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Repeal C-51, the Anti-terrorist Act

Call on the Federal Government to Repeal C-51, the Anti-terrorist Act, 2015 by Kathy Shimizu and Judy Hanazawa The Anti-terrorist Act is like the War Measures Act for Muslims. — Hasan Alam, Legal Counsel, Canadian Union of Public Employees The…

I was putting the first tray of lemon meringue tarts into the oven when I glanced at my phone. There was a voice mail message. I checked it and it was from April Shimizu, one of the GVJCCA Board Directors.…

Nisei growing up on Powell Streets in the 30s didn’t have that many toys so they had to improvise. Some boys picked chestnuts off the ground and pierced them with a needle with string threaded through to the other side…

Part two of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective This article will pick up where the previous one left off, and continues with the…

I was born with a white man’s name. When I looked in the mirror, I never found a white person, nor a man. A mystifying misery of disconnection between what I saw in the mirror and what I felt like inside left me feeling very lonely. All I wanted to do was fit in and not have to contend with these feelings of alienation.

Blessing in Disguise – What was a blessing for Japanese Canadians? Review of a New Book: Honouring Our People – Breaking the Silence by Yusuke Tanaka This book is a collection of testimonies presented at a conference: The Honouring Our…

How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how invested the Canadian government was in telling the Grant siblings what their identity was. In 1920,…

by Judy Hanazawa, with written contributions from Esther and Wendy Matsubuchi, Paul and Bev Sunohara The matter of the cherry tree at St. Martin’s Church came to the attention of our Japanese Canadian Working Group in 2014. At that time,…

Vancouver, BC: Japanese Canadian community organizations and individuals have joined together and launched a Facebook page, JC Sites BC, in response to a provincial government call for nominations for historically significant Japanese Canadian places. Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association…