Kareem Gouda

Nov 21, 2023 | globalnews.ca | Kareem Gouda

A former Vancouver Starbucks employee who helped unionize the location where she worked says she was then fired from the company. A few months after Frederique Martineau helped the store in the Dunbar neighbourhood get certified with United Steelworkers, the store closed down, although Starbucks asserts the closure was merely a result of the lease not being renewed and not because the location was unionized.

Sep 25, 2023 | globalnews.ca | Kareem Gouda

The first Black person appointed to the B.C. Bench has died of cancer, according to the family of Selwyn Romilly. His relatives say he passed away last Friday at his home, surrounded by loved ones. Romilly was born in Trinidad and Tabago in 1940. He moved to Canada in 1960 where he earned a bachelor of arts and a law degree from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC. That’s where he also met his future wife Lorna. The pair then moved to Smithers where they raised two children.

Sep 22, 2023 | firefightingincanada.com | Kareem Gouda |Troy Charles |Elena De Luigi

September 22, 2023  By Kareem Gouda and Troy Charles, Global News Sept. 22, 2023, British Columbia – The parents of a teen wildland firefighter are sharing details of his tragic death in a head-on collision near Kamloops early Tuesday morning. Barb Billyboy said her 19-year-old son Jaxon was a young warrior who was just coming home after a 14 day tour fighting wildfires near Fort St. James. Global News reports.

Sep 21, 2023 | globalnews.ca | Kareem Gouda |Troy Charles

The parents of a teen wildland firefighter are sharing details of his tragic death in a head-on collision near Kamloops early Tuesday morning. Barb Billyboy said her 19-year-old son Jaxon was a young warrior who was just coming home after a 14 day tour fighting wildfires near Fort St. James. “He’s a one-of-a-kind hero. We miss him and we want him back. He had a heart of gold. we’re proud of him. He always said ‘keep your head up,'” Barb Billyboy told Global News Thursday night.

Sep 18, 2023 | globalnews.ca | Kareem Gouda

The son of prominent Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar spoke publicly for the first time since his father’s killing. At a memorial marking three months since Nijjar’s death, his son Balraj Nijjar said he was surprised by Monday’s announcement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Nijjar spoke from the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, where his father was killed in his truck, in the Gurdwara’s parking lot the evening of June 18.