REGISTER AT: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PQdwwUASTqasB5lDWupnMw#/registration
Description: Serious concerns are being raised about the rapid passage of Bill C-70, known as the Countering Foreign Interference Act. This discussion aims to deepen public understanding of the bill, its far-reaching implications and potentially devastating impact on social movements as well as the critical importance of challenging and moving beyond the motivations that fuel a national security state in Canada. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: C-70 is an omnibus bill, amending the Canadian Security Intelligence Act, the Security of Information Act, the Criminal Code, the Canadian Evidence Act, and introducing a new act, the Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act. Rights groups warn this bill is likely to erode civil liberties and human rights. Passed with minimal scrutiny, Bill C-70 amends key security and criminal laws, threatening fundamental freedoms, including free speech, assembly, and privacy, and could be used for profiling based on politics, race, religion, or nationality.

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Published: Sept 6, 2024
Released by: Canada-China Focus

"Late last month, the Canadian government announced that it would be imposing a 100 percent tariff on electric vehicles (EVs) imported from China beginning October 1st. 
Given the potential ramifications of this decision, Canada-China Focus asks labour, environmental, peace and policy groups to work with us to appropriately address trade issues in Canada-China relations..."

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Published: Aug 30, 2024

"This week's edition of IPD's Canada-China Brief gives special attention to Ottawa’s move to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and steel, the immediate and future reaction of Beijing, and the Washington factor in Canada’s decision-making."

Dates: November 8 – 15, 2024
Location: Jiangmen & Kaiping, Guangdong, China
Who is it for?: Students, heritage professionals and enthusiasts, architects and amateur family historians, planners and policy makers, retirees and alumni, and others with an interest!

Description: Across the globe, cultural heritage industries have blossomed and developed around educational and cultural experiences. How do these experiences tell the stories of diasporic family identity? How do Chinese cultural traditions embrace modernity and globalization? Join this 8-day tour of UNESCO World Heritage Site Kaiping, Guangdong as we explore how the history of Cantonese migrants from these rural villages of southern China reshaped both the region and the destinations they migrated to all around the world.

The field study is jointly led by UBC history professor Dr. Henry Yu and Wuyi University heritage conservation researcher Dr. Selia Tan. Set in the backdrop of Kaiping, China, and the Cangdong Village Heritage Restoration Project led by Dr. Selia Tan, this program provides an immersive learning experience focused on cultural heritage development and living heritage. Participants will explore local food systems, applications of successful cultural heritage economic development policy, and how to better respect and honour the ways communities practice and pass down their traditions.

Find out more about this exciting opportunity at: https://instrcc.ubc.ca/events/event/the-living-roots-of-cultural-heritage-and-community-economic-growth/

"The share of Americans who support the U.S. government banning TikTok now stands at 32%. That’s down from 38% in fall 2023 and 50% in March 2023.

Meanwhile, 28% of Americans oppose a ban, up from 22% in March 2023. And the share who say they are uncertain whether the government should ban the platform has risen from 28% in March 2023 to 39% now. [...]

As was true in previous surveys, attitudes vary dramatically:

• TikTok users are far more likely to oppose (61%) than support (10%) a ban, with 29% unsure.
• Those who don’t use TikTok are about as likely to support a ban (42%) as to be uncertain (43%), while 15% are opposed."

In another study, Pew Research Center also found that "TikTok – stands out for growth of its user base. A third of U.S. adults (33%) say they use the video-based platform, up 12 percentage points from 2021 (21%)."

Below are two submissions to the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference, written by CCF advisory members Dr. John Price and Dr. Tim Stanley. Note that these submissions reflect the work and thoughts of the authors alone and do not necessarily represent the views of CCF.

Submission to the Honourable Marie-Josée Hogue, Commissioner of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions
by John Price, Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria.
July 2024 

The History and Consequences of Sinophobia and Anti-Chinese Racism in Canada: A Submission to the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions
by Timothy J. Stanley, Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa
July 2024 

When: Wed, Sept 18, 2024 @ 6:30 PT
Where: Chinese Canadian Museum (51 E Pender St)
Description: Although Chinese Canadians quickly mobilized to fight the Chinese Immigration [Exclusion] Act (1923), they were unable to stop its provisions blocking Chinese immigration and subjecting all Chinese people in Canada to government surveillance and control. The discourses surrounding the act show that Chinese exclusion was integral to the settler colonial project that created Canada. Today the social structure of racist exclusion continues to frequently position Chinese Canadians as outsiders to the imagined community of Canada.