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Newly Arrived Shipment of Spices & Pickles Directly from Goa
From:
goansnacks@yahoo.com
We have just received a fresh shipment from Goa - limited
quantities - of : squid mole .........$ 3.75 200 gms
king fishmole........3.75 200 gms mackarel mole .......3.75 200 gms mackarel para ........3.75 200 gms Bombay duckpara...3.75 200 gms prawn balichow....3.75 200 gms prawn curry masala.3.50 100 gms coconut/toddy vinegar......5.75 750 ml sorpotel/cafreal/recheadopaste....3.50 200 gms
....and much more.
If you wish to place an order or require further info,
pls. call 905-270-9165
…for pick-up.
.. First come first served basis while
quantities last.
Also Goan Party Snacks *packed Goa Sausages
Thank you
Evelyn De Souza Tel:
(905) 270-9165 Fax:
(905)275-2703 Email:
goansnacks@yahoo.com
BREAKING NEWS:
Newsline Canada
Vast majority
of Canadian companies optimistic about economic
outlook for 2012
81 per cent believe
economy will stay static or strengthen in 2012, Hays
Canada survey finds
Toronto, Jan. 17, 2012 /CNW/
- A recent survey conducted by
Hays Canada, a national recruitment consultancy,
indicates that most Canadian companies are
optimistic about the economy in 2012. According to
data collected from 1,300 organizations in November
and December 2011, 81 per cent believe the economy
will continue to strengthen/remain static, with 39
per cent of companies planning on increasing staff
levels this year. Filling these new roles may be
challenging with 77 per cent of companies citing
"availability of suitable/skilled candidates" as the
biggest challenge in attracting top talent. The data
is being released as part of Hays Canada's 2012
Compensation, Benefits, Recruitment and Retention
Guide.
World Bank
Projects Global Slowdown, with Developing Countries
Impacted Press Release
No:2012/236/DEC
Beijing, January 18, 2012 –
Developing countries should prepare for further
downside risks, as Euro Area debt problems and
weakening growth in several big emerging economies
are dimming global growth prospects, says the World
Bank in the newly-released Global Economic Prospects
(GEP) 2012.
The Canadian government's introduction of two new
programs could involve the sharing of sensitive
personal information, such as fingerprints, from
government to private-sector companies, and from
government to government, which has privacy
advocates concerned whether proper safeguards are
being used to minimize risk.
Hey Canada,
can you spare a nickel? Steel yourself for new
loonies, toonies
The Canadian PressBy Bruce
Cheadle,
Ottawa - Steel
yourself, Canada, new one-dollar and two-dollar
coins are about to become the latest version of the
proverbial plugged nickel.
Commentary
The statements, opinions, or views in the articles may not
necessarily reflect that of the Goan Voice Canada.
When Asians migrated to Western countries they
brought welcome recipes for curries and dim sum.
Sadly, a few of them also imported their preference
for having sons and aborting daughters. Female
feticide happens in India and China by the millions,
but it also happens in North America in numbers
large enough to distort the male to female ratio in
some ethnic groups.
Jesse
Decosta in his Mississauga home with one of his
treasures, a platinum record set from the Jackson
family. The tribute fresh from LA was shipped to
Decosta following an event on the west coast where
DeCosta, their brand manager is often found.
Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star
Jesse DeCosta never really talks about his career —
no one believes him, anyway.
$11,300
Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant for the Toronto
East Goan Seniors Association
Lori Kay
Communications Officer – Event Planning
Province-wide, Central and Golden Horseshoe
Ontario Trillium Foundation
There were lots of
smiles on Saturday December 10, 2011, as members of
the Toronto East Goan Seniors Association gathered
for their annual Christmas dinner at the Rembrandt
Community Centre
100th Birthday
of Genevieve (Jane) Braganza
December
2, 2011 was a special and memorable day
in the lives of the family of centenarian, Jane
Braganza.
Jane was born in Goa and is one of 8 siblings all of
whom have passed away. Her life has taken her
through Africa, Mbulu (now Tanzania) where she and
her siblings grew up, then on to Mombasa. Here she
met and married her late husband, Francis Braganza (PWD).
