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Sheela Basrur

Dr. Sheela Basrur was appointed Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health in February 2004. She developed effective health promotion strategies and programs to deliver measurable results, including groundbreaking Smoke- Free Ontario legislation, the creation of Ontario’s first public health agency, and a major report on childhood obesity. In her 2005 Report to the Legislature, Dr. Basrur outlined the challenges required to rebuild Ontario’s public health system.
Prior to her provincial role, Dr. Basrur was the first Medical Officer of Health in the amalgamated City of Toronto, leading a team of 1,800 staff from seven former municipalities to a common goal of disease prevention and health promotion. As Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Basrur’s exemplary leadership and expertise during the SARS crisis is well known. Dr. Basrur's skilled handling of the SARS outbreak earned her the respect of not only her public health colleagues here in Ontario, but also across North America and around the world.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1979, she received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Toronto in 1982. After working as a general practitioner, Dr. Basrur travelled to India and Nepal, where she became interested in public health. Upon returning to Canada, she obtained a Master of Health Science degree from the University of Toronto in 1987 specializing in community medicine. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Basrur received many accolades and awards for her commitment and achievements, including the Order of Ontario; the Amethyst Award, the highest award granted to a member of the Ontario Public Service; honourary Doctorates from Ryerson University, York University and the University of Toronto; and honourary Diploma of Nursing from George Brown College; and the Woman of the Year distinction from the Greater Toronto YWCA. Sadly, she succumbed to cancer on June 2, 2008 at the age of 51.
Shenpenn Khymsar

JOURNEY OF A DREAM- The first Tibetan Documentary of Heavy Metal and Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYBtuh27pI
...Though I am currently very busy with my music, filmmaking and activism, I do plan to write a book about the philosophy that guides my life. I have played around with a few possible titles, including A Tiger with a Lion’s Heart, which is a phrase I often use to describe myself. I feel as though I have the strength and fierceness of a tiger, but underneath the tough exterior is a heart that embodies the pride, courage, and integrity symbolically associated with a lion. When I talk to people about these ideas, they tell me how refreshing and inspiring they are to their own lives. We can all become tigers with a lion’s heart, practicing the harmony of strength and courage, fierceness and integrity, wisdom and compassion....
http://shenppennbloglog.blogspot.ca/
...It doesn’t take long into a conversation with Vancouver-based director and activist Shenpenn Khymsar to discover that he approaches his passion for heavy metal music in a similar manner to his work backing the Tibetan cause.
For Khymsar, the genre, like the long-suffering plight of Tibetan refugees around the world looking to free their country from Chinese rule, is a perennial underdog that requires passionate activism, constant re-evaluation and the occasional infusion of new blood.
“It’s such a misunderstood genre,” says Khymsar in an interview outside the Globe Theatre Saturday evening after the screening of his documentary, Journey of a Dream. “It’s a very, very intelligent musical genre and, as I say in the film, it’s the only genre that has the most dedicated fans. Musicologists have said that if Mozart, and Beethoven and Paganini and Bach . . . were alive today, they would only want to play in progressive metal bands, because nothing else would be interesting. The only problem is, for such an intelligent genre of music, I feel like it needs more intelligent representation.”....http://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/calgary-film-festival-tibetan-activism-gets-metallic-sheen-in-journey-of-a-dream
Shinsedai Cinema Festival

新世代 shinsedai [shĭn·sā·dī], trans. “New Generation”
The Shinsedai Cinema Festival, an annual showcase of the best in new, independent and rarely seen Japanese films. Conceived of by programmers Chris MaGee (The J-Film Pow-Wow) and Jasper Sharp (Midnight Eye) in 2009, as a way of expanding people's ideas of what films from Japan are and can be, The 4th annual Shinsedai Festival will be coming to Toronto's Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Ave.) between July 12th and July 15th, 2012. Insightful dramas, quirky comedies, hard-hitting documentaries, experimental shorts, and more... all from Japan's new generation of filmmakers; The Shinsedai Cinema Festival will be an event that film fans will not want to miss!
Shree Ghatage

