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Victoria BC Canada

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Nowruz Saal Tahvil

We wish you all a very happy new year; Nowruz pirouz!
Victoria Time (PST): Thuesday March 19, 2024, 20:06:26
Iran Time (IRST): Wednesday March 20, 2024, 06:36:26

Cahaar Shanbeh Souri

Persian Festival of Fire
Tuesday 12 March | 5:00 pm - 9:00 PM
Free Admissions | All Ages
Langford Station | 720 Station Ave, Langford | Map
Brought to you by Ardani Events & DJ Arian
Ride Share

Nowruz Celebrations

Nowruz Celebrations

Sizdah Be' Dar

سیزده‌بدر
Sizdah Be' Dar Picnic
Sunday March 31st | 11:00 - Sunset
Goldstream Provintial Park
Has running water, but maybe no electricity
Stove top & fire pit food heating up
Picnic tables
Bring pot luck, picnic, BBQ...come prepared
Park Forecast

Need a ride / can give a ride:

If you need a ride, take bus #50 from downtown, at Victoria General Hospital exit, Helmcken Road & Trans Canada Highway, get off the bus, stay at the bus stop on the over-pass ramp facing West.
You can also take take bus #14 from UVic or downtown, but have to cross the over-pass ramp to the North side. Map: City Hall to Helmcken Rd

If you can give a ride, take Trans Canada Highway, at Victoria General Hospital exit (Helmcken Road & Trans Canada Highway), take the hospital exit and meet students waiting at the bus stop on the over-pass ramp, load and continue West on the HWY. Map: Helmcken Rd to Goldstream Park
Ride Share

Persian Restaurants

Student Bank Referral

Are you a student & new to town? Persian Club can help you in setting up a bank account & getting a Credit Card. We will get you a free chequing account from which you can pay all your bills for free. We also get you the best student-friendly Credit Card. You will also get $50 signing-up bonus, to boot. You will be helping Persian Club as well as the club gets a bonus for referring you to the bank, too.

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Persian or Farsi?

Exonym / Endonym
India, China, Egypt, and Germany are the English-language exonyms corresponding to the endonyms Bharat, 中国 (Zhōnggu\F3), مَصر (Mesr), and Deutschland, respectively.
Chinese, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and German are exonyms in English for the languages that are endonymously known as "中文" ("Zhōngw\E9n"), "فارسی" ("Fārsi"), "Türkçe", "العَرَبِيَّة" ("al-Arabiyah"), and "Deutsch", respectively. Reference
French / Français
German / Deutsche
Japanese / Nihon-go
Turkish / Türkçe
Spanish / Español
Arabic / العَرَبِيَّة
Persian / فارسی
ما فارسی صحبت می‌کنیم
but we speak Persian.
We do not speak Farsi!

Persian Library

Persian Library is looking for a home, a business or an easy-access place for a bookshelf
Self checkout; help yourself; check yourself out a book in the list provided
We need book donations, if you would like to put your books into good use
We also need magazine subscriptions; consider a donation

Make Every Vote Count

To make every vote count, support the campaign for
Electoral Reform & Proportional Representation
to bring Democracy to Canada.
Proportional Representation is also what can cure broken the American political system
www.ElectoralReform.Ca

Helping Visa Students

Helping Iranian Foreign Visa Students
Iran's economy is so bad and the currency is doing so poorly that the Afghan migrant workers are fleeing Iran to go back home to Afghanistan, for their currency, Afghani, is now more valuable than IRR. With the Iranian Rial at a free fall, Iranian foreign visa students have a hard time covering their education costs in fore currencies. Couple of them could not afford to come back to school after the Summer holidays.

We must help them out!

Here are a few practical suggestions on how the community can help the students:
- Give them an unused room you can not be bothered to rent out
- Rent them a room in exchange for occasional babysitting or help & companionship for the elderly
- Money transfer: When sending money to your parents in Iran, instead of using a currency exchange service, give CAD$ to students here in Canada & they deposit IRR to a bank account in Iran. Online bank money transfers are now done instantaneously; it can be done right in front of you. Help the students out by giving them a favourable & reasonable exchange rate
- Give them a job
- We can write letters to UVic/RRU/Camosun Student Awards & Financial Aid Offices explaining their plight and requesting a favourable look on their student-aid application
- Maybe UVic Iranian Students Association & the انجمن can cooperate and hold a monthly disco night at the Vertigo for the community to come together, have fun, and raise funds for the students
- We can recommend them for free rent in exchange for house sitting

Student Housing

Iranian visa students are coming to town and need a place to rent.
Do you have a place you can give or rent to them?
Victoria Rental Listings for Students / برای اجاره دانشجویی
For an extensive list of rentals contact Persian Club

Food For Thought

Khod Rahaagar, the bulletin of Hezb-e' Iran-e' Aabaad, argues that inoculating Iran against reproduction of dictatorship & winning the next revolution is predicated on forming organized political parties. For the best news analysis, watch newscast on YouTube or listen to their podcast

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