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A LEGACY OF CHANGE Fighting Racism In The Workplace
Atish Ram is a realtor and philanthropist. In 1997, he started his own TV show Zindagi on Shaw TV to empower youth and worked with Shaw TV to create the live “World of Smiles Telethon” raising more than $2.5 million for the BC Children’s Hospital. He
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INDO-FIJIANS Our Long Journey Home
My great-great-grandparents were Pathans from Peshawar living in a free India a century before colonial partition separated our people along religious and perceived racial lines. Moving freely along the Himalayan foothills and through the fertile lan
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Refracting History | Stories In Digital And Print
The fire which destroyed most of the village of Lytton on June 30, 2021, is an event British Columbians will not soon forget, a disaster that will likely be studied by historians of the future. Poetry can offer a means to capture the human experience