Our privilege and duty is to seek and publish the truth, defend free speech and the right to equal treatment under law, capture the diversity of human experience, speak for the voiceless and engage civic debate in order to build our communities and serve the public interest.
Welcome to the new website of National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada - NEPMCC.
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is a non-profit organization established since 1958 (formerly Canada Ethnic Press Federation) whose mission is to promote and integrate economic, social and culture interest of ethnic communities into the mainstream of Canadian society. For more than seven decades the ethnic newspapers have been meeting the challenges of assistance, guidance and integration of millions of newcomers who have immigrated to Canada from many lands. It performed this role in full awareness of a great responsibility towards a country which has been developed by many cultural and linguistic groups.
With the influx of immigrants over the years, both the duties and the influence of the ethnic press in Canada have multiplied. Four hundred newspapers and magazines today are published all over Canada, serving more than twelve million Canadians from all over the world, including those who have been here for a generation or more but still retain the habit of reading papers in their own heritage language.
In addition to educating those who have come here to make Canada their home about settlement issues and available assistance, the ethnic press also helped them to be introduced to the democratic institutions and the new way of living. Canada, today, is in a period of socio-economic changes in a world that is rapidly becoming more internationally- oriented, looking for new markets and searching for new partnerships. In this connection, the ethnic press and the communities they serve can prove to be an important participant in the Canadian economic growth because of their ability to speak all the languages of the world, their global contacts and their global knowledge.
Through the years, the NEPMCC creates platforms of discussions with three levels of government, private and public sectors to foster and promote better understanding of the diverse ethnic groups in Canada.
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA. Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethnic du Canada. " Canada's Other Voices"
Office of the President
September 01, 2010
A Call for the September 13th , 2010 Meeting
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Sisters and Brothers in the Ethnic Press and Media:
Allow me to remind you all, according to articles of our constitution, and to invite you to attend our monthly meeting scheduled for Monday September 13th, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm at the committee room N# 2, Main Legislative Building , Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON.
Please use the south entrance site door as any other entrance is closed due to security regulations. I took the liberty to invite to our meeting the last Mayoral candidate for the City of Toronto Mr. Pantalone, who would be our main speaker and also Mr. Rocco Rossi.
Also would be presented to the members the list of the awards recipients for final approval by the board or the removal of any name of the candidates the members believe should not be honored.
LOCATION/LIEU: TORONTO, ON DATE: AUGUST 17, 2010 TIME/ HEURE: 15:00
During His visit to Toronto on August 17, 2010 the R. Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, organized a Round Table discussion with a very limited number of representatives of the ethnic press of Canada. During the session have been discussed with the participants, the Canadian developments and the efforts of the government to control the latest financial crisis.
The National Ethnic Press and media Council of Canada was represented by the president of the organization Thomas S. Saras.
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada "Canada's Other Voices"
Office of the President
August 16, 2010
To All Members of the Ethnic Press of Canada
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
Today my office received the attached appeal by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists for help and I am forwarded it to all of you, hoping that each and every one would do his best to help.
For more information please call Asha Rajak at 416 921 8926 or email
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NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada "Canada's Other Voices"
August 2, 2010
Present: Thomas S. Saras Asha Rajak Neel Nanda Mohamed Tajdolati Perry Long Mohammad Bagher Samimi Suleyman Guven Iosif Spataru Mario Spataru Hasan Yilmaz Susana Donan Viara Dimitrova Ned Blair Ahmed Hotaki Hai-Tien Lin Shahidul Islam Mintu Moorthy Sellathurai Lize Philbert Srimal Abeyewardene Ranjit Wickramash (Wicks) Hermie Garcia Muraleetharan Kanbhasway Aaron Berhane N. Logenioliyan (logan) John Saraidaris Edward Ginglo Irene Keroglides Hassan Zerehi Adu Ravdkivi Bahram Bahrami
Agenda Welcome Remarks by the chair Minutes of the previous meeting. Presidents Report Report of July 2nd 2010 New Business Adjournment
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada "Canada's Other Voices"
JULY 31, 2010
Monthly Meeting of August 9th, 2010 Main legislative Building, Queen's Park, Committee room # 2, Toronto AGENDA Of the Business of the day
1. Welcome Remarks by the Chair 6:00 2. A call to order 6:05 Presentations Mr. Matias De Dovitiis, from City Councillor Antony Perruzza Ward 8 will make a presentation 3. Minutes of the previous meeting 7:00 4. Report by the President (HST) The last concerns 7:15 5. Report on the return of Mr. Bikram Lamba 7:45 6. CNE Tickets for the families of the members. 7. Awards.
8. New Business (motions) 8:30 9. Adjournment 9:30
As of July the 1st the new sales system HST took place it is important to come down and get the information you need to know in order to be exempted. During this meeting our V-P Membership Asha Rajak, would distribute tickets for entering the Ex. The tickets have purchased by the organization on behalf of the members and are distributed free of any charge to members in "GOOD Standing" with the organization. This is the only opportunity for the members to get their tickets and if they ordered them earlier to Asha.
Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday September 13th, 2010, at committee room N# 2, from 6:00 to 9:30 pm.
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA. Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethnic du Canada. " Canada's Other Voices"
Office of the President
July 29, 2010
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Sisters and Brothers in the Ethnic Press and Media: Allow me to remind you all, according to articles of our constitution, and to invite you to attend our monthly meeting scheduled for Monday August 9th, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm. at the committee room N# 2, Main Legislative Building , Queen's Park, Toronto On.
Please use the south entrance site door as any other entrance is closed due to security regulations.
During this meeting Asha Rajak, will distribute the tickets and the parking passes to the members. This is the last call for tickets and passes for the EX.
After the meeting no tickets and no passes would be available. Also for members which ordered tickets must be there to pick them up, or they would be distributed to those present.
Date: July 2, 2010 Length: 14 minutes Speaker(s): Premier Dalton McGuinty
PREMIER DALTON MCGUINTY: ...I want to thank Asha as well for her remarks and for the role that she has quickly taken on here. And she spoke of what an honour it was for her to be here in Canada, to be taking on these kinds of responsibilities. Well, you honour us, Asha, by choosing this country, by choosing Ontario and Toronto to make these places your home. To bring here your commitment and your solid work ethic and your devotion to building a better life because, if you do that, you are not just improving your quality of life, you are improving quality of life for all of us.
Tom, I want to thank you for a very eloquent and patriotic speech. And from time to time I ask myself, how did it come about that you and I are participating in this wonderful adventure here in Canada when, by and large, over the centuries, societies have been founded on this whole notion of sameness. Historically, people have said, ‘look, what we are going to do is we are all going to look the same way, we're going to speak the same language, we're going to practice the same faith and we're going to share the same traditions and the same culture. That way we'll know us from everybody else. It's going to make things neat and tidy.' How did we come about founding a country and a society based on this notion that our differences actually make us stronger, they improve our shared quality of life.
Summer is here, so I've got a bit of summer reading I'm going to recommend to you. This is all just a prelude to a book I'm reading right now called "Champlain." It's about this thick; I've got to warn you. And, actually, this fellow, about 400 years ago, actually had a tremendous positive influence in lending shape to this country. By the way, the guy that wrote this book is a Pulitzer Prize winning American professor from Harvard. And he is writing about the most influential characters in North America. The first one was, I forget who. The second one was Champlain. Champlain was born at the end of a 400 year religious war in France. The Catholics and the Protestants had been killing each other for 400 years. And he recoiled from that. And then he participated in some explorations. First, he joined the Spanish and he wasn't really crazy about the way they were treating the Aboriginal communities they found in South America. Then he participated in some English explorations and he didn't really like the way they got along with the North American Aboriginals. So he thought, ‘I'm going to try something else.' And he went and got some money from the royalty of the day in France and got some missions funded and he came, he said, ‘I'm going to do something entirely different.' I'm going to strike an alliance with the peoples who find themselves in Canada and I'm going to find a way to work with the English, who happen to be colonizing this country, later to be known as Canada, as well. And that was a powerful and, I thought, very interesting foundation for the kind of society that you and I are benefiting from to this very day.
Remarks By Thomas S. Saras President and CEO, NEPMCC
Hon. Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario, Hon. And Mrs Jim Karygiannis, MP for Scarborough- Agincourt. Hon. Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Tramnsportation, Hon. Margarett Best, Minister of Health promotion, Your Worship and Mrs. Frank Scarpiti, Mayor of the Town of Markham. Chief Armand La Barge, of York Region Police. Dr. Jean Augustine, Fairness commissioner for Ontario.
Members of the Diplomatic Corps in Toronto. Honourable guests of the head table, Members of the board of directors of the NEPMCC, dear Colleagues, brothers and Sisters in the ethnic press and media. Ladies and gentlemen:
It is an honour and a great privilege for me to be welcoming you today to this function, as we gathered to celebrate Canada Day 2010, with special tribute to Premier McGuinty of Ontario.
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada "Canada's Other Voices"
JULY 05, 2010
Monthly Meeting of July 12th, 2010 Main legislative Building, Queen's Park, Committee room # 2, Toronto AGENDA Of the Business of the day
1. Welcome Remarks by the Chair 6:00 2. A call to order 6:05 3. Minutes of the previous meeting 6:10 4. Report by the President (HST) The last concerns 6:15 5. CNE Tickets for the families of the members 6. Awards 7. New Business (motions) 8:30 8. Adjournment 9:30
As of July the 1st the new sales system HST took place it is important to come down and get the information you need to know in order to be exempted.
Our next meeting is scheduled for August the 9, 2010, at committee room N# 2, from 6:00 to 9:30 pm.
Dear Sisters and Brothers as this is a new year according to Ontario regulations every member has to renew his/ her membership in order to remain in good standing with the organization. In our January meeting the board decided that for this year our annual membership is $ 30.00 per member. I would appreciate if each one of you brings with him a cheque for the amount of $ 30.00 payable to NEPMCC.
