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Robin Bawa

Robin N. Bawa (born March 26, 1966 in Duncan, British Columbia) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who spent parts of four seasons in the National Hockey League between 1989 and 1994.
Bawa spent 5 productive seasons of junior hockey in the WHL with the Kamloops Blazers, but was passed over in the NHL Entry Draft. Finally, after a 57-goal performance in the 1986–87 season, Bawa earned a pro contract from the Washington Capitals.
Bawa would turn pro the following season, spending the year in the IHL with the Fort Wayne Komets. While Bawa had been primarily a skill player in junior, he began to fight more often in pro hockey and developed into an enforcer, as that was his best ticket to the NHL. He would average over 200 penalty minutes in his first three years in Washington's system, finally earning a 5-game callup to the Capitals in 1989–90, during which he scored his first NHL goal against Alain Chevrier and the Chicago Blackhawks.
Bawa played one more season in the Capitals' system, posting 381 penalty minutes in Fort Wayne but not seeing any more NHL action, before being sold to the Vancouver Canucks in 1991. He played 2 games for the Canucks in 1991–92, and set a career high with 27 goals in the IHL.
Early in the 1992–93 season, Bawa would be dealt to the San Jose Sharks, where he would have his most prolonged NHL stint. He spent most of the rest of the season in the NHL, scoring 5 goals in 42 games and posting 47 penalty minutes.
Bawa was exposed in the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft and claimed by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He played 12 more NHL games in 1993–94, registering his only career assist.
Following his release from the Ducks, Bawa continued to toil in the IHL for 5 more seasons, three of those back in Fort Wayne, before a concussion ended his career near the end of the 1998–99 season. He finished his IHL career with 106 goals and 188 assists in 610 career games along with 635 penalty minutes.
Bawa is the first person of Indian descent to play in the NHL, where he achieved six goals and one assist in 61 games, while collecting 60 penalty minutes.
Robin Sharma

Robin Sharma is a Canadian author known for 12 books; including "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (HarperCollins), The Greatness Guide (HarperCollins) and "The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable On Real Success in Business and in Life" (Simon and Schuster). His latest book is "The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". Sharma is the founder of Sharma Leadership International, a highly respected global leadership training firm. His books have sold millions of copies in over 65 countries making him one of the world's most widely read authors.
Rohan Fernando

Rohan Fernando is a Canadian visual artist, painter and film maker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Fernando has directed two films for the National Film Board of Canada; Trudeau's Other Children and Cecil's Journey about his ambivalence towards his identity and his trip to Jaffna, Sri Lanka where Fernando was born. His short film, La Cucaracha, was the winner of the Guilty Pleasures Award from the 1996 Northwest Film & Video Festival.
He is 1st cousins with UK guitarist Leo Playa.
Rohinton Mistry/fr

Rohinton Mistry (né à Bombay le ) est un auteur canadien.
Né en Inde, Mistry immigre au Canada en 1975. Tout en poursuivant ses études à l'Université de Toronto, il compose des nouvelles et remporte ses premiers prix littéraires (Hart House et le Contributor's Prize 1985 du Canadian Fiction Magazine). 
Deux ans plus tard, Penguin Books Canada publie son recueil de nouvelles Tales from Firozsha Baag. 
À la parution de son premier roman, Un si long voyage, en 1991, il remporte le Governor General's Award, le Commonwealth Writers Prize du meilleur livre, et le prix W.H. Smith du premier meilleur roman canadien. Le roman était aussi parmi les sélectionnés du Booker Prize et du Trillium Award. Traduit en de nombreuses langues, il fait l'objet d'une adaptation cinématographiqueSuch a Long Journey sur imdb.
Le roman suivant de Rohinton Mistry, L'équilibre du monde remporte en 1995 le Giller Prize. Son dernier livre, Une simple affaire de famille a reçu le Kiriyama Prize pour 2002 et est sélectionné pour le Booker Prize de la même année. 
En 2002, Mistry annule la tournée de promotion de son dernier livre aux États-Unis d'Amérique car son épouse et lui-même étaient l'objet de tracasserie permanente de la part d'agents de sécurité dans chaque aéroport du fait de son apparence « moyen-orientale ». Mistry raconte que lors du premier vol de cette tournée, on lui déclara qu'il avait été choisi au hasard pour faire l'objet d'un contrôle de sécurité spécial. Cependant la même chose se répéta à chaque aéroport. (« We were greeted by a ticket agent who cheerfully told us we had been selected randomly for a special security check. Then it began to happen at every single stop, at every single airport. The random process took on a 100 percent certitude. »)
Son éditeur publia alors une déclaration affirmant : « En tant que personne de couleur (Mistry) a été retenu à plusieurs reprises et de façon très discourtoise à chaque aéroport de la tournée -- jusqu'au point où l'humiliation... était devenue insupportable. » (« As a person of color (Mistry) was stopped repeatedly and rudely at each airport along the way--to the point where the humiliation... had become unbearable. »)
Roland Sintos Coloma

