Category: Features
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India must take help from NRIs to revive economy and save businesses
WINNIPEG: Recently, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of the Government of India announced that international flights will not be not allowed until November. This has further deepened uncertainties for the avitation industry. The aviation industry and the hospitality sector are among the worst-hit by the Covid pandemic. Most governments have extended support to the airline…
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At 110, Toronto university oldest student Marjorie Douglas reminisces about the past
Born in Winnipeg in 1910, Marjorie Douglas came to Toronto university for a librarian diploma after completing her BA from the University of Manitoba in 1931 The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: At 110, Marjorie Douglas is probably the oldest alumnus of the University of Toronto. Douglas, who graduated in 1932 from what is now U of…
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Summer Jam of 1973 was biggest-ever concert in US
All the 150,000 tickets were sold quickly and people in thousands showed up at Summer Jam 47 years ago today TORONTO: Considered fools for having actually purchased $10 tickets to the Summer Jam concert on July 28, 1973, three of us landed at Watkins Glen in upstate New York from nearby Ithaca a day earlier…
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Apollo 11: My memories of first moon landing 51 years ago
As Apollo 11 was about to blast off, my family and I huddled around the black and white TV to watch history unfurl TORONTO: It was the summer of 1969 and I was literally over the moon as I had just graduated from the American School of Tangier, a US secondary school in Tangier, Morocco, and…