When Crime Strikes

When Crime Strikes

It was the kind of crime that had been happening around the city lately — robberies targeting Japanese-run businesses. On January 2, 1942, Japanese confectionery stores on East Cordova and Hawks Avenue were robbed within a few minutes of each other. Three days later, The Sun reported that a window was broken at the confectionery store of E. Kariya at 595 Richards and a slab of wood was thrown at and smashed the window of the Jubilee Grocery at 3302 West Broadway. Then, on Friday, January 16, at 8:30 p.m., a tall, skinny man and two friends approached the Uno family confectionery store on the northwest corner of 4th and Alberta.

Rafe Mair’s Family Secret

Rafe Mair’s Family Secret

We all have family and personal secrets.  Things we would rather not share with strangers. But they also help define the kinds of people that we become. Rafe Mair, the tough-talking right-wing media commentator who served as a cabinet minister in the former Social...