Delhi slutwalk grabs headlines in Canada
August 2nd, 2011 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Aug 2 (IANS) The first Delhi slutwalk made headlines in Canada where the trend originated in April when thousands of women marched in Toronto to protest remarks by a ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Why can’t India feed its people, asks Canadian media
July 18th, 2011 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, July 18 (IANS) In this Year of India in Canada, India is making news in the media here - not for the second highest growth rate in the world ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Denmark to lay claim to North Pole
May 18th, 2011 - 3:41 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, May 18 (IANS) Denmark plans to plant its flag on the North Pole to lay claim to the top of the world, according to reports here.Quoting reports from Denmark ... Read more...
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Apple iPads now come in handy for pilots
May 2nd, 2011 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, May 2 (IANS) The tablet may soon become a must-have device for pilots around the world.Canada's Sky Regional Airlines has become the first to equip its pilots with the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Beckham keeping playing options open
April 13th, 2011 - 8:45 am ICT by ANI
Toronto (Canada), Apr.13 (ANI): Former England football captain David Beckham has said that he is keeping his options open about returning to the MLS for another season after his five-year contract ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Jay Baruchel engaged
March 14th, 2011 - 6:00 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, March 14 (IANS) Actor Jay Baruchel has confirmed he is engaged to his girlfriend, actress Alison Pill.According to the Toronto Star, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" actor proposed to Alison ... Read more...
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‘Anti-social’ attitude in boozy fish may explain alcoholism impact in humans
February 14th, 2011 - 12:51 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 14 (ANI): Even small amounts of alcohol at an early age can have a long-lasting impact on fish and humans alike, according to a new study.It found that alcohol exposure ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Cheaper Indian goods in Canadian market after free trade deal
November 13th, 2010 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Nov 13 (IANS) India will join China in filling up Canadian stores with cheaper goods once New Delhi and Ottawa sign a free trade agreement to do away with ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Canadian couple who won $11.2m lottery donate the money to charity
November 5th, 2010 - 2:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 05 (ANI): A Canadian couple, who won a lottery of 11,255,272 million dollars, has given away all the money to charities, friends and hospitals.According to the Toronto Star, Allen, ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Thank you’s don’t stop pouring in for CWG host India!
October 18th, 2010 - 2:39 pm ICT by IANS
By Alkesh Sharma
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) The 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) continue to get a huge thumbs up from foreigners. Be it a Canadian journalist, a Nigerian tourist or a Pakistani ... Read more...
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Opening ceremonies blow away ranting Canadians
October 4th, 2010 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Oct 4 (IANS) They was no more ranting by the Canadian media - which joined the country's sports authorities in slamming India for poor preparations for the Commonwealth ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
G-20 leaders call for reducing fiscal deficits by half by 2013, more sustainable, balanced growth
June 28th, 2010 - 10:45 am ICT by ANI
Toronto, June 28 (ANI): Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G-20) on Sunday issued a communique that includes aggressive deficit-cutting targets and allows individual countries to devise their own approach to meeting ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Indian-origin ex-MP’s wife out of Canadian government
April 10th, 2010 - 10:56 am ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Ottawa, April 10 (IANS) Indian-origin ex-MP Rahim Jaffer, who became an embarrassment for the Canadian prime minister because of alleged shady deals, saw his minister wife being sacked from the ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Indian-origin ex-MP creates political storm in Canada
April 9th, 2010 - 12:01 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, April 9 (IANS) Indian-origin former MP Rahim Jaffer, whose acquittal for cocaine possession last month led to a political uproar in Canada, has created a fresh controversy for ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Canadian employer fined $25,000 for racial abuse
February 18th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Feb 18 (IANS) A Canadian employer has been fined $25,000 for calling his Pakistani-origin woman employee a 'Paki' and 'nigger.'Taunting the woman's two young sons as "half-nigger," he reportedly ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Canada’s first gay minister puts photo with partner on Xmas card
December 21st, 2009 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Dec 21 (IANS) Canada's first openly-gay cabinet minister has stirred a controversy by printing his picture with his married partner on the couple's Christmas greeting card.Scott Brison, 42, who ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Call for action at key UN climate change summit (Lead)
December 7th, 2009 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS
Copenhagen, Dec 7 (DPA) The mammoth UN conference in Copenhagen was preceded by a joint leader article, published by 56 newspapers in 45 countries, calling on world leaders to place "decisive ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Call for action at key UN climate change summit
December 7th, 2009 - 4:42 pm ICT by IANS
Copenhagen, Dec 7 (DPA) Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was to kick-start a mammoth UN conference in Copenhagen Monday aimed at halting global warming.
