Amritsar: Canadian politician and the Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne at the launch of Datawind Netbook Droidsurfer in Amritsar, on Jan 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Canada’s Ontario province on Thursday signed…
Ottawa, Feb 4 (IANS) A Canadian opposition lawmaker’s comment in the House of Commons that he needed an “English to English translation” to understand Indian-origin Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has been taken as a racist…
Toronto, Jan 27 (IANS) Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, just before leaving for New Delhi on a 10-day trade mission, joined the Indo-Canadian community in celebrating India’s 67th Republic Day at the Indian mission here. During…
Vancouver, Jan 23 (IANS) Shooting at a school in Canada’s Saskatchewan province has left five people dead and two others seriously injured, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. A suspect was in custody after the shooting…
Montreal, Jan 7 (AFP) TransCanada will sue the US government for USD 15 billion for blocking its controversial project for an oil pipeline linking Canada with the Gulf of Mexico, the firm has said. TransCanada…
Washington, Dec 29 (AFP) US President Barack Obama will welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for talks on March 10, the White House has said, the Liberal leader’s first official visit since taking office in…
Toronto, Nov 24 (IANS) Manmeet Bhullar, a former minister in Canada’s Alberta province who at the age of 28 became the youngest Indian Canadian to get elected as an MLA, was killed in a road…
Toronto, Nov 15 (IANS) Andhra-born Dipika Damerla, who is the first Indian-origin woman minister in Canada’s biggest province of Ontario, is blazing a trail in community service. If thanks to her efforts Indian-Canadians in the…
Toronto, Nov 12 (IANS) Canada’s newly appointed Sikh Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has become the target of racist attacks by someone in his own armed forces. Reports said that a non-commissioned officer from the Canadian…
Toronto, Nov 8 (IANS) Leaders of New Democratic Party (NDP) in British Columbia praised the Sikh community living in the Canadian province as the party celebrated in advance the birth anniversary of first Sikh master,…
Ottawa, Nov 4 (IANS) The Punjabi community in Canada made history on Wednesday when two turbaned Sikhs were sworn in as cabinet ministers as 42-year-old Justin Trudeau took oath as the country’s 23rd prime minister…
Toronto, Nov 3 (IANS) Sikh MP Navdeep Bains may get a berth in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, a media report said. According to a report published in The Star newspaper on Monday, the…
Ottawa, Oct 23 (IANS) Justin Trudeau, the newly elected Canadian prime minister, is seen dancing ‘bhangra’ to the beats of a Bollywood song in a recently uploaded video on YouTube. A video uploaded on…
Toronto, Oct 20 (IANS) The Indian-Canadians more than doubled their representation in the Canadian parliament from eight to 19, as Canadians voted out the Conservative Party in a landslide of 184 seats in the 338-member…
Ottawa, Oct 20 (IANS) Canada voted in its first new leader in 10 years, as a general election handed Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party an absolute majority — and a stunning blow to incumbent Prime Minister…
Toronto, Oct 18 (IANS) Forty Indo-Canadians are in the fray in Monday’s election to the 338-member parliament on Monday. There were eight Indo-Canadian MPs in the outgoing 308-member House of Commons. But this could go…