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Canada
‘What are you?’: Vancouver’s ‘serial racist’ filmed in another anti-Chinese rant
A man now dubbed as Vancouver’s “serial racist” has been caught in yet another anti-Chinese rant, this time at a new dessert shop in the Can...
Carl Samson
Suspect who broke 93-year-old man’s hip during attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown is arrested
The suspect who broke a 93-year-old man’s hip in an unprovoked attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown last year has been arrested. The senior was w...
Michelle De Pacina
Men in clown wigs splatter fake blood onto walls of Vancouver’s Chinese garden
A group of young men wearing clown wigs were spotted splattering fake blood onto the walls of a Chinese garden in Vancouver. The group was s...
Vancouver couple sentenced to probation for anti-Asian attack
Michel Jean-Jacque Berthiaume, 74, and Astrid Maria Secreve, 76, were each sentenced to 12 months of probation for attacking an Asian Canad...
Taiwanese Canadian Mountie fatally stabbed by homeless man while on duty in Vancouver
Const. Shaelyn Yang, a 31-year-old member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was fatally stabbed while on duty by a homeless man during ...
History is made as Vancouver elects its first-ever Asian mayor
Entrepreneur Ken Sim has been elected as mayor of Vancouver, Canada, marking the first time the office has been held by a person of Asian d...
William Yuk
93-year-old man suffers broken hip from unprovoked assault by stranger in Vancouver Chinatown
A 93-year-old man suffered a broken hip in an unprovoked attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Oct. 11. The Vancouver Police Department has r...
Career criminal who struck Asian student with a pole in Vancouver walks free after bail
Mohammed Majidpour, the 35-year-old career criminal charged with assault after hurling anti-Asian slurs and striking a 19-year-old Asian wo...
Vancouver police identify man accused of striking Asian student with a pole
Mohammed Majidpour, 35, is now wanted Canada-wide for allegedly attacking a 19-year-old Asian woman in downtown Vancouver on Sept. 27. The...
Student hit in the head with pole in apparent anti-Asian attack in Vancouver
A 19-year-old Asian student was hit on the back of her head with a pole by a man on Tuesday in what police are investigating as a racially ...
Suspect who stabbed Afghan refugee in Vancouver’s Chinatown charged in 2nd attack on stranger
Dennis Prasad, the suspect arrested and charged for stabbing an Afghan refugee in Vancouver’s Chinatown, has been charged in a second unpro...
Crime
Vancouver woman charged for throwing coffee at Asian shop manager begins trial
Astrid Maria Secreve is facing a mischief charge alongside her ex-husband Jean-Jacque Berthiaume for allegedly hurling coffee and racial sl...
Vancouver election chief asks court to ban names in Chinese, other non-Latin characters from ballots
Vancouver’s Chief Election Officer Rosemary Hagiwara filed a court application on Tuesday to keep 15 candidates from using names with non-L...
Ryan General
Wife of security guard attacked in Vancouver’s Chinatown challenges the mayor to walk its streets
Harold Johnson, a 64-year-old security guard, was previously attacked on Aug. 12 by a stranger, identified as 44-year-old Kevin Aaron Hibba...
‘Go back to China’: Vancouver restaurant owner yelled at, spat on by woman who let her dog pee on his door
Edward Hur, who has been running Nobu Sushi in North Vancouver, Canada, for 19 years, said he was yelled at and spat on during a woman’s an...
Woman arrested for ‘sickening assault’ of 89-year-old man out for a walk in Vancouver’s Chinatown
An 89-year-old man was walking in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Aug. 13 when he was approached by Patricia MacDonald, 58, who knocked him to the...
South Asians in Metro Vancouver fear racist backlash after police release image of 11 men deemed to pose public safety risk
South Asian community members in Metro Vancouver expressed their concern after British Columbia police released a composite picture of 11 m...
Bryan Ke
Historic Chinese garden in Vancouver’s Chinatown greeted by anti-Asian slurs first thing in the morning
An Asian staffer at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver’s Chinatown reportedly fell victim to an anti-Asian tirade before...
