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Rape Culture Knows No Borders

Anne Theriault | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Living
Anne Theriault

In India, a five-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, tortured and left for dead. This, on the heels of the brutal gang rape in India that happened back in December. And a story about a six-year-old Indian girl who was raped. And a story about 11- and 13-year-old sisters who were raped by their mother's boyfriend. All of these rapes happened within a week's span. Rape culture knows no borders. We all live in it. We all participate in it.

Combatting Child Slavery In India -- And the World

The Scott Brothers | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada Impact
The Scott Brothers

Imagine the four walls around you are basically walls of blue tarp held up by tree branches. Your floor is a slab of cement if you're lucky, or a dirt floor where rats and bugs greet you at every corner as they scavenge through heaps of litter, scrap, and human waste. This is the reality of a Delhi slum.

Free Trade And Free Children

Peter Fragiskatos | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Politics
Peter Fragiskatos

Hundreds of thousands of children have been sold or kidnapped and work as virtual slaves in India. Canada must insist that, as part of any free trade deal reached with India, no goods made by trafficked children will be allowed to enter Canada. It is the right thing to do.

Fewer Women Travelling To India: Report

CP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.01.2013 | Canada Travel

NEW DELHI - The rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi in December followed by two attacks on foreign female travellers has altered how tourist...

Why Canadians Shouldn't Travel to India

Adrian Brijbassi | Posted 03.21.2013 | Canada Travel
Adrian Brijbassi

My friend has written on her blog that the media is guilty of sensationalism in the coverage of rapes in India. I disagree with her assessment, however. The attention the media is giving to the rape epidemic in India is long, long overdue. Should you be scared? Not really. But ask, is India as safe to travel as anywhere else? The answer is no, it's not.

Why You Should Care About International Women's Day

Amber Rehman | Posted 05.08.2013 | Canada
Amber Rehman

With so many international atrocities committed against women on a daily basis, I as a woman in the west sometimes feel that there is very little that we can do. But living in the lap of luxury doesn't remove the sadness one feels when they see the news reports. I feel overwhelmed by the state of women and believe we should act more. This International Women's Day let us educate ourselves and the society at large.

Fast Facts on Trade in 2012

Peter Hall | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada Business
Peter Hall

Normally, this column is forward-looking, but occasionally, it pays to reflect on recent events. Annual merchandise trade data for 2012 are hot off th...

WATCH: Advice For Travelling Safely In India

The Huffington Post Canada | Brian Vinh Tien Trinh | Posted 01.24.2013 | Canada Travel

India's capital of New Delhi is regarded as a must-see for travellers to the country. But after the brutal gang rape on Dec. 16 that killed Jyoti Sing...

How the Indian Gang-Rape Reversed Victim-Blaming

Lily Pourzand | Posted 03.11.2013 | Canada
Lily Pourzand

Contrary to other similar situations, the tragic Indian gang-rape victim was not "dishonoured" by her family or society. Instead, she was "honoured" both on private and public levels. Her painful death was not viewed by other Indian families as a terrifying warning to justify employing more control on young women.

Stopping Rape In India Starts With Ending Female Feticide, Dowry

Ujjal Dosanjh | Posted 03.08.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Ujjal Dosanjh

Let us stop killing women by feticide. Let us stop expecting, asking for, or accepting dowry. Let us stop killing brides who have not brought "enough" dowry. Let us stop telling women what to wear and when. Let us stop restricting the woman's right to freely move about. The woman is and must be free to move about and dress as she wishes.

Former B.C. Premier's Bold Tweet

The Huffington Post B.C. | Andree Lau | Posted 01.07.2013 | Canada British Columbia

Former B.C. premier and MP Ujjal Dosanjh sent a bold tweet in light of publicity over a gang rape in India and others like it, saying that if men are ...