Roland Sintos Coloma is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto. His research and teaching areas focus on Filipina/o and Asian Canadian studies; transnationalism, empire, and diaspora; subjectivity, affect, and sociality; history and cultural studies. In particular, he examines the historical trans-Pacific dynamics between Asia and North America from critical race, feminist, and poststructuralist perspectives. Along these lines, he is working on three research projects: (1) a history of the public school system in the Philippines under United States rule from 1898 to 1926; (2) a history of Canadian Catholic missionaries in the Philippines from 1955 to 1985; and (3) a comparative history of Asian Canadian social movements for justice and reparation. Roland completed his PhD in Cultural Studies and Minor in African American Studies from The Ohio State University, and his MA and BA from the University of California, Riverside. Prior to becoming an academic, Roland was a high school teacher, university administrator, and community organizer.
Ronald Alepian

Ronald Alepian (born July 17, 1970) is Vice President and Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications for the TMX Group, which owns Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Natural Gas Exchange (NGX), Montreal Exchange, among others TMX Group appoints Ronald Alepian as head of Marketing and Communications - http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/29/c2734.html.
Prior to TMX, he was head of communications for Nortel TMX hires Nortel Marketing Executive - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/streetwise/tmx-hires-nortel-marketing-executive/article1179753/Nortel Gets Another New PR Head: http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2006/12/22/nortel-gets-another-new-pr-head/ Nortel nears sale of major business units: http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/5055237/ and of Bell Canada where he was widely quoted in the media,Through wind, rain and blackout, The phone works! It's Bell's ace vs. Net-based phones: http://seaboardgroup.com/main/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=497&Itemid=2BCE's revamp continues, files for Telesat IPO by Catherine McLean and Andrew Willis: http://www.friends.ca/news-item/5318 Bell Canada aims to become Canada's biggest income trust: http://tdw4.globeinvestor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/print/RTGAM/20061011/web-bce11. At Bell, he reported to Bill Fox, former head of communications for Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
He is also the founder of CYMA - Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia, which he did with the cooperation and support of the late Senator Jacques Hébert (Canadian politician) and the late Senator Shirley Maheu, both of whom sat on CYMA's honorary Board of Directors.CYMA - Answering the Call, Armenian Reporter: http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Canadian_Youth_Mission_to_Armenia CYMA operated with the active guidance of Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, then Canadian head of the Armenian Church.
Roy Miki

Roy Miki is a Canadian poet and scholar.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor emeritus. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active is the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.
In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.
Ruby Dhalla

