Canadian Ethnic Media Association

CEMA treasurer Irene Chu and her sister, Dr. Wei Djao, have launched Ginger Post, a new English-language web magazine. Dr. Djao’s daughter, Lian Chen, also joins the group as promotion and marketing specialist.  

Ginger Post contains first person accounts of life in Canada by Chinese immigrants, fascinating recipes and items of historic interest.

Irene says she hopes the web ‘zine will be of interest not only to mainstream and Chinese-Canadian readers, but also to members of other ethnic groups to encourage them into chronicling their own stories.

Readers’ comments are encouraged.  Why not check them out?
www.gingerpost.com/

 The May 7 Speakers’ Series meeting overcame a distance of several thousand kilometres separating Rudyard Griffiths, author of a controversial new book, and Peter Ferreira, president of the Canadian Ethnocultural Council,  whose member organizations represent some 18 million people.

CEMA members listen to Rudyard Griffiths on the speakerphone

 Griffiths, co-founder of the Dominion Institute, from which he retired late last year, was urgently called out west by the Canadian Military College of which he is honorary colonel. He flew from Medicine Hat to Calgary in order to speak on time to members via speakerphone. He defended the position taken in his new book Who We Are, stating that an overemphasis on diversity was negating the establishing of a much needed Canadian identity, based on  past victories and patriotic and pioneering acts. (more…)