Category: Canada
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Bhim Asdhir scripts Canadian super success story with Excel Funds
News East West MISSISSAUGA: Toronto-based Bhim D. Asdhir ranks among Indo-Canadians whizkids who have scripted super success stories in the Canadian financial sector. Asdhir, whose family comes from Ludhiana in Punjab, is the founder and CEO of Excel Funds which was Canada’s best performing mutual fund last year. “We are also doing well in India…
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Oh Canada, What a Feeling!
TORONTO: There is a not to be missed spectacular odyssey of Canadian music being performed at the Princess of Wales Theatre on King Street in downtown Toronto until Aug 23, 2015. Paul Anka, The Guess Who, Steppenwolf, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion and more are all showcased in this stunning stage show. This extraordinary…
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Summertime blues at 15th Kitchener Blues Festival
KITCHNER: Not only were there big sounds and big crowds at the 15th Kitchener Blues Festival this past weekend from Aug 6-9, there were also lots of big names like Burton Cummings (former member of The Guess Who band), Randy Bachman (also former The Guess Who), Edgar Winter, David Wilcox and Robert Randolph, to name a few.…
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Canada subjected 150,000 Native children to cultural genocide
News East West TORONTO: Denigrating the Indian education system and favouring the `superior’ English education system for colonial India, Lord Macaulay in his `Minutes of Indian Education’ in 1835 said, “…English is better worth knowing than Sanskrit or Arabic; that the natives are desirous to be taught English, and are not desirous to be taught…