The Harper government plans to appoint former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell as Canada’s new high commissioner to Britain. Campbell’s elevation to one of Canada’s highest diplomatic posts comes after he resigned last fall as B.C. premier.
The Liberal premier’s popularity plunged after he introduced HST. Campbell resigned after 26 years in politics, nine of them [...]
It’s confirmed. Big B…. A.K.A father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan announced on Twitter that his daughter-in-law is expecting.
“I am going to become a grandfather … Aishwarya expecting. So happy and thrilled!!!” Bachchan said, confirming the subject of weeks of speculation. Rai, 37, a former Miss World, has been married to actor Abhishek Bachchan for more than four [...]
Today is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the first official day of summer and the longest day (and shortest night) of the year. What’s not to celebrate about that? There is definitely something about the heat that simultaneously slows the world down and heightens the expectations of adventure. So our advice to all [...]
Game 7 did not end as we all had expected. Instead, an outstanding season and a phenomenal run for the cup, which came agonizingly close, were eclipsed by last night’s melee. The perfect quote about it all, “It takes years to build a good reputation, and only seconds to destroy it.” On a night, we [...]
India received $54 billion last year in remittances and investment from its diaspora. That’s more than the annual trade between India and the U.S. — and 10 times the trade between Canada and India.
Canada wants their trade with India tripled to $15 billion by 2015. It is negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement. It has [...]
“We are all Canucks.” It’s cheesy. It’s over the top.
But as a battlefield slogan it works. It corresponds to cultural reality, more or less. Most Canadians, even contrarian Quebecers, are identifying with Vancouver’s aggressive hockey team.
Admittedly, neither “We are all Canucks” nor the pleasantly inane “Go Canucks Go!” Vancouver’s hockey warriors are linking residents of [...]
Sukanya Roy is the champion at the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The South Asian American from South Abington, Penn. took the top place from runner-up Laura Newcombe when she correctly spelled the word ‘cymotrichous’ – which relates to wavy hair.
Sukanya, 14, will take home more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. She is now the [...]
An aggressive campaign to grow and diversify Canada’s blood donors was announced Monday to coincide with the start of National Blood Donor Week June 13-19.
Canadian Blood Services has come up with a three-year campaign called ‘Rally Together to Save Lives’ which has a goal of increasing the number of blood donors from the current 415,000 [...]
Abhsihek Chaubey’s sequel to his Ishqiya has been titled Dedh Ishqiya and the director is keen to have Madhuri Dixit in the film along with his earlier cast of Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi.
Says a source connected to the sequel. “It will be quite something to watch the two radiant beauties together.”
Looks like, [...]
The latest trailer of “Delhi Belly”, to come out July 19, will bring together Aamir and Imran Khan for the first time in a mock-argument over the colourful and lurid content of the adult comedy.
The trailer, shot by the film’s director Abhhinay Deo last week, is bound to raise more eyebrows than anything that has [...]
