welcome you to our territory. Or when you're at one of our ceremonies, that's what you'll hear in these communities. They'll open with the song. So Aitchka, when we raise our hands high, that means we have the utmost respect for each and every one of you. So just if you see us go like this or go like this, that's what it means. So the song is called Ocean Views. Aitchka Siam to the organizers. Thank you to Premier and John Horgan for joining us. And that's the teachings of our old ones shared with us. Your presence speaks loud even if you don't share any words. So thank you for being here, representing our local communities and the good people I do is good work. An opening of the highest honor. I would now like to welcome Premier John Horgan to say a few words about the importance of these awards. Thank you very much, Hannah, for that introduction. And I lift my hands and say Aitchka Siam to Kevin and Michael for getting us started in a good way. I'm coming to you this evening from my office on the unceded territory of the Lacongan speaking people, the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nation. And I know how important it is to hear the power of the drum, the power of the people before we start on what is an extraordinary evening after 12 months that none of us have ever expected we would live through. A global pandemic, COVID-19. It's changed how we look at each other. It's changed how we interact with each other. And regrettably, in many instances, it's brought forward actions of hate, actions of sorrow for the vast majority of us. But the good news is our resilience and our common goal of keeping each other safe, making this the most inclusive society we can possibly make it, has been our objective throughout this past 12 months. It's very important that we listen to the words that Michael said as a youth. He very much learned wisdom from his elders that we all need to look and focus on the water, how it can cleanse us, how the land, how it can nurture us. But it will not, it will not get us to where we want to go. Well, we still allow hate to take place in our community. Today's event is about celebrating those that have been standing up to racism, those that have been fighting for justice and tolerance and inclusion here in British Columbia. All of the nominees, all of the people that are here this evening have one common purpose, and that is to realize the best potential of everyone who has the blessing of living in this great place. The place of indigenous people since time immemorial, the place where many of us have come just recently. I'm the son of an Irish immigrant. I am very much focused on making sure that I make a contribution while I'm here in British Columbia to bringing people together. The diversity of nations who have sent people to British Columbia to put down roots and to make this a better place, a place of tolerance, a place of inclusion. That's what we're celebrating today. The multi-cultural, semantic racism wards are an opportunity to acknowledge those that have gone above and beyond the call to help us get to that place we all want to get to. I'm very excited to participate today. I know we're going to meet some extraordinary people. We're going to hear some extraordinary stories, and that is what it is like to be in a British Columbia that rejects hate, rejects intolerance, supports love, supports inclusion, and learns from the wisdom of the elders, as Kevin has shown us this evening, that if we focus on the best in each one of us, the best for all of us will be achieved. Thank you for letting me participate today. I look forward to an exciting evening. Thank you, Premier. It's great to have you here with us today. In November of last year, the province signaled a strong commitment to anti-racism when Premier Horgan introduced Seri Green-Tumber and Medley Rochon Singh as the first parliamentary secretary for anti-racism initiatives. Together we'll be announcing the award recipients today. I'd like to welcome Rochon Singh to say a few words about what the government is doing to tackle racism in BC. Good afternoon, and thank you, Hannah, for the introduction. I'm joining you today from the traditional territories of the Lekwangans, speaking peoples of the Eskimold and Songi's first nations. We are grateful for the history, traditions, perspectives, and ways of life that are foundation of this great territory and contribute to our strength and prosperity. Thank you, Kevin Kelly and Michael Kelly Gabriel, for your opening welcome to start our event in the right way with a welcome song. I'd like to acknowledge members of the BC Multicultural Advisory Council who are joining us virtually, including Hannah Woldeis, who is our emcee this evening. I would like to acknowledge former awards nominees and members of our Resilience BC Network. Thank you for all you do to offer support and advice on issues of diversity, inclusion, racial oppression, and discrimination. It is important to talk about why we are here today. Over the last 12 months, the increase of anti-Asian and anti-Indigenous racist incidents as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and global marches for Black Lives Matter have shown us that there's more to do to address hatred and individual and systemic racism in our province. Now, more than ever, we must celebrate diversity and shine a light on those who are working to make BC a safer, more inclusive province for everybody. This event is a chance to recognize and celebrate the people and organizations whose outstanding achievements and leadership strengthen and enhance multiculturalism and anti-racism across BC. It's particularly fitting that we come together for this event on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination because there's no place for hate in BC.  Our government has made a commitment to tackle racism and we are working on some key initiatives. We will be introducing legislation for race-based data collection to modernize sectors like policing, healthcare, and education.  Just this week, we launched a province-wide and anti-racism awareness campaign as part of recent 1.9 million investment to make BC safer and more inclusive for everyone. And we have struck a special committee to reform the police act to address systemic racism. The issue of racism will not be resolved by these actions alone. We need everyone in BC to stand together in this fight and to show that discrimination in any form will not be tolerated. Now, without further ado, let's celebrate the people of our province who are standing up to racism and making our province an even better place to live, work, and play. I'll hand things back to Hannah to begin our awards show. Thank you, Parliamentary Secretary. As a member of the province's Multiculturalism Advisory Council, I look forward to working with you in the upcoming years. We share your vision of BC. A true, a truly, truly works. Sorry. We share your vision of a BC that truly works for everyone and stand beside junior commitment to tackle racism and discrimination in all its forms. Now it's time for the awards. I'll begin by outlining the three categories and then Parliamentary Secretary, we share our honorable mentions before announcing our award recipients. Our first award of the evening is Intercultural Trust. There are two recipients of this award, which is provided to an outstanding organization or individual for their work and building intercultural trust and understanding and reducing racism and hate between communities. Thank you, Hannah. For the Intercultural Trust Award, our two honorable mentions are Yvonne Olson from Wild Rock for her use of music to bring together youth from different backgrounds to send the message of respecting each other and lifting each other up instead of tearing others down. And Herpuginsing Atwal from New Westminster for his work to unite people of different cultures and religions and his commitment to volunteering and learning to encourage further unity. Thank you both for the incredible work you are doing in your communities. Now it's time to announce our first award recipient of the day. Khasum Satliya Osal, Elder Rose Henry from Victoria. Elder Rose Henry is recognized for her work in breaking down barriers and standing up for the rights of the most marginalized, racialized and dispossessed communities in DC and beyond. Congratulations, Elder Rose. Please tell us a little bit about what drives your work and how you are tackling racism. Okay. Oh, right. That's a really good attempt at pronouncing my traditional name. I come from the Telalum people, which in the English translation of Islam, and it's the nation that is the furthest north of all the Coast Salish territory. And I'm currently residing here in Matulia, a.k.a. Victoria. I came here originally back in the 1980s to go to school, because I see education as a very important tool to help lift not only my family, but my nation out of poverty. And so what I found was that there's a whole new area that we need to address. You know, I learned a lot about racism based on my own experience. And I saw that there was glitches in the system that needed to be corrected. And so over the years, I have worked with many different nonprofit agencies regarding homelessness, poverty, First Nations community agencies to, you know, traveling to Durban, South Africa in 2001, where it was the first time that I ever felt comfortable speaking about racism. And so when I came back, when I came back to this land, it's a very uncomfortable subject to be talking about. It's not really appealing to people, but we have to correct it. We have to correct it if we're going to grow as a community and as a nation where people can, you know, be proud of who they are and, you know, not have to worry about, you know, if they're going to be safe, you know, with the things that are going around with the growing number of missing and murdered Indigenous people or, you know, the growing number of homeless people. And so the last 18 months, I began to do some work for social change at the local level by, you know, taking my experiences of all these different nonprofit agencies. And I started working with other cultures, other nations, and