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Nikahang Kowsar

Nikahang Kowsar, also known as Nik Kowsar (, born 1969) is an Iranian-Canadian cartoonist, journalist, and blogger, currently living in Washington DC, US. Kowsar was also a reformist candidate for the second term of city council of Tehran in 2003, an election won by the conservative candidates of Abadgaran.
He studied Geology in the University of Tehran, and joined Gol-Agha, an Iranian political satire magazine as a cartoonist in 1991. He worked for Hamshahri from 1992 to 1998, and was a member of Newspapers such as "Zan", "Aftab-e Emrooz", "Sobh-e Emrooz", "Akhbar-e Eghtesadi", "Azad", "Bahar", "Bonyan", "Doran-e Emrooz", "Nosazi", "Hayate No", "Abrar-e Eghteadi", "Hambastegi", "Farhang-e Ashti". Most of these papers were banned by Saeed Mortazavi. He was arrested in Feb. 2000 for drawing a cartoon and spent 6 days at the Evin Prison in Tehran.
Nima Mazhari

Le 15 juin 2004, Radio-Canada dévoile qu'un mandat de perquisition avait été obtenu par la police quelques jours plus tôt. Ce mandat visait un immeuble du 66, Côte du Passage, à Lévis, sur la rive-sud de Québec. Dans cet immeuble appartenant à Myriam Bédard et Nima Mazhari, les policiers recherchaient une vingtaine de toiles de l'artiste canadienne Ghitta Caiserman.
Entre 1999 et 2001, la peintre Caiserman, originaire de Montréal, a partagée dans cette ville un atelier en compagnie de Nima Mazhari, lui aussi artiste. Ghitta Caiserman tombe malade à l'automne 2001, et la fille de cette dernière demande à récupérer des toiles et divers biens s'étant trouvés dans l'atelier commun. Les toiles se seraient retrouvées entreposées à Québec pendant une brève période de temps au printemps 2001 chez Pierre Bédard, père de Myriam, une hypothèse confirmée par le principal intéressé lorsque interrogé à ce sujet par les policiers.
Le couple Mazhari-Bédard nie cependant que les toiles entreposées chez Monsieur Bédard étaient celles de Ghitta Caiserman, et qualifie d'invention cette histoire de vol présumé.
Le 6 juillet 2005, Nima Mazhari est arrêté à Montréal, puis accusé de vol d'œuvres d'art pour un montant de plus de 100 000 $, et de recel pour plus de 5 000 $.
En décembre 2005, Mazhari intitule une exposition de ses œuvres « Anne m'appelle voleur », en référence à Anne Aubé, procureur de la Couronne responsable du dossier. L'artiste qualifie son exposition de dénonciation du système judiciaire canadien.
Le 5 Juin 2007, Mazhari est reconnu coupable de vol et de recel d'œuvres d'art. Le verdict a été rendu après deux jours de délibérations par le jury composé de dix femmes et de deux hommes, au palais de justice de Montréal.
Le 29 Juin 2007, Mazhari se voit imposer une peine de 6 mois de prison.
Le 1er juillet 2007, Mazhari aurait entamé une grève de la faim pour protester contre son emprisonnement. Il admet aussi avoir porté sa cause en appel.
Le 4 juillet 2007, Mazhari est libéré en attendant l'audition de sa cause en appel par la Cour d'Appel du Québec. La Cour d'appel a refusé, dans un jugement rendu le 7 octobre 2009, d'alléger la peine de six mois de prison infligée à Nima Mazhari pour le vol d'une vingtaine de tableaux appartenant à l'artiste Ghitta Caiserman-Roth. La Cour d'appel a estimé que la peine imposée à Mazhari n'est pas déraisonnable puisqu'elle se situe «dans la fourchette» de celles que les cours ont imposées dans des cas plus ou moins semblables, soit entre quatre et 14 mois.
Nina Grewal

"Nina Grewal entered Politics in 2004 as a Conservative Party candidate for the riding of Fleetwood-Port Kells. Her intial foray into politics was a successful one, as she won her seat and then won re-election in 2006, 2008, and 2011.
 
Born in Japan, Mrs. Grewal received her formal education in India at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Simla, and earned a Bachelors degree in History and English Literature from
Punjab University, Patiala.
 
After marriage, Mrs. Grewal moved to Liberia where she was a partner in her family's business. The outbreak of violent civil war abruptly ended her stay in Liberia. Witnessing the atrocities of war, however, left Grewal with a deep appreciation for freedom, democracy, and good government.
 
 
In Canada, Mrs. Grewal raised her young family and worked as a sales manager for a company selling Registered Education Savings Plans. 
 
From the day Grewal first arrived in Canada, she has sought to improve Canadian society through community service, volunteer work, and political activism. She was an active member of the Reform Party and Canadian Alliance, serving in a variety of local party positions and participating in numerous local and national conferences and conventions.
 
