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Quebec Sikh boy's case focusses on kirpan
judgment
1 October 2008
MONTREAL: Even
as a Montreal civil rights lawyer claimed that sections of Quebec
society never accepted the Supreme Court's decision to allow Sikh... |
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Sikhs dominate Ethnic stake in Canadian
Elections
1 October 2008
With close to
two dozen out of the thirty Indian origin candidates, from the three
main contesting parties, Sikhs are making their presence felt like... |
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Montreal school suspends Sikh
student, community complains of mis-reporting incident
24 September 2008
Montreal,
Quebec: A thirteen-year-old Sikh boy was suspended from school on
September 11th after being accused of threatening another student
outside school... |
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Par goes Far and beyond
17 September 2008
RICHMOND:
Par to his colleagues and Parminder Singh to his family, the widely
experienced technocrat heads the Microsoft Canada Deveopment Centre
with 300... |
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Gurpreet Khaira crowned Miss Canada
Punjaban-2008
10 September 2008
TORONTO:
Mississauga resident Gurpreet Khaira was crowned Miss World Punjaban
-2008 at a beauty-cum-cultural pageant held at the Rose Theatre here... |
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BC Court quashes life term sentence in Sikh girl murder case
10 September 2008
VANCOUVER: Canada's
Sikh community is perturbed after a court let free a woman who was
convicted of beating and drowning a Sikh teenaged girl in 1997... |
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Winnipeg Sikh who kidnapped alleged molesters spared jail
3 September 2008
WINNIPEG: A
member of a small Sikh sect who claims he was repeatedly sexually abused for
years by priests at a Winnipeg temple has been spared jail time... |
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WSO
condemns Orissa violence
3 September 2008
Ottawa: The World Sikh Organization (WSO) has condemned the deadly
violence between Christians and Hindus in Orissa that has followed
the assassination... |
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Ross St gurdwara’s Dhaliwal in Vancouver city
council race
27 August, 2008
VANCOUVER: The
president of Vancouver's Ross Street Sikh Gurdwara says he's
planning to run for Vancouver city council under the Vision
Vancouver banner... |
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Mother whose inlaws snatched the child
returns to Canada
27 August, 2008
MONTREAL: A
mother whose in-laws tried to deprive her of the infant child after
the death of her husband has finally returned to Montreal.
She had accused the inlaws... |
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Indo-Canadian teen drowns after rescuing
girlfriend
27 August, 2008
Vancouver: The
body of an Indo-Canadian teen who was reported to have mysteriously
drowned in a river here a week ago has been found. Seventeen-year... |
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Haloonaa's bid to revive internationalism among Sikhs
27 August, 2008
Activist” at Khalsa Community School, Malton earlier this month, organized by Haloonaa
Project Coordination Team. The focus was to educate and... |
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Sikh youth gunned down in 'planned hit'
27 August, 2008
VANCOUVER: An
Indo-Canadian youth of Punjab origin was gunned down in the city of
Surrey near Vancouver last Thursday night in what police
described... |
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Family violence haunts Indo-Canadians in
Vancouver again, 1 killed
27 August, 2008
VANCOUVER:
Vancouver has been making deathly news repeatedly for the Sikh
Diaspora. Yet another Indo-Canadian man has killed his wife in the
city of
Surrey... |
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WSO says apology welcome, now make it sincere
too
13 August, 2008
Ottawa: The
World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) has commended Prime Minister
Harper for participating in 'Gadri Babeyan Da Mela' in Surrey... |
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Canadian Sikh professor wins prestigious Early
Researcher Award
13 August, 2008
WATERLOO: A Sikh psychology professor at Wilfrid
Laurier University has received a prestigious Early Researcher Award from
the Ontario Ministry of Research... |
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Canadian PM apologizes for Komagata Maru, Sikhs reject apology
6 August, 2008
SURREY (BC):
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last Sunday apologized for
the infamous Komagata Maru ship incident of 1914 in which over 300... |
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Jasvir Singh of Canada will be
Punjab’s face in Beijing
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July, 2008
CALIFORNIA: On
Saturday, July 26th, the Punjabi American Community of California
organized an event to honor Jasvir Singh and wish him good luck... |
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Inderjit Singh Reyat bailed in Kanishka case
16 July
2008
VANCOUVER: Inderjit
Singh Reyat, who has served over two decades in prison for his
purported role in the Kanishka case was granted bail today by the
British... |
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Laibar Singh completes a year of sanctuary
16 July 2008
VANCOUVER:
Travelling on a false passport as an economic migrant but now
seeking stay on humanitarian grounds, Laibar Singh has completed a
year of sanctuary in a local... |
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Community policing centre opens next to Vancouver gurdwara
16 July 2008
BRITISH
COLUMBIA: Vancouver police
hope a new community policing centre that opened on Sunday will
break down language barriers and cut crime inthe city... |
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Kanishka
inquiry records public
16 July 2008
The
true story of Air India flight Kanishka 182 may never be known. The
alleged conspirator, Talwinder Singh Parmar, was killed in an
extrajudicial killing... |
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Developing Consensus among the Sikhs
9 July 2008
Haloona project strives to imbibe keen
interest in issues confronting the Khalsa Panth and endeavours to
evolve solutions thereto. |
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What has being Sikh got to do with such reporting?
