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The Trudeau factor
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Justin Trudeau — the son of former prime minister, Pierre — swept into Richmond Wednesday for a whistle-stop charm offensive to help local Liberals.
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STANLEY CUP FEVER
Pubs score, Canucks assist BY ALAN CAMPBELL
acampbell@richmond-news.com
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Canucks fans watch Game 4 intently at the Pumphouse Pub as their team attempts to beat the Chicago Blackhawks. The Canucks’ playoff performance is helping pack local bars.
There’s more than just thousands of Vancouver Canuck puckheads crossing their fingers and toes and praying to the east during their team’s quest for hockey’s holy grail. Richmond’s pub and bar owners are also waving their playoff towels every time the Canucks stick one into the five-hole during the Stanley Cup playoffs — not least because their premises have been bursting at the seams when the ‘Nucks take to the ice in the post-season. In short, business booms when the Canucks get into the playoffs and fly the Vancouver flag deep into spring. None more so in the city than J. Malone’s Bar and Grill on Blundell and Garden City roads, where hockey-mad fans have been pouring in to see their beloved team take on the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round. “We’ve actually had a big surge,” said J. Malone’s owner John Grewal. “Anytime the boys have a big game, we’re pretty much packed in here, but especially during the playoffs.” see Business page 4
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‘Only Chinese’ need apply rental advert sparks outcry ‘Appalling’ posting is a step backwards in a fight for equality in Canada, says resident and former school trustee An online advertisment for an apartment rental in Richmond has sparked outrage after it stated “only Chinese” need apply. The offending Craigslist ad was spotted by prospective renter, longtime Richmond resident and former school trustee, Patricia Whittaker. Whittaker, who is of African origin, was checking rentals in the city centre when she came across the posting for the Mandalay building on Hemlock Drive, by Garden City and Cook roads. $
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But her disbelief when reading the “only Chinese” conditions quickly turned to anger when the realization set in. “Chinese only? This is Canada for crying out loud,” said Whittaker, who runs the non-profit Centre for Integration of African Immigrants in New Westminster. “A lot of the time when potential landlords hear accents or see names they don’t like, they come out with the excuses. “But I’ve never seen anything as blatant as this. “I’m absolutely appalled, and it can’t be happening here in Canada.” If it was the other way around, and the
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ad read “only Caucasians,” Whittaker said there would be “total outrage.” “I’m not sure why (the landlord is) doing this, but it’s completely wrong,” she added. “There’s a lot of Chinese money coming into the housing market here right now. And these new owners are our landlords of the future. “I wonder where we are going with this? Will it be a case that only Chinese people will be able to rent an apartment?” After being contacted via email by the News, a person calling themselves Lisa Yeh claimed she was, in fact, the tenant of the
apartment in question. Yeh said she’d been asked by her landlord to place the ad and had written “only Chinese” because the owner can only communicate in Mandarin. “They would like to have Chinese tenants,” Yeh wrote. After hearing that the advert was causing concern, Yeh apologized and offered to remove the posting. She later told the News that she’d taken the ad off Craigslist and has now posted it on a Chinese-speaking newspaper’s website. see Ad page 4
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