Mayor Hazel win her 12th term

Last night was certainly a sweet victory for Canada's oldest mayor, Hazel McCallion of Mississauga who celebrated her success, with her supporters at Vic Johnson Area in Mississauga.  McCallion said "I will tell you that I am going to work as hard as I have for the last 33 years. Over the next four years, we have wonderful challenges." The top  challenge for her and her newly elected council would be the implementation of the city's people strategic plan, which will map out how the residents want the city to look in the 21^st  century.
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Mississauga Chinese Business Association Annual Mayor BBQ

September 5th 2010

                                        MCBA 2010 annual Mayor BBQ, Sept. 05th 2010

The weather was perfect for BBQ. A slight overcast but no rain. As the directors from MCBA arrived at the Mayor's house the roast pig was already on the BBQ for hours. This is my first year at the Mayor backyard BBQ and I find it an interesting mix of business and pleasure.


The Honorary President of the Mississauga Chinese Business Association Mr. Victor Oh, thank our Mayor on behalf of the association for allowing them to use her backyard for the event. In return our Mayor Hazel thank and encourage the Chinese business community for choosing Mississauga and keeping our economy a success.

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7th annual Amacon Mississauga Rotary Ribfest 2010.

Which vendor to choose? Do I order chicken or ribs? The noise, the crowd and the smoke just make all of us hungry. This year because of the infrastructure money pouring into Mississauga for the reconstruction of the City Hall the venue for Rifest was move one street North to the Living Art Centre and today is the first day of the 7th annual Amacon Mississauga Rotary Ribfest, which runs until Sunday July 18th 2010.

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Mississauga Citizenship court

Eighty-one new Canadian received their citizenship today at the Citizenship Court in Mississauga. Citizenship judge Ms. Mina Fung warmly welcome all the new citizens and their quests to today ceremony and encouraging them to contribute to the Canadian fabric.

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Pasar Malam 2010

Pasar Malam is the Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian style night market held in almost every community in the evening. These three countries are situated on the Equator the day are usually hot and humid so the evening is the most likely time all activities are held.

This year the Singaporean Malaysian Association held its annual PASAR MALAM on July 11th. 2010 at Clarkson Community Centre in Mississauga. As usual this event was well attended by many Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian now living in Mississauga.

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Mississauga Chinese Businese Association Annual Golf Tournament

July 10th 2010

Except for the world cup final game between Germany and Uruguay there is nothing to compete with Annual Mississauga Chinese Business Association golf tournament held at Royal Ontario Golf and country Club. The weather was sunny and hot for the golfers but every enjoyed the game. As the last foursome return form their 18th hole with their scorecard at hand the staffs at Royal Ontario Golf and Country Club were busy preparing to server up a feast in the main dinning hall.

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ORBIS Pull For Sight 2010 - Toronto

Toronto FedEX Terminal July 10th. 2010

On Saturday, July 10th 2010, Team WWSC - made up of CIBC employees, as well as their families and friends - helped ORBIS Canada to raise over $4,300.00 by pulling a B727 at the FedEx Terminal near Pearson International airport. There were more than 400 spectators including local media CP24 and Mississauga News. Each of the 26 teams of 20 members took turns pulling a FedEx 73-tonne Boeing 727 a distance of 4 meters with a pilot onboard.

The WWSC team, led by David K Cheung from Internal Audit and Raymond Chan from Retail Markets, finished with a time of 8.377 seconds!

The mood was fun and light-hearted as Fernando Ruiz from the Chief Accountant’s Division wore a wrestler’s mask during the event at the request of his nephew and niece. According to Santosh Pisharody from Internal Audit, pulling the cargo plane was an experience he will never forget. “I definitely enjoyed this and my father-in-law is here videotaping the pull, so I’ll have proof to show my kids.” said Santosh.

