As the famous saying states: Great Minds Think Alike – Tax, the Tax Return season of the tax year 2020 has started on March 1st with the deadline set on April 30th, 2021.

Western Canada Hunan Association has invited two industry professionals:

James Luo, CA, CPA (US)
Xia Yong, Senior Finance Advisor

to lecture the Does and Don’ts for you. Please refer to the poster below for details.

You could join the mini Bootcamp by –
* connecting to the Zoom Meeting (ID: 826 8841 2339, PWD: 2021), or
* browsing the website of hunan.ca or
* visiting the WeChat group of “加西湖南同乡会” upon the start of the lecture.

Stay tuned with hunan.ca.

[BREAKING NEWS]
Calgary, AB, Canada – 31 January 2021

“RRSP/TFSA Investing for Retirement” lecture, one of the Public Welfare Lecture Series hosted by Western Canada Hunan Association, has been broadcast to the Hunan Fellows and friends at 7:00-8:35PM Jan. 31, 2021.

The online lecture has recorded 103 participants, including 6 Council Members of Hunan Association, through the zoom meeeting and started off with a professional Webinar of 50 minutes and ended with a fruitful Q&A session of 45 minutes. The lecture has delivered the main concepts with complex but easy-to-understand case studies. Here are the main points:

• Features of RRSP and TFSA.
• Is RRSP a trap of investment?
• When shall TFSA account be taxed?
• How to choose RRSP or TFSA or both for investment?
• How much pension could I get when retiring?
• Among quite a few investment means, which is most tax-saving?
• Differences between Segregated Fund and Mutual Fund.

【七律】Why Hunan 岁末脱口秀招募令
 文/西门错马

不到春分早聚齐，燃情节目卡城西。
高轩低挂冰晶色，老酒新烧柴火鸡。
病毒休来烦我等，清欢每总笑儿时。
兴来脱口屏前秀，湘忆当然是主题。

各位加西湖南同乡：
经加西湖南同乡会第六届理事会商议，决定举办2021年迎新Why Hunan脱口秀茶话会。

主题：Why Hunan辞旧迎新脱口秀
时间：2021年2月11日6:00-11:00PM
地点：Zoom Meeting，链接届时公布
方式：以家庭为单位，每户事先准备3-5分钟的视频，届时播放；也可以临时演讲，freestyle般的脱口秀。
内容：Why Hunan，就是聊一聊您作为湖南人的骄傲之处，或是曾经在湖南工作学习时候的趣事儿，抑或是其它与辞旧迎新相关的话题。

宣发：加西湖南同乡会微信群、加西湖南同乡会官网www.hunan.ca

HUNAN = Hope, Unity, respect for Nature and people, Acceptance and Novelty

加西湖南同乡会第六届理事会宣
2020.12.25

Dear Fellow Hunanians,
In line with the resolution determined in the recent review by the 6th Council of Western Canada Hunan Association, we are pleased to announce the “Why Hunan Talkshow @ Lunar Yearend” be held on February 11, 2021.

Topic: Why Hunan Talkshow @ Yearend
When: 6:00-11:00 PM, 11 February 2021 (The Last Day of Lunar Year 2020)
Where: Zoom Meeting Room, the link will be announced prior to the start of the event
How: Grouped by family, every participant pre-shoots a video of 3-5 minutes for playback, or conducts freestyle talkshow of 3-5 minutes
Details: The purpose of this “Why Hunan Talkshow @ Lunar Yearend” event is designed for any Hunanian to talk about why you are proud being a Hunanian, or any Hunanian-ever-been to memorize the interesing findings when he/she worked/studied in Hunan, China, or even to talk about anything related to saying good-bye to year 2020 and welcoming the new year.

Ads: WeChat Group of Western Canada Hunan Association;
Official website of Western Canada Hunan Association: www.hunan.ca

HUNAN = Hope, Unity, respect for Nature and people, Acceptance and Novelty

The 6th Council of Western Canada Hunan Association
December 25, 2020

Co-hosted by Western Canada Hunan Association and Wesstern Canada Hubei Association, the Chrismas Contest has introduced 11 competitors, aging from 10-16 years old.

