Forum of Diversity
When people leave their homeland, it is often done with a heavy heart. While the decision is not easy, those who make it often hope that doing so will improve their circumstances, or at least enable them to provide a better life for their children.
Polish-Canadians were one of the earliest settlers in North America. [Read more...]
Michelle Vinci, 25, says that since moving to Kitsilano last year she already feels connected to her new community. [Read more...]
Legend has it that when St. Patrick returned to Ireland as a Bishop in 432 AD, he used the shamrock to explain the Trinity of God to the Irish. Little did he know the tiny green leaf would become an iconic symbol for much more than the explanation of the divine, it would become an emblem every March 17 when people can don green and pretend to be Irish. Little did he know the tiny green leaf would become an iconic symbol. [Read more...]
It doesn’t take long to remember the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes filled the skies as the seemingly impenetrable golden gates of Pearl Harbour collapsed into the Pacific Ocean. [Read more...]
On March 3, the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA) will be holding its eighth Diversity Health Fair. To the surprise of many, health care and diversity are in fact two very closely related topics. [Read more...]
From the very beginning of Sadie Kuehn’s entrance into the world, her life was marked by diversity, challenges and expectation. She was part of the Black middle class and raised Catholic in what she says was a predominantly southern Baptist family. [Read more...]
Eric Wong has dedicated his entire life to diversity and human rights, and in November of 2011 he was recognized for his efforts with a Honourable Mention at the 2011 Cultural Harmony Awards. [Read more...]
Though it’s been recognized as Vietnam’s business enclave for decades, The City of Vancouver has only recently approved the designation of “Little Saigon” on Kingsway between Fraser and Nanaimo streets. [Read more...]
The Buddhist teachings at the Shambhala Centre on Heather St. and 17th Ave., don’t come from your typical monk in crimson coloured robes. Instead the Universal teachings of dignity, intelligence and diversity come from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan meditation master who taught thousands, smoked cigarettes and created (and led) his own army; at times doing all three while wearing full military regalia, creating paradoxes wherever he set foot. [Read more...]
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