<![CDATA[CANADA MONGOLIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - News]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:50:05 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[CanCham Mongolia Joins Indo-Pacific Network to Strengthen Trade and Investment]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:37:17 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/cancham-mongolia-joins-indo-pacific-network-to-strengthen-trade-and-investmentApril 16, 2026
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia & Ottawa, ON, Canada | Indo-Pacific Region
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CanCham Mongolia Joins Indo-Pacific Network to Strengthen Trade and Investment

April 16, 2026
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia & Ottawa, ON, Canada | Indo-Pacific Region

CanCham Mongolia (Canada Mongolia Chamber of Commerce) is proud to join 21 Canadian Chambers of Commerce across the Indo-Pacific in launching the Canadian Chambers of the Indo Pacific (CCIP), following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on April 16, 2026. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Prime Minister Mark Carney, underscoring the importance of this milestone for Canada’s engagement in the region.

CanCham Mongolia Chair, His Excellency Batsukh Galsan, former Ambassador of Mongolia to Canada, signed the MOU on behalf of the organization.
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In closing remarks at the ceremony, CCIP leadership expressed appreciation to the Prime Minister for his participation, noting that this marks the first time many Canadian Chambers abroad have entered into a formal partnership of this kind—and their first direct engagement at this level with Canada’s Prime Minister. The presence of the Prime Minister highlights the growing importance of coordinated Canadian business representation in the Indo-Pacific.

Originally envisioned five years ago as a platform to give Canadian businesses in Asia a stronger, more consistent voice with Ottawa, CCIP represents a significant step toward deeper, more structured collaboration. The network also acknowledged the contributions of key government and business leaders whose support helped bring this initiative to fruition, and looks forward to working closely with partners across Canada and the region.

This new network strengthens collaboration among Canadian business communities across Asia, aiming to enhance trade, investment, and knowledge sharing in a rapidly evolving global environment.

Through the CCIP, members will work together on coordinated advocacy, joint initiatives such as trade missions, and stronger engagement with Canadian and regional partners.

CanCham Mongolia’s participation reinforces its commitment to advancing Canada–Mongolia economic ties and supporting its members in accessing new opportunities across the Indo-Pacific.

Contacts:
His Excellency Batsukh Galsan | chair@canadamongolia.org
Brett Stephenson | brett@canchamsindopacific.ca
Adam A. Janikowski | adam@canchamsindopacific.ca

About CanCham Mongolia
CanCham Mongolia was registered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2017, building on the foundation of the Canada Mongolia Chamber of Commerce established in Canada in 2014. The organization promotes trade, investment, and business collaboration between Canada and Mongolia.
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]]><![CDATA[Canada–Mongolia Chamber of Commerce Pushes New Momentum in Bilateral Trade and Partnership]]>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/canada-mongolia-chamber-of-commerce-pushes-new-momentum-in-bilateral-trade-and-partnershipThe Canada–Mongolia Chamber of Commerce met with the Embassy of Canada on 6 November to reaffirm a shared commitment to expanding bilateral trade. Ambassador Stephen Doust outlined Canada’s drive to diversify exports and deepen ties with Mongolia, while CMCC leaders highlighted ongoing outreach to Canadian firms and priority sectors.

​Both sides discussed opportunities in mining, agriculture, IT, AI, and cybersecurity, and agreed to explore joint initiatives, including a Canada-Mongolia Business Forum and a February 2026 event on cybersecurity and agriculture. CMCC will also pursue Indo-Pacific Strategy funding to support future programming. The meeting underscored growing momentum to strengthen Canada’s presence and partnership in Mongolia.
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]]><![CDATA[Canada-Mongolia Chamber of Commerce Appoints New Leadership Team]]>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:59:58 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/canada-mongolia-chamber-of-commerce-appoints-new-leadership-team17 September 2024

OTTAWA — The Canada-Mongolia Chamber of Commerce (CMCC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Amar Adiya as President, Gerelt Trost as Executive Director, and Badral Sambuu as Business Development Director and CMCC Representative in Mongolia. This new leadership team brings a wealth of experience in business development, international relations, and trade, positioning the Chamber for an exciting future.

