By Yuqi Feng On November 5, 51-year-old Ms. Hu was attacked by a racist in Okanagan, resulting in both physical injuries and deep psychological trauma. Accompanied by a UBC Okanagan student, Hu went to inspect a secondhand car listed on Facebook Marketplace. Upon discovering damages on the vehicle’s body, Hu negotiated with the seller, who
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The study also found different generations respond to anti-Asian racism differently. By Vanessa Balintec Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Pak-Kei Wong couldn’t always tell when he was the victim of racism. He often questioned if he was a victim of bad luck or circumstance. Anti-Asian racism was hard to discern, he said, let alone prove.
We must hold our governments accountable for their role in the housing crisis instead of laying the blame at the feet of hard-working new Canadians. by Hans Jain As a first-generation Canadian and a purpose-built rental housing developer, I am worried that the housing crisis may cause an increase in xenophobia. Recent polling shows
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Overall, while acknowledging that he had seen only a sliver of some of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities, he said he saw “a real United States” with “warm-hearted and passionate people” – a contrast to the negative images he and his classmates often see in the media. A group of Tsinghua University
Story by Muriel Draaisma When Toronto city councillor Lily Cheng was in Grade 5, she says she was harassed by three boys on her way home from school. The boys ran out and called her “all the derogatory names you can think of that apply to a Chinese person” before assaulting her, Cheng recalls.
An interview with the director of Big Fight in Little Chinatown. By Rachel Ho For documentarian Karen Cho signs that one often associates with death ironically point to a living, breathing Chinatown. “I remember telling my cameraman and cinematographers that what I was most excited about seeing were funeral stores,” says Cho, recalling her
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I lived at the same address throughout my American childhood, but neither of my Chinese-born parents could say exactly where they were from. By Vanessa Hua 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 When I asked my father where he was born, I never got a straight answer. Wuhan, he’d say. In other moments, he’d claim Wuchang. I
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Speech to The Canada Committee 100 Society The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo Independent Senator for British Columbia Good afternoon. I have been asked to speak on “blind spots” in Canadian foreign policy and that is what I will do. Every country has blind spots in its approach to international issues because of a
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Siblings’ quest to find out more about their Chinese parents’ complicated pasts. by Florence Hwang In 2006, 81-year-old Nellie Wong placed a framed cheque stub for $20,000 on her end table. At the time, its significance didn’t resonate with her five children. In fact, it was a piece of history. Nellie was one of the
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In the face of gentrification, and economic pressures, residents and advocates are trying to revitalize neighbourhoods. by Yvette Brend William Liu grew up near his family’s frozen dim sum shop that opened in downtown Vancouver in 1991, later moving to a location on nearby East Pender Street, where freezers today brim with bao
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