TORONTO – It is a self-glorifying, quasi-condescending observation towards “peoples” who do not appear to share the same “Olympian standards of deference” to the law that we claim for ourselves. As I watched some video reproductions of Sikh Vaisakhi parades in Vancouver last week, I kept thinking of a Hero in Canadian Journalism – Tara Hayer – who risked Limb and then Life to expose the truth so that we could say Canada is a “rule of law country”.
TORONTO – The Indian minister gets straight to the point. And after saying that Canada “gives legitimacy to extremists in the name of freedom of speech”, he returns to harshly criticize the federal government led by Justin Trudeau, in some passages of a long interview published today in The Economic Times. →
A new global climate deal has been agreed at COP26 in Glasgow on Saturday after talks overran over 24 hours, but it prompted fury after China, whose president did not attend, and India forced a last-minute change over the language about coal, where Britain’s president of the conference Alok Sharma ‘fought back tears’ as he apologized for a last-minute change. →
Toronto, May 10: India plans to recruit hundreds of former army medics as the country wrestles with record COVID-19 infections and deaths rose by more than 4,000 amid calls for a complete nationwide lockdown. Some 400 former army medical officers are expected to serve on contract for a maximum of 11 months, its defence ministry said in a press release on Sunday. →
Toronto, April 22: Bangladesh has agreed to join in an alliance under China along with Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, without India, to vaccinate against the pandemic coronavirus (Covid-19). →
