Category: Canada
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Muslim family seeks $10m for death of son, 2 paramedics charged
In an unprecedented case in Canada, two Hamilton paramedics have been arrested and charged with not providing quick first aid to 19-year-old Muslim youth Yosif Al-Hasnawi who died after shooting in December last year. Yosif Al-Hasnawi was shot on December 2, 2017, while trying to help an older man who was being harassed by two…
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India comes to Toronto through the lens of iconic Raghubir Singh
TORONTO: Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and early influence on the work of prolific Indian-born photographer Raghubir Singh, said, “A photograph could fix eternity in an instant”. Raghubir Singh’s posthumous exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Modernism of the Ganges fits this perfectly. The exhibition is a walk down memory lane with ordinary street scenes of…
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Vikas Kohli scores again with Bollywood Monster Mashup
Vikas Kohli, along with his multicultural team, has created the amazing show Bollywood Monster Mashup under the banner of MonstrARTity Creative Community MISSISSAUGA: The summer’s here and everyone is in festival mood. One of the long-standing free annual South Asian festivals in the Peel region is Bollywood Monster Mashup that had its maiden year in…
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The Orchard at Shaw Festival: Punjabi spin on Chekhov’s powerhouse play
Revealing the Greening of Canada Those of us who have chosen to make Canada our home – over the last 1 year or 5, or 20 or 40, or more – have many stories to tell. Some of those stories are soaked in tears, some in irony, some in pathos. And some in great loss,…