Sara Moghadamjoo is a young well-educated Iranian-Canadian, who recently graduated with two masters degree from Simon Fraser University and is only a year away from getting her PhD from the University of British Columbia. She decided to stand in the upcoming municipal elections for the district of West Vancouver as she wanted to represent the [...]
A religious group that was publicly ousted six years ago by the BC Muslim Association has finally ended their search for a suitable meeting place. Led by the controversial Imam Fode Drame, the Zawiyah Foundation has recently moved into a commercial property off Southeast Marine Drive in Vancouver. In 2005, The BC Muslim Association fired [...]
A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia is readying the launch of a new educational website that aims to offer an interactive history of Chinese Canadians. More than two years in the making, the site, Chinese Canadian Stories is due to be unveiled in January. Henry Yu, who heads up the project, said [...]
Satish Patel and his family are selling their home and leaving everything behind to return to India. He waited five years for his parents to join him in Canada and he’s giving up. “I am the only son and I believe we have waited for much longer than normal,” Patel said. “I should have considered [...]
Former Bhutanese refugees settled in Vancouver often find it hard to adjust to a new language and life. But elder members of the community frequently come together to support one another and combat isolation. Four Bhutanese seniors who relocated to Canada during the past three years, recently gathered in one of the men’s Coquitlam apartments [...]
By Kate Adach Ori Garcia lived in constant fear before fleeing Mexico. She suffered homophobic violence and humiliation in a country often considered safe for queers. “As a transgendered woman, every day that go by in my life, in my country, was a matter of life or death,” she said. Garcia applied for refugee status [...]
Update: Edna Ner passed away on Dec. 2. Brigita Anastasia Ner, alone by her comatose mother’s bedside, waits for Citizenship and Immigration Canada to decide whether her father can visit Vancouver from the Philippines. Her father, a pastor, applied for a temporary resident visa on Nov. 8 after his wife, Edna Ner, 47, suffered a [...]
Kesar Singh Bhatti has something more than his administrative tasks at Khalsa Diwan Society of Vancouver to ponder these days. Bhatti, 80, volunteers three or four days a week at the Sikh temple on Ross Street. Most of the time, he’s busy with work related to two projects: construction of a monument and of a [...]
Tim Horton’s is an odd place for an anthropologist to find a job. But when Veronica Grigio arrived in Vancouver just over a month ago, that was her best hope. Grigio interviewed at clothing stores and for food service positions, but she didn’t mention the B.A. she completed in Rome in her resume. She thought [...]
It’s an experience few Canadians can appreciate. But the task of raising a family as an undocumented, essentially illegal, immigrant mother is a challenge faced by some Vancouver women. Sarah, whose identity is protected because of her vulnerable legal status in Canada, fled a violent relationship and is raising three children who each have what [...]
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