- While a variety of theories have been postulated for the etymological origins of Canada, the name is now accepted as coming from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, meaning "village" or "settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec Cityregion used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village, but to the entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this small region along the Saint Lawrence River as Canada. From the 16th to the early 18th century "Canada" referred to the part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named the Canadas; until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the legal name for the new country at the London Conference, and the word Dominion was conferred as the country's title. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, which refers only to Canada. Later that year, the name of the national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day. The term Dominion is also used to distinguish the federal government from the provinces, though after the Second World War the term federal had replaced dominion.
- spelt as kanada in various languages e.g. deutsch, faroe, afrikaans, polish, macedonian, finnish
- Yn Chanadey in gaelic
Government
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21704825-justin-trudeau-shaking-up-two-constitutional-bodies-look-rainbow
- department of justice http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/
- http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/
- canadian seafood buyer's guide http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/canadian-seafood-buyer-s-guide/?id=1395671705669
- The Agri-Food team of the Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong is responsible for promoting Canadian agriculture and agri-food products in Hong Kong and Macao, researches for Canadian food supplies for Hong Kong and Macao importers, matches business partners, and provides information on Canada’s agriculture and agri-food technology and investment. http://www.canadafood.hk/about.php
- canada revenue agency
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; French: Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), lit. 'Royal Gendarmerie of Canada'; colloquially known as the "Mounties", and internally as the "Force") is the federal and national police service of Canada. The RCMP provides law enforcement at the federal level. It also provides provincial policing in eight of Canada's provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan, i.e. all except Ontario and Quebec) and local policing on contract basis in the three territories (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon) and more than 150 municipalities, 600 aboriginal communities, and three international airports. The RCMP does not provide active provincial or municipal policing in Ontario or Quebec. However, all members of the RCMP have jurisdiction as a peace officer in all parts of Canada, including Ontario and Quebec.Despite the name, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is no longer an actual mounted police force, with horses only being used at ceremonial events. The predecessor NWMP and RNWMP had relied on horses for transport for most of their history, though the RNWMP was switching to automobiles at the time of the merger. As Canada's national police force, the RCMP is primarily responsible for enforcing federal laws throughout Canada while general law and order including the enforcement of the criminal code and applicable provincial legislation is constitutionally the responsibility of the provinces and territories. Larger cities may form their own municipal police departments.
- British Columbia
- cabinet minister teresa wat (http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/ministries/international-trade/biography/honourable-teresa-wat.html)
- History of chinese settlers
- http://curious.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/early-transpacific-chinese-travelers-and-todays-british-columbia/
- calgary
- montreal- http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calgary/hainan-airlines-calgary-beijing-inaugural-flight-1.3660710 Regular air service between Calgary and Beijing began Thursday as the inaugural Hainan Airlines flight between the Canadian and Chinese cities took off.
- http://www.montrealinternational.com/en/about-us/organization/ Created in 1996, Montréal International (MI) is the result of a private-public partnership. Its mission is to contribute to the economic development of Greater Montréal and enhance its international status. Its mandates include attracting foreign direct investments, international organizations andinternational strategic workers as well as promoting the competitive and international environment of Greater Montréal. Montréal International—a non-profit organization—is funded by the private sector, the governments of Canada and Québec, theCommunauté métropolitaine de Montréal (Montréal Metropolitan Community) and the City of Montréal.
- New Brunswick http://www2.gnb.ca/
- Ontario
- sourcefromontario.com International Trade Branch of Government of Ontario assists international buyer to source ontario products and services, and establish business partnerships with ontario companies
- china daily 23sep16 report ottawa mayor on expand trade link with china
- History
- Quiet revolution
- CEGEP (/seɪˈʒɛp/ say-ZHEP or /ˈsiːdʒɛp/ SEE-jep; French: Cégep; also CÉGEP, Cegep or Cégep [seʒɛp]) is a publicly funded post-secondary education pre‑university, collegiate technical college exclusive to the province of Quebec's education system. A loanword from French, it originates from the French acronym for Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel, sometimes known in English as a "General and Vocational College", it is now considered a word in itself. Although all colleges in Quebec are colloquially referred to as CEGEPs, only public colleges are officially referred to by that name.A product of the Quiet Revolution, the CEGEP system was started in 1967 by the Quebec provincial government and originally consisted of 12 CEGEPs. Today, 48 CEGEPs operate in Quebec, of which five are in the English language.
- https://www.quora.com/In-Quebec-is-it-common-for-anglophone-Canadian-parents-whose-children-could-legally-attend-anglophone-schools-to-send-their-children-to-French-language-schools-anyway-so-the-children-become-fluent-in-French https://www.quora.com/In-Quebec-is-it-common-for-anglophone-Canadian-parents-whose-children-could-legally-attend-anglophone-schools-to-send-their-children-to-French-language-schools-anyway-so-the-children-become-fluent-in-French
- Asbestos is a town in the Estrie (Eastern Townships) region of southeastern Quebec, Canada on the Nicolet River.During the 1960s the town was thriving and it could afford to expand and invest in its infrastructure and artistic patrimony. It provided itself with a new modern town-hall whose main hallway was adorned with a grand mural by the artist Denis Juneau, as well as some ceramic pieces in the church by the famed ceramist Claude Vermette.In late 2011, Canada's remaining two asbestos mines (both in the Province of Quebec), Lac d'Amiante du Canada and the Jeffrey mine, halted operations. In June 2012, a $58 million loan was promised by the Quebec government to restart and operate the Jeffrey mine for the next 20 years.[7] In September 2012, before the loan funds were delivered, the Parti Québécois defeated the Quebec Liberal Party in the Quebec provincial election. The Parti Québécois followed through with an election promise to halt asbestos mining and to cancel the $58 million loan, and put funding toward economic diversification in the area.
- economist 14dec19 "welcome to toxic town"
- people
- Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC OQ ChLD (/ˈdiːɒn/; French: [seˈlɪn dziˈjɔ̃]; born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer and businesswoman. Born into a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world. Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of 14 children of Thérèse (née Tanguay), a homemaker, and Adhémar Dion, a butcher, both of French-Canadian descent. Dion was raised a Roman Catholic in a poverty-stricken, but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne.
- Has a government office in shanghai (est 1999)
- Toronto
- Olivia Chow (鄒至蕙) intends to run for mayor http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/03/09/a27-0309.pdf, http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1463394/hong-kong-born-olivia-chow-urges-voters-sar-help-her-defeat-toronto-mayor, 鄒至蕙參加多倫多市長選舉 加媒種族歧視 港產候選人變紅衛兵 http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/10/28/a19-1028.pdf
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20141204/18957070 加拿大多倫多新一屆市議會前天走馬上任，市長莊德利（John Tory）宣誓就任之餘，華裔市議員黃旻南（圖）也就任副市長，成為多倫多有史以來首位華裔副市長，至於公校教育局委員陳聖源出任多倫多公校教育局主席，成為該市首位華裔主席。
- “多伦多刘永全戏曲学院”及“粤声乐府”将于三月至七月期间，举办“万千声音 众志一心”粤剧曲艺推广计划。计划包括加拿大一百五十周年国庆粤曲创作比赛；多伦多及温哥华两地举办“粤韵声传加西东”粤剧及粤曲汇演；粤剧功架及音乐拍和介绍与示范讲座。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170306/PDF/b12_screen.pdf
- Vancouver
- Manitoba Trade and Investment http://www.gov.mb.ca/trade/
- Meena Wong's bid for mayor http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1587719/meena-wong-launches-bid-become-vancouvers-first-chinese-mayor, http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1590864/vancouver-mayoral-candidate-meena-wong-proposes-tax-vacant-million-dollar, http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1591771/red-guards-set-meena-wong-vancouver-mayoral-candidate-path-politics
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1641467/gregor-robertson-survives-challenge-meena-wong-vancouver-poll
- http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1679522/vancouvers-mayor-gregor-robertson-dating-chinese-born-pop-star-wanting Vancouver’s ridiculously photogenic mayor, Gregor Robertson, has a new girlfriend, the mainland-Chinese-born pop star Wanting Qu.First, some background and a disclaimer: I reckon the relationship is worth scrutiny for at least a couple of non-prurient reasons, not the least of which is that Robertson’s own PR team put his private life front and centre last summer at the start of his re-election campaign. This was ostensibly in response to some pretty wild rumours circulating about the married mayor’s private life which remain unfounded; the excellent reason that they have not been repeated by the mainstream media is that there is no reason to believe that they are true.
- Property
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160515/00178_017.html 中國土豪熱衷海外置業，近日更有華人豪擲逾三千一百萬加元（約一億八千萬港元）購下加拿大溫哥華一座頂級豪宅，創下今年當地豪宅成交價紀錄。外國傳媒披露，豪宅買家竟是一名學生，引起輿論嘩然。
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/17/vancouver-empty-homes-tax
- Manitoba Trade and Investment http://www.gov.mb.ca/trade/
Alberta
- Calgary was named after Calgary on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. In turn, the name originates from a compound of kald and gart, similar Old Norse words, meaning "cold" and "garden", likely used when named by the Vikings who inhabited the Inner Hebrides. Alternatively, the name might be Gaelic Cala ghearraidh, meaning "beach of the meadow (pasture)"; or Gaelic for either "clear running water" or "bay farm".
- chinese
- 郑邓潔真 華埠耆英中心 obitruary singtao 10nov17 a28
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3dfa2168-0e8f-11e5-9ae0-00144feabdc0.html A forest clearing in northeast Alberta contains a monument to oil wealth. The Anzac Recreation Centre, opened last year, serves a hamlet of 800 people with 112,000 square feet of gym space, grandstands and an ice rink built to National Hockey League standards. An aboriginal dream catcher hanging in a window — the gift of the centre’s sponsor and chief local employer, the Chinese oil group Cnooc — encourages those who enter to “Dream Big”. But dreams are now more unsettling than grandiose in Alberta, the western Canadian province with the world’s third largest proven oil reserves. With the collapse in crude prices
, energy companies have suspended or cancelled billions of dollars in new projects, thousands of workers have lost their jobs and voters ousted the party that ran the provincial government for 44 years. New projects in Canada’s oil sands need an average Brent crude price of more than $100 per barrel to break even, according to Rystad Energy, a consultancy — well above levels eyed by forecasters and futures markets. The investment environment could be further complicated if Alberta’s new premier follows through on a pledge to review royalties paid by energy producers, suggesting added expense for the high-cost oil region. A clampdown on greenhouse gas emissions would also threaten the carbon-intensive extraction methods of Canada’s oil sands, already a target of green campaigners over pollution and deforestation.
- hates quebec?
- https://www.quora.com/Do-French-speaking-Canadians-look-down-on-or-despise-English-speaking-Canadians
- investors from china
- http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/2016-05/04/content_25046699.htm A new direct flight from Beijing to Calgary in Alberta, Canada, will cater to growing demand from Chinese visitors. Canada's tourism authority has partnered with Hainan Airlines to offer the flight three times a week from June 30 and four times a week from November.
British Colombia
- company
- British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides consulting and investment operation services to its clients. It primarily provides its services to public sector pension plans, the Province of British Columbia, provincial government bodies, and publicly administered trust funds.
- trade and investment environment
- property
- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-budget-2016/article28765064/ The B.C. government used its balanced budget on Tuesday as leverage to wrestle with the country’s hottest real estate market, introducing tax incentives designed to spur housing construction and measures to begin addressing questions about foreign ownership. Hours after the Canadian Real Estate Association reported that Greater Vancouver housing prices led the country in growth, climbing on average by more than 20 per cent over the past year, Finance Minister Mike de Jong rose in the legislature to lay out a fiscal plan that he said will help more people realize the dream of owning a house.In the first major overhaul of the Property Transfer Tax since its inception in 1988, Mr. de Jong has raised the exemption threshold – solely on new houses – to $750,000. The new tax break, available only to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, could mean savings of up to $13,000 on a house. The changes will be funded by a higher tax on sales of properties worth more than $2-million – a not-quite-luxury tax that in Vancouver currently captures the average price of a single-family detached house. “I’m hoping we’ll be able to facilitate the entry into the housing market of more people, more families [and] we hope this is an instrument we can use to promote the construction of more homes,” Mr. de Jong told reporters. He added it will require effort from the federal and municipal levels of government to make it a success. However, he said there are not enough data to determine if speculation, foreign ownership or unethical real estate-agent practices are fuelling the superheated market. Instead, the province will revive a long-defunct requirement for home buyers to declare their citizenship. In response to an investigative report in The Globe and Mail showing how bare trusts may be used to transfer property ownership without paying the property transfer tax, the province is imposing new disclosure requirements to track trustees and beneficiaries. If tax avoidance is found to be a problem, finance officials say, the province will consider taking action at a later date.
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/canadians-with-bc-vacation-homes-to-be-hit-with-new-tax/article38061593/
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/01/08/a24-0108.pdf 位於加拿大卑詩省溫哥華以北 230公里、有22間房屋的「鬼鎮」布雷迪恩，2010年起在市場放售，叫價不到 100萬加元(約 655萬港元)，但一直無人問津。地產代理羅夫雷斯近日發新聞稿表示，這個佔地20公頃的小鎮去年底終於找到買家，新主人是「中國中亞集團河北加中公司」，他沒公布成交價，但稱接近叫價。代表中資買家的發言人米爾斯透露，公司打算重建布雷迪恩，先提升鎮上基礎設施，包括下水道、供水系統、廢物處理和街道等，相信完成重建後可望吸引遊客到來。中國投資者近年大舉進軍外國房地產市場，羅夫雷斯形容今次中資公司買下布雷迪恩，反映中國投資者愈來愈大手筆，從最初收購獨立屋和住宅，現在目標轉至農場、牧場甚至整個小鎮。
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/11/us-canada-china-investment-insight-idUSKBN0LE12Q20150211 Vancouver has been a top destination for Asian immigrants for decades, helping make it Canada's most expensive housing market and one consistently ranked as North America's least affordable. Houses and luxury condos in the Vancouver area have been the investment of choice for both well-heeled new arrivals and China-based investors putting money abroad. But with the Vancouver market looking pricey, many of these investors are seeking other opportunities. They range from hotels and golf courses targeting Chinese tourists to berry farms, mineral water sources, and wineries that export to Asia.
The Charlevoix region, located in Quebec, includes parts of the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River and the Laurentian Mountains region of the Canadian Shield.The region was named after Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix, a French Jesuit explorer and historian who travelled through the area in the 18th century.
- Avant l'arrivée des colons d'origine européenne au xviie siècle, les peuples Montagnais, Etchemins et Algonquins occupaient le territoire de Charlevoix. La région charlevoisienne était un lieu de passage de prédilection pour les Amérindiens qui pratiquaient la chasse et la pêche. L'Île-aux-Coudres était entre autres l'un des lieux privilégiés pour chasser le béluga (baleine) et le marsouin. Sur une base saisonnière, les Amérindiens s'installaient également sur la pointe aux Alouettes près du Saguenay, à Port-aux-Femmes sur la rivière Noire et près de la rivière Malbaie et de la Petite Rivière (Saint-François). Les déplacements à l'intérieur des terres s'effectuaient par des sentiers à travers la forêt8. La région est pour la première fois observée par les européens en 1535 lors du second voyage de Jacques Cartier. Le 6 septembre 1535, il jette l'ancre sur l'Île Aux Coudres, face à la partie côtière de Charlevoix, elle-même située sur la rive gauche du St-Laurent. Si l'île au coudres (ainsi que d'autres îles avoisinantes) paraît à Cartier et son équipage habitable et propre à la cultivation, ils sont impressionnées par le relief difficile des terres de Charlevoix et doutent qu'un développement y soit possible. Pendant de nombreuses années, des postes sont exploités dans la région en vue de l'exploitation forestière et dans une moindre mesure de la traite de fourrure, mais aucun établissement stable n'y existe encore. En 1636, les premiers territoires étant accordés en seigneurie sont ceux de Baie St-Paul, s'étendant dès lors des municipalités actuelles des Éboulements jusqu'à Saint-Siméon. En 1653, c'est la seigneurie de La Malbaie qui est établie, mais les deux fermes qu'elle comprenait seront éventuellement détruites par la guerre de 1759, qui verra le territoire de la Nouvelle France passer sous contrôle britannique. Deux officiers écossais ayant notamment servit lors de la bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, John Nairne (en) et Malcom Fraser, se verront attribuer la seigneurie de La Malbaie qu'ils se diviseront et qui verra s'établir pour la première fois une population durable. Les officiers octroient des terres à des colons selon les règles qui prévalaient lors du régime français, mais la population reste peu nombreuse; à peine 200 à La Malbaie et environ 3000 dans la micro-région composée de Baie St-Paul, des Éboulements, de L'île aux Coudres et de Petite-Rivière. Quarante ans plus tard, cette population triple, se chiffrant à 8385 âmes en 1831, La Malbaie accaparant environ le tiers de ces gains
******** 貴湖（Guelph，发音为/ˈɡwɛlf/），又译圭尔夫 Guelph (/ɡwɛlf/ ; Canada 2016 Census population 131,794) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City". Before colonization, the area was considered by the surrounding indigenous communities to be a "neutral" zone and was inhabited by the Neutral Nation. According to the University of Guelph, "the area was home to a First Nations community called the Attawandaron who lived in longhouses surrounded by fields of corn". (The majority of this nation, about 4,000 people, lived in a village near what is now the Badenoch area of Puslinch, near Morriston.)
John Galt, the first Superintendent of the Canada Company, was hired to help colonize Upper Canada. He selected Guelph as the headquarters of this British development firm. Galt was a popular Scottish poet and novelist who also designed the town to attract settlers and farmers to the surrounding countryside. His design intended the town to resemble a European city centre, complete with squares, broad main streets and narrow side streets, resulting in a variety of block sizes and shapes which are still in place today.Guelph was incorporated as a city in 1879 with a Special Act of the Ontario legislature.The Canadian Communist Party began as an illegal organization in a rural barn near Guelph on May 28 and 29, 1921.
- Loyola House or its full name Loyola House Retreat and Training Centre is a Jesuit spirituality centre in Guelph, Ontario. It moved to Guelph in 1964 and was the centre of a renewal in Ignatian spirituality in the 1970s. It is within the grounds of the Ignatius Jesuit Centresituated on Woolwich Street to the west of Riverside Park. In the 1960s and 1970s it was the centre of a significant shift in Ignatian spirituality.Long settled by indigenous peoples of the Dorset culture, the island was visited by the Icelandic Viking Leif Eriksson in the 11th century, who called the new land "Vinland".[citation needed] The next European visitors to Newfoundland were Portuguese, Basque, Spanish, French and English migratory fishermen. The island was visited by the Genoese navigator John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto), working under contract to King Henry VII of England on his expedition from Bristol in 1497. In 1501, Portuguese explorers Gaspar Corte-Real and his brother Miguel Corte-Realcharted part of the coast of Newfoundland in a failed attempt to find the Northwest Passage. (After European settlement, colonists first called the island Terra Nova, from "New Land" in Portuguese and Latin.) On August 5, 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbertclaimed Newfoundland as England's first overseas colonyunder Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I of England, thus officially establishing a forerunner to the much later British Empire. Newfoundland is considered Britain's oldest colony. At the time of English settlement, the Beothuk inhabited the island.
- Newfoundland joined Canada on March 31, 1949. Union with Canada has done little to reduce Newfoundlanders' self-image as a unique group. In 2003, 72% of residents responding identified first as Newfoundlanders, secondarily as Canadians. Separatist sentiment is low, though, less than 12% in the same 2003 study. The referendum campaign of 1948 was bitterly fought, and interests in both Canada and Britain favoured and supported confederation with Canada.
- hkej 17oct18 shum article
Le Nunavut Nunavut (/ˈnuːnəˌvʊt/; Inuktitut syllabics ᓄᓇᕗᑦ [ˈnunavut]; French: [nynavy(t)]) is the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the boundaries had been contemplatively drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's political map since the incorporation of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949.Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada, and most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Its vast territory makes it the fifth-largest country subdivision in the world, as well as North America's second-largest (after Greenland). The capital Iqaluit (formerly "Frobisher Bay"), on Baffin Island in the east, was chosen by the 1995 capital plebiscite. Other major communities include the regional centres of Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay. Nunavut also includes Ellesmere Island to the far north, as well as the eastern and southern portions of Victoria Island in the west and Akimiski Island in James Bay far to the southeast of the rest of the territory. It is Canada's only geo-political region that is not connected to the rest of North America by highway.Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut.The region now known as Nunavut has supported a continuous indigenous population for approximately 4,000 years. Most historians identify the coast of Baffin Island with the Helluland described in Norse sagas, so it is possible that the inhabitants of the region had occasional contact with Norse sailors.
- government
- Ontario ministry of international trade
- Brampton (/ˈbræmptən/ or /ˈbræmtən/) is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Situated in Southern Ontario, it is a suburban city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and the seat of Peel Region. Prior to the 1800s, all real business in Chinguacousy Township took place at Martin Salisbury's tavern. One mile distant at the corner of Main and Queen streets, now the recognised centre of Brampton, William Buffy's tavern was the only significant building. At the time, the area was referred to as "Buffy's Corners". By 1834, John Elliott laid out the area in lots for sale, calling it "Brampton", which was soon adopted by others. In 1853, a small agricultural fair was set up by the newly initiated County Agricultural Society of the County of Peel, and was held at the corner of Main and Queen streets. Grains, produce, roots, and dairy products were up for sale. Horses and cattle, along with other lesser livestock, were also sold at market. This agricultural fair eventually became the modern Brampton Fall Fair.In that same year Brampton was incorporated as a village. In 1866, the town became the county seat and the location of the Peel County Courthouse which was built in 1865-66; a three-storey County gaol was added at the rear in 1867. Edward Dale, an immigrant from Dorking, England, established a flower nursery in Brampton shortly after his arrival in 1863.[5] Dale's Nursery became the town's largest and most prominent employer, developed a flower grading system, and established a global export market for its products. The company chimney was a town landmark, until Brampton Town Council allowed it to be torn down in 1977.[5] At its height, the company had 140 greenhouses, and was the largest cut flower business in North America,[7] producing 20 million blooms and introducing numerous rose and orchid varietals and species to the market. It also spurred the development of other nurseries in the town. Forty-eight hothouse flower nurseries once did business in the town.In January 1867, Peel County separated from the County of York, a union which had existed since 1851.
