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By Suresh Kurl
A family kitchen by nature is a warmer place. But during the recent political campaign, I felt it was the hottest spot in the entire household. I realize it was not only the heating fuel that [...]
May 25th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Link News, News, Views | Read More »
By Ken Herar
The Cycling4Diversity team will begin its 4-day journey on May 21st pedaling from Victoria and will finish the trek in Abbotsford on May 24th at The Reach Gallery Museum with an event called “Rally in the Valley for Cultural Diversity” from 6-7pm. The 3rd Annual C4D ride will be visiting 14 cities [...]
May 18th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Link News, News, Views | Read More »
Cycling4Diversity organizers brought the Dasmesh Punjabi School and Matsqui Elementary school kids together for a Rally for their upcoming ride from Victoria to Abbotsford on May 21st to May 24th. Cycling4Diversity team will be finishing its ride on May 24th at The Reach Gallery Musuem in Abbotsford and a celebration is being held from 6-7pm. [...]
May 11th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Link News, News, Views | Read More »
By Dr. J. Das
Children, the future of society, often have a difficult life. Sometimes they run away from home because of domestic problems. Parents may be drug addicts, alcoholics or abusive. These children become “street kids” and lured by pimps into prostitution, and by drug dealers into the drug trade and addiction. Adults will use [...]
May 4th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Link News, News, Views | Read More »
By Dr. J. Das
It appears as if we are living in a world of violence. This is borne out by listening to the daily news and reading the newspapers. Violence is rampant in many parts of the world, either between governments, or between political factions within a country. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and [...]
April 27th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Views | Read More »
By Harinder Mahil
In a speech last Sunday, NDP leader Adrian Dix renewed his promise to ban union and corporate donations if his party forms the government next month. Dix said large donations that aren’t from individuals are causing the public to lose faith in politicians.
“The influence of big money continues to hurt our democracy,” Dix [...]
April 20th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Link News, News, Views | Read More »
By Dr. Bikkar Singh Lalli
India’s President Pranab Mukerjee’s recent call to raise the quality of teaching in Indian universities is another reminder that education in general and higher education in particular continues to be on the backburner. It makes no sense that one thing, which will have the most impact on the future generations, is [...]
April 13th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, News, Top News, Views | Read More »
By Balwant Sanghera
Usually, at vacation time, people have a tendency to go out of the province or out of the country. Often, we forget that there is so much to see and enjoy in our own backyard. It’s called Staycation – finding vacation spots in your own back yard.
With this in mind, during the short [...]
April 6th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, News, Views | Read More »
By Dr. Bikkar Singh Lalli
Here is an Aboriginal say:”We are all visitors to this time and place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love, then to return home“. As a visitor, however, I would like to stay healthy, happy and functionally independent as long as [...]
April 6th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Views | Read More »
By Balwant Sanghera
Canada is not only a multicultural but also a multilingual country. It is home to more than 200 communities representing ever corner of the world. South Asian and Chinese are the two largest ethnic communities that call Canada their home. Surrey, with 94,000 speakers of Punjabi has now become the largest Punjabi settlement [...]
March 30th, 2013 | Posted in Link Columnist, Views | Read More »