63% of Canadians favour restrictions to extended family sponsorship
By Pradip Rodrigues Last week Minister for Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Jason Kenney re-opened the Parent and Grandparent (PGP) program, ...
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The backlash against immigration is coming soon
By Pradip Rodrigues The recent poll which revealed 63 per cent of Canadians favor restrictions on family reunification should be ...
Casteism floundering in India but flourishing in Canada
By Pradip Rodrigues When Devender (name changed) and his wife, both highly educated professionals emigrated to Canada 20 years ago, ...
Great minds and big ideas show great trade promise
By Pradip Rodrigues It was Eleanor Roosevelt who famously said that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events and ...
The Tale of Two Cities
By Pradip Rodrigues Back in the 60s, Bombay or fittingly Mumbai as it called now, was a cosmopolitan and ...
South Asians hit a moralistic high road
By Pradip Rodrigues Ever so often I hear Canadians of South Asian descent make disparaging remarks about goras, or ‘those ...
Student suicide shakes students at Mississauga Secondary
By Pradip Rodrigues MISSISSAUGA Students and staff at Mississauga Secondary School were left grappling with yet another tragedy, this time ...
For better or worse, outsourcing is here to stay
By Pradip Rodrigues Thousands of well-paying Canadian jobs in IT, manufacturing and service have been lost over the years as ...
What really is wrong with the ethnic media outreach efforts
By Pradip Rodrigues Over the past year, I’ve attended many press conferences and roundtables where politicians engage with the ethnic ...
Tim Hudak not impressed by 15% reduction in auto premiums
By Pradip Rodrigues In the next few weeks, Ontario’s Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne will unveil the budget. The NDP has ...
Are we rude by nature?
By Pradip Rodrigues I was checking out my Facebook notifications and updates when I chanced upon one update from a ...
Springdale residents up in arms over a controversial development
BRAMPTON Brampton’s councillors were to decide the fate of the controversial townhouse development in Springdale on March 27, but ...
Moving out of India: Good or bad?
By Pradip Rodrigues I have a Coptic Christian neighbor who is worried to death about her aged mother stranded in ...
Cultivating and harvesting ethnic votes the Canadian way
By Pradip Rodrigues The Ethnic Outreach Scandal plaguing Christie Clark’s Liberals in BC has left many mainstream Canadians nauseated ...
The library focuses on newcomers
By Pradip Rodrigues Last week I served as a panelist on a session titled “Newcomers and public libraries” at the Ontario ...
Second-generation South Asian-Canadian political leaders please!
PRADIP RODRIGUES At the Liberal Leadership Convention I talked to and listened to dozens of cdelegates, almost all of whom ...
Priyanka Chopra to launch new single at Bramlea City Centre
BRAMPTON Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe, Priyanka Chopra is in town to launch her new single “In My City” ...
Pests target South Asians in the GTA
By Pradip Rodrigues For three nights in a row, Seema (name changed for obvious reasons) would wake up with welts on ...
The desi-fication of second-generation South Asians
By Pradip Rodrigues When you speak to South Asians who either immigrated with their parents to Canada as young children or ...
Should we call a spade a spade?
By Pradip Rodrigues I often receive verbal feedback from readers about columns I’ve written and it is always a learning experience ...
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