I worked, you know, with the Black community with SNEWAP, you know, and I began working with, you know, the missing and murdered men, women, and children in Cowichin, and we started, you know, addressing a lot of things about 18 months ago, and then along came a pandemic. And I thought, what do we need the most? Do we need people who have our heart? Our seeklia. Our seeklia, we need to follow that. And I thought, how are we going to do this in the middle of a pandemic when everybody's supposed to be staying in a small bubble? And I'm like, people are going to need food. They're going to need to be reassured that we're going to be okay when we come out of, you know, this pandemic. They're going to be, you know, needing a lot of PLC. And that was something that I thought I could really offer, you know, and letting people know that, you know, I have a growing number of homeless people that I've become accustomed to working with. And I thought, this is what we can do, feed the people. So about 15 months ago, I started giving out sandwiches and fresh fruits to people on the streets. And it's just snowballed. It's just snowballed from that point where all of a sudden, you know, the people from, you know, from the First Nations to the Black community came forward with food and said, let's work together on this. And this is what we did. And this is what we've continued to do. And now, you know, we've been able to provide food to families that were in lockdown. We've been able to continue to provide food for the people out on the streets.  I want to give everybody a great big hug and say, yes, we did it.  I miss so much. But, you know, during this pandemic, I've also heard the sad stories, you know, like, you know, I've lost two of my nephews during this pandemic and, you know, not being able to put closures there. And I'm like, okay, I just, I just want to just reassure everybody that we're going to get through this together one step at a time. And remember, Natsuma, we're one. So I say hi to you. Thank you. I'd like to give special acknowledgement to thank the people who put my name forward for this award because I've never received anything like this, because what I do with bringing back, you know, homeless people and people from other nationalities, it's just an everyday part of my life as to who I am. So I say hi to Kaseyam and I thank you to everybody for the work that you're doing. Thank you, Elder Rose, for, thank you so much for sharing your story and your commitment to give voice to the underrepresented in our province. Our second recipient is Harman Singh Pandey from Burmese. Harman is being recognized for using his position on several boards and as co-founder of two nonprofit organizations to bring together youth and courage, anti-racist action and engage the community in intercultural conversation. It's great to have you here, Harman. Please tell us more about what motivates your work. Good afternoon, Premier John Horgan, Parliamentary Secretary Ratna Singh, MC Hannah Waldez, respected elders and speakers, and my fellow nominees. I come to you today from my home in Burnaby on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples. The Scottish writer George McDonald said, to be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. And when I certainly do feel the love that comes along with this award, I'm humbled by the tremendous trust that the BC Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards panel has placed in me and my fellow 2021 recipients. Accepting this award today is a privilege and responsibility that I do not take lightly. The Intercultural Trust Award is about building and uniting community. That's what I'm most passionate about, and that's what I've tried to do over the better part of my life. I've built a united community through my arts mentorship work with youth from different backgrounds in song creative mentorship association of Greater Vancouver, through my mental health advocacy with the South Asian Youth Mental Health Ambassadors program, and through my co-founding of such community hub, which seeks to eliminate cultural, linguistic, and racial barriers to accessing social services and healthcare for vulnerable and underserved communities in British Columbia. The values of multiculturalism and anti-racism are inseparable from my work as a teacher in the Surrey School District. Racism and hatred are learned and they can be unlearned. In their place, we must proactively teach our children to trust, love, understand, accept, and appreciate one another. I'm fiercely proud to be part of a vibrant community of anti-racist educators that's making these intentional instructional choices in classrooms across BC every day. I'm also proud of another community I belong to. The literary community. I recently published GERPREAD GOES TO GERDWANA understanding the sick place of worship, a children's picture book. In literature, as in life, representation matters profoundly. As the saying goes, we cannot be what we cannot see.  I began my remarks by speaking of trust, and that's how I'll close. It's a spelling lesson, actually. I am an elementary school teacher, after all. There is no I in trust, but there is us. And it's up to us, all of us, in this beautifully diverse province to pledge on this the International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination, to earn each other's trust, to nurture it, to strengthen it, and then most importantly, to do the tough anti-racist work together so our trust endures and builds a more inclusive, equitable, and just British Columbia for everyone. Thank you. Thank you for your commitment to diversity, Herman, and congratulations on your award. I would like to welcome Hannah back to introduce our performer for the event. It's time for a special performance. Julian Christmas is a Vancouver-based activist, educator, community organizer, and award-winning poet. Her work has been featured in numerous online publications and collections, including The Havington Post and The Great Black North. CBC Books named her as 2020 writer to watch. Her first book, The Gospel for Breaking, a poetry collection, draws up on her family history, Quailenage, and political landscape of racialized life to create a rich collection of poems. Please join me in welcoming Julian Christmas. Thank you for that introduction. I join you today from the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Slewa Tooth, and Squamish nations. It's an honor to work and learn on these territories, and it is a responsibility to stand in solidarity. It is also an incredible gift to be in community with so many wonderful humans and to be called to speak in this moment. Thank you. Today we gather in celebration and we gather in sadness. We gather across vast distance, and yet we draw each other near again. We call on one another to witness, to be witnessed, to offer care, and to be cared for. We gather. May my words be a prayer to whatever deity lifts you through the darkness, whatever strength you have collected to carry you forward. I honor and am deeply honored by the work you continue to do, no matter the obstacles laid in your path, because you know, as Angela Davis reminds us, that freedom is a constant struggle and our love made action in community is the salve that makes it possible. We have lost so much already, and yet again we mourn. We stand with our beloved communities who see in their own mirrors reflections of the faces that were stolen from the streets, from the barricades, from massage parlors, and their own beds. This is a prayer to whoever is listening. A prayer for grace, for gentleness, for justice, for fortitude, and wisdom. More than enough to move us forward again into the light of day. This is a prayer for the hands that hold us in our most vulnerable moments. The hands that heal us in profound ways. A prayer for those who recognize the humanity in every patient, client, student, child. For the hands who hold the protest signs, unwilling to relinquish or diminish the value inherent in every human being. The whole spectrum of ability, disability, neurodivergence, and capacity, beloved. A prayer for those who hold sacred our stories, our languages, our medicines, our knowledge. Your work is blessed. Your work is seen. You whose skin spans a thousand shades, kissed by the sun. You are blessed and highly favored. You who face uncertainty and regardless of fear or persecution, step clear-eyed into the future of possibility. I come here to honor your deep knowing. Your fight for a just society that is not one with tear gas or artillery, but instead one that thrives on the nurturance and resourcing of our communities. You in service of transformative and restorative justice, you in practice and in search of new modalities beyond the mere survival we have been handed, I come here to honor you, who stand on the front lines, defending bodily autonomy and choice, protecting the lifeblood of this planet, putting your bodies between the waters and the poisons that would threaten them.  