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The mystery of Mary: Three women reflect on childbirth
She was an unmarried Jewish peasant girl named Miriam. She might have been only 13 years old when she gave birth to her baby. Since Miriam lived two millennia ago in a land occupied by Roman troops,...
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Immigration forecasters in 1984 failed to foresee Vancouver's future
What a startling difference 26 years can make, particularly when you’re talking about immigration patterns in Metro Vancouver.I recently uncovered an old, yellowing Vancouver Sun clipping by the...
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For 400,000 Filipinos in Canada, Christmas bigger than Easter
The nine days of Christmas: Filipino immigrants reenact how Joseph and Mary were rejected migrants The Christmas mass drama begins with two Filipinos wearing Mary and Joseph costumes walking up to...
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Ethnic churches flourishing
Click here for Feb. 6, 2011, column on how Chinese people in Vancouver are flocking more to Christianity than Buddhism Ethnic churches flourishing: But some Vancouver Christians worry the various...
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Wooing the 'ethnic' vote with hot-button issues {UPDATE}
{Read May 9, 2011 Update: How religion and ethnicity shaped election: POLL} How do you attract the so-called ethnic vote in Canada, particularly in immigrant-saturated cities such as Toronto and...
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Ethnic mapping 3: Filipinos tend to live near Skytrain stations
“DON’T FORGET MOM. SEND MONEY HOME.” That’s the chiding message, in all caps, from one of the many ads in Filipino newspapers, which can be found stacked in ethnic shops throughout many east Vancouver...
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Temporary foreign worker controversy strikes Filipinos
The faces of the staff at Tim Horton’s, Denny’s and many other Canadian food chains have been rapidly changing. The servers and cooks at countless Canadian food outlets, as well as the staff in seniors...
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The dark side of high Filipino emigration
Metro Vancouver is home to more than 80,000 Filipino immigrants and temporary foreign workers, most of whom faithfully send home cash “remittances” to family members in their island homeland. But a new...
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Canadian church leaders line up with Filipinos on mining
Many Canadians associate Filipinos with hard-working, church-going, friendly immigrants and temporary foreign workers who toil hard to send home remittances to their impoverished loved ones in their...
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Noted Filipino Catholic criticizes Vancouver archdiocese
The senior editor of a key Filipino newspaper in B.C. is boldly opposing the Vancouver Catholic archdiocese’s decision to launch an expensive TV ad campaign urging adherents to “come home” to the...
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Foreign worker debate explodes in Canada
The Vancouver Sun has published several revealing articles and columns in the past few days that highlight a dire economic issue that was, up until now, somehow flying under the radar of almost all...
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Vancouver’s gravediggers see the disturbing and beautiful
There was the widow who deposited a mobile phone in her husband’s casket, in hopes of communicating with him in the afterworld. There were the mourners who left a live chicken to watch over their loved...
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Whites will decline to two of five Metro residents by 2031
Whites will be a distinct visible minority in Metro Vancouver in less than two decades, according to a new report. After being an overwhelming majority in Metro Vancouver up until the 1980s, whites...
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When does loyalty to an ethnic group turn into favoritism?
Should business people favour people of their own ethnicity or skin colour? These days most people would probably say no. Some readers, for instance, were angry a while ago about a University of...
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In Canada you can’t guess religion by skin colour
The days are virtually gone in Canada when you could guess the religion of people by the colour of their skin or their ethnic origin. And nowhere is that more true than in immigrant-filled Metro...
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Charismatic Christians spread ‘exciting’ faith to immigrants
‘God’s movin’ in this place. I am undone. I’ve got tears flowin.’ I’ve got snot comin’ out of my nose. God, we can be undignified with you. Knowin’ our indignity is all for you.” Pastor Rico Galindez...
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Metro Vancouver: Greeks, Dutch declining; Saudis, Chinese rising (graphics)
Greeks are vanishing fast in Metro Vancouver. So are Dutch, Italians, Poles and Germans. The number of Metro Vancouver residents born in these European countries is rapidly declining, according to the...
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Metro Vancouver: See which immigrant groups shrinking, growing (interactive)
Scroll through Chad Skelton’s interactive graphic to see which ethnic groups are growing and declining the fastest in Metro Vancouver. Surprises in store. This graphic is a sidebar to: Metro Vancouver:...
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Asians in North America: Success and friction
Edward Yang is about as close to an Asian-American-Canadian as they come. He was born in Washington state, lived for some years in his parents’ homeland of Taiwan, attended high school and university...
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David Suzuki’s anti-immigration views; an ode to the gifts of Filipino...
By PAMELA FAYERMAN I’m grieving the loss of my best friend – my father – who died 10 days ago. Dad had congestive heart failure and weak kidneys. In the past few months, his mobility also changed for...
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