Mrs. Grewal and her husband, Gurmant, made history in 2004 when they became the first married couple to concurrently sit as members of Parliament in the House of Commons. Mrs. Grewal also became the first South Asian woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons.
 
As the member of Parliament for Fleetwood-Port Kells, Grewal serves on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Sub-Committee on International Human Rights. She is a past member of the Immigration, Canadian Heritage, and Status of Women committees.
 
Mrs. Grewal has acquired a reputation for hard work. During her first-term in office Mrs. Grewal introduced and had debated in the House of Commons a Private Member’s Motion seeking to raise the age of protection. Although defeated by the then Liberal government, the Conservative government has embraced her idea and implemented it into law.
 
Mrs. Grewal has also proposed legislation seeking to tackle identity theft (Bill C-271), to amend the State Immunity Act (Bill C-346) - both bills now incorporated into government bills - to further limit access to child pornography (Bill C-347), and to limit the loudness of television commercials (Bill C-621).
 
Mrs. Grewal is an active participant in parliamentary debates, inter-parliamentary associations, and community activities, and she strives to raise the issues and concerns of her constituents on the floor of the House of Commons."
Nina Lee Aquino

Nina Lee Aquino is a director, dramaturge, playwright, artistic director of fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company and the artistic producer of Factory Theatre’s CrossCurrents Festival. Other credits include awards for directing (Ken McDougall Award 2004, Canada Council John Hirsch Prize 2008), and Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for outstanding direction (Singkil, fu-GEN Theatre Company 2007; People Power, Carlos Bulosan Theatre 2008). Nina co-wrote Miss Orient(ed) (produced by Carlos Bulosan Theatre) and her monologues have been published in Beyond the Pale (Yvette Nolan, ed.) and She Speaks (Judith Thompson, ed.). She currently resides in Toronto with her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Eponine.
Nira Arora

Nira Arora is a Canadian radio broadcaster. She is the co-host of Beat Mornings with Holly, Jonny, Nira, & Amy, a morning radio program on CFBT-FM in Vancouver, Canada. She was also a reporter and host for Shaw TV and a fill-in host for World Beats on Channel M.
Arora has a degree in Communications and Political Science from Simon Fraser University and a broadcasting diploma from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining CFBT in 2001, she worked as a journalist/reporter for the South Asian magazine show Zindagi, and on-air as host with Asian Pulse and Partners in Community Vision.
Nisha Sajnani

== About ==
"Nisha Sajnani, Ph.D., RDT, is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and registered drama therapist. She has over fifteen years of experience in facilitation, program research, and design within private and public agencies addressing a broad range of social policy and advocacy issues (racism, poverty, immigration, youth engagement, social cohesion, gender equity, violence prevention, education, and governance). She has extensive experience with arts-based and collaborative approaches to group learning and facilitation.
Nisha also brings expertise in trauma and its effects on human systems as well as particular interests in improvisation, creativity, interdependence, transformatiive pedagogies, and arts-based research.
Nisha is the director of the Drama Therapy, Community Health, and Prevention program at the Post Traumatic Stress Center in New Haven, CT and is on faculty at the Institutes for the Arts in Psychotherapy (NYC) and at New York University where she teaches a course on Arts-Based Research. Nisha is also on faculty in the Humanities and Theatre department at Yale University where she teaches a course on Applied Theater, Trauma, and Cultural Intervention. She is currently a participant in the Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery Program with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. Nisha is the President-Elect of the National Association for Drama Therapy. "
No Luck Club

Based in Vancouver, no luck club (NLC) is an instrumental hip hop group which combines turntable improvisation with sample-based rhythms. Founded by the Chan Brothers (Matt & Trevor), no luck club’s beat-driven soundscapes have been shaped by the brothers’ extensive college broadcasting experience at CJSF Radio and by their eclectic tastes in music and art.
The group started in 2000 when their mix CD and demo, Newfangled Moments, resulted in a recording contract with Dan the Automator's 75Ark Records. NLC’s debut album, Happiness, was originally scheduled for an August 2001 release but unfortunately 75Ark imploded that year. Fortunately, the project was rescued by Ill Boogie Records and a revised version of Happiness was released in September 2003 to wide acclaim.
In late 2004, Vancouver DMC DJ champion, Paul Belen (Pluskratch) joined the group to complement NLC’s infectious live show; a continuous, instrumental mix of music styles, tempos and moods.
An URB Next 100 alumnus (2004), the group's latest release, Prosperity (2006), is a diverse, genre-smashing sonic collage comprised of four musical suites. Prosperity is also the second chapter of a trilogy recordings inspired by the Chinese deities symbolizing luck and good fortune. A self-proclaimed strange brew of hip hop, jazz-funk, scratching, tall tales and humour, no luck club is an idiosyncratic project seeking a place in today’s progressive music culture.
Nofel Izz

