Immigration consultants: An endangered species?
I could barely suppress a smirk when I read about the plight of the immigration consultant, who ‘worked’ to get me into Canada. He was lamenting the fate of the 2000 registered immigration consultants in Canada, not to mention the thousands more unregistered consultants. An immigration lawyer I met recently held a similarly bleak outlook [...]
It’s time to ignore self-appointed community spokespersons
Whether it is the case of Pervez Aqsa, the teenage girl, murdered by her father, the honor killings of the Shafia women or more recently female feticide suspected to be happening in the South Asian community, it would seem the mainstream media ends up pushing mikes and cameras into faces of the same few self-appointed [...]
Diasporian: Should there be a new kind of home. Multiple dwellings?
Brampton, being a relatively new city, is now at the cross-roads. Its astonishing growth has defied most predictions and is a magnet for newcomers. But there is a fear that the city could one day become a victim of its success
Diasporian: Diversity in schools – a budding problem?
So a White student at Brampton’s Turner Fenton Secondary High School puts up a video on YouTube in which she cribs about her family having moved from Toronto to Brampton (also known as ‘Bramladesh’ in circles). She goes on to rant about the fact that her school is virtually all brown and then incorrectly equates [...]
Diasporian: South Asians – divided, they fail!
In the GTA alone, there are dozens upon dozens of South Asian associations — religious and regional-based groups and agencies — that exist with more being formed every other month. Many of these associations and groups get formed when one group of members from a larger group have differences of opinion over the direction being [...]
South Asian singles want to mingle
Thousands of South Asian parents no longer have to worry about getting their children hitched. This is the DIY (Do It Yourself) generation, who are taking matters in their own hands and finding their partners, friends and lovers without any ‘help’. While arranged marriages are still prevalent among large sections of South Asians in Canada, [...]
Didn’t get that promotion? Dial Human Rights Ontario
In the next few months, a case involving an Indo-Canadian vice-principal vs the Peel Education Board will be heard by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. In a nutshell, Ranjit Khatkar has been a teacher with the Peel Board for 24 years, then as vice-principal, she claims being passed over for promotion as Principal despite the [...]
