Canadian Ethnic Media Association

CEMA members will be saddened to learn of the passing of founder-director Kati Rekai whose amazing career embraced the penning of many articles and novels including the amusing children’s series featuring the almost-human animals, Mickey, Taggy, Puppo and Cica.

Having left her native Budapest at the time of the communist takeover, she, her surgeon husband John, their two daughters and her physician brother-in-law Paul and Paul’s wife were in Paris awaiting a posting to work in Pakistan when they learned the positions had been awarded to others.

Fortunately, a British journalist friend managed to obtain a visa for them to migrate to Canada, where they quickly learned of the hardwork to be undergone in order to qualify as medical professionals inCanada. Kati and her family moved to Kitchener where her husband internedat the Kitchener-Waterloo hospital, and then to Toronto where the two wives helped augment the family finances by picking strawberries. (more…)

Peter Kent M.P.Thornhill, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
(Americas) will be next to address our members in the CEMA Speakers Series.

Date:
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Time:
7:00 p.m. Sharp
Location:
Majestic Boardroom, OMNI Television, 545 Lake Shore Blvd. W
(Bathurst & Lake Shore)

Parking is available in the OMNI parking lot, off Lake Shore, east of Bathurst. Please press the white button at the parking gate to gain entrance.

Prior to his election, Mr Kent was an award-winning broadcast journalist having spent more than 40 years working as a writer, reporter,
producer, anchor and senior executive in Canada, the United States and
around the world. (more…)

The Story of Ontario’s fast-growing wine industry…

Mark your calendars for the next CEMA Speaker Series event on March 4, 2010.  The speaker is Ed Madronich, Chair of the Wine Council of Ontario, and President of Flat Rock Cellars in Jordan, a well-

Ed Madronich, Chair of the Wine Council of Ontario and President of Flat Rock Cells, Jordan, Ontario

known winery in the Niagara Region. Given his love of the grape and wines, this promises to be a heady and fruitful session.

Date:
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Time:
7:00 p.m. Sharp

Location:
Majestic Boardroom, OMNI Television, 545 Lake Shore Blvd. W
(Bathurst & Lake Shore)

Parking is available in the OMNI parking lot, off Lake Shore, east of Bathurst. Please press the white button at the parking gate to gain entrance

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CEMA members quiz guest-speaker Ed Madronich, Chair of the Wine Council of Ontario (far right), on a wide range of topics, including: advertising to local multicultural audiences; Ontario wines versus European; why is icewine so expensive — and most importantly, when can CEMA members visit some vineyards for a wine-tasting experience.

In the picture below, from left Vasil (Bill) Yancoff, 2nd Vice-President of CEMA and producer of Macedonian Heritage Hour; Acting CEMA President, Dat Nguyen – Publisher and Editor, “Thoi Bao”; and Kiumars Rezvanifar, CEMA board member and Producer of  “Pasargad Today” and “Iran Zameen Today, at the Speaker Series event on March 4, 2010.

CEMA SPEAKER SERIES FOR MARCH 2010