I honor you, who society too often ignores and devalues at its own peril. I witness your enduring love for community members missing and murdered. For those street involved and underserved, I will stand by your side as long as I am able. May we gather together again. This is a prayer to the ancestors. May they continue to stand with us in this unceasing work. May we feel them at our backs always so that we may know that we are only a small part of a continuum of love so enduring it brought us here together across oceans, across land, through wars, oppression, and illness. In spite of all the odds, this is a prayer for the front lines, for those swallowing hate crimes with their morning news. Carrying a funeral procession between their shoulder blades, it is not an answer. It is not a convenient lie. It is a prayer, a wish. A spell of protection may be an offering of gratitude for sure. A reminder of your tenacity if you need it. A reflection of your undeniable conviction. It is an acknowledgement of all you do. All you have done. All you will do, we see you. We see you. May your phenomenal love be witnessed. May you receive all that you need. And may your cup overflow. May you release what you are holding. May you be held when you need it. And may we keep going. And may we rest when we need to. And may we keep going. And may we find love in abundance. And may we keep going. And defy any force or system that would seek to divide us. May we gather together in celebration once more. I shake. Thank you. Thank you so much, Julian, for that wonderful performance. Next is our Breaking Barriers Award. This is given to individuals or organizations who are tackling systemic or institutional racism and reducing barriers for marginalized communities. There are two awards presented for this category. For our Breaking Barriers Award, we have two honorable mentions. Sharanjit Kaur Sandra and Ian Rocksboro-Smith from Abbotsworld for the work with the race and anti-racism network at the University of the Fraser Valley, which is encouraging students on and off government posts to come together as allies and advocates standing against racism. And Uqar Singh Tartley from CERI is working to address systemic racism, including gaps for BIPOC communities, particularly around the health and education systems. He has also developed a free overdose intervention amp available in multiple languages to help individuals identify and respond to an opioid overdose. Thank you both for all you are doing to break down barriers and support communities that are impacted by racism. And for our awards recipients, first we have Stephanie Allen from Vancouver. Stephanie is nominated for her advocacy for Indigenous and Black communities to address systemic racism and her work as a founding member of Hogan's Alley Society to provide supportive housing to those most at risk of homelessness. Welcome, Stephanie. Please tell us more about your work and what the award means to you. Thank you, Premier Hogan, Parliamentary Secretary Singh, those who nominated me and selection committee members. I want to acknowledge that today I'm speaking from the ancestral and unceded lands of the Musqueam Squamish and Slewa Tooth Peoples. As a descendant of enslaved people brought to this hemisphere, I stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and commit myself to working in good relations. I accept this on behalf of the colleagues and community members I work alongside who are dedicated to building a society where all members are afforded the same access, opportunity and resources to live up to their highest potential, free from exclusion of any kind. Race is a construct that was invented to justify the hoarding of power, resources and land by a few while subjugating many. It was an easy classification because people can be quickly sorted by the presence of melanin in their skin. Over centuries of doing this sorting and excluding all over the world and right here in BC, systems have been instituted that maintain a racial hierarchy that put white people at the top and racialized people at the bottom. To maintain this structure, state violence, miseducation, social norms have all been used to reinforce it. Meanwhile, people relegated to the bottom have never stopped fighting against this unfair and unjust subjugation. This is really how white supremacy became embedded in all aspects of our society. Now, where privilege exists, there resides the most power to make change. That's why the antidote to this system must include white folks doing this work alongside us. Our destinies are very much bound to one another because we all live in the same home and what befalls one befalls us all. Racism is just one arm of the monster of oppression in our society, one that is threatening to harm everyone when we consider how greed threatens our entire ecosystem, how poverty is driving more people into homelessness, how accumulated trauma is driving more people into addictions and mental illness. We must all work together to beat back this monster of oppression. As my mother says, many hands make light work. I thank her for teaching me to be proud of who I am and for teaching me to stand up for justice. And what is justice if not love and humanity taking bold and courageous action? Thank you again. Thank you, Stephanie, and congratulations on your award today. Our second award goes to the IBEW Local 993, represented by Glenn Hilton, Molly Rutledge and Angie Camel. They are being recognized for their work to get more women into the trades and break down construction culture, especially for Indigenous and immigrant women. Thank you for joining us. And please tell us about what motivates your work for a more inclusive construction sector. Hello. Thank you. I'm extremely honored to be here today, especially even more so since we started this awards program today. To be included with so many people that go out of their way every day to make this province better, make this world better. And our organization is getting an award for just doing the right thing. We have to represent the demographics and the reflection of our community. We have to include more women in our efforts. And if we are Northern British Columbia, Central and Northern British Columbia, not including the Indigenous peoples to build the province, then we're doing them a great disservice and we're doing ourselves a great disservice. So I thank you again for this award and I'll pass it over to you next to Molly. And I forgot to include that we are on the Sequipnik Wulu, unceded territories outside of Kalimps B.C. Thank you, Gunn. I am speaking to you from the unceded territories of Sequipnik. This is an honor to have I BW-993 receive the breaking barriers award Thank you to our nominator, Corey Anderson-Fennel from the building trades. I have been with I BW-993 working as a Red Sea electrician. I have seen an amazing amount of change in the workplace and in society on views of women working in the trades, multiculturalism and racism. It has been fantastic to be part of an organization that has policies and training opportunities in place that worked toward promotion of women in the trade, multiculturalism and elimination of racism. Because of I BW-993's efforts to break barriers, I have gone from being the only woman on a job site to one of the women on the job site. I'd like to introduce Angeline Camille. We can wait when it's close. I just wanted to say thank you for and that I am so grateful for being a part of a team that works very hard every day to break down barriers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That works very hard every day to break down barriers for the women and people of color in our trade industry. I look forward to the future, to our future endeavors in the I BW cooks gem. Thank you. Thank you all for your dedication to making BC more inclusive and welcoming for all British Columbians. Before we introduce our last finalist, And I will take a moment to tell us about the award. And congratulations to all of the recipients. Our last category is Emerging Leader Award. This is given to an outstanding youth or young adult, 15 to 30 years of age, for their work in building intercultural trust, tackling racism, or reducing barriers for marginalized communities. Let's start with our honorable mentions for our last category. First, we have Kiranjeet Shokar from Vancouver, nominated for Empowering Student Voices and Building Their Leadership Skills, as well as supporting migrant communities throughout her volunteer work. And Erin Belondo from Lake Colchon is working within the Colchon First Nation to build intercultural trust and address racism through the Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network. Thank you both for your incredible work to challenge racism and make our communities more inclusive. And our final award recipient is Wang Mangdia from Burnaby. Mangdia is being recognized for working to address anti-Chinese racism, breaking stigmas for international students, and supporting people facing homelessness through her volunteer work in the community. Mangdia, congratulations. Please tell us a little bit more about what motivates your work in the community. Good afternoon, everyone. I am Wang Mangdia. Thank you, Premier John Hogan, Parliamentary Secretary Richnathy and the community for honoring me this award. I'm super happy to be the emergent leader. And I have to say that I cannot do it just by myself. It is a team honor. I'm extremely thankful for people from Tianjin Temple, many of whom have inspired, encouraged, and supported me alongside. Tianjin Temple is a place that provides me with the platform to be the youth leader in the past five years and help me and my peers to break down the stereotype between different ethnic groups and populations. At the beginning, I got involved in the Vancouver Outreach Project because I wanted to know the community better and those volunteer hours are very useful when it comes to my schooling. But then, the more I got involved, I realized that we are all the same people. We are all contributing to the community and we should not treat people differently because of the color of the skin, the clothes they wear, their socionomical status, or whether they're located on Vancouver downtown east side or not. There was once a less fortunate people come and high five with me when I was distributing sandwiches and the care packages on downtown east side. He told me that he saw me two weeks ago and was really glad to meet me again. He has been helping on his neighbor's garden for a while to exchange for meals. He told me that he doesn't want to solely rely on government subsidy, but rather being a use for men and showcasing his value for the community. He said foreigners and warm smile kept reminding me why I am here and motivated me to promote this initiative deeper and further. The next thing I know is that I have met so many wonderful friends from diverse backgrounds also believing that everyone should deserve the same love and care. Once again, I'm extremely thankful to receive this award and I'm receiving this award on behalf of everyone that worked together with me in this project over the past five years. So shout out to Jeffrey, Masa, Cheryl, and all the volunteers from Tianjin Temple from the local universities, local high school. Thank you all you guys for all the support and I hope by receiving this award I can inspire more young people to come out and to take actions for what they believe in and to make our community a better place. Thank you, everyone. I am Juan Mundia, I'm the Emerging Leader. Thank you, Mundia, you're doing so much to help lift others in your community. Congratulations on your award. The recipient of the Emerging Leader Award also receives a $5,000 grant to be donated to a non-profit of their choice. This year, Mundia has decided to donate to the Chinese Toism Guan-Kang Association in Canada. This year, we received more than 70 nominees. Each one inspirational in their own right. Every nominee is deserving of recognition for their commitment to support those impacted by racism and to foster diversity and inclusivity in our province. The depth of your work is not only inspiring but motivating as your commitment has no limit. Thank you all for what you do. Your work is making a difference in every way.  