Advance - Toronto

Message from Advance Toronto Chair and Australian Canadian Association (YACA) President, Tom Vandepeer

Welcome to Advance Toronto (Trading as YACA, The Australian Canadian Association). Toronto is Canada’s financial centre and largest city with a profoundly multicultural feel. The city is 1.5 hours by air to cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, Boston, and Chicago, and used as a ‘soft landing’ for many companies breaking into North American trade along the Eastern seaboard – while still providing excellent windows of communication to European centres. With over 100 ethnic groups and a thriving Australian Canadian business and social community, Toronto is an excellent place to live and work. Advance Toronto/YACA has a thriving membership of around 300, working across multiple industries, including Financial Services, Consulting, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Information Technology, Arts and many more.

Our executive is focused on building upon the organization’s status as a hub of Australian Canadian activity in Canada, and we enjoy solid support from the Australian Trade Commission and local chambers of commerce. Please feel free to email us with any questions or for information about Advance/YACA in Toronto and our regular schedule of events. We welcome new members and visitors!

Advance Toronto Committee

Tom Vandepeer, Chair
Tom Vandepeer is New Business Manager for Bay Area Health Trust, a healthcare holding company in Ontario. He has been in Canada since 2003, after a successful management consulting career back in Australia.

Tom has been President of the Australian Canadian Association since late 2003, supported and driven by an intelligent, active team. YACA became the Toronto office of the Advance network in early 2006.

Committee Members
Tom Vandepeer
Jon Eckfeld, City Editor

Michael Shipley

Elizabeth Burrough

Matthew Snare

Johanna Bell

Olivia Susai

Justin Robinson

Adam Gordon

The Advance Australian community is continually expanding. If you are interested in joining the Advance Toronto committee, please email us with your expression of interest an any questions you may have.

TORONTO

Rudely Interrupted
Wednesday 16 June and Thursday 17 June
8:00pm

NXNE Music & Film Festival

Following their 2008 maiden tour through North America and an unprecedented performance at the United Nations for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Australian indie rockers Rudely Interrupted return this summer with a hefty tour schedule spanning across the East Coast and Canada. [More...]

CALGARY

Xavier Rudd with Justin Nozuka

Saturday 29 May

Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

For more information, please visit www.xavierrudd.com

OTTAWA

Australian Driver's License Now Recognized in Ontario

From 25 January 2010 Australians living in Ontario will be able to simply exchange their Australian driver’s license for an Ontario license, without having to undergo a driving test. [More...]

VANCOUVER

Xavier Rudd with Justin Nozuka

Friday 4 June

Malkin Bowl

For more information, please visit www.xavierrudd.com

ONTARIO

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu Show
Thursday 24 June @ 8pm
Enwave Theatre
Tickets: $24.50

Singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu will release his eponymous solo debut album Gurrumul via Dramatico Entertainment on June 15. Gurrumul is the first indigenous Australian solo artist to breakthrough to the mainstream with audiences and critics responding passionately to the album. Gurrumul went double-platinum, earned exceptional reviews and four ARIA Award nominations (including the coveted Male Artist of the Year and Album of the Year). A stunning collection of 12 songs, Gurrumul emphasizes the importance of ancestry, country and land.

For more information click [here]