Despite COVID-19 regulations interrupting marriage plans for many couples, some have been finding their partners and holding their wedding ceremonies online.
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Bangladesh Targets Fugitives and Money Launderers in Canada
Toronto neighbourhood labelled as a haven for Bangladeshi-Canadian money launderers as South Asian nation pushes again for the extradition of an alleged assassin.
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Settling in Canada During a Pandemic is a Double-Edged Sword
Ruhina Taskin moved to Toronto from Bangladesh during the coronavirus pandemic and writes about the challenges of starting a new life in Canada when the world is in limbo.
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Changing Ontario: South Asian Women Step Up to Empower the Community
As Toronto evolves into the world’s most multicultural city, so does its colourful communities, rising as a collective force to overcome challenges. This time, it’s the women who are initiating change. Meet a few dynamic…
View More Changing Ontario: South Asian Women Step Up to Empower the CommunityIn Bangladesh, a Small Change Could Point to More Extremism
Sometimes, small things point to large changes. During my short visit last week to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, I had the opportunity to sit down with one of that country’s leading political scientists to…
View More In Bangladesh, a Small Change Could Point to More ExtremismHow Well Do We Know Our Kids?
Five days after the bodies of Golam Rabbi, 59, and Shamima Rabbi, 57, were discovered at their home in San Jose, California, about three hundred friends and relatives gathered at the Five Pillars cemetery in…
View More How Well Do We Know Our Kids?Canadian Brands Importing from Bangladesh Must be Socially Responsible
Canadian retailers and governments appear to have learned some lessons following the tragic Rana Plaza Factory collapse in April 2013, but much more is needed to protect the health and safety of garment workers overseas,…
View More Canadian Brands Importing from Bangladesh Must be Socially ResponsibleOPartheeb: In Search of Roots
Kicked out of the house where they held jamming sessions because neighbours complained of too much noise. No place to practise. No car to carry the modest number of instruments they had. But none of…
View More OPartheeb: In Search of RootsSpring Fashion Can Wait as Bangladesh Tries to Unravel Political Standoff
If the latest spring fashions are not in store to cheer Canadians at the end of yet another dreary winter, little noticed events in Bangladesh could be a plausible reason. The South Asian country finds…
View More Spring Fashion Can Wait as Bangladesh Tries to Unravel Political StandoffDiaspora Diary: Emigrants can be spoilers in conflict resolution
Politically-mobilized diaspora communities have the potential to act as “spoilers’” in conflict resolution and post-war reconciliation in their home countries, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva has said. Ravinatha Aryasinha told the first-ever…
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