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Career Development Seminar - Aug. 24

Are you unsure which careers (accountant, doctor, journalist, teacher and so on) might interest you? Try the career development workshop. It can assist you in setting goals and jump-start your career. This seminar will present information on self-assessment: personality, values, skills, interests, entrepreneurship, knowledge & learning as well as on research: career trends, information search, [...]

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Kwantlen expands Punjabi language course offerings

Kwantlen University College is responding to student and community demand by increasing access to its popular Punjabi language courses. In September, the university will offer both introductory and intermediate Punjabi language courses and will offer Punjabi classes at the Richmond campus for the first time.
The Faculty of Arts launched the first two introductory Punjabi language [...]

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Tories Court Racist Radio Talk Show Host

OTTAWA - A senior Conservative organizer tried to recruit a racist, foul mouthed Quebec talk-show host known for making on-air racial slurs, party officials confirmed Wednesday.
But the officials said the organizer had never sought their approval to talk to Pierre (Doc) Mailloux about running for the Tories in the province, and that they would never [...]

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Multi-faith center for 2010 Winter Olympics

The Interfaith Spiritual Society of British Columbia, representing Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and other faith communities, has announced plans for the project at the Athletes Village site
Plans have been unveiled for a 25 million Canadian dollar (US$22.3 million) multi-faith worship centre for the 2010 Winter Olympic athletes which will, after the games, serve Vancouver [...]

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Amarjeet Kaur Chhabra for City Councillor

Amarjeet Kaur Chhabra of Scarborough is one of four winners of the Toronto wide “City Idol” competition and will run for City Council of ward 43 (Scarborough East) in the Municipal Elections in November, 2006.
Interview from the City Idol website:
Who are you?
“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist, but a possibilist.” – Max Lerner. [...]

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SHAME OF PUNJAB: GENOCIDE OF ITS DAUGHTERS

Worse than we thought…
Even as the people of this town were still reeling under shock after a mass grave of unborn daughters was detected in a pit situated in the vicinity of local Sahib Hospital yesterday, the district health authorities today identified another pit, near the earlier one, in which about 200 to 300 female [...]

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Fight Against Slavery Will Continue

AMRITSAR SAHIB - While India celebrated its 59th “independence” day, on the other hand, various Sikh groups in Punjab observed the martyrdom day of Gurmej Singh Babbar alias Dalip Singh Chachowali, who died 14 years ago fighting for Sikh independence from Indian yoke.
The gathering of diehard Sikhs at the native village of Gurmej Singh, 40 [...]

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Help for migrant workers urged

Farms that are owned by Sikh families should be ESPECIALLY accomodating and FAIR to their employees, much less forcing their employees to work ridiculous hours with no breaks and low pay! This is disgraceful.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

CREDIT: Ian Lindsay, Vancouver Sun

Norlene White (left) and farm worker Victoria Adams Hernandez, with photos of son Eric, [...]

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Meet the Chic Sikh

Jewelry designer an unlikely icon of fashion sense
By MARTIN WEBB
Staff writer

Waris Ahluwalia has some good anecdotes. Like the one where Willem Dafoe asks him if it’s OK to give Spike Lee his number, and a couple of hours later he gets a call and the voice at the other end of the line says “Hey [...]

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157 of Colonialism & Subjugation of the Sikh Nation

Wednesday 16th of August 2006
Editorial by A. Soni
Source: Panthic Weekly News (www.panthic.org)

August 15th is not the day of Sikh liberation, but of Sikh capitulation to modern India
The year 2006 marks the Sikh Nation’s 157th year under foreign rule. Of these 157 years, 98 were spent under British occupation. The remaining 59 have been spent under [...]

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