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Victoria Chinatown Museum launches new exhibit ‘If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring Chinatown’s Stories (舊牆留聲)’

The collection unveiled this May explores the communities architecture and the stories each building contains Photo by Al Tantalidou. This May, the Victoria Chinatown Museum opened its first exhibit...

The Stories We Almost Lost: How a Family Secret Became a Reckoning With American History

Professor Ava Chin describes the making of her acclaimed memoir “Mott Street,” why personal stories are political acts, and why you should call your grandmother right now. Ava Chin (Photo credit:...

13 Horrifying And Disturbing American History Facts That I Guarantee You Never Learned In School, Because They’re Just THAT Dark

Some of these made the textbooks. The worst parts didn’t. By Victoria Vouloumanos American history classes spend a lot of time on a relatively short list of events, like the Revolution, the Civil War...

Flights from Billy Bishop: A Chinese-Canadian story unveiled in new book

By News Staff and OMNI News  Robert Shun Wong and Tommy Wong are shown in this undated photo. OMNI News/Supplied The Wong brothers were and are among the first Asian Canadians to be inducted into...

New DC mural honors women’s suffrage, Chinese American legacy

By Mark Segraves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mqjMazQCkY A mural going up in the heart of downtown D.C. celebrates women’s suffrage and the Chinese American community as the nation prepares to...

Vancouver Immigration Protest Erupts: Years of Security Screening Delays Leave Lives “Indefinitely Suspended”

By Shen Guanlan May 1, 2026 On the morning of May 1, 2026, hundreds of people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery Square in downtown Vancouver. They came from across Canada—British Columbia...

Flo Oy Wong—Artist/Poet/Educator

Interview by Haiden Bergquist  https://youtu.be/tTjAApgK5DU Poetry and Text by Flo Oy Wong Featured Image: They Weren’t Supposed, 1994, 19 x 31″ mixed media (rice sack, sequins, threaded text...

‘Asian Women I Know’ Review: Sharing Food, Sharing Stories

By Isabelle A. Lu, Crimson Staff Writer  ‘Asian Women I Know’ Dinner Still | By Courtesy of Crystal X. Manyloun Sharing stories of growing up over a dim sum meal: It’s not such a...

Chinese Canadian Museum’s Dream Factory Recognized with 2025 Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement: Exhibitions

Vancouver, B.C., February 5, 2026 — The Chinese Canadian Museum is proud to announce its feature exhibition Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s–2000 has been recognized with the 2025 Canadian...