I just attended the 2006 Immigrants of Distinction Awards Ceremony held at the Westin on April 20 2006. Our gracious host was Mr. Sherali Saju, one of the Board of Directors for the Calgary Stampede. Also in attendance was His Honour the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta - Norman Wong, the Solicitor General and Monte Solberg - the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. To the audience's applause, Solberg reiterated the governments commitment to halving the Right of Permanent Residence Fee. The Calgary Immigrant Aid Society presented awards to 'Immigrants of distinction'. Among the youth recipients was Alexsandar Dzhorkov, who had an interesting and lengthy speech on 'self-fulfillment' and was actually 'hooked' off the stage by Peter Wong, Chair, prior to his speech's 'denouement'. Here's a picture of my wife Meena with Pat Stopa, one of the partners at Caron & Partners LLP, a firm which I will be joining mid-May 2006. One of the dual recipients of the Distinguished Professional Award was Sinisa Sonny Tomic. Sonny gave a very moving speech of his journey of 266 months that led to him to leave war torn Yugoslavia, and being on the stage this evening. I also bumped into Mr. Moeez Moledina, a... Read more →