Now I would like to welcome Hannah for our closing. Congratulations to all of our recipients. My thanks to everyone who joined us today, to Premier, Parliamentary Secretary, Kevin and Michael, Jillian and our award recipients. Your work is an inspiration to so many and you are making a lasting difference in this province. To everyone watching at home, let's all do our part to stamp out racism. Whether it means calling it out when you see it, educating yourself or others, putting yourself in someone else's shoe to try and understand what their experience is like and a person of color at a different culture. We're all different and that's what makes us so interesting and unique. Let's celebrate our diversity and go to the extra steps to make a difference in lives of others. As we say goodbye, I would like to welcome Kevin and Michael back for some final remarks before we close. Thank you for joining us. Hello everybody. Hello C.M. In closing, I just really wanted to thank Melon for the call. I really want to thank you for the respect that she had for us as Quampland, my wife's territory. And I really want to thank the ones that got awards, the ones that support the ones that get awards. It's in that I really hold my hands up regardless of where you come from. I never did this before respecting the land you're on.  This is how our people are. And listening to some of the speakers or our culture is very basic and very easy, but the biggest part of it is respect. My wife, stock was on as a chief, but as a mother, I always said to my each children, each one of them, she says to them, treat people the way you want to be treated. This is what she said as a mother, not as a chief. If we all live this way, life would be easy. Sometimes if you forget who we are, like the young lady said, we have different colors skin. We all play drums, a little bit different, but the only thing is you gotta respect other people's cultures too. I thank John Horgan for being there to bring this back to his government and how important this is. If we all stick together, this circle is only gonna grow. Once again, I thank you, Milan, for the honor of our honor to be here for you and all the ones that wanted it. This is only gonna grow and it's only gonna get bigger and better. It's gotta take it one day at a time. So here's my son, Michael. A swell CIO, once again, I wanna hold my hand side to all the people that are doing the good work that they do. It's not work in their eyes, it's a passion that they have inside their mind and their heart. And when you have that passion, your spirit carries you. And you know what, when you lead with your, that's what my mom shares with me, no matter what we do with our lives, is that if you do it with a clear heart and a good mind, clear heart and a good mind, there's no doing bad.  And don't point at people, because she shared with me, if you point at someone, there's always three fingers pointing back at you. Now once again, treat people the way you wanna be treated. You know, people forget that every day. You don't know what anybody's going through behind closed doors. I just wanna share one story.  And we're at a high school and this principal had such a deep impact on my older sister's generation. We respected our community, respected our culture, who we are as a people. And we developed a good relationship. And that's just taken a step forward in our culture. If you wanna get to know us, get to sit down and break bread, share a meal together. No time, no time. Sit there and listen with an open mind and open heart. And I remember it was an elementary school and also high school combined. And we were sharing about the times, where our culture was not accepted. If we were doing this back in the day, a long time ago, we would be arrested. We'd be thrown in jails. There are certain stories about people painted masks to the color of the land, the landscape, if that's brown, green or black. So if police officers in the coming, they're very, so they sort of be hidden easier. Those are real stories of our people. There's sacred places where our people used to potlatch, used to hold ceremonies in secret so that they could still practice their culture. And now the beautiful thing is, everything flipped. And that's the good work of all the people, like Rose and all the elders before us, our chief and council now, and people bringing this conversation to the table. Everybody's equal. Everybody's no different than anybody. That's one of the things that my dad says, if you cut us open, we all bleed red. We all bleed red. We're no different. And I remember we spoke a little bit like that about how it was hard for his generation growing up. And I remember we finished and they were walking out in a single line file, grade 12 all the way down to grade one. And I remember these two to three little boys came up and they said they were from grade two and they shook all of our hands and they said, sir, I'm so sorry for what your people had to go through. I'll make sure to take that home and be the witness that I am because that's what we are, witnesses to our culture and share it with my mom and dad and my grandparents and this will never happen. It is their next generation, the youth, the youth that sit with us, you can hear all the stories that they have. They're gonna make the change and be the role models that our community needs to guide us in the good journey that we are. There's gonna be a day we're gonna live in harmony and we're gonna be accepted, all of us, all our cultures, because all our cultures have beautiful things to take away from them. It doesn't matter where we are. There was a program from Fine Arts where my cousin used to go to school. They had a butterfly, it's called the butterfly program where they funded and they put wifi towers into a local community that couldn't afford it so that they could learn about our urban culture but also they can learn about what they learn about in their culture in Africa. And at a chance, they had a chance of four representatives to come down and they went into our sacred place to our long house. And I sat with one of the guys and his dream, his only dream that he wanted to do is he wanted to become a cook. And he was all the way from Africa and I was sharing about like how we're talking right now about our teachings of how we walk in life. And the beautiful thing is he looked at me and says, your teachings sound like the teachings that my grandpa shared with me. He says, the only difference is mine has a line of why culture with it. You know, we're no different than everyone else. We share a beautiful culture, we grow, we learn and it's because of you people, all the ones that we heard today, you know, you made my heart and my spirit strong through the good things that you do. Continue to do the good things. You deserve to be recognized. Take the words from Premier Horgan and the ones that organize this. Take it to heart when you're feeling down and you're feeling like you don't have that much energy.  Share what you learned today. Share with all your family. But I just want to honor you and thank you for all the good things that you do. And once again, we start with a song and we end with a song. You know, we started the song to brush off any of that heaviness that was there and so that you're fully here to just join us today online. Even though we're not all together physically, we're there spiritually through this song. I ask our ancestors to come down once again because I don't know where you are if you're at home or you're in your office to give you that prayer to be with you if you need to travel home because we don't know how far you have to travel. And this is what we do in our culture. We start with a song and end with a song to add that prayer so you make it home safe to your wife, your husband, you know, your son, daughter, your dog or your cat, you know. And just overall, love people you think that needed the least. So with that, I want to raise my hands high. This is a thank you song. It came to me during our salmon ceremony. My grandpa Herb, he's one of our people that share a lot about our culture, brought our culture back to our community and we asked him after our ceremony was everything good. And he said, everything was good, but you forgot one thing.  So this song is like a journey song to end the day, but also when we hold our hands high, hands high, it's the thank you for all the gifts that you bring to Canada because Canada is one of the most, Canada is the most beautiful place in my eyes because we have so much diversity and everyone's accepted.  But when we come here, you see people from everywhere.  And that's what we have to take from what they, they're doing even as a younger generation. Now, as we are adults and elders, re-change and re-learn and educate the older generation and then the cycle will be broken. You know, then it's a cycle of healing. But I wanna send a song for you guys. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your gifts to give you strength for your prayer, give you prayer for your safe travels home. Once again, thank you for the organizers, Premier Horgan and all the recipients and congratulations on the good work that you do. All right, check us out. Oh, oh.


