By Basil Nainan Yeah, like Canadians really need a reason to go spend the whole day gawking and drooling over hundreds upon hundreds of the freshest, hottest, most beautiful, sensuous, stylish, exotic, most elegant models … … of cars! Ten days in a row. And not just gawk, maybe even touch them, click pictures [...]
Ottawa: New Legislation to protect the integrity of Canada’s immigration system was introduced in Parliament, Feb 15 by Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney. The proposed measures include further reforms to the asylum system to make it faster and fairer, measures to address human smuggling, and the authority to make it mandatory to provide [...]
London: British born writer Bobby Singh Bansal, who just recently returned from a fact finding mission to Afghanistan, has spent several days visiting the local Sikh and Hindu community which he discovered had dwindled from 60,000 to a mere 1000. This is a war-ravaged country where the ubiquitous American and foreign troops are very [...]
Lahore: India’s Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, accompanied by business leaders of more than 100 Indian companies, Monday walked into Pakistan through the Wagah border, vowing to bring down barriers hampering trade and facilitate economic engagement between the two neighbours that would see bilateral commerce doubling to $6 billion in the next three years. ”All barriers [...]
Ottawa: Last week, Vic Toews, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, released Building Resilience Against Terrorism: Canada’s Counter-terrorism Strategy. The announcement was made at a Colloquium on Identifying Effective Programming to Prevent Terrorism, a meeting of international counter-terrorism experts and practitioners. “Our government is committed to keeping our streets and communities safe. Canada’s Counter-terrorism Strategy [...]
New Delhi: A group of doctors has returned to India after two successful liver transplants in Lahore, with “lots of love and lots of goodwill” from Pakistan. A seven-member team led by Subhash Gupta of Apollo Hospital here along with Pakistani doctors conducted the lengthy surgeries in Lahore’s Shaikh Zaid Hospital — the equivalent of [...]
Toronto: In the city of Toronto, for the first time, the average citizen has won over the well-entrenched union-council-mayor love fest. Mayor Rob Ford, elected by the citizens to set right the misdeeds of the past, has encountered obstacles at very turn he takes. Though, as any sensible person, you sometimes wonder what could [...]
New Delhi: The Indonesians, Indians and Mexicans are the happiest peoples on earth, according to a recent survey. More than three-quarters of people around the globe who were questioned in an international poll said they were happy with their lives and nearly a quarter described themselves as very happy. “The world is a [...]
Washington: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf knew where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding and said nothing, a former head of Pakistani spy agency ISI has said. Former CIA official Bruce Riedel quoted ex-ISI chief Gen (retired) Ziauddin Khwaja alias Ziauddin Butt, as saying that Musharraf “knew bin Laden was in Abbottabad” in [...]
Toronto: The latest census is out and as expected immigration has kept the population from slipping into negative territory. Of course, surprisingly, there has be also a slight increase in birth rate which again can be safely attributed to immigrant residents. Statcan in a release states: “Canada’s slightly higher population growth since 2006 is [...]