Shree Ghatage is an Indo-Canadian writer.
Born in Bombay, India Ghatage moved to Canada in 1983, settling in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has won three awards in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition.
Her written works share a common theme, describing life in India based on her own memories and experiences. Ghatage's first book, Awake When All the World is Asleep (1997), a collection of short stories set in Bombay, was awarded the Thomas Head Raddall Award.
She currently lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Shweta Subram

Shweta Subram is Dubai-born Indo-Canadian singer, songwriter and performer based in Toronto, Canada. She primarily sings in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and English, but has also sung in Arabic and French. She was an active participant in the International Indian Film Academy Awards (2011). She headlined the IIFA Buzz (2011) festival in Markham, Ontario and performed with Bollywood music composer/director duo Salim-Sulaiman for IIFA Rocks (2011) in Toronto. The IIFA Rocks segment was aired globally by STAR (India) to a total audience of 700 million. Shweta sang the song Khuda Ke Liye from the film Aazaan
Shweta gained popularity after winning the North American Best Singer award from Sangam Kala Group—the prominent non-commercial group engaged in promoting Indian cultural and the group responsible for discovering talents such as Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan and Anand Raj Anand. In India, she shot to fame after being part of the singing reality TV show Sunsilk Gang of Girls based on success of Spice Girls. The show was featured on Zoom TV and the band of girls toured through India performing at various events and concerts. The TV show showed the behind the scenes drama through rehearsals and after performances. Shweta's Carnatic and Hindustani music guru's are veterans in the music industry including Padma Wadkar (wife of Suresh Wadkar) and Sunil Paigankar (also trained Shruti Pathak, Nikita Nigam). It is reported that Shweta is working on her album with UK producer Parichay and Indian-Pakistani band Josh. She has often been said to have resemblance to Sunidhi Chauhan's voice.
Sid Tan

=Sid Tan=
Sid Tan is long known for his activism in highlighting awareness of the injustices of the Chinese Canadian head tax and a community organizer for a number of non-government organizations. As a paper son and descendent of head tax payers, he has been vocal for redress. Tan was the Chairman of the Chinese Canadian National Council and the founding director and co-chairperson of the Head Tax Families Society of Canada. Sid was the founding director and President of the Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society and a founding director of the CMES Community Media Education Society and Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop. He is a community activist concerned with environmental and human rights and social justice issues as and has produced and crewed hundreds of hours of community television programming, much of them national and international award winning. He is presently co-chairman of the Sierra Club Lower Mainland Group, a director of the Sierra Club of British Columbia and Vancouver Association of Chinese Canadians and acting chairman of the Media Caucus of the British Columbia Environmental Network. He is active in ICTV, an Independent Community Television Co-operative in Vancouver and director of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (ACWW).
Siu Ta

Siu Ta is a Vietnamese Canadian actress and independent short film producer.
Born in South Vietnam, she moved to Canada with her family at age seven. A graduate of the University of Toronto majoring in drama, she has been steadily building a career in film and stage entertainment since her graduation. She is currently best known for her role on the CBC Television dramedy This is Wonderland as Nancy Dao, one of several recently-graduated attorneys learning the ropes of the trade in a firm specializing in legal aid casework in the Toronto court system.
She is the subject of an on-line comic book biography by Cerebus artist Dave Sim, titled Siu Ta (so far). She also had a small role in the comedy/adventure movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle as Cindy Kim. She has most recently appeared as a major recurring character in the TV show The Best Years.
Ta is based in Toronto, Canada.
Sky Lee

