Canada has proclaimed multiculturalism for over 50 years, and the Canadian Multiculturalism Act was enacted in 1988. Yet Canada has a long way to go before it can claim that title in reality rather than just on paper. Although Canada is a country populated overwhelmingly by migrants and their descendants, to this day, a large […]
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The city of Surrey is the second largest in British Columbia, with nearly 600,000 mostly working-class residents. It is home to families from Canada and dozens of other countries and is host to some of the largest multi-ethnic celebrations in Canada, including the massive annual Vaisakhi parade of up to half a million people, a […]
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The racist shooting rampage that claimed the lives of eight people in Atlanta on March 16 is only the most recent manifestation of rising anti-Asian racism in the last year. Both geopolitical and individual tensions have been steadily rising due to everything from the US-China conflict, to the COVID-19 pandemic, or according to Atlanta Police […]
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Early on into the COVID-19 pandemic my mom called me from home to tell me that I should get myself a mask. I waited until the last moment to buy a mask, because I can be lazy, and was astonished at the prices. I did a little digging around online until I found some reasonably […]
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Amaya K, Bogdan K, Allie P and R A Costeau spoke with Martin LeBrun. Vancouver youth agree that there are positives about living in Canada: healthcare, vast natural beauty and, if you have a regular paycheque, a glut of consumer products. But increasingly inaction on climate change, falling living standards, work stress and alienation are […]
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