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The Source Newspaper shakes it up, Harlem style.
Post-production meeting at the Source Newspaper gets infused with some Harlem diversity. [Read more…]
Canadian Club of Vancouver honours the Source
On Thursday February 28, the Source Newspaper was honoured with the Baldwin-La-Fontaine award.
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Rick Tae: “Asian Americans and Asian Canadians are completely different.” – Guillaume Debaene
What does it mean to be Asian in North America? This is the question raised by The Theory of Everything, a quirky, comical and philosophical play by award-winning Thai-American playwright, Prince Gomolvilas. [Read more…]
George Pope: “Hiring disabled people is an excellent choice”
Years, days, minutes… when it comes to the important moments which build our lives, the scales of time involved often vary. In a matter of seconds on a morning in January 1990, George Pope’s life changed forever. While getting dressed to go to work, a violent headache suddenly knocked him out. Victim of a cerebral aneurysm, he was in a coma for two and a half days before learning that he would remain paralyzed for the rest of his life. [Read more…]
Elie Wiesel: “Whomever listens to a witness becomes one themself”
Well before he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel was just another series of numbers lost in the horror of the extermination camp of Auschwitz: A-7713. It was in the atrocities of Auschwitz that he lost several members of his family and some hope. At 83 years old, this native of Sighet, Rumania, continues to travel the world to testify and fight against indifference. Wiesel will be in Vancouver on Monday September 10 for a conference organized by the Jewish Federation. [Read more…]
Canada, the place to spend $10,000 on a Cuban cigar
When former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger openly disclosed his taste for expensive Cuban cigars, it sparked a bit of a controversy. Indeed Cuban cigars – as well as many other Cuban goods – are still under embargo in the United States and therefore illegal for American citizens to purchase. This is a ban that doesn’t exist in Canada where commercial ties with the Castro regime have never been cut. [Read more...]
Interview with Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik: “I am critical of multiculturalism precisely because I defend diversity”
“What’s wrong with multiculturalism?” This is the question that English writer, Kenan Malik, will try to answer on Sunday June 3 at a conference organized by the Laurier Institution. Before his lecture, the author of From Fatwa to Jihad (2009) and Strange Fruit (2008) compares the European and Canadian systems of integration. [Read more…]
Nikohl Boosheri (Circumstance):
What would my parents think of the lesbian scenes?
As in any good scenario, Nikohl Boosheri’s life is molded by new developments and different points of view. Born in Pakistan from Iranian parents, the young actress grew up in Ontario before moving to Vancouver where she studied acting. She made her public debut in the movie Circumstance, last year, in which she played Atafeh, a young Iranian from Teheran in love with her best friend Shireen (Sarah Kazemy). [Read more...]
In some parts of the world, it’s still Christmas
Not everyone has celebrated Christmas, yet. The, mostly Eastern European, Orthodox Christians are looking forward to January 7th, the day they celebrate Christmas–according to the Julian calendar. Different countries, even different regions have different traditions. Ukrainian fits this mold. [Read more...]