Amar Adiya, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Mongolia Weekly, will assume the role of President of CMCC. With a robust background in government relations, public affairs, and strategic communications, Amar brings global experience that will strengthen the Chamber’s efforts to enhance trade and investment opportunities between Canada and Mongolia.

Gerelt Trost has been appointed Executive Director of CMCC. She has over a decade of leadership in international project management and financial administration, having managed large-scale global partnerships at the University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Polytechnic. Fluent in five languages, Gerelt’s extensive expertise will play a crucial role in fostering collaboration between Canadian and Mongolian businesses.

Badral Sambuu, an experienced sales and marketing professional, will serve as CMCC’s Business Development Director and Representative in Mongolia. With senior roles at UNITRA LLC and Vestas, where he managed wind energy projects across the APAC region, Badral brings a strong focus on operational efficiency, safety, and customer relations. His background in energy and project management makes him an essential asset to the Chamber's operations in Mongolia.

Amar Adiya, CMCC President, said: "I am honored to lead the Canada-Mongolia Chamber of Commerce and work with this dynamic team. Together, we will continue to promote sustainable development and strengthen the economic ties between Canada and Mongolia, creating opportunities for growth and collaboration."

Gerelt Trost added: "I am excited to bring my experience in international partnerships to the Chamber. By working closely with businesses and government leaders, we aim to foster deeper connections that will benefit both countries."

Badral Sambuu commented: "I look forward to advancing CMCC's mission in Mongolia, working with local and international stakeholders to promote investment and business growth, particularly in the renewable energy sector."
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The new leadership team is committed to ensuring CMCC continues to be a leading voice in Canada-Mongolia relations, advocating for a competitive and sustainable business environment for all members.

About the Canada-Mongolia Chamber of Commerce
The Canada-Mongolia Chamber of Commerce serves its members by advocating for a sustainable and competitive business environment for businesses and communities in both Canada and Mongolia. We are an open, diverse, and inclusive group of individuals and organizations who share a common goal: to create sustainable shared value for Canada and Mongolia in a mutually beneficial manner.]]><![CDATA[Documentary of THE HU]]>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 23:15:17 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/documentary-of-the-hu
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]]><![CDATA[Blog entry by Art to Heart Studio on CMCC Anniversary Food Event - Mongolian Night]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:33:37 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/blog-entry-by-art-to-heart-studio-on-cmcc-anniversary-food-event-mongolian-night
I attended a very interesting event a couple weeks ago called “Mongolian Street Food” at the Louie Craft Coffee near the Liberty Village in Toronto.  This event was organized by the Canada Mongolian Chamber of Commerce (CMCC) to celebrate their 1st Anniversary, and to promote Mongolian Culture through street foods.

I was immediately drawn to both aspects of the rare opportunity to explore “Mongolian” and “Street Food” culture, so I decided to venture out on this otherwise humdrum Wednesday night.

Upon arrival to a full house at the Louie Craft Coffee, I was greeted with a roomful of friendly faces of young men and women with full smile and sparkly eyes.  We were offered a refreshing Seabuckthorn drink, which is a very concentrated berry juice mixed with your choice of flat or carbonated water.  Then I was led to my seat and the dinner menu was presented and explained to me by the friendly staff.

Menu

Buuz – traditional Mongolian lamb + beef dumplings

Ulaanbaatar (UB) Salad – potato salad with a choice of vegetarian or beef tongue

Hailmag – Mongolian butter pastry (chocolate or peanut butter)

Tsai – salted Mongolian milk tea

Seabuckhorn Juice

It was quite a treat to taste all these authentic Mongolian street foods, but I was even more touched by the opportunity to meet and talk to the Mongolian Canadians, whom I have never had a chance to meet before.  I was shocked to learn that there are only about 200 Mongolians living in Toronto, it made the CMCC’s 1st Anniversary even more meaningful and precious, and I felt very special to be amongst this small community to celebrate with them.  I hope to support the CMCC’s efforts in their future endeavour, and wish their community will grow in population and prosper.   Congratulations CMCC on your first Birthday and many, many more!

