Stories

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi is the only woman of the four challengers to be excluded from the nation’s highest civilian honor. By Lynda Lin Grigsby In 1941 after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government rounded up and incarcerated Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. While World War II raged overseas, four American citizens individually […]

Growing up in the Prairies in the 1990s meant little Asian representation.  By Marvin Chan “Let’s see your kung fu, Jackie Chan.” This was the last thing I heard before being pushed into a circle of kids. I remember thinking, “Do they really think all Chinese people know kung fu?” They just happened to pick

China never sent troops to fight in Europe during the First World War. However, an estimated 135,000 young rural labourers were sent halfway around the world to work in French munitions factories, dig trenches, lay railway lines and remove dead bodies and unexploded ordnance from the battlefields. Thousands died and thousands more returned to China

Every May, Canadians are invited to reflect and learn about the important and ongoing contributions of Canadians of Asian descent in all sectors of society. Former senator Vivienne Poy, the first Chinese-Canadian senator, tabled a motion in the Senate in 2001 to designate May as Asian Heritage Month. As celebrations roll out across Canada for

By John Mackie   Dr. Wallace Chung inside Chung/Lind Gallery at Irving K Barber Centre UBC in Vancouver, BC, April 19, 2024.   Dr. Wallace Chung is Canada’s foremost collector of historic Chinese and Canadian Pacific Railway artifacts and memorabilia. Phil Lind was Canada’s top collector of artifacts and memorabilia from the Klondike Gold Rush.

Guqin, part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity, was made using Canadian fine red pine for the Long Yin. This demonstrates Canada’s success in promoting multiculturalism. The instrument produces a fine tone and is worthy of preservation. By Ban Zhang Thirty-nine years ago, Zheng-hua Zheng (郑正华) received a mail from Canada Post at his basement

By Ban Zhang Sign the petition An online petition crying for more regular passenger flights between Canada and China has reached 13,700 signatories since it started on October 4, 2023, on Change.org. With the headline Restore Regular Air Travel between Canada and China, the petition was addressed directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Members of

The award-winning director of ‘The Farewell’ was personally tapped up by Nicole Kidman to make ‘Expats’. She speaks to Annabel Nugent about her initial reservations taking on the project, ‘mining the family story’ for material, and the perks of her relationship with Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins https://youtu.be/Otv2r6CtDCw As we say our goodbyes, Lulu Wang suddenly asks if she can

“And unfortunately, in the most recent incidents on two occasions, the actions of People’s Republic of China fighter jets were deemed to be significantly unsafe. As outlined in our Indo-Pacific strategy, we are going to continue to step up our forces in that region,” — Defence Minister Bill Blair regarding the recent confrontations in East

We wish to express our deep concerns about the seemingly increasing campus presence of CSIS and its impact on students, faculty, and the University of Waterloo’s reputation. Specifically, we want to emphasize the unwelcoming and intimidating atmosphere that their presence is creating on campus. — Open Letter to president of University of Waterloo, 77 faculty, April