Anjali Appadurai was keynote speaker at the event commemorating Nek Chand, who included statues from recycled materials in the Rock Garden.
Parmar, a seasoned writer, tells the story through the eyes of a Punjabi woman who can foresee what’s happening under Modi’s watch.
A Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival film screening has a B.C. writer raising links between white supremacy and two murders.
Before his murder, Nijjar expressed support the oppressed in India and Canada, including First Nations kids who died in residential schools.
B.C. writer Gurpreet Singh has written an open letter to Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1948.
Dosanjh, a former B.C. premier and federal cabinet minister, was inspired to write The Past Is Never Dead by what he observed as a young man.
B.C. writer Gurpreet Singh makes the case that the public would benefit from seeing more images of the Indian activist reading a book.
As premier, Horgan brought back the B.C. Human Rights Commission and implemented the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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