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Maybe time to wind up this Blog
Hello all, As some of you have noticed, there has not been many new posts on this blog, the UGLY Chinese Canadian. What initially started out as an outlet for me to vent, slowly evolved into an assortment of odd news pieces and material shared from a number of people – artists, writers, activists and politicos. I ...
Misinformation Cannot Hide a Wrong Policy
by Gabriel Yiu previously published in Global Chinese Press 25.1.2012 West Canada Weekly 28.1.2012 Indo Canadian Voice 4.2.2012 Whether in politics or news commentary, integrity is the most important quality. When a politician or a commentator deliberately spreads false or untruthful comments, that is an abuse of public trust. It’s deceitful and immoral. With regard ...
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 ...
Ignatieff wants Canada to get a Stiffy
We’re going to rise up on the fact that we relish the “ugly” aspect on our “UGLY” blog. Yes, a rant for today’s blog post. Over the past week or so, we’ve all watched how so much of the federal election efforts have degraded into sandbox style, school yard bravado. But we couldn’t believe our ears, when the ...
Candidates’ appearance affects how you vote
Yesterday, Canada watched our federal leaders debate on television. Mr Harper’s hair was so perfect and so immaculate… with every strand of hair groomed into place. The same for Mr. Ignatieff, and for Mr. Duceppe. Mr Layton, who is almost bald, had a moustache that was just so perfect and trimmed. We guess image and perception is ...
Gary Mar, Alberta’s next PC leader?
Gary Mar is a well respected political leader in western Canada. His family has been in Canada for over 100 years, earning him the recognition as a real Banana. After serving the province of Alberta with various portfolios, and as Alberta’s rep in Washington D.C., Mr. Mar is now running for the top job in Alberta’s ...
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 ...
Wai Young 楊蕭慧儀: Does She or Doesn’t She?
The photo on the left is on the election material presented by the Conservative Wai Young team. The photo on the right is a recent photo of Ms Young. Are they the same person? Yup. Never mind party platform, charismatic party leader or other meaningful issues… the important thought is, “What’s the secret formula to look so photogenic”? We ...
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 ...
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 ...
BC NDP: self implosion… an insiders’ explanation?
The NDP’s very public mudslinging fest is giving the ruling provincial Liberals an early Christmas present. Our Liberal insiders inform us that they are delighted, and are creaming in their pants with this NDP family feud. The following material on the woes of the provincial NDP party was sent to us earlier today. Letters written by NDP’ers ...
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