ORBIS Canada raised more than $35,000 in the event which is offered at different cities across Canada. The proceeds from the plane pull will go towards building ORBIS Kids Sight Centres in underdeveloped countries. Each year almost half a million children go blind. That's approximately one child every minute.

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Canada day in Mississauga

As we celebrate Canada 143 birthdays many new Canadians celebrated their first day as a new Canadians receiving their citizenship at the Mississauga council chamber from citizenship Judge Mina Fung and Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion. The Chamber was pack to capacity with friends and well wishers for the new Canadian who was congratulated by Hon. Bob Dechert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Erindale as well as other members of Parliament from Mississauga. Mr. Dechert also thank the hundred new Canadians for choosing Canada as their country on behalf of the Prime Minister Mr. Stephen Harper. Ms. Bonnie Crombie, MP for Mississauga-Streetville told the new Canadian that along with all the privileges of becoming one of the most sought off country to live there is a responsibility. She encourage all new Canadian to get involved in their community and to volunteer their free time to community services as well as to exercise their right to vote in all levels of government election.

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Mississauga’s Canada Day Celebration and Fireworks

As usual our Mayor with her busy Canada Day celebration schedule, hop from the Citizenship celebration in the council chamber to the Paint the town Red in Port Credit and this time to march with the parade and than quickly hop back to the City Hall for the 5:00 p.m. Canada Day celebration and cake cutting ceremony. This year with the generous support from the corporation in Mississauga the celebration promise to be better than last year and it was definitely so.

Due to the construction at the City Hall the Firework for this year Canada Day celebration was move to Square One and again it was great.

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2nd Annual Neighbors Night Out

This year SafeCity Mississauga together with the Peel Library jointly organized the 2nd. Annual Neighbors Night Out with thousand of local residences attending at the Courtneypark Library. Superintendent Robert Devolin Officer in charge of 11 Division Peel Regional Police was on hand to greet the residences and to thank them for coming out and making this event a success. SafeCity Vice Chair Mr. Victor Oh thank the volunteer and the sponsor for this event for their contribution in helping the success of the Neighbours Night Out.

Safe City Mississauga is a not for profit organization create by the City of Mississauga with a mandate to lead a common vision concerning community safety and crime prevention in the city. In 2009 the new Neighbours Night Out program was successfully launch to compliments and support the ongoing Safe City Mississauga programs, such as Neighbourhood Watch and the Crossroads Youth Academy.

Neighbours Night out is a street party, encouraging neighbor to gather and meet each other and to increase community awareness about safety in their neighborhood.

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Carassauga 2010

      The Malaysian Singaporean Pavilion performing a traditional ethnic Malay wedding ceremony

This year mark the 25th anniversary for Carassauga the large ethno cultural festival in Canada. In the fall of 1985 Mayor Hazel McCallion put up a call to all the ethnic groups in Mississauga to organize a cultural festival in Mississauga to celebrate the cultural diversity here and 10 ethnic groups responded and together started the Carassauga. Not surprisingly it is the largest multi-cultural Festival in Ontario and has been voted by Festivals & Events Ontario as one of the Top 100 Festivals in Ontario.

Mayor Hazel cut short her trip to China with the GTA Chinese Business Associations to ensure her present for the opening ceremony tonight at the Hershey Center. The Honorable Jason Kenny the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism was on hand to shower the visitor Prime Minister’s greeting and his appreciation for the work of the volunteers for this year Carrassauga. Peter Fonseca the Labor Minister of Ontario also delivered Primer Dalton McQuinty message to the residences of Mississauga on the success of this year Carassauga.

With over sixty countries to visit in three days, this weekend will be worth the while to visit Carassauga with your family and to spent some quality family time together.

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SQUARE ONE CARASSAUGA KICK-OFF

Today at Mississauga Square One the Carasauga kick off its 25th aniversary celebration multicultralism in Canada.

Carassauga bring together the talented dancers celebrating their proud heritage and ethnicity from India to the Philippines to Germany and more. Starting May 28th 2010 they will be performing all over the city. This is a wonderful opportunity for Mississauga to preview the colourful costumes, festive music and joyful dance from countries around the world.

