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Education Matters: Students in the Labour Market

Employment rates for students - both during summer and throughout the school year - have improved during the past eight years. But in 2005, they were still far below the peak levels reached during the heydays of the late 1980s, according to a new study.
The study examines shifts in student employment, pay and working hours [...]

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Parents - Children are your REAL Wealth

From the “Combating Youth Violence” Series
Over the last 50 years our world has made more economic and scientific progress than the previous 500 years. Modern society is enjoying luxuries our forefathers never dreamed of. The sad fact is that during the past 50 years the percentage of unhappy and depressed people has grown. A recent [...]

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Sikh Sacred Ceremony Williams Lake

Community is invited to attend

The Williams Lake Sikh Community will be celebrating Vaisakhi at Gurdwara Sahib Western Singh Sabha this Sunday, April 30.

“We would like to extend an invitation to the entire Williams Lake community to join us in these celebrations,” says Gian Singh Sandhu spokesperson for the community.

Vaisakhi holds a special historical significance for [...]

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GENOCIDE in Darfur, Sudan

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa,
Vaheguru ji ki fatheh!
Khalsa Ji,
The Khalsa has a responsibility to stand up and defend the defenseless, with the grace of the Guru, in the spirit of the Guru’s teachings. We are failing our responsibility with this one crisis - the first genocide of the 21st century, a horrible reality that is [...]

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Shaheedi 400 Available in BC

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa,
Vaheguru ji ki fatheh!
If you live in BC and would like your copy of the Shaheedi 400 CD, please e-mail us at sikhyouth@shaw.ca
You can pick it up at Guru Nanak Academy or through the Sikh youth of BC.
Contact the sevadaars of Guru Nanak Academy at academy@gurmatstudies.com
It will be available at local gurmat [...]

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BC Sikh Events & Announcements

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa, Vaheguru ji ki fatheh! _/\_
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Immortal Productions CD
SHAHEEDI 400 NOW AVAILABLE
The CD’s have arrived in BC thanks to members of the Canadian Organization of Sikh Students (COSS). If you would like to reserve your copy of the Shaheedi 400 CD, which will be available through UBC SSA, SFU SSA, and [...]

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Kim Bolan & Vancouver Sun - Media Tyranny

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa,
Vaheguru ji ki fatheh!
Vancouver Sun Keeps Highlighting Negative News about Indo-Canadians
By Kanwaljit Singh Gill
Source: www.voiceonline.com - The Voice Newspaper Online
Recently we have been writing about the negative news headlines in Vancouver Sun about Indo-Canadians. Such negative news headlines create negative perceptions in general public that thinks that the majority of crimes are [...]

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Safety Rule Clashes with Beliefs

FORT MCMURREY, ALBERTA - A major oilsands company broke human-rights laws when a worker was fired for having a beard, a Sikh man is alleging.
In a complaint before the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, the man, Devinder Wadhwa, says Syncrude Canada discriminated against him by requiring him to shave. He argues the company had [...]

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Jasmeet Bains to win Student Good Citizenship Award

Jasmeet Bains of John Oliver secondary school is one of the 18 outstanding students selected for this year’s Student Good Citizenship Awards.
According to her citation by Vancouver School Board, “Jasmeet is an outstanding school leader and citizen. Throughout her five years at John Oliver, she been on the Honor Roll and has been active in [...]

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Tanraj Sohal wins BC Chess Championship again

Tanraj Sohal, a nine-year-old Grade 4 Surrey student, won the BC Provincial Chess Championship in his grade level on April 15 at the BCIT in Burnaby.
Earlier, he had won the Fraser Valley Regional Chess Championship held in Surrey on March 25.
This is the fourth year in a row that Tanraj has won the Fraser Valley [...]

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