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in the offense had quite a few opportunities this afternoon but couldn't come through why do you think you guys were unable to get the big hit? I mean obviously McClellan has been one of the best pitchers in the league gave ourselves some good opportunities there the one with with no outs where where we got the middle coming up and and he made some pitches against us so um yeah you know you know against a guy like that he you try and give yourself opportunities but obviously you got to capitalize we got took him out of the park I think once um but yeah just couldn't couldn't quite break through I thought by and large we had pretty competitive that bats against him up and down the order we just you know like you said couldn't break through. Did you think that Hicks ball in the eighth was ticketed for center field? I did I mean they made two huge defensive plays today the the double play um on the on the kind of filet football that that wall's made in the hole there to be able to turn that one and then pretty special play there up the middle um you know yeah off the bat I did I thought it was a great at bat by Aaron and uh you know credit to them they made a play. What made you decide to go with Marinaccio after Severino instead of Clarkschmidt? Well obviously I knew we had some innings to still fill like Clark around the top like Marinaccio in that spot you know he just didn't throw strikes today so um felt like his stuff played for for where we were in the lineup and in that spot and and just didn't get it done today. Half-lustrating is an inning like that essentially no contact in there?  Where about Severino for you today? I thought Severino was again really good uh really good um you know Troy gets him the other way uh with the Homer but you know otherwise I thought he was I thought he was in command um you know I thought he had a little bit of everything working you know you could reach back on the fastball when he needed to mixed in obviously his breaking ball and his change up and and I thought overall he was sharp. In three games where the offense really didn't come through is it just one of those things a dip in the season or something like Tampa did do you think? Well I mean obviously they can pitch I mean you know it's it's gonna be it's gonna be tough and you know you gotta you know you gotta work for everything against them and uh you know they were able to hold us down enough today obviously we got a couple guys out um but you know you know yesterday I felt you know yesterday we kind of got shut down today I thought we were very competitive against McClanahan and we just just couldn't get that you know that one hit or that gap or something that kind of turned it into a you know a really all of a sudden a good offensive day so I thought we're more more more quality at bats today than yesterday but but again just couldn't couldn't quite break through enough. Aaron this ends that stretch of 23 games in 22 days I think you guys were 16 and 9 during that spin how do you feel about the way you handled it? Well I mean we're in the throws of it you know so you're in the immediate you know we lost a tough one today um but you know certainly feel good about where we're at what what we're doing um we certainly welcome this off day um chance to regroup and reset a little bit and hopefully kick off a really good home stand so you know it would have been nice to finish off a great series down here um but you know overall I feel like we're in a pretty good spot hopefully start you know getting some guys on the men too and and uh you know onward and upward


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards rip in 2022 tops update series baseball jumbo six box full case break number Two random teams. Here's a look again at your oops random results. That's the tonight sheet As always you can find these on the website under results that as well as the Lincoln chat Let's get going everybody. Good luck here. Box toppers gonna be Bryce Harper that 2012 rookie Darren rough Got Clint Frazier to $4.99 on the green for the Cubs Inserts are gonna be Mookie McLean a hand and a Bobby Whit rookie a Pena debut Hunter Green base is a a Trevor story gold got man-ram Shohei and Melendez all on your inserts Abrams rookie Pena rookie, let me take a look really quick Michael Oh Is there a Michael Did I put Michael Michael be in a Michael make here. Let me take a look really quick again Okay, yeah, yeah, I can take care of that really quick Michael. I'll tell I'll let you know which team you got I Think you're Michael a on this sheet Michael a probably yeah, there's no Michael There's no Michael a yes, so you got yeah Michael. There's sorry about that. You've got the Brewers And I put Michael a instead of Michael and my apologies on that So I'm gonna switch that over now and then I'll reupload it I'll reupload the results at the end and you'll have the brew crew so my apologies I see I saw the MC capital a and I did Michael a instead of Michael M. I apologize. I'm gonna switch that right now I'm like Sorry Michael Like I said, I'll I'll re-update the results and that'll reflect it Hunter Green rookie Jonathan Loisica There's say a Suzuki Nice one there for the cups Lou Gehr Contreras Korea all on your inserts CJ Abrams rookie Hunter Renfrew as a Jeremy Pena rookie. Yeah, no problem Michael. Like I said right. I'm just check take a look after the Did you update the results or did you? Yeah, okay. Yeah, give me a second. Yeah. No, no, no take your time take your time Yeah, we'll update the results So when you search it up on the website if you look at the results tab Michael instead of saying Michael a it'll say Michael And my apologies again that capital I threw me off in your last name a little bit Joe Smith We've got Roger Clemens on the extended base nice one there for the Red Sox And then we've got reverse and Martin rookie Otto going to the Reds One of the first hits of the break wander rookie verlander hobby bias Appreciate it. Awesome. Thank you so much. Well Updated over on the on the results tab now Michael Will just updated for us or your dear to Michael. I'm instead of Michael. I so my apologies. Thanks for catching that too well, Marcus Strowman That's Alejandro Kirk on the blue Not numbered super short printed all star game chef Bogarts rodan Zon Kevin Greer is the 199. There's a Garrett Cooper 27 out of 50 for the Marlins Shoah, and some days Gills Camilla Doval Jayrod on the All-Star insert Kunya Torak rookie others. I miss the Stephen Kwan So is a Treveen. Yeah We've got to 2022 CJ Abrams nice hit there you go Padres grads on that Louis L Hell yeah, sir Ramos No char source yet, though. Sorry. Sorry gills. I know you're a little disappointed on that. It's a Bobby Whit rookie Jonathan VR That is Richie Palacios the 2022 for the Guardians Bobby with junior generation now Freddie Freeman both on the insert. So there's a twerkle sin on the They be pretty and base I'll do for box one send Will the base stack over now? Well, that won't do it for box. We still got our silver packs. So two silver packs. Then it's then we're done For box one. Yes, sir. Yes. He did Kyle Duran Vaughan BGO and new bar rookie and we've got Mancini, there's a J rod nice one there Mariners J rod rookie Olson and Montero Exactly what happens. You got to stop watching now, then we'll play a big O'Neill cruise There's a willy maids nice box top before you there giants Very cool back for the recap. Oh, yeah, I'm hoping man. We're hoping Let's do it. Oh Take it. Take it. Holy cow. There's hell it Ramos nice gold for the Giants Warren spawn Garrett cold there Jeter on your all star games and inserts and whatnot There's few rookie debuts in there Thomas base rookie Trevor story foil Rice elder to 2022 rookie for the Braves Joey Votto Juan Soto preggigio Torcal sin rookie Stephen Kwan Brandon Marsh debut gold That's Ryan Mountcastle little league classic for the Orioles on the Commemorative Fisk Contreras McCutcheon Brewers McCutcheon Hunter green rookie. That's Adam Hasley Gold foil got a verlander Goldschmidt Scherzer Hania Davia Hania rookie Vogue about There's Nick Allen and base out Thomas base Hell yeah, Ramos debut. That's an Alec Thomas foil rookie debut. There you go. Diamondbacks verlander to 299 for the Astros Alex Bregman Shrout and George Kirby Torcal sin rookie Royce Lewis debut Neil Cruz debut Got foil per Doma a Lucius Fox to 2022 And we've got a Royce Lewis auto. There you go twins. Congrats was a Minnesota Who has got the Minnesota twins? That would be Mike B. Congrats Mike one Soto Springer Donaldson Hunter Green debut Naikwin and Nicola Dolo on the back Royce Lewis rookie. That's a Donovan Walton Buster Posey Machado Jeremy Pena rookie as well. I'll be with debut Signed some autographs. Hiro strata a Bryson stop foil debut Hey, Nick plumber to 399 on the green Alec Thomas Aaron judge Trevor story Nicola Dolo debut rookie Jayrod debut Wander rookie Gabriel Arias Guardians pretty much all the big rookies. I would say it's their first like true rookie So Jayrod went Torcal sin 100 green CJ Abram Stephen Kwan and Jeremy Pena It's like all their true true rookie say a Suzuki that's got one in here Roman Arias That's Ryan Mountcastle major league material game use back for the Orioles nice one there. Oh I'll talk her one Soto. So that's kind of what you're looking for is a day view Colomi, so we're seeing Pache as an a last pack last Paper pack a box to here. That's 271 is Mike or so at the Brewers There you go, Mike Michael or Michael M or that's Michael Logan Gilbert Ronald Acuna Teddy will tell you all games Ted Williams Abrams rookie and base Send the base stack over to William Knock these two out and we'll get the rest of them or Seager Morgan Mancini Chrome inserts story Hell yeah, Ramos rookie Hunter green rookie and Carlos Rodan. That's numbered 150 nice one there. Congrats. Jax the rest of the day All right on the box number three. We've got Tony Gwynn That's going to the Padres Hunter green rookie second quarter similar Castro Danny Mendic going to the White Sox. There's a Joe Muzgarov a bentworn All-Star Game Jersey Padres Campanella Sir