By Rod Mickleburgh At long last, a formal apology has been delivered in the House of Commons for Canada’s racist behaviour in its shameful treatment of Sikh passengers aboard the Komagata Maru, who had the effrontery to seek immigration to the West Coast more than a hundred years ago. Not only were they denied entry, they […]
Narendra Modi: Harper’s kind of guy
By Montreal Simon You had to see it to believe it. Stephen Harper welcoming the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada. Then travelling on the plane with him to a massive rally in Toronto. Even though Modi is a Hindu extremist, and has been accused of enabling mass murder. Until a year ago, Modi […]
Lang: Indian workers are just better
By Alison@Creekside “Information technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not by cheap Indian workers but by better ones.” So says CBC’s Amanda Lang, senior business correspondent for CBC News and good cop to Kevin O’Leary’s bad cop on “The Lang and O’Leary Exchange,” in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. She wonders if Canadians have returned to […]
Outsource your Royal Bank account
By Alison@Creekside Royal Bank of Canada Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji explains above that technically it’s not RBC that has hired temporary foreign workers to replace RBC employees. No, rather it’s that RBC has hired Indian offshore outsourcing company iGATE to do their own hiring as part of RBC’s plan to transition RBC IT […]
BC throws a film party — for India
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India’s Commonwealth Games: Let the kvetching begin
By Frank Moher Hello India. Canada here. Just chiming in to say, in a spirit of Empire solidarity: Ignore the critics of your upcoming Commonwealth Games. The keeners who arrive early will always find something to gripe about. We speak from experience. In the days before our Winter Olympics, all sorts of rude people, who […]