- Ontario international trade and investment office in shanghai, beijing, chongqing
- chinese
- brampton chinese business association
- Markham (/ˈmɑːrkəm/) is a city in the Regional Municipality of York within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. Indigenous people lived in what is now Markham for many thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the area. These people include the HaudenosauneeConfederacy (the Iroquois), the Huron Wendat, the Petun and the Neutral.Objects recovered by the a local mill owner, the Milne Family, in the 1870s give evidence of a village within the boundaries of the present Milne Conservation Area. Markham was first surveyed as a township in 1793 by William Berczy, who in 1794 led 75 German families including the Ramers, Reesors, Wheters, Burkholders, Bunkers, Wicks and Lewis from Upstate New York to an area of Markham now known as German Mills.[21] Each family was granted 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land; however the lack of roads in the region led many to settle in York (now Toronto) and Niagara. German Mills later became a ghost town. Between 1803 and 1812, another attempt at settling the region was made. The largest group of settlers were Pennsylvania Dutch, most of whom were Mennonites. These highly skilled craftsmen and knowledgeable farmers settled the region and founded Reesorville, named after the Mennonite settler Joseph Reesor.[22] In 1825, Reesorville was renamed to Markham having taken the name of the unincorporated village (see Markham Village, Ontario). By 1830, a large number of Irish, Scottish and English families began immigrating to Upper Canada, many settling in Markham. Markham's early years blended the rigours of the frontier with the development of agriculture-based industries.萬錦（Markham；發音： /ˈmɑːrkəm/），又譯麥咸或麥城，中文又音譯為马卡姆，是一個位於加拿大安大略省約克區的城市[3]。萬錦市2012年七月一日由「市镇」（Town）升格为「城市」（City）
- exhibited at 2018 tdc smartbiz expo
- 加拿大安大略省萬錦市一名中國留學生，上周六（23日）晚在寓所的地下停車場泊車時，突然遭四名蒙面匪徒綁架，他反抗不果後被押上一輛貨車帶走，停車場的閉路電視拍下整個過程。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190326/00180_021.html
- Orangeville
- note the windmill in coat of arms
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2015-11/14/content_22456719.htm A trade delegation from Ontario, Canada's most- populous province, has sealedmore than 100 agreements with Chinese companies, valued at around $2 billion.
prince edward island
- The minister says that they are working with Chinese tour operators and travel bloggers to promote the island in China, and they are also integrating Mandarin speakers into the tourism industry for the convenience of Chinese visitors. "About 10 percent of our university and post-secondary students are Chinese, and the local Chinese community is also growing. So, it is a good base for us to attract Chinese visitors," says MacDonald.According to him, China is the island's second-largest trading partner after the United States, and 80 percent of its exports to China comprise lobsters. In February, Air Canada started a flight between Shanghai and Montreal, and the minister believes this is a big benefit for Prince Edward Island as a destination because Montreal is less than two hours by air from the island.
Quebec
- government
- Le ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ) http://www.mapaq.gouv.qc.ca/
- independence?
- Kamouraska is a municipality on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. The area was first settled in the late 17th century. In 1674 it was the Seigneury de Kamouraska, a constituent of the Gouvernement de Québec (fr). There is a long tradition of eel fishing here and an interpretive centre on eel fishing is located in the village.
- Shawinigan is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada.The name Shawinigan has had numerous spellings over time: Chaouinigane, Oshaouinigane, Assaouinigane, Achawénégan, Chawinigame, Shawenigane, Chaouénigane. It may mean "south portage", "portage of beeches", "angular portage", or "summit" or "crest".[1] Before 1958, the city was known as Shawinigan Falls.In 1651, the jesuit priest Buteaux was the first European known to have travelled up the Saint-Maurice River to this river's first set of great falls. Afterwards, missionaries going to the Upper Saint-Maurice would rest here.
- The Canada–Quebec Accord is a legal agreement concerning immigration issues between the federal government of Canada and the Province of Quebec. The broad accord signed in 1991 preceded similar agreements with other provinces including British Columbia and Manitoba. The arrangement gives Quebec the exclusive responsibility of choosing immigrants and refugees still living in their own countries but wishing to relocate to the province. Selected applicants are issued a "certificat de sélection du Québec". Immigrants who settle also can be required by Québec's provincial government, to send their children to French-language schools. Citizenship and Immigration Canada issues the actual visa after background and health verifications. The provinces also have agreements with the federal government in that they can nominate individuals for immigration purposes, similar to the way Quebec does.
- france- hkej 31aug18 shum article
- Kamouraska is a municipality on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. The area was first settled in the late 17th century. In 1674 it was the Seigneury de Kamouraska, a constituent of the Gouvernement de Québec (fr). There is a long tradition of eel fishing here and an interpretive centre on eel fishing is located in the village.
- Kamouraska has been the home of some important people in Quebec and Canadian history: the author of the French lyrics to "O Canada," Adolphe-Basile Routhier, was a judge of the Superior Court and lived there from 1864-1891 and the second verse of the "O Canada" reflects his love for Kamouraska ("Sous l'œil de Dieu, près du fleuve géant, Le Canadien grandit en espérant").
- Anti-Catholic preacher Charles Chiniquy was born in Kamouraska in 1809.
- Shawinigan is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada.The name Shawinigan has had numerous spellings over time: Chaouinigane, Oshaouinigane, Assaouinigane, Achawénégan, Chawinigame, Shawenigane, Chaouénigane. It may mean "south portage", "portage of beeches", "angular portage", or "summit" or "crest".[1] Before 1958, the city was known as Shawinigan Falls.In 1651, the jesuit priest Buteaux was the first European known to have travelled up the Saint-Maurice River to this river's first set of great falls. Afterwards, missionaries going to the Upper Saint-Maurice would rest here.
- notable people
- Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien PC OM CC QC (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kʁetjɛ̃]; born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003.After the June 1968 election, he was appointed Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development largely because of the influence of Sharp, who had persuaded Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau that Chrétien was worthy of a senior portfolio in the cabinet. Trudeau and Chrétien were never close or even friendly as the gulf between the intellectual Trudeau and the decidedly non-intellectual Chrétien was too wide, but Trudeau did value Chrétien as an extremely loyal and competent minister, and as a "tough guy" trouble-shooter who could handle difficult assignments.[35] Chrétien was never a member of Trudeau's inner circle, but his status as the "enforcer" of the Trudeau government meant he often played a key role in executing the policy decisions of the Trudeau government. Trudeau and his intellectual advisors in the PMO held Chrétien in contempt as someone who spoke French with a working class accent and whose manners were unpolished, but they appreciated his toughness and ability to get things done. Chrétien's most notable achievement at Indian Affairs was the 1969 White Paper, a proposal to abolish the Indian Act.[37] The paper was widely opposed by First Nations groups, and later abandoned. It was the 1969 White Paper that first brought Chrétien to widespread public attention in English Canada.
- Former prime minister Jean Chrétien is receiving treatment for a kidney stone in Hong Kong after falling ill there, says a spokesman. Chrétien, 85, was scheduled to speak at the U.S.-China Trade and Economic Relations Forum in Hong Kong Tuesday. Chrétien was prime minister from 1993 to 2003. Expanding trade with China was a theme of Chrétien's time in office and he's continued working on business links between China and North America since his return to private life.https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chretien-hospital-hong-kong-1.5205103
- The Canada–Quebec Accord is a legal agreement concerning immigration issues between the federal government of Canada and the Province of Quebec. The broad accord signed in 1991 preceded similar agreements with other provinces including British Columbia and Manitoba. The arrangement gives Quebec the exclusive responsibility of choosing immigrants and refugees still living in their own countries but wishing to relocate to the province. Selected applicants are issued a "certificat de sélection du Québec". Immigrants who settle also can be required by Québec's provincial government, to send their children to French-language schools. Citizenship and Immigration Canada issues the actual visa after background and health verifications. The provinces also have agreements with the federal government in that they can nominate individuals for immigration purposes, similar to the way Quebec does.
- after french revoluttion, wealthy french fled to quebec, preserving the traditional french language
- https://www.quora.com/Where-specifically-in-Quebec-do-the-highest-percentage-of-people-speak-only-French-and-no-English The least bilingual region of Québec would be the Bas-Saint-Laurent (more commonly called Bas du Fleuve historically).
- muslim
- Residents in Saint-Apollinaire, Que., have rejected a proposal to open a Muslim-run cemetery in their town, dealing a setback to a Muslim community still recovering from a tragic mass shooting six months ago. The fate of the contentious cemetery project rested in the hands of only 49 eligible voters, and in the end, only 36 turned out to cast ballots. In a referendum on a zoning change that would have allowed the burial ground, 16 people voted Yes and 19 voted No; one ballot was spoiled. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-town-rejects-plan-to-build-muslim-cemetery-in-narrow-vote/article35704826/
- 88 % of the hispanophones in Québec end up knowing French, which is one of the most successful rates. It's plausible to think that nearly all those people also know English. This is one of the factors that make hispanophones quite appreciated in Québec. There is also a surprising number of Colombians thqt learned French in Colombia before coming, as it's a popular third language to acquire. Castilian (Spanish) is also a popular third language in Québec, so there exist a pool of people for mutual practice.https://www.quora.com/Do-Hispanics-in-Montr%C3%A9al-as-well-as-the-rest-of-Qu%C3%A9bec-get-themselves-to-become-at-least-trilingual-in-French-English-and-Spanish
- https://www.quora.com/Are-there-people-in-Quebec-who-only-speak-French-and-cannot-speak-English
- china
- http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1761350/exclusive-chinese-millionaires-appear-be-deserting-quebecs-immigrant
Saskatoon
- Canadian city of Saskatoon woos Chinese investors after Ottawa snub http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1438213/canadian-city-saskatoon-woos-chinese-investors-after-ottawa-snub
Saskatchewan
- company
- Potash corp (fertilizer, animal feed)
schools
- Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is a private, previously Jesuit French-language educational institution offering secondary school and college-level instruction in Montreal, Quebec. It is a co-ed establishment for students in their final year of secondary school and in college. It was boys-only for the first four years of secondary school. It retains a dress code, but no specific uniform.Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is commonly seen as one of the foremost schools in Canada and in Quebec, and it has the first place in the Fraser Institute School Ranking as of 2016. With alumni Pierre Trudeau and Justin Trudeau, Brebeuf is the secondary education institution that has produced the most Canadian Prime ministers in the country. It also was the alma mater of Quebec Premiers Robert Bourassa and Pierre-Marc Johnson, and of Leaders of the Official Opposition of Quebec such as Gérard Levesque, André Boisclair and Pierre-Karl Péladeau.Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf was founded by the Jesuits in 1928. The school has been secular since 1986. The college was named after Catholic missionary and martyr Jean de Brébeuf. The college traces its origins to the merger of several institutions which became public ones in 1967, when the Quebec system of public colleges was created.
- montcrest school
- founded in 1961; in toronto
- duke of york visited in may 2019
university
- McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1821 by royal charter, granted by King George IV. The University bears the name of James McGill, a Montreal merchant originally from Scotland whose bequest in 1813 formed the university's precursor, McGill College.
- Ryerson University (commonly referred to as Ryerson) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1852, at the core of the present main campus, the historic St. James Square, Egerton Ryersonfounded Ontario's first teacher training facility, the Toronto Normal School. It also housed the Department of Education and the Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts, which became the Royal Ontario Museum. An agricultural laboratory on the site led to the founding of the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Guelph. St. James Square went through various other educational uses before housing a namesake of its original founder.In June 2001, the school assumed its name as Ryerson University.
Trade and invesyment environment
- wto
- Canada has filed an expansive complaint with the World Trade Organization accusing the US of breaking international trade rules. The complaint challenges the ways that the US investigates products for subsidies and below-cost sales. The US called the claims "unfounded". The action comes amid disputes between the two countries over areas such as dairy, aircraft sales and lumber as well as efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada's 32-page complaint cites US investigations of products from countries around the world, with decisions that date back to 1996. Among other charges, Canada says the US improperly calculates rates and restricts parties from presenting evidence to defend themselves, with a cut-off for supplying information that comes too early in the process.It also accuses the US International Trade Commission of being biased since disputes over which the body's six commissioners are evenly divided automatically result in a finding for the US. Eric Miller, president of the Rideau Potomac Strategy Group, which consults on North American trade issues, said the scope of the filing is "unprecedented". "It is global, it is over many years, it is systematic and so this is something that certainly, in the realm of WTO cases, is outside the norm in terms of its reach and its ambition," he said. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42639459
- Notice of employment opportunities for canadian rep at apec abac 8dec17http://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/appointments-nominations/notices-avis/2017-12-08-abac.aspx?lang=eng
- internal trade
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21702495-country-far-being-single-market-may-be-about-change-great-provincial
- low cost airline
- Bill Franke, co-founder and managing partner of Indigo Partners LLC, said Canada’s limits on foreign ownership are a “turnoff” and he wouldn’t consider investing here until those restrictions are eased. A recent review of the Canada Transportation Act concluded that the 25-per-cent foreign ownership limit “is a barrier to entry” for new airlines. Vancouver-based Jetlines wants to sell up to 49 per cent of the company to foreigners and has petitioned Transport Minister Marc Garneau for an exemption from the rule. http://business.financialpost.com/news/transportation/why-an-ultra-low-cost-airline-cant-get-off-the-ground-in-canada
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/canada-said-to-prepare-steel-quotas-tariffs-on-china-others The Canadian government is preparing new measures to prevent a potential flood of steel imports from global producers seeking to avoid U.S. tariffs, according to people familiar with the plans. The Canadian dollar weakened and shares in Stelco Holdings Inc. soared. The measures are said to be a combination of quotas and tariffs aimed at certain countries including China, said the people, asking not to be identified because the matter isn’t public. The moves follow similar “safeguard” measures being considered by the European Union aimed at warding off steel that might otherwise have been sent to the U.S. It comes alongside Canadian counter-tariffs on U.S. steel, aluminum and other products set to kick in on July 1.
- cannabis
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/28/canada-expected-legalise-cannabis-july-2018/
- 加拿大國會參議院今年六月通過一項修訂法案，將消閒用大麻合法化，再交由加拿大總督批准。加拿大定於當地時間周五正式立法，消閒用大麻合法化後，如何付諸實行則留待十個省和三個地區自行訂定。多地已表明不會全面執行，其中馬尼托巴省和魁北克省更會上訴。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20181013/00180_030.html
Industry
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21641288-growth-shifting-oil-producing-west-back-traditional-economic-heartland Growth is shifting from the oil-producing west back to the traditional economic heartland. Political power could shift with it This shift in economic bragging rights has given a lift to the Liberal Party, which governs some of the perkier provinces and holds a narrow lead over the Conservatives in national opinion polls. Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s Liberal premier, has cheekily offered to help devise a national energy strategy, tramping into Alberta’s bailiwick. The finance minister of Liberal-led Quebec credits low oil prices with helping him balance the province’s budget (while Alberta faces a C$7 billion, or $5.6 billion, revenue drop). This jauntiness, less than a year away from the next general election, is unlikely to please the petroleum-spattered prime minister. To counter it, Mr Harper will remind voters incessantly during the forthcoming campaign that Canada emerged faster than other members of the G7 club of big economies from the 2008 financial crisis, with its banking system intact.
- financial
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20170510/00202_025.html 加拿大最大非銀行按揭貸款商Home Capital Group（HCG）早前因按揭違規活動遭監管機構控告，觸發存戶擠提，財政狀況不斷惡化，外界擔心恐導致熾熱的加國樓市爆煲。貝萊德更警告，危機不排除 擴散至當地整體經濟，但可以肯定，事件令已經十分疲弱的加元雪上加霜。
- oil
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/buffett-follows-goldman-model-in-bailout-for-home-capital Warren Buffett has become the lender of last resort for Home Capital Group Inc. The billionaire investor agreed to buy shares at a deep discount and provide a fresh credit line for the Canadian mortgage company, tapping a formula he used to prop up lenders from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Bank of America Corp.
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2834e3c-7c62-11e5-98fb-5a6d4728f74e.html Companies producing crude in the oil sands of western Canada are being constrained from growing any further by a shortage of pipeline capacity to ship oil out of the region. Uncertainty over routes to market for any increased production has become an additional deterrent to investment in the oil sands, compounding the effect of the slump in oil prices, according to environmental campaigners, who want to stop the region’s production growing. Campaigners have long criticised Alberta’s oil sands, which generate more greenhouse gas emissions than some conventional oil and gas sites due to the extra energy required to extract and process the heavy crude. As President Barack Obama’s administration continues to procrastinate over a decision on whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL project to take diluted heavy oil from Alberta to the US, other planned export routes out of the province are also facing delays and political obstruction in Canada. Rail transport, the other option for transporting Alberta’s oil, is unattractive while prices are low. After steady growth in Alberta’s oil production, the region’s existing pipeline infrastructure is just about full, and output is still rising, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the industry body. In August, benchmark Western Canadian Select crude fell to only $23 per barrel; less than half the price of internationally traded Brent, in part because of pipeline constraints. The strain on pipeline capacity is analysed in a report published on Tuesday by a campaign group called Oil Change International, with backing from leading North American environmental groups including the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and 350.org.
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7613d9d4-7bec-11e5-a1fe-567b37f80b64.html Justin Trudeau’s rise to power has met with anxiety in Canada’s beleaguered oil industry, where the legacy of his father’s controversial energy policy still incites “riots at cocktail parties”.
As many Canadians expressed hope for the future after Mr Trudeau’s Liberals sealed a remarkable election win, oil executives face the end of nearly a decade of oil-friendly Conservative power under Stephen Harper, who had vowed to make Canada an “energy superpower”. - http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/columnist/%E5%B7%A6%E4%B8%81%E5%B1%B1/art/20151116/19374167 出生於12月25日聖誕節嘅杜魯多，下個月就43歲，係天主教徒，如果佢聽到香港天主教大主教湯漢之言，唔暈低都幾難，湯主教夠膽就去多倫多講一次。43歲做首相，自然充滿理想，杜魯多話要正視氣候轉變，自由平等，男女同權，同志平權等等。偏偏加拿大經濟幾倚重能源發展，仲係開採地下油田，油沙㖭，絕對係環保團體憎惡嘅事物。之前十年，保守黨總理夏珀極力支持石油業興建一條Keystone XL Pipeline，由阿爾拔泰省南部一直伸延至墨西哥灣德州海岸，現時已有Keystone XL Pipeline由阿爾拔泰去到奧克拉荷馬嘅嘞，但因為美國環保團體激烈反對，奧巴馬總統又係親環保人士，所以一直唔批准，拖延到上星期，杜魯多正式上台後，白宮正式宣佈否決興建之議，令石油界及共和黨大失所望，如果要再搞，要有共和黨人做總統先至有得傾。冇咗Keystone XL Pipeline，加上杜魯多不重視石化燃料業，加拿大經濟有何影響，要下回分解。美國環保團體高呼勝利之際，美國有個網站踢爆，大富豪畢菲特嘅巴郡係Burlington Northern Santa Fe（BNSF）嘅大股東，呢間火車公司佔加拿大運往德州嘅石油載運市場八成，每桶石油運費收30美元，而Keystone XL Pipeline只收10美元，故此如果輸油管起得成，畢菲特會損失慘重。畢菲特平時支持奧巴馬支持民主黨，捐款好大方，現在收回紅利嘞！政治與環保遊戲，通常係由金錢支撐。
- https://www.ft.com/content/8e7e9c72-b6c2-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62 Two pipeline projects that could increase Canada’s crude oil export capacity by almost 1m barrels a day have been approved by the country’s government, opening the way for potential growth in production in Alberta’s oil sands. The federal government has approved projects on two existing pipelines running out of the province of Alberta: Kinder Morgan’s C$6.8bn addition of an extra line alongside its Trans Mountain route to the port of Burnaby, near Vancouver, and Enbridge’s C$4.8bn upgrade of Line 3 to Wisconsin in the US.
- http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN14V2OO British Columbia on Wednesday gave the green light to Kinder Morgan Inc's plan to nearly triple its Trans Mountain oil pipeline, which runs from Canada's oil sands through the province to a marine terminal on the Pacific Coast.
- http://www.economist.com/news/business/21633871-government-promises-keep-promoting-miners-and-energy-firms-interests-abroad-if-they
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21690096-indigenous-groups-are-suing-loggers-miners-and-pipeline-builders-ill-see-you-court These days Canada’s aboriginal groups use public pressure, backed by legal action, to protect their lands against exploitation by outsiders. This month the government of British Columbia reached agreement with forest companies, environmental groups and 26 First Nations communities to protect from logging an area on the Pacific coast larger than Belgium—newly dubbed the Great Bear Rainforest. The deal, which allows logging and mining in areas aboriginals have agreed to, is the culmination of a long public-relations campaign (choosing the Kermode bear as its mascot was a masterstroke). It would have got nowhere without centuries of treaty-making and decades of case law to back it up.
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-energy-coal-idUSKBN13G1EK Canada will speed up plans to virtually eliminate traditional coal-fired electricity by 2030, the government said on Monday, a stance contrasting sharply with that of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to revive the sector.
- maple syrup
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21710014-mobsters-take-quebecs-maple-monopoly-syrup-and-sin
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/aurora-cannabis-to-buy-medreleaf-for-2-5-billion-as-laws-ease Consolidation in Canada’s nascent marijuana industry is heating up, with two of the largest players agreeing to the biggest merger seen so far in the sector. Aurora Cannabis Inc. agreed to buy rival MedReleaf Corp. for about C$2.9 billion ($2.2 billion) in stock, the companies said Monday in a statement. The deal will create a producer with the capacity to grow 570,000 kilos (1.26 million pounds) a year of cannabis at nine facilities in Canada and two in Denmark. The merged company will also have distribution networks at home as well as in Europe, South America and Australia. Canadian marijuana growers are racing to gain market share as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushes to legalize recreational use this year. Aurora is leading the effort to consolidate the industry, having acquired more than 10 targets in the past two years.
