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Remembrance: 75th Anniversary of the Nanking Massacre
Vancouver, BC: 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NANJING MASSACRE OBSERVANCE AND CANDLELIGHT VIGIL with Joy Kogawa, Tatsuo Kage, Thekla Lit, Bill Chu, Ellen Woodsworth, Judy Hanazawa, and Satoko Oka Norimatsu Historic Joy Kogawa House Society is pleased to present a roundtable discussion with Elders of the Japanese Canadian and Chinese Canadian communities to observe the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing ...
New Yorker: Canada Tightens Border
Lifted the following from the New Yorker: October 9, 2012 POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ OTTAWA (The Borowitz Report)—Canada announced today that it was tightening security along its border with the United States amid concerns that there could be a mass migration of illegal Americans after Tuesday, November 6th. According to Randolph McTavish, Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, ...
A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America A new graphic novel ( a fat comic book ) is being released this month! Here’s an inside scoop for our Ugly Chinese Canadian blog readers: the author of this new title, David Wong, is a contributor to this blog! From the publisher’s (Arsenal Pulp ...
US Passes Resolution of Regret for 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
Media release courtesy of Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Background Congresswoman Judy Chu authored House Resolution 683 to express the regret of the House of Representatives for passing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. That law prevented Chinese citizens from becoming naturalized American citizens, voting, or immigrating to the United States. It lasted for 60 years ...
Now a word from our Toisan Brother…
For those of you who aren’t familiar of 台山 “Toisan” (or Taishan)… Toisan is the county in southern China, near Canton, where most of the early Chinese to North America hail from. Hell, almost all the who’s who multi-generational Chinese ABC’s and CBC’s (American born Chinese / Canadian born Chinese) have Toisan ancestry. Kuul, eh? English speaking ...
65 Year Anniversary of the Repeal of Canada’s Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act
Minister Kenney Issues Statement Marking the Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism rose in the House of Commons today and made the following statement marking the anniversary of the repeal of The Chinese Immigration Act: “Mr. Speaker, ...
the UGLY Hong Kong Chinese
Decades ago, people from Hong Kong were immigrating into Canada … well, actually, it was into Vancouver. At the time, it was said the people were leaving HK in advance of the “communist takeover” of HK in 1997. Vancouver, became home to many new HK families. And with our new citizens, came their new found love ...
Sun: From Canada to China with love
Retired professor recounts adventures, misadventures as leading scholar on nation’s history By Paula Simons, Postmedia News March 14, 2012 When farm boy Brian Evans arrived at the University of Alberta as a first-year student in 1951, he knew exactly what he wanted to study: Chinese history. When the earnest teen-ager told the acting head of the history department of ...
ESPN called Jeremy Lin, a “Chink”
Some folks just don’t get it. After the recent fallout with the idiotic Superbowl Ad for GOP Senate wannabe dickwad, Pete Hoekstra – that showed a Chinese woman (in pidgin Chinglish) thanking America for spending and borrowing money from China. “We takee you jobs” It sparked a media outrage and drew criticism from fellow politicians as well as ...
Celebrate Canada’s Patrick Chan!
Canada’s Patrick Chan Celebration A Fundraiser event in recognition of our World Figure Skating Champion! If you are in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday, February 18, 2012 Join us in our continuing support for Patrick! To mark the New Lunar Year of the Dragon, join us… Celebrate Patrick’s World Championship title, and hear from Patrick, his journey to the 2012 World ...
Arigato from Japan Earthquake Victims
A year ago, a devastating Tsunami hit Japan. People from around our planet shared kind thoughts, and our collective hearts went out to the people adversely affected. The response from the greater Chinese-Canadian community was one of empathy and generosity. The community response made me proud to be Canadian. Many thank you’s have been returned from the ...
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