Stephen Harper's Conservative government had just made sweeping cuts to refugee health care, and Cruz was part of a vocal coalition protesting the cutbacks in British Columbia.
But, with the cutback of imports, some of those old jokes may seem relevant again.
It restored most of its barbecue dishes after customers protested; the reference to their cutback should have been deleted.
Jennifer O'Keefe, a sculpture student at Capilano who was part of the protest, says: "The cutbacks show a difference in attitude towards the arts, as if it was merely an inconsequential activity rather than an empowering vital force".
GAZA — Hundreds of women and children protested cutbacks in a United Nations food-assistance program on Wednesday, the latest in a growing backlash by Palestinian refugees and their offspring in this forlorn coastal strip against the agency that for decades has provided them with nutrition, education and health services.
Students and teachers took to the streets of Italy on Thursday for the third consecutive day to protest reforms and cutbacks by the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that would reduce the number of classroom hours and diminish the number of elementary school teachers.
For local rags and town hall politicians, railing against CCTV cutbacks is a safer way of drumming up community outrage in the face of austerity than protesting against the decimation of vital youth or disabled services.
Some of its best customers recently started a Web site to protest cutbacks in the airline's frequent-flier program.
Daily, hordes of Spaniards swarm the streets to protest mounting government cutbacks, while protesters with more programmatic leanings sound a refrain of reform: change the electoral law; make state finances more transparent; crack down on political corruption.
But he will provoke a storm of protest at the scale of the cutbacks - which include the closure of a core mill on Teeside - despite an unprecedented lobbying campaign led by Tony Blair.
