{"id":70238,"date":"2016-02-07T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T13:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70238"},"modified":"2016-02-07T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T13:22:51","slug":"trudeau-helps-mark-chinese-new-year-at-toronto-dragon-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/07\/trudeau-helps-mark-chinese-new-year-at-toronto-dragon-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau helps mark Chinese New Year at Toronto Dragon Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70239\" style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Justin-Trudeau-Chinese-New-Year-Dragonball-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70239\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Justin-Trudeau-Chinese-New-Year-Dragonball-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Dragon Ball 2016. (Photo from the offcial Twitter page of PM Trudeau)\" width=\"631\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Justin-Trudeau-Chinese-New-Year-Dragonball-2016.jpg 631w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Justin-Trudeau-Chinese-New-Year-Dragonball-2016-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Dragon Ball 2016.<br \/>(Photo from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\" target=\"_blank\">offcial Twitter page of PM Trudeau<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014Prime Minister Justin Trudeau helped Toronto&#8217;s Chinese-Canadian community celebrate the Lunar New Year at a gala event in Toronto Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>He was the guest of honour at the Dragon Ball, where he celebrated the beginning of the Year of the Monkey.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived with former Mississauga, Ont. mayor Hazel McCallion on his arm, joking she was a date \u201calmost as hot\u201d as his wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>McCallion, 94, served as mayor for 36 years but retired in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, held by the Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation, Trudeau participated in a traditional eye-dotting ceremony during a lion dance.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that Canada has had diplomatic relations with China for 45 years, and the relationship is growing stronger each year. He noted that there are 1.3 million Chinese-Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration minister John McCallum, Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown and Xue Bing, Consul General of the People&#8217;s Republic of China in Toronto, also attended.<\/p>\n<p>Seats started at $480, and money raised went to the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Prime Minister Justin Trudeau helped Toronto&#8217;s Chinese-Canadian community celebrate the Lunar New Year at a gala event in Toronto Saturday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-70238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}