Editorial by John Endo Greenaway Archive

  • I was interviewed the other day and among the questions were two that spoke to the issue of identity. The questions struck me as rather odd but at the same...

    a matter of identity

    I was interviewed the other day and among the questions were two that spoke to the issue of identity. The questions struck me as rather odd but at the same...

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  • When I took over as English editor of The Bulletin almost 19 years ago in the fall of 1993 my mother Fumiko Greenaway was managing editor, a role she had...

    memories of my mother

    When I took over as English editor of The Bulletin almost 19 years ago in the fall of 1993 my mother Fumiko Greenaway was managing editor, a role she had...

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  • Regular (and discerning) Bulletin readers will notice an unusual heft to this issue. While some of this can be attributed to some weighty content, it is due in large part...

    weighty issues

    Regular (and discerning) Bulletin readers will notice an unusual heft to this issue. While some of this can be attributed to some weighty content, it is due in large part...

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  • This  month we say goodbye to Gordon Hirabayashi, who passed away on January 2nd in Edmonton at the age of 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. I met Gordon only once, briefly. It was back in the late eighties, and I was travelling through Edmonton with Kokoro Dance, a dance company co-founded by Gordon’s son Jay.

    Lives not lost, but remembered

    This month we say goodbye to Gordon Hirabayashi, who passed away on January 2nd in Edmonton at the age of 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. I met Gordon only once, briefly. It was back in the late eighties, and I was travelling through Edmonton with Kokoro Dance, a dance company co-founded by Gordon’s son Jay.

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  • As the year of the dragon prepares to pounce on an unsuspecting world, we look back in this issue of The Bulletin—not over the past year, but over the past...

    Looking back / looking forward

    As the year of the dragon prepares to pounce on an unsuspecting world, we look back in this issue of The Bulletin—not over the past year, but over the past...

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  • beneath bare branches bagpipe and bugle, forlorn bracket the silence half circle of faces hands in pockets, cenotaph stands at attention scattering of red poppies, laid gently to rest on...

    3 [ haiku to remember

    beneath bare branches bagpipe and bugle, forlorn bracket the silence half circle of faces hands in pockets, cenotaph stands at attention scattering of red poppies, laid gently to rest on...

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  • Kirsten McAllister, this month’s community profile subject, has spent much of her adult life exploring the landscape, or terrain, of memory. It’s not always a benign or easily navigable landscape,...

    Editorial

    Kirsten McAllister, this month’s community profile subject, has spent much of her adult life exploring the landscape, or terrain, of memory. It’s not always a benign or easily navigable landscape,...

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  • Shorter days, longer nights The other day a brand new reusable lunch bag appeared on our kitchen counter. Despite the fact that it’s an attractive  piece of minimalist architecture, I...

    Editorial

    Shorter days, longer nights The other day a brand new reusable lunch bag appeared on our kitchen counter. Despite the fact that it’s an attractive  piece of minimalist architecture, I...

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  • This year the Powell Street Festival celebrates its 35th Anniversary. Given the fact that Vancouver is marking its 125th Anniversary this year, it may not seem like such a great...

    Editorial

    This year the Powell Street Festival celebrates its 35th Anniversary. Given the fact that Vancouver is marking its 125th Anniversary this year, it may not seem like such a great...

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  • I know people who have a strong emotional attachment to their childhood home. It was the place where they were born and raised; the place where they went to school,...

    Walking Powell Street

    I know people who have a strong emotional attachment to their childhood home. It was the place where they were born and raised; the place where they went to school,...

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  • When our two girls were in elementary school, I walked them to school every day and felt pretty connected to the school culture. Even through middle school, I felt like...

    The inter-racial divide

    When our two girls were in elementary school, I walked them to school every day and felt pretty connected to the school culture. Even through middle school, I felt like...

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  • In 1945 Hugh MacLennan wrote a novel, Two Solitudes, whose protagonist, a fictional character named Paul Tallard, struggles to reconcile the differences between his English and French Canadian identities. The...

    Forging new bonds

    In 1945 Hugh MacLennan wrote a novel, Two Solitudes, whose protagonist, a fictional character named Paul Tallard, struggles to reconcile the differences between his English and French Canadian identities. The...

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