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July, 2008
VANCOUVER:
Typical of Indian media syndrome, several newspapers last week
rushed to write that a Sikh taxi driver here has been sentenced to
life for killing... |
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South Asians biggest target of hate crimes after Blacks
11
June, 2008
TORONTO: An official
survey carried out by government agency Statistics Canada has
established that South Asians are the second biggest victims of hate
crime... |
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Sunbay launches TeriSikhi website
4
June,
2008
Dublin, CA: Sunbay
Technologies Inc., a services firm known for helping senior
executives execute business and technology initiatives, has now
launched... |
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Driver facing charges after gurdwara incident in
Canada
4
June,
2008
PRINCE GEORGE:
Charges are pending against the driver of a vehicle speared through
the windshield by a wooden plank Saturday morning... |
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Finally, Canadian Parliament apologizes for
Kamagata Maru
21
May,
2008
OTTAWA:
Ninety-four years after Canada sent back a ship full of Sikhs in
complete disregard of humane considerations and ethics, it finally
has decided... |
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Colorful 14th Punjabi American Festival on May 25
21
May,
2008
YUBA CITY, CA:
The 14th Annual Punjabi American Festival is expected to draw
crowd in excess of ten thousand people from all over California... |
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After Surrey, Sikhs make their point in Toronto too
30
April 2008
TORONTO: Neither
was the minority-muffling Indian nation state expected to gulp the issues
raised by the Sikh community in Surrey through... |
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Sikh workers file lawsuit against hard-hat rule
9
April
2008
VANCOUVER: Two
turban-wearing Sikhs have filed a human rights complaint against
International Forest Products, saying a new hard hat policy is preventing... |
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Forget travel agents, now Canada is visiting
Punjabis to fetch them
9
April
2008
CHANDIGARH/TORONTO:
At a time when Punjabis are paying through their nose to travel
agents and looking for all kinds of ways to breach Fortress West... |
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Canada warns against ayurvedic medicines
2
April
2008
VANCOUVER: Health
Canada, which has repeatedly warned Canadians not to use ayurvedic
remedies, has again repeated that warning citing their high lead... |
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Club fined for refusing entry to Sikh
26
March 2008
TORONTO:
A nightclub in Canada has been fined $4,300 for refusing entry to a
Sikh man, who said he had been a victim of racial discrimination... |
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Laibar Singh's supporters finally
seem relenting,
he may be deported
19
March 2008
TORONTO:
Laibar Singh may finally have to return home. The failed refugee
claimant who had beaten many attempts by the Canadian authorities to
be deported back... |
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Canadian Bill will
help skilled immigrants, others stand to lose
19
March 2008
Toronto: A new
Canadian Bill currently being celebrated by many middle classIndians
because it will fast-track immigration for skilled applicants... |
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At 28, Bhullar is youngest Canadian minister
19
March 2008
TORONTO: Calgary
law student Manmeet Bhullar, 28, was appointed parliamentary
assistant for advanced education and technology in the Canadian province... |
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Badesha decides to challenge ruling on turban versus
helmet case
19
March 2008
BRAMPTON: Baljinder
Singh Badesha, the turbaned Sikh in Brampton whose plea to ride his
motorcycle without a helmet has decided to appeal the decision... |
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Every province in Canada has at least one
turbaned Sikh as MLA
12
March 2008
TORONTO: A
record five Indo-Canadians have been elected as lawmakers in the
March 3 elections in Canada's booming province of Alberta. Now... |
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‘Murder, wrote the NRI, but it’s the
community that is paying for it’
5
March 2008
I am writing
this after reading the distrubing report “Murder, wrote the NRI, and
paid for it” in the WSN edition of February 27-March 4, 2008 that I
picked up... |
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Truckers of Indian origin in Canada form association
27
February 2008
TORONTO: People
of Indian origin in Canada, who own nearly 60 percent of the
trucking business in the country, have joined hands to form the
Indian... |
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Precedents buoy Sikh’s turban fight, lawyer says
27
February 2008
BRAMPTON: Helmet laws are designed to protect those who ride
motorcycles and save millions in public health-care spending, a
Crown attorney... |
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Brampton Sikh challenges helmet law
for motorcyclists
20 February 2008
BRAMPTON: A Brampton
man is the first to challenge Ontario’s motorcycle helmet law saying
it unfairly excludes him from a pastime he loves... |
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Canadian Sikh Agenda to be released by March-end
20 February 2008
VANCOUVER: A British
