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Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team
for lots of summer fun, fitness and friendship. We are a social team full of cultural vigor, that likes to eat.
We have been featured on television, local, national and international. We have a unique and internationally famous fundraiser dinner event.
We practice
Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm
Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm
Wednesday 6pm - 7:45 pm
We meet at Dragon Zone clubhouse - just south of Science World in Creekside Park above the Aquabus and dragon boat docks.
Our coach Todd Wong has 15+ years of experience including novice, recreational and competitive levels, and both community and corporate teams.
Our 2005 Season brought us the David Lam Award for being the team that best represented the multicultural spirit of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, and Bronze medals at the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Race. In 2007, we won Gold in B Division at Vernon Races.
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e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca
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2009 TICKETS Available in October 2008
WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annual Dinner, celebrating 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + Chinese New Year's Eve.
WHEN:
6PM January 25 2009, SUNDAY
doors open 5pm
WHERE: Floata Chinese Restaurant,
#400-180 Keefer St.
CULTURE:
Our Performers
create something special for us every year with traditional and contemporary performances featuring everything in-between and beyond!
FOOD: A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of
Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture 10 course Chinese banguet dinner
2004 - The debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton
2005 - Haggis lettuce wrap!
2007 - Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet
2008 - Scotch tastings!
Watch for more surprises in 2008!
Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, with co-host Prem Gill .
Media Inquiries
Call Gung Haggis Productions 604-987-7124
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Tuesday, April 4
Will Conservative Government Begin Chinese Head-tax/Exclusion Redress? Chinese Canadians Hope Historic Injustice Is Addressed in Throne Speech
by
Todd
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 01:33 AM PDT
Will Conservative
Government Begin Chinese Head-tax/Exclusion Redress? Chinese Canadians
Hope Historic Injustice Is Addressed in Throne Speech
It has been 22 years since Redress for Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act became a political issue. No political party wanted to touch it, except the NDP, when Margaret Mitchell tried to have it addressed by Parliament. Since 1984, the Conservative governments of Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell, and the Liberal governments of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, have all avoided apology and redress for the estimated 22,000 Chinese immigrants who paid the racially based head tax to enter Canada, and who suffered the separation from their families when the Canadian government created the" Chinese Exclusion Act" that effectively legislated against any person of Chinese descent to immigrate to Canada. During this time, Canadians born of Chinese descent could not have the vote.
My maternal grandmother was born in Victoria in 1910, the grand-daughter of Rev. Chan Yu Tan, who arrived in Canada in 1896. She could not vote until 1947, when the Exclusion Act was repealed and Canadians of Chinese descent were finally allowed to vote as part of enfranchisement.
My friend Sid Tan, has been a long-time voice for apology and compensation for Head Tax survivors, spouses and descendants. He is organizing the press conference in Vancouver following the Speech to the Throne.
 
Also attending will be Gim Wong, who served in Canadian Armed Forces, even though he couldn't vote as a Chinese-Canadian. Last year, Gim rode his motorcycle across Canada to Ottawa and Montreal at age 87 to ask Prime Minister Martin to make an apology for the Chinese Head Tax.
I have known both men for a number of years, and am proud to be able to call them friends.
Media Advisory: For Immediate Release - April 3, 2006
Will Conservative Government Begin Chinese Head-tax/Exclusion Redress? Chinese Canadians Hope Historic Injustice Is Addressed in Throne Speech
Vancouver BC - Representatives of the Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society (ACCESS) and the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) will be available after the Throne Speech on April 4, 2006 to comment on Chinese head-tax/exclusion redress. Also in attendance will be Gim Foon Wong, the 82-year old World War Two airforce veteran who rode his motorcycle across Canada in a Ride for Redress in 2005.
Where: Guys and Dolls Billiards
2434 Main Street, Vancouver
When: 12:00 noon - 3:00pm, April 4, 2006
On March 24, 2006, after consultation with Chinese Canadian community leaders from across Canada in Toronto, Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Jason Kenney stated they will act quickly to settle longstanding injustice of 62-years of oppressive legislation from 1885 � 1947 targeted at the Chinese in Canada.
“We are prepared to make decisions and therefore act within less than 12 weeks,” said Minister Oda in the March 24 media briefing reported by Saltwater City Television. “As to the process of individual compensation, we are open to that concept. We are open to that idea.”
