Lunar New Year

A woman performs a traditional Chinese dance routine during Precious Blood church’s Lunar New Year Festival Jan. 28. (Photo submitted: Mable Ho)

More than 800 attend Lunar New Year celebration in Cloverdale

Organizers at Precious Blood Parish welcomed the public last week to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit

 

The Chinese Village Club celebrated the Lunar New Year Saturday (Jan. 28) at Semiahmoo Shopping Centre in South Surrey, with performers sharing dragon ribbon dancing, martial arts and Chinese traditional folk dancing, among other festivities. (Ding Xiang Guang photo)

Chinese Village Club celebrates Lunar New Year at Semiahmoo Shopping Centre Saturday

Year of the Rabbit event featured dragon ribbon dancing, martial arts and more

 

Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre (fourth from left) poses with fellow Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay and members of the Surrey-White Rock Community Engagement Society board at the society’s Lunar New Year event. (Contributed photo)

Poilievre celebrates Lunar New Year with Surrey-White Rock Chinese-Canadians

Opposition leader ‘shares vision for Canada’ during Year of the Rabbit event

 

A woman dances as part of the Museum of Surrey’s 2019 Lunar New Year celebration. This year the museum is holding a Lunar New Year celebration Feb. 4. (Image courtesy Museum of Surrey)

Museum of Surrey to host Lunar New Year festival

Museum to welcome public Feb. 4 to event celebrating Year of the Rabbit

A woman dances as part of the Museum of Surrey’s 2019 Lunar New Year celebration. This year the museum is holding a Lunar New Year celebration Feb. 4. (Image courtesy Museum of Surrey)
Terry Liu, dressed as the God of Wealth, prepares for the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, in Vancouver, on Sunday, January 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

5 things to know about Lunar New Year and the Year of the Rabbit

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Terry Liu, dressed as the God of Wealth, prepares for the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, in Vancouver, on Sunday, January 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Young girls wait to participate in the Lunar New Year parade, in Vancouver, on Sunday, January 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Deadly California shooting casts pall over Canadian Lunar New Year festivities

10 killed, 10 injured in L.A. shooting

Young girls wait to participate in the Lunar New Year parade, in Vancouver, on Sunday, January 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
2 white rabbits chillin in some hay (Debra Walley BC SPCA)

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Pet rabbits take a lot of work but are sure to bring happiness to loving guardians, the BC SPCA says

2 white rabbits chillin in some hay (Debra Walley BC SPCA)
A worker cleans floor at Hok Lay Kiong temple in Bekasi, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan 22, 2023. The Lunar New Year which marks the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

China rings in Year of Rabbit with most COVID rules lifted

Lunar New Year being celebrated around the world Sunday

A worker cleans floor at Hok Lay Kiong temple in Bekasi, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan 22, 2023. The Lunar New Year which marks the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
A rabbit enjoys its playtime at the Bunny Style Hotel in Hong Kong, Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023. With the lifting of COVID restrictions, Hong Kongers are traveling again and some of those who keep rabbits at pets are booking them into a rabbit resort where they are fed, exercised and pampered with spa treatments. The Lunar New Year of the Rabbit is shining a particular spotlight on the popularity of the animals in the crowded city of tiny apartments. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)

Hong Kong pet rabbits enjoy bunny resort while owners away

Luxury bunny resort fully booked over Lunar New Year, says owner

A rabbit enjoys its playtime at the Bunny Style Hotel in Hong Kong, Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023. With the lifting of COVID restrictions, Hong Kongers are traveling again and some of those who keep rabbits at pets are booking them into a rabbit resort where they are fed, exercised and pampered with spa treatments. The Lunar New Year of the Rabbit is shining a particular spotlight on the popularity of the animals in the crowded city of tiny apartments. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)
A police officer stands near a scene where a shooting took place in Monterey Park, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. Dozens of police officers responded to reports of a shooting that occurred after a large Lunar New Year celebration had ended in a community east of Los Angeles late Saturday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

L.A. mass shooting suspect kills 10 near Lunar New Year fest

10 others were taken to hospital in conditions ranging from stable to critical

A police officer stands near a scene where a shooting took place in Monterey Park, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. Dozens of police officers responded to reports of a shooting that occurred after a large Lunar New Year celebration had ended in a community east of Los Angeles late Saturday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church will host a Lunar New Year festival Jan. 28. (Photo: Malin Jordan)

Cloverdale’s Precious Blood Church to host Lunar New Year festival

Event to celebrate Year of the Rabbit

Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church will host a Lunar New Year festival Jan. 28. (Photo: Malin Jordan)
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Stores launch Lunar New Year sales during typically slow shopping season

Western retailers grasping onto holiday as means to make money

(The Canadian Press)
Annie Guo plays the Guzheng at a Chinese New Year celebration co-hosted by the Surrey-White Rock Community Engagement Society in 2020. (Theresa Zhang photo)

Lunar New Year to be celebrated in White Rock, Surrey

Networking event hosted by South Surrey & White Rock chamber on Jan. 19

Annie Guo plays the Guzheng at a Chinese New Year celebration co-hosted by the Surrey-White Rock Community Engagement Society in 2020. (Theresa Zhang photo)
Premier John Horgan makes his first public appearance since completing cancer treatment for Lunar New Year at the B.C. legislature on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (John Horgan/Twitter)

Horgan celebrates Lunar New Year at B.C. legislature after multi-week cancer treatment

Event was the B.C. premier’s first public appearance since completing cancer treatment

Premier John Horgan makes his first public appearance since completing cancer treatment for Lunar New Year at the B.C. legislature on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (John Horgan/Twitter)
A woman and child wearing masks to protect from the coronavirus stand near the enclosure for flamingos at the zoo on the first day of the Chinese Lunar Year of the Tiger in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

PHOTOS: On Lunar New Year, Chinese offer prayers at temples

This year’s holiday has seen fewer people return to their hometowns for traditional family gatherings

A woman and child wearing masks to protect from the coronavirus stand near the enclosure for flamingos at the zoo on the first day of the Chinese Lunar Year of the Tiger in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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