
An asbestos-abatement worker takes down drywall to access the attic, where there is insulation containing asbestos in Vancouver, March 2016. The soaring number of house demolitions in B.C. has prompted work safety officials to almost double the number of asbestos-prevention officers in the province, a move that could cost an extra $1-million a year.

APTOPIX – A cab driver wearing a red clown nose on his head, stands amid taxi cars during a protest by drivers against the Uber ride sharing service, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 24, 2015. Cab drivers complain that Uber represents unfair competition because its drivers and their cars are not submitted to regular inspections by city officials nor pay any kind of fees to the city to exercise their profession. Some protesters wore clown noses, so as to say Uber is making clowns of them. (AP Photo/Luiz Lopes)

Hundreds of Brazilians protest in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery in support of mass demonstrations by Brazilians all around the world, on June 24, 2013. With green and yellow painted faces, in reference to their native flag, they took the streets of Vancouver holding posters saying “We don’t need a World Cup, we need a better country” and “Stop police brutality.”