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Media, as a window of the world, ideally should reflect all facets of society using an informative and unbiased approach. But mainstream media does not look into detailed aspects of one particular cultural group. Hence, the name mainstream media. What often drives their coverage is what the broad base of their readers wants to read. Therefore, niche categories are neglected or ignored. This neglect opens doors for culturally specific media. I wish to examine the influence of the South Asian ethnic media on their community especially in the context of empowering an ethnic group as well as to identify some of its limitations.
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The Under 12 Surrey United 94 won the BC Coastal Cup Championship by Metro Ford Ajax 1-0 this past weekend. The Under 12 boys final featured two excellent technical soccer teams and some of the best soccer during the entire Coastal Cup finals.
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A motion introduced in the BC Legislature by Harry Lali, MLA, Yale - Lillooet calling on Translink to consider naming the RAV line station situated at Cambie and 49th Street as the Punjabi Market-Langara Station was carried unanimously earlier this week.
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Balbir Singh Saini, the Principal Secretary of the Hospital in Punjab, was the chief guest for the Guru Nanak Mission Society of BC-organized event. The society works in conjunction with Guru Nanak Mission Hospital in Punjab to fight drug and alcohol abuse, grown gender gap and AIDS - which is now an epidemic in India with the largest cases anywhere in the world.
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At Newton Elementary there is a special program offered at the Grade 5 level which students can continue with in high school. It is called the Punjabi Pilot. In Grade 5 you can pick French or Punjabi Pilot as a second language. Now you're probably thinking that there are only Punjabi kids in this program, but you're wrong because there are different types of people involved in this program.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday announced the appointment of retired Supreme Court Justice John Major as a Commissioner to look into certain aspects of the 1985 Air India bombing, including key questions raised in former Ontario premier Bob Rae's November 2005 report.
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Canada's spy agency issued threat assessments to RCMP and the Canadian government of a possible terror attack on Air India planes in 1985 but was itself blinded by false assumptions about evidence it uncovered during electronic and physical surveillance of a Sikh terror boss.
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The John Wesley Dafoe Foundation announced this week that Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan is the winner of its 2005 book prize for distinguished writing on Canada and/or Canada's place in the world. The award, which includes a cash prize of $10,000, will be presented at the Annual Dafoe Book Prize Dinner on May 17 in Winnipeg to Bolan for "Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away with Murder," published by McClelland & Stewart.
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B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor told The VOICE on Tuesday that she thought the federal budget presented by her federal counterpart Jim Flaherty was "very positive" and praised the $591 million earmarked for the Gateway Strategy.
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A study entitled Canadian Social Trends shows that 41% of the immigrants who arrived in Canada between 1982 and 2001 had a high degree of religiosity, compared with 26% of people born in Canada.
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Their dismal record on human rights is worth repeating. On March 31 2003, the B.C. Liberals eliminated the Human Rights Commission, making us the only province in Canada without one. It was a giant step backwards for human rights protection in British Columbia.
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WHERE IS MANVIR "MUNNY" SINGH SIDHU?
NDP MLA REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR WILLIAMS LAKE GURDWARA
SURREY HINDU TEMPLE REBOUNDS
FIELD HOCKEY: UNITED BROTHERS' SUKHVIR DAZZLES
POSTER CONTEST HONOURABLE MENTION
INDO-CANADIAN DIPLOMAT HONOURED IN VIETNAM
MARY POLAK OPPOSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
JOHN NURANEY HELPS PROCLAIM WORKING DOG YEAR
THE GOLD BRACELET PROVES TO BE REAL GOLD
CENSUS 2006: EVERYBODY MUST COOPERATE
ICBC: MAY IS MOTORCYCLE SAFETY MONTH
ICBC MAKES BIG BUCKS IN FIRST QUARTER
WHITECAPS LYNCH LYNX 2-0
OFF-CAMPUS WORK PERMIT LAUNCHED
BC CRIME PREVENTION ASSOCIATION: FRAUD SHIELD
ADDED PROTECTION FOR MANUFACTURED HOMEOWNERS
PROVINCEWIDE SAFETY INITIATIVE "SAFEBC"
GOVERNMENT REACHES OUT TO THE MENTALLY ILL
PROVINCE WAKES UP TO ER NEEDS
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(This is from The VOICE of May 7, 2005)
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