Category: Culture
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Navratri history explained as Peel Police join Indo-Canadians in festivities
Peel Police Navratri greetings to Indo-Canadian community as nine-day celebrations begin to mark the victory of Goddess Durga over the demon king Mahishasura The Canadian Bazaar BRAMPTON: As the huge Indo-canadian community celebrates the Navratri festival, Peel Regional Police have joined the community in the festivities. In its greetings, the police force, which serves nearly 1.5…
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Toronto’s Little Norway Park totem pole is carved from 700-year-old cedar tree!
Called “Dreamwork of the Whales,” this masterpiece was raised by 300 volunteers on October 13, 1981! TORONTO: Little Norway Park, situated at the southwest corner of Bathurst Street and Queens Quay near Billy Bishop airport, is a gem of a hideaway right smack in the middle of downtown Toronto. It boasts of a unique magnificent…
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Kaifinama to close South Asian Literature and Art Festival
Kaifinama will be closing the South Asian Literature and Art (SALA) Festival 2019 For the first time, Montalvo Arts Center and Art Forum SF in collaboration with UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies brings to you one of the largest South Asian Literature & Art Festival (SALA) in the US that includes a film…
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Fun, food and fashion at Vaisakhi celebrations by Indo-Canadian Arts and Culture Initiative
BRAMPTON: The annual Vaisakhi celebrations by the Indo-Canadian Arts and Culture Initiative (ICACI) at Culinary Stars in Brampton was an evening full of entertainment and fun. The highlight of the evening were dance performances of bhangra and gidda and Punjabi Fashion show by Poornima Creations. Popular singers Parmjit Hans and Fouzia Khan enthralled the audience…