Thank you Art to Heart Studio!
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Mongolian Street Food event hostess and CMCC Mentor Program Coordinator Khulan ZalaaUul serving up the delicious Seabuckthorn berry drink.
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Fascinated to read about all the goodness in this Seabuckthorn berry drink.
]]><![CDATA[Blog by Dejana Erich: "One Day On Earth - Adventures Of A Mongolian Globetrotter"]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:26:50 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/blog-by-dejana-erich-one-day-on-earth-adventures-of-a-mongolian-globetrotterUpcoming Event - One Day On Earth: Adventures Of A Mongolian Globetrotter

Something cool is happening in Toronto - Amai Mongol is visiting for a few days before his departure this Friday! He is a first Mongol to travel the world in this way, as a modern BADARACHIN – following this ancient Mongolian tradition, a kind of mission when a young man, who has certain skills and education, and is matured enough, takes a bag and two sticks and go for a long trip. His task would be to go by foot, to walk through various difficulties, experience pain and collect knowledge and experiences, and than, after some time, to get back to his people and tell them what he has learned.

Canada is the 86th country he is visited in 9 years. His plan was to visit at least 150 countries and 6 continents before he gets back to Mongolia, a journey he embarked on the 4th of November 2005 – a trip around the world.

“For many years we haven’t heard of badarchines, like this tradition has vanished. I wanted to renew this tradition and to investigate possibilities of travelling for Mongolian people, thus giving the opportunity to my people, specially our youth, to go to foreign countries. I write about all countries I see along the way, from Mongolian point of view – about the people who live there and about what a Mongolian traveller could expect there. I am trying to compare all those countries with Mongolia and their cultures with ours.” says Amai.

Mongolia is last nomad civilisation in the World. Soviet Union tried to erase that culture for 70 years, but such a long and rich history couldn’t be erased during two or three generations.

“People of other cultures come from cultures of cities. That is not in Mongolian tradition, but now, especially because of globalisation, Mongolia has to put together both those traditions.” says Amai.

You can read more about Amai around the world traveler here on FB or on his official blog, www.amai.mn

]]><![CDATA[Identifying Flags from nevruz Countries in Toronto, 2015 - torontomulticulturalcalendar.com]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:10:11 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/identifying-flags-from-nevruz-countries-in-toronto-2015-torontomulticulturalcalendarcomCMCC and Friends participated in the Nevruz Spring festival in Toronto on April 5th and were revisited by Ruth Lor Malloy, who is a devoted enthusiast of all things multicultural. She attended our Art Exhibition in September as well and had much things to say.

Ruth writes: I especially wanted to go to one of my favourites, the Nevruz Spring Festival at the Nile Academy. This festival is great because it has representatives from many different countries, all in one place. It was a chance to add to my collection of photos of the different cultures that we have in Toronto. I expected them all to be Turkic speaking.

I had challenged my Blog readers to identify the 17 flags in the Nevruz poster. (See Blog 450 at torontomulticulturalcalendar.com.) This was mainly because I couldn’t identify them myself. I decided to concentrate on the flags at this fair. The set-up at the different tables was ideal. Each of the cultures or countries had a flag on the wall behind its collection of symbols, arts and crafts. Some had sample food, either free or for sale.
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The first country table visited was Mongolia. A student and a representative of the Canada-Mongolia Chamber of Commerce were there. I remembered Mongolia as a Buddhist country. What was it doing at a primarily Muslim festival? Uighurs live in the far west of Mongolia, they said. Uighurs are Muslim and Turkic speaking. I should have remembered them and the Kazaks. The Mongolians were showing a Mongolian flag, not a Uighur or Kazak flag. And Genghis Khan was there.
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About Ruth Lor Malloy
She is behind TorontoMulticulturalCalendar.com. She is a travel writer and photographer, born in Canada with an obsession to experience the whole world.  She was brought up in a Chinese restaurant family in eastern Ontario, and has lived for extended periods in the U.S., the Philippines, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, India, Taiwan, and Thailand. She has also lived in Japan,  Mexico and Brasil.  From 1975 to 2002, she published a series of 14 guide books on China. She has also published guide books on Beijing and Hong Kong, and helped with one on Almaty.   Her self-guided, downloadable photo tours on the Calgary Stampede, the Quebec Winter Carnival, The World in Toronto, and Toronto’s Many Chinatowns are available from VisualTravelTours.com.  This company has also published her tours on Botswana, Mongolia and Helsinki.

