March, 2009 // Posts published in March, 2009
Me not Fat Xing
Our appreciation to SN and the Chinese in Vancouver Blog for giving the UGLY Chinese Canadian permission to re-post a reply from alleged smuggler Lai Changxing. See our earlier post “Chinese Fugitives and Blogs” on the blogger who calls himself “Fat-Xing”. Newspaper caricature of Lai reading Canadian real estate & jobs news From CIV: Lai Changxing has broken silence on the ...
Minds that flap
Politicians. What a bunch of two-faced whiners. The Ontario New Democrat MPP, Peter Kormos is making a flap over the Provincial flag of Ontario. He learned that the symbol of provincial pride on their Leg building is now being made in China. Here’s the TorStar article on it. We guess “anything” that shows a Chinese involvement is ‘bad’… ...
Media bias in Vancouver? Whose fault is it?
Back during the 70’s, Asian Canadians complained about a media bias. A bias against Canadians that were of an identifiable ethnicity – based on their skin colour, usually. The headlines back then often associated the words “Asian” and “Gang” in the same headline or within the same story. Nothing really has changed. A few years back, the local ...
Olympic sized business closures
Some had warned that the current crop of Vancouver civic politicians lack common sense… or maybe, that was a lack of business sense. An interesting thought was presented by a former city councilor today: “why is VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee) not addressing the big headache on the horizon”. Former Vancouver councilor, Alan Herbert called up a ...
1/4 million bucks for effort to become Vancouver Mayor
Canadian born Chinese civic politician, Raymond Louie disclosed documents indicating his campaign spent around $240,000 in an effort to secure his party’s nod to become the Mayoral candidate. The civic party he helped found, Vision Vancouver, saw instead, an outsider, Gregor Robertson capture that nomination. Gregor Robertson at that time, was the left of center, ...
The Facebook conspiracy
The chatter about the CIA behind that highly successful social networking site, Facebook, has been making the rounds over the past few years. We wonder if there is any truth behind it. People love conspiracy intrigues – like the 9/11 homegrown plot, the new one on “the Obama conspiracy” (this one is too spooky to be true), ...
cars not moving fast
The following Youtube vid on non-existent car sales reflect the sad state of the world economy. It was filmed in Long Beach, California. What is interesting about this vid is that the announcer, the Mercedes car salesman and some others on the clip all speak not with an American accent, but with an English accent. Kind ...
TIME magazine’s spin on Chinese fugitive & strip mall
Do you believe everything you read and hear in the media? What if the story came from a feature cover story from TIME magazine? Now that’s got to be believable, afterall, it is from “TIME“, right? We found this 2002 feature article from TIME magazine while researching some recent material regarding the Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing: One of Burnaby ...
Chinese fugitives & blogs
Bloggers can be criminals too. Now isn’t that a novel idea? It appears that there is a person who appeared on the Chinese blogging scene a month ago, who is insinuating himself to be that fugitive Chinese criminal, Lai Changxing, who is now currently residing in Burnaby (part of metro Vancouver). Whether the blogger is the real ...
Real estate and more damn statistics
Interesting article today in today’s Globe and Mail, regarding Canada’s dirty little secret. Canada’s own subprime mortgage – the untold story. It’s an interesting read, especially in light of the warm and fuzzy reports coming out this week stating Vancouver’s real estate sales “picking up”. These optimistic reports remind us of that old saying “there are ...
Farewell to a classy guy
A few years back, a group of us honoured one of Vancouver’s more celebrated sons – a person who showed many of us inner city kids, a joy for that spinning disk suspended on a string. The Yo-Yo. This gentleman, became a world champion for his amazing tricks he performed on the Yo-Yo… and that was ...
on salty History & Immigration
Former Vancouverite, Paul Yee, authored a book on the history of the Chinese in Vancouver back in 1988 called “Saltwater City“. Saltwater City was the original name given to Vancouver by the early Chinese settlers. It is the english translation for the taishanese (sub dialect of cantonese) phrase for this town by the sea, “Hum Shui ...
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