- https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2170521/ganja-gap-after-marijuana-legalisation-asian-canadians-tread-cultural
- scmp 30oct18 "chinese in canada are warned to stay off pots"
politics
- trudeau govt reshuffle
- https://www.ft.com/content/e0064246-d758-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e Justin Trudeau, Canadian prime minister, is refashioning his government to prepare for the incoming Trump administration, appointing a new foreign minister to help forestall disruption to his country’s vital trading relationship with the US. Chrystia Freeland, who as trade minister secured a trade deal with the EU after fraught negotiations, will be promoted to Canada’s top diplomatic job as part of a broad reshuffle, Mr Trudeau confirmed on Tuesday. While much of Donald Trump’s anti-globalisation rhetoric has been aimed at China and Mexico, his election victory has spooked Ottawa with some observers depicting his administration as a threat to Canada’s economy, which relies heavily on the US for exports. Mr Trump has frequently stated his desire to renegotiate or pull out of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which links Canada, the US and Mexico. Ms Freeland had been touted as the right person for dealing with the Trump team given her trade experience and US contacts. A former Financial Times journalist with experience in Moscow, London and New York, she wrote a book in 2012 on the rise of the global super rich. She has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, who barred her from entering Russia in 2014 in retaliation for Canadian sanctions on the country over the annexation of Crimea.
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/01/12/a15-0112.pdf加拿大總理杜魯多10日宣佈更換6名部長，最引人注目的是現任國際貿易部長弗里蘭將擔任外交部長，自由黨老將、現任移民、難民和公民身份部長麥卡勒姆將出任加拿大駐中國大使。麥卡勒姆於去年8月訪問北京，成功爭取在中國開設更多簽證申請中心，強調加國希望吸引更多的中國學生、遊客和臨時勞工前往加拿大。http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2061201/canadas-pm-trudeau-picks-russia-critic-chrystia Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has picked a Russia critic as the country’s new top diplomat on Tuesday to work with the incoming US Trump administration and handle potentially fraught trade challenges.
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50494869 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled his new cabinet with former Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland now tasked with handling Canada's internal divisions.His government faces the threat of a national unity crisis amid a growing sense of alienation in Alberta and Saskatchewan.His Liberal Party retained power in October's election but lost 20 seats.Mr Trudeau now has the challenge of governing with a minority.Speaking after the swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, the prime minister praised Ms Freeland's work on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement with the US and Mexico.The former journalist, 51, was moved to intergovernmental affairs, and will now act as the government's point person to deal with the provinces.She was also named deputy prime minister and will help shepherd the trade agreement through the ratification process, which is facing resistance in the US Congress.Mr Trudeau said their efforts together on "very difficult negotiation with her American counterparts should enable us to deliver on issues like energy and environment in particular".The Liberals were shut out of Canada's energy heartland, Alberta and Saskatchewan, where there is growing talk of separation.
- trudeau governance
- 唯一華裔閣員、香港移民伍鳳儀繼續獲任命為小型企業及出口促進部部長。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191122/00180_014.html
- Prince Shah Karim Al Husseini, leader of the world's Ismaili Muslims, owner of a private island in the Bahamas and chairman of the board for the Global Centre for Pluralism, an institution in Ottawa to which the federal government pledged a $15-million grant in July 2015. It is a combination of that grant, that island and the Trudeau family's use of a private helicopter to access the island that has resulted in the prime minister being found to have violated sections 5, 11, 12 and 21 of the Conflict of Interest Act.http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-aga-khan-ethics-island-analysis-wherry-1.4458606
- One of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's top ministers has quit saying she has lost confidence in the government's handling of a corruption inquiry. Treasury Board President Jane Philpott said: "I must abide by my core values, my ethical responsibilities, constitutional obligations." Mr Trudeau said he was disappointed by the resignation, but understood it. He has denied political meddling to shield engineering firm SNC-Lavalin from a bribery trial.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47447976
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- The Liberal government has spent the last week rolling out a new foreign policy. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland gave an overarching speech that positioned Canada as a champion of the global multilateral order that is under attack from the Donald Trump administration in the U.S., and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan spoke to increasing defence spending over two decades. On Friday, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau outlined the country's future direction on foreign aid. Here are five things about Canada's busy week in foreign affairs:1. Freeland says Canada will make its diversity an example to the world and that it will stand up for the persecuted and the downtrodden. She says Canada will "set a standard" for how women, gays and lesbians, transgendered people, racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious minorities and indigenous people are treated in the world.2. Because the U.S. has chosen to "shrug off the burden" of being a world leader, Canada will work with other "like-minded" countries to protect international institutions such as the United Nations, NATO and the World Trade Organization, Freeland said3. Sajjan said the government is committed to a $62-billion increase in defence spending over the next 20 years. The military will add 3,500 regular force troops and 1,500 reservists, while buying 15 new warships, 88 new fighter jets and armed drone aircraft capable of unmanned air strikes.4. Bibeau said Canada's new "feminist" international development strategy will reorient plans so Canada can fight poverty in the world by focusing on women and girls. But for now, Canada won't add new money to its $5.3 billion annual development budget.5. She said the new policy, a result of consulting 15,000 people in 65 countries, has three core elements: preserving human dignity, empowering women and girls, helping local communities thrive. http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/five-things-about-canada-s-rollout-of-a-new-foreign-policy-this-week-1.3451750
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- Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC CC CH QC FRSC (/truːˈdoʊ/; French: [tʁydo]; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), often referred to by the initials PET,[1][2][3] was a Canadian statesman who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979 and 1980–1984). He is the third longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history (behind William Lyon Mackenzie King and John A. Macdonald), having served for 15 years, 164 days. Trudeau rose to prominence as a lawyer, intellectual, and activist in Quebec politics. In the 1960s he entered federal politics by joining the Liberal Party of Canada. He was appointed as Lester B. Pearson's Parliamentary Secretary and later became his Minister of Justice. Trudeau became a media sensation, inspiring "Trudeaumania", and took charge of the Liberals in 1968. From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, his personality dominated the political scene to an extent never before seen in Canadian political life. Despite his personal motto, "Reason before passion",[4] his personality and political career aroused polarizing reactions throughout Canada. Admirers praise what they consider to be the force of Trudeau's intellect[5] and his political acumen, maintaining national unity over the Quebec sovereignty movement, suppressing a Quebec terrorist crisis, fostering a pan-Canadian identity, and in achieving sweeping institutional reform, including the implementation of official bilingualism, patriation of the Constitution, and the establishment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[6] Critics accuse him of arrogance, of economic mismanagement, and of unduly centralizing Canadian decision-making to the detriment of the culture of Quebec and the economy of the Prairies.[7]He retired from politics in 1984, and John Turner succeeded him. His eldest son, Justin Trudeau, became the 23rd and current Prime Minister as a result of the 2015 federal election and is the first prime minister of Canada to be related to a former prime minister.The Trudeau family can be traced to Marcillac-Lanville in France in the 16th century and to a Robert Truteau (1544–1589).[8][9] In 1659 the first Trudeau to arrive in Canada was Étienne Trudeau or Truteau (1641–1712), a carpenter and home builder from La Rochelle. Pierre Trudeau was born at home at 5779 Durocher Avenue, Outremont, Montreal, on October 18, 1919,[11] to Charles-Émile "Charley" Trudeau, a French-Canadian businessman and lawyer, and Grace Elliott, who was of mixed Scottish and French-Canadian descent. He had an older sister named Suzette and a younger brother named Charles Jr.; he remained close to both siblings for his entire life. The family had become quite wealthy by the time Trudeau was in his teens, as his father sold his prosperous gas station business to Imperial Oil.[12] Trudeau attended the prestigious Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (a private French Jesuit school), where he supported Quebec nationalism. Trudeau's father died when Pierre was 15 years old. This death hit him and the family very hard emotionally. Trudeau remained very close to his mother for the rest of her life.
- Margaret Joan Trudeau (née Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian author, actress, photographer, former television talk show hostess, and social advocate for people with bipolar disorder. She is the former wife of Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada; and is the mother of Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and his brothers Alexandre and Michel. In 2013, Trudeau was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario in recognition of her work to combat mental illness.Trudeau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the daughter of Scottish-born James "Jimmy" Sinclair, a former Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Doris Kathleen (Bernard) Sinclair. Her grandmother, Rose Edith (Ivens) Bernard, with whom Trudeau had an especially close relationship, lived in Roberts Creek, British Columbia in later life, and was originally from Virden, Manitoba. Her grandfather, Thomas Kirkpatrick Bernard, was born in Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia, and immigrated in 1906 at age 15 with his family to Penticton, British Columbia, eventually working as a payroll clerk for Canadian Pacific Railway. The Bernards were the descendants of colonists in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, including Francis James Bernard, a London, England-born Anglo-Irishman whose own great-grandfather, Arthur Bernard, was a member of the Irish House of Commons for Bandonbridge, and brother of Francis Bernard, Solicitor-General for Ireland, and ancestor of the Earls of Bandon.[4][5] Francis James Bernard was the founder of the first Singapore Police Force in 1819, The Singapore Chronicle, the first newspaper in Singapore, was established with Bernard as owner, publisher and editor in 1824[6] and he opened up Katong, now a densely populated residential enclave, by being the first to cultivate a coconut estate there in 1823. Bernard had married Margaret Trudeau's 3rd great-grandmother, Esther Farquhar in 1818, the eldest daughter of Scotsman William Farquhar, a colonial leader in the founding of modern Singapore, by Farquhar's first wife, Antoinette "Nonio" Clement, daughter of a French father and an ethnic Malaccan mother. Another great-grandmother, Cornelia Louisa Intveld, married in 1822 to Royal Navy officer and merchant, William Purvis, from Dalgety Bay, Scotland, and a first cousin of American abolitionist Robert Purvis, who was a noted fine soprano and a beauty of her era. Upon glimpsing her across the auditorium at the opera in London, England, British King William IV sent his equerry to invite her to his box. When she refused, the King sent the equerry back just to ask her name. Intveld was born in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, where her father, who came from humble beginnings in Hellevoetsluis, South Holland, rose up through the Dutch East India Company to become the Dutch Resident of Padang. Her maternal grandmother was an Ono Niha ranee (a term that covered every rank from chieftain's daughter to princess) who married a prominent Dutch colonial official and merchant. Acclaimed British harpsichordist, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, and Hawaiian settler, Edward William Purvis, who according to popular belief was the namesake of the ukulele, are Margaret Trudeau's first cousins, three times removed.[10] Trudeau explored her mother's family's roots in Singapore during an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?. Trudeau's family moved to a large house in Rockcliffe Park, Ontario in 1952 when her father was appointed to the Cabinet, and she attended Rockcliffe Park Public School[12] although they returned to North Vancouver after he lost his re-election bid in 1958. She attended Hamilton Junior Secondary School and Delbrook Senior Secondary School in North Vancouver. Trudeau graduated in 1969 from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.
- Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP (/ˈtrʊdoʊ/; French: [ʒystɛ̃ tʁydo]; born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada since 2015 and Leader of the Liberal Party since 2013. Trudeau is the second-youngest Canadian Prime Minister, after Joe Clark. He is the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, and the first to be related to a previous holder of the post. Born in Ottawa, Trudeau attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and graduated from McGill University in 1994 and the University of British Columbia in 1998. He gained a high public profile in October 2000, when he delivered a eulogy at his father's state funeral. After graduating, he worked as a teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia. He completed one year of an engineering program at Montreal's École Polytechnique, from 2002 to 2003, and one year of a master's program in environmental geography at McGill University, from 2004 to 2005. He used his public profile to advocate for various causes and acted in the 2007 TV miniseries The Great War. In the 2008 federal election, he was elected to represent the riding of Papineau in the House of Commons. In 2009, he was appointed the Liberal Party's critic for youth and multiculturalism, and the following year, became critic for citizenship and immigration. In 2011, he was appointed as critic for secondary education and youth and amateur sport. Trudeau won the leadership of the Liberal Party in April 2013 and went on to lead his party to victory in the 2015 federal election, moving the 3rd-placed Liberals from 36 seats to 184 seats, the largest-ever numerical increase by a party in a Canadian general election.
- https://globalnews.ca/news/4032280/justin-trudeau-is-not-fidel-castro-son/On July 23, 1971, the Prime Minister's office had announced that Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's wife of four months, the former Margaret Sinclair, was pregnant and due in December.
- https://www.quora.com/Is-French-Trudeaus-first-language
- from canadian heraldry register http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?lan=eng&id=2
- cross patoncé (like that of lord nelson's)
- Godfrey McCance GRANSDEN http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=211&ProjectElementID=757
- John Chiu http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=71&ProjectElementID=252
- Tyler Brule - editor of monocle
- michael de jong
- https://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/40thparl/dejong-Michael.htm Michael de Jong was re-elected in 2013 as the MLA for Abbotsford West, an area he has represented since first being elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in a 1994 by-election. Michael was reappointed as Minister of Finance on June 10, 2013.
- http://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1647312/british-columbia-eyes-yuan-hub-china-trade-grows
- Sir John Alexander Macdonald (11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891). The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the British North America Act and the birth of Canada as a nation on 1 July 1867. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of the new nation, and served 19 years; only William Lyon Mackenzie King served longer. In 1873, he resigned from office over the Pacific Scandal, in which his party took bribes from businessmen seeking the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. However, he was re-elected in 1878, continuing until he died in office in 1891. Macdonald's greatest achievements were building and guiding a successful national government for the new Dominion, using patronage to forge a strong Conservative Party, promoting the protective tariff of the National Policy, and completing the railway. He fought to block provincial efforts to take power back from the national government in Ottawa. His most controversial move was to approve the execution of Métis leader Louis Riel for treason in 1885; it alienated many francophones from his Conservative Party. He died in 1891, still in office; he is respected today for his key role in the formation of Canada.
- John Alexander Macdonald was born in Ramshorn parish in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 10th (official record) or 11 January (father's journal) 1815. [a][b][2] His father was named Hugh, an unsuccessful merchant, who had married John's mother, Helen Shaw, on 21 October 1811.[3] John Alexander Macdonald was the third of five children. After Hugh's business ventures left him in debt, the family immigrated to Kingston, in Upper Canada (today the southern and eastern portions of Ontario), in 1820, where there were already a number of relatives and connections.
- James McGill (October 6, 1744 – December 19, 1813) was a Scottish businessman and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University, Montreal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal West in 1792 and was appointed to the Executive Council of Lower Canada in 1793. He was the honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Battalion, Montreal Militia, a predecessor unit of The Canadian Grenadier Guards. He was also a prominent member of the Château Clique and one of the original founding members of the Beaver Club. His summer home stood within the Golden Square Mile.The McGill family originated in Ayrshireand had been living in Glasgow for two generations by the time James was born at the family home on Stockwell Street. The McGills were metalworkers and, from 1715 onward, burgesses of the city and members of the Hammermen's Guild, James' father having served as deacon.
- Leonard cohen
- Jane Philpott PC MP (born November 23, 1960) is a Canadian politician and physician who represents the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. A member of the Liberal Party, Philpott was first elected in the 2015 federal election and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015. On March 4, 2019, Philpott resigned from her cabinet position as President of the Treasury Board over the SNC-Lavalin scandal. Prior to entering politics, Philpott was a family physician known for promoting medical education in Africa, HIV/AIDS fundraising, refugee advocacy, and her work on the social determinants of health.
- The Ghermezian family is a Persian Jewish family who have developed several of the world's largest shopping malls.The patriarch of the family, Jacob Ghermezian, (1902 – January 3, 2000)[1] moved from Iran to Canada with his four sons in 1964.[2] The four sons, Eskandar, Nader, Raphael and Bahman, grew the family rug business into a large real estate and construction company.The family's estates include the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta and the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.
https://www.ft.com/content/e58eb93e-f5da-11e9-a79c-bc9acae3b654
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- Harjit Singh Sajjan PC OMM MSM CD MP (born September 6, 1970) is a Canadian Liberal politician, the current Minister of National Defence and a Member of Parliament representing the riding of Vancouver South. He is the first Sikh to become Minister of Defence. Sajjan was first elected during the 2015 federal election, defeating Conservative incumbent MP Wai Young, and was sworn as defence minister into the Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015. Before politics, Sajjan was a detective investigating gangs for the Vancouver Police Department and a regimental commander in theCanadian Armed Forces decorated for his service in Afghanistan. Sajjan was also the first Sikh-Canadian to command a Canadian Army reserve regiment.Harjit Singh Sajjan was born on September 6, 1970[2] in Bombeli, a village in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab, India. Sajjan's father, Kundan Sajjan, was aHead constable with the Punjab Police in India, and is currently a member of the World Sikh Organization (WSO), a Sikh advocacy group. Harjit Singh, along with his mother and older sister, emigrated to Canada in 1976, when he was five years old, to join their father who had left for British Columbia two years earlier to work at a sawmill.
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- At issue is the defence minister's odd boast that he was "the architect" of Operation Medusa, a significant offensive conducted during the war in Afghanistan. Sajjan's military record is already celebrated, honoured even in thepages of a comic book. His contribution to Medusa, in particular, has been touted by a leading general. A defence minister's preening is generally limited to posing in cockpits and such. But Sajjan's military credentials were also not obviously in need of buffing. What's more, it is not the first time he has described himself as such. And in the first case, from 2015, he credited the description of his role to Gen. Jonathan Vance, the current chief of defence staff. Vance has not backed up the minister's assessment, though he did issue a statement saying he considers the matter closed now that Sajjan has apologized. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-harjit-sajjan-question-period-1.4094123
- https://beta.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2176789/actress-sandra-oh-korean-canadian-los-angeleno-will
- china linked
- Chester Alvin Ronning, CC AOE (December 13, 1894 – December 31, 1984) was a Canadiandiplomat and politician.Ronning was born in Fancheng, now Xiangzhou Hubei province China, the son of Norwegian American Lutheranmissionaries, and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1916 with a B.Sc.. Ronning's family moved from China to the Peace River country of Alberta. Halvor Ronning, Chester's father was instrumental in establishing a Norwegian settlement north-west of Grande Prairie called Valhalla Centre. When Chester Ronning started his studies at the University of Alberta, he travelled by horse from Valhalla Centre to Edmonton along the Edson Trail. This was the only "road" connecting the Peace country to the provincial capital. In later years the Northern Alberta Railway (now part of Canadian National Railway) was constructed. He returned to China to serve as a missionary from 1922 to 1927 and then returned to Alberta where he took up a position as Principal of the Camrose Lutheran College.
- John McCallum PC (born April 9, 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist, university professor and diplomat and a former Liberal Member of Parliament(MP) from the 2000 election until February 1, 2017 when he was appointed Canadian Ambassador to China, which was announced on January 10, 2017. His credentials were accepted by Xi Jinping on March 18, 2017 [1] He represented Markham—Thornhill, and has previously represented Markham—Unionville and Markham. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, and was until 10 January 2017 the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.McCallum was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Joan (Patteson) and Alexander Campbell McCallum. He received his secondary education at Selwyn House School and Trinity College School. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens' College, Cambridge University, a diplôme d'études supérieuresfrom Université de Paris and a Doctorate in economics from McGill University. He was a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba from 1976 until 1978, Simon Fraser University from 1978 until 1982, the Université du Québec à Montréal from 1982 until 1987, and McGill University from 1987 until 1994. He is an honorary member of the Royal Military College of Canada, student #S139. He was also Dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University. He then became Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the Royal Bank of Canada.He is married to Nancy Lim and has three sons. http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170508/PDF/a5_screen.pdf。麥家廉的妻 子林秀英是華裔，兩人育有三子。
- taiwan linked
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170513/00180_016.html加拿大卑詩省周二舉行議會選舉，五名有份角逐、祖籍台灣的女將中，三位同屬新民主黨的女士順利當選，並成為當地首批來自台灣的華裔議員新民主黨的康安禮代表伯納比市鹿湖區出戰，她在議員生涯中，以環境、青少年教育、新移民和社會穩定議題為主打，獲得不少選民支持。為一子之母的陳葦蓁在伯納比市洛歇區出選，她專攻領域也是青少年教育和新移民，與當地台灣社群互動相當密切，故此獲得不少當地台灣人的票。在北溫哥華蘭斯代爾區出選的馬博文，則專攻人權和社會議題，不僅是名工程師，也是溫哥華機場的營運經理，過去還曾是加拿大皇家陸軍駐育空地區的地理探測人員。
- Vivienne Poy (née Lee; Chinese: 利德蕙; pinyin: Lì Déhuì; Jyutping: Lei6 Dak1-Wai6; Cantonese Yale: Leih Dāk-Waih; born May 15, 1941) is a Canadian businesswoman, author and philanthropist.[1] She served as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1998 until her retirement in 2012. On May 15, 1941, Poy was born in British Hong Kong. She is the daughter of Richard Charles Lee (利銘澤; Cantonese: Lee Ming-Chak, Pinyin: Lì Míngzé) and Esther Yiu Pik Huang(黃瑤璧; Cantonese: Wong Yiu-Pik, Pinyin: Huáng Yáobì). Poy's paternal grandfather was Hysan Lee, who was tied to the Hong Kong opium refinery business and also land development in the early 1900s. In 1959, Poy was a student in Canada. She is a graduate of St. Paul's Co-educational College(in Hong Kong), McGill University, Seneca College and the University of Toronto.Poy is the first Canadian senator of Asian ancestry. For 14 years, Poy served as president of Vivienne Poy Mode, a fashiondesign company that she founded in 1981. She was selected as Chancellor of the University of Toronto in December 2002 and served until 2006.Poy's husband is Dr. Neville Poy, a retired plastic surgeon, and they have 3 sons. Poy's sister-in-law is Adrienne Clarkson, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
- 加拿大總理杜魯多周三調整政府架構，同時任命多名內閣成員，香港移民伍鳳儀（Mary Ng）獲任命為小型企業及出口促進部部長，成為杜魯多內閣首位華人部長。她將協助加拿大企業往海外發展，並主管加拿大商業開發銀行。香港移民陳小萍曾在哈珀任總理期間出任耆老事務國務部長，成為加拿大史上首位華人女部長。香港移民陳卓愉在九三年出任外交及國際貿易部亞太事務部部長，成為加拿大首位華裔內閣成員。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180720/00180_006.html
- chinese as spouse
- scmp 22sep18 "hk born canadian minister aims to boost ties"
- John McCallum PC (Chinese: 麥家廉, born April 9, 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist, university professor and diplomat. A former Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), McCallum is the current Canadian Ambassador to China. As an MP, he represented the electoral district of Markham—Thornhill, and has previously represented Markham—Unionville and Markham. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
A veteran federal politician who began his political career in 2000, McCallum has served in the governments of Liberal prime ministers Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, and Justin Trudeau. McCallum has previously been Secretary of State (International Financial Institutions), Minister of National Defence, Minister of Veterans Affairs, and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. McCallum was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Joan (Patteson) and Alexander Campbell McCallum.[2] He received his secondary education at Selwyn House School and Trinity College School.[3] He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens' College, Cambridge University, a diplôme d'études supérieures from Université de Paris and a Doctorate in economics from McGill University.In the 10 January 2017 cabinet reshuffle, McCallum stepped down from his post at CIC and was announced as Canada's ambassador to China.- He is married to Nancy Lim and has three sons.