Sky Lee (born September 15, 1952 in Port Alberni, British Columbia) is a Canadian artist and novelist. Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction and identifies as lesbian.
==Personal life==
Moving to Vancouver in 1967 to attend university, she received a B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia and a Diploma in Nursing from Douglas College. She became a member of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. Lee lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.
==Career==
Lee was first published as the illustrator of 1983's children's book, Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter! by Paul Yee. The book is a collection of four stories exploring what it is like to grow up as a Chinese-Canadian in a community with links to both Asian-Canadian and Anglo-Canadian cultures. Reviewer Robert W. Bruinsma argued the book was "modestly illustrated."
Lee's first book, Disappearing Moon Cafe, published in 1990, explores the Wong family over four generations, as they operate the titled cafe. Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Award, the novel won the City of Vancouver Book Award despite some critics charging that the writing was over-earnest. For example, critic Gary Draper wrote, "Hardly a noun walks free of a trail of adjectives."
In the same year, Lee contributed to the collective prose, Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture. The book's writing is attributed to the "Telling It Book Collective", of which Lee was a member. The book explores issues of racism and homophobia experienced by native, lesbian and Asian Canadian women.
In 1994, Lee published Bellydancer: Stories, a collection of 15 short stories that explore a range of feminist themes, with allegories focusing primarily on the "bellydancer," an archetype of survival. The back cover of the book explains: "bellydancing was originally performed at the bedside of women in labor, as an erotic dance of creation."
Her short stories have also appeared in Vancouver Short Stories as well as periodicals such as West Coast Line, The Asianadian, Kinethis, and Makara.
==Bibliography==
* Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!: And Other Stories (as illustrator, text by Paul Yee) - 1983
* Disappearing Moon Cafe - 1990
* Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures - 1990 (with Betsy Warland, Lee Maracle and Daphne Marlatt) Press Gang Publishers
* Bellydancer: Stories - 1994
Sneak Peek Orchestra

The Sneak Peek Orchestra is a Toronto-based ensemble comprised of young musicians and emerging professionals. Founded in August 2007 by conductor Victor Cheng and composer Kevin Lau, the orchestra’s mission is to foster an appreciation for classical music as a vibrant and living art form through the promotion of young musical talent.
Since its inception, the Sneak Peek Orchestra has performed in a variety of venues, including the Chinese Cultural Centre and the George Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, with such prominent guest artists as Molly Johnston and Shauna Rolston.
The goal of the orchestra is to offer a ‘sneak peek’ into an exciting new generation of performers, composers, and conductors, all deeply committed to celebrating one of our oldest music traditions: the symphony hall.
Sonia Ahmed

Sonia Ahmed (Urdu: ), Kuwaiti born Pakistani, founder of Miss Canada Pakistan Inc. also known as Miss Pakistan World,http://www.diversitywatch.ryerson.ca/media/cache/pakistanipageant_star_mar14.htm Miss Pakistan World and Mrs. Pakistan World, is a pioneer in the international beauty and talent pageant industry for Pakistan. Ahmed started the pageant industry for Pakistan since 2002 and has now moved her plans to start the pageant in Pakistan in 2013.
Sook-Yin Lee

Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian broadcaster, musician, filmmaker, and actress. She is a former MuchMusic VJ, and, since 2002, has been a host on CBC Radio.
In 1995, Lee became a VJ for MuchMusic, bringing her theatrical and musical background and her unique creative perspective to the channel. She was best known as the host of MuchMusic's alternative music show, The Wedge.
Lee is openly bisexual.[7] In 1995, on the day that sexual orientation was held to be protected under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Egan v Canada case, Lee celebrated the decision by kissing a woman on the air.[9] She later appeared on the cover of Xtra! in 1997.
She left MuchMusic in 2001. During her last appearance as a MuchMusic VJ, Lee and her co-host turned their backs to the camera, and mooned the audience on live television.[10]
The following year, she was named as the new host of CBC Radio One's Saturday afternoon pop culture magazine Definitely Not the Opera.
In the fall of 2004, she produced and hosted a documentary celebrating Terry Fox as part of the CBC Television series The Greatest Canadian. Fox finished second in the voting to Tommy Douglas, whose advocate was another ex-MuchMusic VJ, George Stroumboulopoulos.
DNTO completed its run in 2016. Lee immediately hosted the summer series Sleepover for CBC Radio,[11] and remains in talks to develop another permanent program for the network.
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Sook Yin Lee

