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Jagrup Brar

"Jagrup Brar was elected as the MLA for Surrey-Fleetwod on May 12, 2009. He served as MLA for Surrey-Panorama Ridge from Oct. 28, 2004 until the riding boundaries were re-drawn.
Jagrup serves as opposition critic for Small Business . Jagrup has served as critic for Heathy Living and Sport, Public Safety & Solicitor General, Ministry of Employment & Income Assistance and Ministry for Small Business & Revenue. Jagrup is a strong advocate for health care and has highlighted Surrey's health care crisis across the region.
Born in India, Jagrup moved to Canada to study at the University of Manitoba where he earned a Master's degree in Public Administration. Jagrup moved to British Columbia from Winnipeg in 1995. Since then, Jagrup and his family have put down strong roots in Surrey.
An involved member of his community, Jagrup is a dedicated local volunteer, and has taken time to help a variety of local organizations providing services to young people, seniors and new Canadians.
For over a decade, Jagrup worked in the public and non-profit sectors, assisting professionals with career development and working with employers to develop strategies to recruit a highly-skilled, multicultural workforce.
As the Executive Director of the Surrey Self Employment and Entrepreneur Development Society (SEEDS), Jagrup trained new entrepreneurs to develop and launch successful small business ventures.
Jagrup is married and lives in Surrey with his wife Rajwant and their daughter and son. One interesting personal note, Jagrup played basketball for the Indian National basketball team, and his daughter enjoys playing on her school basketball team. His son, a pre-schooler, also enjoys dribbling and shooting."
Jalal Barzanji

Jalal Barzanji is a contemporary Kurdish poet and writer.
He has served on the board of Writers' Union and was Executive Director of Ministry of Culture in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraqi-Kurdistan in 1996 due to an ongoing civil war in Kurdistan. He has been living in Canada since 1998 after escaping Iraq where he was tortured and imprisoned because of his writings from 1986 to 1989. He was appointed as the Edmonton-PEN Canada Writer-in-Exile for the period 2007-2008. He helped establish the Canadian Kurdish Friendship Association and the Edmonton Immigrant Support Network Society. 
He has published six books of poetry and was the 2004 recipient of aRISE award. He is due to publish a memoir sometime in October 2011. In the memoir Barzanji writes about his imprisonment in 1986-1989, during which time he endured torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime because of his literary and journalistic achievements—writing that openly explores themes of peace, democracy, and freedom. For those three years, Barzanji wrote only on scrap paper, smuggled in to his cell in Iraq. He wrote his memoir during his time as the first Writer In Exile of PEN Canada.
Born in a small Kurdish village, he grew up the second oldest brother in his family of 7 (now 6, as his a younger brother passed in 1983 at a young age) siblings. Jalal was different from his other siblings in that most of his time was spent reading books, and writing. As a child his mother would lovingly complain over his fascination with books. Although he played sports such as soccer, his truest love was of literature. An honors student all through school, and an incredibly sociable person, Jalal chose a to become a teacher, where his love of literature would extend into his job. Soon Jalal became a magazine editor, around the same time he met his wife, also a poet, and would be imprisoned for many of the articles and poems he wrote. Upon being released from the harsh prison environment which consisted of torture, he fled to Turkey where his family soon met him and they resided for 2 years before being accepted as immigrants to Canada.
Japan Canada Student Association (University of Toronto)

Since 1985 the Japanese Canada Student Association have provided UofT students and others of the Toronto Community with the opportunity to exchange and study Japanese and English in a real, yet comfortable learning environment.
Many members are Working-Holiday-Visa Students from Japan; former UofT students who have been to Japan; those who want to come in and brush up on their language skills; non-students studying Japanese, and of course, UofT students who study Japanese!! In addition to language, they also promote cultural exchange and foster relations between Canada and Japan.
Japan Studies Association of Canada

The purpose of the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) is to promote Japan Studies in Canada and to contribute towards increase in knowledge about Japan and Canada-Japan relations by: 
* Encouraging Canadian scholars and other interested persons to conduct research on Japan in all academic fields;
* Sponsoring conferences and publishing proceedings of the conferences and other papers;
* Encouraging Japanese scholars and any person interested in Japan studies to share their knowledge with the members of the Association.
Japanese Canadian Artist Directory