- In January 2019 McCallum spoke to Chinese media in Markham, Ontario, concerning the extradition case of the arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was awaiting court judgement. He made unfavourable reference to US President Trump's political intrusion into the legal process underway in the US, and her likely strong legal defense against extradition given that Trump suggested that her US trial outcome might be influenced by him, for trade concessions by China. McCallum was widely criticised for his own inappropriate political intrusion into the judicial process as an ambassador of the Government of Canada, in a politically sensitive case. Conservative leader Andrew Scheercalled for McCallum's firing. McCallum withdrew his comments, saying he "misspoke" and that they did "not accurately represent [his] position on this issue".
- Adrienne Clarkson The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1942, is one of many successful female immigrants in Canada. She was appointed as Canada’s Governor General from 1999 to 2005. (canada cg in hk facebook)
- Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has appointed Dr. Theresa Tam as Canada’s top doctor, the third person to head the Public Health Agency of Canada since its inception in 2004. Tam had been acting chief public health officer since the retirement of former PHAC chief Dr. Gregory Taylor in December.One of Tam’s challenges will be dealing with the growing opioid crisis that has led to an unprecedented number of overdose deaths in the country. The federal government created PHAC to strengthen the country’s ability to respond to public health threats and disease epidemics such as the 2003 SARS crisis. Dr. David Butler-Jones was the agency’s inaugural chief public health officer.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/top-doctor-theresa-tam-appointed-to-head-public-health-agency-of-canada/article35472115/
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/columnist/陶傑/art/20160616/19655527加拿大政府轄下之安大略省移民及貿易廳長陳國治（洋名Michael Chan），在加拿大英語主流社會一致抨擊中國政府之下，「一士諤諤」，力排眾議，在一份中文報紙發表專文，稱頌中國改革開放之下的巨大成就，人權問題，微不足道，西方不應該懷有「偏見」。
- http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/2020074/could-be-canadas-first-chinese-prime-minister Michael Chong, who wants to be the new leader of Canada’s Conservative Party and the country’s first ethnic Chinese prime minister, says his story starts in Hong Kong.
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/28/leah-mclaren-column-michael-chong-response-canada Canadian MP responds to writer’s ‘odd’ story about trying to breastfeed his baby
- 18歲華裔青年邱敏聖(Vincent Chiu)有更大的理想，就是代表在野綠黨，出戰今屆加國大選的列治文選區。他接受本報專訪時，暢談自己的參選大計和政綱，其中尤其着墨於青年就業問題。他以扶手電梯來比喻就業，指現時電梯停頓了，導致年輕人難以向上游。他表示若自己能夠當選國會議員，期望協助年輕人走上「電梯」，最終讓整個社會順利實現世代更替。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/10/17/a19-1017.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151019/00180_003.html 二十九歲港人移民第二代高境嵐，是少數投身參政的華人。他代表綠黨在安大略省萬錦於人村參選，坦言未必會勝出，但要向執政黨傳遞重視環保的訊息。他認為發展再生能源才能鞏固經濟，批評哈珀政府不重視環保，削減科研經費。
- 今屆加拿大國會大選共有29名華裔候選人參選，當中有6人成功當選，來自湖南的譚耕成為首位晉身國會的中國內地移民，香港移民黃陳小萍和關慧貞，以及港移民第二代陳家諾和莊文浩亦順利勝出。但從當選人數和比率看，華裔候選人的成績卻不及上屆，上屆22名華裔候選人中有7人晉身國會，比率達31%，今屆則只得20.6%。北京出生的譚耕在湖南長大，1988年獲全額獎學金往多倫多大學修讀應用化學，並在當地考獲碩士及博士學位，其後更進入加拿大國家核子試驗室工作，是核電化學專家。今屆大選他代表自由黨出戰安大略省當谷北選區，經歷1年零7個月的苦戰，由起初的困難重重到贏得選民認可，譚耕在前晚的慶功會上感謝家人、朋友和團隊的支持，表示「這是大家的勝利」。譚耕表示，華人社區以往不太熱衷政治，但今次選舉卻非常熱情。談到未來自由黨的對華政策，譚耕指中國是世界上非常重要的國家，加拿大發展對華關係是必然的事，相信在自由黨政府領導下，中加關係會得到很大的改善。今屆大選亦一如以往出現不少香港移民的身影。保守黨老將、港人移民黃陳小萍以400多票險勝前中僑互助會主席、代表自由黨的港人移民胡以鈞，在列治文選區勝出。港移民第二代、48歲的多倫多律師陳家諾為自由黨在斯卡伯勒-愛靜閣選區奪得議席。新民主黨的香港移民關慧貞於溫哥華東選區勝出，是唯一當選的華裔女將。父親為香港移民的莊文浩，則為保守黨贏下惠靈頓-霍爾山選區的議席。此外，隨父母從印度移民加國的自由黨華裔候選人陳聖源，亦於斯卡伯勒南選區勝出。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/10/21/a20-1021.pdf
- 加拿大前日為5個懸空的國會議席舉行補選，執政自由黨與在野保守黨分別保住原有議席，政治版圖未有改變。今次補選增添一名華裔議員，在安大略省萬錦－康山選區，代表自由黨出戰的華裔候選人伍鳳儀成功擊敗對手當選，令眾議院華裔議員增至7人。伍鳳儀幼年隨家人從香港移民加拿大，過去20多年曾在安大略省和聯邦政府任職，參選前是總理杜魯多辦公室的公共主任。她以超過51%的得票率勝出，為自由黨成功保住因麥家廉出任加國駐華大使而留下的空缺。除伍鳳儀外，目前加拿大國會的華裔議員還包括黃陳小萍、關慧貞、莊文浩、陳家諾、陳聖源與譚耕6人。杜魯多選前頻頻為自由黨候選人造勢，其間更罕有地在10天內兩度到訪萬錦的華人社區，力挺伍鳳儀。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/04/05/a16-0405.pdf
- http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1944555/panama-papers-expose-secret-offshore-firms-vancouver-developer-michael vancouver property developer Michael Ching Mo Yeung, who is wanted by China for corruption and hiding illicit assets, was a director and owner of two secret offshore companies set up in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands in the 1990s, according to leaked financial information obtained by the South China Morning Post this week. The wealthy businessman - who is fighting for refugee status in Canada and is the son of late disgraced Hebei governor Cheng Weigao – purchased a “ready made” BVI investment company with three other people in 1995, according to documents from the so-called Panama Papers provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He is identifiable both by name, “Ching Mo Yeung”, and his Hong Kong identity card number, which matches that provided by China in a “wanted” notice last year.
- 關慧貞
- 剛訪問中國和香港的加拿大華裔國會議員關慧貞，發聲明支援因律政司司長袁國強覆核刑期而被判監的16人。http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20170903/20141010
- 生於香港的加拿大華裔國會議員關慧貞，周四在下議院發表聲明，呼籲政府設立南京大屠殺紀念日，是加拿大首次有議員在國會發表同類聲明。政府回應指會積極研究。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171202/00180_028.html
- Caleb Chan is a Hong Kong-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of the International Land Group in San Francisco and of Burrard International Holdings in Vancouver.In 1989, Chan immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia with his father Chan Shun, the founder of the Crocodile Garments Ltd., a Hong Kong garment and textile firm. This firm was later sold to Hong Kong tycoon, Lim Por Yen. Chan graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from UC Berkeley and holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco. Chan made his foray into the business world by overseeing Burraud International Inc. the parent company of GolfBC, which controls nine golf courses in B.C. and five in Hawaii with Kauai Lagoons Golf Club being the most notable. Chan has since then sold his golf holdings in 2007. He also made a name in real estate development first by acquiring a property in Kelowna and since then amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune from various real estate development ventures.
- Victor Chan (Hong Kong, 1945) is a physicist and a Hong-Kong-born Canadian writer. Founder of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, Chan has known the 14th Dalai Lamasince 1972. Co-author with him of two essays, he also wrote a guide of pilgrimage to Tibet. He lives in Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.Victor Chan married East German landscape designer Suzanne Martin around 1994 with whom he had two daughters, Kira and Lina
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alfred-sung/ Alfred Sung, né Sung Wang Moon, fashion designer (b at Shanghai, China 14 Jun 1948). Sung grew up in Hong Kong and later studied couture at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in France. He then moved to New York to attend the Parsons School of Design. In 1980 Sung formed Monaco Group Inc with Joseph and Saul Mimran.
- Relative of 沈澱霞
- https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/a-dynasty-built-on-instinct/article4187359 T&T was started in 1993 by Ms. Lee and her husband, Jack, a real estate developer and food importer, backed by capital from a supplier in Taiwan and an Asian grocer in California.
- Celine tam https://www.instagram.com/p/BHJ-OGiBTnw
- 鑄幣局去年舉行紀念硬幣設計比賽，這項設計是在1萬份參選作品中脫穎而出，設計者是來自卑詩省列治文的香港移民後代夏明德，夏的祖父來自香港，1968年移居加拿大。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/06/21/a23-0621.pdf
- zhou leung chu obitruary singtao 8sep17 a25
- 郭紅
- 加拿大卑詩省列治文市華裔市長候選人郭紅早前捲入賄選醜聞，該市的市政選舉結果周日出爐，郭紅僅獲二千六百票，在六位候選人中位列第四，與市長席位失之交臂。當選市長的律師馬保定（Malcolm Brodie）獲得近三萬票，以遠超四倍的票數拋離次名候選人。郭紅早前涉在華人微信群買票，該市皇家騎警經調查後，表示未有足夠證據落案起訴。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20181023/00180_021.html
monetary policy
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1117c780-3397-11e6-bda0-04585c31b153.html
Canada is exploring the creation of a digital version of its currency as central banks examine whether modern technology can create a new medium of exchange. The Bank of Canada, the country’s central bank, revealed in a private presentation in Calgary on Wednesday that it was working with the country’s biggest banks to develop an electronic version of the Canadian dollar.
Canada is exploring the creation of a digital version of its currency as central banks examine whether modern technology can create a new medium of exchange. The Bank of Canada, the country’s central bank, revealed in a private presentation in Calgary on Wednesday that it was working with the country’s biggest banks to develop an electronic version of the Canadian dollar.
Food
- standard
- canadian organic aquaculture standards http://www.aquaculture.ca/files/organic-standard.php
- http://www.gvm.com.tw/webonly_content_3402_1.html
Immigration policy
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21638191-canada-used-prize-immigrants-who-would-make-good-citizens-now-people-job-offers-have
- http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21642229-how-canada-and-australia-let-regions-sponsor-immigrants-going-where-they-are-wanted
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1919566/citizenship-revamp-new-canadians-no-longer-have-intend-live-canadaWhen Canada’s new Liberal government last week unveiled its sweeping rollback of the ousted Conservatives’ citizenship crackdown, much of the focus was on the decision to remove terrorism as grounds for revoking dual citizenship. But the amendments also carry huge implications for anyone who simply heads back to their country of origin after obtaining a Canadian passport. This modern phenomenon of reverse migration is one that has been thoroughly embraced by tens of thousands Hong Kong and mainland Chinese immigrants alike, to varying degrees of legality. The changes, for the most part, put things back the way they were in 2014.The proposed amendments to the Citizenship Act, unveiled last Thursday, remove the requirement that new citizens must intend to live in Canada after obtaining citizenship. According to the government, the intent-to-reside provision “created concern among some new Canadians, who feared their citizenship could be revoked in the future if they moved outside of Canada”.
- express entry
- http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/express/express-entry.asp
- hket 4dec14 a36, "canada hong kong exchange" volume 13 page 26 and 27
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1658280/exclusive-canada-plans-forensic-audits-millionaire-migrants-finances
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1663520/canada-confirms-new-millionaire-migration-scheme-will-be-tiny-costly-and
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1842688/canadas-new-millionaire-migration-scheme-gets-just-six-applications-snub
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1714514/canada-extends-millionaire-migration-deadline-scheme-appears-flop-rich
- 加拿大早前宣布重開「父母及祖父母團聚移民申請」計劃，並把本年度的計劃改為上月廿八日於網上申請、先搶先得。在開放申請首天，移民局網站即告癱瘓，開放僅僅十一分鐘便滿額，不少民眾在社交網發文，炮轟政府配套有欠公平。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190203/00180_005.html
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160712/00180_019.html 中國人前往加拿大產子的問題備受關注，有加拿大婦女在國會網站發起聯署請願，希望取消外國人在境內產子，自動獲得國籍的政策，請願獲得華裔國會議員支持。該簽名請願於上月十六日由溫哥華女子士達楚克（Kerry Starchuk）發起，目前已收集到逾三千個簽名，將於十月十四日截止後提交國會。華裔國會議員黃陳小萍亦支持聯署。請願信認為外國人在加國產子為納稅人帶來沉重負擔，因為嬰兒不但可享受加拿大福利及免費教育，還可申請親人移民，一同享受免費醫療、養老保險甚至生活保障。據悉，今年有報告指，去年三月至今年三月期間，溫哥華列治文醫院出生的一千九百三十八名嬰兒中，有二百九十五名嬰兒的母親是中國人。
- 加拿大公民法C-6修正案上月在參議院三讀通過，並於當地時間周二正式生效。修正案降低了移民入籍門檻，把六年內住滿四年的規定，縮減至五年內住滿三年。在新法案下，未成年人士亦可以在沒有父母同意的情況下，自行申請入籍加拿大。oriental daily 21jun17
- https://globalnews.ca/news/4397809/canada-immigration-lottery-system/ The Trudeau government is scrapping an unpopular lottery system for immigrants looking to reunite with their parents and grandparents and is increasing the number of sponsorship applications it will accept next year.The changes, which will take effect in 2019, will replace the random selection process for sponsorship applications with a first-come-first-served application process. The so-called lottery system drew criticism when it was introduced last year after many potential sponsors said they felt it was unfair.
- quebec
- The Quebec provincial legislature on Sunday approved a controversial immigration bill that will replace a first-come, first-served standard for accepting migrants with one tied to an applicant’s skills.https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3014746/18000-applications-be-shredded-quebec-approves; The new secularism law, once known as Bill 21, makes it illegal to wear religious symbols at work if you're a public school teacher, a police officer, a judge, a prison guard, a wildlife officer, a Crown prosecutor or if you work as a lawyer for the government. It applies to other jobs too — the full list is here. The legislation also lays out the rules requiring citizens to uncover their faces to receive a public service for identification or security purposes. The immigration law, tabled as Bill 9, allows the government to throw out a backlog of roughly 16,000 skilled immigrant worker applications as the province moves toward a new, merit-based application system. It also lays the groundwork for a Quebec values test that would-be immigrants will need to pass in order to become a permanent resident. (The province needs the go-ahead from the federal government to impose such a test, and neither the Liberal government nor the opposition Conservatives appear keen to co-operate.)https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-religious-symbols-immigration-faq-1.5178694
- 加拿大魁北克省亦新增「魁北克省民主制度」的考核，申請人由明年一月起需通過網上考試及相關課程，才可申請。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20191108/00176_029.html
Top immigrants
- http://canadianimmigrant.ca/canadas-top-25-immigrants/canadas-top-25-immigrants-2015
The Klondike Gold Rush was amigration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of theYukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896 and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of would-be prospectors. Some became wealthy, but the majority went in vain. The Klondike Gold Rush ended in 1899 after gold was discovered in Nome,Alaska prompting an exodus from the Klondike.
Anti-immigration
- http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1595262/telling-whoppers-many-faces-bradley-saltzberg-vancouvers-anti-asian?page=all, http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1603444/putting-canada-first-drops-anti-asian-activist-bradley-saltzberg-over, http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1608292/exposed-web-fake-ids-behind-canadas-anti-immigration-groups
Property
- http://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/mortgages-real-estate/stephen-harper-vows-to-track-foreign-property-ownership Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised new measures to track foreign home ownership in Canada and even hinted at restrictions on buying, during a press conference in Canada’s most expensive housing market. “There is another matter I hear a lot about, especially here in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, that is Canadians struggling to afford a home,” Harper said at a press conference in Vancouver. “There are real concerns that foreign, non resident real estate speculation is the reason some Canadian families find house prices beyond their budgets. Without citing any sources, Harper reiterated local claims that as many as 15 per cent of condos in Vancouver are sitting empty. “No dreams are living there. If such foreign ownership non-resident buyers are artificially driving up the cost of real estate and Canadian families are shut out of the market, that is a matter we can and should do something about.”
- The B.C. government took steps Monday to reduce some of the pressure in Metro Vancouver's overheated real estate market, introducing legislation that would add a 15 per cent property transfer tax for foreign nationals buying real estate there. The new rules take effect Aug. 2 and only apply to home purchases in Metro Vancouver, excluding the treaty lands of the Tsawwassen First Nation. Provincial Finance Minister Mike de Jong unveiled the tax as part of legislation aimed at addressing low vacancy rates and high real estate prices in southern B.C.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-home-sales-foreign-buyers-tax-1.3694167
- The Canada Revenue Agency has launched an investigation into the red-hot housing market in Metro Vancouver, where rampant speculation, unscrupulous dealings and foreign investment are being blamed for driving up the cost of homes and helping to create an affordability crisis. A sensitive government briefing document leaked to The Globe and Mail and some other media outlets states that 50 income-tax auditors, 20 GST auditors and 15 workload-development officers are now investigating real estate tax issues in the Pacific region. The document states that the agency is conducting audits in an attempt to detect flipping, to identify builders who don’t comply with filing regulations or who under-report GST, and to measure compliance with non-resident filing requirements. It also indicates that the CRA is collaborating with FinTRAC on “lifestyle audits.” FinTRAC, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre, is an independent federal agency that works within the scope of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/canada-revenue-agency-launches-vancouver-housing-probe/article30932513/
- http://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1990203/canada-revenue-agency-clarifies-its-compliance-actions
- apprenticeship grants http://www.esdc.gc.ca/eng/jobs/trades/apprenticeship/index.shtml
Pension
- Payroll Savings Program http://www.csb.gc.ca/payroll-savings-program/employees/?Date=oct2014&Campaign=eng-CSBPayrollSavingsProgram&Img=bike-P1&Media=PRIORITES
Tax avoidance
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1634442/canada-civil-service-pension-scheme-accused-dodging-taxes-germany
environment
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21711890-he-may-need-more-carrots-keep-provinces-his-side-canadas-prime-minister-secures-deal
christianity
- 北美真道神學院https://truthseminary.org/history?lang=en
- looks like a exit - During the summer of 1997, a group of pastors in the Los Angeles area recognized that the rapid growth of Chinese churches in North America had created the need for well-equipped church leaders and pastors. They then felt the call to establish in Los Angeles, an orthodox evangelical theological seminary, which would uphold the essential doctrine of the inerrancy of the Bible. A Board of Directors was formed and the name, Truth Theological Seminary (TTS) was chosen to manifest its standpoint of faith. Since then, TTS filed with the Office of the State of California, applied to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE, formerly known as the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, BPPVE) for approval to grant degrees. TTS also obtained tax-exempt status from both the IRS and the State Franchise Tax Board, and recruited nineteen full-time and part-time faculty members. TTS received Institutional Approval to grant degrees on October 2, 2000. TTS received a large sum of donation to purchase a 9,000-square foot building in Arcadia in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Chang Chun, a veteran Chinese statesman and devout Christians. Dr. Chang’s first name is Chun and Mrs. Chang’s first name is Yu-Ying; therefore, the building was given the name: “Yu-Chun Memorial Building” from combining the two names. The name also carries the implied meaning of educating people for the Kingdom of God.本院於1998年獲得一筆鉅款購買一間位於亞凱迪亞城9000平方呎的校舍以紀念張群先生夫人。張群先生是一位經驗豐富的中國政治家， 與其夫人均為虔誠的基督徒。張先生的名為「群」，張夫人的名為「育英」，因此大樓命名為「育群樓」，藉此名表彰本院教育神國工人之目的。
official language
- The Official Languages Act (French: Loi sur les langues officielles) is a Canadian law that came into force on September 9, 1969, which gives French and English equal status in the government of Canada. This makes them "official" languages, having preferred status in law over all other languages. Although the Official Languages Act is not the only piece of federal language law, it is the legislative keystone of Canada's official bilingualism. It was substantially amended in 1988. Both languages are equal in Canada's government and in all the services it controls, such as the courts.The Official Languages Act was one of the cornerstones of the government of Pierre Trudeau. The law was an attempt to implement some of the policy objectives outlined by the federally commissioned Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, which had been established in 1963 and since that time had been issuing periodic reports on the inequitable manner in which Canada’s English-speaking and French-speaking populations were treated by the federal administration. At that time, only 9% of jobs within the federal public service were occupied by Francophones, even though French-speakers formed a quarter of the Canadian population. The proportion of jobs designated bilingual grew to 14% in 1978, and to 25% in 2004. One of the most important features of the 1969 act was to ensure that federal government services would be provided in both official languages, wherever population size warranted it. Its principles were later incorporated into the Constitution of Canada, in Section 16 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A new Official Languages Act was enacted in 1988 in order to achieve two objectives.
