Eddie Norfolk\u00a0
\nThe CIMA Toronto Mayor\u2019s 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\u2019s Trophy” takes place at Sunnybrook Park, Toronto.
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\nSaturday\u2019s event begins with a cricket demonstration from 8 am, with the Ontario Women\u2019s 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.
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\nThe 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\u2019s XI will face the Toronto CEO\u2019s XI when the ceremonial phase is completed.
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\nThere 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\u2019s Trophy.
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\nSunnybrook Park is within a large set of parklands and woodlands, the entrance is near the intersection of Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue East.
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\nAlong with Friday\u2019s announcement of the team for the Mayor\u2019s team for the UK tour, “Cricket across the Pond”, there will be announcements about the outcome of this year\u2019s “Toronto Mayor\u2019s 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.
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\nRBC (Royal Bank of Canada) and Tom\u2019s 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.
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\nThe Mayor\u2019s Trophy began in 2005 as part of an initiative between CIMA and the Access and Diversity Unit of Toronto\u2019s Parks and Recreation division. There are some 28 sponsors and partners for the CIMA Mayor\u2019s Trophy.
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\nCIMA 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.
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\nI 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!
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