“We are going to see action and not just talk from the Stephen Harper government to finally redress this longstanding historic wrong that so many Chinese Canadians suffered under,” said Jason Kenney in the same media briefing. Mr. Kenney is assisting on the file.
“It was a terrible injustice don’t you think?” asks Gim Foon Wong, the CCNC pioneer of the Year in 2001 for his leadership in the redress movement. “The Canadian government apologized and compensated Japanese Canadians. It’s time they did the same for Chinese Canadians.”
"I hope Prime Minister Stephen Harper signals in the Throne Speech his government’s intent to act quickly,” said Sid Chow Tan, president of ACCESS and a national director of the CCNC. “Redress will lose much of its meaning if we keep losing the few affected elderly seniors before they receive recognition and meaningful and significant redress.”
ACCESS is a not-for-profit anti-racism, human rights and social justice society as well as a community television corporation. It is an affiliate of the Chinese Canadian National Council and a member of the National Anti-Racism Council of Canada and STATUS Coalition. ACCESS works with other equality seeking organizations to fight racism and discrimination, to advance the rights of citizens and migrants living in Canada and to press the federal government to redress the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Acts.
CCNC is a national human rights organization with 27 chapters across Canada. Established in 1979, it has campaigned since 1984 with other redress-seeking groups including the BC Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants (BC Coalition), Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity
(ACCESS), Ontario Coalition of Chinese Head Tax Payers and Families (Ontario Coalition), and Chinese Canadian Redress Alliance (CCRA) for Chinese head-tax and exclusion redress.
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Contact:
Vancouver:
Sid Chow Tan - 604-783-1853 (ACCESS/CCNC)
Toronto:
Victor Wong - 416-977-9871 (CCNC)
Saltwater City Television: Highlights of Media Scrum on Head Tax issues with Minister Bev Oda
by
Todd
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 12:43 AM PDT
Saltwater City Television: Highlights of Media Scrum on Head Tax issues with Minister Bev Oda
This is great stuff if you have been following the Chinese Canadian Head Tax issue. Sid Tan is producer of Saltwater City Television which follows issues of interest to multi-generation Chinese Canadian pioneer descendants (like myself).
Gee... I can even be seen in this week's show, as I joined Sid and many others in the protest against the Liberal government's deal with the National Congress of Chinese Canadians, to sign an "Agreement-in-Principle" for No Apology, and No Compensation, and only $2.5 Million to set up community programs, in comparison to the more than $336 Million that was given to the Japanese Canadians in their 1988 Redress settelement, as they budgeted for $21,000 for each of 16,000 individuals..
Sunday April 2 @ 1:00pm
Monday April 3 @ 10:30pm
Thursday April 6 @ 2:30pm
Saturday April 8 @ 11:30am
ACCESS/ICTV community television on Shaw cable 4, the cable community channel
in Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley.
Heritage Minister Bev Oda and PM Parliamentary Secretary Jason Kenney:
Chinese Head-tax/Exclusion Redress Updates on Saltwater City Television
Saltwater City Television (29:45)
1) Highlights of media scrum and comments from Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda and Jason Kenney, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, after community consultations on Chinese head-tac/exclusion redress in Toronto on March 24, 2006. Also includes Susan Eng of the Ontario Coalition of Head-tax Payers and Families and Joseph Wong of the Chinese Canadian National Council and longtime redress activists such as Yew Lee, William Dere and others.
Written, directed and produced by Karin Lee. (17:00)
2) Excepts of a presentation by Sid Chow Tan of the Chinese Canadian National Council with highlights of the ACCESS/BC Coalition of Head-tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants and their supporters leafleting and information line on November 26, 2006.
The “on the streets” action in the Saltwater City (Vancouver BC) protested the �no apology, no compensation� agreement-in-principle the federal Liberal government made with compliant groups. Thanks to Karin Lee, Donna Lee and Jane Kokan for video footage and Peter Regier and the audio-visual crew at WorkSafe, Workers� Compensation Board of BC. (10:00)
Saltwater City Television is a regularly scheduled volunteer-produced community television produced by the not-for-profits ACCESS Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society and ICTV Independent Community Television Co-operative.
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