- education
- https://www.quora.com/Do-they-teach-in-English-or-in-French-in-Canadian-schools
ethnic groups
- https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21729799-keeping-promise-200-years-after-it-was-made-canada-makes-amends-descendants-black
Indigenous people
- In Canada, the First Nations (French: Premières Nations [pʁəmjɛʁ nɑsjɔ̃]) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle. Those in the Arctic area are distinct and known as Inuit. The Métis, another distinct ethnicity, developed after European contact and relations primarily between First Nations people and Europeans.There are 634 recognized First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.Under Charter Jurisprudence, First Nations are a "designated group", along with women, visible minorities, and people with physical or mental disabilities.[5] First Nations are not defined as a visible minority by the criteria of Statistics Canada.Collectively, First Nations,[4] Inuit, and Métis[12] (FNIM) peoples constitute Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or "first peoples".[13] "First Nation" as a term became officially used beginning in 1980s to replace the term "Indian band" in referring to groups of Indians with common government and language.[14][15] The term had come into common usage in the 1970s to avoid using the word "Indian", which some Canadians considered offensive.
- https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21734030-amherst-out-pontiac-may-be-canadian-maps-indigenous-names-are-replacing-european-ones JEFFERY AMHERST, who commanded British troops in North America during the Seven Years War in the mid-18th century, described indigenous people who fought for France as an “execrable race”. He called for their “total extirpation” and suggested using dogs to hunt them down. Yet Amherst (pictured) was commemorated in Canada (and in the United States) mainly for establishing British supremacy in North America. Schools, towns and streets bear his name. That has started to change in both countries. Amherst College in Massachusetts no longer celebrates Lord Jeff as its mascot (but is keeping its name). Canadians are scrubbing the names of Amherst and of other colonial-era heroes off street signs, school buildings and maps, often replacing them with names drawn from indigenous history. Montreal, the largest city in French-speaking Quebec, plans to erase a “stain on our history” by renaming Amherst Street, a 1.5km (0.9 mile) thoroughfare, which was given its name by British conquerors 200 years ago. The city is looking for an indigenous substitute.
- The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, or Chippewa are a group ofindigenous peoples in North America. There are Ojibwe communities in both Canada and theUnited States. In Canada, they are the second-largest population among First Nations, surpassed only by the Cree. In the United States, they have the fourth-largest population amongNative American tribes, surpassed only by theNavajo, Cherokee, and Lakota. Because many Ojibwe were formerly located around the outlet of Lake Superior, which theFrench colonists called Sault Ste. Marie for its rapids, the early Canadian settlers referred to the Ojibwe as Saulteurs. Ojibwe who subsequently moved to the prairie provinces of Canada have retained the name Saulteaux. This is disputed since some scholars believe that only the name migrated west. Ojibwe who were originally located along the Mississagi River and made their way to southern Ontario are known as theMississaugas. The Ojibwe Peoples are a major component group of the Anishinaabe-speaking peoples, a branch of the Algonquian language family. The Anishinaabe peoples include the Algonquin, Nipissing, Oji-Cree,Odawa and the Potawatomi. The majority of the Ojibwe peoples live in Canada.
- The Mohawk people (who identify asKanien'kehá:ka) are the most easterly tribe of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. The name means "People of the Flint Place." They are an Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of North America. The Mohawk were historically based in the Mohawk Valley in present-day upstate New York west of Albany; their territory ranged to the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, greaterNew Jersey, southward into Pennsylvania, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, and westward to the border with the Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League the Mohawk were known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door. For hundreds of years, they guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from that direction by tribes from the New England and lower New York areas. Their current major settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada and New York. The Dutch derived the name "Mohawk" from the term used for the Kanien'kehá:ka by the competing Muh-heck Heek Ing, an Algonguian-speaking tribe (whom the Dutch called "Mohican" or "Mahican"). The Mohican/Mahican referred to the Kanien'kehá:ka as Maw Unk Lin (Bear Place People). The Dutch transliterated this as "Mohawk".
- The Cree (historical autonym: Nēhiraw; French:cri) are one of the largest groups of First Nationsin North America, with over 200,000 members living in Canada. The major proportion of Cree inCanada live north and west of Lake Superior, inOntario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. About 38,000 live inQuebec. In the United States, this Algonquian-speaking people historically lived from Lake Superior westward. Today, they live mostly in Montana, where they share a reservation with the Ojibwe(Chippewa).
- The Nisga’a /ˈnɪsɡɑː/, often formerly spelledNishga and spelled in the Nisga’a language asNisg̱a’a (pronounced [nisqaʔ]), are anIndigenous people of Canada in British Columbia. They reside in the Nass River valley of northwestern British Columbia. The name is a reduced form of [naːsqaʔ], which is a loan from Tongass Tlingit, where it means "people of the Nass River".
- inuit
- Nunatsiavut /nuːˈnɑːtsiəvᵿt/ is an autonomous area claimed by the Inuit in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The settlement area includes territory in Labrador extending to theQuebec border. In 2002, the Labrador Inuit Association submitted a proposal for limited autonomy to the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. The constitution was ratified on 1 December 2005, at which time the Labrador Inuit Association ceased to exist, and the new Government of Nunatsiavut was established, initially being responsible for health, education and cultural affairs. It is also responsible for setting and conducting elections, the first of which was executed in October 2006. An election for the Ordinary Members of the Nunatsiavut Assembly was held on 4 May 2010. The Nunatsiavut Assembly was dissolved on 6 April in preparation for the election. Its incumbent president is Johannes Jampe who assumed office in 2016.
- The High Arctic relocation (French: La délocalisation du Haut-Arctique, Inuktitut: ᖁᑦᑎᒃᑐᒥᐅᑦᑕ ᓅᑕᐅᓂᖏᑦ Quttiktumut nuutauningit) took place during the Cold War in the 1950s, when 87Inuit were moved by the Government of Canada to the High Arctic. The relocation has been a source of controversy: on one hand being described as a humanitarian gesture to save the lives of starving native peopleand enable them to continue a subsistencelifestyle; and on the other hand, said to be aforced migration instigated by the federal government to assert its sovereignty in the Far North by the use of "human flagpoles", in light of both the Cold War and the disputed territorial claims to the Arctic archipelago. Both sides acknowledge that the relocated Inuit were not given sufficient support to prevent extreme privation during their first years after the move.
- people
- Inuit historian and teacher Louie Kamookak played a vital role in the discovery of the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The two doomed vessels were commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin, whose expedition left England in 1845 to navigate and chart the Arctic’s Northwest Passage. The location of the sunken ships, in frigid waters off Nunavut’s King William Island, had long been one of Canada’s great maritime mysteries.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-louie-kamookak-58-teacher-and-inuit-historian-was-the-last-great/, see also economist 14apr18 issue
- language
- metis
- https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-Inuit-get-their-unique-written-alphabet/answer/Graham-Crumb
- The Métis (/meɪˈtiː/; Canadian French: [meˈtsɪs];Michif: [mɪˈtʃɪf]) are an indigenous people of North America. They developed as the mixed-racedescendants of unions between, generally, First Nations women and French or British men, but over time there were more intermarriages within the group. The term historically described all mixed-race people of First Nations and other ancestry. Within generations, particularly in central and western Canada, but also in the Eastern parts of Canada, distinct Métis culturedeveloped. Since the late 20th century, the Métis people have been recognized by the government of Canada as one of the official Aboriginal peoples, with formal recognition equal to that given to the Inuit and First Nations peoples.
- The Manitoba Métis Federation is an aboriginal organization in Manitoba, Canada.
- The Dene people (/ˈdɛnɛ/ DE-neh) (dene) are an aboriginal group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages. Dene is the common Athabaskan word for "people" (Sapir 1915, p. 558). The term "Dene" has two usages. More commonly, it is used narrowly to refer to the Athabaskan speakers of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada, especially including the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tlicho (Dogrib), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), and Sahtu (the Eastern group in Jeff Leer's classification; part of the Northwestern Canada group in Keren Rice's classification). But it is sometimes also used to refer to all Northern Athabaskan speakers, who are spread in a wide range all across Alaska and northern Canada. Note that Dene never includes the Pacific Coast Athabaskan or Southern Athabaskan speakers in the continental U.S.,[citation needed] despite the fact that the term is used to denote the Athabaskan languages as a whole (the Na-Denelanguage family). The Southern Athabaskan speakers do, however, refer to themselves with similar words: Diné (Navajo) and Indé(Apache).
- Laich-kwil-tach (also spelled Ligwilda'xw), is the Anglicization of the Kwak'wala autonomy by the "Southern Kwakiutl" people of Quadra Island and Campbell River in British Columbia, Canada. There are today two main groups (of perhaps five original separate groups): the Wei Wai Kai (Cape Mudge Band) and Wei Wai Kum just across on the Vancouver Island "mainland" in the town of Campbell River. In addition to these two main groups there are the Kwiakah (Kwiakah Band / Kwiakah First Nation) originally from Phillips Arm and Frederick Arm and the Discovery Islands, the Tlaaluis (Laa'luls) between Bute and Loughborough Inlets—after a great war between the Kwakiutl and the Salish peoples they were so reduced in numbers that they joined the Kwiakah—and the Walitsima / Walitsum Band of Salmon River (also called Hahamatses or Salmon River Band).
- notable people
- 王州迪Jody Wilson-Raybould PC QC MP (born March 23, 1971) is a Kwakwaka’wakw Canadian politician and the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver Granville. She served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in the cabinet of Justin Trudeau from 2015 until January 2019 and then as Minister of Veterans Affairs of Canada from January 14, 2019, until resigning on February 12, 2019. Before entering Canadian federal politics, she was a Crown Prosecutor for British Columbia, a Treaty Commissioner and Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations. Wilson-Raybould studied at the University of Victoria and later at the University of British Columbia.
history
- reference
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
- The War of 1812 (which lasted from 1812 to 1814) was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. As a colony of Great Britain, Canada was swept up in the War of 1812 and was invaded a number of times by the Americans. The war was fought in Upper Canada, Lower Canada, on the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, and in the United States. The peace treaty of Ghent, which ended the war, largely returned the status quo. However, in Canada, the war contributed to a growing sense of national identity, including the idea that civilian soldiers were largely responsible for repelling the American invaders. In contrast, the First Nations allies of the British and Canadian cause suffered much because of the war; not only had they lost many warriors (including the great Tecumseh), they also lost any hope of halting American expansion in the west, and their contributions were quickly forgotten by their British and Canadian allies. Similarly, Black volunteers, including those in the Coloured Corps, received little recognition or reward for their service.http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/exhibit/war-of-1812/
USA
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-canada-trade-dispute-timber-milk-war-huge-import-tariff-lumber-a7701186.html US President Donald Trump intensified a trade dispute with Canada, slapping tariffs of up to 24 percent on imported softwood lumber in a move that drew swift criticism from the Canadian government, which vowed to sue if needed. Trump announced the new tariff at a White House gathering of conservative journalists, shortly before the Commerce Department said it would impose countervailing duties ranging from 3 percent to 24.1 percent on Canadian lumber producers including West Fraser Timber Co. “We’re going to be putting a 20% tax on softwood lumber coming in — tariff on softwood coming into the United States from Canada,” Trump said Monday, according to a tweet by Charlie Spiering, a White House correspondent for Breitbart News. A White House official confirmed the comment. The step escalates an economic battle among neighbouring countries that normally have one of the friendliest international relationships in the world. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross amplified Trump’s remarks in a statement afterward that also referenced a fight over a new Canadian milk policy that US producers say violates Nafta. “It has been a bad week for US-Canada trade relations,” Ross said, adding “it became apparent that Canada intends to effectively cut off the last dairy products being exported from the United States.“ He said the Commerce Department “determined a need” because of unfair Canadian subsidies to the lumber industry to impose “countervailing duties of roughly one billion dollars.”
- 加拿大由七月一日起向價值一百六十六億加元（約九百九十億港元）的美國進口貨品加徵一成至兩成五關稅，報復美國總統特朗普向加拿大鋼鋁徵收關稅。加拿大外長方慧蘭（Chrystia Freeland）形容貿易戰發展令人遺憾，但別無選擇。加拿大政府上周五公布向一系列美國商品加徵關稅，包括鋼鋁材、威士忌、廁紙、洗衣機、快艇、剪草機，甚至茄汁和楓糖漿也在名單之上。此外，加國政府將向本土鋼鋁產業和製造業提供最多二十億加元（約一百二十億港元）援助。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180701/00180_006.html- canal
- The Rideau Canal, also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway, connects the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River. It is 202 kilometres in length. The name Rideau, French for "curtain," is derived from the curtain-like appearance of the Rideau River's twin waterfalls where they join the Ottawa River. The canal system uses sections of two rivers, the Rideau and the Cataraqui, as well as several lakes. The Rideau Canal is operated by Parks Canada. The canal was opened in 1832 as a precaution in case of war with the United States. It remains in use today primarily for pleasure boating, with most of its original structures intact, operated by Parks Canada.
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/buy-america-shuts-out-canadian-iron-and-steel-from-bc-ferry-terminal-overhaul/article21763022/ The long arm of the protectionist Buy America Act is reaching deep into Canada – to remote Prince Rupert, B.C. Canadian iron and steel have been banished from a major overhaul of the Prince Rupert ferry terminal because the U.S. government is footing the bill for the bulk of the work. The project highlights the growing "ridiculousness" of proliferating Buy American laws and the damage they cause in Canada, said Martin Lavoie, director of policy at the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters. The Prince Rupert case comes just months after U.S. authorities ordered the dismantling of a newly built bridge in the small town of Morrison, Colo., after discovering it contained Ontario-made steel beams, in contravention of Buy America rules. The U.S. Federal Highway Administration later backed down, and agreed to pay for the bridge. Industry officials said the solution is for Canada and the U.S. to negotiate reciprocity in government purchasing – an area left largely outside the North American free-trade agreement. Mr. Lavoie said Ottawa and the provinces aren't doing enough to press the U.S. to negotiate. He said the best way to get Washington's attention would be for governments in Canada to slap Buy Canadian restrictions on federally funded infrastructure projects, including the $5.8-billion in spending announced this week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper for everything from museums to small-craft harbours.
- maple syrup
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/canada-tariffs-maple-syrup-imported-from-us Through heavy investments technology and the creation of a maple syrup federation– which its critics allege operates like a cartel – the province is responsible for nearly 90% of Canada’s production, and until recently, three-quarters of global consumption. But the new tariffs – which the foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, characterized as “the strongest trade action Canada has taken in the post-war era” – highlighted a gradual shift that many Canadians did not realize has been quietly unfolding for years: the country’s tight grip on maple syrup is weakening. In a bid to unseat Canada as the largest producer – and taking advantage of a warming climate – American states are tapping maple trees at a rate nearly four times the rate of their Canadian counterparts. Much of this reflects a shift in consumer preference: with corn-based syrups losing popularity over the last few years, sales of maple syrup have surged. The tariffs, if they go into effect, will have their largest impact on producers in Vermont, which produces nearly half of all US syrup.
venezuela
- 委國上周六驅逐加國大使館臨時代辦科瓦利克出境。加拿大周一採取報復行動，下令委國大使費爾南德斯及臨時代辦離境。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171227/00180_027.html
Uk
- royalty
- 其實，梅根本是美國人，入境加拿大並不困難，何況她已成為英國王室成員，與丈夫哈利王子享有王室人員的外交豁免等特權，兩人有財力、學識及能力，定居加拿大理應毫無難度。偏偏王室風波外延，加拿大既被捲入，當然會受熱議了。只是，保安及財政開支終究是個不能擺脫的俗務，正如杜魯多日前指，加拿大政府還未決定是否承擔哈利及梅根在當地生活的保安費用，該國財長摩爾諾亦指，加拿大作為英聯邦成員，會努力扮演當中的角色。這話是甚麼意思呢？是說會盡力保護，還是加拿大只會承擔英聯邦國家的基本義務呢？楓葉國至今沒講清楚說明白。按英媒估計，若加拿大倣效英國對王室成員的保安，估計每年開支不少於一千萬港元，這筆錢誰來付？加拿大民間已有反對公帑支付的聲音，看來哈利夫婦想做非一般加拿大居民，還有不少問題要解決。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200121/00184_009.html
- Prior to last month's vote, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Reuters that Canada did not want Britain to leave the European Union and that there would be "nothing easy or automatic" about negotiating new trade deals between the two countries. Some campaigners for Britain's exit from the EU had argued the country's historic ties with former colonies like Canada, Australia and New Zealand could help it forge new trade deals.http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-canada-idUSKCN0ZY1VO
french
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Quebec-so-afraid-of-the-French-language-losing-prominence-in-Quebec
EU
- FTA
- http://www.torontosun.com/2014/09/26/canada-europe-sign-free-trade-deal
- http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/ceta-aecg/index.aspx?lang=eng
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/10150f1e-4d41-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc.html Stephane Dion, Canada’s foreign minister, is urging EU members to approve Europe’s trade agreement with Canada to demonstrate that the bloc’s focus on its post-Brexit ties to the UK has not left it “stalled”. Justin Trudeau’s government is leveraging its diplomatic resources to save its agreement with Europe, which governs trade in goods and services worth more than €90bn annually. The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement has declined in priority as European trade officials focus on the UK’s future and the commission has climbed down from EU-level approval of the deal. Instead, each member state will separately ratify it, if necessary by a vote in national parliaments.
India
- http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/04/11/komagata-maru-apology-trudeau_n_9660588.html Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will deliver a formal apology in the House of Commons for one of Canada's most racist chapters. In 1914, the Canadian government denied entry to a boat called the Komagata Maru, carrying 376 immigrants from India, which was controlled by Britain at the time. The majority of passengers were Sikhs, and all were British subjects. The ship was forced to return to India. Trudeau said the Komagata Maru’s passengers were seeking refuge and better lives, “like millions of immigrants to Canada since.” http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/Canadian-PM-Justin-Trudeau-to-apologize-for-102-year-old-slight-to-Indians-mainly-Sikhs/articleshow/51788038.cms In 1914, the Canadian government turned away 376 immigrants from Punjab who had sailed from India on board the ship Komagata Maru, after quarantining the vessel off the port of Vancouver. Following a two month long stand-off during which the Canadians refused to allow passengers to disembark, the ship was escorted out by gunships — one of them ironically called HMCS Rainbow — and sent back to Calcutta, where clashes with British soldiers killed 19 and ended in prison sentence to others. "The passengers of the Komagata Maru like millions of immigrants to Canada since were seeking refuge and better lives for their families. With so much to contribute to their new home, they chose Canada and we failed them utterly. As a nation, we should never forget the prejudice suffered by the Sikh community at the hands of the Canadian government of the day. We should not and we will not," Trudeau said at an event to celebrate Baisakhi in Ottawa. "That is why next month, on May 18, I will stand in the House of Commons and offer a full apology for the Komagata Maru incident," he added.
malaysia
- 馬來西亞前總理納吉布因國營基金一馬發展公司（1MDB）的洗錢醜聞而被控，其妻羅斯瑪赫亦被起訴。她周二再因涉於一六年收受日拔控股五百萬令吉（約九百六十六萬港元），助承包太陽能板工程，而被反貪污委員會逮捕並加控受賄罪，最高可判囚二十年及罰款。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190411/00180_024.html
philippines
- Canadian garbage has been sitting in the Philippines for about six years — and the country’s president is now threatening war over it. President Rodrigo Duterte, who is known to make controversial statements, told local media on Tuesday he will “declare war” against Canada if the situation isn’t dealt with in the coming week.https://globalnews.ca/news/5197792/philippines-canada-garbage-containers/
singapore
- Fresh from winning a four-year legal wrangle with one of Canada’s largest property developers,
Singapore tycoon Oei Hong Leong said he was glad justice had been served - but felt compelled to clarify that the case had nothing to do with Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing.Oei, who at 71 is worth an estimated US$1.5 billion according to this year’s Forbes billionaires list, said he had fielded questions about the ownership of Concord Pacific Acquisitions, part of Concord Pacific Group, that sued him at the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Li once controlled the company and during that period, sold Oei the Plaza of Nations site on Vancouver’s waterfront for C$40 million (US$33 million) in 1989. Li sold his stake in Concord Pacific in the 1990s to the family of the company’s current CEO and president Terry Hui. People keep asking me if Concord is owned by Li Ka-shing … yes, I bought the land from Mr Li,” Oei told This Week in Asia, adding with a chuckle that the deal was concluded in “five minutes”.But we are good friends, there is no fight between us. Every time I come to Hong Kong, we have lunch together.”https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3019935/singapore-tycoon-oei-hong-leong-says-canada-property-lawsuit
- https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3075188/singapore-billionaire-oei-hong-leong-says-vancouver Created by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, Concord has spent decades shaping Vancouver’s skyline by developing the 82-hectare (202-acre) downtown site of the Expo 86 world’s fair that Li bought in 1988 for C$320 million – a bargain that the CBC has called “the deal of the century”.Hui’s family bought Concord from Li a few years later – but not before Oei had already bought the fair’s Plaza of Nations site from Li in 1989 for C$40 million.In recent years the Plaza of Nations site was valued at C$500 million, and later at C$800 million by Oei.
