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Immigration Assistance Organizations’ funding bids “messed up”
Vancouver’s SUCCESS & PICS Losing Bids a Serious Matter Sing Tao Daily 27.12.2011 Indo Canadian Voice 31.12.2011 by Gabriel Yiu The community was shocked to hear that SUCCESS had lost all the bids for their employment assistance services for immigrants. It could spell the end of their operation of such services. A lot of discussion revolved around the abrupt resignation ...
An Immigrant birdfeeder Analogy?
In response to our earlier post, “Fraser Institute + Immigrants = unhappy Campers“, we received the following comment from reader ‘L. Gee’. It’s probably from an old email chain letter, and it’s all tongue and cheek, but the words contained seem to encapsulate some of the unspoken feelings toward immigrant citizens: Take down the Bird Feeder! I bought ...
Fraser Institute + Immigrants = Unhappy Campers
The westcoast so-called think tank, the Fraser Institute recently published a report on Canada’s immigration policy – looking at some economic aspects. A number of Vancouver area immigrant society responded to the Fraser Institute report. Here is their joint media release from yesterday, May 20th, 2011: Fraser Institute Report on Immigrants Flawed Summary: The heads of S.U.C.C.E.S.S., PICS and ...
G&M article: Why Politicians are targeting ethnic vote
Interesting piece earlier this week on the ‘ethnic vote’. The following article courtesy of the Globe and Mail blog: Why politicians are targeting the ethnic vote by FRANCES WOOLLEY Globe and Mail Blog Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2011 7:19AM EDT It’s one of Canada’s enduring myths: Every generation, a new wave of immigrants arrives. They start out poor, ...
Battle for Ethnics + Photos = Shopping for Votes
Interesting discussion on our earlier posting, “Wai Young: Does She or Doesn’t She?“. Some of our readers cried foul and sexism when we explored photo anomalies on one of the woman candidates for Vancouver South. So… OOPs. Did our blog cross the line? Yeah… whatever. We’ve got 3 boring political leaders slugging it out. Same old song. Let’s add some ...
Rocky Railway High
The following note was received from reader David Cheung on his “Rocky Railway High” project. Mr Cheung writes: Please help us collect 5,000 “expressions” (drawings or writings) from the public for the symbolic return of Chinese railway workers who lost their lives during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The work will be collected, exhibited and brought ...
Saltwater City, Downtown Eastside and Vancouver’s 125th
On Vancouver 125, remember that Saltwater City was born in Downtown Eastside First published in the Georgia Straight Newspaper: April 2, 2011 by Sid Chow Tan On April 6, 2011, good people will be celebrating the 125th anniversary of Vancouver’s founding. About a century ago—September 7, 1907, to be exact—a race riot in Chinatown was a flashpoint and a ...
Richmond BC, the Chinese integration issue
One of our readers forwarded to us, a ‘letter to the Editor’. The letter was an interesting write up by Ray Lin of Richmond, B.C. to the Richmond Review, the local community newspaper. Lin’s letter was a response to an earlier commentary. Richmond, B.C. has a very large Asian community (namely, Chinese), and is a city that ...
Canadian Federal Election: UGLY politician watch
So it’s official. Canada will be seeing it’s 4th federal election in seven years, come Monday, May 2, 2011. Our blog, the UGLY Chinese Canadian, are contacting fellow curmudgeons and other coveted ‘ballot marking’ participants to share thoughts, gossip and hot facts with us over the course of the upcoming months. We hope to focus on the activities ...
The Chinatown Bus – linking migrant workers across America
A month earlier, our blog received a note on the role of inter urban buses, shuttling Chinese workers between various locations throughout America. We’ve posted this note on today’s blogpost below, titled, “Transcultural Growth Beyond Ethnic Communities: Chinatown Bus in America” Our blog was also forwarded another note last week, regarding the tragic bus accident that ...
Did Globe and Mail call Minister Kenney, Fat?
We’ve met Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism – Mr. Jason Kenney, on a number of occasions. We’ve always enjoyed his presence and good sense of humour. An article published in the Globe and Mail Newspaper earlier in the month suggested that Mr. Kenney is paying a price for his affable good nature and support of ...
Architect: Higher buildings will help Chinatown
The following opinion piece is by respected Vancouver Architect, Joe Wai. This piece was first published in the Tyee.ca Why Chinatown Needs to Grow Taller Vancouver’s historic district is struggling for its spiritual identity. If done right, higher buildings could help it succeed. By Joe Wai, 16 March 2011, ...
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