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發表於 03-5-23 00:36 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

i am working in a canadian company too. i am the first chinese employee of the company, i think. oop, should be the second - the first one is malaysian chinese (but was canadian born). we have 4 now - the malaysian chinese in calgary office, me in this office, a chinese male in another office in toronto, one female in vancouver office.

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發表於 03-5-23 00:49 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

I am in the middle... don't watch Chinese TV, love western food (not only fast food), but can't enjoy Canadian culture totally...

I work in the IT department (I am internal transfer and not very expertised in IT though) of a Canadian own Mutual Fund company. (not many left now).

yes, Have to admit that I could not enter their "white cycle" be honest, I still watch my fairchild TV everyday - as they are all chinese. My english is not that good, and my job does not require me to talk much. I do the bank reconciliation only - a small potato.

by the way, mind to tell what kind of job you people are doing???

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發表於 03-5-23 00:59 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

For my past three jobs - they are all canadian company. First, Revenue Canada, then, the Stock Photo company (A stock photo agency sells/lease pictures to advertising company for TV/Radio/Poster/Free Stand CM) and now, the general insurance (different than normal insurance, we deal with commerical lines and casualty)

As TVB had said, "I have the Canadian Flag stuck in my forehead"

Joining "The White Circle" (aka TWC) is easy. For the guys, just watch hockey/baseball/basketball/TD (guess this, hint: not Toronto Dominion) and you will be just fine.
For the gals, just talk about your family tree and what you bought last weekend will do the trick.

It works for me

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發表於 03-5-23 01:06 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

PoohPoohMaMa,

I worked in IT too. We used to have IT staff in each regional site. Vancouver/Edmonton/Halifax with abbrev. with VIT,EIT,HIT. But now, all IT moves back to Head office. Oh, I hate our abbr. "TIT"

Those over 30+ yrs Canadian Chinese - we called them "The decayed Banana"

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發表於 03-5-23 01:18 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

so many people working in the IT field, no wonder Oscar could provide me with all sorts of websites.

the company I worked for is also an IT company, but I knew nothing about IT and all thru' my life is just "numbers"....

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發表於 03-5-23 02:00 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

Don't worry, we all fill with numbers...

SIN
OHIP
Employ #
Bank A/C
Drv. Lic.

doggie 寫道:
so many people working in the IT field, no wonder Oscar could provide me with all sorts of websites.

the company I worked for is also an IT company, but I knew nothing about IT and all thru' my life is just "numbers"....

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發表於 03-5-23 02:26 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

i'm not in the IT field, but my husband is. i'm working in the damaged & claims department + office supplies.

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發表於 03-5-23 03:56 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

hi, pretty busy today, didn't have time to come until now

i think i'm pretty canadian too........but one thing that i'm still not quite use to is slow pace at work. i'm a really impatient person and quite fast paced.... didn't i tell you guys that i work for the government. guess government around the world is the same... slow, slow slow. o, and i do market analysis.

my first job was a tiny chiense company that's not worthwhile to even mention. then i spend a year or so with the bank b4 i join the government. i plan to stay till i retire!

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發表於 03-5-23 04:03 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

how to apply the government job? any special requirement? I heard people saying the benefit and pay is good there.

my husband still looking for job and he has better education than me... still in the accounting field.. so any hint/tip?

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發表於 03-5-23 04:16 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

government jobs? basically just like anyother job, you'll get it if you qualify. one thing is that you have to be at least landed immigrant. really, nothing special. people always said that i'm a double minority so i'll have more chances to get hired.... (reason being they always say that the governemnt need to hire a certain % of women/other nationality people) and i'm a chinese woman!

well, i don't think it means anything, go to their web site and apply for the one that you think you fit.

is your hubby in accounting? does he have any creditation? getting a canadian recognized accreditation will help.

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發表於 03-5-23 04:30 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

Wynne

Do they still have the extra bonus if you speak french and in some jobcategories (like sec.) you get extra bonus on your paid cheque because u r a woman?

