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CULTURAL DIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
SUITE 165 -5965 Fraser Street, Vancouver BC V5W 4B5 -Telephone: 604 789 8623 Email: president@bccda.net
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Richard T Lee (604) 789-8623
president@bccda.net
May 25, 2020
(Vancouver) For each month of the calendar, Canadians reserve a time to honor specific
cultures of our diverse Canadian mosaic.
May, 2020 is both Asian Heritage Month and Jewish Heritage Month. This is a time for
these communities to have the spotlight and an opportunity for all Canadians to learn of
the many contributions which these respective communities & other communities have
achieved in strengthening our diverse society.
Sadly, there is an untenable scourge which casts a malevolent shadow over these
celebrations.
Vancouver Police have reported 29 investigations into anti-Asian incidents since March
compared with 4 during the same period of 2019.
B'nai Brith Canada reports that during 2019, the number of antisemitic incidents in
Canada has set a record for the fourth consecutive year.
A survey commissioned by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the
Association for Canadian Studies, during the week of March 8, 2020, showed that one in
four Canadians worried about relations between Asians and non-Asians with highest
concern in BC.
BC Cultural Diversity Society, a non-profit organization incorporated in 2018 to promote
harmony between and within cultures in BC, is alarmed by these troubling trends and is
calling for urgent action to eliminate antisemitism, racism, and hate crimes of all types.
Acquiescence of intolerance is explicitly un-Canadian.
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BCCDA Board of Directors (2019/2020)
President: Richard T Lee Vice President: Shahid Hassan
Vice President / Membership: Violet Chan Secretary: Gordon Shank
Treasurer: Joseph Lung Indigenous Liaison: Don Mackenzie
European Liaison: Dave Buchmann Directors: Dave Hayer, Philipp Lin, Randy Sandhu, Yichuan Sang
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