By Binoy Thomas Los Angeles: The Toronto-born Angad Bhalla, now US-based, may very well be in line for a well-deserved award in the documentary category this year for the dramatic and unusual treatment he has brought to bear upon the moving story of a US convict, named Herman Wallace who has spent the past [...]
By Binoy Thomas Toronto: Canada’s Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, Jason Kenney, is rather miffed, furious even, with the Canadian kabaddi establishment. He has reason to be. Last year, to avoid unnecessary red tape and delays, his ministry had created a ‘special program’ “to ensure that Kabaddi clubs in Canada would be [...]
By Binoy Thomas Toronto: About time too! After picking his way gingerly through most of the minority years, Minister Jason Kenney is in full flow, crafting what he describes as a ‘transformational change’ of Canada’s antiquated immigration system. Kenney, working assiduously through countless meals, consumed at myriad multicultural venues, knew that it was [...]
by Binoy Thomas He is the man who is today known as the guy who appeared on the front page of Toronto Star, a unique position that even an SRK or an Akshay Kumar would be happy with. The picture of Fawad Khan, 62, with his multiple large screen monitors in his basement, has [...]
By Binoy Thomas Imagine celebrating a hundred diwalis! Well, St.Catherine’s resident, Lachman Singh Aujla, is looking forward to the 100th with as much enthusiasm as he had as a child growing up in Punjab, in the post-war (read that as World War 1) years. I heard about Aujla through the legendary wrestler, Tiger Jeet [...]
By Binoy Thomas Ottawa: Sometimes, it takes real courage to ditch a going-nowhere government policy and move on to something better. Till recently, we had an immigration policy based on political calculations rather than what was good for the country. Thanks to well-entrenched lobby groups who profited from the immigration ‘business’, there have been a [...]
By Binoy Thomas Ottawa: First the good news – Canada intends to accept up to 1,000 international PhD students per year as permanent residents through the Federal Skilled Worker Program. The announcement this week came from the Minister of State (Science and Technology) Gary Goodyear on behalf of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister [...]
By Binoy Thomas Toronto: When the “theatrical celebration of India” called Bharati opened at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, across the town, the Bollywood Badshah was putting in an appearance at the TIFF Light Centre, to sell his most ambitious film to date, Ra.One. Whether it is due to the earlier [...]
By Binoy Thomas Toronto: Actually, starring may be an exaggeration, but our man, Ali Hassan, is there somewhere caught up in this English Vs. French drama. What’s a South Asian stand up comedian doing in a bilingual (English and French) film French Immersion? The film, set to release next week, stars, according to [...]
By Binoy Thomas A couple of years ago, during a brief meeting with the then Liberal leader, what’s his name (oops, how short the public memory is!) (let me pause for google search), okay here it is, Michael Ignatieff, I raised the question of the auto workers union’s stand on not giving up anything [...]
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