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FATEHGARH SAHIB: The Canadian government wants to utilize the expertise of Indian students and engineers as it believes Indians can run the world if given a chance. This was stated here by Patrick Brown, Member of Parliament from the Barrie constituency of Ontario. ?Since the educational...

USA: January 22, 2011. (PCP) The World Sikh Council – America Region (WSC-AR) appreciates and stands in solidarity with the efforts of Sikhs in Canada, led by the World Sikh Organization (WSO) of Canada, in refusing to enter the Quebec National Assembly on January 18, 2011 without their...

Bloc Quebecois says time has come to ban Sikh kirpan from House of Commons The Canadian Press MONTREAL — Quebec's emotionally charged debate over multiculturalism has finally landed on the national stage and it centres on a ceremonial dagger worn by Sikhs. Members of the federal...

OTTAWA — The World Sikh Organization of Canada reached out to the Bloc Quebecois Thursday in an attempt to calm a brewing storm about the kirpan, a ceremonial dagger carried by religious Sikhs. "We feel that there has been lot of rhetoric thrown around and that the only way to overcome any...

NEW DELHI: Canadian MP Sukh Dhaliwal, who sponsored Sikh Genocide Petition before Canadian Parliament appealed to the Sikh community to come forward help the widows of November 1984. Distressed at the plight of widows of November 1984, MP Dhaliwal lamented that not only that justice has been...

Chandigarh, January 18: Close on the heels of a Canadian MP of Indian origin, Sukh Dhaliwal appealing to the Indian government to recognize the anti-Sikh massacres of 1984 as `genocide’, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) a US based human rights advocacy group has decided to seek a debate in the...

Investment in Punjab not safe, observed Canadian MP Ruby Dhalla 　 Punjab Newsline Network Tuesday, 18 January 2011 By Jagmohan Singh AMRITSAR: Canadian Member Parliament for Brampton-Springdale Dr. Ruby Dhalla Tuesday embarrassed the ruling SAD-BJP government while during interaction with...

WSO Protests Visa for Indian Politician With Tainted Human Rights Record OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 17, 2011) - The World Sikh Organization of Canada has written a letter of protest to Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney over government plans to host an Indian politician who was...

Even as the Sikhs for Justice, a New York-based human rights advocacy group, is gearing up to file a petition with the UNO seeking the recognition of the 1984 riots as genocide, it has come to light that the Canadian Government had rejected a similar petition filed by Newton-North Delta MP Sukh...

Researchers at the Ohio State University have discovered a 'mummified' forest in northernmost Canada which is giving clues on how plants struggled to endure ancient global cooling. Researchers believe the trees-buried by a landslide and exquisitely preserved 2 to 8 million years ago-will help...

Sikh MP's Bill Gets National Holocaust Monument for Canada IANS Sunday, 12 December 2010 By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: A first-time Sikh member of the Canadian parliament has earned the rare distinction of getting his private member's bill to set up a National Holocaust Monument in the country...

Corrections Canada hires first female Muslim guard Recruit in training to work in men's prison By KATHLEEN HARRIS, QMI Agency Last Updated: December 10, 2010 6:50pm The Correctional Service of Canada has hired its first female Muslim prison guard who will wear a hijab specially designed for...

Sikh soldiers using gas masks while defending Ieper in April, 1915. On 22nd April 1915 at 5 p.m. the 2nd Battle of Ypres began with the first successful gas attack in history. The Sikhs did not compromise their turban or sacred hair. Published: November 11, 2010 10:00 AM Updated: November...

Re: Introducing Myself Sat Sri Akaal ji to all. My name is Balraj Singh and i am currently living in Toronto and entirely in this country since last 2 Years. I am planning to move to Montreal. I never been to Montreal before so I'm not much familiar with the city either and I am searching for...

TRUE SIKHI: UNITED SIKHS helps ‘Taliban’ victims Sikh women find asylum in Canada 　 Punjab Newsline Network Thursday, 07 October 2010 WINNIPEG, Canada: A Sikh woman and her daughter flew into Winnipeg last week, after her husband was brutally killed two years ago by a group suspected to be...

Canada sending dossier on fraud immigration agents to Punjab IANS Sunday, 26 September 2010 By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: Canada will soon send a dossier on "some of the worst fraudsters'' operating in Punjab to the state government to curb immigration fraud, including fake NRI marriages...

veerji sat sri akal this is inderjeet singh from amritsar,get ur email id searching net,sorry for taking your precious time , veerji i have little bit confusion regarding quebec,actually i with my family are interested to take the pr for canada but someone has advise us that revising the...

Canada's biggest opium poppy field busted in B.C. Thursday, August 26, 2010 | 7:54 PM PT CBC News Two men have been arrested at a three-hectare opium poppy field in Chilliwack, B.C., the largest operation of its kind ever discovered in Canada, according to the RCMP. Police estimate...

Aug 24, 2010 James Ellsworth The Tamil ship, MV Sun Sea, is the latest in a series of incidents in Canadian history concerning immigration, from Sikhs, to Jews, and now Sri Lankans. Migrants wanting to settle in Canada, often as refugees, have been coming by ship for centuries. The most...

Canada's first Sikh MP denies supporting Tamil Tigers ( Aug 21 2010 ) Toronto: Even as Canadians continue to protest the arrival last week in Vancouver of a ship carrying about 500 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, Canada's first Sikh MP Gurbax Singh Malhi has been dragged into the divisive...