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This is long due, but now than never. I’m delighted to be voted among the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant award winners for 2010 and the youngest ever to receive the award. Truly a humbling and motivating moment. It’s an award that is given out by Canadian Immigrant Magazine, which is part of the Toronto Star [...]

My joint oped with Avinash Gavai in the National Post.

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/Attracting+best+brightest/3120823/story.html

Vijay Sappani and Avinash Gavai, National Post · Monday, Jun. 7, 2010

In early 2010 both the Ontario and federal governments made a concerted effort to attract more international students by announcing several new measures. Why is this happening now? Canada recognizes that there is an opportunity [...]

Enough has been said about divisions, separatism that only leads to more death and destruction. This is Canada and we can not let the conflict in Sri Lanka divide communities in Canada.

We need to move forward as progressive Canadians and not divide as regressive Sri Lankans in Canada. We can keep talking the problem …and there [...]

Here is an event we did to help bridge the divide between the Tamil and Sinhalese communities in Canada.  We are looking to do more of these . The response was great, 34 of the 50 attendees have signed up to volunteer for the next event. If you are interested, drop a note and come [...]

Good op-ed from Thomas Friedman on the future of US innovations from immigrant children from China, India. The American system of attracting top international students for graduate and post grad studies, H1B program has been a successful model of them attracting the best and brightest from around the world, especially from China and India.
 
Canada needs [...]

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Most people don’t know who he is and most did not have a chance. Last week Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was captured by a joint ISI- CIA operations in Karachi, Pakistan. He was second in command the biggest prize since the beginning of Afghan war.

Baradar was considered to be the most brutal, [...]

Last week, I was asked to be a panelist at the IEP conference, where over 1500 delegates attended. Most of them were there looking for a job or looking for advice to help them in the search for it. Most immigrants are good in technical skills, but lack soft skills that are important.

Here are some [...]

For Immediate Release
December 17, 2009
Liberals release policy statement on current situation in Sri Lanka
OTTAWA – The Hon. Bob Rae, Foreign Affairs Critic for the Liberal Party of Canada released a policy statement today on the current situation in Sri Lanka.
 
“This is not a situation that can be ignored simply because the war has ended. We [...]

Its the time of the year, first comes the joy then the bills and yeah how can you forget all the extra lbs from the holidays! I know I do it, so this year, I decided to get smart(I mean try ) and be better educated and take some precautions now, instead of regretting over [...]

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency medical procedure provided to someone with an cardiac arrest, by anyone who knows CPR until professional medical help can be provided.

November is CPR month and shockingly only 30% of Torontonians know about CPR .

The Heart and Stroke Foundation has good information on CPR in simple language. There is also a lot of [...]