Archive for the Celebrities Category
This Famous Canadian is Half Dutch-Half Chinese
Half Dutch, Half Chinese, this is one of the many faces of The New Canadians. Kristin Kreuk is a second generation child of immigrants. She was born and raised in Canada, attended school in North Vancouver, BC and she possesses many of the Canadian values we so cherish - down to earth, sweet, polite - [...]
Jane Mclean - Who?
She was born Jane Gregorio, in Manila, Philippines in the year 1974. At the age of 10 months, her family moved to Mississauga, Ontario where Jane was raised. This Filipino-Canadian actress is about to be made famous with her supporting role as Charisse, best friend to Rachel McAdam’s Clare, in the movie “Time Traveller’s Wife”, [...]
2 Canadians + 2 Japanese = Majik
Get 2 Canadian brothers from Ottawa, add 2 Japanese musicians, and what do you get? A unique blend of music style called Canadian/Japanese Pop Rock, a HYBRID BAND singing in both Japanese and English lyrics. The band has been chosen as “Goodwill Ambassadors” for the 80th anniversary of Japanese-Canadian relations.
It first started with Maynard Plant [...]
Russell Peters - What Makes Him Tick?
What is it that propels this ordinary looking guy to stardom, and how does he manage to tickle so many of us to laughter? He is the son of Indo-Canadian immigrant parents, born in Toronto and raised in Brampton, Ontario. For a while, he was just a brown skinned kid in a white society, always on the outside. He learned to take note of the small differences in all races and culture. Today, he is a successful comedian playing on jokes about race, culture and class. He bonds with his audience regardless of background. He is extremely popular and well-received all around the world. His Youtube videos are viewed by over 20 million people and his website receives 10,000 hits a day…
Sandra Oh and Father
She is the daughter of middle-class Canadian Korean immigrants. Her father is a Canadian-Korean businessman and her mother, a bio-chemist. Coming from a family of scientists, lawyer and academics, she broke the mould of a typical Canadian-Korean family, by going into movies. She applied the same hardworking ethics of Canadian immigrant families but into a different field, and succeeded. What’s so admirable is that Sandra Oh is not particularly beautiful in the western definition of beauty, yet she managed to make a career in Hollywood just out of sheer talent and hard work.
Getting Married for a Resident Visa
Hollywood tackles the problem of immigration with a simple solution, get married. In the movie “The Proposal” starring Ryan Reynolds, a 32 year old Canadian actor from Vancouver, (he is the real-life husband of Scarlet Johanssen). Ryan plays the role of an ambitious American assistant to a Canadian boss (Sandra Bullock) of a US publishing firm. Faced with a deportation order for working illegally in the USA, Bullock bullied Reynolds into marrying her to get her immigration papers.
