{"id":130793,"date":"2017-11-13T06:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=130793"},"modified":"2017-11-13T06:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:25:20","slug":"pro-nazi-posters-discovered-at-b-c-university-on-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/13\/pro-nazi-posters-discovered-at-b-c-university-on-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Nazi posters discovered at B.C. university on Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95996\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190664_10155039475708704_5598362232090579458_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95996\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190664_10155039475708704_5598362232090579458_n.jpg\" alt=\"A group of students at the University of British Columbia have turned to technology in an effort to address the opioid crisis by creating a wearable device they say can detect an overdose. (Photo: University of British Columbia\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190664_10155039475708704_5598362232090579458_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190664_10155039475708704_5598362232090579458_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190664_10155039475708704_5598362232090579458_n-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The university was hosting Remembrance Day ceremonies in the gym that morning.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/universityofbc\/photos\/a.10150100039888704.287349.16761458703\/10155039475708704\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/universityofbc\">University of British Columbia\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Officials at the University of British Columbia says pro-Nazi posters have been found on the school&#8217;s Vancouver campus.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Steenkamp, UBC&#8217;s vice-president of external relations, says in a statement that the \u201cdisturbing\u201d posters were discovered on War Memorial Gym on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The university was hosting Remembrance Day ceremonies in the gym that morning.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the posters obtained by the Ubyssey student newspaper show what appears to be images of Nazis with the words \u201cthe true heroes of WW2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steenkamp says campus security took down the posters as soon as they were made aware of them.<\/p>\n<p>He says the university takes incidents of hate and racism very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>B&#8217;nai Brith\u00a0Canada\u00a0issued a statement on Sunday condemning those who put the posters up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, we see anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism raising their ugly heads at a B.C. university,\u201d said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B&#8217;nai Brith\u00a0Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese disturbing incidents constitute a threat to Jewish students and other minorities on campus, as well as an unforgivable insult to Canadian veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice to defeat Nazi tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The B&#8217;nai Brith statement and Ubyssey reported that the RCMP were investigating, but the Mounties did not immediately respond to phone calls and emails requesting confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Officials at the University of British Columbia says pro-Nazi posters have been found on the school&#8217;s Vancouver campus. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[32802,32801,32799,32798,32300,11765,572,32800],"class_list":["post-130793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-bnai-brith-canada","tag-michael-mostyn","tag-philip-steenkamp","tag-pro-nazi-posters","tag-remembrance-day","tag-university-of-british-columbia","tag-vancouver","tag-war-memorial-gym","mauthors-salmaan-farooqui","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}