Sunny Gill is the founder of IFFSA Toronto, the largest South Asian film festival in North America Over the past few years, CBC Toronto has been a proud sponsor of the International Film Festival of South Asia (IFFSA) Toronto. Last year, … Continued
As Canada entered the First World War, anti-Chinese immigrant sentiment was still very strong. In fact neither Chinese immigrants nor their descendants were allowed to become Canadian citizens. Fred Lee came from a large and relatively successful family in Kamloops … Continued
The unlikely Canadian undercover agent awarded the British Empire Medal Unlike the dapper spies of movies, an undercover agent has to be inconspicuous. Thus, Canadian Bill Chong, often dressed like a homeless peasant became one of the most successful of … Continued
Award-winning author Wayson Choy died at his Toronto home on April 27, 2019. He is best known for his first novel “The Jade Peony,” which tells the stories of three children from an immigrant family growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown … Continued
Shaun Majumder is an award winning actor and comedian and he is listed by the government of Canada as a noteworthy historical figure during this, Asian Heritage Month. “These photographs and stories highlight some of the many valuable contributions made … Continued
Born in Hong Kong in 1984, Victoria Poon started swimming as a child. She continued to swim after she immigrated in Canada with her family. Now she is the Canadian 50M women freestyle record holder. Victoria Poon participated in the … Continued
Kim Phuc is best known as “the girl in the picture”, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken by Nick Ut in 1972 at the height of the Vietnam War. She was 9 years old then, napalm bombs were accidentally dropped on … Continued
Marc Montgomery, host of the RCI show The Link, talks to Kim Thuy about her award-winning first book called “Ru”. In the semi-autobiographical Ru, we follow the author from a privileged family in Hanoi, to the terrors of fleeing the … Continued