May, 2008 // Posts published in May, 2008
Was he Tazered?
Nope. But he got smacked by a cop cruiser at the end. Something different blogged here on the UGLY Chinese Canadian today: A naked wild and crazy wacko was caught by the eye in the Sky video courtesy of Global News… during Monday morning’s rush hour in Metro Vancouver. The reckless clown drove a large 5 ton ...
Vancouver will miss Don Lee …
It is with great sadness, to inform fellow Vancouverites the news that we’ve lost another respected son of our City. Don Lee was a former City of Vancouver Councillor, and was a current School Board Trustee. He was also a former high school teacher. Don was my old Math teacher, and kept in touch with me – ...
Earthquakes also shake out the Racists
For all my dear *new* immigrant neighbours… What’s all this talk about Canada being a tolerant country? You must think it has always been like this, huh? What a nice swell nation our cute little Canada is, eh? Just remember our history. Read about our struggles and our triumphs. So you just got off the boat, and now ...
Chinese Earthquake
Vancouver’s Chinese community has been quick to rally to the plight of survivors to yesterday’s earthquake in southwestern China. The UGLY Chinese Canadian received some early first hand communications from friends presently visiting China, and everyone is hoping that they can help in the relief effort. On the flip side, we also see some of the ugliness ...
Chinese Cdns deciding fate of Mayor?
It’s now down to the wire. Political Party membership sign-ups for the nomination battles that will see who will lead each respective party into Vancouver’s Fall municipal election. With approximately 40% of the population in the City proper, the Chinese Canadian community is said to be the king maker for our City’s next Mayor. The Mayor who ...
Carolyn Tam + matching stem cell
Carolyn Tam is a leukemia patient in desperate need to find a matching stem cell donor. To help, please register as a bone marrow donor with the Canadian Blood Services at www.onematch.ca and spread the message to get more people to register. The donation procedure is non-surgical. Visit www.SaveCarolyn.com for more information about Carolyn. __________________________________________________________________ traditionally, this has been difficult ...
Second class Chinese Canadians
Under our “What Tibet Protest?”, a lively commentary/ discussion occurred, and we felt it worthy of becoming a full Blog post: Here was the impetus from reader Umeboshi: umeboshi Says: May 5th, 2008 at 8:23 am e Whoa! In what way are you a second class citizen here, Chinktalk? ChinkTalk Says: May 5th, 2008 at 12:45 pm umeboshi – all you have ...
Chinese Cdns don’t watch comedies
With all the heavy discussions and commentary on our UGLY Chinese Canadian Blog – on politics and on world unrest lately… we felt a bit of lightness is in order. Q. Do you know why Chinese Canadians abstain from watching comedy movies? A. they can’t see the screen if they laugh too hard. “Assaulted Fish” – ...
Monty likes Chinese
With all that negative press lately of China – the Olympic torch run, pollution, crap products and other noise, the UGLY Chinese Canadian would like to take this moment to remind folks that some Eggs had once poked us with a happy happy joy joy song. Today’s word of the day is EGG: __________________________________________________________________ egg Egg, (noun) a Caucasian ...
FREE Canada!
Thanks to all who answered our call for photos, stories and thoughts on the Vancouver rally march/ parade (LINK here) on Saturday, April 26, 2008. Please continue to forward your photos and comments… we will share them here where appropriate. (forward to: tellme @uglychinesecanadian.com) So it looks like a “Western” Media did make an appearance … none ...
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