Ruby Dhalla (; born February 18, 1974) is a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Brampton—Springdale in the Canadian House of Commons from 2004 to 2011 as a member of the Liberal Party. Dhalla and British Columbia Conservative MP Nina Grewal were the first Sikh women to serve in the Canadian House of Commons.
She was defeated by Conservative Parm Gill in the 2011 federal election
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Ruby Dhalla (née le 18 février 1974 à Winnipeg, Manitoba) est une femme politique canadienne. 
Elle représenta la circonscription de Brampton-Springdale dans la Chambre des communes du Canada à partir de 2004 sous la bannière du Parti libéral du Canada. Réélue en 2006 et en 2008, elle fut défaite par le conservateur Parm Gill en 2011.
Elle est la première Canadienne originaire de l'Inde, avec Nina Grewal, à être élue députée à la Chambre des communes.
Rudy Ramcharan

Rudy Ramcharan is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. He played second for three seasons for Kevin Martin from 1996-97 to 1998-99. He won a Brier as a member of the team in 1997.
Ramcharan joined the team in 1996, and became the first visible minority to win the Brier, being of West Indies descent. The team won the 1997 Labatt Brier and then finished fourth at 1997 Ford World Curling Championships. Ramcharan is one of only two visible minorities to have won the Brier, the other being Bryan Miki, who won the Brier in 2000 with Greg McAulay.
Ramcharan was replaced by Carter Rycroft on the team in 1999, and has since all but disappeared from the curling world. Much of this has to do with a bonspiel he organized in 1999, known as the "World Open Classic". It was originally going to have a purse of $250,000, but due to lack of sponsorships, it was reduced to just $25,000, and many top teams pulled out, embarrassing Ramcharan. 
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Ruth Lor Malloy

== Ruth Lor Malloy ==
Ruth Lor Malloy is a travel writer and activist. In the 1950s, she worked with Toronto’s Joint Labour Committee on Human Rights to fight reluctance of restaurant owners in Dresden, Ontario to serve Black customers. She has published over a dozen editions of a guide book for foreigners visiting China, and published a booklet helping people respect transgender people (Hijras) in India. She has serve as a volunteer at workcamps in Mexico, Japan, and the Canadian Arctic.
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

We are a group of three registered charities and two limited liability social enterprises. We are driven by our vision of a world of multicultural harmony and we focus our mission to build bridges, harvest diversity and foster integration through service and advocacy. Our actions are guided by our value of caring, open, respect, ethical, integrity, inclusive and innovative. 
S.U.C.C.E.S.S., our primary service delivery entity, was founded in 1973 and incorporated in 1974 as a non-profit charitable organization. Initially founded to assist new Canadians of Chinese descent to overcome language and cultural barriers, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. has evolved into a multicultural, multi-service agency assisting people at all stages of their Canadian experience. 
Today, the organization is recognized as one of British Columbia’s largest social service providers. With over 20 locations, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. proudly services local communities in Greater Vancouver, Fort St. John and overseas in Taipei, Taiwan and Seoul, Korea. Through advocacy, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. is also recognized as a prominent voice of positive social change. 
Guided by policies envisioned by a board of volunteer directors elected by the membership, over 400 professional staff and 2,000 volunteers deliver a multitude of services in the areas of settlement, employment, health and housing as well as business, economic, community and social development. 
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Multi-Level Care (MLC) Society was incorporated in 1995 to deliver a continuum of care to seniors. With support from Vancouver Coastal Health, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. MLC Society manages and operates Chieng’s Adult Day Centre, two assisted living residences, Harmony House and Austin Harris Residence as well as a multi-level care facility, Simon K.Y. Lee Seniors Care Home. 
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation was incorporated in 2001 to raise funds essential for under-funded and non-funded programs as well as to manage endowments on behalf of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and S.U.C.C.E.S.S. MLC Society. Annual major fundraising events include the Gala Dinner, Charity Golf Tournament and the “Walk with the Dragon,” one of Vancouver’s largest community-based fundraisers which draws over 12,000 individual and corporate participants. 
Canada Social Enterprises Inc. was formed in 2007 as a wholly owned subsidiary of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Operating as a revenue generating business, it aims to enhance the mission of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. while providing comprehensive health care, education and business services at fair market rates.
Sustainable Employment Network Inc. (SENI) was formed in 2002 as a joint venture of four organizations, including S.U.C.C.E.S.S., to provide cross-disabilities services by helping communities and businesses remove barriers to employment for persons with disabilities. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Sabrina Jalees

