Tag: Toronto

• Chinatown — good things are being said about you

  

  The first place that bilingual fortune cookies were made was in Montréal’s Chinatown in the 1960s … or so I learned while watching the film, Big Fight in Little Chinatown (directed by Karen Cho, 2022). The stories that are told in the film take place in Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and New York City. Different cities,…

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  Johanne Provençal

  30 Jun 2023

  all, arts, culture, music, neighbourhoods

  Chinatown, Karen Cho, Montreal, NYC, Toronto, Vancouver

• the places that make you

  

  I have been on a pendulum for the past six months. On one side, there is Montréal, the place I call home. On the other side, there has been a steady rotation of other places that, one way or another, have made their way into my life over the course of the past 40 years.…

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  Johanne Provençal

  2 Jun 2023

  all, everyday life, nature & landmarks, neighbourhoods, research and academics

  British Columbia, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, place identity, Toronto