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Indian-origin leaders Anita Anand and Kamal Khera shape a new era in Canada’s cabinet

by Charu Thakur | Mar 21, 2025

(March 21, 2025) On a crisp Ottawa morning, against the backdrop of Parliament Hill’s stone arches, two women with roots tracing back to India took their oaths as ministers in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly formed cabinet. Indo-Canadian Anita Anand and...

Ujjal Dosanjh: Canada’s first Indo-Canadian premier

by Mallik Thatipalli | Jan 28, 2024

(January 28, 2024) A Canadian lawyer and politician, Ujjal Dosanjh is a man of many firsts. He served as the 33rd premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. One of the first people of Indian...