TV reporter wanted
We are looking for a TV reporter with some on air experience to work on a short story we are doing on the South Asian Spelling Bee. The story will be for broadcast across US, UK, Canada and India. Young reporters who have filed "human interest" TV stories should apply. The filming will be on Aug 13/14, 2010 in North Brunswick.

Rahul Walia ... Read More

Canada’s census
Stephen Harper and the Conservative party are wrong to want to eliminate the compulsory long-form part of Canada's census.

The Conservatives want to replace the current system, where every five years 20 per cent of Canadians are randomly chosen to complete the long form, with a voluntary long form for up to 33 per cent.

Any statistician will tell you using a voluntary form for accurate statistical research is pure folly.

The fact that Munir Sheikh, chief statistician ... Read More

Canadian Bureaucracy out of control
The Saskatchewan Coalition Against Racism (SCAR) is troubled, but not surprised, by the findings of a Labour Board hearing into the complaint of Public Works adviser, Douglas Tipple. “One should be shocked to hear of the lengths that highly placed bureaucrats and politicians have stooped to in this case,” said Bob Hughes, SCAR spokesperson, “but we have seen all of that and more in the case of Canadian scientist Dr. Chander Grover who has endured ... Read More

Promote Internet journalism
Forget what’s going to happen to journalism in China. Here in our own country, journalism is literally going to dogs.

Neutrality and fair play, the virtues of yester years are being compromised. District and moffussil level journalism is pathetic, with most reporters on the payrolls of police or criminals. Editors are now brokers between corporate and the powers that be. Spurious journalism sucks. Ironically it’s not so much the government pressure that is affecting the ... Read More

'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mice. Mouse at least squeaks, but we don't even do that.

Today I heard your speech, in which you said, 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. I would like to remind you that fourteen years have passed since serial bomb blasts in Mumbai took place. Dawood ... Read More

On-line conference on policing
CHRI is organising an online conference from July 5-10 entitled “Building Bridges: The Police and the Public – Experiments with Community Policing in South Asia”. The Conference will feature experts from the region and outside providing their thoughts on this critically important aspect of genuine police reform. We request you to put a notice on your space and the attached banner with this message to help us to promote this free online ... Read More

Stephen Harper's Conservatives are blurring Canada’s future image
Prime Minister Stephen Harper flaunted millions of dollars on Fake Lake conference of G8 and G20 Leaders. On the other side millions of dollars were spent on their security. Held on 26-27 June this conference of world leaders was opposed to the full by the people and protest rallies were held. During the rallies police was given rights beyond its limit, and they used them per their wishes. On the other side people holding the ... Read More

Zakir Naik banned from Toronto conference
We applaud the Canadian move on banning hate speeches.

It is our duty to keep law and order and faithfully guard the safety of every citizen. Hate is one of the many sources of disrupting the peace in a society and it is our responsibility to track down the source of such hate and work on mitigating it. We have an obligation to maintain a balance in the society. When we are at peace, we can ... Read More