Sabrina Jalees is a female Canadian comedian, dancer, actor, host and writer from Toronto, Ontario, who writes a weekly column in the Toronto Star's ID section.
She has made many Canadian media appearances, including as a commentator on MuchMusic's Video on Trial, Stars On Trial and LOL!, as well as a role in Canadian Series Flashpoint and Jian Ghomeshi's Monday correspondent on CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada in the Summer. She also previously filed a regular segment on Go. She currently hosts Laugh Out Loud on CBC Radio One and a reality TV show for children, In Real Life, airing on YTV. She made a cameo in the video for Break This by Hunter Valentine.
The daughter of a Swiss mother and a Pakistani father, she graduated from Earl Haig Secondary School, and later from the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University in June 2007.
Sahar Biniaz

Sahar Biniaz (; born 1986) is an Iranian Canadian beauty pageant contestant and occasional actress. Biniaz was born in India and grew up in Iran. She resides in Vancouver, where she began to compete in beauty pageants representing Canada, including winning 1st runner-up in Miss Universe Canada 2008. Four years later, she competed the same pageant and won the title of "Miss Universe Canada 2012" and is now going to represent her country in Miss Universe 2012 in December.Miss Universe Canada 2008 - The Magic Continues
Salim Mansur

Salim Mansur is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is a columnist for the London Free Press and the Toronto Sun, and has contributed to various publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. He often presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East. On two occasions, fatwas (religion edicts) were issued against him, calling for his death."Is Canada Losing the Balance Between Liberty and Security?", by David B. Harris, Immigration policy and the terrorist threat in Canada and the United States By A. Alexander Moens, Martin Collacott. p. 132
Salma Ataullahjan

Salma Ataullahjan is a Canadian Senator.
She was named to the upper house by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on July 9, 2010, and will sit with the Conservative caucus. With this appointment, Ataullahjan became the first Canadian senator of Pakistani Pushtun descent. She had been the Conservative Party's unsuccessful candidate in Mississauga—Brampton South during the 2008 federal election losing to Liberal MP Navdeep Bains.
Ataullahjan is an advocate for the South Asian community; she has served on the executive board of the Canadian branch of The Citizens Foundation, an international organization that since 1995 has built 730 schools for Pakistan’s poorest children and is an executive member of the Canadian Pashtun Cultural Association. She immigrated to Canada in 1980 from Pakistan as a new bride. Prior to her appointment to the Senate she worked in the Toronto area as a realtor. She has a diploma in computer operations and is also an artist.
She founded the parents council at David Lewis Public School in Toronto and has also served on the executive of the Pakistani Canadian Professionals and Academics and as president and vice-president of the Canadian Pushtun Cultural Association. She is also on the executive of the South Asian Regional Council and Citizens Foundation's Toronto chapter.
Samantha Tajik

Samantha Tajik (, born 1983) is a Canadian-Iranian model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2008. 
She competed in the Miss Universe Canada 2008 pageant, and on April 28, 2008 was crowned the winner by outgoing titleholder, Inga Skaya.
She represented Canada at the Miss Universe 2008 pageant in Vietnam in July 2008.
Samir Mallal

Samir Mallal was born in Halifax, Canada. He is a film and commercial director.
His film Nollywood Babylon, co-directed with Ben Addelman tells the story of Lancelot 'Da Guvenor' Imasuen, as he prepares to make his 158th film in Lagos, Nigeria. The film premiered in the World Documentary Cinema Competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
His second film, Bombay Calling (2006) also co-directed with Ben Addelman follows the lives of telemarketers working outsourced jobs in a call center in Bombay (Mumbai), India. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
 
