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		<title>Lunar New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the beginning of the 2012 Lunar New Year holiday, known by many as the Chinese New Year. The festival celebrated by billions, in addition to over a million Chinese-language speaking Canadians, it is also a traditional festival for the Vietnamese, Korean and many others of East Asian populations across Canada. The Year 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just because: The Mickey Hart Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Tibetan Buddhist Gyuto Monks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he explains in the clip below, the cross-cultural (musical) adventure of  Mickey Hart, American musicologist and former percussionist of The Grateful Dead, began as a young boy soon after discovering Duke Ellington and Count Basie in a collection of LPs inherited by his mother. The collection also included The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No use for a hyphen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Hong came to mind today. (I made reference to him in a previous blog post.) Hong was a 23-year old World War II Flying Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces who gave his life for our country, and remembered in Eric McGeer’s Words of Valediction and Remembrance: Canadian Epitaphs of the Second World War.) Prompting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Multiculturalism Day: 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 Ontario Newcomer Awards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Iannuzzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Eric Hoskins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamlin Grange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hon. Michael Colle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hon. Raymond Chan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Lumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jehad Aliweiwi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Ann Shadd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saeed Selvam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every week, 2,000 newcomers arrive in Ontario; and, every day they are helped by inspirational community-building leaders who not only support the settlement and integration of newcomers but celebrate Ontario&#8217;s diverse cultures by their actions. Since 2007, the Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration has celebrated Canadian Multiculturalism Day with a presentation of the province’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Canada!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Aboriginal History Month]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[June is the month to celebrate the peoples of Canada – from the federally recognized National Aboriginal History Month, to Vancouver designating June as Greek Heritage Month and Portuguese Heritage Month, even TVOntario’s programming focus on Canada’s South Asian community. Numerous cultural events and activities abound…something for everyone! In 1996 Governor General Romeo LeBlanc declared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Corriere Canadese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Italian Heritage Month]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-seven years and still going&#8230;Congratulazioni, bon compleanno, Corriere Canadese &#8211; you share your birthday with the (slightly older at 65) Italy&#8217;s Republic.  So why not celebrate both throughout the month? The month of June is the province of Ontario&#8217;s first-ever Italian Heritage Month.]]></description>
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		<title>Meaningful engagement of Canada&#8217;s youth</title>
		<link>http://diversitymediaservices.com/blog/2011/meaningful-engagement-of-canadas-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much can and should be said about the idea of bringing communities together who traditionally have been in conflict, either here in Canada and/or abroad, to enable understanding and reconciliation. But when you have that conversation amongst some of Canada&#8217;s youth and include what it means to be both an active Canadian and engaged global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First they came&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://diversitymediaservices.com/blog/2011/first-they-came/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith/Beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://diversitymediaservices.com/blog/?p=2456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many, witnessing the events in Tunisia via Twitter (and, not knowing at the time Egypt would follow) and the speed with which it was happening was breathtaking.  Even at the time many, including myself, didn’t believe it was a Twitter or a “Facebook Revolution”, but nor were we blind to the importance of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Top 10 of 2010</title>
		<link>http://diversitymediaservices.com/blog/2010/my-top-10-of-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Canadian Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aweditorium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenging Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Head Tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Zuckerman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flipboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HearNames.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Paton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathew ingram]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Bridge Personality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top 10 of 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top 8 of 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top 9 of 2009]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Word Lens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In previous years, my end-of-year lists have mostly kept to one-stop websites.  This year, I&#8217;ve also included some specific articles and mobile apps that are worthy of special mention.  So, what follows are my top 10 online “wows of discovery” for 2010 &#8230; in no particular ranking:  1.  “Challenging Change” John Paton has been the CEO of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balle-Balle: Punjabi Hockey Night in Canada is back!</title>
		<link>http://diversitymediaservices.com/blog/2010/balle-balle-punjabi-hockey-night-in-canada-is-back/</link>
		<comments>http://diversitymediaservices.com/blog/2010/balle-balle-punjabi-hockey-night-in-canada-is-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harnarayan Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey Night in Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Puck in Punjabi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PNIC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early October, the CBC cancelled the regular season Punjabi broadcasts of its iconic Hockey Night in Canada, citing a lack of funding but, yet, an increased viewership to its English broadcast.  At the time, CBC spokesman Jeff Keay deemed it as a “successful experiment.”  With over 1 million Indo-Canadian viewers, “many of those new [...]]]></description>
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