Kirk there is a Mackenzie Gore. There's a Pena There's two Pena's coming up. That's that's a different Pena. It is not. There's a Pena rookie Astros Missy say a Suzuki. I have not seen that personally. I've heard stories of that. No, I have never done that personally though Jose Miranda Got red Orlando Arsia to a 199 brewer legend Orlando Arsia Riffy J. Ram Arias Stop rookie Stephen Kwan Dey Kalumi Kwan again this time base rookie Tyler Wade Jairn Durant you any Oswaris Robin you out on the short print for the Brewers nice one there one per box Kunia Freeman Albees all on your inserts Peace every which way here Mackenzie Gore. There's Adam Engel for the White Sox Jonathan Loisica Johnny Lasagna. Let's go into the Yankees the 2022 generation now Kwan I'll do that Nolan Ryan on your inserts Back here guys Kenzie Gore Ipinto That's Jesse Winker to 2022 for the Mariners Joe Ryan generation now There's a Jayrod rookie insert Going to the Mariners Abrams rookie Riff patch here. There's now a Thomas There's a say a Suzuki is an Eric Thetty for Nanotox East jr. Jackie Robinson day Gonsolin you're not Alvarez on your inserts there Stephen Kwan on the debut for the Guardians Stephen Kwan base regular rookie That is Albert Pujols. We've got Jimmy Fox Miguel Cabrera Wander update or debut. I should say from dust man. I think my lungs are like Inhaled product at this point in time Royce Lewis on top CJ Abrams debut Reggie Musgrove Stephen Kwan base. There's a Bobby Whit rookie J-Rod nice Roberto Perez That's say a Suzuki another home field advantage say a Suzuki. There you go Cubs Congrats Cubs that is That James asks Congrats James Hunter green rookie Vladdy G and Gary Carter RIP Trolls and Tigers The last pack here guys. Good luck. Good luck JP Friarsson Oscar Mercado to 2022 Tony Santillans gonna be our on-card rookie auto for the Reds Reds picking up another auto George Kirby and to be Mike Shrout J-Rod debut Gabriel arise You Chang and base So I've a world series Promo over on the baseball channel if you correctly guess the first home run world series winner all that kind of stuff You can get a free box of this right here cops update Aaron judge McCutcheon Larry Walker dust impa joya Check out our social media is latent sports cards on everything Check out the socials Hey B. There's an Arraias rookie Castellanos and Colton Welker rookie nice No, no, yes numbered. Sorry about that. Wow 14 out of 25 very nice Congrats Rockies Nice Colton Welker those are so difficult to tell if they're numbered or not those parallels are impossible Yeah, you got it mint Thank you It's our sorting and shipping team the best in the business right there. That is a Shohei Otani How they put those in empty we're on a box for We're on Cincinnati. We're on a San Diego There Royce Lewis rookie. That's Matt Duffy We've got Major League material Anthony risotto 199 going to the Yankees nice one there no, ah There's a Royce Lewis behind there as well rookie to the point Ladollo J-Rod debut Wander debut Ray Maltopia gold. That's red Garrett Richards to $1.99 Smoltz Kershaw stop on the inserts. We'll sleeve the stop back one over here Hunter green rookie Nate win feel a nice redemption. That'd be sweet dude big-time redemption Tyro strata That's Ryan Presley to $4.99 green Astros a Bryce Harper Shohei Nick Ladollo sleeve that Ladollo Josh Rojas Marcelo Ramirez and base CJ Abrams Luke Voight at Darren Durand on the debut Jace Peterson that's going to the brew group. We've got Archie Bradley to 2022 on the gold for the angels generation now Joe Ryan Schwerber and Aaron judge It's like I've ripped so much. I haven't made a dent Bobby wit J-Rod It's like Bowman. It's like when you do a full case of Bowman It's like you're on like box four and you're like dude so many done and then there's like so many left Yeah, Abrams Rick. That is a nice Bobby wit jr. Foil debut. Congrats Royals nice hit Royals Nothing crazy. Yes, even Qwan to 2022 hit the Qwan, baby There he is. Let's go Congrats guardians Guardians Kyle there you go Kyle will nag this one for your buddy Steven Qwan again Mariano, you just literally the second you got back you hit something Kyle Congrats man as a wit Should be a J rod in here potentially done Yep J-Rod That's gonna say perfect timing on that one Royce Lewis Senzel is Rylan Bannon Ronald Acunha Lou Gehrig's dad Lou Gehrig Trey Turner Hunter green logged into forest hole in the color wheel Pretty big man. It's definitely a good good surprise on the log in there Roy Thank you to attest to that one Hunter green Julie's justine Clemens Schwerber Schwerbaum CJ Abrams Hunter Renfro Pena Turtles in Isaac Karate's and base Just bomb after bomb That's all it goes sometimes man Yankees opening day Bronx bash Poo holes CJ Abrams rookie Frierson should he go here guys? I knew that was gonna happen as soon as I flipped him over I knew the next one was gonna be right back upside down again. Kenzie Gore Zach Granky That's uh, Marcus Strowman on the image variation nice photography there Cubs Pilanzo KB base Last pack of box four here Once this one's over guys, I'm gonna upload. We'll pretty much get right into our select PYT's as well Not gonna waste any time Brad Boxburger There is Vidal Bruhan to 2022 nice one there raise Got Jonah Done going to the nationals on card auto Generation now George Kirby base and doble Let's move these base over to will Base packs not these out now India Mancini. There's a J rod And a green Castianis to 99 nice one there congrats Phillies. That's uh, Monterra Duran and Andrew Vaughan the classic Ricky Henderson nice one there Now no wonders out of five unfortunately That would be cool though Can't always be like Forrest unfortunately as much as I would absolutely love that Jake Walsh That's a Padres Warren Spahn Here Cole there G as a J rod Reff Schneider Gabriel arrives The big NFL break. It'll be uh later tonight. It'll be later tonight grover Later tonight probably around 11. Maybe a little bit later 1045 Take a look on the break schedule on the website weekend. It'll show you Exactly when that's gonna take place Michael Lorenzen That is veteran combos Donaldson and Aaron judged, uh 71 on the black for the Yankees That's Joey bottom Craig Bezier. It's a wonder debut Jose Miranda uh jazz chiseled Nice one there congrats, uh marlins. Yeah, no problem I got you grover no problem at all man It's gonna catch him Like I said, you can always check out the the break schedule on the website It'll always show you the uh the times and it'll update to your uh your current time zone as well You're not in the eastern time zone. Yeah, man. What a name. 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Uh, there was an Alec Thomas base Slide that over Hell yeah, Ramos rookie Randall Grichott Rene Pinto rookie at the 299 raise We've got Jay Cronenworth the 50 on the uh event worn All-star game materials congrats Padres Foul soccer Juan Soto Stop Jack Sawinsky nice one there We've got Rogers horns V turned around And a bobby wit generation now rookie Judge Trevor story Possibly a J rod in this pack too then yep J rod there he is right on cue Mercado and Perez last pack of box five then we're uh got our Silvers and then we're into um Box six say a Suzuki CJ Abrams foil That's Cesar Hernandez to uh to 2022 That's brice and stop Ted Williams All right, let me move these base over to will our silvers Sylvie's Melendez rookie Alec Thomas Derek Jeter and Edgar Martinez Joe Morgan by as Glavin and a CJ Abrams number to 199 nice one there Padres again All right, we are on to box six. Good luck 93 tops Derek Jeter Very solid Abrams. Yeah Empty obviously, but let me just eradicate that box. 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Hello and welcome to the session. Today I will help you with the following question. The question says simplify A plus B multiplied with C minus D plus A minus B multiplied with C plus D plus 2 times AC plus BD. Now the distributive law of multiplication is A multiplied by B plus C is equal to A multiplied by B plus A multiplied by C. Also commutative law is A multiplied by B is equal to B multiplied by A. Now this is taken as the key idea in this question. Now let's move on to the solution. The expression given to us is A plus B multiplied with C minus D plus A minus B multiplied with C plus D plus 2 times AC plus BD. Now first we will find the value of this expression that is A plus B multiplied with C minus D. Now using the distributive law of multiplication we have A plus B multiplied with C plus A plus B multiplied with minus D. Now with the help of commutative law we get C multiplied by A plus B plus minus D multiplied by A plus B. Now again we will apply the distributive law of multiplication and so this is equal to C multiplied by A plus C multiplied by B plus minus D multiplied by A plus minus D multiplied by B. And this is equal to AC plus BC minus AD minus BD. Hence we have A plus B multiplied by C minus D is equal to AC plus BC minus AD minus BD. Now next we will find the value of the expression A minus B multiplied by C plus D. That is A minus B multiplied by C plus D. Now we will use the distributive law of multiplication so we get A minus B multiplied with C plus A minus B multiplied with D. And now we will use the commutative law so we have C multiplied by A minus B plus D multiplied by A minus B. Now again we will use the distributive law of multiplication. Now using that we get C multiplied by A plus C multiplied by minus B plus D multiplied by A plus D multiplied by minus B. And so this further is equal to AC minus BC plus AD minus BD. And so we say that A minus B multiplied with C plus D is equal to AC minus BC plus AD minus BD. And now we shall find the value of this expression. The expression is 2 multiplied by AC plus BD. Now using the distributive law of multiplication we have 2 multiplied by AC plus 2 multiplied by BD. And this is further equal to 2 AC plus 2 BD. Thus we have got 2 multiplied by AC plus BD is equal to 2 AC plus 2 BD.  Now we will combine the like terms.  And then plus 2 BD minus BD and one more minus BD.  All the 3 terms gets cancelled to each other. So we are left with AC plus AC plus 2 AC and that is equal to 4 AC. And hence our given expression is simplified to 4 AC and so our final answer is 4 AC. So hope you enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


