The Punjab government may be trying to monopolize the international student market by becoming the sole immigration consultancy agency in that Indian state, which would have far reaching consequences for Canada’s immigration consultants.
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Columnist Jagdeesh Mann writes on the Punjab farmers’ protest and how it isn’t as far removed from our shores as Canadians may believe.
View More Standing with India’s Protesting Farmers
Canada’s commitment to boost its live-in caregiver program as a pathway to citizenship has boosted the business of “nanny institutes” in Punjab. Traditionally, people from Punjab have gone to Canada as farmers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians…
View More Punjabis Sign up for Nanny School to get Visas
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 of the Punjab kingdom, who was forcibly separated from his…
View More Black Prince Rescues Duleep Singh, but Does Not Set Him Free
In 1904, there were only 40 immigrants from India living in Canada, mostly from the Punjab. Largely based in Vancouver and surrounding areas, these pioneers came to Canada as labourers, in farms, on the railroad…
View More Revisiting Canada’s Immigration History One Story at a Time
Growing up in Canada, Harman Kaur experienced first-hand the hidden angst that torments many young women in transplanted South Asian families. “I’ve tried my best to keep my culture alive but as I grew up,…
View More Chunni Project Connects Women Across the Globe
Indo-Canadian representation in Canada’s new government goes beyond the cabinet ministers Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced to the country at his swearing-in ceremony earlier this month. In what he called “a cabinet that looks like…
View More Politics a Natural Fit for Many Indo-Canadians
Punjab teachers graduate from training program Fifty teachers from the Indian state of Punjab who came to Canada for a teaching development program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) picked up their…
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When the world’s largest democracy is in the midst of choosing its next government, it is only natural that the the world’s largest cluster of Indians outside India are on tenterhooks. Canadians of Indian origin…
View More Indo-Canadians on tenterhooks as poll results loom
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is on the record as saying that the Canadian government acted against its own political interests by listing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist group…
View More The Third Opinion: Independentistes elsewhere