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Thomas Kunito Shoyama

Thomas K. Shoyama was born in Kamloops, and graduated from the University of British Columbia with BA and BComm degrees in 1938. From 1939–45, “Tommy” served as editor of the New Canadian, a weekly civil rights newspaper, which he continued to publish from an internment camp in Kaslo, BC. In 1946, after a brief stint in the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps, he was encouraged to join the government of Saskatchewan by George Tamaki, an old university friend and fellow Japanese-Canadian. Working for George Cadbury and T.H. McLeod, Shoyama was hired as a research economist within the newly established Economic and Planning Board (EAPB). His first tasks included working on a new system of public hospital insurance, developing a system for administering diverse Crown Corporations, and working out an economic development plan based on the province’s undeveloped natural resources. In 1950, he became Cabinet’s chief economic advisor, secretary to the EAPB, and T.C. Douglas’ closest policy advisor. Shortly after the election of 1964, Shoyama became a senior research economist with the newly established Economic Council of Canada. In 1968, he became Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance, and by 1975, after a brief term as Deputy Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance.
During these years in Ottawa, Shoyama was recognized as one of the most senior members of the “Saskatchewan Mafia.” Retiring in 1979, Shoyama moved to Victoria, where he joined the public administration faculty at the University of Victoria.
Shoyama’s profound and abiding commitment to public service was recognized through several national awards, including Officer of the Order of Canada (1978), the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Public Service of Canada (1978) and the Vanier Medal in Public Administration (1982). In 1992, the government of Japan awarded Mr. Shoyama the Order of the Sacred Treasure in recognition of his many contributions to the Japanese-Canadian community. Shoyama died in December, 2006.
Tiger Jeet Singh

Jagjit Singh Hans (born April 3, 1948) is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth (and using it to taunt fans and attack wrestlers). Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years. He was the first pro wrestler in Japan to defeat sumo wrestler Wajima Hiroshi.
Tim Lee

Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, Tim Lee's work both replicates and reimagines seminal moments in art history and popular culture. With sources that range from Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin, Dan Graham, Public Enemy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Ted Williams, Lee suggestively interpellates himself with the history of his subjects by loosely reconstructing specific works associated with their creators, and in so doing, complicates our knowledge of these histories while mapping out an extended timeline that travels from the historical past to the imagined future.
Tim Lee lives and works in Vancouver
Todd Wong

Todd Wong is the longest-serving board member of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (ACWW) and currently its President. Todd helped create ACWW's inaugural Community Builders Dinner in 2002 and former Chair of the Historical Joy Kogawa House Society, where he helped to save author Joy Kogawa's childhood home into a Canadian landmark with a writer-in-residence program. A 5th Generation Canadian in inter-cultural Vancouver, Todd was featured on CBC's documentary Generations: The Chan Legacy, which he consulted on about the life and descendants of his pioneer great-great-grandfather Rev. Chan Yu Tan, who came to Canada in 1896. Wong has documented Asian-Canadian history as one of the first Asian Canadian bloggers at Gung Haggis Fat Choy. In 1993, Wong founded Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese Ne Year Dinner Gung Haggis Fat Choy which has become one of Vancouver’s most celebrated annual intercultural gatherings and has inspired a CBC TV performance special, a similar version at Simon Fraser University, and other Scottish-Chinese themed dinners on Vancouver Island and Seattle, Washington. 
The name Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a combination wordplay on Scottish and Chinese words: haggis is a traditional Scottish food and Gung Hay Fat Choy / Kung Hei Fat Choi is a traditional Cantonese greeting (in Mandarin it is pronounced Gong Xi Fa Cai) used during Chinese New Year has become (in which Wong is the founder and also organizer of). Todd is also a co-author in Eating stories: A Chinese Canadian & Aboriginal Potluck.
Tommy Chong

Tommy Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian - American comedian, actor and musician who is well-known for his stereotypical portrayals of hippie-era stoners. He is most widely known for his involvement in the marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo Chingkwake on Fox's That '70s Show.
Tommy Ton

