City Council

Dept: "A small but vocal group of Richmond seniors were despondent Monday after city council rejected their call for a bylaw quashing Chinese-only signage in a city where more than half the residents are of Chinese descent." - , March 19, 2013, according to Vancouver Sun. Nothing happened. We had just reported a study predicting a tectonic shift not only in the city's racial makeup, but very likely in the city's cultural trajectory, and the story came and went without a peep and "Hong Kong Chinese: NO ROOM HERE!" - sticker on an Apartment For Rent sign in the West End, 1990. In the front-page banner story of April 1, The Sun reported that projections in a study done for Citizenship and Immigration Canada showed that by 2031, whites will constitute a visible minority in Metro Vancouver. What was remarkable about this story wasn't so much about what happened next, but what didn't. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.