Eddie Norfolk 
The CIMA Toronto Mayor’s team for the 2011 UK tour is to be announced this Friday (June 24), the day before the annual CIMA Canada “A Celebration of Cricket/CIMA Mayor’s Trophy” takes place at Sunnybrook Park, Toronto.
 
Saturday’s event begins with a cricket demonstration from 8 am, with the Ontario Women’s Cricket development program being involved. Last year the weather was a touch miserable for this phase of the day, but the weather seemed to get worse, if I recall correctly during the morning.
 
The Ceremonial Opening, with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and special guests Jim Flaherty (Federal Finance Minister) and MPP Christine Elliott, is due to be at 9 am. The now annual Toronto Mayor’s XI will face the Toronto CEO’s XI when the ceremonial phase is completed.
 
There are three series of matches involving teams from the public sector, corporate sector and the media during the day. The media teams battle away for bragging rights in the CIMA Media Trophy matches. There is a separate set of matches for the CIMA Accountants Trophy, and the remaining public and private sector teams are involved in the CIMA Mayor’s Trophy.
 
Sunnybrook Park is within a large set of parklands and woodlands, the entrance is near the intersection of Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue East.
 
Along with Friday’s announcement of the team for the Mayor’s team for the UK tour, “Cricket across the Pond”, there will be announcements about the outcome of this year’s “Toronto Mayor’s School Cricket Championships.” It seems the Toronto East championships were set for June 11 at Sunnybrook Park, with the Toronto West championships at Summerlea Park, Etobicoke. The winners then met at Summerlea Park on June 18.
 
RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) and Tom’s Place are two highlighted sponsors involved ni the Cricket Across the Pond tour, in addition to CIMA (The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and the City of Toronto.
 
The Mayor’s Trophy began in 2005 as part of an initiative between CIMA and the Access and Diversity Unit of Toronto’s Parks and Recreation division. There are some 28 sponsors and partners for the CIMA Mayor’s Trophy.
 
CIMA is committed to “upholding the highest ethical and professional standards, and to maintaining public confidence in management accounting.” A very important principle that seems to have hit home in the “developed” world over the course of the last 12 or so years (or since 2008 in the narrower viewpoint), or on a much longer basis.
 
I have yet to discover trees or bushes that grow money. And it is pretty obvious that various Canadian cricket leagues and associations have not found any magic solutions for growing money. But, “Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies is blue” or, perhaps, gold!