We are here in Bangkok where negotiators from 16 countries are meeting at the 23rd round of negotiations for the regional comprehensive economic partnership and several groups are here in Bangkok monitoring the trade round. We joined here by Joseph Poruginan from Focus on the Global South and Susanna Baria from Public Services International. Welcome to NewsClick and People's Dispatch. Let me start with you Joseph. The RCEP round is happening at a time when global trade deals seem to be in a crisis and many countries seem to be withdrawing from trade deals. You see it with the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Why is it that the RCEP continues to be in negotiation mode and what is it hold for Asia? We need to I think situate the RCEP talks in the broader context. We feel there's a geopolitical dimension to these negotiations of this mega FTA negotiations because on the one hand you have RCEP, 16 countries centered around ASEAN and it's developing partners, China, India, Australia, New Zealand. But we also seeing like the negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership which is US-led, many fields US-led. And then the EU is also pushing for its own model of free trade agreement. So if you look at it from that geopolitical lens you see that there's a battle going on among the main major superpowers for who gets to define the trade rules. So RCEP for a while it was viewed as a China-led agreement because it's a way to counterbalance the transatlantic US and EU influence in the region. But as we've seen countries like Japan and Korea that are also negotiating as part of TPP have in fact pushed the agenda for an ambitious agenda more aggressively in this talk. Why is it important? Like I said Asia is at the center of these negotiations and I think there are at least three reasons why Asia is at the center. One is that it's a fast-growing region. It's a big market and I think the motivations you have to go back to the financial crisis. The developed countries are looking for ways to expand the market, new markets. And so they're driven by that the need to export more to a region that is growing. Countries like Laos, Cambodia, Philippines are growing at a fast pace, 6%, 7%. So there's that interest to capture that Asian market. Second reason I think is access of resources. So part of that struggle among the superpowers is who gets to access the resources. And this question of resources is vital to the competitiveness of these big powers. The EU says that its competitiveness is hinged on its ability to secure cheaper raw materials. So and these deals facilitate that access to raw materials. And the third reason is China. I think there's a US pivot to Asia that is in the military sense, but there's also an economic pivot. And part of that is really to how to counterbalance the increasing influence of China in the region. So I think those three issues are really what's motivating this negotiation. Like Joseph said, it's 16 countries, some of them developed, some of them developing. The negotiations have been going on for the last five years, 23 chapters. Can you highlight some of the concerns in terms of your organization? So from the perspective of PSI, one of the big concerns we have is obviously how it's going to impact labor and workers in the region. And we feel that many provisions, many aspects of what is there in the proposal for an RCEP are going to impact employment, either because they are going to be more important because of floor tariffs that will lead to job losses, or because by losing certain policy tools, again, tariff itself is a policy tool, but also through how we're having constraints on the kind of request what can make on investment when there are foreign direct investment coming, this will have an impact also on the ability to create employment in the future. So these are very valid concerns in a context where there is a crisis of employment in many of the countries in the region. Another concern is also the impact it can have on wages. When there is more competition, then very often companies see reducing the wage, wages of workers as a way to decrease the cost. So more competition will create a push to the bottom. Informalization is another consequence because there is more use, there is a possibility of more use of contract work. We are also worried that it will have an impact on people's ability to access public services. In the region already governments are not putting enough money in public services so that we can have good quality healthcare, good quality electricity provided for everyone. There is also different places where water is being privatized. And the parts of the agreements that are related, for instance, to services, make it much more difficult to regulate the private sector, make that one cannot reverse a privatization that has taken place. And that is really worrying because we have seen that many often privatization has failed. It's failed in the ability to provide services to people who need them. And there are lots of constraints on how governments can regulate in terms of being able to promote the public interest. And that's a very important concern also. And overall I think the concern is that it's the package that the agreement provides that has a direction, a clear intent to ensure that governments cannot regulate investments and that want to guarantee rights and profits for companies. Talking about regulation, one of the more controversial elements, especially in the recent trend of mega-FTAs, has been the investment chapter. And many countries within RCEP have been backtracking on investment rules. What is the status of the investment chapter and what are your concerns on it? Yeah, RCEP is a new generation FTA, which means that it's not just dealing, we're not dealing here with simple elimination of tariffs or market access issues. And one of the more contentious, as you said, is investments. And there are at least two big issues under that. One is the prohibition of performance requirements. So performance requirements, as you know, like local content policy, local labor policy, these are used by governments as a policy instrument to push national development. But these agreements would limit the power of, would actually prevent governments from using these policy tools. The second is, consider the toxic element of this agreement is the investor-state dispute settlement, which gives power to corporations to sue governments in undemocratic and non-transparent investment tribunals. And so we feel that the investment chapter really reflects the corporate agenda that is underpinning this talk. But if I may add on the concerns, Benny, for ASEAN, a big concern is the asymmetry in development. So we're negotiating, these are 16 countries negotiating. China is, of course, a very powerful country. But you have countries like, at least developed countries like Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, who are the economies, the national income of these countries are less than 1% of that of China. And so there's a big concern that who would benefit from this agreement? Will this agreement be able to pull up the economies of these least developed countries? Or will the interest of richer countries like China, Australia, Singapore be the one that dictating the agenda of this negotiation? So that asymmetry is an important concern. There's also a concern over intellectual property rights and its impact on medicines and public health. There are provisions in the intellectual property rights chapter that are DRIPS Plus provisions that would, the fear is that these provisions would actually delay the availability of cheaper or more affordable generic medicines. So, and there's also part of the IPR concerns also have to deal with farmers and farmers' rights to cultivate seeds because the one implication of signing on to this agreement with its IPR provision is that countries are forced to actually comply with UPOV 91, which is a plant variety protection legislation that many farmers have said would really restrict the ability of farmers and farmers' rights over not just seed but their whole production. So if you say that peasants are not going to benefit, patients are not going to benefit, the LBCs are not going to benefit, can you both speak a bit about who's driving the negotiations, especially within the bigger countries, which are the key sort of corporate actors that are trying to push the asset forward. So linking these questions also with the question of concerns, one of the things we have seen is that the negotiations of the agreement have been held in secrecy and that the texts of the negotiations, the content, the positions of countries have not been put in the public, have not been shared with elected representatives, have not been shared also with, for instance, trade unions, which are representatives that generally have tripartite mechanisms in which government discuss important issues, but this agreement, despite its impact on labor, is not part of those tripartite spaces. And this is a serious concern that raises the question of whose interests are being promoted. And we can see that there is a certain group that has been having direct and privileged access to the negotiators and these are the big corporations in the region. They are companies, for instance, in the daily sector in Australia that has been quite involved, companies in the pharmaceutical sector from Japan. So as what Susanna said, I think the main drivers really are the big corporations and the big corporate lobby who have been given privileged access to these negotiations. So large big-scale mining companies, agribusiness companies, big pharma, these are the companies that are really driving the negotiations, in fact influencing the direction of the talks. And so they stand to benefit the most, I think. Thank you for speaking to NewsClick and People Dispatch. That's all the time we have and we hope to come back to you at some point to look at what the status of we are separate. Thank you.


