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Glenda Brganza

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Born in Halifax and raised in Ottawa, Glenda Braganza is a Montreal-based theatre, voice, film and television actor with a Specialization in Theatre Performance BFA from Concordia University. In 2004 Glenda was awarded the M.E.C.C.A. (Montreal English Critics' Circle Award) for Best Actress and was included in The Montreal Mirror's "Noisemakers 2005" list. Glenda has worked with various Montreal theatre companies including Pumpkin Theatre (Faiting Wor Godot); Persephone Productions (West, Jane Eyre); Black Theatre Workshop (Bluenose, Skin) and most notably, Geordie Productions with whom she has toured to Western Canada. She recently appeared at the Segal Centre in Table D'Hote Production’s critically acclaimed show A Line in the Sand as Sadiq.

Since 2003, Glenda has been working in film and television for various networks as well as many Montreal-produced pilots, independent productions and commercials. Her credits include the Gemini-nominated CTV movie Tripping Wire starring Clark Johnson., NBC's sweeps television special 10.5 Apocalypse with Kim Delaney and David Cubitt; the second season of Philms’ The Business (IFC/TMN) and the Montreal-based series Naked Josh for Showcase; the television feature Infected starring Gil Bellows and Isabella Rossellini; and feature film Afterwards with John Malkovich and Lilly Evangeline.

Glenda is currently performing on Granville Island, in the world premiere stage adaptation of Don Quixote - a co-production between Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre, Axis Theatre and Montreal's Centaur Theatre. The production then moves to Montreal, where she calls home with her husband Mike, with whom she enjoys an active lifestyle, traveling and the culinary arts.

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Raj Chouhan

2012-07-24T00:10:16Z

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"Raj Chouhan was elected as the MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds on May 17, 2005 and re-elected on May 12, 2009. Raj serves as the Official Opposition Critic for Labour. Previously Raj served as critic for Human Rights, Multiculturalism and Immigration. Raj also serves as the Opposition Deputy-Whip since 2007.

Before immigrating to Canada in 1973, Raj was involved in student union activities in India. On his arrival in Canada, Raj was impacted by the plight of immigrant workers and developed a passion for community and social justice work.

Raj is the founding president of the Canadian Farmworkers' Union, and he served as the Director of Bargaining at the Hospital Employees Union for 18 years. Raj has also served as a member of the Labour Relations Board of B.C. and the Arbitration Bureau of B.C.

A founding member of the B.C. Organization to Fight Racism, Raj has worked in promoting human rights and racial equality. He has served as the Vice President of B.C. Human Rights Defenders since 2003. Raj has taught courses on Human Rights, the B.C. Labour Code and collective bargaining since 1987. He has traveled across Canada to give seminars and attend conferences that raise awareness of issues regarding racism, poverty, worker rights, and discrimination.

In addition, Raj supports many programs offered through community organizations including neighbourhood safety, refugee assistance, and health and wellness programs for seniors."

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Paul Chohan

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Paul Satinder "Bubli" Chohan (born on July 2, 1957 in Ludhiana (Punjab), India) is a former field hockey player from Canada.

*1975 – Pan American Games, Mexico (2nd)
*1976 – Olympic Games, Montreal (10th)[1]
*1978 – World Cup, Buenos Aires (11th)
*1979 – Pan American Games, San Juan (2nd)
*1981 – World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (9th)
*1983 – Pan American Games, Caracas (1st)
*1984 – Olympic Games, Los Angeles (10th)[1]
*1985 – World Cup Qualifier, Barcelona (4th)
*1986 – World Cup, London (10th)
*1987 – Pan American Games, Indianapolis (1st)
*1988 – Olympic Games, Seoul (11th)[1]
*1989 – World Cup Qualifier, Madison, USA (2nd)
*1990 – World Cup, Lahore (11th)
*1991 – Pan American Games, Havana (2nd)
*1995 – Pan American Games, Mar del Plata (2nd)
*1996 – Olympic Qualifier, Barcelona (6th)
*1996 – World Cup Preliminary, Sardinia (2nd)
*1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (5th)

