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Sundar Prize Film Festival Announces Exciting Developments for 2025 Edition

Following the remarkable success of its inaugural festival in 2024, the Sundar Prize Film Festival is set to return with an even more spectacular lineup in 2025. Last year’s festival saw overwhelming support with 58 sponsors, 24 published news articles, over 450 attendees, screenings of nine award-winning films, four insightful panel discussions, two vibrant networking receptions, and an engaging open mic session where filmmakers pitched their projects.

Community Happenings

Support your Local Downtown and Main Streets This August!

This August, IDA Canada, a national coalition of the International Downtown Association invites the public, the business community, and decision-makers to celebrate Downtown and Main Street Month.

Health

Two worlds cancer collaboration and Canuck place children’s hospice partner to support seriously-ill children globally

Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration (TWCC) and Canuck Place Children’s Hospice today announced a partnership to build capacity for children’s palliative care internationally through the Children’s Palliative Care Leadership Program in South and Southeast Asia.

Health

Surrey Hospitals Foundation Announces First Year Winners of the Sherrold Haddad Excellence in Medicine Award

The Surrey Hospitals Foundation is excited to announce the first year’s recipients of the Sherrold Haddad Excellence in Medicine Award, which is named after the late Surrey business magnate and philanthropist Sherrold Haddad.

Health

Sexual minorities still face more mental health, substance use conditions –SFU study

A new Simon Fraser Univerity study finds sexual minorities still experience a greater burden of mental health and substance use conditions than heterosexual people despite legislative and policy advances and improvements in social attitudes in recent decades.

Cover Stories

PRABHNOOR GREWAL – THE RISING STAR OF SPEEDSKATING

BY J.M.Lee Prabhnoor Kaur Grewal is a 16-year-old girl who pioneered the Punjabi community into speed skating in 2019 and remains the first and…

Profiles

PARI GOYAL – BALANCING HER WAY TO THE TOP

By J . M. Lee Pari Goyal is a Canadian National Team member in Rhythmic Gymnastics. Pari is 18 years old and has been…

Profiles

CHLOE MORGAN – CHANGE MAKER OF TOMORROW

By J.M. Lee Born in London, England, Chloe grew up in Chelmsford, Essex. She was awarded a scholarship to the London Studios stage college,…

Profiles

SAANJH JAURA – THE TIMELESS MELODIES OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

By J . M. Lee Saanjh Jaura, 18, grew up in Amritsar and moved to Canada with her parents, and 5-year-old brother in December…

Profiles

JILL YONEDA’S SWIM FOR COURAGE ACROSS THE GEORGIA STRAIT

By J . M. Lee On August 9, 2024, Jill will take on her third Swim for Courage, aiming to conquer a record-breaking 60-hour…

News / Current Affairs

Jagmeet Singh demands a cap on grocery prices

On Thursday, Canada’s NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was at a Toronto Loblaws store with NDP candidate for Spadina Fort-York Norman Di Pasquale to call on the government to cap the price on essential grocery items to lower grocery prices.

News / Current Affairs

Half of transit services cut without new funding model

New report details drastic potential transit service cuts to close funding gap

News / Current Affairs

Bank of Canada Lowered its Overnight Interest Rate to 4.5%

This is welcome news for Canadians and reflects our plan to responsibly create the economic conditions for interest rates to come down.

From the left: Spencer Gall, Chief Philanthropy Officer, Richmond Hospital Foundation; Venerable Chueh Chu, Abbess, Fo Guang Shan Temple; Ella Kwan, Secretary General, Buddha’s Light International Association, Vancouver

Community Happenings, Health

Vancouver Fo Guang Shan Temple Completes $50,000 Donation for Richmond Hospital’s Yurkovich Family Pavilion

Five years ago, the Vancouver Fo Guang Shan Temple in Richmond made a pledge to donate $50,000 to Richmond Hospital Foundation’s ACT NOW Campaign for the Yurkovich Family Pavilion, new acute care tower at Richmond Hospital. This past month, they completed their final donation of $10,000 – a generous gesture that will help launch a new era of health care in Richmond.

Health

SFU Breakthrough Id’s Gene That May Reverse Parkinson’s Disease

Researchers at Simon Fraser University in collaboration with a group from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas have identified a gene that appears to reverse Parkinson’s disease symptoms in fruit flies.