Chinese
- history in canada
- peter guy - claimed to be descendant of 19th century chinese railroad building in canada article scmp 4dec17
- 加拿大卑詩省巴克維爾歷史古鎮公園近日維修地下水管，意外發現一個陳年垃圾堆，並從中發掘出大批一百五十年前淘金華人的物品，印證當年約二千名來自廣東的男子離鄉背井，在該小鎮的生活情況。發掘出這批古物的女考古學者安斯利（Dawn Ainsley）表示，這批埋藏在鎮內一間中餐館外的物品，包括一些清代錢幣、天九牌、中藥瓶、吸食鴉片的煙槍等，最早可追溯是於一八七○年帶到當地。此外，她們還發現一些烤過的豬骨，證實當年這中餐館有自己的燒臘工場，提供燒肉、乳豬等廣東傳統食品。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200616/00180_013.html
- 加拿大溫哥華市議會周三宣布，將於下月二十二日在溫哥華唐人街舉行議會特別會議，就歧視華人的歷史向華人社區正式道歉http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180331/00180_032.html
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180424/00178_014.html早前成立的諮詢小組提交的調查報告確認，溫哥華市府於一八八六年至一九四七年間，推行包括剝削投票權及公民權利、限制華人移民等歧視華人政策。羅品信於周日以英語宣讀道歉內容，並因早期在當地謀生的華人先僑多是來自廣東台山一帶，因此由前華裔市議員葉吳美琪、余宏榮分別用廣府方言及四邑方言宣讀中文版的道歉內容。
- 首席公共衞生官員譚詠詩（Theresa Tam）
- in politics
- oct19 election http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/10/21/a17-1021.pdf, see also singtao a18 and appledaily, 在今屆大選中，華裔參選人數亦創歷史新高，其中八人勝選，打破過往紀錄。今屆參選的華裔候選人超過四十人，其中在華裔人口最多的安大略省，前自由黨省議員董晗鵬成為第二位進身國會的中國大陸移民。此外，由香港移民當地的自由黨伍鳳儀，亦成功在所屬選區連任；她去年獲任命為小型企業及出口促進部長，是杜魯多內閣唯一的華裔閣員。加拿大華裔公民約有一百七十七萬人，華裔參選人大多集中在安大略省。中加關係緊張之際，成功連任的總理杜魯多在競選期間未有聚焦對華外交議題，但華人參政的情況有所提升。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191023/00180_004.html, http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/10/23/a24-1023.pdf
- 加拿大傳媒上周五報道，資深華裔卑詩省前議員李燦明聲稱，與妻子二○一五年前往上海時，遭中方不正當拘留達八小時，並沒收及搜查公務電話，最後更以危害國家安全為由取消簽證，中國駐溫哥華總領館暫未回應。李燦明指原本打算返回溫哥華後公開事件，但考慮此事或損害中加關係後，決定暫時保持沉默。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191201/00180_011.html
- 一款名為「骯髒的中餐館」（Dirty Chinese Restaurant）的外國手機遊戲，近日在社交媒體上引起爭議。該遊戲被指歧視華裔，內容包括華裔廚師將垃圾做成食物供給顧客，甚至殺人作為食材。目前該款遊戲尚未正式上線，有美國紐約社區人士欲阻止遊戲上架。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170927/00178_008.html
- 當地時間12月9日，加拿大安大略省各界華人在多倫多共同舉辦主題為「銘記歷史，祈願和平」的「南京大屠殺80周年追思會」。加拿大聯邦、省、市三級多名政要、來自華人社區及其他多個族裔社區的逾千名代表出席。http://paper.wenweipo.com/2017/12/11/CH1712110011.htm
- 加拿大卑詩省列治文市有華人居民日前爆料，指在當地寵物店買了一包狗糧回家後，發現上面竟標明「No Ingredients from China」（沒有來自中國的成分）。品牌發言人表示，此舉是「食品安全控制」。此事激起當地華人不滿，不少狗主揚言會抵制。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180401/00178_006.html
- 高小姐痛罵一啲加拿大華人係雙重背叛，入籍加拿大時唱加拿大國歌，宣誓效忠之後，又自認「愛國」（中華人民共和國）……高唱「起來起來」，直情係先背叛祖國，然後背叛入籍國，用香港特區釋法嘅標準，唔知加拿大可唔可以DQ呢類華人嘅加拿大國籍及收回最緊要嘅加拿大護照呢？跟住又睇到4月7日之明報A8版，有一篇廣告篤口篤鼻，啱晒高慧然痛罵之言，賣廣告嗰位「旅加港人楊湛」與高小姐筆下之雙重背叛加拿大人，幾令人回味。https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/columnist/左丁山/daily/article/20180413/20359553
- 加拿大於二○一五年發生當地史上最大規模的移民欺詐案，被判囚七年的無牌華人移民顧問王迅，獲提早於去年底釋放。案件尚未告一段落，當局仍調查涉案的一千六百名華人移民，超過五百人有機會喪失加國居留或公民權，面臨遣返中國。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180630/00180_012.html
- chinatown
- https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21740460-developers-have-changed-face-canadas-western-metropolis-chinatown-resisting residents of vancouver's chinatown seek to block development
- scmp 2sep18 "guests of dishonour" on canada immigration fraud
- 加拿大網民Osuka Yip在一月發起的聯署，則指控譚德塞低估新冠病毒，有份導致確診及死亡數字在短時間內暴增，要求他立即辭職。請願書又指，譚德塞未經任何調查就直接採信中國大陸政府提供統計數字，又涉嫌因政治因素而將台灣排除在世衞之外，有違世衞政治中立的原則。oriental daily 27mar2020
- politics
- 據加拿大傳媒周二報道，多倫多華裔地產富商周建成，自上月起積極向保守黨政要捐款，發動當地華人明年大選支持該黨，涉嫌違反選舉法。加國前情報官員指，周與中國政府關係密切，受指使的可能性很高。周則解釋，其用意是為提倡保守派價值。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20181207/00178_019.html
- Fifty-four per cent of the city of roughly 200,000 is ethnically Chinese. Richmond was once a stronghold of Hong Kong immigrants, but mainland Chinese immigrants now outnumber them two to one.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3031486/canadian-police-go-undercover-hong-kong-protest-tensions-rise- showbiz
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/02/26/a23-0226.pdf石之予祖籍中國 四 川 綿陽，1989年出生於重慶，兩歲時隨父母移民加拿大多倫多，在當地華人社區長大。石之予的父親石砳透露，女兒自小熱愛繪畫，往往畫畫至深夜，中學時更立志以此為畢生事業，本身在大學任教美術的石砳亦給予不少教導。石之予其後在大學修讀動畫，2011 年畢業後加入彼思，曾參與《玩轉腦朋友》、《反斗奇兵4》等動畫製作，並憑《包寶寶》成為彼思首名女導演，也是首名華裔導演。
- 加拿大郵政公司特別發行的一套鼠年生肖郵票，周四在多倫多亮相。鼠年生肖郵票共有兩款，均以中國農民畫風格描繪《老鼠嫁女》的民間故事。其中，國內郵票圖案為鼠新娘坐轎成親，國際郵票則是一對剛拜堂的幸福鼠夫婦。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200118/00180_036.html
China
- leaders visit
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/livisitcanadacuba/2016-09/23/content_26869966.htmPremier Li Keqiang and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met for what Li called an inaugural annual dialogue on Thursday morning in Ottawa, just three weeks after Trudeau visited China. "We hope the feasibility study on a China-Canada free trade area can be launched expeditiously to lay the institutional foundation for liberalized trade between the two countries," Li said in the article. China is now Canada's second-largest trading partner, with bilateral trade volume of $67.2 billion in 2015, a year-on-year increase of 10.1 percent, according to Canadian statistics. A China-Canada free trade deal would generate $7.8 billion in additional economic activity within 15 years, supporting 25,000 new Canadian jobs, according to a report released in January by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Canada-China Business Council.
- diplomatic representation
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160807/PDF/a5_screen.pdf 加拿大聯邦移民難民及公民事務部長約翰．麥家廉本月8日啟程訪華，他將到訪北京，並計劃與中國政府機構溝通，尋求在華增設新的加拿大簽證服務中心。 當地時間5日下午，麥家廉在多倫多舉行記者會宣布訪華行程。本月8日至12日，他將與加拿大聯邦華裔國會議員譚耕一起訪問北京、香港及菲律賓，了解加拿大聯邦移民部海外辦公室的運作情況，並參與高層雙邊會議。加拿大目前在華設立4個簽證中心，分別在北京、廣州、上海、重慶。
- disputes
- 麥家廉與夫 人林秀英http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170323/PDF/a9_screen.pdf
- 加拿大前移民部長麥家廉已接受任命擔任駐華大使。他向傳媒稱其首要工作是希望兩國加快自貿談判，而非「引渡條約」，但若北京真的談他亦奉陪。他又指中加商討引渡條約不會像中澳般談上十年，但加國亦不會就人權問題妥協。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170405/00178_011.html
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-icg/former-canadian-diplomat-detained-in-china-sources-idUSKBN1OA1EB A former Canadian diplomat has been detained in China, two sources said on Tuesday, and his current employer, the International Crisis Group, said it was seeking his prompt and safe release.Michael Kovrig’s detention comes after police in Canada arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on Dec. 1 at the request of U.S. authorities, a move that has infuriated Beijing.Kovrig, a Mandarin speaker, has been working as a full-time expert for the International Crisis Group since February 2017. From 2003 to 2016, he worked as a diplomat with stints in Beijing and Hong Kong, among others, according to his profile on LinkedIn.
- https://beta.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2181787/canadian-pm-justin-trudeau-accuses-china-ignoring Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday accused China of ignoring a former Canadian envoy’s “diplomatic immunity” when it detained him last month along with a compatriot.
- A group of 143 scholars and former diplomats have signed an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping demanding the release of two Canadian citizens amid an intensifying diplomatic spat between Beijing and Ottawa. The open letter, signed by 116 scholars and 27 former diplomats from a total of 19 countries, called for the release of former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who have been detained for six weeks since December 10.https://beta.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2183027/chinese-detention-canadians-unites-experts-19-countries-call
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46548614 A second Canadian has been detained in China on accusations of harming national security, as tension continues between the two countries.Michael Spavor, arrested on 12 December, is a businessman based in Dandong, near the Chinese border with North Korea. He has ties to the North Korean government and has met its leader Kim Jong-un many times. 外媒翻查資料發現，斯派佛是於丹東經營文化交流企業的商人，與北韓政府高官關係密切，一三年起多次安排北韓旅行團及文化交流團，更獲邀出席北韓閱兵儀式，坐在最前方位置。據悉斯派佛與同樣在華被扣的康明凱彼此認識，兩人同樣曾在華處理北韓相關事務。斯派佛○五年起多次出入北韓，說得一口流利韓語。有內地媒體指他的中文名為李萬福。除了曾在平壤擔任一家加拿大非政府組織的教師外，亦曾於接壤北韓的吉林省延吉市開設學校。斯派佛經營的公司名為長白山文化交流（Paektu Cultural Exchange），主要營運北韓旅行團。他今年七月接受內地媒體訪問，提及自己有擔任中介，幫助其他人到北韓做生意。 斯派佛於一三年偕NBA前球星洛文等人訪問北韓，獲金正恩在海邊別墅招待。
- trade policy
- investment agreement
- in September 2014, the former Harper government ratified another agreement with China, Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China. The announcement came almost exactly two years after the agreement was signed and first announced to the Canadian public. The former Harper government ratified FIPA despite the fact that a Federal Court was still considering an appeal in the Hupacasath First Nation’s legal challenge of the constitutionality of the deal. The controversial agreement came into force on October 1, 2014 and will be in place for a minimum of 31 years. Unfortunately, there is no longer anything any Canadian government or court can do to stop the Canada-China FIPA.https://canadians.org/canada-china
- Dialogue with China about a free-trade agreement has increased since Canada's new Liberal government took office late last year, Canada's international trade minister said on Wednesday. Chrystia Freeland made the comment in an interview after an event in Toronto where Xue Bing, China's consul general in Toronto, said Canada and China should start negotiations on a bilateral free-trade agreement as soon as possible. Freeland declined to say whether informal negotiations had started on a deal, but said there had been "increased dialogue" around the issue since November. Expanding trade with China is one the goals cited by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his mandate letter to Freeland. Trade deals typically take years to negotiate. The Liberals said in January they would take the "technical step" of signing a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, but have not yet said whether they will formally ratify it. The deal does not include China. In her speech at the event on Wednesday, Freeland also noted that when in opposition the Liberals made it clear that it was "a lost opportunity" for Canada not to have joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member. http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAKCN0WW2GT
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concluded talks with the Chinese premier in Beijing today but they were not able to announce the start of formal free trade talks.Despite the fact the much anticipated next step in Canada-China trade relations failed to materialize, Li had kind words for Trudeau and Canada as he welcomed him to Beijing’s opulent Great Hall of the People. http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/trudeau-begins-first-day-of-his-visit-to-china-drops-by-social-media-company-hq; China and Canada are willing to conduct feasibility studies toward a free trade agreement in an open and pragmatic manner, Premier Li Keqiang said after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-12/05/content_35208147.htm
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/11/09/a06-1109.pdf中國與加拿大兩國企業 8日在京簽署 20項商業合作協議，涉及環境技術、農產品、礦業、航空、基礎設施、媒體及文化領域，總價值11億加元（約 75億港元）。此外，中國人民銀行 8日與加拿大中央銀行簽署了規模為 2,000億元人民幣∕300億加元的雙邊本幣互換協議。協議有效期三年，經雙方同意可以展期。
- association
- chinese canadian national council http://www.ccnc.ca
- canada china business council
- canada-china friendship society
- confederation of greater toronto chinese business association
- exhibited at 2018 smartbiz expo
- 加拿大泉州晉江聯誼會第七屆會董就職典禮日前假上環黃金閣舉行，邀得中聯辦協調部副部長張強蒞臨主禮，施文誕榮膺會長。大會筵開超過20席，約300鄉賢友好歡聚一堂，場面溫馨熱鬧。施文誕指，遠在加拿大的會員友好亦於同日舉行聯歡晚會，中加兩地同胞同賀慶典，其樂融融。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/05/22/a14-0522.pdf
- financial
- http://online.wsj.com/articles/china-canada-to-expand-use-of-yuan-in-trade-and-investment-1415457947?tesla=y&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10733299186635963427804580264460902174110.html BEIJING—China and Canada agreed to expand the use of the Chinese currency in trade and investment, with their central banks setting up a swap line worth the equivalent of $32 billion. Under the agreement, reached during a visit to Beijing by Canadian Prime MinisterStephen Harper and announced by both sides on Saturday, the People’s Bank of China will designate a clearing bank in Canada for transactions in the yuan—the first in North America and a key step in boosting the use of China’s currency. China also granted Canadian financial institutions a 50 billion yuan quota to invest in Chinese capital markets, according to statements from the Canadian government and the PBOC. (Update: China Names ICBC for Yuan Clearing in Canada), http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/08/china-canada-yuan-idUSL4N0SY0BJ20141108, hket 10nov14 a21
- 山東黃金集團於當地時間7月25日在多倫多宣佈其加拿大代表處正式開業運營，以拓展該集團在北美及全球的礦業資源投資。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/07/27/b02-0727.pdf
- 山東黃金礦業（600547.SH、1787.HK，以下簡稱「山東黃金」）與特麥克資源公司（TMAC Resources Inc.，以下簡稱「特麥克」）視頻簽約儀式，上周五（8日）在山東濟南和加拿大多倫多同時舉行。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/05/11/b05-0511.pdf
- tax avoidance
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160909/00182_001.html 加拿大總理杜魯多早前訪華，與中國簽訂訊息交流協議，從明年七月一日起，加拿大稅務局將把所有非加拿大公民在加國買房、投資、開設銀行帳戶等個人資產細節和個人訊息統統交給中國政府。如此一來，中國貪官外逃洗錢的通道又被關閉一條。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20141109/00178_005.html加拿大總理哈珀前日在浙江杭州訪問時宣布，擴大其在中國的貿易網點，在杭州、西安、廈門和天津增設四個貿易辦公室
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150214/PDF/a18_screen.pdf 中國駐加拿 大大使羅照輝當地時間12日表示，中加兩國 有關部門正就有關簽證互惠安排進行商談。 羅照輝11日在蒙特利爾國際關係理事會 發表演講。蒙特利爾市長柯德爾，國際關係 理事會總裁拉蒙德、主席克雷蒂安，駐蒙特 利爾領事機構代表及政商各界400人出席。 羅照輝在演講結束後應詢時表示，中加 雙方正在爭取提前開通蒙特利爾和北京的直 航。兩國有關部門也正就有關簽證互惠安排 進行商談，羅照輝表示相信，有關安排將惠 及兩國民眾。
- military / national security
- https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2169474/canada-installs-chinese-underwater-monitoring-devices-next-us While the eyes of the world have been on the strategic tussle between Beijing and Washington in the South China Sea, Chinese scientists, with the help of the Canadian authorities, have succeeded in positioning four monitoring devices in waters just 300km (186 miles) off the United States’ Pacific coast.The instruments, which use hi-tech sensors to monitor the underwater environment, are connected to the Ocean Network Canada (ONC), a grid of marine observatories stretching from the northeast Pacific to the Arctic. While the network is operated by the University of Victoria in British Columbia, its four new additions are the property of the Sanya Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, a unit of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which also developed and built them.
- http://www.chinadailyasia.com/nation/2015-03/08/content_15235892.html China and Canada just reached an agreement on granting visas to each other's citizens, with the validity period of up to 10 years, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Sunday. Wang made the remarks at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature. The new visa policy will take effect on Monday, he said. Wang also told the press that last year China signed visa exemption or facilitation agreements with 24 countries, equal to the total number in the past four years. Chinese passport holders now can travel to more than 50 countries and territories without visas or by obtaining visas upon arrival.
- http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/2015-04/15/content_20436134.htm Chinese outbound tourism to Canada surged nearly 29 percent to 450,000 visitors last year. And it rose to more than 30 percent in the first two months of this year compared with the same period in 2014, the Canadian Tourism Commission says. The number of Chinese visitors is expected to further increase since China and Canada started issuing reciprocal multiple-entry visas for business, travel and family visits from March 9, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Maxime Bernier says. The longest validity for such visas is 10 years.
- http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-presses-china-over-reports-of-hong-kong-visa-clampdown-1.3657243 Canada is pressing Beijing over media reports that Chinese authorities are no longer allowing some Canadian citizens born in Hong Kong to visit China on 10-year visas, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Chinese-language media say that since early June, first-generation Hong Kong-born Canadians are being told they can only apply to travel to China as Chinese nationals. Previously, they could choose to travel either as Canadian or as Chinese citizens. If true, the changes could be seen as an encroachment on Hong Kong's autonomy. Hong Kong has been governed as a special administrative region since its return to China from British rule in 1997, a policy known as "one country, two systems."
- refugee
- 英媒周五（3日）報道，今年首三個月向加拿大申請難民庇護的港人，較去年全年增加近兩倍；而移民加拿大人數也較去年同期上升七成半。惟隨着新冠肺炎疫情蔓延，加拿大當局封關後，數字已大幅下降。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200705/00176_029.html
- tourism
- canada china year of tourism kicks off china daily 23mar18
- 加拿大公民謝倫伯格因走私毒品罪，周一（14日）被遼寧大連中級人民法院重審改判死刑，他周二（15日）決定上訴。事件激起加國上下強烈不滿，總理杜魯多狠批中方任意判處死刑，呼籲西方盟國關注。加國外交部亦更新對華旅遊警示，要求國民留意「中國任意執法的風險」。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190116/00178_001.html
- aviation
- railway- 國航將在加航新開航的上海至蒙特利爾（Montreal）的航班上，溫哥華至維多利亞（Victoria）、基洛納（Kelowna）、薩斯卡通 （Saskatoon）、里賈納（Regina）航班上代碼共享。同時，加航也將在國航運營的北京至鄭州、廈門、南京、深圳以及蒙特利爾至古巴哈瓦那航班 上代碼共享。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/12/14/a17-1214.pdf
- Canadian company CAE, which is engaged in training for the civil aviation, defense and security, and healthcare sectors, will invest in a flight training and simulator components center near Guangzhou's airport. CAE will hold a majority stake in the joint venture with Guangdong Aerocity Holdings Co, said Luo Bin, vice-president of Guangdong Aerocity. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2019-06/19/content_37482246.htm
- http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/loop-energy-and-crrc-to-develop-zero-emission-powertrains-for-heavy-duty-transport-2121930.htm
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aecon-group-m-a-canada/canada-blocks-chinese-takeover-of-aecon-on-security-grounds-idUSKCN1IO3F2 Canada has blocked a proposed C$1.51 billion ($1.18 billion) takeover of construction company Aecon (ARE.TO) by a Chinese state builder on national security grounds, underscoring rising wariness of Chinese firms buying up assets in Western countries.
- oil
- http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201708/0809/HA03809CEAA.pdf, http://www.cnoocltd.com/art/2017/8/8/art_32091_2696891.html CNOOC Limited (the “Company”, SEHK: 00883, NYSE: CEO, TSX: CNU) announced today the Hangingstone project in Canada has already commenced production. The Hangingstone project, located in Alberta, Canada, consists of steam-generating equipment, well pad facilities, 32 well pairs, water treatment and bitumen flowlines. The project is expected to reach its peak production rate of approximately 20,000 barrels of bitumen per day in 2018.
- https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/chinese-firms-and-indigenous-groups-propose-major-new-refinery-in-alberta Beijing-based and state-owned China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., better known as Sinopec, along with China Construction Industrial & Energy Co. Ltd. and a consortium of Alberta Indigenous groups signed an agreement with the Edmonton-based engineering and design firm Stantec Inc. on Thursday to pursue permits for a new bitumen refinery. According to a Stantec release, the partnership of Sinopec, China Construction and the Indigenous groups will be called SinoCan Global, which will begin seeking permits to build a 167,000-barrels-per-day bitumen refinery and petrochemical complex north of Edmonton.
