I was having a discussion with a Singh about comments he left, in an article on The Panthic Otpreka, in which he raised an interesting conversation point:Are we Canadian Sikhs or Sikh Canadians? Now for many this may seem like something pretty redundant and petty, but are we Canadians then Sikh? Or are we Sikhs [...]
Categories: Politics,Sikhi
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- February 22, 2006 – 11:58 am
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- By shinda
For those of you who didnt know, Rexdale Gurdwara, (on Highway 27 where Yudh was held last year), for the past while was involved in a legal struggle. Basically to spare the irrelevant details there are two committees A & committee B. Committee A is the bad guy in all this, and basically started to [...]
Categories: Politics,Sikhi
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- February 2, 2006 – 7:08 pm
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- By shinda
Panthic.org is a new and upcoming Sikhi news site, which has been doing a tremendous sevaa, especially in the West, featuring many original articles and news breaking exposes. Some of the big ones to date include the breaking of the Daljeet Singh (Chicago), story which was then later picked up by others, and more recently [...]
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- January 27, 2006 – 12:15 pm
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- By shinda
The Federal election is less then 72 hours away, and the polls got the Conservatives well ahead of the competition, hinting at what could be a Conservative majority. Now, everyone has their reasons to vote the way they do, but one thing I was thinking about was, how the selection of the next government affects [...]
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- January 21, 2006 – 3:30 pm
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In the last few years we’ve see a lot of protests, vigil’s and petitions, some better then others. Today there will be an international set of protests happening across the UK, India, USA, and even in Canada, which on paper sounds amazing, but the concept itself a little sketchy. (I’ll deal more with the ones [...]
Categories: Politics,Protest,Sikhi
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- January 17, 2006 – 11:35 am
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- By shinda
VS For one reason or another I’ve never been a big fan of Dr. Ruby Dhalla. Never really, known her, heard her, let alone seen her, so me not being a fan of her is pretty shallow and really judgmental. Firstly she didn’t complete no PHD, or Med school, she’s a chiropractor, so I personally [...]
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- January 16, 2006 – 2:20 pm
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With less then a week left, and with advance polls happening in the election, I thought it would be a good time, to write a follow up post to the previous one. The polls are all pointing towards a conservative majority, but the polls are changing so much you never know what to expect come [...]
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- January 15, 2006 – 1:09 pm
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I came back home to Brampton Wednesday night, and after a few days of settling in and checking up with everyone, its time to let the fact that an election is taking place settle in. For the most part this election seems quite tame, espiecially in contrast to those of the past. Driving around I’ve [...]
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- December 24, 2005 – 4:59 am
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- By shinda