I wonder does Mr. Tung in HK had his education here?

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發表於 03-5-23 04:30 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

I worked for a small Chinese company when I first graduated from university. Once I got "Canadian experience", I moved to this company. It is my 5th year of service now.

Doggie,
Is your husband planning to enroll in CGA or CA? Or ask him to try to work for a small company first. At least get some "canadian experience".

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發表於 03-5-23 04:34 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

i work for the municipal government, so speaking fench is not really an advantage. i don't know

and about sec jobs, they did an adjustment a little while ago to compensate the difference and now they make sure that every position is paid fairly.

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發表於 03-5-23 05:30 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

my hubby got his designation in Australia (ASCPA) but don't think it is recognised here. He always saying he is going to be 50, so why bother to take a course .

he just wish to find some job to kill his time. he is well prepared to be downgraded as he hate the stress and heavy workload back in HK .

when checking the toronto star - career website, most of the job require CGA, CMA...etc. so can't help much..

for me, I go thru' employment agency, but they only pay me little... not sure what is the current market rate for the accounts clerk.... any clue?

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發表於 03-5-23 20:11 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

Damn it, Toronto reported with new 4 SARS cases last night, all happen in St. John Rehab. hospital. One show positive and the other three suspect. The one who show positive came back from HK last month.

First we got SARS, then MAD COW and BOTH. Grrr...

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發表於 03-5-23 20:52 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

Oscar,

the person was there LAST month... so it may imply SARS can stay on a person over 20 days?

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發表於 03-5-23 20:59 |只看該作者

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sleepdeprivedmom,

was your Mattamy home built with steel frame?

Anyone knows which builder use steel frame? Any good or bad to use steel?

thanks.

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發表於 03-5-23 22:44 |只看該作者

Re: 請問有無住在加拿大既媽咪?

are you talking about the flooring? per the feature sheet, our house are build on the steel frame for the hard wood floor...

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發表於 03-5-23 22:48 |只看該作者

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... I believe so.

Quote from today's Toronto Star (5/23)

SARS an ongoing danger, security chief says

The danger of new SARS cases cropping up in Canada, such as four new potential ones in Toronto, will remain as long as the disease affects other parts of the world, Ontario's commissioner of public security said today.

"We know that the risk remains (that) as long as there are SARS cases in the world, there will be travel cases," Dr. James Young told CBC News from Beijing, where he and other Canadian health officials are advising Chinese authorities.

"The challenge to everyone remains not only finding them but finding them early and stopping them."

Four people are in hospital and are being investigated as potential SARS cases, public health officials said last night in Toronto.

A woman, 39, and a man, 57 are in critical condition and laboratory tests show the man tested positive for the SARS coronavirus. Further testing was under way to rule out false positives for coronavirus, which have been known to occur.

"Obviously, they appear to relate to, at least in part if not in total, to a travel case, which is what we would expect," Young said.

"You'd rather not have to deal with this ever again but the reality is that there are going to be travel cases, so it's not surprising and it just has to be dealt with and it has to be dealt with early and effectively at this point."

The other two patients are a woman, 66, and a man, 44.

One of the four, the 66-year-old, returned from a trip to southern China and Hong Kong on April 22. But she became ill long after her return, well outside the disease's accepted 10-day incubation period.

In order to be declared a probable SARS case public health officials need to establish that there is an epidemiological link to a previous case — in other words, that the person has been exposed to the SARS virus. Those links had not been established, officials said last night.

The unwelcome news came a little more than one week after the World Health Organization removed Toronto from the list of SARS-affected areas. The decision was made because the chain of transmission in the city appeared to have been broken — no new case among hospital workers had occurred in more than 20 days and it had been one month since there was a new case in the community.

And on Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control lifted its travel alert on Toronto.

Prior to yesterday's development, the SARS outbreak looked all but over in Toronto. Only seven SARS cases remained in hospital; five of them were critical. To date, 24 people have died of SARS in Toronto.

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