The young ARTISTS have demostrated prominent capacities by their outstanding art works ranging from watercolor painting, pencil drawing, to high-tone singing and sportsmanship, which astonished the awarding panel.

After a heated discussion, coupled with a careful panel review and juddment by hunan.ca and hubei.ca committes, the final awards have been determined as below:

4 Golden Metals,
4 Silver Metals, and
3 Bronze Metals.

Congrates to all candidates and Merry Christmas!

The Awards shall reach the boys and girls very soon, we bet, Santa must have done a great job to deliver such.

https://form.jotform.com/linkcc4youth/ChristmasContest

A Hunanian Family in Calgary has been experiencing critical situation with the mom diagnosed with cancer. Then a group of Committee members of Western Canada Hunan Association paid a few visits to the family during November 2019 through January 2020, showcased the love and cares from all Hunanians and friends.

Shouldered by Mr. Xin-Jian Luo and Ms. Fang Mei, a few donation sessions have been carried out, in order to help the very family. The below is the list who has donated the LOVE to the family.

GREATLY APPRECIATED FOR THE GENEROSITIES OF HUNAN COUNTRY-FELLOWS AND THE FRIENDS OF ALL WALKS!

P.S.: There are a few donors requested to be anonymous.

Western Canada Hunan Association Donor List 2019

As of 2020.1.10

• Kongshi Duan
• Wujun Long
• JianFu Deng
• Sha Xia
• Wenyan Cheng
• 夏勇
• Weichang
• JunLiu
• Xing Huang
• Xiao Kuang
• LaiXi liu
• Fang Liang Yu
• Ju Fang Xu
• JIA Yun Chen
• 西门错马
• Chunyu Ma
• Ady
• Quan Zhou
• WenjieLi
• 糖油粑粑
• Jinzhou Liu
• 笑笑
• Shuangye Xu
• Xin Ping Liu
• Yan hua Ni
• 萧萧
• Jigao Yi
• Shengxi Yu
• 屈晓芳
• Zhaohui Peng
• Yanhua Liu
• JinLiang Xiang
• Liuzheng Ping
• Na xie
• Wei Hua Lai
• Jin Yu
• Cynthia Shi
• Xiaochun Chen
• Rhea
• Hai Hu
• Tony Tang
• Quanquan Fu
• Yang Zhang
• HaiTao Zhou
• 棍子兄弟
• Nancy Tao
• Shasha Yu
• 孟广文
• Wendy Zhang
• Sarah Xu
• 梅芳
• 老罗
• 江南批发西洋参
• 欧阳辉 
• Aiqun Rena Hu 
• YiQun Zhang
• Yu Feng Long
• 骆兴健
• Linda Pei
• Lucy SS
• Yuhong Wu& Xiaoyan Deng
• 曹放云
• Wenyan Cao
• Wei Zhong
• 不留名朋友
• LingYanLi                
• TieShuang Zhao:
• JingYun He:
• XiaoFengPeng

The 2019 Ringtorch Sports Meet has been held on August 17, 2019 at Calgary Rotary Challenger Park (click to visit). Check out what’s going on with our association’s Sportspersons.

Ourdooring is always exciting, eih?

We organized the never-to-forget Camping activity as usual at Oliver, BC during 2019 Canada Day Holidays.

Farm Address: 400 310 Ave, Osoyoos, BC V0H 1V5

Happy Canada Day 2019!

“Big data offers great opportunities to develop and promote traditional Chinese medicine (TMC) “, says Mrs Xu Lu (陆旭) Consul General on Sino North America Partnership of Traditional Chinese Medicine opening ceremony on April 21, 2018.

Education is the corner stone. Hunan Association and HACC tech Club will be offering “Machine Learning using R” programming course in the summer.