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Minor Earth Quake in Canada

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:13:48 +0000

I felt that in Hamilton, Ontario about 15 minutes ago. My computer table was shaking slightly, but it didn’t come to my mind that it was due to earth quake, until my cousin called me from Toronto. CBC says it was felt in the GTA, Ottawa & Montreal. No damage reported so far. People are calling local radio stations from all over the place. Some buildings in Toronto being evacuated already.

Here is a link for Canadian government earth quake index

Interesting News.

City of Hamilton to offer Wi-Fi for free.

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:30:40 +0000

City of Hamilton, Ontario,Canada is going to offer Wi-Fi internet connection free of charge in the core down town area. The wireless service will be available soon in the area between Victoria and Queen streets and Barton and Main streets. Its been planned to offer the service for one year.

Second Vegetarian friendly University in Canada.

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:59:37 +0000

The University I’m doing my Undergrad comes second as a vegetarian friendly University in Canada next to University of Toronto. The results are announced by peta2.com for the year 2007. McMaster University chosen as the second best vegetarian friendly Universtity. Check out the complete list.

Royal Ontario Museum.

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:23:26 +0000

Royal Ontario Museum also known as ROM is a major museum in city of Toronto,Ontario,Canada. This is the fifth largest museum in North America. It contains more than six millions items to display. The collections include dinasours, Near Eastern, African art and East asian art.

It’s located in the down town core easily accessible through subway. Find it here in the google map.

Some pictures I took during a recent visit.

Chinese Immigration to Canada

admin — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:35:33 +0000

There is a wonderful article about Chinese Immigrants’ history in Canada in the CBC websites archive. The archive contains video and audio clips which outlines the major events of the Chinese peoples history in Canada.

Canada wanted them to leave after the rail way work was completed.

Chinese Canadians service in the second world war.

China town becomes a beloved destination for other community too.

Protesting racism on TV

The Hong Kong influx.

Chinese Canadian Governor general.

Federal government’s pays back 12.5 million dollar to redress the Head tax imposed on Chinese Canadians.

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles. ~George Wilhelm Hegel