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Jasbir Singh Cheema

2012-07-23T23:38:48Z

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Jasbir Singh Cheema is a Canadian television personality and politician.
In the 2004 federal election, he ran for and won the Conservative Party of Canada nomination against Chuck Cadman, the sitting Member of Parliament for the riding of Surrey North. After losing the nomination to Cheema, Cadman ran as an independent candidate and won the reelection.
Cheema anchored the Punjabi newscast on Vancouver television station Channel M now OMNI from 2003 until 2004.
Cheema is a regular Columnist on Real Estate and Economy with the Asian Star newspaper writing extensively on Real Estate and Economy. He is a full-time Realtor and is a recipient of President Award from Sutton Group Medallion Realty in 2006. Cheema is serving as a Government Relations Liaison with the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board FVREB for his third term since 2010 and served on the Education Committee of the FVREB in 2009 - 2010. He twice represented FVREB for Government Liaison (GL) Days in Victoria, capital of British Columbia, from April 25–27, 2010 and April 22 - 24, 2012. Jasbir also represented FVREB during Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) sponsored PAC (Political Action Committee) days from May 7–9, 2011 in Ottawa, capital of Canada.

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Gulzar Singh Cheema

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Gulzar Singh Cheema (born August 11, 1954) is an Indian-born doctor and a Canadian politician. Cheema was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba[1] from 1988 to 1993, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2004, making him one of only a few Canadian politicians to sit in two provincial legislatures since Confederation. He is the first Indian born to be elected MLA in Canada. He was also a cabinet minister in the government of Premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell from 2001 to 2004, and was a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada in the federal election of 2004.

Dr. Gulzar S. Cheema, MD CCFP was elected in B.C. in May 2001 to represent the riding of Surrey-Panorama Ridge. On June 05, 2001 Dr. Gulzar Cheema was appointed as a member of the Executive Council for the Government of B.C. as Minister of State for Mental Health. On January 26, 2004 Dr. Cheema was appointed as a member of the Executive Council for the Government of B.C. as Minister of State for Immigration and Multicultural Services. He was also a member of the Legislative Assembly in Manitoba for five years and served as critic for health, labour, housing, native affairs, sport and co-operatives, and consumer and corporate affairs. Before his election to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, Dr. Cheema was a family doctor in Surrey; he has also practised medicine in Winnipeg and rural Manitoba. He received his bachelor of medicine and surgery from India’s Punjab University, interned at the University of Newfoundland and was a resident at Saskatoon’s University Hospital. In 1992 he was awarded the Canada 125 Medal for community service. To promote the health and welfare of the community, Dr. Cheema participates weekly on local multicultural radio talk shows and M Channel, a local multicultural T.V. Channel.
Presently Dr. Cheema is practicing family medicine and is a clinical instructor for the Department of Family Practice at UBC as well as the Medical director for iCON South Asian Division eHealth Strategy Office Faculty of Medicine, UBC. He currently lives in Surrey, British Columbia with his wife and children.

In the Manitoba general election of 1988, Cheema was elected as a Liberal in the northeastern Winnipeg riding of Kildonan. The Liberals went from one to twenty seats in the Manitoba legislature in this election, winning several Winnipeg seats from the governing New Democratic Party (NDP). Cheema defeated Progressive Conservative candidate John Baluta by 585, with NDP incumbent Marty Dolin finishing third. The Progressive Conservatives came out of the election with a minority government, and Cheema became a member of the official opposition. Cheema increased his margin of victory in the 1990 provincial election, but the Liberal Party fell to seven seats and third-party status. He resigned his seat on June 17, 1993.

Soon afterwards, he opened a family practice in Surrey, British Columbia. Cheema became involved in several community activities in British Columbia, including acting as chair of the 1998 British Columbia Games for Athletes with Disabilities' medical section.
Although the British Columbia Liberal Party is usually regarded as significantly more right-wing than the Manitoba party, Cheema nevertheless ran as a BC Liberal in that province's 1996 provincial election. He was unsuccessful, finishing 380 votes behind New Democratic Party candidate Ian Waddell in Vancouver-Fraserview.
The BC New Democrats experienced a sharp decline in their popularity between 1996 and 2001, and the provincial Liberals were elected in a landslide in that year's provincial election. Cheema had no difficulty being elected in Surrey-Panorama Ridge, defeating NDP candidate Bruce Ralston by over 6,000 votes. On June 5, 2001, he was appointed Minister of State for Mental Health Services. On January 20, 2004, he was appointed Minister of State for Immigration and Multicultural Services.