Tommy Ton is a Canadian photographer known for his fashion blog Jak & Jil, and his street style coverage of fashion weeks on Style.com and GQ.com. His favorite subjects are fashion editors, the likes of Carine Roitfeld, and Anna Dello Russo.
Tommy Ton was born in a suburb of Toronto to Vietnamese Canadian parents. When Ton was 13 years old, he was asked by his sister to record FashionTelevision. Tom Ford appeared in the segment that Ton was recording, where Ford began expressing his views on women, and sexuality. Impressed by Ford’s ability to speak eloquently with carefully chosen words about his collection, Ton’s interest in fashion began.
Although Ton did not receive formal training in photography, he educated himself by attending digital photography classes and met with friends who did graphic design to pursue a career in fashion and photography.
Toronto Chinese Artists Association

Our Mission
 
* Focus on the local original performing arts and training
* Culture exchange through promoting, marketing, learning and performing
* Contribution to community through a variety of performance. Share with care and love.
* To provide performance platform to all members and give performance opportunities for amateur.
* Organizing different types of courses, lectures, training courses and performances, group together all performing talents.
* Through the participation, research, creation, exploration and lectures by professional to build the self confidence and strengthen understanding and interest in performing arts. More quality performing works can be created.
* Provide instructional seminars on topics related to the performing and virtual art
Toronto Chinese Photo Festival

About The TCPF: 	 
 	 	 	
According to the Canada census of 2001, there are 1, 126, 610 people of Asian origin living in Toronto. This is 24% of the total population of the city. Since 1993, May has always been designated as Asian Heritage Month in Canada. The Canadian Multicultural Council – Asians in Ontario (CMC) has been involved with organizing celebrations since its declaration by the Canadian parliament in 2001.
The Toronto Chinese Photo Festival (TCFP) is a part of Asian Heritage Month, and will be held from Sunday, May 22 to Sunday, May 28, 2011. It is dedicated to the promotion of Chinese Photographers and photo artists working in China and internationally. It is also committed to providing a platform for exchanges amongst artists, collectors and art-loving audience. There is one main category of the festival: "Contemporary Chinese Photography". 	 
 	 	 
 	 	 
Theme Interpretation: 	 
 	
Contemporary Chinese Photography—This category provides a unique opportunity for artists and photographers to express their opinion regarding the following topics within a Chinese context:
From the past to the present, western capitalism's rapid economic development has allowed consumption to become an important part of daily life. Under the influence of the market economy system and the West’s increasing consumerism, China also became a consumer society. With the rapid growth of China’s population, the demand for farmland has increased, due to many farms being converted to be used as non-agricultural land. This has resulted in a sharp reduction in farmland areas, the continuous degradation in its quality and serious damage to the natural ecological environment. The TCPF is looking for images that depict issues related to this, such as global warming, the greenhouse effect, consumption patterns, human migration, etc.
Toronto Guqin Society

The Toronto Guqin Society (TQS) is a group dedicated to Chinese elegant culture, especially of the Chinese seven-stringed zither (the Guqin), as well as Hanfu, the traditional Chinese robe.
We provide a network for qin players, students, and listeners, by organizing regular seasonal gatherings called "yaji"s to the public.
We also provide seminars and workshops on Hanfu, or Traditional Han Chinese Clothing, currently under vibrant revival in China.
 
