Canuck

  Wednesday, 31 March 2004

170 arrests in Canada, U.S. drug bust... < 11:44:37 PM>.

170 arrests in Canada, U.S. drug bust
Police in Canada and the United States say they have smashed a drug ring that had been supplying the U.S. with about 15 per cent of the drug ecstasy. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

< 11:38:45 PM>.

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges - known to most of us as Cte-des-Neiges Cemetery - is 150 years old this year, and the third largest in North America. [montreal city weblog]

< 11:02:03 PM>.

The rise in the ethnic Chinese population has stimulated meteoric growth in the Chinese media and made them an influential player on the Canadian political landscape. [New York Times: International] 'Leaving the mainstream media out of the political dialogue is not unusual anymore in a city whose Chinese population has exploded from a tiny minority to 30 percent of all residents in just one generation. By making his pitch directly to the 40 percent of his district's voters who are ethnic Chinese, Mr. Chan was giving a nod to Vancouver's parallel worlds.

The Chinese population in Canada has doubled in the last two decades to 1.1 million, or more than 3 percent of all residents. But nowhere is its presence felt more than in this metropolitan area of 1.8 million, of which 342,665, or 19 percent, are ethnic Chinese, according to the 2001 census.'