Later in 2004, Cheema sought and won the federal Liberal nomination in the new riding of Fleetwood—Port Kells. He was removed from cabinet hours after submitting his nomination papers, and subsequently resigned as a provincial Member of the Legislative Assembly (Canadian politicians seeking federal office are usually required to step down from their provincial responsibilities.) In a relatively close three-way race, Cheema was defeated by Conservative candidate Nina Grewal, 14,052 votes to 11,568 (New Democratic Party candidate Barry Bell received 10,976 votes).

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Baljit Singh Chadha

2012-07-23T23:29:21Z

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Baljit Singh Chadha, PC (born 1952) is president and founder of Balcorp Limited, an international trade and marketing firm. He is also a well known philanthropist and a leader of the Sikh community in Canada.
Chadha immigrated to Canada in 1973 from India to study business administration. He remained and founded Balcorp in 1976, building it into a $50 million concern with offices in Montreal, New Delhi and Mumbai. His international trading company has varied interests that include agricultural food products, processed foods, forestry products, and minerals. Chadha's company sells asbestos to India and other countries in the developing world where many of the workers later develop asbestosis and mesothelioma. The European Union has banned asbestos. Reputable medical organizations throughout the world, including the World Health Organization, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society, have condemned the use of any form of asbestos, chrysotile included.
In 2003, Chadha was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to the Security Intelligence Review Committee as well as to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

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Jagrup Brar

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"Jagrup Brar was elected as the MLA for Surrey-Fleetwod on May 12, 2009. He served as MLA for Surrey-Panorama Ridge from Oct. 28, 2004 until the riding boundaries were re-drawn.

Jagrup serves as opposition critic for Small Business . Jagrup has served as critic for Heathy Living and Sport, Public Safety & Solicitor General, Ministry of Employment & Income Assistance and Ministry for Small Business & Revenue. Jagrup is a strong advocate for health care and has highlighted Surrey's health care crisis across the region.

Born in India, Jagrup moved to Canada to study at the University of Manitoba where he earned a Master's degree in Public Administration. Jagrup moved to British Columbia from Winnipeg in 1995. Since then, Jagrup and his family have put down strong roots in Surrey.

An involved member of his community, Jagrup is a dedicated local volunteer, and has taken time to help a variety of local organizations providing services to young people, seniors and new Canadians.
For over a decade, Jagrup worked in the public and non-profit sectors, assisting professionals with career development and working with employers to develop strategies to recruit a highly-skilled, multicultural workforce.

As the Executive Director of the Surrey Self Employment and Entrepreneur Development Society (SEEDS), Jagrup trained new entrepreneurs to develop and launch successful small business ventures.

Jagrup is married and lives in Surrey with his wife Rajwant and their daughter and son. One interesting personal note, Jagrup played basketball for the Indian National basketball team, and his daughter enjoys playing on her school basketball team. His son, a pre-schooler, also enjoys dribbling and shooting."[http://www.jagrupbrar.ca/about-jagrup-brar]

Jagrup Brar

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Neil Bissoondath

2012-07-23T23:18:44Z

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Neil Devindra Bissoondath (born April 19, 1955 in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian author who lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec. He is a noted writer of fiction, and also an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multiculturalism. He is the nephew of authors V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul.

Bissoondath attended St. Mary's College in Trinidad and Tobago. Although he was from a Hindu tradition, he was able to adapt to a Catholic high school. Bissoondath describes himself as not very religious and distrustful of dogma. In the early Seventies, political upheaval and economic collapse had created a climate of chaos and violence in the island nation. In 1973, at the age of eighteen, Bissoondath left Trinidad and settled in Ontario, where he studied at York University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in French in 1977. He then taught English and French at the Inlingua School of Languages and the Toronto Language Workshop. He won the McClelland and Stewart award and the National Magazine award, both in 1986, for the short story "Dancing." In 2010 he was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec.