The Toronto Guqin Society was founded in 2005 under the name University of Toronto Guqin Association (UTQA) to spread awareness of guqin music in the UofT and surrounding communities, as well provide a gateway for communication between players and fans of the music. In autumn 2007, in response to the rise of the Hanfu movement in Toronto, the UTQA was restructured into UTCCAS to attune to the promotion of authentic Chinese culture, or the Han tradition. Today, the group has come out to the community under the name Toronto Guqin Association (TorGuqin), and retains its original mission since 2005 of connecting guqin lovers in Toronto and worldwide.
Toronto Korean Film Festival

The Toronto Korean Film Festival (TKFF) is an annual 9 days festival founded in 2012. We are a group of young Korean film enthusiasts, who got together with the common goal of wanting to share Korean culture and films with the Toronto community. We feel strongly about the power of this medium and aim to create synergy between Koreans, Canadians, filmlovers, scholars, and Toronto.
Toronto Korean Film Festival successfully launched on January of 2012 with the slogan : Taste Kimchi Cinema.
With the purpose of expanding international Korean film market and its recognition in Toronto, they are hosting free retrospective screenings of leading Korean directors. February 25th, 2012 launched the first of the series, with director Lee Myung-se’s“Nowhere to Hide”. The retrospective screenings will be held in various Toronto academic locations including University of Toronto, Ryerson university, OCAD, Seneca, and York university.
The 10 day festival will be held from June 22nd until July 1st, 2012. With support from various local media groups and fellow film festivals, they are confident in our strong programming. The festival will be composed of various genres, classics and new films, up and coming directors, indie works, shorts, and many others. The variety in the programming will satisfy audiences of all ages while bringing Korean traditional and contemporary culture to Torontonians. Toronto Korean Film Festival is not just a celebration for the Koreans in Toronto, but will push towards becoming a celebration in Canada for Korean culture.
Toronto North Korean Human Rights Film Festival

The current human rights situation in North Korea is dire. Millions suffer from hunger each day while millions more are estimated to have died from starvation over the last decade. North Koreans live with very few freedoms and rights. Many have no choice but to escape their country, take on the life of a defector and leave everything behind. Even at that point the possibility of freedom is not guaranteed. They decided to host Toronto’s first ever North Korean Human Rights Film Festival to tell the story of the people of North Korea through film. By holding this festival, they hope to raise awareness, create discussion and bring about change in hopes of contributing to a better situation for North Korea and its people.
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

==Mission Statement==
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival® is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. Works include films and videos by East and Southeast Asian artist in Canada, the U.S., Asia and all over the world. As Canada's largest Asian film festival, Reel Asian® provides a public forum for Asian media artists and their work, and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada.
Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, this non-profit community-based festival has grown into an eagerly anticipated annual event that attracts thousands of attendees to 6 exciting days of galas, screenings, forums, workshops and parties.
==Festival==
Every year, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival shows a strong selection of work from all over the world, including some of the best films from Asia. Past festival selection includes Gallants (打擂台 - Hong Kong Film Award Best Film 2010), Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, Buddha Mountain (观音山 - starring Fan Bing Bing), Overheard (竊聽風雲 - starring Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu), Au Revoir Taipei (一頁台北 - NETPAC Prize, Berlin), Jump Ashin (翻滚吧！阿信 - nominated for multiple Golden Horse awards), Dooman River (두만강 - Crystal Bear, Berlin), Eighteen (회오리 바람), and The Drummer (戰·鼓 - starring Jaycee Chan and Tony Leung Ka Fai).
The 2012 festival will be held on November 6-11 in Downtown Toronto and November 16-17 in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
==Pitch Competition==
The festival also hosts an annual pitch competition where Asian-Canadian filmmakers pitch a project to industry experts for a chance to win cash and filmmaking resources to make their film. The work from the winning pitches will premiere at the following year's festival.
==Community==
Reel Asian also supports many community initiatives and co-presents films with Asian content and themes at other local film festivals.
Toronto Sanskriti Sangstha

Toronto Sanskriti Sangstha (TSS) is a non profit organization established in 2004 with a mission to encourage second generation South Asian children and youth living in North America to appreciate and pursue Indian vocal and instrumental music, dance, drama and other artistic endeavours of the South Asian heritage.
By engaging our children in planning, coordination and implementation of a large event we are fostering creativity, encouraging leadership, inspiring confidence and motivating them to volunteer.
Numerous individuals and organizations in North America are significantly contributing to the cultural development of Bengali communities all across North America. TSS is taking an initiative to propagate the existence of talents and to foster such artistic activities by giving the North American South Asian artists a competitive platform.
Toronto Sanskriti Sangstha (TSS) implements all activities on a non-profit basis, and dedicates any surplus to developmental and charitable projects. Please see Our Initiatives for a project we funded, in 2010, to celebrate Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary.
Toronto South Asian International Film Festival

