Can Montreal s Chinatown survive? WEEKEND READ | Real estate development threatens to erase 200 years of history and buildings that are decades older than city records show.
Author of the article: Marian Scott • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 22, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 13 minute read • At the Chinese Association of Montreal, which has owned its three-storey stone headquarters since 1920, there’s a firm resolve to stay put. “Our building is not for sale,” says the association’s vice-president Bryant Chang, left, with director Bill Wong. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette
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As he showed a reporter around the Chinese Association of Montreal at 110-112 de la Gauchetière St. W., Bryant Chang made one thing perfectly clear:
Ian Paisley accuses BBC of mocking Edwin Poots faith
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image captionLisburn s orange arch bears emblems of local branches of the Orange Order
The symbols of unionism are never far away in Lisburn. In the city centre, there s an orange arch - a structure bearing emblems of local branches of the pro-union marching organisation, the Orange Order.
It features a plaque unveiled this month, marking the centenary since the founding of Northern Ireland. And yet you don t have to look very hard to find evidence of unionist discontent.
Andrew Dick has lived here for all of his 38 years. I think the union has never been in a worse place, he says. We ve been well and truly led up the garden path - especially by Boris Johnson, with how Brexit has worked out for Northern Ireland.
Now is the moment for a shakeup of Unionism in Northern Ireland
The departures of Arlene Foster and Steve Aiken provide a valuable opportunity for Unionists to appeal more to modern voters
13 May 2021 • 12:04pm
Northern Ireland’s biggest party, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), was already embroiled in its first competitive leadership battle, after elected representatives ousted Arlene Foster. Now, the province’s second biggest unionist party, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), is seeking a new leader too, following the resignation of Steve Aiken, a former Royal Navy submarine commander who was in post for just eighteen months.
Foster’s overthrow was an acrimonious affair and she has since announced that she intends to leave the DUP when she stands down officially. In contrast, according to the UUP at least, Aiken left after “long conversations” about the future of the party that took place “face to face”. His potential successor, Doug Beattie, said “He made th
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is holding the first leadership contest in its 50-year history following the resignation of Arlene Foster. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, a Westminster MP, is taking on Edwin Poots, agriculture and environment minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, for the top job.
Just eight DUP MPs and 28 DUP Northern Ireland Assembly members get a vote in this contest – so 36 people in total (29 men and seven women). This is the narrowest selectorate of any party in Britain or Ireland. No public hustings are allowed. The result is expected around 5pm on May 14. Here is everything you need to know about the two men hoping to become the leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party.
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