Mayor Hazel McCallion, who has already made plan with the Confederate GTA Chinese Business Associations to visit China even, cut short her planned visit to be back in time for the official opening of this year Carassauga. In her speech to the crowd at Square One the Mayor encourages everyone in Mississauga to participate in this year Carassauga. On the same token Hon. Peter Fonseca echo his enthusiastic encouragement to the crowd.

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Grand opening for Vitoria Career Development Centre in Mississauga

May 8th 2010

On Saturday May 8th 2010, Mayor Hazel McCallion and provincial Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Hon. Michael Chan warmly welcome the 1st Victoria Career Development Centre in Mississauga. This centre is part of an international Education group with offices in China and Canada. Their vision are:-

We trust one another to be honest and open, and hold ourselves accountable for honouring that trust.

We strive to practice effective leadership at all levels and empower candidates so they can perform their best.

In our work, we search for excellence in all that we do. We continually seek to improve the quality and efficiency of our products and services.

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Inauguration ceremony and celebration for the Canadian Confederation of Fujian Associations

May 7th 2010

Tonight on the cold spring night at the grand banquet hall at Double Tree Hilton Hotel on 655 Dixon Road , Toronto marked the warm and grand inauguration ceremony of the first confederation of Fujian Associations in Canada . The event was well attended by over a thousand people. Mayor Hazel McCallion of Mississauga congratulated the organization and wished them every success. She congratulated Mr. Auyong the president of Pintan association in Canada who was elected by his peers among the sixteen Fujian Associations in Canada to lead this new organization as president of the Canadian Confederation of Fujian Association. Mr. Bob Dechert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Erindale, delivered Prime Minister Mr. Stephen Harper’s greetings and congratulations to the Canadian Confederation of Fujian Association for their inauguration celebration.

Canada has always been a golden mountain to Chinese Migrants since the 1875 gold rush. In 1880 the first huge immigration of Chinese flooded the Western Canadian region to help build the national railway linking the Eastern Canada to Port Moody in BC. Chinese railway workers were the main labour force building the section of the Canadian Pacific Railway from the Pacific to Craigellachie the Eagle Pass in British Columbia . During 1871 when British Columbia agreed to join Confederation they demanded that the Dominion government build a railway linking B.C. with eastern Canada within 10 years.

This project set the stage for the first Chinese migration into Canada . Unfortunately, of the fifteen thousand Chinese workers for the Canadian Pacific only half on them survived this dangerous and treacherous construction project.

The early migrants were mainly from Guangdong (广东省 - Simplifies Chinese: 廣東省 – traditional Chinese; Guǎngdōng Shěng-pinyin) a province on the southern coast of the People’s Republic of China . In 1975 when I first arrived in Canada my ability to speak Mandarin was laughed at by the local Chinese and I was called a bamboo shoot because I couldn’t speak the local Cantonese dialect. However, in the past 5 years I have started to see more local Cantonese merchants and businessmen learning Mandarin due to the greater influx of Chinese migrants from China .

Tonight, is a new chapter in the Canadian Chinese history where a dialect other than Cantonese is setting the stage for the newcomers. For that reason a group of Chinese leaders from the Fujian province who have Canadian experience have decided to pool together their resources to form the Canadian Confederation of Fujian Associations in the hope of providing the support and help to these new immigrants. The associations hope to help these new pioneers to integrate into the Canadian Fabric and the Canadian multiculturalism as well as to enrich the Canada with the rich Fujian cultural heritage.

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COPs for Cancer

April 10th 2010

On Saturday April 10th, members of the Peel Regional Police Service, family and friends will gather at Centre Court at the Square One Shopping Centre to once again raise money and awareness for the fight against cancer. So far they have help Canadian Cancer Society raised two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

Peel Regional police employees have been strong supporters of Cops for Cancer for several years - and for good reason. Many of them have been touched by cancer either personally or through a loved one or friend. Always in our memories are the members of the Peel police family who have been taken from everyone far too soon by this horrible disease.

