{"id":11802,"date":"2018-04-23T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=11802"},"modified":"2018-04-23T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:49:55","slug":"city-of-vancouver-formally-apologizes-to-chinese-community-for-past-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/city-of-vancouver-formally-apologizes-to-chinese-community-for-past-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Vancouver formally apologizes to Chinese community for past discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Vancouver formally apologized to Chinese Canadians on Sunday for past legislation, regulations and policies that discriminated against them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important day for council and all Vancouverites to come together and recognize historical wrongdoings committed against Chinese people and to build a better future together,&#8221; said Mayor Gregor Robertson in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>An audience of 500 people witnessed the ceremony at the Chinese Cultural Centre, which was also broadcast on a screen along Keefer Street in the city&#8217;s Chinatown.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson said the formal apology reaffirms Vancouver as a city &#8220;in which diverse communities can share and learn from the past, collectively address current challenges and plan for a better future for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The apology was read in English, Cantonese and Sze Yup dialect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Vancouver formally apologized to Chinese Canadians on Sunday for past legislation, regulations and policies that discriminated against them. &#8220;This is an important day for council and all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3539],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/city-of-vancouver-formal-apology-historical-discrimination-chinese-residents.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}