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Asian Star- Rashmi Kumar

Native Village/Country parent’s background: I come from India, my home country. I was born in Pune into a Maharashtrian family but grew up in Delhi. My parents moved to Delhi when I was almost four-years-old.  As for my parents, both come from a media background. My father Ashwini Kumar Ghodke …

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Assembly of First Nations takes Trudeau to task over racism, rights and reconciliation

Grieving mothers whose children were killed by police made emotional pleas for the prime minister to act on Thursday, as Justin Trudeau found himself on the defensive during the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) annual winter meeting in Ottawa. First Nations leaders pressed Trudeau on everything from racism in policing, broken promises …

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T&T, Canada’s largest Asian grocery store chain, is coming to the U.S.

Canada’s biggest Asian grocery chain is expanding into the U.S., hoping to bring its patented array of food, skin care and more to a new market. On Thursday, Bellevue, Wash., will be home to T&T’s 37th store — and its first south of the border as it looks ahead to more …

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Tsunami warning cancelled after quake off northern California coast, no threat to B.C.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit off a sparsely populated stretch of northern California coast on Thursday, prompting coastal towns to evacuate low-lying areas amid a tsunami warning that was later cancelled. Emergency Info B.C. says there is “no tsunami threat to B.C.”  No deaths or injuries were reported. There were no …

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A pie heist? British chef out $45K in savoury meat pies after van stolen with ‘tasty’ goods inside

First, thieves came for our cheese. Then, they came for … well, more cheese. But now they’re coming for savoury meat pies, and people are done. A British chef who lost 2,500 pies this week after thieves stole his van says “it’s a real shame” that although police eventually recovered the …

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Liberal government adds hundreds of firearm models to list of banned weapons

The federal government announced new gun control measures Thursday, adding several hundred models and variants to its list of banned weapons. “These firearms can no longer be legally used, sold or imported in Canada,” Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters. The announcement comes one day before the 35th anniversary of …

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Norway wealth fund sells shares in Israel’s Bezeq over telecom services to Israeli settlements

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has sold all of its shares in Israel’s Bezeq, which provides telecommunications services to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision, announced late on Tuesday, comes after the fund’s ethics watchdog, the Council on Ethics, adopted a new, tougher interpretation of ethics …

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Artemis II mission to the moon with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen delayed until April 2026

NASA’s ambitious Artemis program that will once again return humans to the moon is facing more delays. In a press conference this afternoon, NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that Artemis II — which will see Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and Americans Reid Weisman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover orbit the moon …

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French lawmakers vote to oust Michel Barnier-led government

France’s far-right and left-wing lawmakers joined together on Wednesday in a historic no-confidence vote prompted by budget disputes that forces French Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his cabinet members to resign, a first since 1962. The National Assembly approved the motion by 331 votes. A minimum of 288 were needed. …

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She posted about her PhD, and went viral in the worst possible way

As It Happens6:54She posted about her PhD, and went viral in the worst possible way When Ally Louks posted last week that she was “PhDone” with her English literature thesis, she didn’t expect to find herself at the centre of a culture war. Louks posted a picture of herself on X, …

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