Unfortunately cancer had affected almost everyone in one way or another and this year Swiss Chalet on 4555 Hurontario Street, Unit #1 were there to support the cause. The team had so far raised $500.00 but according the General Manager Mr. Valdo Melo they are still counting on more to come.

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Mississauga going FIT

April 9th. 2010

                      

Today at 755 Queensway East the Mayor of Mississauga Hazel McCallion and Hon. Peter Fonseca M.P.P. Mississauga East - Cooksville jointly announce the new Ontario initiative to go green. "If you want a green Ontario you will have to pay for it" said Mayor Hazel McCallion, "The day will come when every house in the community will have a solar panel on its roof.

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朱桃英总领事出席康福慈善基金会颁奖晚宴

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                        2010/03/27

3月25日，朱桃英总领事应邀出席加拿大主流慈善机构密西沙加市康福慈善基金会为密市安全委员会副主席、前密市华商会主席胡子修举办的年度社区贡献奖颁奖暨筹款晚宴。胡先生成为26年来该奖的首位华裔获奖者。加拿大总理哈珀、安省省长麦坚迪发电致贺。密市市长麦考莲、联邦议员德克特、皮尔郡警察总长梅卡特夫、多位三级议会议员及各界来宾700多人出席活动。

朱总领事在致词中盛赞胡子修长期以来为帮助华裔新移民、促进华裔社区发展、增进中加友好合作所做的贡献，充分肯定华侨华人在促进中加两国经济社会发展和增进两国友好关系中扮演的重要角色，希望华侨华人继续努力，为中加两国的共同发展做出新的更大的贡献。

麦考莲市长等嘉宾相继致词，赞扬胡对所在城市和华裔社区的发展贡献巨大，对胡及其家人表示衷心感谢。

康福慈善基金会系有着60年历史的慈善公益机构，在主流社会具有较大影响，每年表彰一位为社区做出贡献的人士。

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Oh! Victor

March 25th 2010

After twenty six years the first local Chinese business leader was inducted into the Community Living Mississauga's (CLM) annual tribute dinner at Mississauga Convention Centre located at 75 Derry Road West, while raising approximately one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars to help the intellectually challenged children to have a chance to go to summer camp. This year guest of honor is Mr. Victor Oh the current honorary President of the Mississauga Chinese Business association and Vice Chair for SafeCity Mississauga.

Mr. Victor Oh who migrated from Singapore to Canada has for many years dedicated his life serving the community. "This is truly a great honor, and I feel so proud," a humble Mr. Oh said, "It is an honor for not only me but the entire community. If you live in this country, you get involved, and this tribute is something I never expected."

Mayor Hazel McCallion thanked Mr. Oh for his contribution to the business community in Mississauga and his skillful integration for the Chinese community into the mainstream Mississauga. “Victor’s a great resident of Mississauga,” Mayor Hazel McCallion said. “He’s a great community person and he’s a major contributor to crime prevention. He is just a great person.”

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Peter's Free Family Skate Day at the Burnhamthorpe Community Centre's Outdoor Rink.

March 21st. 2010

Peter Fonseca, Alexander and Sebastian and Dan Thompson.

              The Winter Olympic may be over in Vancouver but the celebration continues. Today former Canadian Olympian Hon Peter Fonseca and M.P.P. for Mississauga East-Cooksville welcome his constituents to skate for free at the Burnhamthorpe community centre’s outdoor skating rink. The event was also co-sponsored by Canadian Tire Jumpstart program.

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Local business success celebrate

Saturday, March 13th 2010

At age 89 our Mayor Hazel McCallion is still working hard in the late hour on Saturday March 13th 2010. She reminds me of the Energizer rabbit that keep on going. Tonight on her fifth official engagement she is helping a local Chinese Business and a community leader Mr. Auyong the President of Pintang Association in Canada and owner of Yuan Ming Supermarket to celebrate their success.

