Gabriel Yiu

Gabriel Yiu is a Hong Kong-born Canadian award-winning journalist, social activist and businessman.

Background Yiu was born and educated in Hong Kong. Yiu and wife Angela started what is now a successful floral business in Vancouver. He received the Cultural Harmony Award from the City of Vancouver.

Yiu has served on numerous boards: International Centre for Asian Contemporary Arts, The Dance Centre, JumpStart Performing Society, BC Newspaper Foundation, La Salle Old Boys’ Association, Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society. He is an advisor to the UBC Museum of Anthropology.

Media career An award-winning and against the closure of Mount St. Joseph Hospital's emergency room. He successfully campaigned against the federal government's Bill C-51, which would regulate natural health product and traditional Chinese medicine as pharmaceutical drugs. Together with MLA Jenny Kwan, he campaigned to have China's Kaiping Watchtower recognized as a world heritage site.

Yiu was a prominent organizer in the anti-HST campaign, that successfully fought for the repeal of the Harmonized Sales Tax in British Columbia.

In 2005, Yiu was the BC NDP candidate in Burnaby-Willingdon, where he was narrowly defeated by John Nuraney. and two other individuals in the Liberal campaign were found guilty of violations of the Elections Act.

In 2011, Yiu won the BC NDP nomination to represent Vancouver-Fraserview again in the 2013 provincial election, in which he was defeated by BC Liberal Suzanne Anton by 470 votes.