Vancouver city councilor Raymond Louie asked me to support his bid to be Vancouver Mayor.  Raymond would be a great mayor... I immediately said "Absolutely!" Raymond stands in front of Historic Joy Kogawa House on April 25th, 2008.  This was his first visit to the house, after supporting m...

The deadline for the ex-gratia payment is March 31, 2008. Applicants must have been alive by Feb 6, 2006. If my grandfather was alive, he would have been 140 years old.  IMPOSSIBLE!!! He worked hard to pay back the head tax, most likely borrowed from relatives and family friends.  $500 was...

Chinatown History is happening in front of our eyes! Tuesday February 12, 2008 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld Watch this CBC documentary about  Modernize Tailors (1903) - the last Chinese tailor shop in Vancouver Chinatown. Bill Wong the tailor attended our 2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner.&nbs...

I had a very interesting phone call from Toronto on Monday... a producer from CBC Radio's "The Current" phoned me to ask my views on the latest Canadian census results on language and immigration released December 4th. The questions considered the issues of should Canada adopt a 3rd official languag...