This celebration is internal for the Yuan Ming Super Market, its family, staffs and friends as well as guest of honor Mayor Hazel McCallion and Mr. Victor Oh the Vice Chair of SafeCity Mississauga. In her message to the staffs of Yuan Ming Supermarket our Mayor congratulate them and Yuan Ming for another successful year and encouraged them to work hard to made the business very successful.

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"Succeeding in Turbulent Times" by Joey Yap Feng Shui (风水) Consultant

Hotel Novotel, Mississauga Saturday March 13th. 2010

Feng shui  (风水 "wind water") is an art practise in China for over 3,000 years ago, and has been described as the art of creating wealth, prosperity and harmony. Today at Novotel Hotel, Mr Joey Yap an international speaker, best-selling author, television personality and founder of Mastery Academy of Chinese Metaphysics will be speacking to a pack room regarding Thriving in Challenging Times.

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Student can take Pride helping other student in ther school work

March 12th.2010

In her song Greatest Love Of All, Whitney Houston sang these words that resonate in my ear "I believe the children are our future. Teach them well. And let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty. They possess inside. Give them a sense of pride. To make it easier". This is what I felt when Ms. Ashley Lyons from SafeCity Mississauga email me about thier lastest project "Aspire" lauch on Friday March 12th. 2010 at  Forest Ridge Room, 3420 The Collegeway, Mississauga.

Aspire program is run by SafeCity Mississauga and funded by the Region of Peel. The program run mainly by volunteered high school students. This program will run mainly from the Aspire Tutoring Centre in the Forest Ridge Room, a community gathering space for residents of The Collegeway/Colonial Dr. townhouse complex operated by Peel social housing authorities. Selected high school students will be paired with the younger pupils who needed helps in the neigbourhood. Tutors will also served as mentors helping those student  with their school work. Students can attend one or two sessions each week.

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Officer Ochakovsky worked tirelessly to make the community a better, safer place to live.

Tuesday March 9th 2010
"You can shed tears that he is gone, or you can smile because he has lived."

Today at least close to 7,000 police officers, firefighters and paramedics gathered at the Hershey Centre to pay their final respect for a fallen brother, the first Peel Regional Police officer to be killed while on duty in the past quarter-century.

Constable Artem (James) Ochakovsky succumb to his injury in the hospital on Tuesday night March 2nd 2010 surrounded by his family after he suffered a critical head injury in a crash late Monday. The 36 year-old officer was enroute to assist another colleague when his cruiser collided with another vehicle at Steeles Avenue and Airport Road. Originally, Officer Ochakovsky was taken to a Brampton hospital but later transferred to Sunnybrook Hospital. He leaves behind his wife, Erin and their three-year-old son Owen.

Earlier on Wednesday a somber and Peel police Chief Mike Metcalf said, ”We have suffered a great loss. The coming days will be difficult for us as we prepare to pay tribute to a fine young officer who cared for his family and served his community with pride”.

Today at Constable Artem (James) Ochakovsky funeral in a pack Hersey Centre, the Premier of Ontario, Mr. Dalton McGuinty said, “Officers like James aren’t just good at what they do, what they do is good”. He further added that,  “These men are heroes every day of their lives, to their communities, to their fellow officers, and most of all, to their families.”


Fighting back tears Mrs. Erin Ochakovsky said "James was the kind of father that every woman dreams of. He was my hero, he was my Prince Charming, he was my everything.”

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Chinese Association of Mississauga Chinese New Year Celebration

March 5th 2010

Chinese New Year may have ended on February 28th. 2010 but that does not stopped the Chinese Association of Mississauga (C.A.M.) from celebration the Lunar New Year with a crowd tonight at Emerald Chinese Restaurant in Mississauga. On hand were representative from all three levels of government and the Carassauga leadership.

