Crime // Posts tagged as "Crime"
Is there more to the Richmond racist graffiti?
Yesterday, we received an email from Adrian MacNair, a blogger colleague, whom we had communicated with a few years earlier. Adrian writes the blog Unambiguously Ambidextrous. Back in 2007, Adrian had shared some thoughts on another blogger colleague’s site “Chinese in Vancouver“. Mr MacNair had written about what bothered him regarding the insular nature of the Chinese...
Vancouver chinatown: armpit of north american Chinatowns
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Welcome to Vancouver’s Chinatown! A number of our out of town readers have requested the UGLY Chinese Canadian to show a few images of Vancouver’s Chinatown. Not the usual happy, sunny touristy photos… not the pics that are gussied up before a New Year’s parade. Not the Chinatown that is sparkled up just prior to a big...
my friend, the Unrepentant Whore
The UGLY Chinese Canadian has a number of most interesting and colourful friends. Jamie Lee Hamilton, is a well known Vancouver activist, who began her life as Jimmy Hamilton. We grew up in the same east side Vancouver neighbourhood, and our families were neighbours – struggling to maintain the dignity and effort to keep our economically...
Vancouver: greenest hydroponic city
While trying to recover some of our earlier blog postings… almost lost to cyberspace, we retrieved this old post from our archives on a *green* cash crop grown here in wild, wild, British Columbia. In particular, a cash crop here in metro Vancouver. Our current Mayor and Council is on a mission to earn Vancouver as...
“butt Ugly 2010 Canada Pavilion” is illegal
Further to the UGLY Chinese Canadian’s posts (here, here and here), Canada’s 2010 Olympic pavilion is above all, illegal. Our whiny Architect friends had been murmuring this for quite awhile. And it’s true. “Canada’s 2010 Olympic pavilion is illegal, and has contravened the province’s Architect’s Act”, according to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC). To paraphrase, “It (the tent-like...
Vancouver Mayor chooses photo op over Gang violence task force
I’ll reserve my bite … and allow others to speak their mind about Vancouver Mayor, Gregor Robertson. Surrey Mayor, Diane Watts, has shown admirable leadership in her no nonsense approach to running a City. She has once again, shown other politicians in the Vancouver region what real backbone is all about. Mayor Watts called an emergency...
Comfort women and Prime Ministers
Our English language often get usurped by spin doctors – masking ideas with euphemism. Or should we say… associating a new meaning to a word or phrase. This dynamic nature of words is a natural evolution of how humans interact and communicate. But sometimes, it shows how powerful the ability to spin words can...
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