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Nadira Begg

2012-07-23T23:14:44Z

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Nadira Begg is a Canadian television journalist, who was the former anchor of CBC News: Northbeat on the CBC North system in the Canadian territories. Born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Begg is of mixed Gwich'in and Indo-Fijian descent. She is the granddaughter of John Tetlichi, the first Gwich'in person to serve on the Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories.

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Robin Bawa

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Robin N. Bawa (born March 26, 1966 in Duncan, British Columbia) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who spent parts of four seasons in the National Hockey League between 1989 and 1994.

Bawa spent 5 productive seasons of junior hockey in the WHL with the Kamloops Blazers, but was passed over in the NHL Entry Draft. Finally, after a 57-goal performance in the 1986–87 season, Bawa earned a pro contract from the Washington Capitals.
Bawa would turn pro the following season, spending the year in the IHL with the Fort Wayne Komets. While Bawa had been primarily a skill player in junior, he began to fight more often in pro hockey and developed into an enforcer, as that was his best ticket to the NHL. He would average over 200 penalty minutes in his first three years in Washington's system, finally earning a 5-game callup to the Capitals in 1989–90, during which he scored his first NHL goal against Alain Chevrier and the Chicago Blackhawks.
Bawa played one more season in the Capitals' system, posting 381 penalty minutes in Fort Wayne but not seeing any more NHL action, before being sold to the Vancouver Canucks in 1991. He played 2 games for the Canucks in 1991–92, and set a career high with 27 goals in the IHL.
Early in the 1992–93 season, Bawa would be dealt to the San Jose Sharks, where he would have his most prolonged NHL stint. He spent most of the rest of the season in the NHL, scoring 5 goals in 42 games and posting 47 penalty minutes.
Bawa was exposed in the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft and claimed by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He played 12 more NHL games in 1993–94, registering his only career assist.
Following his release from the Ducks, Bawa continued to toil in the IHL for 5 more seasons, three of those back in Fort Wayne, before a concussion ended his career near the end of the 1998–99 season. He finished his IHL career with 106 goals and 188 assists in 610 career games along with 635 penalty minutes.
Bawa is the first person of Indian descent to play in the NHL, where he achieved six goals and one assist in 61 games, while collecting 60 penalty minutes.

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Nuvraj Bassi

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Nuvraj Singh Bassi (born March 20, 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a defensive tackle who is currently on the practice roster of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted 43rd overall in the 2005 CFL Draft by the Lions. He played college football for the Oregon Ducks.
He previously played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes.

Bassi was drafted by the BC Lions in the fifth round (43rd overall) in the 2005 CFL Draft and spent the year on the team's practice roster. He did not re-sign with the Lions for the 2006 season and spent two years out of football. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2008 and was on their practice roster for two years, alternating between the offensive line and defensive line. After his release from by the Roughriders, he signed with the Montreal Alouettes for the 2010 season. He was signed to the Lions' practice roster in July 2011.

Bassi was born to parents Kalvinder and Inderjit Bassi. He has one brother and one sister. Nuvraj comes from a sports family and they are very enthusiastic about their son’s prospects.
Nuvraj Singh Bassi made history as the first keshdhari (turbaned) Sikh in the Canadian Football League (CFL), when he made his June CFL debut as a member of the Grey Cup Champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.

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Sheela Basrur

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Dr. Sheela Basrur was appointed Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health in February 2004. She developed effective health promotion strategies and programs to deliver measurable results, including groundbreaking Smoke- Free Ontario legislation, the creation of Ontario’s first public health agency, and a major report on childhood obesity. In her 2005 Report to the Legislature, Dr. Basrur outlined the challenges required to rebuild Ontario’s public health system.
Prior to her provincial role, Dr. Basrur was the first Medical Officer of Health in the amalgamated City of Toronto, leading a team of 1,800 staff from seven former municipalities to a common goal of disease prevention and health promotion. As Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Basrur’s exemplary leadership and expertise during the SARS crisis is well known. Dr. Basrur's skilled handling of the SARS outbreak earned her the respect of not only her public health colleagues here in Ontario, but also across North America and around the world.