The conference's opening ceremony was preceded by ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Canada saved the India-US n-deal; it now needs to think beyond (Comment)
November 22nd, 2009 - 12:38 pm ICT by IANS
By Ryan Touhey
Canada and India have been reluctant dance partners in decades past for reasons ranging from a heated disagreement on nuclear non-proliferation to Cold War-era divergences to name but two.It is ... Read more...
Posted in World |
India’s nukes are ‘ground zero’ for jihadists: Canadian media
November 18th, 2009 - 11:41 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, Nov 18 (IANS) Even as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resolved to deepen bilateral ties, the Canadian media says a nuclear deal could be ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Indian Airlines hijacker seeks nod to practise law in Canada
September 29th, 2009 - 12:47 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Sep 29 (IANS) The mastermind of the 1984 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to Lahore, who took refuge here 14 years ago and faces deportation to India, has now sought ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Afghan intelligence chief claims Pak hand in election-related suicide attacks
August 21st, 2009 - 12:20 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, Aug.21 (ANI): The chief of Afghanistan's National Security Directorate, Amrullah Saleh, has claimed a Pakistan hand in the several suicide attacks that hit the country on the eve of the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Canada asked to repatriate Guantanamo ‘terrorist’
August 15th, 2009 - 10:55 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, Aug 15 (IANS) In a significant decision, a top Canadian court Friday asked the government to seek the release of a young Muslim Canadian from Guantanamo Bay jail.
Twenty-two-year-old Omar Khadr, whose ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Canadian media favours protectionism, wants Nortel sale cancelled
July 30th, 2009 - 2:58 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, July 30 (IANS) Taking protectionism and nationalism to absurd levels, the Canadian media has now joined opposition parties to pressure the government to stop sale of Nortel assets to ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Police put lottery winner in jail
July 24th, 2009 - 4:57 am ICT by IANS
New York/Toronto, July 24 (DPA) For Canadian Barry Shell, the $4 million was worth a night in jail.
Shell showed up at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp delighted to claim his win ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Rapper Drake Rocks At The BET Awards 2009
June 29th, 2009 - 6:50 pm ICT by GD
The star studded night of the Bet Awards 2009 was made all the more dazzling by the performance of famous rapper Drake along with his lyrical mentor Lil Wayne. Though a ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Canada plans to resume arms sale to Pakistan
May 21st, 2009 - 2:56 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, May 21 (IANS) Canada has hinted at lifting its embargo on the sale of weapons to Pakistan.
Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay, who is currently in Pakistan, told a Canadian newspaper ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Sri Lanka’s Tamil-Sinhala conflict echoes in Canada (With Images)
May 14th, 2009 - 1:42 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, May 14 (IANS) In their biggest rally here as part of ongoing protests in Canada, more than 15,000 Tamils Wednesday virtually laid siege to the Ontario provincial assembly. But a new ... Read more...
Posted in World |
No plot against Sikh woman MP: Canadian minister
May 11th, 2009 - 9:20 am ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, May 11 (IANS) Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney denied Sunday any political plot against Sikh woman MP Ruby Dhalla who has been accused of mistreatment by her three former ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Canadian Sikh woman MP in more trouble
May 8th, 2009 - 10:19 am ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, May 8 (IANS)Even as embattled Indian-origin Sikh woman MP Ruby Dhalla Thursday demanded a parliamentary probe into charges by two nannies that they were mistreated and underpaid at her ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Obama keen to use Canadian model to end US fiscal meltdown: Canada paper
May 6th, 2009 - 5:01 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 6 (ANI): US President Barack Obama, contemplating sweeping reforms to the American financial system, citing Canada as a model worth emulating to navigate the current volatility in the ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Will Nano stall or storm, asks Canadian daily
March 24th, 2009 - 3:12 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, March 24 (IANS) With the launch of Nano, the world's cheapest car, making headlines across the world, a major Canadian daily asked Monday: Will the world's cheapest car stall ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Natasha Richardson brain dead after ski accident: Reports
March 18th, 2009 - 12:08 pm ICT by IANS
San Francisco, March 18 (DPA) Actress Natasha Richardson was reported to be brain dead late Tuesday after a seemingly innocuous fall while skiing on a bunny slope at the Mont Tremblant resort ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Biggest Canadian daily axes jobs as ad revenue falls
March 5th, 2009 - 10:09 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, March 5 (IANS) Toronto Star, the biggest Canadian daily, Wednesday joined its US counterparts in issuing pink slips, eliminating 60 jobs, all from sales and marketing.
The newspaper said it is axing ... Read more...
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Hugh Jackman gathers mixed reviews as Oscar-host
February 24th, 2009 - 2:42 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, February 24 (ANI): Hugh Jackman has managed to gather mixed reviews from US critics for hosting the recent Academy Awards in Los Angeles.The Worlds Sexiest Man, who opened the event ... Read more...
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