Edmund Wan, recently released from a Hong Kong prison, says he feels at ease in Vancouver.
He described the sense of familiarity that struck him in a Hong Kong-style café on Vancouver’s Cambie Street—the smell of baked pork chops on rice, the background noise of people joking in Cantonese.
But there was something else that Wan says people in Hong Kong can no longer take for granted—the ability to talk freely and without fear in public.
Wan, 55, is better known as the former Hong Kong radio personality Giggs, a prominent voice of support for the city’s pro-democracy protest movement….