- 溫哥華港今年至今只有三船原油出口，卻沒有任何一艘船是輸往中國。這跟去年中國大量進口卑詩省原油情況相差甚遠，令加國石油生產商擔心輸華的石油量會進一步下跌。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190412/00180_018.html
- 潍柴动力与加拿大西港燃料系统公司（Westport Fuel Systems Inc.）昨在济南联合签署创新合作协议，双方将联合开发高压缸内直喷技术天然气发动机，并将在山东生产主要零部件。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171222/PDF/a11_screen.pdf
- 由 中 石 油 （0857）、荷蘭殼牌、日本三菱、 韓國天然氣公司和馬來西亞國家石 油公司合資成立的聯合作業公司宣 佈 ， 加 拿 大 LNG 項 目 （LNG Canada Project）通過項目一期建設 的最終投資決策，將正式進入執行 階段，計劃於2024年建成投產。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/10/03/b02-1003.pdf
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-05/zijin-mining-to-buy-nevsun-resources-for-1-41-billion-in-cash Zijin Mining Group Co. agreed to buy Nevsun Resources Ltd. for $1.41 billion to add copper assets in Serbia and Eritrea and enable the Canadian firm to ward off a hostile bid from rival Lundin Mining Corp.
- 中國黃金及礦資源開發商紫金礦業(02899)公布，斥資13.7億加元（約80億港元）收購於加拿大上市的哥倫比亞大型金礦公司大陸黃金。收購完成之後，公司黃金資源儲量將超過2,000噸，增加礦山黃金產量約兩成。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20191203/00202_021.html
- food
- 加拿大傳媒周一引述政府內部文件指，加拿大加強對中國進口產品檢查，由二○一七年至今年初，已有約九百種中國食品，被檢查出含有害污染物或標籤不實等問題。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190717/00180_013.html
- forestry
- An Ontario Superior Court judge has found Sino-Forest Corp.’s co-founder and former CEO Allen Chan guilty of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence, and ordered him to pay more than $2.6 billion. Justice Michael Penny found that Allen Chan “abused his unique position as a fiduciary to orchestrate an extremely large and complex fraud” that caused the timber company to lose billions.https://www.thestar.com/business/2018/03/15/sino-forest-corp-co-founder-and-former-ceo-found-guilty-of-fraud.html
- berries
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/weekend/2016-12/03/content_27558762.htm To better supply the increasing demand from Chinese market, as well as other emergingmarkets, wild blueberries growers in the Atlantic Provinces, westward to Quebec in Canada, have introduced the use of bumblebees few years ago. The buzzing pollinators are believed toextract pollen from blossoms hundreds of times faster than honeybees and able to work muchlonger hours. Wild Blueberry Association of North America-Canada now represents four major exporters and3,500 to 4,000 growers in the Quebec area, which claims to have wild blueberries for more than10,000 years.Up to 65 percent of the wild blueberries consumed around the world are from produced inCanada. Among the over 30 countries Canada exports the fruit, China has yet find a place on thetop. Last year, six million pounds of wild blueberries were exported to China. But Vatour is confidentthat with the souring demand, it could soon surpass the current top markets like the US andJapan.
- seafood
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/food/2015-06/26/content_21107944.htm Sea cucumbers, valued for their traditional Chinese medicinal properties, are widely farmed in China's coastal areas to satisfy the great market demand, and a cluster of 500 gram upscale dried Chinese sea cucumbers can sell for up to 10,000 yuan ($1,612). Now wild Canadian sea cucumbers, captured in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia province, are also finding their way onto Chinese food tables, as most Canadian people don't consider the creature edible. Last week at a media conference in Beijing, a deal was announced between Canadian seafood processing giant United Trans and Beijing Pharma, a capital-based pharmaceutical that owns the government-certified online drugs and healthcare products shopping platform in China, Yaofang.com. Under the agreement, Canadian sea cucumbers will be allowed entry into China as a health product, according to a statement by Beijing Pharma.
- 自中國科技巨企華為的太子女孟晚舟在加拿大被捕後，中加貿易和外交關係緊張。繼暫停購買部分加拿大農產品，中國駐當地大使館要求加方周二起，暫停所有肉類輸華，原因是再驗出俗稱「瘦肉精」的萊克多巴胺，以及發現有偽造獸醫衞生證書的情況。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190627/00180_006.html
- pork
- 加拿大農業部長比博周三表示，中國政府暫停兩間加拿大豬肉出口商的出口許可證，暫時未知原因以及何時生效，亦不作出任何猜測。在非洲豬瘟影響下，中國去年合共購買了五億一千四百萬加元（約三十億港元）加拿大豬肉。加拿大自去年應美國要求，扣留中國科技巨企華為太子女孟晚舟，引發中加關係緊張。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190503/00180_009.html
- https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3010753/piggy-go-round-canadian-pork-exports-china-soar-thanks-swine-flu-fears Canadian pork exports to China soared 80 per cent in March as the spread of African swine fever forces the Asian nation to tap overseas markets, government data shows. With Chinese tariffs on American pork still in place, Canada is importing more from the US and shipping its own produce to China. All of that is curbing supply to Mexico.
- 海關總署周二通報，江蘇南京海關本月三日在一批加拿大企業輸華豬肉中，驗出俗稱「瘦肉精」的萊克多巴胺殘留物。海關將暫停受理該企輸華豬肉進口申報，暫停接受該企衞生證書；同時加強抽檢。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190619/00178_024.html
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-trade-china/china-to-resume-imports-of-canadian-beef-and-pork-idUSKBN1XF29X China will resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, some four months after Beijing blocked shipments amid an escalating diplomatic feud between the two countries.
- canola oil
- http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/trudeau-china-canola-1.3740969 China is Canada's top export market for the oilseed, and Ottawa has taken an increasingly strong line in talks on a new standard, which industry participants say would significantly raise costs for exporters. China says the standard is necessary to prevent the spread of blackleg disease from Canadian canola into Chinese crops of rapeseed, another name for the agricultural commodity.
- https://beta.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2185110/no-doubt-they-are-retaliating-canadian-canola-hits-chinese cargoes of Canadian canola had taken longer to clear Chinese customs and GMO permits needed to import genetically modified crops, including canola, became more difficult to obtain, traders said. Back in Canada, canola stocks piled up to a record-high level at the end of 2018, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday. China buys some C$2.5 billion (US$1.90 billion) of Canadian canola per year, and a slower sales pace would be another hit to exporters, which include Richardson International, Viterra and Cargill, in a year when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces a tough race for re-election.
- 中國海關總署日前撤銷加拿大理查森農業公司的芥花籽進口許可，至周四發出警示通報，指連續在遼寧及廣東等地相關進口的芥花籽中，驗出多種有害生物，近日已加強對進口加拿大芥花籽檢疫，並會適時調整預警措施，及時把有關情況通知區內芥花籽進口企業。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190308/00178_005.html
- 中國海關總署周二宣布撤銷加拿大Viterra Inc.企業註冊登記，即日暫停受理其芥花籽油報關申請，原因是多次驗出含十字花科黑斑病、糙果莧等有害生物。該公司與較早前同被撤銷許可的理查森國際，同屬加拿大芥花籽協會，該會現有十八個企業成員，它們與中國的貿易合約期接近，或已屆滿。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190327/00178_011.html
- 在中國禁止從加拿大進口芥花籽後，加國貿易部長卡爾上周五指，已要求和中國在世界貿易組織（WTO）上舉行正式會面，解決中方對加方相關禁令。其聲明指，加方正尋求與中方在世貿上進行「雙邊協商」。而在世貿的條文下，兩國需在三十日內會面；倘會面失敗，加方可提出申訴。加拿大芥花籽商會對此表示支持。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190908/00180_006.html
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2017-08/11/content_30452206.htm Feihe International Inc, a leading manufacturer of infant formula in China, said it is ramping up construction of a plant valued at C$300 million ($234 million) in the Canadian province of Ontario. The plant is expected to come onstream in 2019.
- 23日，101箱中国猪肉包子从河北石家庄赵县发往天津港，再经过26天左右的海上运程，将于4月中运抵目的地加拿大多伦多，稍后更将有第二批中国猪肉包子再次发往加拿大。据中国国家质量监督检验检疫总局进出口食品安全局介绍，这是中国含肉馅粮食製品首次出口加拿大，表明中国食品安全质量得到进一步提升http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180326/PDF/a15_screen.pdf
- tech
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160901/PDF/a8_screen.pdf國務院總理李克強31日在北京同加拿大總理特魯多舉行會談，李克強希望加拿大放寬對華高技術產品出口。
- 總部設在加拿大溫哥華的華資企業溢思得瑞科技創新集團（Istuary Innovation Group），早前被指拖欠員工多月薪金，又涉嫌操控龐氏騙局，把投資者資金非法轉作私人用途，結果遭員工及投資者入稟控告。美國傳媒近日指，溢思得瑞涉嫌將技術及資金轉移到中國，令中國當局更容易監控市民。據報道，溢思得瑞集團曾獲加拿大政府大力支持，然而至去年初有崩解徵兆，開始拖欠員工薪金。雖然部分員工其後控告該公司，惟不少員工擔心失去居留資格，即使拿不到薪水亦持續工作。另報道引述公司文件和集團員工指，溢思得瑞前年和一間中國網絡安全公司分享資金和技術，而該網絡安全公司的主要客戶，多為中國國企、財政和公安部門等，令人擔心該公司所開發的人工智能技術，將被中國當局用於國內監控之上。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180712/00178_019.html
- investors from China
- Fission Uranium Corp. is closing in on a landmark deal with a Chinese company that would represent China’s first direct investment into a Canadian uranium firm. Fission and state-owned CGN Mining Company Ltd. have signed a letter of intent for CGN to acquire a 19.9 per cent stake in Fission for $82.2 million. The two sides also plan to enter an offtake agreement in which CGN would buy uranium output from Fission’s Patterson Lake South (PLS) property in Saskatchewan. Companies often sign letters of intent that never turn into firm deals, but Fission chief executive Dev Randhawa said it is “highly likely” this transaction will close next month. CGN announced the deal publicly on Monday, and it put the money in trust with Fission’s lawyers, he added.CGN is controlled by China General Nuclear Power Corp., one of China’s two giant nuclear power firms. The company raised US$3.2 billion in an initial public offering last year, and is involved in many clean energy ventures. http://business.financialpost.com/news/mining/fission-uranium-nears-landmark-82-million-investment-from-state-owned-chinese-giant-cgn-mining-company-ltd
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20151205/PDF/b2_screen.pdf 昂納光通信（00877）昨於股東會上通過改名為昂納科技，聯席主席及執行總裁那慶林於股東會後表示，希望改名更能反映公司業務。對於公司早前收購加拿大光學元件商ITF Technologies Inc.，被加拿大聯邦政府認為可能對國家安全造成傷害，那慶林稱目前仍繼續與加拿大政府協商。
- 綠地香港（0337）母公司綠地控股宣佈，「綠地加拿大進口商品直採中心」昨日正式揭牌。根據簽署的合作協議，綠地與多倫多地區經貿委將共同建設「綠地加拿大進口商品直採中心」，採購當地優質商品直供綠地國內精品超市。雙方還將就商品直採、商貿推廣、品牌宣介等方面積極尋求深入合作。此外，綠地還與上海加拿大商會及加拿大牛肉國際協會等合作夥伴簽署協議，在跨境商貿領域開展全面合作。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/04/09/b03-0409.pdf
- Cold-FX
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2016-07/12/content_26053547.htm Beijing Sanyuan Foods Co Ltd, one of China's leading dairy producers, plans to purchase a majority ownership in Crowley Properties Ltd, a Vancouver-based company making dairy products such as yogurt, cheese, ice cream and butter for about C$19 million ($14.58 million), according to an announcement by Sanyuan. The acquisition was approved by Sanyuan's board of directors in May and is now under assessment by related government departments. Beijing-based Sanyuan will make the deal by establishing a joint venture with Canada's Proto Capital Investment & Trade Group Ltd. With the joint venture being the buyer, Sanyuan will hold 51 percent stake in it, with Proto holding the remaining shares.
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/09/24/a06-0924.pdf 總部位於山東鄒平的西王集團旗下上 市企業西王食品股份有限公司，當地時間 22日在加拿大渥太華與全球知名的健康食 品企業 Kerr Investment Holding Corp 簽 署收購協議。根據協議，西王食品與春華 資本共同發起設立的一家公司（西王食品 持股 75%，春華資本持股 25%）將以 7.3 億美元（約 49億元人民幣）的價格收購 Kerr公司 100%股權，並以此進軍全球高 端健康食品市場。 此次收購交易為全現金收購。正在加拿 大訪問的李克強總理和加拿大總理杜魯多 見證了此次簽約。 塑造中國健康
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20161017/00180_016.html自七月開始，有光顧溫哥華列治文市豐泰超市（Foody World）熟食檔的客人，出現發燒、頭痛、腹瀉及嘔吐等症狀，需要送醫治理。
- http://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/q-and-a-japanese-lifestyle-brand-miniso-sets-up-shop-on-granville-street
- 潮商
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150904/PDF/b3_screen.pdf潮商周
- catering
- 「大鴨梨」開在多倫多士嘉堡華人比較集中居住的地區 http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170813/PDF/a18_screen.pdf
- property
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160919/00178_016.html據加拿大溫哥華格雷岬區一份住宅買賣文件顯示，該區有九間總值高達五千七百萬加元（約三億三千六百萬港元）的豪宅買家，身份疑似為中國留學生。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20161001/00176_010.html 在海外方面，鄭裕彤與李嘉誠、李兆基合作，於八七年成立協平世博集團，發展加拿大世界博覽會舊址。是項投資，轟動溫哥華，因該址佔地二百萬畝，為整個溫哥華市中心的六分之一，最終建成溫哥華萬博豪園。
- https://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/3019835/vancouver-fights-back-tax-battle-over-us20-million-property Vancouver’s municipal authorities are fighting back in court to collect a massive tax bill on a C$26.8 million (US$20.4 million) property linked to the Chinese billionaire parliamentarian Zheng Jianjiang. The seaside property, owned by Zheng’s wife, He Yiju, is on Belmont Avenue, one of Canada’s most expensive streets. It was hit with the vacancy tax bill of C$249,313.67 (roughly US$190,000) in 2017, representing 1 per cent of the property’s value at the time.
- A controversial deal to buy the ski mountain overlooking Vancouver that involved the cash-strapped Chinese investment giant CMIG has been hit with allegations of fraud in a lawsuit that purports to reveal details of the 2017 transaction, dubbed “Project Snowflake”.Among other claims, it says two executives from China Minsheng Investment Group (CMIG) flew from Shanghai to Vancouver on a private jet chartered for US$381,000 to inspect the resort, in which CMIG took a 40 per cent stake.It also depicts a complex web of transactions, supposedly involving a C$2 million (US$1.5 million) deposit paid on CMIG’s behalf but routed via the wife of a Vancouver-based co-investor.The lawsuit’s claims are unproven. Lodged in the British Columbia Supreme Court on February 4, it seeks 30 per cent of the proceeds from the recent resale of the resort for an undisclosed amount. The original 2017 asking price for the iconic resort, whose floodlit slopes are visible across Vancouver at night, was C$200 million (US$151 million).CMIG is a private investment conglomerate backed by dozens of Chinese tycoons. It was founded under the direction of Premier Li Keqiang in 2014, as part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. The company had targeted assets around the world, but last year revealed it was in a liquidity crisis that left it unable to repay the principal and interest on US$500 million of bonds.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3050769/project-snowflake-fraud-claim-hits-sale-vancouver-mountain
- chinese politicians
- http://toronto.singtao.ca/904179/2016-05-29/post-稱有信心領聯邦-保守黨重奪政權-莊文浩視移民背/?variant=zh-hk
- chinatown
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160202/00180_025.html 加拿大多倫多唐人街周日凌晨發生槍擊事件，兩批人士在一間中餐館外發生爭執，期間有人開槍，一人當場喪生，一人送院後傷重死亡，另有三人受傷。警方事後封鎖案發現場調查事件。有當地華人對槍擊案感震驚，更有華商打算提早關店。
- The Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society (CCMMS) is located in Vancouver, on the second floor of the Chinese Cultural Centre. It was created in 1998 and maintains a museum in that city. The museum has given temporary displays to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
- hkej 15may17 established by a scot couple
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21661035-chinatown-cantonese-squares-against-mandarin-long-live-cantopop
- http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2016-06/29/content_25900892.htm The 101-year-old Chinese-born educator was one of the first foreigners to teach at a Chinese university, and as such she witnessed the country's transition from war to peace and poverty to development. Born to a Canadian missionary family in the southwestern province of Sichuan, Crook spent part of her youth in China. After completing her university studies in Canada, Crook undertook anthropological research in rural Sichuan in 1939. When New China was founded a decade later, she began teaching English in Beijing. Over the years, she has advised the government on programs for rural education.
- http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201703/0313/HA16313CHBB.pdf Damin group chan wei tak - aoni condom
- https://www.facebook.com/CANADATPE/photos/pcb.2081190331908119/2081179481909204/?type=3&theater 台灣的第一座女子學堂就是由加拿大的馬偕博士在1884年成立的。當時馬偕博士發現臺灣婦女受制於「重男輕女」的社會陋俗使得婦女缺乏自由與幸福，因此希望藉由教育的力量來尋求改變。在加拿大長老教會協助下，他創辦了全台第一所女子學校「淡水女學堂」，雖然只有45名噶瑪蘭女子就學，但已開時代先河，也拔得台灣婦女教育運動之頭籌。淡水女學堂在馬偕博士過世後一度停課。1907年在加拿大女宣教士金仁理Miss Jonie Kinny、高哈拿姑娘Miss Hannah Connell的主持下，重新以女子中學形式開校，後因法令所限改名「淡水女學院」，1956年與淡江中學合併成「私立淡江高級中學」。
- 加拿大蒙特利爾麥基爾大學一名來自台灣的華人教授，被指與身在美國的兄長，合謀為中國大陸竊密，購買用於美國軍用雷達、干擾發射機和擾頻器的集成電路，遭美加兩國執法部門調查。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180127/00178_006.html
macau
- 在澳門霍英東基金會的支持下，中山大學和加拿大不列顛哥倫比 亞大學（UBC）就醫療科研和學術交流方面開展夥伴合作關係，並於 日前在香港舉行慶祝活動和捐贈簽約儀式，集中在神經科學、癌症、 糖尿病和傳染病領域研究的科研合作http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171215/PDF/b10_screen.pdf
Hong Kong
- before 1997
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20170601/200400401996年今日，加拿大多份報章報道，加國政府秘密擬定大規模海空撤僑計劃，並求助美國海軍派遣船隻，一旦香港回歸後發生動亂，即經水路送走滯港約10萬名僑民。該撤僑計劃由加拿大外交部和皇家騎警合力擬定，當地多份報章包括《太陽報》都引述加國官員指，雖然預期中國會遵守《中英聯合聲明》，讓香港繼續享有自由和行政架構不變，但都要作最壞打算，恐防主權交接後出現暴動，並考慮到當時啟德機場使用率近飽和，不利撤僑，故求助美國海軍派遣船隻，以備緊急撤僑所需。
- association
- confederation of greater toronto chinese business association
- 加拿大香港社團聯合總會
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/04/21/a14-0421.pdf 香港友好協進會會長、全國政協常委戴德豐昨日在會所接待到訪的加拿大香港社團聯合總會會 長 陸 炳 雄 一 行 ， 雙 方就 香 港 現 況 進 行 友 好 交流 ， 並 冀 望 日 後 進 一 步增 進 聯 絡 。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170421/PDF/b7_screen.pdf訪問團成員則是來自加拿大各行各業的代表，包括市議員、律師、銀行董事、合唱團團長、報社社長等。戴德豐首先向訪問團表示熱烈的歡迎，並簡介了友協的發展狀況。談到香港的發展，他形容自己是 「樂觀派」，對香港的未來充滿了信心，又透露友協已贊助200萬港元拍攝短片《美麗香港》，通過介紹香港各行各業的成就，從而對外宣傳香港精神。他亦期望兩會未來能夠經常聯絡，加強往來。
- news supp
- 1jul16, 1jul17, 1jul19 national day scmp
- 10nov17 scmp business report supp
- Exchange magazine by cancham in hk http://www.cancham.org/?page=EXCHANGEmag
- ippa
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160212/PDF/a12_screen.pdf 商務及經濟發展局局長蘇錦樑代表特區政府出訪加拿大。他在多倫多時間2月10日與加拿大政府官員簽署促進和保護投資協定，又出席商界圓桌午宴和旅居多倫多港人的春節晚宴。他表示，簽署投資協定有助增強投資者信心，鞏固香港和加拿大的經貿聯繫；又指本港會把握“一帶一路”戰略所帶來的發展機遇，鼓勵加拿大企業家利用本港優勢，開拓亞洲市場。 蘇錦樑訪加行程緊密。首先代表特區政府與加拿大國際貿易部部長Chrystia Freeland在加拿大多倫多簽署促進和保護投資協定，是與荷蘭、德國和英國等其他經濟體簽署的第18份同類協定。他表示，香港是亞洲主要貿易和投資中心，亦是加拿大商界進軍區內龐大市場，特別是開拓中國內地市場的理想大門，相信今次簽署投資協定，會增強投資者信心，擴大香港與加拿大之間的投資流動，進一步鞏固兩地經貿聯繫。 蘇錦樑之後出席香港駐多倫多經濟貿易辦事處和港加商會大多倫多地區分會合辦的商界圓桌午宴時表示，“一帶一路”倡議促進沿線60多個經濟體更緊密的經濟和文化合作，尤其是亞洲、歐洲和非洲的新興經濟體。他認為香港具備加拿大企業需要的條件，成為它們的策略性夥伴，協助它們進入“一帶一路”沿線國家的市場，鼓勵加拿大企業家充分利用香港的優勢，發掘龐大的亞洲市場，以至其他市場。 除此之外，蘇錦樑亦參觀位於懷雅遜大學的數碼媒體區，該處是加拿大為新興科技初創企業而設的最大規模商業培育機構之一。他與該校的臨時教務長暨副校長Chris Evans會面，了解數碼媒體區的成功因素，探討香港如何借鏡它的策略；其後又與加拿大國會加港友好小組主席莊文浩會面，就共同關注的議題交流意見。
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2077404/hong-kong-asylum-seekers-who-sheltered-edward-snowden-filed
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2102926/asylum-seekers-who-housed-us-whistle-blower-snowden-sue The seven asylum seekers who housed American whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013 are set to sue the Canadian government on Tuesday for failing to expedite their refugee claims, which were filed in January.The group has already seen their protection claims rejected by the Immigration Department in Hong Kong in May. Though they have since filed appeals, the seven are now at further risk of detention and eventual deportation to their home countries, where they claim they face violence and persecution.
