Stories

Stricken with anxiety as a child, Buddhist teacher Mingyur Rinpoche learned how to heal his panic with awareness. He teaches us three techniques that helped him. By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Photo by...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...