Sikh leader, Dabinderjit Singh, a former member of the International
Sikh Youth Federation, is currently on a Canadian... |
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Punjabi marching ahead in Canadian
Punjab
13 February 2008
VANCOUVER: Much
interest was elicited in Punjab this past week as sections of the
media reported some language related demographic figures... |
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Kanishka bombing:
Convict completes sentence
13 February 2008
TORONTO: Inderjit
Singh Reyat, the only person convicted for the 1985 Air India
bombing, completed his manslaughter sentence but... |
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Ruby Dhalla wants Canadian govt to apologise,
India yet to move
6 February 2008
JALANDHAR: Even as
visiting Canadian MP Ruby Dhalla has now said that she would impress
upon Prime Minister Stephen Harper to apologise... |
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Air India bombing probe did not allow proper
representation: WSO
6 February 2008
OTTAWA, ONTARIO: On
January 31, 2008, the World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) filed
its final submissions in the Commission... |
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No charitable status, so there may be a terror link
6 February 2008
VANCOUVER: In a rabble rousing
story, The Vancouver Sun, a newspaper that often covers Sikh affairs with a
poison coated quill, has... |
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Punjabi youth gunned down outside east Vancouver home
6 February 2008
VANCOUVER: A 19-year-old Richmond
man of Punjab origin was gunned down outside an east Vancouver home last
Sunday and the murder seemed... |
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Billing scam cloud billows over Canada's first
Muslim woman Senator
30 January 2008
BRITISH
COLUMBIA: Canada's federal New Democrats want B.C. senator and
lawyer Mobina Jaffer, the first Muslim woman to be appointed a
senator... |
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Laibar Singh issue a test case for Canada
30 January 2008
SURREY: The issue of deportation of
Laibar Singh continues to hog headlines as Canadian authorities
decide whether and when to get tough |
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Kirpan Ban in Canada court
revives issue
23 January 2008
CALGARY: Calgary based
Sikh youth Tejinder Singh Sidhu who was disallowed last week from entering
local courts because he was wearing... |
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Calgary man denied court house entry for
wearing kirpan
16 January 2008
CALGARY:
A Sikh man says his Charter rights were violated when he was not allowed to
take his ceremonial dagger into the Calgary court house... |
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Sikh student's kara issue is now bangle
wrangle, court challenge looms
16 January 2008
Not only hundreds of Canadian Sikhs but also many white Canadians
have joined a strong determined group of about 4,000 people who are
backing |
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Sikhs fund Canada hospital, now pushed to
fight it
26 December
2007
Peel Region's Sikh
community played a key role in establishing Brampton's gleaming new
hospital. It has played an equally major... |
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Sikh driver's death turns spotlight on
Canada's new medicare scheme
12 December, 2007
Toronto: A Brampton
Sikh bus driver's death in a new hospital allegedly due to negligence has
turned into a debate on the very working of the P-3... |
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Campbell and hot prasad
12 December, 2007
Gordon Campbell, British Columbia’s
Premier, recalls his first experience of handling the rather hot prasad at a
gurdwara in Vancouver..... |
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Sikh students in Victoria can wear kirpans to school
12 December, 2007
VICTORIA: Sikh students in Victoria have been
allowed to wear their little gatra-and-kirpan to school while the Muslim
students were given... |
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‘Ageing’ British Columbia seeks more Indians
5 December, 2007
CHANDIGARH: Saying
that his country was “ageing” fast, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell
on Monday said there was an acute shortage... |
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WSO condemns aggravating spiritual deficit
28 November, 2007
OTTAWA: The World Sikh
Organization of Canada (WSO) has expressed serious concern and
disappointment over Canadian immigration's new discriminatory approach
towards visiting... |
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Hayer family gets together to mark slain elder's death
anniversary
21 November, 2007
SURREY: Even as the family of the slain editor
of Indo-Canadian Times, Tara Singh Hayer, marked the ninth death
anniversary... |
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Kanishka probe rejects WSO's appeals
7 November, 2007
VANCOUVER: Justice John Major, commissioner of Air India bombing
public inquiry, has rejected three motions of the World Sikh
Organization... |
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WSO keeps up fight for '84 pogrom victims
7 November, 2007
OTTAWA: The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO)
has deplored the denial of justice to the victims of the Indian
government's massacre of thousands of innocent... |
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Akhandpath at Surrey gurdwara, Vancouver
paper distorts it
31 October,
