I review Mamie Taylor’s in Chinatown
Mia Stainsby Vancouver Sun Checking out Mamie Taylor’s restaurant website, I had a Rip Van Winkle moment. The photos of the owners of this super-friendly Chinatown restaurant looked like they were 16...
View ArticleOmelettes With Bob Rennie
Good Morning, If you reside here in Vancouver, you will have seen the large ‘Rennie’ name posted outside up and coming developments and various real estate ventures. If you are even remotely into art...
View ArticleVancouver’s Chinatown green grocers
Kari Kleinmann looks perfectly Main St. but she’s at Chinatown Supermarket on Keefer St. inspecting and gathering Chinese greens with the same hawk eyes as the Chinese grandmas around her. Kleinmann,...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Fighting for the heart and soul of Vancouver
The fight over 105 Keefer St. encapsulates people’s worst fears of what Vancouver and this province may have become — a place where developers and speculators trump community, citizens and history. If...
View ArticleChanges to Chinatown policy contemplated, but too late for 105 Keefer
Major changes may be coming to the City of Vancouver’s Chinatown development policy in the wake of public anger over a proposed 12-storey residential complex in the area. Those changes, being prepared...
View ArticleDecision day on Chinatown development approaches as allegations fly
While city councillors prepare to decide on Tuesday the fate of a controversial proposed development at 105 Keefer Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood, advocates on both sides of the debate...
View ArticleOpinion: The debt we owe to Vancouver’s Chinatown
Let’s face it, we’ve neglected Chinatown. We all have fond childhood memories of the glory days of Chinatown — barbecue pork buns from Maxims, pepper steak at Goldstone and Cantonese lessons at the...
View ArticleChinatown decision: Vancouver council rejects controversial 105 Keefer St....
Vancouver council’s rejection of a controversial condo development in historic Chinatown — and the community opposition that galvanized against it — will have implications beyond the neighbourhood....
View ArticleCanada 150: Yip Sang, the unofficial mayor of Chinatown
You can’t overstate Yip Sang’s importance to Vancouver’s Chinatown. Working as the superintendent for the Kwong On Wo company in the 1880s, he imported 6,000 to 7,000 Chinese labourers to work on the...
View ArticleDan Fumano: New Chinatown proposals rise from ashes of Keefer condo rejection
Following a showdown over a landmark street corner, one of Canada’s endangered historic neighbourhoods is at a crossroads. Vancouver councillors will introduce a pair of motions next week arising from...
View ArticleRestaurant review: Dalina serves up cheap eats in chic Chinatown space
Dalina 687 Main St. | 604-428-4364 Open: 7 to 9, daily, dalina.ca It’s pre-ordained, almost. Dalina, a cafe-deli-store, is part of a new Bosa rental development at Main and Georgia and the Bosas have...
View ArticleControversial 105 Keefer Chinatown development re-submitted to council
A controversial development in Chinatown that had divided the community will be put forward to the city of Vancouver once again in what’s believed to be the fifth attempt to get the project underway....
View ArticleSai Woo's neon rooster sign crows over Chinatown once again
For the first time in almost 60 years, the distinctive green-and-yellow neon rooster once again reigns over Sai Woo in Vancouver’s Chinatown. The only image restaurant owner Salli Pateman had of the...
View ArticleActivists to oppose 105 Keefer project at community open house Tuesday
A controversial development proposed for Chinatown’s 105 Keefer is headed to an open house consultation Tuesday evening and activists are expected to attend. Beedie Living’s latest proposal, designed...
View ArticleChinatown's 105 Keefer development application goes before city staff Monday
A controversial proposal for Chinatown’s 105 Keefer will go before the city’s development permit board on Monday. Merrick Architecture, on behalf of Beedie Living, will appear before Vancouver city...
View ArticleNo social housing in latest 105 Keefer proposal for Vancouver's Chinatown
Vancouver developer Beedie Living is hoping fifth time’s the charm for its controversial 105 Keefer project, which went before the city’s development permit board on Monday. But opponents of the...
View ArticleDevelopers shocked city turned down Chinatown development
Vancouver’s development permit board hasn’t rejected a proposal since 2006. But that streak ended Monday when the board turned down Beedie Living’s controversial proposal for a nine-storey condo...
View ArticleCentre A showcases Asian art in new home at Sun Wah Centre on Keefer
Centre A aims to live up to its big mandate in a bigger space in Chinatown. The art gallery has moved into the second storey above the old Hon’s Wun Tun House in the Sun Wah Centre on Keefer Street. In...
View ArticleDan Fumano: 'Rain check on Christmas': Pensioner's home crushed by development
Lesley Gibson knows it will still feel like Christmas when she chats online with her grandchildren in Poland in the coming days. “But,” she says, fighting tears, “it’s going to be really hard when we...
View ArticleChinatown leaders 'left behind' in Northeast False Creek plan
Some members of Vancouver’s Chinatown said the community is being left out in the Northeast False Creek plan which goes before council on Tuesday. The sweeping plan lays out the vision for a waterfront...
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