Nofel Izz, popularly known as Nofel, is a UAE based Canadian singer and entrepreneur of Indian and Pakistani descent. He was the founder and CEO of Jobs in Dubai.com, Inc.. According to Gulf News, Nofel said that he took interest in music since he was five, but his recent singing career started when the Pakistani band Fuzön spotted him singing karaoke on a night out in Dubai; he later signed up in January 2012 with Emix Records of Pakistan for his first album which was release with Fuzön. The following week, BMG Crescendo (India) Private Limited also signed Nofel up as an artist. During the release of the album in Karachi, Pakistan, Nofel has pledged to donate all his proceeds from the album to the Eidi Foundation of Pakistan.
Nuvraj Bassi

Nuvraj Singh Bassi (born March 20, 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a defensive tackle who is currently on the practice roster of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted 43rd overall in the 2005 CFL Draft by the Lions. He played college football for the Oregon Ducks.
He previously played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes.
Bassi was drafted by the BC Lions in the fifth round (43rd overall) in the 2005 CFL Draft and spent the year on the team's practice roster. He did not re-sign with the Lions for the 2006 season and spent two years out of football. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2008 and was on their practice roster for two years, alternating between the offensive line and defensive line. After his release from by the Roughriders, he signed with the Montreal Alouettes for the 2010 season. He was signed to the Lions' practice roster in July 2011.
Bassi was born to parents Kalvinder and Inderjit Bassi. He has one brother and one sister. Nuvraj comes from a sports family and they are very enthusiastic about their son’s prospects.
Nuvraj Singh Bassi made history as the first keshdhari (turbaned) Sikh in the Canadian Football League (CFL), when he made his June CFL debut as a member of the Grey Cup Champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Omar Majeed

Omar Majeed is a Pakistani Canadian film director and producer who studied cinema at York University Film School and later on studied editing at the International Academy of Design in Toronto. He is the son of Musarrat Nazir. He went on to work as producer Toronto's CityTV and won a Gemini Award for his television work. He also worked with Canada's National Film Board through the Reel Diversity program in Montreal and with EyeSteelFilm.Hour interview with Omar Majeed: Muslim Punk
He is best known for his 2009 documentary film Taqwacore (full title Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam) produced by EyeSteelFilm about a number of Taqwacore bands and performers touring the United States and Pakistan. Majeed filmed the documentary during the three years 2007 to 2009 and released it on 16 October 2009.
Before Taqwacore, he worked at CityTV as an editor on the shows QT: QueerTelevision and SexTV and as a producer at Book Television.
Omar Majeed's 2009 documentary Taqwacore is a look at the Muslim punk movement that sprung Michael Muhammad Knight's book The Taqwacores and features members of The Kominas, Diacritical, Secret Trial Five, and Al-Thawra. It has been shown at several international festivals, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Montreal's Féstival du nouveau cinéma, the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), the Gothenburg Film Festival and the Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse. It has played theatrically in Canada and will open across the United States in 2010. The film will have its U.S. premiere at Austin's South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2010.
He also co-directed The Frog Princes with Ryan Mullins about a young theatre troupe training for a play, under extraordinary circumstances as all twenty members of the cast have intellectual and developmental disabilities. The film was also shown nationally on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on 6 August 2011.
Onelight Theatre Society

Onelight Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The core members of Onelight have been working together since 1999; the company has been a registered not-for-profit society since 2002.
Onelight’s primary work is to develop and stage original theatrical productions, derived from a variety of international classic and modern source materials, through a disciplined collaborative process. They develop and produce new plays, engaging a variety of professional artists (including actors, visual artists, film-makers, and musicians) to produce engaging works with a signature stylistic effect.
Ook Chung

Ook Chung was born in Japan in 1963. He is a Québécois writer. Chung was born to Korean parents in Japan and immigrated to Canada at the age of 2. He studied French literature at McGill and Concordia universities before obtaining his doctorate at McGill.
His work includes:
1994: Nouvelles orientales et désorientées, Montréal, L’Hexagone. 
2001: Le Clézio, une écriture prophétique, Paris, Imago. 
2001: Kimchi, Paris, Le Serpent à plumes. 
2003: L'Expérience interdite, Montréal, Boréal. 
2003: Contes Butô, Montréal, Boréal.
Orchid Ensemble

