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The Globe and Mail Rod Mickleburgh Published April 15, 2021 Steve Ko/COURTESY OF CHINESE CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUM Hundreds of Chinese Canadians volunteered to fight in the Second World War for a country that denied them the vote and further marginalized them with an ingrained system of racial discrimination. Many from British Columbia were trained as commandos to operate behind Japanese lines in the Pacific. Theirs was a story of bravery and courage. Yet few in Canada – not even in the Chinese Canadian community – knew much about it. As the vets grew older, Howe Lee decided that had to...

Be wary of municipal taxes that are egregious. The several years of ­turmoil around efforts to fund the 1994 Commonwealth Games is enlightening given talk of ­hosting again in 2026. Efforts were made to raise money through hiking business taxes, hotel taxes, recreational fees, sponsors, and so on. But the biggest uproar was sparked by trying to assess a Commonwealth Games levy on municipal property taxes from 1990 to 1994. When the City of Victoria collected this levy in 1990 to be held in reserve for Games-related costs in 1994, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled the city contravened the Mun...

The vaccinations at William Head Institution in Metchosin are part of the first phase of vaccines being administered to 600 inmates across Canada.