Classes offer chance to socialize, share culture and resources. By Melody Jacobson The stores and offices on the second floor of the Sun Wah Centre don’t open for another two hours, but over 40 seniors are in every nook and hallway, stretching and moving through exercises together. They lined up before 9 a.m. to […]
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Witnesses say staff at the city-owned mall tried to stop seniors, used insensitive language, and summoned police. By Michelle Gomez The City of Vancouver has apologized for an incident last month in which a group of low-income seniors was asked to leave a shopping plaza during a tai chi meetup. According to witnesses,
The flourishing of diversity is an essential facet in the profound beauty that our world rightfully deserves. By Revin Chen Kimberly Yam, the Asian Voices editor at HuffPost, recently shared a post detailing her growth journey and shedding light on the unique challenges faced by minorities. While many of us are familiar with the
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Men from southern China came along with the earliest non-indigenous migrants to what later became British Columbia, for instance as carpenters and ship’s crew on-board former British naval officer John Meares’ private expedition from Macau in 1788 to (unsuccessfully) establish a trading fort in Nuu-chal-nuth territory on what is now known as Vancouver Island. When
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by Tianming Li and other 2 Chinese instructors I am writing to draw your attention to a case of discrimination and inequity in the Chinese language instruction group at Langara College. I am currently employed as a Chinese instructor in the Department of Modern Languages at Langara College. During the pandemic, all modern language
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By Yuqi Feng On November 5, 51-year-old Huiping 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,
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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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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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