Man accused of attacking mother and toddler, kicking car in Vancouver Chinatown
Shakwan David Kelly, the 27-year-old man accused of assaulting a mother and her toddler on Pender Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown in Canada...
Vancouver transit officer who went viral for calmly handling an anti-masker is promoted
Constable Peter Kwok, a Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer who went viral for a video of his calm handling of an anti-masker on a SkyTr...
Art
Vancouver Chinatown community ‘disheartened’ after mural is vandalized weeks after being created
“Fu Lu Shou Xi,” a mural in Vancouver’s Chinatown, was vandalized with bubble graffiti on Sunday morning. The artwork, located on the Ten ...
87-year-old man bear-sprayed in the face in Vancouver Chinatown racist attack
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is searching for a man who reportedly bear-sprayed an 84-year-old victim in Vancouver’s Chinatown on ...
Vancouver authorities seek help identifying suspect in unprovoked attack against teen girl
Canada’s Metro Vancouver Transit Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in an unprovoked attack against a 17-year-ol...
Issues & Racism
Vancouver woman on trial for anti-Asian attack is filmed using anti-Asian slur on her way to court
Astrid Maria Secreve, a co-defendant of a March 2021 mischief case involving an Asian Canadian coffee shop manager, was filmed directing a ...
‘Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea’ mural in Vancouver’s Chinatown defaced
A mural known as “Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea,” which was meticulously painted onto the side of a two-story building on East Georgia S...
No jail time for man who shoved 92-year-old Asian man with dementia in Vancouver, says judge
Jamie Bezanson, the man who attacked a 92-year-old Asian man with severe dementia at a 7-Eleven in East Vancouver on March 13, 2020, will n...
Vancouver police seek witnesses to ‘disturbing attack’ on young Asian woman
Surveillance footage released by the Vancouver Police Department shows a 22-year-old woman strolling outside of Hotel Georgia on West Georg...
Khier Casino
Food
Report: Vancouver is the world’s most ‘sushi-crazed’ city outside Japan
Based on Google Trends data, Vancouver is the most “sushi-crazed” city in the world outside Japan. The Canadian city, whose metropolitan a...
Man sentenced for vandalizing Vancouver’s Chinese Cultural Centre with ‘kill all’ message
A man who pleaded guilty to vandalizing Vancouver’s Chinese Cultural Centre with racist graffiti will spend 240 days in jail after being sen...
Canada’s ‘Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital’ launches very first investigation into rising incidents
The Canadian province of British Columbia is launching its first-ever public inquiry on the surge of anti-Asian incidents amid the COVID-19 ...
Child Care in Vancouver Refuses Asian Mother’s Son, Tells Her They ‘Won’t Take Chinese In’
A Vancouver mother was left in shock after receiving a racist email while looking for child care in British Columbia. What happened: Wai-Ke ...
‘My Heart Was Racing’: Vancouver Family Wins $125K Lottery Ticket, Plans to Use Toward Tuition
A father who won over $100,000 in the lottery from a scratch card in Vancouver, Canada, plans to use it towards his children’s educati...
Thy Nguyen
Vancouver Mayor Apologizes for City’s Racism Against South Asians in 1914 Komagata Maru Incident
Vancouver City Mayor Kennedy Stewart issued an apology on Monday for the city’s racist role in denying entry to hundreds of South Asians, mo...
Search For Mother Missing in Vancouver Park Ends After Body Found
After a wide volunteer search effort, a missing woman in Canada was found dead in the renowned Stanley Park over the weekend. Yu Ting Ji, wh...
Asian Women Punched, Spit on in 2 Different Attacks in Vancouver
Two East Asian women have fallen victims to separate attacks in Vancouver last week. The first incident, which involved a White male assaila...
Filipino Canadian Man Threatened by Racist on Bus in Vancouver
A Filipino Canadian man became the target of a racist tirade while commuting on a bus in Burnaby, Vancouver last week. Danilo Jimenez Jr., w...