His first film Discordia (2004) co-directed with fellow Concordia University graduate Ben Addelman follows three students during the aftermath of the Netenyahu Incident at Concordia University in Montreal in 2002. 
All three films were produced by Adam Symansky at the National Film Board of Canada.
In 2010, he won Best Young Director and a Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. He was also selected for the Saatchi and Saatchi New Directors Showcase. He's signed to SMUGGLER for directing commercials.
Sampradaya Dance Creations

SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations is at the forefront of South Asian dance in Canada.
At the core of the Company's artistic vision is the belief that dance is a powerful vehicle to communicate the magic, beauty and mystery of life. The dynamic work of the Company is inspired by the ability of dance to excite the imagination of its audiences, become an agent for change in society, reflect the hybridism of our lives and transcend the borders of culture, religion and ethnicity. 
Creatively, SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations’ work is based in classical form of bharatanatyam. Yet its versatility and strength lie in its diverse innovative inter-cultural works.
Inspired by the rich traditions of South Asian performing arts, the works of SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations attempt to bridge the vibrant continuum of traditional and contemporary, invigorating the classicism with fresh meaning, both in its movement syntax and experimental themes.
Founded in 1990 by Artistic Director Lata Pada, SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations is an internationally recognized Canadian dance company committed to showcasing bharatanatyam as a universal art form as it explores diverse movement styles, contemporary themes and innovative dance creations.
Under Ms. Pada's artistic stewardship and supported by the Board's strategic visioning, SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations serves a diverse populace. It has grown over the years into an active and vibrant organization leading the development of South Asian dance in Canada.
Sandra Oh

Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress. She is primarily known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won a Golden Globe award. She also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the HBO original series Arli$$.
Oh was born in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, to middle-class Korean immigrant parents Joon-Soo (John) and Young-Nam, who had come to Canada in the early 1960s. Her father is a businessman and her mother a biochemist. Oh grew up living on Camwood Crescent in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, where she began acting and dancing ballet at an early age. At the age of 10, she played The Wizard of Woe in a class musical, The Canada Goose.
Later, at Sir Robert Borden High School, she founded the Environmental club BASE (Borden Active Students for the Environment), leading a campaign against the use of styrofoam cups. While at Sir Robert Borden High School she was Student Council President. She also played the flute and continued both her ballet training and acting studies and eventually focused solely on acting. 
This interest led her to take drama classes, act in school plays, and join the drama club where she took part in the Canadian Improv Games and Skit Row High, a comedy group. Against her parents' advice, she rejected a four-year journalism scholarship to Carleton University to study drama at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, paying her own way. She told her parents that she would try acting for a few years, and if that failed, return to school. Curiously, while studying at the National Theatre School, she portrayed a waitress in the made-for-television film, School's Out, in which her co-worker, Caitlin Ryan (Stacie Mistysyn) also considers turning down her acceptance into Carleton University's journalism program.
Soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she starred in a London, Ontario stage production of David Mamet's Oleanna. Around the same time, she won roles in biographical TV films of two significant female Chinese-Canadians: as Vancouver author Evelyn Lau in The Diary of Evelyn Lau (Oh won the role over more than 1,000 others who auditioned); and as Adrienne Clarkson in a CBC biopic of Clarkson's life.
Sara Ghulam

Sara Ghulam (born May 3, 1989 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian model. She comes from a multicultural family of Pakistani, Maltese, and Scottish backgrounds.http://saraghulam.com/
Ghulam was crowned Miss World Canada 2007 on March 18, 2007, making here the youngest winner of the title. She placed first in the Talent segment for her rendition of Sara McLachlens "Angel", and won Best in Evening Gown. She also placed top 5 in the Interview, Swimsuit and the Peoples Choice Award segments. As the reigning Miss World Canada 2007, she has already made several high-profile appearances, including representing Canada at the 2007 Miss World pageant in Sanya, Hainan Island, China, in November 2007.http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-146635771.html Ghulam is currently pursuing a career in the music industry as a pop singer.