A Vancouver woman is heartbroken and angry after she discovered racist graffiti defacing the park bench dedicated to her father and late mother. “Here is a very sad case of racism raising its ugly head,” Gladys Lam told Global News. “This is a very hurtful and personal story of ugliness that shouldn’t be part of our Canadian life.” The bench, at Queen Elizabeth Park, pays tribute to her parents, Victor and Jane Zhao, and their love of the green space. “My mother walked this path and picked up trash in the park for years in her 80s,” said Lam. “My father visits the bench daily.
It breaks my heart that he has to see this.” After Jane was diagnosed with cancer, Lam said, her grandchildren sponsored the bench and the family unveiled it at