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Celebrate Canada’s Patrick Chan!
Canada’s Patrick Chan Celebration A Fundraiser event in recognition of our World Figure Skating Champion! If you are in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday, February 18, 2012 Join us in our continuing support for Patrick! To mark the New Lunar Year of the Dragon, join us… Celebrate Patrick’s World Championship title, and hear from Patrick, his journey to the 2012 World ...
Rest in Peace, Gordon and Milton
A sad start to the year, with the passing of well loved Asian North American icons. 72 year old Vancouver community leader, Milton K. Wong, and Gordon K. Hirabayashi, who fought against the internment of Japanese Americans, also passed away today at the age of 93. Milton Wong, was well loved by many in Vancouver – and ...
it’s all about Love
Brotherly love. Many of us have seen the very touching story of the Bilodeau brothers on television. A wonderful story of how younger Alexandre Bilodeau has looked up to his elder, cerebral palsy afflicted brother, and how big brother was and is Alex’s inspiration. photo courtesy of Ming Pao news We all saw the baby pictures of the two ...
Alex Bilodeau, You are GOLD!
At a massive Chinese New Years dinner in Vancouver tonight, with over 60 politicians from all 3 levels of government, Consuls and other dignitaries in attendance… the announcement came that Alex Bilodeau won Gold in Men’s Moguls! A text message alerted me of the wonderful news … and my friends and I started screaming. But it hadn’t ...
Vancouver’s Chinese connection to Olympic Skiing
Freestyle skiing Vancouver freestyle skiing legend, Wayne Wong in classic K2 skis The first appearance of freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics was in 1988. It was here first, that it was a demonstration sport at the XV Olympic s games in Calgary, Canada. The venues were Canada Olympic Park for aerials and ballet, and Nakiska for moguls. Jean-Luc ...
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 ...
the Mom song
I’ve been receiving messages from friends with links to this neat YouTube vid via email and Facebook. This is viral propagation at its best. Love this piece. This hilarious song by a Mom, condenses down the wonderful work a Mom does over a day… into 3 minutes:
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 ...
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 ...
Vancouver will miss Don Lee …
It is with great sadness, to inform fellow Vancouverites the news that we’ve lost another respected son of our City. Don Lee was a former City of Vancouver Councillor, and was a current School Board Trustee. He was also a former high school teacher. Don was my old Math teacher, and kept in touch with me – ...
Larry the Chinese Canadian doodlebug
One of the Ugly Chinese Canadian’s Heroes. He still stands head and shoulders above all for many Canadians of Asian ancestry. Mr. Larry Kwong joins our Hall of Heroes, joining his namesake of Normie Kwong and others (see earlier Posts: “Normie Kwong, the China Clipper” and here, “Chinatown Heroes of Yesteryear“). Larry Kwong playing for the NY Rangers __________________________ This ...
City of Vancouver honours Roy
I got to know Roy back in the 70’s when a bunch of us starry eyed and idealistic Asian Canadians got involved with the creation of the Chinese Cultural Centre and the Powell Street Festival. Roy used to visit us permed hair, platform shoed youth on our efforts to bridge the new generation with Vancouver’s ...
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