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Musings on India’s Independence: Loss, Sacrifice and Changing Values

I have vivid memories of India’s first birthday — the 15th of August, 1947

Commentary

A Mongrel among Media

George Abraham June 23, 2018 No Comments ethnic ethnic media Fund history media NCM Collective New Canadian Media

Commentary by: George Abraham in Ottawa, ON ENTREPRENEURIAL journalism sounds deceptively simple to execute. Combine journalism with business acumen … and voilà you have a winner.…

Arts & Culture

Black Prince Rescues Duleep Singh, but Does Not Set Him Free

Jagdeesh Mann July 28, 2017 No Comments Duleep Singh history Punjab South Asian Post The Black Prince Vancouver

To be the “last king” of anything means you left this world either a legend or a tragic figure. Maharajah Duleep Singh, the final monarch…

History

Canadian Sports History Not Naïve of Exclusion

Tazeen Inam October 11, 2016 No Comments Basketball Canada 150 Cricket exclusion football history Hockey immigrants Lacrosse Mississauga racism Scottish settlement sports Tazeen Inam

by Tazeen Inam in Mississauga Sports has the ability to unite Canada, show the recently released findings of an Association for Canadian Studies survey. “A majority of…

History

Acadians Contribute to Multicultural Fabric of Canada

Tazeen Inam September 9, 2016 No Comments Acadian Canada 150 Catholic French history Maritimes Moncton Multiculturalism New Brunswick Tazeen Inam

by Tazeen Inam in Mississauga Although a mass expulsion in 1755 resulted in their dispersal, the Acadians of present day New Brunswick and Nova Scotia…

History

Second World War Featured Prominently at Toronto Japanese Film Festival

Shan Qiao August 11, 2016 No Comments Canada Festival Film history internment Japan Japanese Second World War World War II

by Shan Qiao in Toronto From a machine gun wielding high school girl-yakuza boss to time travelling samurai; from sexual awakening in the final devastating days…

History

Courting Americans – a Hundred Years Ago

NCM Anonymous August 6, 2016 No Comments Brandon Cape Breton Clinton history Ottawa Republican Sifton Trump Valerie Knowles

Commentary by Valerie Knowles in Ottawa This past February, an enterprising and cheeky Cape Breton radio disk jockey set up a website entitled “Cape Breton…

Books

Hopes, Challenges of Immigration Reflected on Stage

NCM Anonymous July 28, 2016 No Comments 150 book Canada Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni empowerment history Priya Ramanujam Toronto women

by Priya Ramanujam in Toronto Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni says the immigration experience helped make her the award-winning and best-selling Indian-American writer she is today. Her…