June, 2010 // Posts published in June, 2010
[GC] CSIS chief should be accountable for his public remark
Guest contribution on the UGLY Chinese Canadian by Gabriel Yiu. Mr Yiu is a Vancouver based activist, on human rights issues; a political commentator, and was a former candidate in the BC provincial riding of Vancouver Fraserview. Commentaries and opinions by Guest Contributors [GC], are those of its authors, and may not necessarily reflect those of ...
Chow slaps CSIS with reminder on sex warcrimes
This media release forwarded to our blog from the New Democratic Party of Canada, in response to the CSIS-Fadden-spy affair. The NDP media release also took the opportunity to remind Canadians of other past statements made by CSIS. Including, a comment made by the former head of the CSIS Asia desk, Michel Juneau-Katsuya. Juneau-Katsya had alleged the ...
[humour] another spill by BP
This youtube spoof of BP on a coffee spill reminds us of the einsteins at Vancouver’s city hall: arf arf
Where is the best Chinese food on planet Earth?
Here’s a thought which had been prepared earlier, but didn’t make our first rounds of blog posts. It’s made today’s post! With all this chatter about “foreign” spies, checking out our fine nation, the UGLY Chinese Canadian blog thought, Hey! Maybe it’s our food! The spies are trying to steal our great food recipes. Forget the beautiful natural ...
sino sniping on eve of G8-G20
The UGLY Chinese Canadian blog’s email IN box lit up like a Christmas tree today. We received over a couple dozen emails expressing concern over a CBC tv newsclip yesterday regarding “foreign espionage” here in Canada. Here are a few snippets from the emails we received: Subject: sino-phobia / csis interview on cbc http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/22/spying-csis.html did all of you catch ...
Racist Chinese women disciplined by elder
Interesting incident shared with us today. We met Allan Williams, and his family this morning. Allan and his spouse are aboriginal Canadians, he’s originally from Alert Bay, and his spouse from Vancouver Island. Earlier this year, Allan was at a bank located in east Vancouver, where he observed a commotion. Allan watched the incident where an elderly ...
7 Reasons Not To Mess With A Kid
Not sure if the following “reasons” are true or not… but it’s made our email IN box many times, sent in from our readers. And we love reading it each and every time. Enjoy! 7 Reasons Not To Mess With A Kid Reason 1 A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it ...
Nice! …polite kids
We’ve heard so much about how the young people in our town are so self absorbed and selfish. We, at the UGLY Chinese Canadian would like to share a different perspective. Yep, a short blog posting today. We took a bus ride, the number “25 UBC” from Burnaby to Vancouver. As the bus routed and stopped at ...
Food: the Chow Mein sandwich
Okay, we received a number of comments in response to our post yesterday describing fried rice as a north american invention. Some of you disagree, and feel that the cantonese diaspora had introduced this fare all over the world. The same for chow mein. But we, at the UGLY Chinese Canadian, will agree that this, the ...
Food: sweet & sour pork, chop suey …only in America, eh?
We’ve often heard that the ubiquitous pizza we’re familiar with – the one with the many sumptuous toppings atop the rounded bread, is an American interpretation. These are the standard home delivery sorts, coming in a variety of topping choices, including favourites like, mushrooms, pepperoni, anchovies, onions, cheese and a plethora of other delectables. The original ...
Memo to cute ass Mascot
old garage building facing Chinatown’s Pender Street The UGLY Chinese Canadian blog received a number of comments regarding Chinatown’s mascot. The mascot, suggested by their BIA (Business Improvement Association), is their latest brain child in their long and unsuccessful series of efforts to save Chinatown. A number of the comments received, can not be published. Not only ...
Chinese Canadians and First Nations, part III
Chinese Canadians and First Nations: 150+ Years of Shared Experience With early Chinese migrants to Canada involved in mining, farming and trade, it was only a matter of time before some of the early Chinese married into our first nations communities. Here is a closer look at these inter-community histories to promote ...
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