Tag: Chinese community
Posted on January 7, 2013
Chinatown looks forward to Viaducts removal: Ming Pao
This just in from today’s Ming Pao, reporting on correspondence arriving at City Hall urging removal of the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts: City of Vancouver staff will present a report to council within the next two months which… Read More
Posted on January 31, 2011
‘One Big Hapa Family’ explores future of Japanese-Canadian community: it’s about 100 percent hapa
One of the best things about Todd Wong’s Gung Haggis Fat Choy — a haggis-stuffed evening that melds Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations with Robbie Burns Night — is the unexpected revelations about Vancouver’s ever-changing diversity. This year’s… Read More
Posted on February 14, 2010
Bright Light opens Chinatown courtyard
Fireworks and dragon dancing celebrated the opening of the Bright Light public art installation in the courtyard of the Yue Shan Society at 39 East Pender today, where just 30 years ago a narrow walkway linked Pender St…. Read More
Posted on October 12, 2009
2010 Games and civil liberties
This story on the BC Civil Liberties Association challenge to the city’s 2010 Games bylaws arrived in councillors’ inboxes last week just a few minutes before this fact sheet and this letter from VPD Deputy Chief Steve Sweeney… Read More