2007
VANCOUVER - In its trademark skewed coverage of the story
throughout, the Vancouver Sun again tried to twist the report of an
Akhand Path at... |
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Bob Dhillon: The world's first Sikh billionaire? Soon, hopefully
24 October,
2007
People who phone you must think they hear "this is Bob Dylan's
office." Have you thought of changing your name.... |
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WSO
unhappy with 'cosmetic apology'
3 October, 2007
OTTAWA: The World Sikh Organization (WSO)
has expressed disappointment at Bruce Allen's "cosmetic apology"
and said it was clear that from his commentary in the Vancouver
Sun... |
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Allen clarifies, 'apologises' for remarks on
turbans, immigrants
3 October, 2007
VANCOUVER: Bruce Allen, member of the creative team planning the
opening and closing ceremonies for the 2010 Winter... |
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He hijacked plane, was convicted but is now free
3 October, 2007
TORONTO: At the gurdwara
at Toronto, a Sikh man's desire to remain in Canada is the hot
topic of discussion because he was once a militant fighting for
the Sikh cause in Punjab... |
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Hindus force removal of nude Ganesha
idols
26 September,
2007
Toronto: A series
of sculptures depicting Lord Ganesha in the nude will finally be
removed from display at the Canadian city of Edmonton after strong
protests by the local Hindu community... |
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Canadian showbiz manager ridicules turban-wearing Mounties
26 September,
2007
Toronto: A
Canadian show business manager’s remarks asking immigrants to leave
if they do not like the country’s rules have drawn the ire of local
Sikhs who plan to seek his removal... |
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Canada seeks 3 lakh workers from India
12 September 2007
CHANDIGARH:
Canada, one of the Punjabis’ most favoured destinations for
immigration, is opening its doors for manpower from outside by
offering three lakh jobs for skilled... |
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Now an Indo-Canadian museum in Toronto
12 September, 2007
Toronto: The
city will soon have a $25 million 1,800 sq metre museum designed to
showcase and preserve the heritage of Indo-Canadians which will be
inaugurated in July.. |
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Illegal immigrant seeks sanctuary in gurdwara hours
before deportation
11 July, 2007
VANCOUVER: "No one is illegal" goes the
slogan and the name of an NGO in Canada which looks after the rights of
the... |
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Canada: MP demands apology for Komagata Maru tragedy
13 June 2007
Liberal MP, Sukh Dhaliwal (Newtown -- North
Delta in British Columbia riding) moved a Private Member's Motion in the
House of Commons on... |
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Canadian Sikh denied entry on turban count
makes a point
9 May,
2007
RICHMOND: A
Canadian Sikh was allegedly denied entry to a restaurant in Toronto
because of his religious headgear, sparking off .... |
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Mata Khivi mural by Jarnail Singh unveiled on Vaisakhi
18 April 2007
SURREY: A mural painted by renowned artist
Jarnail Singh was unveiled at Gurdwara Canadian Singh Sabha in
Surrey, on the eve of Vaisakhi amidst slogans... |
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Canadian police appoints Hindu chaplain
11 April,
2007
Toronto: A local Hindu temple's priest in
Ontario was sworn in as the first ever Hindu honorary chaplain for
the Durham regional police. Pandit Damodar Sharma was sworn in on... |
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Kanishka probe may gain access to secret papers
28 March 2007
VANCOUVER: The inquiry into the 1985 Air India
bombing that killed 329 people may now gain access to secret Canadian
documents that... |
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Canada and the Sikhs
7 March 2007
The Sikhs in Canada will be marking their 100 years in Canada by
celebrating the achievement of excellence in accordance... |
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Khalsa Diwan Society New Westminster gives
out $3,800 in Essay Competition Prizes
7 February,
2007
New Westminster,
BC:Paul Singh Nijjar from Vancouver, BC won the first place with a cash
prize of $1,500 as Gurdwara Sahib Sukh Sagar, New Westminster concluded... |
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GOPIO Recognizes Charan Gill
7 February,
2007
Surry, BC:
Well known community figure, Charan Gill, CEO of Progressive Intercultural
Community Services Society (PICS), has been honored with the prestigious
GOPIO... |
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Spousal violence among Indo-Canadians worrying
8 November 2006
TORONTO:
Spousal violence within the
Indo-Canadian community is a cancer in society, says the attorney general of
Canada’s largest... |
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Sikh speed meeting event hits East Coast next month
18 October, 2006
Due to popular demand, GurSikh Speed Meeting has
gone on the road with the first stop in Canada and the second stop on the
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Indo-Canadian appointed citizenship judge
Toronto: An Indo-Canadian has been appointed as
a citizenship judge by the Canadian government... |
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