The Japanese Canadian Artist Directory is an online resource of artists with Japanese Canadian heritage and/or connections to the Japanese Canadian community. It is an expanding repository with hundreds of profiles for artists both past and present. It is operated by the Powell Street Festival Society and was created in partnership with the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and the National Association of Japanese Canadians.
===Goals===
As editorial committee member Sally Ito explains, the directory was created with a twofold purpose: to "look backwards, acknowledging the artists of the past [...] who should have a digital presence – a footprint, as it were – for a generation who would look first to the digital before digging deeper into books and archives" and to "provide a networking hub for current practicing and emerging artists in search of community" ("The Art of Being Japanese Canadian") . The directory has a mandate to include artists of all disciplines, and to allow for self-identification with the term Japanese Canadian. This means that all artists who consider themselves Japanese Canadian are considered Japanese Canadian by the editorial committee. In addition, artists who are not Japanese Canadian by heritage, but whose work has made a meaningful contribution to Japanese Canadian arts and culture, are included both as legacy and contemporary artists. Self-submitting artists of other than Japanese Canadian heritage are encouraged to explain their connection to the Japanese Canadian community as part of their submission.
The directory is adjudicated with a mind towards inclusivity by the Powell Street Festival Society and the editorial committee which includes members from all three founding partner organizations, listed above. Contemporary artists may create and update their profiles on the website, and anyone may submit a profile on behalf of a "legacy artist" who is no longer active by contacting the directory's administrator.
===Project background===
The Japanese Canadian Artist Directory was created as an online update to a print directory, Japanese Canadians in the Arts, compiled by Aiko Suzuki and published in 1994. Discussion and consultation for the project began in 2016, and editorial meetings, research, and website design occurred in 2017. Editorial committee members from Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Toronto met regularly online in order to provide a nationwide perspective in the creation of the website. Initial research for the directory included reaching out to artists listed in the 1994 directory and inviting them to submit updated profiles, forming the core of the website's legacy component. The website went live with a soft launch in the summer of 2017, with some 300 artist profiles compiled during a research phase, and an online interface that allows artists to register and submit their profiles directly to the website. The Japanese Canadian Artist Directory was officially launched in September 2017 at the National Association of Japanese Canadians' 2017 AGM and Conference in Ottawa.
Japanese Canadian Citizen's Association

The Greater Vancouver JCCA is a non-profit organization representing the Japanese Canadian community in Vancouver and the surrounding area.
One JCCA purpose is to “protect and promote the past, present and future legal rights and democratic freedom of all persons in Canada regardless of race, religion, status or sex.” (JCCA Constitution 1985.)
Established in 1990 as a standing committee of the JCCA, the Human Rights Committee has been dealing with human rights, race relations and discrimination related issues. They also work closely with the Board of the JCCA, members of the Japanese Canadian Community and the public at large.
==Mandate== 
The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association includes in its mandate:
* developing and maintaining a communication network with multicultural societies in Canada and internationally
* promoting the appreciation and study of the arts and culture of Japanese Canadians through the organization of community and cultural events
* educating the Canadian public about the history and cultural heritage of Japanese Canadians and the preservation of these values
* the education of the citizens of Canada in the various responsibilities expected in Canadian citizenship
* protecting and promoting the rights and freedoms of all individuals without any discriminatory practices
* and publishing a forum in the means of a journal for issues significant to its members, persons with Japanese ancestry and others of interest.
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (Montreal)

The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (JCCCM) is a permanent location where the cultural heritage of the Japanese Canadians with its unique historical background could be sustained and shared by our community as well as by members of the Canadian public. 
==History==
In the early 1950's, the Quebec chapter of the Japanese Canadian Citizen's Association (JCCA) formed the rudimentary beginning of our community organization. For well over a decade, it was quite active, holding National Conferences and basketball tournaments, with a roster of capable and well organized executives, but the feeling that the National office had fulfilled its mandate of alleviating post relocation problems affecting Japanese Canadians ultimately resulted in declining local interest and membership which after due consideration prompted the Montreal chapter to withdraw membership from the National organization and cease operation.
In time, the need for some kind of representative organization evolved into the creation of the "Nikkei-jin-kai" but because it was organized and run mostly by Japanese speaking Isseis, many felt that it did not represent all segments of the Japanese Canadian population in Montreal. The desire for collective identity to achieve a more positive revival of our Nikkei community and to integrate into the Canadian milieu, led to the widespread need of a core organization representative of the Montreal Japanese Canadian community, ultimately resulting in the formation of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (JCCCM) in 1976. By this time, age of the Isseis had taken its toll and those who had formerly served as executives were too ill to serve or had passed away. The newly formed organization was therefore composed mostly of Niseis who assumed the responsibility of maintaining harmony within our community while fostering the legacy of our cultural heritage.
==Japanese canadian history in Montreal==
The dispersement of Japanese Canadians from the West Coast of Canada and the subsequent resettlement in various parts of eastern Canada are important aspects of modern Canadian history. Montreal has been home to as many as 5,000 Japanese Canadians since 1943 although the number has decreased in recent years.
Their struggle to re-establish not only the community, but their lives, has been preserved through taped interviews, letters, photos and other documents. These have been gathered over the past 30 years by the late Rei Nakashima and many volunteers.
The collection had been stored at the Nakashima residence until 2005 when it was moved to the McGill University Archives. Since then another group of volunteers has worked with archivists at McGill University identifying, classifying and organizing the materials which are valuable resources for anyone, particularly students and academics, interested in researching and learning about this historical event.
For a look at this collection, go to:
http://archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/jcccm/jcccmmain.htm
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (Toronto)

