Category: Society
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Arts & Culture Initiative of South Asia festival goes digital
BRAMPTON (Press release): Arts & Culture Initiative of South Asia (ACISA) will present Ontario’s largest south Asian arts and culture festival this year in an exciting new format. Keeping the current COVID-19 pandemic in mind, four eagerly anticipated festival events – Vibrant Brampton, Vibrant Star, Visual Arts of South Asia (V.A.S.A) Arts festival and META –…
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Brampton sexual assault accused school principal Sanjiv Kumar arrested
Peel Regional Police say a 16-year-old girl student was the alleged victim of the Brampton sexual assault BRAMPTON: A Brampton school principal has been arrested for alleged sexual assault on a teenage girl student in his student. Investigators from the Special Victims Unit of Peel Police took 54-year-old Sanjiv Kumar (a.k.a Sanjiv Dhawan), 54, the…
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Trudeau’s $2,000 monthly for foreign students upsets locals
The Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) is discriminatory against local students, many argue TORONTO: The Canadian government’s decision to give a monthly benefit of $2,000 each to foreign students – called Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) – during the corona crisis has caused resentment among local students who get only $1,250 each. As Indian international students…
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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…