March, 2010 // Posts published in March, 2010
Congratulations New West for doing the right thing
Posted by the GOOD Chinese Canadian: Meeting on historic report on discrimination against Chinese in New Westminster 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday March 31, 2010 at City Hall (511 Royal Avenue), New Westminster B.C. Re: City acknowledges historic discrimination (News Leader, March 25, 2010) Kudos to New Westminster’s planning department and project leader John Stark for the historic report on discrimination ...
a Chinese Canadian love affair with shark’s fin…
A few months back, the UGLY Chinese Canadian received an invite for an evening soirée with old friends and to meet up with a bright young woman who was passionate about sharks. Yes, this young Chinese-Canadian, Ms Claudia Li, love sharks. Not eating sharks, but saving sharks! In fact, she and her friends have launched a local campaign ...
Stem cell donors sought in Chinese community
Two years ago, our blog introduced you to Ms Carolyn Tam, a leukemia patient who was in desperate need to find a matching stem cell donor. We are very sad to inform our readers that Ms Tam lost her battle to leukemia last year. This weekend, there is an effort to seek donors in the Chinese Canadian ...
Whose History? Our History or the Media’s…
The UGLY Chinese Canadian’s old bud, Sid Tan, responded to a recent on-line commentary by a Chinese Canadian politician. There, a number of passionate exchanges occurred. But the issue remained– how easy it is to perpetuate “your” version of history if you have Media smarts… Sid Tan (Chow Ming Fai) is a long time community activist, ...
celebrating life at Foo’s Ho Ho
A few months back, it seemed that a last surviving piece of Vancouver history was gone forever. Here is our earlier story on it, “end of an Era“ The landmark restaurant known as “Foo’s Ho Ho”, was on it’s last legs. The proprietor, James Sam, had passed away. However, friends of Sam’s restaurant wanted to save this last ...
USB teddy bear gets stuffed
Hey it’s Friday! We’ve belly ached a lot this week. And our email IN box had received a number of interesting leads on the “Chinese Canadian” experience. But let’s leave that for another day. For a change of pace today… Remember the old car trunk lid “squashing” the stuffed animal gag?… where a part of a stuffed animal ...
counter point: uniting Canada through language
A couple of months back, University of British Columbia history professor, Henry Yu presented the UGLY Chinese Canadian blog with his thoughts regarding the English language and why it discouraged diversity. We posted Professor Yu’s dissertation “Monolingual language stunts diversity“, where he argued a position of the English language as being not reflective of the reality ...
Redress Remix screening
We received this invite a couple of weeks back – regarding an upcoming screening of Stitch Media’s documentary, Redress Remix. It’s a piece on the apology for Canada’s historic Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. There’s an accompanying website that is sometimes accessible (we think it’s still in development) at www.redressremix.ca. Redress Remix will be aired on Vancouver’s ...
Singapore film night, March 27 2010
The UGLY Chinese Canadian is pleased to support the New Asia Film Festival. The New Asia Film Festival Monthly Film Series is a community-based annual event that screens cutting-edge films and media art works from around the world. It centers on contemporary and progressive themes related to Asian cultures. The festival provides an opportunity for local ...
easy university degrees from Canada, for a price, of course
One of the blossoming business opportunities that has appeared on the Canadian westcoast, is the opening up of education or college accreditation enterprises. These are the privately run, for profit ventures, tapping into the minds and wallets of families who desire a “western” education for their children, or for themselves. Some of these enterprises cater to the ...
Caucasians: 82%… Chinese-Canadians: 2%
The Chinese Canadian community is often heard whining about being under represented here, there and where ever. The UGLY Chinese Canadian blog has often written about the lack of Chinese Canadian participation in bone marrow, organ donor registration and other health issue initiatives within this community. But there are some chinks of hope breaking through the wall ...
Vancouver’s Chinese wingnuts initiate mudslinging (part 2)
So our left leaning political rent-a-crowd got blamed for locking up a bunch of right wing nuts at the Chinese Cultural Centre, the week of the opening of the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The incredible loss of face to those locked up. Oh, the shame. Oh, the misfortune. Now, it’s been a month since the day of the ...
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