The Orchid Ensemble is a musical ensemble based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Its led by Lan Tung from Taiwan on erhu, with Haiqiong Deng from China on guzheng and Jonathan Bernard from Canada on various percussion instruments. Former guzheng players include Mei Han and Bei Bei He.
The trio combines musical traditions from China and elsewhere, and its repertoire ranges from the traditional and contemporary music of China, world music, new music and musical improvisation.
Active in North America, the ensemble gives close to one hundred performances every year, including music festivals, community concerts, primary and secondary school presentations, and university and college residencies. Canadian performances included Ottawa's Canada Day Celebrations, Harbourfront Centre, Vancouver Jazz, Folk and Children's festivals, National Arts Gallery, National Library of Canada, Sunfest, Halifax’s JazzEast, and Montreal’s Centre Pierre Péladeau.
Through educational programs, the Orchid Ensemble fosters the understanding and interest in non-western music for the next generation of audiences, promoters, administrators and musicians, as BC’s spokesperson for the UNESCO ASPnet in Canada. At post secondary institutions, the ensemble gives a variety of lecture-demonstrations, workshops and master classes for both music and other campus departments. The ensemble combines distinct musical traditions in a contemporary framework to inspire and encourage students in their future lives and careers.
Oto-Wa Taiko

Oto-Wa Taiko is a Japanese drumming group that performs at public and private event and at schools, and offers general interest workshops and training classes for budding taiko enthusiasts in Canada's National Capital Region.
While performing for an audience has become almost a weekly activity especially in the summer months, the prime objective of the group remains to maximize the enjoyment of all its members as well as promoting and introducing an element of Japanese Culture.
We believe that when we enjoy playing, the joy is conveyed to the audience to create a truly moving experience.
==History==
Oto-Wa Taiko was started by members of the Ottawa Japanese Community Association in 1989. After gathering together several interested members of the community, a group was formed that fall. For the first two years, the group didn't have any drums, and had to practice on car tires (this is quite common for beginners in Japan).
The name Oto-Wa Taiko, while phonetically reflecting its community of origin, Ottawa, uses two Japanese characters, oto and wa. Oto means sound while Wa means harmony. Taiko means drum. The character wa was chosen to symbolize the harmony among the group members as well as the harmony of spirit between the players and their drums as they make oto together.
Our repertoire has been built from a selection of pieces learned at workshops, as well as videos from Japan. We have had most of our instruction from the Montreal group Arashi Daiko and the Toronto group Yakudo, as well as some workshops from members of other taiko groups such as Soh Daiko, from New York, and Burlington Taiko from Vermont. We also try to participate in taiko conferences in the United States and across Canada where there is a gathering of groups from all over the world. As a result, we now play in a variety of styles.
Over the years, Oto-Wa Taiko has performed many times each year in and around the Ottawa area, as well as a few occasions in other cities like Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg.
Ottawa Japanese Community Cultural Centre

Ottawa Japanese Community Association is a non-profit organization, which was established in 1976. OJCA membership is open to all individuals who accept the mandates of the association.
The Board is responsible for the official activities of the Association. Board members are elected by the general membership at the Annual General Meeting.
The OJCA is a member organization of National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and sends delegates to various meetings and workshops held by NAJC.
OJCA Mandates
* to encourage a greater participation by members of the Japanese and Japanese Canadian communities in the Ottawa area in matters of citizenship;
* to strive to maintain our cultural heritage;
* to share with the larger community those aspects of our cultural heritage which will be of interest to them;
* to promote and develop friendship, goodwill, and better understanding amongst the Japanese and Japanese Canadian communities, and others interested, through a program of cultural, educational, social, and recreational activities.
Padma Viswanathan

Padma Viswanathan is a Canadian playwright and fiction writer.
She graduated from University of Alberta, and received an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and an MFA from the University of Arizona in 2006.
Her short stories have appeared in Subtropics, New Letters, PRISM international, Boston Review, and Malahat Review.
She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with her husband, the poet/translator Geoffrey Brock, and their two children.
Pamela Rai

Pamela Leila Rai (born March 29, 1966 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a former freestyle, butterfly swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There the resident of Delta, British Columbia won a bronze medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay, alongside Anne Ottenbrite, Reema Abdo, and Michelle MacPherson. Rai represented Canada as a youth from 1976–1979 and was a member of Canada's National Swim Team from 1980-1987. Rai competed in many international events over the span of her career. Other notable awards include University of Victoria Athlete of the Year, City of Victoria Athlete of the Year, Hapoel Games silver, Pan American Games silver, Commonwealth Games gold medals. Rai swam for the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She graduated with a degree in Sociology and went on to attain an Education degree from the University of British Columbia. Rai is high school special education teacher and a certified yoga instructor trained in Netala, India in the Sivananda Yoga lineage. Rai owns and operates Silent Motion Yoga Vedanta Centre on Vancouver Island, Nanaimo, British Columbia. Rai is a member of the BC Sports Hall of Fame, the Swim BC Hall of Fame and the University of Victoria Sports Hall of Fame. Rai is the first woman of Indian ancestry to win an Olympic medal.