New visa rules, absurd and ridiculous
Dr. Thomas Abraham The retroactive enforcement of New Rules for Surrender of Indian Passport has become a major issue of the Overseas Indian community particularly in the USA, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Since GOPIO had launched the Petition Online to the Prime Minister of India on Sunday May 23rd, over 21,000 have already [...]
Science vs. politics
Sumitra Rajagopalan The problem with Canada’s new research chairs isn’t lack of women, it’s lack of open-ended vision This week, to great fanfare, the Canadian government unveiled a dream team of top-notch scientists from around the world. Predictably enough, women’s groups cried foul, for the star recruits for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs program just [...]
Doctors want gun registry to stay
CHRISTINA SPENCER OTTAWA — Repealing Canada’s long-gun registry would set back the significant gains in suicide prevention since the registry was introduced, emergency doctors and public health organizations said Wednesday. In an open letter to MPs, 28 medical and health organizations said most firearms deaths in Canada are suicides, and the guns most frequently used [...]
Our Daughters in Peril
Margaret Wente She is a beautiful and vividly articulate 18-year-old who lives somewhere in Toronto. She ran away from home three years ago because she was afraid of her abusive father, who used to hit her and her sisters repeatedly. “I knew it was hard for my dad to change,” she says. He is used [...]
Jaffer knocks lobbyists into political gutter
Don Martin Now that they are both deceased, bereft of life, and pushing up daisies as an ex-power couple in Ottawa, collateral damage from the Rahimelena (which beats anything with ‘gate’ in it) implosion is whacking the capital. New documents show Rahim Jaffer’s mysterious zero-revenue business was engaged in a strange form of pre-lobbying for [...]