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Teachers at the new Chaoyin International School in Richmond will be âtreading lightlyâ on âsensitiveâ issues like Tibet, Tiananmen Square and the Chinese Communist Party when classes begin this fall.
Teachers wonât censor those topics, school principal Greg Corry told Richmond News reporter Maria Rantanen. But they will be told to âredirectâ the conversation.
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âWe donât have any strict guidelines about those three topics,â Corry said. âBut our staff will be told â explained by me â to tread lightly.â
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Every Thursday afternoon, Turnisa Matsedik-Qira stands outside the Chinese consulate protesting the treatment of her family and other Uyghur families whose relatives have simply disappeared.
Last week, she’d only had a few hours sleep after her overnight nursing shift on a COVID ward before heading out to join others across Canada for this weekly protest.
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Sometimes, Matsedik-Qira’s husband and twins go with her. Sometimes, she is the only protester, which can be frightening. Several times when she’s been alone, people have shown up and verbally abused her. At home, she’s received a threatening phone call.
As we struggle to emerge intact from this persistent pandemic, it’s a particularly appealing one.
And it seems to be the unofficial slogan for Vancouver’s preliminary and as-yet-unendorsed bid for the 2030 Games that was sent to the International Olympic Committee in February with John Furlong as its frontman.
“In 2010, we went chasing help from governments. Now we’re asking, ‘How can we help you?’” the former head of the 2010 Games told me during a wide-ranging, 90-minute conversation.
That phrase kept coming up as Furlong tried to explain how the 2030 Winter Games could be organized and operated without costing taxpayers a dime well, except for the security costs, which would have to be paid by the federal government. (Security topped out at close to $1 billion in 2010, and was estimated at $400 million in the aborted Calgary bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics.)
Daphne Bramham: For Canadians sake, Canada has to stand up to China Opinion: Canda s silence on China has left many Hongkongers Canadian passport holders, permanent residency card holders, and others in a fearful quandary
Author of the article: Daphne Bramham
Publishing date: Apr 29, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Former lawmaker and barrister Martin Lee arrives at West Kowloon court ahead of a sentencing hearing on April 16 in Hong Kong. Seven prominent democratic figures, including Lee, Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, and Margaret Ng, were convicted of unauthorized assembly. Photo by Anthony Kwan /Getty Images
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The silence is deafening from a Canadian government paralyzed and unwilling to say anything that might offend China, whether it’s the genocide of Uyghur people or a new Hong Kong law that could bar people, including foreigners, from leaving the territory.
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2020 was going to be a year of celebration for Vancouver-based Ratanak International 30 years of helping Cambodian children and adults who had been trafficked reintegrate into their families and villages.
Then, COVID hit. Founder Brian McConaghy left Cambodia ahead of borders closing there as Canada was urging its citizens to get home.
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When he arrived, the Vancouver staff were already working from home and their first Zoom meeting was about retooling from celebration to possible closure.