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January 2009
Top 10 Countries
of Origin for
immigrants 2001-2006
1. China 14%
2. India 11.6%
3. Philippines 7%
4. Pakistan 5.2%
5. USA 3.5%
6. South Korea 3.2%
7. Romania 2.5%
8. Iran 2.3%
9. England 2.3%
10. Columbia 1.9%
Source: Statistics Canada
Iron
Road is a literal translation of the Chinese word for Railroad.
The movie "Iron Road" is a $10 million movie co-production between the
Canada and Mainland China, about the building of the Canadian
transcontinental railroad in the 19th century.
The movie features an international
cast including Oscar winner Peter O'Toole, Hongkong veteran Tony Leung
Ka Fai, and Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane. Sun Li, a fiesty
and gregarious Shanghai movie actress plays the role of Little Tiger, a
street urchin who disguised as a boy and immigrated to Canada in the
late 1800, in search of her railroad-worker father who went to British
Columbia.
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The
current recession is sparking a new wave of small business startups in
Canada as more and more Canadians who were laid-off from work are taking
pro-active steps in reorganizing their affairs. This new
breed of entrepreneurs resulting from poor economic times are found to
be more motivated and have a higher chance for success. This is
because the down-sized entrepreneurs tend to have job experience and
some seed money resulting from severance packages. Statistics Canada shows that 2.66 million people or 14.7 percent of the labour force in Canada were self employed (Dec. 2008) compared to 8% twenty years ago. 60 to 75% of new jobs in Canada are generated by small businesses. It is the fastest growing segment in the labour market amongst youths aged 19 to 34 years old. Another new trend is the "seniorpreneurs" or adult entrepreneurs aged 55 plus. It is found that 1 in 4 working adults over 55 plus are self-employed .... more
Bubble tea, also called boba tea, is a tea beverage containing gelatinous tapioca pearls. It originated in Taiwan in the 1980s, spread to nearby East Asian countries, and migrated to Canada before spreading to Chinatown in New York City, then to various spots throughout the West Coast of the United States. The literal translation from Chinese is pearl milk tea.
The word "bubble" refers to "bubbling", the process by which certain types of bubble tea are made, and not the actual tapioca balls. The balls are often called "pearls." Drinks with large pearls are consumed along with the beverage through wide straws; while drinks with small pearls are consumed through normal straws. Bubble tea is especially popular in many East Asian and Southeast Asian regions such as Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and more recently popularized in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Perú. (more)
Ottawa
International Connections (OIC) is a fun idea and experience-sharing
forum for Canadians and newcomers to Canada of diverse ethnicities. In
addition to providing an online meeting space through Facebook, OIC
organizes public gatherings featuring talks by esteemed community
members on a variety of subjects.
Led by Elena Chernikova and her husband Tony Young, this active group currently has 97 members. An upcoming potluck dinner is scheduled for March 22, 2009 Sunday, from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm at the Hummingbird House at 255 Mackay Street, Ottawa, Ontario. For more details about Ottawa International Connections, please click here.
February 19, 2009.
It was
dramatic and exciting for many Canadians to witness the visit of US
President Obama. Michaelle Jean, Canada's First Black
Governor General leads the Canadian delegation in welcoming the
president. The
Governor General is the Queen's
representative in Canada and
communicates directly with Queen
Elizabeth. Before the 1980s this
position was only filled by white
men but since then three of five
Governor Generals have been female.
Governor General Michaëlle Jean
worked as a journalist and
television broadcaster in Quebec.
She immigrated from Haiti with her
family at an early age and is fluent
in five languages—French, English,
Italian, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
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While
everyone was cheering the USA for having Obama as its first black
president, BC can be proud of the fact that it has its first black
governor general as early as 1858. It was not commonly known that
Sir James Douglas, (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877) was an
illegitimate son of a Scottish sugar planter and a “free coloured
woman”, in British Guiana. His mother was probably a descendant of a
black, slave woman and a European man stationed in the West Indies.
James Douglas lived in the planter and slave society in British Guiana
until the age of nine. In 1812, his father sent him to Scotland to
attend school. There he met many of his father’s extended family,
members of the well-to-do planter and merchant class in Glasgow. But it
was the fur trade that attracted young James and so he headed for Canada
at age sixteen not to return to Scotland for 45 years.
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