- tourist
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1908624/canada-rule-change-means-some-hongkongers-will-need-apply Hongkongers holding SAR or British National (Overseas) passports will need to obtain extra documentation before flying to Canada, as the government there tightens its visa-free arrangements worldwide. The new policy will require passengers to apply online for an “electronic travel authorisation”. It will take effect from March 15, according to the Canadian government. The authorisation covers all foreign nationals except US citizens. It is part of a beefed-up border policy, pre-screening travellers for security threats. The federal government has called it a “strengthened methodology in order to better identify high-risk travellers”. Those who fly to or through Canada will need to apply for the permit, while those reaching Canada over land or by sea will not. It will cost CAD$7 (HK$39) and will be valid for up to five years.
- http://www.cancham.org/events/event_details.asp?id=628367#
As the economic ascendancy of Asia continues, the Chinese mainland has emerged as theworld’s third largest investor economy and an increasingly significant source of outbounddirect investment. Hong Kong has been its key route for cross-border deals andpartnerships, with some 60% of Chinese outbound investment directed to, or channeledthrough, our city on cumulative count.
Tohighlight Hong Kong’s role as an effective conduit for mainland enterprises’ overseasinvestment ventures, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council will organize the "ThinkAsia, Think Hong Kong" campaign to be held in Toronto on8 June 2015. The event bringstogether business leaders for high-level discussions, networking and business matchingsessions. The Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive, CY Leung, will also lead a delegation of over100 business leaders to North America to explore collaborative ventures.
What is on the agenda at "Think Asia, Think Hong Kong"?
- A series of symposiums and thematic business seminars with high-profile speakers
- Business matching and extensive networking opportunities with mainland andHong Kong business delegates in areas such as finance, professional services,technology, food and wines.
- tourism event
- HKTA invited chefs to promote hk cuisine in canada singtao 8jun15 a21
- 潮商會於6日與內地及加拿大其他機構合作，為加拿大創業創新考察團舉辦高科技項目推介會。作為「加拿大高科技項目推介會」的合作機構，潮州商會特別邀請各位專家就「NP癌篩選」、「保健醫療軟件」、「油類安全管理」、「3D技術」、「皮膚護理」以及「醫學院及醫院軟件」等6項高新科技項目作介紹，受到同仁的熱烈歡迎。出席推介會的有：副會長林宣亮，常務會董張俊勇，會董姚逸明、陳德寧、李焯麟、張詩培、林世豪、吳茂松、余秋偉、許禮良、羅志豪，青委成員陳光明、周緒強、龔雅璇，會員謝尚全、陳慎正、歐慈英、陳德輝、陳立文、陳偉文、陳香兒、劉志耀、于丹、Annie Hu、Tony Wu。中華總商會青委吳江、周浩雲、張嘉裕、林逸良等也出席了推介會。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/01/08/a24-0108.pdf
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-04-20/how-one-hong-kong-company-upset-canada-s-ginseng-industry Canadian farmers feel meltdown effects from the other side of the world, http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20160422/00202_056.html 恒發洋參（00911）原來係加拿大種植參嘅超級大買家，單係安大略省出產嘅洋參，就有70%都係賣畀恒發，不過聽講依家好多當地參農都坐晒貨。相信大家記憶猶新，今年一月時，恒發洋參曾經單日股價大挫九成，之後四月公布業績時更盈轉虧，全年蝕超過四億元，公司又透露所有銀行已停止借貸畀佢哋。其實依家好多加國參農都出唔到貨，連帶其他買家都想睇定啲唔買住，因為下一步可能會有參農割價求售嘛。聽講，有參農坐住成一千五百幾萬港元貨，一個參農已經咁，成個參行條數唔知點計。參農周轉困難還唔到錢畀銀行，咁搞落去引發嘅連鎖反應，點只係當地參業咁簡單
- q mark
- property
- education
- delegations to hk- 香港工業總會（工總）轄下香港優質標誌局（優標局）日前與澳門廠商聯合會及澳門生產力暨科技轉移中心簽 訂合作框架協議，為促進港澳兩地推廣優質標誌之合作建立全面合作夥伴關係。簽署儀式在澳門特別行政區經濟財 政司司長梁維特、經濟局局長戴建業以及簽署三方的領導見證下完成。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180205/PDF/b1_screen.pdf
- property
- 嘉年華國際(00996)昨宣布就溫哥華高端綜合項目引入策略夥伴Aspac Alberni，該策略夥伴為新鴻基地產(00016)郭氏家族在加拿大的私人投資公司。http://www.quamnet.com/newscontent.action?articleId=5527885&listSectionCode=NEW_ALL
- education
- https://www.facebook.com/CanadainHKandMacao/photos/a.488658917830847.123081.479532105410195/1254390897924308/?type=3&theater elighted to have the President and Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University (Official), Dr. Roseann O'Reilly Runte, visiting Hong Kong! During her visit, Dr. Runte met with the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development and Carleton alumnus, Mr. Gregory So, and hosted a gathering for the Carleton University Alumni Association in Hong Kong.
- 胡劍江表示，今年5月，香港潮州商會曾到訪加拿大，並同多倫多市經濟發展及文化部、加拿大華創會簽署了戰略合作協議，為雙方的經貿往來奠定了堅實基礎，相信今次代表團到訪，將進一步推動香港和加拿大的交流合作。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/09/15/a16-0915.pdf
- environment mission (31oct14) (source: tdc sme monthly oct14)
- Environment mission to ecoexpo 15 https://www.facebook.com/CanadainHKandMacao/photos/a.488658917830847.123081.479532105410195/1139444369418962/?type=3
- John tory visit https://www.facebook.com/johntoryTO/photos/pcb.10157012339805495/10157012338105495/?type=3&theater signing of a partnership agreement between Toronto and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The City and the council will promote trade and business opportunities in both markets and work together to boost investment and economic development.
- 加拿大「一帶一路」代表團日前到訪香港潮州商會，加拿大駐港澳總領事南傑瑞、香港潮州商會會長胡劍江等出席歡迎，並與代表團舉行友好座談，就香港與加拿大的經貿往來作深入交流。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/09/15/a16-0915.pdf
- investors in hk
- investors from hk
- property agents in hk- Macmillan (law firm)
- ipos from canada to kiv
- First established relations with sunwah group (canada hk exchange issue may2015)
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20161110/00202_005.html 加拿大小型油氣公司Persta Resources遞主板上市申請，主要生產天然氣、原油、天然氣液態烴及凝析油。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20170217/00202_013.html加拿大石油及天然氣開發商Persta Resources Inc.「闖關」成功，通過主板上市聆訊，保薦人為長江證券融資（香港）。初步招股文件顯示，公司聯席創辦人、董事會主席、總裁兼行政總裁伯樂年僅三十六歲。
- Persta Resources Inc. is a private junior oil & gas company based in Calgary Alberta. Tallinn has provided subordinated financing to Persta in two separate transactions over the past four years to aid in the development of it’s oil producing properties. Tallinn’s bridge loans provided the required funding without dilution to the shareholders. Cash flow increased significantly with the aide of Tallinn’s funds resulting with the initial loan being repaid from a new senior bank loan. http://www.tallinncapital.com/portfolio-items/persta-resources/
- stock code 3395
- investors from hk
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20151218/PDF/b1_screen.pdf 泛海（00292）公佈，與德祥（00199）、XPEC及ATL成立合營企業，開發加拿大綜合性住宅及商業項目。收購價格約1.7億加拿大元（約9.74億港元），四間公司持股量分別為40%、28%、20%及12%，公司就合營企業的最大資本承擔約7600萬加拿大元（約4.35億港元）。公司昨復牌，股價升4.854%至每股1.08元收市。
- post 80s girl set up travel agency in yellowknife city hket 17aug17 c11
- L & a international properties hk ltd www.l-aproperties.com
- 移民加國外匯專家教路https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20191203/00269_001.html
- migrants
- the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong estimates there are a further 500,000 people of Hong Kong descent living in Canada https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3032596/could-hong-kong-protests-sway-canadian-election
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1247617/hk-vancouver-and-back-migrants-who-came-home-home
- hket 4dec14 a30
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2011415/canadian-father-sues-government-over-denial-hong-kong-passport-canadaA Canadian father of Chinese descent is suing the government for not granting his Canada-born son a Hong Kong passport on the grounds the boy is not a Chinese national.Timothy Loh and his son Hudson Timothy George Loh argued through their lawyers yesterday at the High Court that the 11 year old should be qualified for a passport due to their Chinese heritage and close ties with the city. But legal representatives for the director of immigration and passports appeal board countered that their claims were bending the law.They suggested the matter would be better resolved if the son were to be naturalised as a citizen.
- 一對移民加拿大、經營婚禮統籌生意多年的港人夫婦Kitty Chan及Kevin Leung，與一對華裔夫婦產生生意紛爭，更被對方在網上追擊，令公司最終倒閉，憤而狀告對方誹謗。至上月廿二日，法院判該對夫婦罪成，須向Kitty賠償十一萬五千加元（約七十萬港元）。Kitty向本報記者表示滿意判決，但稱金錢不能補償損失。她希望事件可以警惕公眾，即使在網上發表言論也要基於事實，否則要承擔後果。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180304/00180_023.html
- 多倫多警方證實，拘捕25歲疑犯米納西安的英勇警員，是一名林姓的華裔警員。傳媒報道，他是香港移民第二代，父親在香港曾任輔警。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/04/25/a20-0425.pdf, 據林母Ann表示，他們一家由香港移民到多倫多40多年， 林偉傑在加拿大出生，畢業後曾當電腦工程師，一直做了10 多年，多年前突然想轉職當警察，於是跟父親林明商量重新 轉行。 林明在港時曾當輔警警署警長，一直希望兒子克紹箕裘 ，他給予兒子鼓勵，林偉傑終於成功獲錄取，成為警察。在 警校畢業當日，林明還特地穿上香港警服，參加兒子的畢業 禮，父子兵齊齊拍照http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180426/PDF/a24_screen.pdf, also scmp report of the same day
- ho tit man obit singtao 14aug18 a17 to be buried in canada
- appledaily 4nov18 post90 hk woman in vancouver
- scmp 14jun19 canada's hk-born population on the rise again
港男舉家赴溫哥華定居https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20190902/00269_003.html
- https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3032629/canadian-police-took-down-hong-kong-protester-heres-what The man who was tackled to the ground and handcuffed in a Richmond mall, in footage widely seen on Weibo, was Chinese political refugee Yang Kuang. But other perspectives show a complex scene: protesters are taunted, rival groups close in and police try to keep sides apart to avoid physical clashes
- scmp 13oct19 gloria fung, founder of canada-hk link
- 英國傳媒周一（14日）披露，澳洲聯邦警察領導亞洲、歐洲及北美洲約二十個執法部門，展開歷來最大規模針對亞洲販毒集團的行動，目標是有「亞洲古茲曼」之稱的加拿大華裔毒梟謝志樂（Tse Chi Lop，音譯）。他涉嫌在十多國走私冰毒、海洛英及俗稱K仔的氯胺酮，其集團操控亞太區每年七百億美元（約五千四百六十億港元）的毒品交易。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191016/00180_009.html
- back to hk and return
- culture
- 加拿大新晉華裔畫家王俊傑近日在埃德蒙頓自殺身亡。他自學成才，去年在紐約舉辦個人畫展後獲一致好評，原本在下月初再辦，豈料在本月二日撒手人寰，終年三十五歲。王俊傑一九八四年在多倫多出生，七歲時隨父母到香港居住。其母指，兒子患神經內科疾病妥瑞症、抑鬱症和自閉症，每日醒來受疾病折磨。俊傑其後因醫療需要返北美，入讀美國密歇根大學。到○九年，他用手機在祖父的睡房拍攝靜物照片時，才首次開通他的創作意念。俊傑翌年返港，入讀城市大學創意媒體學院，一三年取得攝影碩士學位，然而之後他轉攻繪畫，從頭自學風景、靜物為主的繪畫技法。俊傑一五年在香港視覺藝術中心舉行了首場個人畫展，翌年又在美國紐約展出作品。評論形容作品用色熱情卻帶憂鬱，令人聯想起荷蘭畫家梵高，但又自成一格。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191024/00180_019.html
- 加拿大多倫多華人主要聚居區馬克姆市，於上周六舉辦「千人共享港茶樂」活動。市長薛家平（Frank Scarpitti）與眾多華人，一同免費品嘗商家現場沖調的港式奶茶。主辦機構希望透過活動讓民眾以茶會友、分享港式茶餐文化。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190218/00180_039.html
China Hong Kong
- ties hkej 7oct14 c3
- culture centre
- 中國駐加拿大卡爾加里總領事陸旭日前應邀赴埃德蒙頓阿爾伯塔大學中國學院為該校蔡冠深文化中心揭幕。全國政協委員、香港新華集團主席蔡冠深及阿大校長特平（David Turpin）、中國學院院長侯秉東（Gordon Hooulden）等出席。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/08/27/a29-0827.pdf
Chinese
- in government
- 競逐在野保守黨黨魁的國會議員斯隆(Derek Sloan)近期在社交網站發文，形容加拿大疫情未受控，更將責任歸咎在香港出生的首席公共衛生官譚詠詩，要求她辭職或政府將她撤職。這番言論惹來各方狠批，當地華人批評斯隆種族歧視，保守黨黨魁熙爾亦與斯隆劃清界線，讚揚譚詠詩的抗疫工作。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/04/27/a19-0427.pdf
- involvement in politics
- 華為與加拿大人的生活密切，贊助加拿大全國冰球運動會，加拿大政府則向華為提供了十年的津貼和優惠。Huawei又是加拿大電訊商貝爾（Bell）5G技術發展的夥伴。華為在加拿大僱用的企業事務主管、白人恩賴特（Jake Enwright），曾擔任加拿大保守黨公關主任。加拿大華為企業事務副總裁布萊德利（Scott Bradley），更是加拿大自由黨公關主任，兼「加中貿易理事會」（CCBC）的董事。「加中貿易理事會」另一名董事，是加拿大前自由黨政府內閣閣員郭川（Martin Cauchon）。二〇一一年，加拿大安大略省向華為贈送了一筆價值六百五十萬加幣的禮物，郭川致詞，很幽默地說：「有一句老話，如果你不能打贏他，倒不如加入他。」（There is a saying that if you can't beat them, join them）https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/columnist/%E9%99%B6%E5%82%91/daily/article/20181213/20567290
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/10/18/a24-1018.pdf
- chinese community
- 加拿大太平洋鐵路於1881年動工，旨在將新加入聯邦的卑詩省以鐵路連接至加國東部。工程動用了大批華工，而項目於1885年至1886年間竣工後，那批華工頓時失業。當中部分人開始到鐵路總站所在的溫哥華（當時華人將之稱為「鹹水埠」）工作，主要從事洗衣、裁縫和送貨等行業，並聚居於片打街和上海巷一帶，溫哥華的華埠自此形成。到1887年華埠人口約有90人，「China Town」一詞更出現於主流報章中。
- secret society ganges moved into toronto chinatown in 1978 scmp 2mar18
- singtao 30oct17 a22
- 加拿大溫哥華氣溫回暖，市內櫻花開始盛開，東部社區一條街道恍如人間仙境，吸引大批華人前往拍照留念。惟當地居民深感不滿，有人拍下華人私闖社區拍照的行為並放上社交網。更有業主貼出中文告示，要求不要騷擾民居。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190424/00180_022.html
- 李謝文英 (probably a buddhist) notice for remembrance service singtao 18dec17
- Ho-Asjoe, Frank Wai Yiu
- https://webb-site.com/dbpub/positions.asp?p=153554
- https://webb-site.com/dbpub/orgdata.asp?p=4840
PYXIS GROUP LIMITED 瀚智集團有限公司
- https://www.hkex.com.hk/news/news-release/2015/150213news?sc_lang=enThe Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Exchange") hereby announces that with effect from 9:00 am on 17 February 2015, the listing of the shares of Pyxis Group Limited (the "Company") will be cancelled in accordance with the delisting procedures under Practice Note 17 to the Listing Rules (the "Delisting Procedures").
- obit scmp 3apr19
- 加拿大傳媒周三報道，邊境服務局人員早年翻查一對華人夫婦的垃圾時，揭發對方涉嫌與部分加國企業串通，提供虛假的工作證明文件，以協助多達一千二百名中國人移民當地，其後被控偽造文件等罪名。這宗二○○六年以來最大的移民欺詐案，將於本年九月展開預審聽證程序。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190705/00180_015.html
- 加拿大溫哥華華人社區近日有傳，一對華人老人於當地一家商場的美食廣場，遭到警員反手鎖上手銬，肇因是二人涉嫌朝一名年輕女子臉上潑熱湯。目前警方暫未回應。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190711/00178_017.html
- 聯合國毒品和犯罪問題辦公室東南亞負責人杜格拉斯（Jeremy Douglas）解釋，毒品交易問題惡化的原因，與販毒集團從金三角向亞太地區輸出大量冰毒，以及因應執法部門行動而改變販毒路線有關，並把矛頭指向別名為「三哥」的加拿大華裔毒梟謝志樂（Tse Chi Lop，音譯），形容他的集團可同時從多個邊境走私毒品構成巨大挑戰。杜格拉斯指湄公河諒解備忘錄成員國將分享情報，從邊境咽喉點入手，阻止毒品原料流入金三角，而原料多來自中國、泰國、越南及印度。他指過往行動層面的合作屬臨時性質，各方之後的合作更有組織、有系統及有效。與會的中國國家禁毒委員會辦公室副主任曾偉雄稱，中方加強與湄公河國家合作，聯手打擊「三哥」販毒集團。他指販毒集團是其中一個重大威脅，中方將竭盡所能重創他們。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20191117/00176_047.html
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1593861/chinese-parents-clash-striking-canadian-teachers
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1612403/rich-chinese-immigrants-deception-costs-british-columbia-billions, http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1612344/how-rich-chinese-migrants-british-columbia-get-away-destination-deception
- 加拿大新冠肺炎死者有不少是居住在護老院，其中包括於上周五逝世的111歲華裔人瑞林趙煥喜。林趙煥喜曾積極爭取加拿大政府公開向被徵人頭稅的華裔道歉和賠償，成為了當地華人的模範，鼓吹華人勇敢發表對抗種族歧視言論。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/05/01/a17-0501.pdf
- sinologist- Canadian scholar Roger T. Ames is pushing for Chinese culture to play a global role. Having cultivated the field of Chinese-Western comparative philosophy studies for over thirty years, Roger T. Ames is already one of its big names. In academic circles, his translations of Chinese philosophical theory are widely regarded as valuable reference materials and accepted as standard texts. Yet, he insists on referring to his contributions as just "a little bit of work that I've done". The Canadian scholar with the Berggruen Institute is also the vice president of the International Confucian Association and a professor of philosophy at Peking University. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201809/03/WS5b8c7fb2a310add14f389234.html
- 加拿大一名九十一歲華裔老婦及其家人，近日指控魁北克省蒙特利爾一間醫院，因老婦不諳英語而拒絕提供服務。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190611/00178_019.html
- 加拿大溫哥華地區一周內接連爆出三宗種族歧視事件，其中至少兩宗是針對中國人。有意見認為，這個現象反映當地種族歧視問題有惡化迹象。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191107/00180_027.html
- 在位於卑詩省的溫哥華，一名患有認知障礙症的華裔老翁曾在便利店內遭白人男子打出店外，而在華埠的大溫哥華中華文化中心，繼上月初疑遭白人男子在玻璃門窗寫上仇恨華人的字句和打爛玻璃後，又於上周四早上發現有人在圍欄後放置煙霧彈。溫哥華市政府表示絕對不能容忍種族仇恨行為，警方正追緝兩名可疑白人男子。大溫哥華中華文化中心主席郭英華表示：「這些襲擊造成一定程度的破壞，是過往從未見過的極端情況。文化中心林思齊堂大門的玻璃大門上月3日被惡意塗鴉，寫上有『制止中國人來到加拿大』、『全部殺掉』、『全部逐出加拿大』含義的英文恐嚇字句。文化中心立即報警，溫哥華市警方進行調查，並且加強巡邏。」文化中心把閉路電視片段交給警方，當中拍得其中一名男子的樣貌。郭英華表示文化中心被惡意塗鴉後翌日晚上，更遭打爛大門玻璃，進一步顯示華人成為襲擊目標。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/05/03/a14-0503.pdf
Immigration
- http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/express/express-entry.asp?utm_source=slash-express&utm_medium=short-url&utm_campaign=express-entry
Tightening Immigration
- Canada immigration chief admits mainlanders flouting rules was one reason for visa axe http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1453230/chinese-welcome-canadas-new-investor-visa-stricter-rules-apply
- Canadian court victory for group of Chinese migration applicantshttp://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1444783/canadian-court-victory-group-chinese-migration-applicants
Would-be migrants allowed to challenge decision that dumped their applications to controversial investor scheme
10 March, 2014, 6:01am
- SCMP 28jun14 "Chinese lose suit over visa scheme"
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