Attention internationally trained professionals new to Canada!

Someone is here to help you find your career path and overcome employment barriers. Come to our speed-matching sessions to choose a right Mentor!

You are going to meet mentors from different fields, such as: 

• Health Care
• IT
• Finance/Accounting

To participate, you must: 

• Be a landed immigrant or convention refugee (bring your PR card to the session)
• Be 19 years or older
• Have a job-ready level of English proficiency

Register with Tanya to obtain a number - this is a by-invitation-only event.

To register and to get more information on other Career Mentoring Events, please call Tanya at 416.588.6288 ext. 210 or EMAIL her.

Refreshment will be provided. All services are free.  

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India Rainbow Community Services of Peel held its 28th Annual General Meeting on June 20th, which was attended by over 100 guests, members, volunteers and staff.

Sam Malvea, President, welcomed the gathering and went over the highlights of the past year. He acknowledged the excellent work being done by all, and particularly the positive feedback received from the Surveyors of CARF Canada, who had recently completed their 3 day survey as part of the accreditation process of our Seniors Services.

In his opening remarks, India Rainbow's newly appointed Executive Director, Gurpreet Malhotra, also recognized the contribution and hard work of the funders, board members, staff, volunteers, donors, and Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) members and said that he was confident that with their help and expertise, we can together make a change for the better. He later recognized the staff completing 10, 15, 20 and 25 years of service with the organization.

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It's becoming less common for job listings to specify Canadian experience, but the attitude is still pervasive in Canadian companies, but is it discriminatory?

"A strict requirement for "Canadian experience" is prima facie discrimination (discrimination on its face) and can only be used in very limited circumstances," a new report from the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) said. "The onus will be on employers and regulatory bodies to show that a requirement for prior work experience in Canada is a bona fide requirement."

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Are there any stories left to tell about India's most fascinating city?

Yes, most definitely yes, says Veena Gokhale, author of Bombay Wali and other stories, recently released by Canadian publisher Guernica Editions.

Bombay, like New York, Paris, London and other world cities, is teeming with tantalizing tales!

"Six of the 12 stories in my book reflect the slum-speckled, City of Gold I knew in the 1980s," says Gokhale.

"I was a college student and then a journalist in Bombay, and it had not been renamed Mumbai then.

I wrote the stories in Toronto nearly 10 years later. I was doing my Masters at York University and the stories started tumbling out.

 "The first, Reveries of a Riot, was in response to a very tense period of communal violence in Bombay in the early 1990s. Others followed."

Says reviewer Heather Leighton about the book in The Rover, an independent review of art and culture:

"While her stories impart a genuine taste and flavour of India familiar to Indophiles, there is a definite departure from tradition in this collection, giving the reader a sense that considerable change is in the air... "Bombay Wali" is a welcome shift from the traditional portrayal of Indian women."

"My stories are both character and plot driven," says Gokhale. "The hero or heroine are intimately drawn, and I describe the people, relationships and issues in their life with as much depth as a short story allows!

The themes and emotions tackled are universal - friendship and resentment, family ties and freedom, despair and acceptance, ambition and uncertainty, growing up and growing old.There is a touch of humour and one reader told me that I create suspense. Some of the stories have an informal, playful vibe; others are more serious."

The characters reflect the diversity typical of urban, contemporary India and come from different language, caste, class and age groups.

So there is Dilip, a dalit (lower caste) student who comes to Bombay from a small village to attend university on a government scholarship, and Munni, a little servant girl.

Feroza is a middle-aged Parsi woman, a university professor who is the primary caregiver for her aging ...