“I believe very strongly that when someone dies, if people speak their name, it’s a way of bringing their spirit back to life.”

In his new CBC series “Locals Welcome,” Doss traces how immigrant communities have rewritten the national culinary map and what that says about who we are.

“The way I write about us, we are the main characters.”

Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival runs November 5-15, with events across downtown Toronto, and November 10-23 online across Canada.

After years of success as a playback singer in India, Jonita Gandhi is now busy finding her own voice.

From the highly-anticipated film from Park Chan-wook to an adaptation of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel to a number of independently-made Asian Canadian films, there’s so much to see at this year’s TIFF.

After being suspended for his pro-Palestinian posts, the Canadian physician refused to return to his residency. Instead, he went to Gaza to help, and hasn’t stopped fighting for justice since.

The singer-songwriter talks about creating his viral single ‘blue’ and the big year ahead for him.

“Tampons take about 500 years to degrade, so I just had this image in my head of my great grandchildren still being on the earth and my tampons sitting somewhere in a landfill.”

“Like so many other Chinese families who have settled in small towns across Canada, our path toward the elusive Canadian Dream would begin with a family-owned business. This building would be transformed from a generic coffee shop into a humble restaurant serving Chinese Canadian cuisine, with my parents at the helm.”

How an unexpected collaboration is preserving Asian heritage and queer culture.

This husband-wife duo is making soup kits packed with healthy Chinese ingredients.

The Toronto-born, Vancouver-raised singer recently performed a show in his home country for the first time in six years.

“To carry your personal history with an open heart, no matter what happened before, is a transcendent experience.”

“I wanted to showcase that Asians were funny and our families are not the model minority and we’re not all put together.”

The director and animator talks about leaning into what makes you unique, finding a like-minded community and why you should always go for weird.

The K-pop band talk about their favourite martial arts films, debuting on Billboard charts and their goals for the future.

“To other communities, Asians are just Asian, they don’t differentiate. But we care about where we come from. We wanted to reflect that when we’re writing this story about Chinese immigrants.”

“I made this film to say all the things that I can’t say.”

It’s the latest venture from Paris Jewellers owners Chau Lui and Trang Wong.