They had 3 daughters, Juliet married to Ruben
Rebello, Isabel Harvey, Dolly married to Ernest
Vienna. Goa was where she and her husband retired
and finally came to Toronto to join Dolly and Juliet
and their families.
Meeting Held
in Goa on Canadian Goans
Audio: Canadian Catholics,
and Goans in Canada 19
Jan: Community Audio By Frederick
Noronha. Terry Fay SJ (photo) from the
University of St Michael’s College of the University
of Toronto relates two stories. The first story
tells the changing face of Canadian spirituality,
and the second story how Canadian Goans fit into
Canadian spirituality. He spoke of the formation of
the G.O.A. its outreach to new arrivals, the
democratization of GOA, its cultural and artistic
activities, and creating the International Goan
Organization. This was followed by a lively
discussion with the Canadian Goans present, which
included Zulema de Souza. 1hr:39m:30s
Click here to listen
Blessed Joseph
Vaz on celluloid Posted By cninewsletter On
January 9, 2012
A
film on the life of Blessed Joseph Vaz has been
produced to popularise the little known priest, who
is just a step away from sainthood. Agnelo Fernandes,
a youth from Consua-Verna, has produced the film
based on the life and missionary works of the patron
saint of Goa. His 300th death anniversary was
celebrated last year on January 16. The producer of
‘Panvlam’ has highlighted the missionary life of Bl
Joseph Vaz in Sri Lanka and the challenges he
encountered.
Blessed Joseph
Vaz, an Asian Apostle Posted By cninewsletter On
January 16, 2012
During the night of November 26, 1938, Quiteria
Costa from Aldona, in Goa, was hemorrhaging badly at
Medical College Hospital, in what is now the state
capital Panjim.
Panjim: The
campaign to save Goa from incessant mining has now
got a global linkage with almost 40 Goan overseas
associations joining hands against mining activity
at the cost of environment.
Goa Foundation director Claude Alvares said, "From
official figures provided by two separate and
independent government sources-directorate of mines
and geology (DMG) and Indian bureau of mines
(IBM)-it is clear that more than 43% of iron ore
exports from Goa in 2010-11 came from illegal or
unauthorized mining operations."
Private sector
should assist Goan Institutions for infrastructure
development Posted: 15 Jan 2012 06:37
AM PST
Private Sector in Goa should give financial
assistance to the educational institutions in Goa to
update and modernize their infrastructure, so that,
these institutions are able to impart quality
education to the students, said Mr Shantaram Naik
M.P. at Cuncolim on Saturday.
Social
scientist, Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, who recently
released her book, ‘Colonialism, Migration and the
International Catholic Goan Community’, which dwells
on the issue of migration among Goans, believes that
search for better livelihood is still a major reason
for migration.
During her interaction she also spoke about the
divide between male and female migration, its
implication on the family and also the one major
reason behind people settling down Migration is a
complex issue with various associated layers and
patterns. Goans are very familiar with migration as
most families have at least one member who has
migrated.
In the year since January 13, 2011, India has had
zero cases of polio. Previously, India led the
world, accumulating over 5,000 cases since 2000.
Polio's last victim in India was 18 month-old
Rukhsar, a girl in West Bengal who began showing
signs of paralysis on this day in 2011. Now, epic
immunization efforts have brought global eradication
of the disease a giant step closer. Outside India,
however, backsliding Pakistan and Nigeria and
splotches of polio across Africa have blocked the
final stamping out of the disease worldwide.
The transition from an era of foreign missionaries
to a local Church is almost at an end in Pakistan
but the real change is yet to come.
Pope sounds
alarm over plight of Pakistan’s Christians Posted By cninewsletter On
January 18, 2012
In his message to the 180 accredited ambassadors at
the Roman Curia, which commemorated the martyrdom of
the Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for
Religious Minorities (killed on 2 March of last year
for his opposition to the blasphemy law and his
defense of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to
death for this reason), Pope Benedict XVI openly
voiced his concern.
Few communities in India have their history so
intertwined with that of a great metropolis. The
story of the evolution of the East Indians on the
North Konkan coast runs parallel to the growth of a
few marshy islands into India’s prima urbis.
Islamabad:
Relations with China remain the
cornerstone of Pakistan's foreign policy, Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday.
