Anxiang Du travelled to Northampton UK and then to the Ding family home in Wootton on the afternoon of April 29 2011. the same day as the royal wedding. Jifeng “Jeff” Ding, his wife Helen Chui and their...
We have 30,000 residents living inside about 500 Single Room Occupancy Hotel Rooms spread out throughout our city. Hundreds of thousands more RENT their homes, apartments and rooms...
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BY ERIN GOLDEN AND CHRISTINA MARIA PASCHYN[This story appeared originally on Immigration Here & There, a product of the Medill School of Journalism] The Sunday service had already begun when 23-year-old Thomas...
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This video shows what Vancouver looked like just over 100 years ago. A fascinating (slightly sped up) look into what life was like then. "In 1907, Seattleite William Harbeck bolted his hand-crank camera to the front of a streetcar and filmed along Granville, Hastings,...
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"I think I'll sell my taxes," a long time Downtown Eastside resident told me this weekend. Having been on welfare only part of last year and having done casual jobs for a few months, he has a sizeble tax refund...
opinion by jr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 168 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
UPDATE | Feb. 17, 2009 — The California Supreme Court judge presiding over director Roman Polanski's "unlawful sex" case from 1977 has refused his lawyer's recent request to have the charge dismissed — 31...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 348 views | 34 recommendations | 4 comments
Two children have now died and another is in serious condition in hopsital. About 11 people have been injured.A van jumped the curb at 11:31am this morning in Chinatown, New York, killing one child and injuring four or five others. The accident happened in front of 38 East...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 359 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
And if elected, he'll rock, because George Chow grew up on the downtown eastside and he knows it from the inside out. Read the rest of this profile, which is a window into how Chow thinks, on The...
Last night's debate between Vision candidates shed some light on the 3 men who hope to get the current Mayor's job in Vancouver. Gregor Robertson emerged as the local Obama."Overall, myimpressions of the night...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 769 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
The Vancouver mayoral election is turning into an expensive affair."Vancouver city councillor Raymond Louie has been attracting attention even among those who don't read Chinese with his full-page ages in all the...
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Semi Truck Crashes Into Cermak/Chinatown CTA Station 2 Woman Dead, 19 Injured, 10 in Critical Condition"Update 10:45 pm - Service on the Red Line was fully restored less than three hours after the accident, said CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski."Engineers determined...
created by Albert Milliron | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 3450 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly Activists who feel quite strongly on this and other issues such as "No more War, Get our Soldiers Home from Iraq, to Free Tibet etc..etc.. These Activists...
created by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 453 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Happy Year of the Rat- party like it's 4706! Lunar New Year is here, heralded by parades full of color and sound. We'll be checking out parades taking place throughout the world- if you're taking part in one of...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1188 views | 15 recommendations | 11 comments
Gung Hay Fat Choy!For millions of Chinese around the world, the Lunar New Year Holiday is the most important time of the year. In 2008, however, unprecedented cold and wild weather throughout China has wreaked...