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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