The Toronto South Asian International Film Festival’s mandate is to:
Create a platform to showcase and celebrate South Asian cinema in one of the world’s most diverse Canadian cities, Toronto.
Develop, identify and promote independent South Asian film talent.
Provide a trading/business platform for international South Asian filmmakers with North American movie houses.
Provide networking and funding avenues for filmmakers.
Enlighten public movie-goers within and outside of the South Asian diaspora on the repertoire of South Asian Cinema.
Improve the image, quality and capacity of South Asian filmmakers
Create a festival that will increase tourism and create jobs and thereby churn the economy of the City of Toronto.
Expose Canadian corporations through sponsorship deals to an international South Asian market.
Garner worldwide event media exposure
Countries to be featured will include but not restricted to Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Africa, Trinidad, Guyana, USA and the United Kingdom
The International South Asian Film Festival plans to host ongoing press conferences and screenings for premieres of South Asian themed movies.
The four day film festival plans to include an Bollywood extravaganza style show at a Toronto based venue
Toronto Taiko Festival

== About ==
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"Since the ancient times, taiko has brought people together in rituals, festivals and music making in Japan. In Toronto Taiko Festival, taiko groups from Eastern Canada and beyond will come together for the first time in Toronto to exchange skills and share stories toward building a stronger taiko community.
This Festival is organized by Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers (RAW), a collective of women who believe in community building and healing through music as a way of achieving social justice.
We hope you will join us in recognizing different leaders, styles, and stories, and, together, adding a page to the 30+ years of taiko history in Toronto." 
== Players ==
*Arashi Daiko
*Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers
*Nagata Shachu
*Tiffany Tamaribuchi
*Yakudo
Trish Doan

Trish Doan is the bassist of the all-woman band Kittie. She joined in August 2005 along with Tara McLeod. Doan is a niece of Sudbury, Ontario MPP Rick Bartolucci. In addition to bass, she has also played guitar since the age of 13. Doan graduated from Sheridan College, earning a diploma in Media Arts: Film and Television Production.
Tuğba Karademir

Tuğba Karademir is a Turkish former figure skater. She was the flag-bearer for Turkey at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where she placed 21st.
Karademir started skating at the age of 5, with her kindergarten class, right after the first ice rink opened in Turkey in 1990. At eight years old she competed for the first time internationally for Turkey. In 1995, she won a gold medal at a novice competition at the Balkan Games and a silver medal in the Netherlands.
Turkey had only one ice rink then, and no professional skating coaches. In 1996 her parents decided to move the family to Canada, where she could train seriously. She began training with Robert Tebby at the Mariposa School of Skating.
At the 2006 European Figure Skating Championships, Karademir placed 13th. She then went on to become the first figure skater from Turkey to compete in the Olympic Winter games. She was the flag bearer for Turkey during the opening ceremony. She scored a personal best of 44.2 points in the short program. Combined with her 79.44 points in the free program, she placed 21st overall with a total of 123.64 points.
At the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships, Karademir placed 18th with her highest finish to date at that event. In the long program, she finished 16th, giving her the 18th overall finish.
At the 2007 European Figure Skating Championships she achieved a new personal best in her short program and placed 10th overall.
In June 2006, Tuğba Karademir was transferred by the Kocaeli Kağıtspor.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics she received a total score of 129.54, with 50.74 in the short program and 78.80 in the free skate.
In Turkey, Karademir's father, Tayfun, was a restaurateur and her mother, Sabite, worked in the aerospace industry. Upon relocating to Barrie, Ontario, Canada, they initially took on menial jobs to pay for Karademir's training. While in Barrie, Tugba was enrolled at a local Public School, Allandale Heights.
Umar Bhatti

