Asdhir, whose family comes from Ludhiana in Punjab, is the founder of Excel Funds which was Canada's best performing mutual fund last year.
The B.C. government says a new curriculum is being launched, and the first phase of a three-year transition begins this fall for students in kindergarten to Grade 9.
A Japanese tourist was last seen Oct. 22 walking along a highway north of the city and hotel staff reported her missing after she failed to check out of her room.
Police have closed off the area around the Trump International Hotel and Tower Toronto because of an unstable antenna on top of the building.
Canada's gross domestic product shrank 0.5 per cent on an annualized basis, somewhat less than estimates of a 1.0 per cent decline.
Janet Holder, the woman regarded as the British Columbia figurehead for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, has died following a long battle with leukemia.