== Sook Yin Lee ==
Lee grew up in a Vancouver suburb, the second-oldest daughter of immigrants. Her father a post-World War II orphan from Hong Kong, her mother an escapee from Communist China who was diagnosed with schizophrenia when Lee was young. As a consquence, Lee's upbringing was within a strict, secretive and abusive family. When Lee was 15, her parents split up and Lee ran away from home, eventually living with a "community of lesbians and artists".
In the 1990s, she became the lead singer for Bob's Your Uncle, a Vancouver alternative rock band. Lee often incorporated performance art techniques into the band's melodic rock. When that band broke up, Lee pursued a solo music career, releasing several solo albums and performing as an actor in theatre, film and television projects. She is now a singer for the band Slan. Neko Case covered Lee's song "Knock Loud" on her 2001 EP Canadian Amp.
In 1995, Lee became a VJ for MuchMusic, bringing her theatrical and musical background and her unique creative perspective to the channel. She was best known as the host of MuchMusic's alternative music show, The Wedge. (Now a weekly show, The Wedge was a daily series when Lee hosted.)
Lee has come out as bisexual. In 1995, on the day that sexual orientation was added to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by the Supreme Court of Canada, Lee celebrated the decision by kissing a woman on the air. She later appeared on the cover of Xtra! in 1997.
She left MuchMusic in 2001. During her last appearance as a MuchMusic VJ, Lee and her co-host turned their backs to the camera, and mooned the audience on live television. The following year, she was named as the new host of CBC Radio One's Saturday afternoon pop culture magazine, Definitely Not the Opera.
In the fall of 2004, she produced and hosted a documentary celebrating Terry Fox as part of the CBC Television series The Greatest Canadian. Fox finished second in the voting to Tommy Douglas, whose advocate was another ex-MuchMusic VJ, George Stroumboulopoulos.
In 2003, she became the centre of controversy when the CBC threatened to fire her for taking a lead role in John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit film Shortbus (released 2006), in which she performs non-simulated intercourse and masturbation on screen. When their position proved unpopular with the public, and celebrities such as director Francis Ford Coppola, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, actress Julianne Moore and artist and musician Yoko Ono rallied behind her, the CBC backed down. In 2007, Lee was subsequently honoured for her work on Shortbus with a Best Supporting Actress award from the International Cinephile Society.
Lee played the lead character, Alessa Woo, alongside fellow Canadian actor Adam Beach in Helen Lee's debut feature film The Art of Woo (2001). Sook-Yin Lee's feature film directorial debut Year of the Carnivore premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. She also stars in and directed The Brazilian segment of Toronto Stories (2008).
Sophia Leung

Sophia Ming Ren Leung, CM (梁陳明任 born July 25, 1933) is a Canadian politician.
Born in Wuxi, China, she was a social worker before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1997 for the riding of Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia. A Liberal, she was re-elected in 2000. From 2000 to 2003, she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue. Both before and after her political career, she has been involved in a great deal of volunteer activities.
In 1994, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Considered for a Senate seat in 2004, Leung remains an active member of the Liberal party and supported Sam Sullivan's bid of mayor of Vancouver.
South Asian Arts (Vancouver)