Umar Bhatti (born January 4, 1984) is a Pakistani-born Canadian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-pace bowler.
Bhatti first played for Canada in the Under-19s World Cup of 2004, where he finished 30 not out in his debut World Cup performance, batting at number seven. He played in six games in the World Cup, generally batting in the lower-middle order. He later performed for his adopted country in the 2005 ICC Trophy, which saw Canada finish in fourth place in the tournament, which took place in Ireland.
In the final of the 2006 ICC Intercontinental Cup, a match which actually took place in May 2007, Bhatti took four wickets in five balls against Ireland, including a hat-trick that was made up entirely of lbw decisions.
University of Alberta Chinese Students and Scholars' Association

UACSSA (Chinese Students and Scholars’ Association at the University of Alberta) is an officially registered, non-profit, non-political, social organization of Chinese students and scholars in University of Alberta, Edmonton,Alberta, Canada.
==What is the general goals of CSSA?==
To represent Chinese students and scholars to express their wishes and to protect their entitled rights and legal interests; To help newly arrived students and scholars settle in and adapt to the new cultural environment; To coordinate and organize entertaining activities such as sports, movie, party, various traditional performances, and other scientific and cultural events. To promote friendship among students and scholars from China, Canada, and other countries and establish friendship with other Chinese and Canadian organizations.
==Who can?==
Any Chinese or Chinese Canadian student and scholar, including his/her family who are studying or working at the University of Alberta, or have ever worked or been educated at the University of Alberta, or presently work and reside in Edmonton are welcome to join CSSA. Currently, CSSA has more than 800 members, which is 80% of the number of Chinese students and scholars in Edmonton. To enhance communication among our members, CSSA maintains a group email list. Check the regulations if you are interested in the mailing list.
VJ Nokami

Eric Filion aka vj Nokami, graphic designer is in the visual media and communications environnement. He participates in several visual artistic performances as media designer. Eric was part of the Neoist movement, and collaborates regularly in international artistic visual presentations in Europe (LUX, AVITUK, Arts Electronica), USA (SHARE, AVITRetreat, Center art project), South America (404 festival), Asia (CeC, Mobile road cinema thailand, Thailand New media Arts) and in Canada (Upgrade, Mutek, Dorkbot, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Momentfactory, SAT, Champs Libre, X Avant new music festival, AD NOISEAM, Nuit Blanche ).
His artistic approach is clearly influenced by his numerous travels on several continents. The canvas of the images he expresses tend to reflect human emotions based on cultural values where ancient traditions meet with the present, to clash and become in harmony in the now.
VJ Pillow

Thien Vu Dang aka VJ Pillow performs in Montreal's electronic scene since spring 2001. His visual performances merrily mix elements of documentary, fiction and experimental videos to construct a new kind of cinema. The architecture of the living city and the system that regulate the society are his main inspiration. His work is a constant quest to find new ways of communicating through images and sound. He finds in video performances an ideal organic playground for his experimentations. His works has been shown in major events in Montreal and around the world.
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

The Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT) is a non-profit organization motivated to stage Asian-Canadian productions. As an ethnic theatre company in Vancouver, our mandate is to provide performance opportunities for Asian-Canadian actors, to reclaim the Asian stereotypes, to stage productions that provide non-stereotypical roles for Asian-Canadian actors, to showcase Asian-Canadian cultural themes/stories and to represent the hyphenated Asian on stage in a contemporary setting.
In the past 10 years, VACT has produced over 27 productions and has developed an Asian Canadian theatre community and audience in Vancouver. Most recently VACT produced Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple with Chinese subtitles to encourage ESL audience members to attend English speaking theatre. VACT’s signature event is its annual comedy nights which have become an underground cult phenomenon. Although VACT's mandate is to cater to Asian Canadians, VACT's audiences also include non-Asian patrons and reflect the true diversity of the city of Vancouver and Canada's multiculturalism.