November, 2008 // Posts published in November, 2008
Dr Edgar Wickberg
One of my very dear friends, Professor Emeritus, Dr Ed Wickberg, passed away on October 29, 2008. Ed was a gentleman scholar, who loved life and loved his friends. Ed used to drop by my old office, and we’d go for lunch and I’d often ask him, how it was, that a white person developed such ...
the fall of Vancouver
As we see the leaves drop from the neighbourhood trees, we think of the season our region is currently enjoying – Autumn, aka Fall. It’s an appropriate description for this time of season, with yellowing leaves… some blood red, some just burnt and crisp like a brown piece of toast. It is also an apt description ...
Lose an election? Racism?
There is racism, then there is the racism industry. The UGLY Chinese Canadian is *really* tired of some who ejaculate the term “racism” at every opportunity as a first line of explanation for failure. This only stops open discussions and stops truth. Throwing the ‘R’ word only creates an atmosphere where everyone pretends to be politically ...
Vancouver’s racist Civic election
Let’s celebrate our City’s racial racist diversity. The UGLY Chinese Canadian loves honesty. Charlie Smith of the Georgia Straight wrote an interesting article yesterday, “Racism is alive and well in Vancouver municipal politics“. I agree with Charlie. I’ll post my thoughts later… Here’ a portion of Charlie’s article: Racism is alive and well in Vancouver municipal politics November ...
Vancouver, the City of Leaks
Amazing thing about Whodunits. Make a post about thoughts on the identity of the Olympic Leaker in our Leaky Condo City, the internet traffic to this site explodes. This morning, the UGLY Chinese Canadian received a number of Facebook messages, emails, blog comments and yes, even phone calls… requesting: my source of info, and the identity of the ...
Identity of Vancouver’s Olympic Leak
I’ve been informed of the name of the Council member who is the source of this sensitive leak. By this time tomorrow, all of Vancouver would have learned the name of the sitting Council member who released the confidential 2010 Olympic $100 million loan material to the media. A scandal of sorts… with some citizens making bets ...
Chinese factor in the Vancouver election
The City of Vancouver is holding it’s civic election this upcoming weekend. There are two main civic parties that are gunning for control of City Council – left of center Vision Vancouver, and right of center, Non Partisan Association (NPA) The two leaders for each of the two parties are preppy white (this is a politically ...
Burma Shaving 101 for dummies
The Ugly Chinese Canadian is a stickler for tradition. When bumph is received in the email or shared on Facebook from politicians professing to have or to initiate a Burma Shave, one can’t help but to want to rapp these wannabes on their dense skulls on how to do it right. __________________________________________________________________ Burma Shave Bur·ma’ Shave \ (noun) ...
We are not Equal
Today is Remembrance Day. I am thankful for the sacrifices given by earlier generations of Chinese Canadians… proving with their lives and courage during an era of ignorance and hostility toward visible minorities. These brave young men and brave young women helped pave the path for what we all take for granted today. Things like the right ...
Hey Liberals …put up the “Keep Out” sign
Apparently, it’s official: The Canadian Federal Liberal Party will hold it’s leadership convention in Vancouver in Spring 2009, and, Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh received 20 more votes than Conservative Wai Young according to the judicial recount last week. I guess that means Dosanjh retains his much hyped “safe Liberal” seat. Colleagues know that I am no fan of Ms ...
Battle for Vancouver South footnote: Ujjal Dosanjh vs Wai Young
A month or so leading up to the Oct 15th federal election, a number of us – friends and relations – pondered over: “which of the two “main party” candidates should we support?” There were 23 of us in total. All wondering who to vote for in the upcoming Canadian Federal Election. Early in the campaign, a ...
maybe it’s time to restart this Blog…
It wasn’t easy removing most of the cantankerous contents OUT of this here blog… I had removed parts of it in anticipation of shutting down the blog, as I found some of the material ending up on red neck sites. That wasn’t the intention of my blog. My intention was to embarrass the shoelicks and brown nosers ...
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