The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC) is a Japanese cultural centre located in the Don Mills neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the west side of the Don Valley Parkway just north of Eglinton Avenue.
==Original Building==
The JCCC's original building was designed and built in 1963 by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama; it was his first institutional project. The location and design of the building was carefully planned to support and honour the place of Japanese-Canadians in Canada. While the building materials are quite modern, the proportions of the building, the landscaping, and details are very traditionally Japanese.
The building also had elements designed to draw parallels to the experiences of those Canadians incarcerated during World War II: the 2 storey windows in the main hall have lattice reminiscent of bars, and rain water is directed off the roof using chains attached to stones on the ground.
Over time the building was no longer large enough for the growing JCCC, and the estimated cost of an addition was prohibitive. It was purchased in 2001 by the Lakhani family, was then redesigned in 2003 by Moriyama, and it has become the Noor Cultural Centre.
==Current Building==
The current building is a 114,000 square feet (10,591 m2) former printing plant. It was redesigned by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects to serve as the JCCC.
==Gendai Gallery==
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The Gendai Gallery is the center's art gallery, with a focus on contemporary art and design from East Asian perspectives.
Jasbir Singh Cheema

Jasbir Singh Cheema is a Canadian television personality and politician.
In the 2004 federal election, he ran for and won the Conservative Party of Canada nomination against Chuck Cadman, the sitting Member of Parliament for the riding of Surrey North. After losing the nomination to Cheema, Cadman ran as an independent candidate and won the reelection.
Cheema anchored the Punjabi newscast on Vancouver television station Channel M now OMNI from 2003 until 2004.
Cheema is a regular Columnist on Real Estate and Economy with the Asian Star newspaper writing extensively on Real Estate and Economy. He is a full-time Realtor and is a recipient of President Award from Sutton Group Medallion Realty in 2006. Cheema is serving as a Government Relations Liaison with the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board FVREB for his third term since 2010 and served on the Education Committee of the FVREB in 2009 - 2010. He twice represented FVREB for Government Liaison (GL) Days in Victoria, capital of British Columbia, from April 25–27, 2010 and April 22 - 24, 2012. Jasbir also represented FVREB during Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) sponsored PAC (Political Action Committee) days from May 7–9, 2011 in Ottawa, capital of Canada.
Jaspreet Singh

Jaspreet Singh (born 1969) is a Canadian writer.
He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. Singh is the author of the novel Chef (2008 Vehicule Press/2010 Bloomsbury), and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. Both books deal with the damaged landscapes of Kashmir, especially Siachen Glacier. He is a former research scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. His play, Speak, Oppenheimer, written for Montreal's Infinite Theatre, involves three physicists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. He recently contributed an essay to the anthology AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India.
From August 2006 until June 2007, Singh was a resident in the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program The University of Calgary's Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme at the University of Calgary.
Jazzy B

Jaswinder Singh Bains O.B.E, more popularly known as Jazzy B, is a Punjabi language bhangra singer-songwriter. He was born on April 1, 1975 in Durgapur, Nawanshahrin tehsil of Jalandhar, Punjab, India. When he was 5 years old, his family moved to Vancouver, Canada. He now resides in Birmingham, England.Similar artists to Panjabi MC – Discover music, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at. Last.fm (2012-03-22). Retrieved on 2012-06-05. He has released 12 studio albums, including two religious ones. He has collaborated on many tracks and two soundtracks. He was awarded the O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to music.
In 2012 he will make his debut as an actor in the Punjabi Film titled Best of Luck with Punjabi Singer and Actor Gippy Grewal and Miss India Universe 2008 Simran Mundi. The shooting of this film commenced in Vancouver, Canada in May 2012.
Jean Eng

"Jean Eng was born in Sudbury, Ontario and graduated with high honours from Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Since then, she has worked as a freelance illustrator before becoming a painter.
Her work has been shown in public, private and institutional galleries in Canada, the United States and Japan. Several private collections as well as the Government of Ontario, own her work. She has also had poetry and short fiction published in literary journals across Canada."
== Selected Solo Exhibitions ==
 
