The ArriveCAN app is just one of over 500 downloaded every second. Some are helpful, others are becoming mandatory to travel, and yet others are leaving users more lost than ever. But they’re here to stay.
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Gita Abraham
Gita Abraham is a journalist of 45-year standing and has worked in national dallies and magazines in New Delhi including Hindustan Times and India Today. For 15 years she was the Feature Editor of The City TAB in Bangalore. She was also a Professor of Journalism, at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. Treading the thin line between fact and fiction, Gita has launched her debut novel “Daughter of the Blue Hills” early this year. She and her husband are snowbirds shuffling between Chennai and Ottawa. She has two daughters and two frisky grandsons who inhabit her world.
Food that builds: helping Black entrepreneurs scale up
Knowing how hard it is for Black entrepreneurs to get a leg up with their start-ups, Janice Bartley is sharing her 30+ years of experience as a self-dubbed ‘Foodpreneur’ with 200 food entrepreneurs.
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The mystic services industry: monetizing the stars during a pandemic
More Canadians are looking to ‘what the stars foretell’ — and the astrology and soothsaying business is booming.
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More pickles, please…
November 14 marked National Pickle Day in North America. NCM’s Gita Abraham explores some of the history and trends behind the beloved piquant palate tickler.
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System to resurrect ‘dead letters’ barely surviving
The art of letter writing may be dying even as Canada Post faces financial challenges. But one of its most archaic services once know as Dead Letter Offices is fighting for its survival. NCM’s Gita Abraham reports.
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On the Menu: 1 Billion Breaths for India
Canadian restaurateurs of Indian origin are joining the 1 Billion Breaths campaign to help provide those in the sub-continent clean oxygen through the COVID-19 pandemic – one plate at a time.
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Recent Deaths of Indian International Students Point to Disturbing Trend
Two recent cases of death by suicide among Indian international students in Canada have shed light on a disturbing trend, which seems to have been exacerbated by the pandemic. Concerned community members want students to know that they are not alone with their problems.
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Don’t Mind My PJs
In our pandemic work-from-home world, where every day is dress-down Friday, pajamas have become indispensable, multi-purpose clothing. They are even acceptable on work Zoom calls—at least below the waist.
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Dr. Alice Benjamin: A Cut Above the Best
Meet Dr. Alice Benjamin, a distinguished maternal-fetal medicine specialist and, as of Nov. 27, 2020, an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Harnarayan Singh: A Punjabi Holler for Hockey
Meet Harnarayan Singh, the first Punjabi commentator for the NHL and an unmistakable voice of Hockey Night in Canada.
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