Murder Charges Laid In India Gang-Rape Case

AP | Ashok Sharma | Posted 02.28.2013 | Canada

NEW DELHI -- Indian police charged six men with murder on Saturday, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus nea...

Why Universities Are Teaching "Indovation"

Sam Singh | Posted 02.16.2013 | Canada Business
Sam Singh

A new interdisciplinary research initiative, simply titled the "India Innovation Institute", was launched at the University of Toronto to explore the parameters around innovation in India, with the role played by the diaspora central to its scope of research.

Canada And India Finally Seal Nuclear Deal

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.06.2013 | Canada Politics

NEW DELHI - A long-delayed nuclear co-operation deal that will see Canadian uranium shipped to nuclear-armed India has been negotiated to "achieve all...

PM Warned About Sikh Extremism In Canada

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.05.2013 | Canada Politics

NEW DELHI - The Indian government issued a pointed and public warning to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to mind what they see as alarming evidence of S...

On Harper's Agenda: Trade, Investment And Samosas

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.04.2013 | Canada Politics

AGRA, India - Hours before Stephen Harper's plane set down in India, he was already signalling his embrace of one of the world's most formidable econo...

What Awaits Harper In India

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.31.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - On Prime Minister Stephen Harper's upcoming trip to India, both the host and the guest will be handling a little baggage.The six-day visit wh...

Pierre Lassonde On Making Golden Investments

Diane Francis | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada Business
Diane Francis

Pierre Lassonde, one of the world's foremost experts on gold, says the only way's up for the shiny stuff. He should know and has made his fortune in the gold game. This week, he spoke at a mining seminar in Toronto organized by mining consultant Terry Ortsland, Chair of the Mineral Resource Analyst Group.

Doug Saunders on His New Book, George Bush and Multiculturalism

Hina P. Ansari | Posted 11.06.2012 | Canada
Hina P. Ansari

Journalist Doug Sanders, whose latest book The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten The West? tackles (and pretty much straightens out) the laundry-list of misconceptions and falsehoods that has made its way from the fringe to the forefront of the public domain about Muslim immigration and the West. In this interview, he goes in-depth on the larger issues.

Lights On

CP | Nirmala George, The Associated Press | Posted 10.01.2012 | Canada

NEW DELHI - Factories and workshops across India were up and running again Wednesday, a day after a major system collapse led to a second day of power...

India Can Do Better than Us

Peter Sutherland | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Business
Peter Sutherland

Despite the lure of our natural resources and skilled workforce, Canada is still a long way from achieving the ambitious target of reaching $15 billion in trade with India by 2015. Where are we going wrong?

Immortalizing India's Master Storyteller

Sam Singh | Posted 04.28.2012 | Canada
Sam Singh

His stories earned him recognition in the global comics industry and seriously large piles of fan-mail. And today marks what would have been the 82nd birthday of India's "Master Storyteller," Anant Pai who died last year in Mumbai. But this year, he is immortalized by way of his own medium.

The "Missing" Generation of Girls

John Laforet | Posted 01.09.2012 | Canada
John Laforet

It has been estimated that since the 1970s approximately 163 million girls have not been born due to sex selective abortions. In other words, couples waited until an ultrasound could determine the sex of the fetus and aborted because the fetus was female, resulting in 163 million girls not being born over the last 30 years.

Pakistan and India: A Tale of Two Children

Hina P. Ansari | Posted 12.24.2011 | Canada
Hina P. Ansari

It's classic Bollywood: mother gives up two sons, one becomes a cop/top industrialist, the other ends up embracing the life of crime as a gangster/con man. So here we have two nations, India and Pakistan born in 1947: one finds their way into enviable success, while the other struggles in the deep waters of corruption.

Check Out India's $35 Tablet

CP | Katy Daigle, The Associated Press | Posted 12.05.2011 | Canada Business

NEW DELHI - India introduced a cheap tablet computer Wednesday, saying it would deliver modern technology to the countryside to help lift villagers ou...