After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1979, she received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Toronto in 1982. After working as a general practitioner, Dr. Basrur travelled to India and Nepal, where she became interested in public health. Upon returning to Canada, she obtained a Master of Health Science degree from the University of Toronto in 1987 specializing in community medicine. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Basrur received many accolades and awards for her commitment and achievements, including the Order of Ontario; the Amethyst Award, the highest award granted to a member of the Ontario Public Service; honourary Doctorates from Ryerson University, York University and the University of Toronto; and honourary Diploma of Nursing from George Brown College; and the Woman of the Year distinction from the Greater Toronto YWCA. Sadly, she succumbed to cancer on June 2, 2008 at the age of 51.[http://www.sheelabasrurcentre.ca/bio.html]

Sheela Basrur

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Nirmala Basnayake

2012-07-23T00:52:37Z

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Nirmala Basnayake was the vocalist for controller.controller, an Canadian indie rock band from Toronto, Ontario. Vocalist Nirmala Basnayake announced in October 2006 that she was leaving the band.

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Bas Balkissoon

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"Bas Balkissoon was elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in 2005 and was re-elected in 2007. He currently serves as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Community and Social Services. He is the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Committee and is also a member of the Standing Committee on Justice Policy.

Bas recently served on the Select Committee for Mental Health and Addictions that published a final report listing recommendations to establish and implement a comprehensive mental health and addictions plan for Ontario. In 2008, Bas served on the Select Committee that developed the Poverty Reduction Strategy. He was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care from 2007-2010 and to the Minister of Community Safety in 2006-2007.

Bas was born in Trinidad and immigrated to Canada in 1970. He spent 17 years working at Bell Canada, including two and a half years overseas as an advisor to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Post, Telephone and Telegraph. In 1988, he was elected as a City Councillor to the municipal government of the former City of Scarborough. In 1997, he was elected to the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1997.

In 2001, as the chair of Toronto's Audit Committee, Bas played a key role in exposing millions of dollars in misappropriated City funds. During his 17 year career in municipal politics, he also served on the Budget Committee, Toronto Police Services Board and was a member of the TTC. He also served as chair of Waste Diversion Ontario, and on the boards of the Metro Toronto Housing Authority and the Social Housing Services Corporation.

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Bas Balkissoon

2012-07-23T00:38:37Z

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2012-07-23T00:37:53Z

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Shauna Singh Baldwin

2012-07-23T00:26:31Z

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Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian/Caribbean Region), and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her second short-story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan, was released in Canada in 2007.
Baldwin and her husband own the Safe House, an espionage themed restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

*A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America (1992, coauthored)
*English Lessons and Other Stories (1996, short stories)
*What the Body Remembers: a novel (2000)
*The Tiger Claw: a novel (2004)
*We Are Not in Pakistan: stories (2007)
*The Selector of Souls: a novel (Sept 2012)
*We Are So Different Now (2009)

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2012-07-23T00:26:11Z

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Navdeep Bains

2012-07-23T00:16:46Z

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"Navdeep was born in Toronto, Ontario. He completed his undergraduate degree at York University where he obtained his Bachelor of Administrative Studies (BAS). Navdeep went on to complete his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Windsor. He has also obtained the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation. Prior to being elected as a Member of Parliament, Navdeep worked in Accounting and Financial Analysis at Ford Motor Company of Canada as a Financial Analyst.

Navdeep served as a Member of Parliament for Mississauga Brampton South from 2004 to 2011. Navdeep has extensive parliamentary committee experience and in-depth knowledge of political party organizational structures. He is also an expert on a wide range of public policy issues including: International Trade, Government Operations, Small Business and Human Rights.

Throughout his life, Navdeep has demonstrated excellent leadership skills at work and in the community. He is a strategic thinker who is highly effective in solving complex problems and has demonstrated superior communication abilities in engaging effectively with a broad range of audiences. Navdeep is also a recipient of various community awards in promoting diversity. He is fluent in English, Punjabi and intermediate French.