*2008 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts-Toronto, Ontario
*2002 Robarts Library, University of Toronto- Toronto, Ontario
*1992 Laurentian Museum And Art Centre- Sudbury, Ontario
*1989 Brampton Public Art Gallery- Brampton, Ontario
*1987 Samuel J. Zacks Gallery- York University, Ontario
== Selected Group Exhibitions ==
 
*2011 Red Head Gallery- Toronto, Ontario
*2011 Gallery 1313- Toronto, Ontario
*2010 Gallery Stratford- Stratford, Ontario
*2009 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts-Toronto, Ontario
*2009 Pentimento Art Gallery- Toronto, Ontario
*2008 John B. Aird Gallery- Toronto, Ontario
*2006 Woodstock Public Art Gallery- Woodstock, Ontario
*2006 Lieutenant Governor's Suite- Toronto, Ontario
*2005 WomanMade Gallery- Chicago, Illinois USA
*2000 Awaji Island, Japan
*1999 Trias Gallery- Toronto, Ontario
*1998 F.H. Varley Gallery- Markham, Ontario
*1997 Gallery Stratford- Stratford, Ontario
*1997 Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery- Owen Sound, Ontario
*1997 Thunder Bay Art Gallery- Thunder Bay, Ontario
*1997 Art Gallery of Algoma- Sault St. Marie, Ontario
*1997 Rodman Art Centre- St. Catherines, Ontario
*1996 Red Head Gallery- Toronto, Ontario
*1991 Grimsby Public Art Gallery- Grimsby, Ontario
*1990 Cambridge Public Art Gallery- Cambridge, Ontario
== Awards ==
*1999 Toronto Arts Council
*1989-1992 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
Jean Yoon

Jean Yoon is a Canadian actor, poet and playwright, based in Toronto.
Her best-known role internationally was flight attendant Betty Ong in The Path to 9/11. Her other film and television roles have included A Brighter Moon, Waking the Dead, Forget Me Never, Dragon Boys, In the Company of Spies and La Femme Nikita. Jean was also in the Disney channel original movie Cow Bells.
Her playwriting credits include Sliding for Home & Borders and The Yoko Ono Project.
Jeannie Lee

"Jeannie Lee is a Canadian journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporting on business news and substitute anchor on Saturday Report.
Born in Hong Kong, Lee moved with her family, at the age of five, to Canada, and grew up in Montreal. She graduated from Concordia University with a degree in broadcast journalism with honours. She began working at CFCF and, in 1992, she moved to Toronto, where she joined CBLT as a reporter and later became a news anchor. She began covering business news in 1995. Lee became host of Working Day two years later. She also hosted other shows such as The Money Show and After the Bell. She is fluent in French and speaks some Cantonese. She is married to CBC Sports producer, Simon Dingley."
Jeannie Mah (artist)

Jeannie Mah was born in 1952 in Regina, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Regina, receiving a Bachelor of Education in 1976, and in 1979 she studied ceramics at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Other studies took Mah to the Banff Centre (1984, 1988), to France's Université de Perpignan (1988) and Université de la Sorbonne (1989). Eventually Mah returned to the University of Regina, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. Mah credits Regina artist and instructor Jack Sures with inspiring her practice: “I learned my heavy-duty work ethic from him.”
Mah's ceramic work emphasizes vessels, particularly cups, and she creates these delicate porcelain objects by hand. Mah explains her approach: “Balanced on the cusp of a fine arts education, I insist on working in a medium which is considered to belong to a decorative art. While seeking out the vestiges of art in our daily lives, I plunder the history of this decorative art, and usurp the cup as pulling it into a fine arts practice....While an "upstairs/downstairs" split reveals a classicist gap in our societal/domestic consciousness, the mug and the teacup meet on this domestic front, as the utilitarian and the decorative merge to fulfill aesthetic and bodily needs.”
Since 1986, Mah's work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Canada and internationally. Her work is represented in collections including the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), Municipalité de Nyon (Switzerland), Burlington Art Gallery, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Museum of Civilization (Hull).
In addition to her ceramic work, Mah collaborates with other artists on work in a variety of other media, including film and video, photography, and performance. Mah also co-edited Regina's Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography (2006, with Lorne Bueg and Anne Campbell).
Jeannie Mah works from her studio in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Jeet Aulakh

Jeet Aulakh is a Canadian Contemporary Artist.
He has lived and worked in Toronto and Windsor, Ontario since the late 1990s. Contained with spirituality and deep meditation, he emphasizes on what he calls "Pure Painting". Aulakh's work has been exhibited at major Canadian public galleries and museums, including the Art Gallery of Windsor and McIntosh Gallery London. His work is in collections including the City of Toronto and Indian Heritage.