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26th Anniversary inductee for CLM Mississauga for 2010

Tuesday February 23rd 2010

Today at the Mississauga Convention center a small crowd of media personnel and friends were on hand for the Community Living Mississauga special announcement honoring Mr. Victor Oh at its 26th Annual Tribute Dinner. This is a first time a residence of Chinese descendant who immigrated to Canada a few decades ago from Singapore is inducted to the selected few for their greater contribution to Mississauga. “We are very excited and proud to have Victor Oh as our 2010 honoree,” said Doug Fowles, Chair of the Tribute Dinner Planning Committee. In 2009 Mr. Victor Oh had earned the prestigious Citation of Citizenship from the Government of Canada.

Mr. Victor Oh is currently the Vice Chair of SafeCity Mississauga and honorary President of Mississauga Chinese Business Association. He is a well-respected Chinese community leader within the Chinese community in Mississauga. It is not surprisingly to the Chinese community that Mr. Fowles would stated that for the past twenty five years, Community Living Mississauga has honored a community leader at it annual tribute dinner and based on the enormous contribution from Mr. Oh it is truly a leader deserving of this honor.

Proceeds from this diner will enable children and teens that have an intellectual disability to actively participate in a variety of summer camp programs offered throughout Mississauga. Mr. Oh hope his induction by the Community Living Mississauga will encourage more Chinese to contribute to and support the mainstream community service group like Community Living Mississauga.

On Thursday, March 25th, Community Living Mississauga will be honoring Mr. Victor Oh at its 26th Annual Tribute Dinner at the Mississauga Convention Centre. Anyone interested in sponsoring this event or purchasing tickets should contact Sara Dias at 905-542-2694 or sarad@clmiss.ca.

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Xin Tien Ti Senoir Association of Mississauga Chinese New Year Celebration

Sunday February 21st. 2010
This evening at around 4.00 P.M. at least a crowd of more than two hundred people gather at Mississauga Valley Community Centre on 1275 Mississauga Valley Blvd, Mississauga, ON, L5A 3R8 to help the Xin Tien Ti Senior Association of Mississauga usher in the Chinese New Year.

The President of the Association Mr. Fong Pow Fong greeted the crowd and wishes them a happy and properous Chinese New Year, followed by performers of all ages entertaining the crowd of mainly senior celebrating the New Year.  Mr. Victor Oh the Vice Chair of SafeCity Mississauga and a honour guest of the association was on hand to extend our Prime Minister greeting to all the Chinese Seniors as well as handing out the lucky red package on his behalf.

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Newcomer Centre of Peel Chinese New Year Celebration

Sunday February 21st. 2010

Newcomer Centre of Peel (NCP) began as a Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) Program and Childcare service about twenty years ago. Today, NCP is the leader in settlement and integration services within the Region of Peel supporting newcomer families in their settlement process.

Newcomer Centre of Peel is a non-profit organization offering complimentary services to help newcomers moving to Peel and to promote a strong diversity as well as cultural collaboration and enhancement.

Newcomer Centre of Peel currently provide services in over 30 different languages and proudly embrace all diversity and multiculturalism.

Not surprising today Newcomer Centre of Peel as part of their program welcome the Golden Tiger into Peel at T.L Kennedy Secondary School to a capacity crowd. Together Ms Effat Ghassemi (Exec. Dir of NCP)  and Mr. Victor Oh (Vice Chair SafeCity Mississauga) officially declare today event and greeted the guest and wishes them a happy and properous Chines New Year.

This year the ceremony were conducted in English, Chinese and Korean because the Korean and Chinese celebrate their New Year on the same day.

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RBC Invites Mississauga to Ring in Year of the Tiger

February 17th 2010

Today members of the Mississauga community were invited to celebrate Chinese New Year at Royal Bank of Canada at Eglinton and Creditview branch. Ms. Tammi Lisson, RBC’s Regional Vice President, Mississauga welcome the crowd at the branch and thank them for their continuing support.