Navdeep currently lives in Mississauga with his wife Brahamjot and their daughters, Nanki and Kirpa."[http://www.navdeepbains.ca/profile.htm]

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2012-07-23T00:15:49Z

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"Navdeep was born in Toronto, Ontario. He completed his undergraduate degree at York University where he obtained his Bachelor of Administrative Studies (BAS). Navdeep went on to complete his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Windsor. He has also obtained the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation. Prior to being elected as a Member of Parliament, Navdeep worked in Accounting and Financial Analysis at Ford Motor Company of Canada as a Financial Analyst.

Navdeep served as a Member of Parliament for Mississauga Brampton South from 2004 to 2011. Navdeep has extensive parliamentary committee experience and in-depth knowledge of political party organizational structures. He is also an expert on a wide range of public policy issues including: International Trade, Government Operations, Small Business and Human Rights.

Throughout his life, Navdeep has demonstrated excellent leadership skills at work and in the community. He is a strategic thinker who is highly effective in solving complex problems and has demonstrated superior communication abilities in engaging effectively with a broad range of audiences. Navdeep is also a recipient of various community awards in promoting diversity. He is fluent in English, Punjabi and intermediate French.

Navdeep currently lives in Mississauga with his wife Brahamjot and their daughters, Nanki and Kirpa."[http://www.navdeepbains.ca/profile.htm]

Navdeep Bains

2012-07-23T00:14:58Z

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2012-07-23T00:14:31Z

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Harry Bains

2012-07-23T00:03:40Z

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Harry Bains is the current MLA for Surrey-Newton in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Bains has been active in Surrey for many years. He has experience in education due to his many years of service on the Kwantlen University College Board of Governors from 1993 and 1999. He has also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity.
Bains was an elected officer of Steelworkers-IWA Canada local 2171 for over fifteen years. He served most recently as vice president of his local chapter, in which he led negotiations and helped in bargaining efforts.

Bains and his wife Rajvinder live in Surrey with their two children, Kulpreet and Jasmeen. He is active in the Sikh community in Canada.

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2012-07-23T00:03:10Z

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Hardial Bains

2012-07-22T23:59:00Z

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Born in India into a Communist family in the Punjab, Bains became a member of the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was dismayed by what he saw as the revisionism of Nikita Khrushchev following the death of Joseph Stalin, and he broke with the CPI when it supported Khrushchev's criticisms of Stalin.
In 1963, he founded the Internationalists,[2] an anti-revisionist organization that supported Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China in the Sino-Soviet split. This organisation (in Canada) ultimately became the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML), of which Bains was the founding leader.
In 1967, Bains held a conference in London to determine the future of the anti-revisionist movement, the "Necessity for Change" conference. The Irish Communist Organisation disagreed with the other delegates and walked out of the meeting. Bains was a leader of the anti-revisionist movement internationally, and assisted in establishing Marxist-Leninist parties around the world, such as the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), the Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago, the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), and the Communist Ghadar Party of India. Bains was also responsible for the founding of the Hindustani Ghadar Party (Organisation of Indian Marxist-Leninists Abroad). He held a leading influence in the Marxist-Leninist Party, USA in the 1970s. (This party was dissolved in 1993.) Modern Communism has written articles on his Marxist-Leninist legacy.
Many of these parties originally held a "Maoist" position in the 1960s and 1970s, and Bains was often identified as a Maoist. However, following Mao Zedong's death in 1976, they would later reject Mao Zedong Thought, particularly through the experience of the Sino-Albanian split. Following the leadership of Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour, Bains' anti-revisionism deepened in the sense of opposition both to the European revisionism (Khrushchev, Josip Broz Tito and Eurocommunism) and to the Chinese revisionism.
A memorial was erected in the honour of Bains and other CPC-ML "fallen comrades" in Ottawa's Beechwood Cemetery. Poet George Elliot Clarke published a poem titled "Homage to Hardial Bains" in 2000 in the Oyster Boy Review. Bains was attacked posthumously by Ben Seattle in an article on Leninism.org entitled In memory of a charlatan.
Bains wrote several books, including Necessity for Change!, Modern Communism, Visiting Cuba, If You Love Your Class and Thinking About the Sixties, as well as many more articles, pamphlets and speeches.
Sandra L. Smith, his widow, also served as leader of the CPC-ML.