==About==
South Asian Arts was co-founded by Gurpreet Sian and Raakhi Sinha in 2005 with an aim to balance the lives of children and adults and develop their individuality through the arts, creating a passion for life. Since then, SAA has been active in promoting South Asian dance, music, and culture via dance & music classes, professional performances & workshops, guest lectures, as well as children’s cultural summer camps. SAA has travelled across British Columbia and taught over 30,000 students in both Elementary and Secondary schools.
In September 2010 and again in January 2011, they offered the first University accredited Bhangra dance class in North America at Simon Fraser University. The course received an overwhelmingly positive response with nearly 50 students registered for each semester. Beginning in February 2012, they also offered accredited High School level courses in South Asian dance and music.
The title of “producer” has also become part of their arsenal in presenting comedic plays, musicals, and dance dramas. Over the past six years, they've partnered with some amazing organizations including New Works, the PuSh Festival, neworldtheatre, and the Cultural Olympiad just to name a few. In 2009, they wrote, created, and produced an outdoor, interactive, dance & live music play called Bollywood Wedding, which was awarded the "Best Outdoor Interactive Theatre Events of 2009" by the Georgia Straight.
With prestigious South Asian dance and music performances ranging from the 2009 Juno Awards to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, they’ve firmly established ourselves as a premier organization successfully promoting the rich cultural diversity of British Columbian artists to widespread audiences. They are committed to artistic excellence through innovation and creativity.
==Mandate==
To create performance and educational opportunities for professional and amateur artists and build artistic forums that act as a platform for building knowledge of South Asian culture and to create bridges with western culture and highlight the similarities and differences via New Projects; New Ideas; New Collaborations.
South Asian Gallery of Art

South Asian Gallery of Art (SAGA) has been established to promote, exhibit and sell works of emerging and established South Asian artists in North America. 
It enables South Asian artists to collectively present their work and provides lovers of South Asian art and antiquities an up-to-date source of events, exhibitions, auction sales and reviews. 
It offers advise and guidance to private and corporate collectors on acquisition/lease rental of South Asian art and antiquities. 
It works in collaboration with artist run centres/galleries in arranging local and international curated exhibitions, artist talks and shows. 
SAGA is managed by a professional team of individuals led by Ali Adil Khan who is a global citizen. He was born in India, raised in Pakistan, educated in the United States, worked in Europe, Australia and the Far East, and now living in Canada for the past 12 years. He takes keen interest in promoting South Asian art and is well known in the South Asian art circles of Toronto. He is on the Board of South Asian Visual Art Collective (SAVAC) and is a member of Friends of South Asia (FSA) of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. He is a proud sponsor of various South Asian art and cultural events taking place in the greater Toronto area. 
Other key member of the SAGA professional team is Shehla Khan. Shehla is an interior designer and art consultant. 
SAGA advisory board comprises of four reputed South Asian artists from the greater Toronto area: 
Youngo Verma (India)
Asma A. Mahmood (Pakistan)
Syed Iqbal (Bangladesh)
Frances Ferdinands (Sri Lanka)
South Asian Generation Next

South Asian Generation Next is a South Asian magazine being circulated all over GTA. We focus on young adults, while bringing political, social, cultural and ethical issues into debate.
South Asian youth recognize that we are a group of people with a shared history and that this history provides a common basis for understanding our place in the contemporary Canadian landscape.
Generation Next diffuses differences of region, religion and nationality within South Asia. At Generation Next, we hope to reflect the full complexity of “South Asian” in the composition of the editorial collective, contributors and readers.
South Asian Mental Health Action & Awareness

Mental health is important to all our lives but unfortunately there remains a lot of stigma and ignorance around many mental illnesses. As a result, many people are unable to get the help or support they need, and lose out on relationships, jobs, and, literally, “peace of mind” of living a fulfilled and joyful life. South Asian Mental Health Action & Awareness (SAMHAA) is a new non-profit community network engaging, educating and mobilizing the BC South Asian community around issues related to mental health.
==Mission==
SAMHAA’s mission is to create awareness, foster acceptance, provide links to support & resources, & empower all affected by mental illness. Our vision is a society where health/wellness of the mind, body & spirit are recognized equally, without stigma or stereotypes.