Than the Northern Lions dance their way around the branch to usher in the fresh good fortune for the coming year.

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Chinese New Year celebration gives roaring start to festive Misissauga at City Hall for 2010

February 16th 2010

One of the most ancient civilizations in the world is that of the Chinese. The arrival of every Chinese lunar New Year, mean one fifth of the world population will look forward as to what the New Year has in store for them. Traditionally the Chinese believes, somehow, their lives would be influenced depending on their animal signs.

This year the Golden Tiger will roar it’s way into our lunar calendar and the next time the Golden Tiger come it will be 2070. Officially the Chinese New Year arrived on February 14th 2010 Valentines Day!

According to Chinese astrology, the Tiger is said to be lucky vivid, lively and engaging, as well as incredible bravery, evidenced in his willingness to engage in battle or his undying courage. According to traditional Chinese believe having a Tiger in the house is the best protection against the evils of fire, and burglary. However, beware of marry a women born in the year of Tiger.

Every year the Mississauga Chinese Business Association celebrate the Chinese New Year with Mayor and City Councilors at the great Hall in the City Hall on the first day of the Chinese New Year but unfortunately this year it happen on Sunday and Monday was family day so it was schedule to Tuesday February 16th 2010. Nonetheless, many Mississauga residences were on hand to celebrate the festivity.

Every year all three levels of governments were on hand to help celebrate this auspicious day at the Main Hall in Mississauga City Hall. Unfortunately this year, no provincial member of parliament were able to atttended the function. Mayor Hazel McCallion even in her busy schedule and councillor Ms. Pat Saito from Ward 9 made time to show their respect for the Chinese community by joining the crowd gathering at the main hall of this great city in Mississauga to celebrate their New Year. At the same time the community is grateful to M.P. Mr. Bob Dechert, Mississauga-Erindale, M.P. Ms. Bonnie Crombie Mississauga-Streetsville and M.P. Mr. Nadeep Singh Bain, Mississauga-Brampton South for making available their time in their busy schedule to celebrate with the Chinese community their New Year.

Many thanks to the generous support from our sponsors below

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Chinese New Year at Fo Guang Shan Temple

Feb 13th. 2010

While most Chinese in the Mississauga are business celebrating Chinese New Year eve with family members, a huge crowd is also gathering at the Fo Guang Shan Temple in Mississauga on 6525 Millcreek Drive, Mississauga to celebrate the coming of the golden Tiger lunar New Year. Every year on Chinese New Year eve the temple open its door to the thousand of worshippers coming to the temple to prayer for blessing for the coming year.

This year Councilor Pat Saito from Ward 9 and MPP Mr. Bob Delaney, Mississauga, Streetsville were on hand to help the temple celebrate the coming of the Chinese New Year. Mr. Kuo-Jan Wang who is the current Director General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Toronto was also at the temple to usher the Chinese New Year.

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Citizenship Court Febuary 10th 2010

Febuary 10th 2010.

As I drove over the freshly covered snow on the road to the Citizenship court I cannot help but felt bewildered by the majesty and beauty Canada has to offer to me. However, just imagine if you are one of the hundred and sixth new Canadians receiving your Citizenship today in the Citizenship court presided by Hon. Judge Mina Fung, what would your thought be.

As early as 8.00o’clock this morning the crowd has gathered outside the door to the court waiting to enter the chamber. I can sense their excitement as the waited inline to register themselves with the court clerks.

Hon Judge Mina Fung greeted the crowd at the beginning of the ceremony welcoming them as new citizen of Canada and reminded them that February (Black History Month Canada) is the month for black heritage and their contribution to Canada.
After the official ceremony has concluded Mr. Victor Oh the Vice Chair of SafeCity Mississauga spoke to the new Canadian encouraging them to contribute to the mosaic of the Canadian society by donating the free time to volunteer in the community.

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