What has been going on here starting yesterday and maybe even before yesterday is a typical, a classical case of how a scared government can abuse, the criminal justice system can abuse the police to victimize those with dissenting voices. That's what has happened. We had a call out on Thursday for Comrade Dr. Fred Membe, the leader of the Socialist Party, to appear at the cyber security unit here in Lusakat-Forced Quarters on Friday. The police were professional, they understood the fact that he was not able to do that on Friday last week. And we knew why they decided to save or to send the call out on a Thursday for him to appear on Friday, which was a long weekend, so that they would lock him up in the manner they have locked him up. They would lock him up Friday last week, Saturday Sunday, then Monday they would have an excuse that it was a holiday and then Tuesday, which should have been yesterday, to continue their tactics, gimmicks in order to keep him behind bars. So that's what has happened. They are succeeding in trying to frustrate the law, because the law is very clear. Yesterday they should have given him police bonds, they should have done it today if there was a good excuse not to do it yesterday. But as you can see we have the sureties, they have been secured, everything has been done, but the police will not comply. This is one of the rare cases where the police themselves are used to complain against an innocent citizen. We have seen in the past where UPND cadres would complain to the police, usually they would go to a remote place, complain about something concerning an innocent citizen. The police will come, bundle that citizen in a vehicle, drive them overnight to that part of place in an effort to intimidate, to destroy the spirit of such an individual in the opposition, mainly with dissenting voices. So this time around they have used the deputy inspector general of police. This has not happened before, it's unprecedented. And in order to fulfill a futile attempt to mislead the Zambian people and they would not favor it, the inspector general of police issued a statement ahead of the summoning yesterday. Later on as comrade Dr Fredman was in the hands of the police he issued another statement, as if trying to justify the reason why they want to keep him beyond what the law stipulates. So as socialist party we are demanding that comrade Dr Fredman be released on police bond to go to court and have his day in court. Because we know the reason why they want to keep him too long in the cells and make him suffer and frustrate him and try to break his spirit is because they know that when the matter goes to court nothing will happen, nothing will happen. But we are sending a strong message to president Hrema and the UPND government that they will not succeed, no one has succeeded to break the spirit of our people, to break the spirit of leaders in the opposition who are speaking for the people. Earlier on we did talk to the lawyer that is a council summoner and he updated us early in the morning that he did have a meeting with the police at 7 hours and in his update he told us that by 11 hours we should see the release of the socialist party leader. What has been the delay? This is now 2 hours after 13. Do you have any information of what's happening inside? You may also want to know that yesterday the police tried to would wink us saying that the reason they were not releasing him was because we had a lot of people outside and they asked us to displace the people. We knew it was a lie but we still agreed that the people should go and the people went and nothing happened. We know that even today they will not release him. What the police said yesterday was that they are still studying the elements of this charge.  Who does that in a civilized world? So whether we meet the requirements, the surities that we talked about, the honorable mouse and the honorable computer, whether we secure the surities, whether we comply with the law in terms of what is required to secure a bond for him, they will not release him because they are acting on instructions from the powers that be. That statement yesterday which was read by the Inspector General Police was full of language typical of Cosway, that gorilla type of welfare media, the Zambian watchdog and it's very clear that it's written by a known individual from State House given to the Inspector General Police to read. And we feel sorry for the man. This is a typical case of where to get a retiree who is tired physically and mentally. She put them there to give them a job and they are replacing somebody who has been fired prematurely for simply saying they are not moving on investigating a matter because the instructions from State House not to do so. And then you bring this retired man, probably retired in terms of mental faculties as well, put them there and use them as a puppet. Who expects them to go against the direction in which the puppeteer is pulling the strings, the strings I make. So that's what is happening and it is shameful. We do believe that the man, the Inspector General Police last night would not sleep if he has conscience. Because he knows he has disgraced himself, he knows he has done something that no one does. The man did his job, he retired the coding back.  So that on the last page of your career, what would be there is distinguished service, but the man has allowed himself to be used by politicians. It's shameful. We know very well that if that statement were to be written by professional police officers who are there to assist him, it would not be in that language. It would not be full of baseless political accusations, including trying to imply that Comrade Dr. Fredman should be very careful because people who trade, the path that has been trading, something bad happens to them.   And for what? This is a democracy. The Socialist Party is registered as a political party in this country. We have not gone to the bush. We have not been inciting soldiers so that we can take over power and constitutionally know. The Socialist Party has all Zambians know, participated in the general elections in this country in 2021. The Zambian people did not elect Comrade Dr. Fredman. They elected president Akain Dehichilema. And we recognize the mass president of this country with a legitimate mandate, despite the fact that the light is way into state house. And the Bible is very clear. He who goes through the window, he who lies is reversing the gains that we have heard, the democratic gains that this country has scored. A number of key opposition, prominent leaders from the opposition political parties have come to support and base their solidarity to Mr. Membe. How does that make you feel as a party? The members say in solidarity they have come to encouraging because they know that we need a strong opposition. We need everyone in this country to be strong. Because we have a ruthless man in government. We have a ruthless corrupt bunch of selfish capitalists in charge of government. And if the people of Zambia are not united, the opposition included, these people may have a few day abusing our people, increasing prices, refusing to put medicines in hospitals. Somebody was calling me the other day, just yesterday, and I was very emotional to explain that at Kito Central hospital, the water pipes into the mortuary are blocked. The people have to buy mineral water to use pieces of cloth to clean bodies of the alive ones before they go to Paris. And yet you have a government that is moving in big cars contrary to that pronouncement, hypocritical pronouncement, that they want to sell the big cars because they are consuming too much fuel and so on. That is contrary. They are enjoying life at the expense of our people. They have allowed, they have allowed the cost of living to continue skyrocketing and they are not doing anything to alleviate the suffering of our people. Allow me also to say, allow me also to say that the body of Comrade Dr. Fred member is behind bars. So his mobility is limited, but his spirit is not behind bars. His spirit walks with that woman who is being carried on a wheelbarrow to take them to the next, to the health center for them to give birth. The spirit of Comrade Dr. Fred member is with that old woman who is carrying a prescription in the corridors of UTH, Kito Central teaching hospital and so on. Going away to go and buy medicine because there are no medicines in hospitals. Exactly. That is what is happening for the spirit of President Dr. Membe as in high spirits. Finally we want to commend our members who have been highly disciplined in line with the socialist spirit. We are asking them to continue this spirit not to inconvenience members of the public. We ensure that they go about their business and whatever they have to do without us inconveniencing them in any way. Thank you. Pleasure.