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2012-07-22T23:58:39Z

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Ravi Baichwal

2012-07-22T23:48:02Z

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Ravi Baichwal is a news anchor and reporter at WLS-TV in Chicago. In 2008 he won the Chicago Emmy Award for best anchor (Chicago/Midwest) from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was a CTV News Channel Morning anchor weekdays from 6 AM to 10 AM from 2002 to 2006. He was also a correspondent for CTV National News and sat as substitute anchor as well substitute hosting on Canada AM, Report on Business Television and contributed to radio. He was previously an anchor and reporter for CTV British Columbia. He began his journalism career in Calgary as a researcher for the CBC. He then worked as an associate producer, reporter and anchor with CBC Newsworld. Baichwal also worked in public affairs in Ontario. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts Honours in political science with a certificate in French language studies.
He is married to journalist Sonja Nordahl.

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2012-07-22T20:23:46Z

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Ashish Bagai

2012-07-22T19:56:30Z

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Ashish Bagai (born January 26, 1982) is the captain of the Canadian cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman who specializes as a wicketkeeper. He studied at St. Columba's School during his brief stay in Delhi, India. He moved to Canada at the age of 11.
His first taste of cricket came in the inaugural Under-15s Cricket World Cup in 1996, in which he was voted the tournament's best wicketkeeper. He had the highest batting average in the Under-19s World Cup in January - February 2000. Going to the 2002 Under-19s World Cup, his batting was invaluable, securing a tie with Bangladesh.
He has since become a mainstay of the Canadian cricket team. He has played 52 One Day Internationals, more than any other Canadian player. Indeed, he has played every Canadian ODI since he made his debut in the 2003 World Cup against Bangladesh. The only Canadian ODIs he has not played in were the three that took place before he was born.
Despite his ever-present position in the Canadian ODI team, he missed the 2005 ICC Trophy, though he did play the 2001 tournament, the highlight of which was an innings that took the Canadians to victory over the UAE after spending a night in hospital due to being hit in the face when keeping.
He holds the Canadian record for highest ODI score after his unbeaten 137 in a losing cause against Scotland. He added 100 runs for 4th wicket with Asif Mulla which was the first ever century stand for Canada in an ODI.
Bagai captained the Canadian team during the 2011 Cricket World Cup and made 64* against Kenya of 97 balls as Canada won their first match of the tournament. This was the second World Cup win Canada had registered. Against New Zealand in the following ODI he scored 84 of 87 balls and he shared a 100+ partnership with Jimmy Hansra, Hansra eventually made 70*. However Canada lost by 70 runs as New Zealand managed to score 358 in the first innings.

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2012-07-22T19:55:55Z

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Anita Rau Badami

2012-07-22T19:48:07Z

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Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is an Indian-Canadian novelist. Born in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary. Her first novel, Tamarind Mem (1997), grew out of her university thesis.
Her novels deal with the complexities of Indian family life and with the cultural gap that emerges when Indians move to the west.
Badami's third novel, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call explores the Golden Temple Massacre and the Air India Bombing.
Badami cites as among her favourite books Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Cat's Eye and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson.

*Tamarind Mem - 1997 ISBN 0-670-86916-3 (U.S. title: Tamarind Woman - 2002)
*The Hero's Walk - 2001 ISBN 0-676-97225-X
*Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? - 2006

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2012-07-22T19:47:06Z

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Nira Arora

2012-07-22T19:38:05Z

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Nira Arora is a Canadian radio broadcaster. She is the co-host of Beat Mornings with Holly, Jonny, Nira, & Amy, a morning radio program on CFBT-FM in Vancouver, Canada. She was also a reporter and host for Shaw TV and a fill-in host for World Beats on Channel M.
Arora has a degree in Communications and Political Science from Simon Fraser University and a broadcasting diploma from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining CFBT in 2001, she worked as a journalist/reporter for the South Asian magazine show Zindagi, and on-air as host with Asian Pulse and Partners in Community Vision.

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2012-07-22T19:37:38Z

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Bharat Agnihotri

2012-07-22T18:03:50Z

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Bharat Agnihotri (born April 9, 1953, India) is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He represented the constituency of Edmonton Ellerslie, sitting as a Liberal. He was elected in the 2004 election, but was defeated in the 2008 election.