Vancouver Chinatown

• Light Up Chinatown! returns to Vancouver 1 year after triple stabbing

  Organizers of this weekend’s Light Up Chinatown! festival are determined to forge ahead following last year’s tragedy at the family-friendly event.

  Crime

  Aug 21
  
• Thousands attend Chinatown’s Spring Festival Parade in downtown Vancouver

  The 50th Anniversary of the Chinatown Spring Festival Parade is taking place in Vancouver's historic Chinatown neighbourhood today.

  Canada

  Feb 11
  
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• Vancouver Lunar New Year parade reverses exclusion of progressive groups

  Progressive and LGBTQ+ groups say organizers of Vancouver's Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown this weekend rejected their applications to take part.

  Entertainment

  Feb 9
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• Extra Vancouver police officers to attend Lunar New Year parade, celebrations

  Vancouver police said it will be deploying extra officers for the celebration and is warning everyone who is planning on attending to prepare for large crowds.

  Canada

  Feb 9
• Alleged serial vandal charged in relation to Vancouver Chinatown graffiti incidents

  According to the BC Prosecution Service, the incidents are said to have taken place between Jan. 2 and Feb. 1 and include the defacing of the Chinatown Memorial Monument.

  Crime

  Oct 3, 2023
• Vancouver Chinatown café installs panic button due to repeated break-ins, crime

  A café in Vancouver's Chinatown has gone to extreme measures to protect staff after being repeatedly targeted by crime.

  Crime

  Sep 25, 2023
• Chinatown ‘stepped up security’ for upcoming Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

  More than 18,000 people attended Chinatown’s Light Up Chinatown when a suspect stabbed three people at random on Sept. 10.

  Canada

  Sep 23, 2023
• Vancouver Chinatown triple-stabbing suspect in court for second appearance 

  Blair Evan Donnelly was arrested and charged after three people were reportedly stabbed while attending the Light Up Chinatown festival on Sunday.

  Crime

  Sep 15, 2023
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• ‘No walk-in traffic’: Vancouver business owner frustrated by crime, red tape

  Since Thom Robins opened the thom. salon on West Pender Street four years ago, he said the shop has been broken into multiple times.

  Crime

  Sep 13, 2023
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• Eby ‘white-hot’ angry with Chinatown stabbing suspect’s release from psychiatric hospital

  A man and two women were hospitalized after Sunday's triple-stabbing attack at the Light Up Chinatown festival in downtown Vancouver.

  Crime

  Sep 12, 2023