"Pakistan and China enjoyed complete trust and
conversion of views on all bilateral and
international issues," Xinhua quoted Gilani as
saying while addressing the Chinese students who met
him in Islamabad.
As
U.S.-Pakistani relations sink, nations try to figure
out ‘a new normal’
In a call to her Pakistani counterpart this month,
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated
the Obama administration’s counterterrorism “red
line”: The United States reserved the right to
attack anyone who it determined posed a direct
threat to U.S. national security, anywhere in the
world.
On Cars India
Buzz: January 17, 2012
Hyundai has launched three new variants of their
smallest car Eon that fit in the little gap
between the existing models. More importantly,
the new variants have option of LPG fuel option
for Rs 27,000 extra.
Obituary
Announcements
Calling Dr.Ribeiro Goan School Ex-Students
The 12th Dr. Ribeiro Goan
School Ex-Students Reunion will be held in
Toronto this September. A fun-filled week of events has
been planned culminating with the grand ball on
Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Additional information on
ticket prices, etc., will be posted in March. Please
feel free to contact any of the committee members. As
well, simultaneous Memorial masses are planned in
Toronto, Kenya, Goa and Australia for March 25. The mass
in England will be held at the Sacred Heart Church in
Battersea and be celebrated by Fr. Tony Fernandes (class
of ’64). Please access our school website as well.
See:
https://sites.google.com/site/reunion2012toronto/
Norman Da Costa
On Canadian Postal Rates Forwarded by Tony Braganza
This one should be forwarded to all Canadians, so
that everybody knows about this!
Regarding Canada Post, I learned something over this
Christmas that I feel compelled to share with you. This
won't change your life dramatically or help you survive
the apocalypse, but it will save some $.
Events
Goan Overseas Association 2011 Upcoming Events
For Further Information:
www.goatoronto.com
CLR Annual
Social
at
Payal Banquet Hall, Mississauga
Flyer to follow
Health & Wellness
'Internet
addiction' linked to brain differences
Brain regions governing emotions, decision-making
may be affected CBC News | Posted: Jan 12,
2012 1:10 PM ET
MRI scans of their brains appeared to show damaged
white matter as well as the fibres that connect it,
suggesting that Internet addiction, like alcoholism
and gambling, can impair a person cognitively. MRI
scans of their brains appeared to show damaged white
matter as well as the fibres that connect it,
suggesting that Internet addiction, like alcoholism
and gambling, can impair a person cognitively. (iStock)
New research from the Center for Disease Control
(CDC) indicates that seniors are more prone to be
hospitalized because of their blood thinners or
insulin shots than they are to be harmed by more
risky medications like painkillers.
Problems with sense of
smell become more common as people get older:
Twenty four and a half percent (15 million) of
Americans 55 years old or older have a problem with
their sense of smell.
A Routine
Visit to Your Dentist Could Save Your Life
Montreal, Jan. 16, 2012 /CNW
Telbec/ - As a partner of Quebec
Tobacco-Free Week, from January 15 to 21, the Ordre
des dentistes du Québec is committed to making the
anti-smoking cause a priority, in particular by
adopting the position statement suggested by the
Institut national de santé publique du Québec.
Canadian Students Learn How To Battle Energy
Bulge
Canadian Geographic and
Shell Canada launch Classroom Energy Diet Challenge
Calgary, Jan. 18, 2012 /CNW/
- Hundreds of students and teachers
across Canada are participating in The Classroom
Energy Diet Challenge, a two-month curriculum-based
program designed by Canadian Geographic and Shell
Canada Limited to inform students about energy,
where it comes from and how it can be used
efficiently by making smarter choices.
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A
film on the life of Blessed Joseph Vaz has been
produced to popularise the little known priest, who
is just a step away from sainthood. Agnelo Fernandes,
a youth from Consua-Verna, has produced the film
based on the life and missionary works of the patron
saint of Goa. His 300th death anniversary was
celebrated last year on January 16. The producer of
‘Panvlam’ has highlighted the missionary life of Bl
Joseph Vaz in Sri Lanka and the challenges he
encountered.
Social
scientist, Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, who recently
released her book, ‘Colonialism, Migration and the
International Catholic Goan Community’, which dwells
on the issue of migration among Goans, believes that
search for better livelihood is still a major reason
for migration.
