2011 FCCP BBQ at High Park

Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario)
加拿大華人專業人員聯會(安大略省)

BBQ at HIGH PARK

Sunday August 7, 2011 All - You - Can - Eat Lunch

Picnic Area #15 with Shelter

Picnic Area is Available from 10:00 am to 6:00pm

Lots of room to play, recreation activities planned, lots of nearby facilities including outdoor pool and off - leash dog park!

Ticket price: Adult $15, 5 to 12 yrs $10, Under 5 yrs FREE

Please Register by August 5, 2011

Mail or E-mail Your Registration to manfenrachellau@rogers.com

Mail Your Payment to: FCCP Picnic c/o M.Lau, 106 Thicket Crescent,

Pickering, Ontario, L1V 6S5 or call 905-509-5540 to pay by Paypal.

Payment Must be Received by August 5 to Confirm Your Registration

Cancellation Without Penalty Accepted Until August 5

Directions: See attached map

2011 FCCP Education Foundation Annual Fundraising Golf Tournament

Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario)
加拿大華人專業人員聯會(安大略省)

FCCP Education Foundation cordially invites you to tee off at:

The 17th Annual Fundraising Golf Tournament
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Angus Glen Gold Club at 10080 Kennedy Road at Major Mackenzie Dr.
www.angusglen.com

Tournament Day Includes: 18 Holes at Angus Glen Gold Club
Competitions: Longest drive, Closest to the pin Awards & Fundraising Banquet

Registration Deadline: Friday, July 29, 2011 Education Foundation

Date:                 August 14, 2011

Location:           Angus Glen Golf Club
                         10080 Kennedy Road at Major Mackenzie Drive

Price:                 $200 per player
                         $800 per foursome
                         $39 dinner only

Program:           11:50 AM  Split Tee Off 
                         6:30 PM    Awards & Banquet

Contact(s)         Roslyn Tsao (Legal)   
                         2200-393 University Ave., Toronto ON M5G 1E6
                         Tel: 416-862-6270
                         Fax: 416-862-5294

2011 FCCP Annual General Meeting

Federation of Chinese Canadian Professional (Ontario)
加拿大華人專業人員聯會(安大略省)

You are invited to attend the 2011 FCCP Annual General Meeting, which will be held on July 10, 2011 (Sunday) from 11:45 AM to 2:00 PM at the Star Walk International Buffet in Scarborough.

Date:               July 10, 2011 AGM for FCCP

Location:         Star Walk International Buffet
                       648 Silver Star Blvd., Scaroborugh, Ontario

Program:         11:45 AM                     Registration
                       12:00 PM - 1:00 PM    Lunch
                       1:00 PM - 2:00 PM      Meeting

Contact           Noel Siao (Information Technology)

ACCLO CLE Seminar - CANCELLATION NOTICE

[NOTE from Editor:  Due to unforeseen circumstances, the CLE of July 9, 2011 is cancelled.  A new date, likely September 2011, will be announced soon]

ACCLO CLE Seminar

 

Location: Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto

Topic - "Tips and Tricks from the Trade"

We are pleased to present the following speakers, discussing the following topics:

• Madam Justice W. Low - Tips from the Bench;
• Jeffrey Lem - real estate practice tips;
• Roslyn Tsao - family law practice tips; and
• Sean Zhang - intellectual property practice tips.

Cost - $15 per person.  A light lunch will be provided.

This CLE is approved by LSUC for 1.5 hours of substantive CLE credit.

Pre-registration required.  Please contact Carol Suen at csuen@bcbarristers.com or by phone at (416) 703-2402, ext 500 to register.

Address:

Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto

5183 Sheppard Avenue East

Scarborough, Ontario

Canada M1B 5Z5

University Of Toronto, Faculty of Law - Internationally Trained Lawyers Program (ITLP)

(Editor: this is a guest blog entry)

The University of Toronto, Faculty of Law started up the Internationally Trained Lawyers Program (ITLP) in 2010 to assist international lawyers who have immigrated to Canada and wish to enter the profession here. This year, there are opportunities for lawyers to potentially mentor a student, as an intern, from January to March 2012.

The ITLP includes an 8 month classroom component and a 3 month work placement component. ITLP students are in class from May until December preparing for National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) exams which they write in August and December. From early January until the end of March ITLP students will work in ITLP Internships: unpaid work placements in a law office under the supervision of a lawyer in the office/organization. The LSUC has determined that ITLP interns have a status equivalent to a summer law student so our interns are able to do the same legal work that a summer student is authorized to undertake.

So if you think you or a colleague/contact of yours might be interested in taking on an ITLP student as an unpaid intern for 3 months in early 2012 please read the Newsletter for ITLP Hosts June 2011 Newsletter for more information or please send an email to jane.price@utoronto.ca.

Chinese Summer Festival set for Albert Campbell Square

The Chinese Professionals Association of Canada (CPAC) will be hosting its eighth annual Summer Festival on Saturday, June 25, 2011, at Albert Campbell Square in Scarborough, as reported by insidetoronto.com

It is free and open to all members of the public.

The festival runs from noon to 7 p.m. and will feature activities such as art performances, sports, carnival games, food tasting, face painting and a lucky draw.  CPAC is expecting more than 5,000 people to attend.

This year, CPAC will receive a $4,000 Celebrate Canada grant from the Ministry of Canadian Heritage to fund the carnival.  CPAC has also invited politicians from across the GTA, including Mayor Rob Ford and Scarborough-Agincourt MP Jim Karygiannis.

The festival's theme this year is We Are Canadians and has been tweaked to include other ethnic groups too.  The food-tasting contest has been changed to feature a variety of dishes, and Russian and Korean dancers will perform. 

Local businesses are hoping to use the Summer Festival as a chance to reach out to new immigrants and get their name out in the Toronto community.

"If we take part in this festival, we can get newcomers to get involved with us, "said Ken Li, vice president of the Hebei Association of Canada, a non-profit cultural organization located in North York.  "[The festival] helps to get people to understand each other."

Diversity Survey by NAPABA

[Editor: this is a guest blog]

From NAPABA (National Asian Pacific American Bar Association)

We need your help to recruit attorneys to take our survey evaluation the advancement of Asian Pacific Americans in large law firms!

In particular, we need European American / Caucasian law firm attorneys (partners and associates) to complete the survey.

The NAPABA-NLF Diversity Task Force survey entitled "Experiences in Advancing in Large Law Firm" was released last year to the managing partners of the top 200 Am Lam Firms in the United States.

We encouraged these law firms to participate in the hope of gaining insights from personal experiences of partners and associates/other attorneys to identify patterns and trends of success as well as potential obstacles to career advancement.

The survey was prompted by studies from major bar associations that revealed that Asian Pacific Americans have the lowest or among the lowest conversion rates from associate to partner compared with other ethnic groups.

To access the survey, click here (for partners) or here (for associates/counsel/staff attorneys).

For information about how to participate in this study, contact NAPABA Staff Assistant Melanie Robinson at Mrobinson@napaba.org.