Ruth’s travel articles have appeared in publications like the Asian Wall St. Journal, Copley News Service, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, and Globe and Mail. Her aim is to bring people of different backgrounds together as friends with an appreciation of each others’ cultures. She believes one of the ways this can be done in Toronto is to encourage visits to each other’s festivals.  Her calendar lists free or nearly free events that provide such opportunities.

]]><![CDATA[Mongolian Art & Throat Singing Video, 2014 - Torontomulticulturalcalendar.com]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:47:44 GMThttps://www.canadamongolia.org/news/mongolian-art-throat-singing-video-2014-torontomulticulturalcalendarcomCMCC was pleased to meet Ruth Lor Malloy at our Art Exhibition this month and she wrote this wonderful blog post about the event.

Ruth writes: It isn’t often that we hear about a Mongolian event in Toronto. An art exhibition was included in the recent Culture Days weekend. Of course I couldn’t miss it. I love Mongolia. I’ve been there three times — attracted by its big skies, its horses, its music,  boots. I could go on and on about it.
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Amai on Skype. Copyright ©2014 Ruth Lor Malloy
The Mongolian art exhibit was in the East Asian Library at the University of Toronto on September 26. The highlight for me was an example of khoomei – Amai, the singer, refused to call it “throat singing”. That of the world-traveling adventurist-author was more profound and spiritual than any of the throat singing I heard in Mongolia. It was short and wonderful, more like what I’ve heard in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries than in tourist shows in Ulan Bator.
Amai sang to us from New York City via Skype. He had been unable to get a visa in time to come to Toronto. Links to a video and to Amai’s interesting website are below.
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Lkhagva Amarsanaa. Copyright ©2014 Ruth Lor Malloy
I saw two of the three artists present from Mongolia. Lkhagva Amarsanaa was demonstrating Mongolian calligraphy. He was the most popular as he translated the names of attenders into beautiful ancient Mongolian script.   The country currently uses Cyrillic.
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These pieces were simple compared to some of his other works. I wasn’t able to get artist Ochirbat Enkhtaivan to stand beside his horse paintings. He was too busy helping Amarsanaa sell the calligraphy to members of the eager audience. But Bolor Sambuu of the Canada Mongolia Chamber of Commerce agreed to pose with one. The Chamber sponsored the event.
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Bolor Sambuu, Canada Mongolia Chamber of Commerce with painting by Ochirbat Enktaivan. Copyright ©2014 Ruth Lor Malloy
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About Ruth Lor Malloy
She is behind TorontoMulticulturalCalendar.com. She is a travel writer and photographer, born in Canada with an obsession to experience the whole world.  She was brought up in a Chinese restaurant family in eastern Ontario, and has lived for extended periods in the U.S., the Philippines, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, India, Taiwan, and Thailand. She has also lived in Japan,  Mexico and Brasil.  From 1975 to 2002, she published a series of 14 guide books on China. She has also published guide books on Beijing and Hong Kong, and helped with one on Almaty.   Her self-guided, downloadable photo tours on the Calgary Stampede, the Quebec Winter Carnival, The World in Toronto, and Toronto’s Many Chinatowns are available from VisualTravelTours.com.  This company has also published her tours on Botswana, Mongolia and Helsinki.

Ruth’s travel articles have appeared in publications like the Asian Wall St. Journal, Copley News Service, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, and Globe and Mail. Her aim is to bring people of different backgrounds together as friends with an appreciation of each others’ cultures. She believes one of the ways this can be done in Toronto is to encourage visits to each other’s festivals.  Her calendar lists free or nearly free events that provide such opportunities.
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