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The Failure of Anti-Terrorist, Social and Foreign Policies Leads to Terrorist Attacks:
The Failure of Anti-Terrorist, Social and Foreign Policies Leads to Terrorist Attacks: Vice-Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) David Pestieau on the terrorist attacks in Brussels Airport and in the Brussels metro and on the latest antiterrorist draft bill in Belgium. (Interview was published in L’Humanité Dimanche, 31 March 2016) HD. What state […]
The Easter Bombing in Lahore, Pakistan
The terrorist attack targeting Christians in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, an offshoot of the Tehreek-e-Taliban on Sunday March 27, killed about 70 innocent children, women and men and injured hundreds of others. This is the latest incidence of fundamentalist hatred, and violence against religious minorities that started with attacks against Hindus […]
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 21 is celebrated as the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. March 21 is also celebrated around the world as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A day that marks the anniversary of the tragic events of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police opened fire and killed 69 people at […]
Faiz Day 2015 – Join Us!
The Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians celebrates Faiz Day on November 21st to pay homage to the revolutionary Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, The program includes recitals, audio & video clippings and singing of his revolutionary and love poetry. For tickets, please contact Mr. Abbas Syed at 6475241891. 21 November, 2015 at 06:30 p.m. Burnhamthorpe […]
The Niqab issue – A CPPC Statement
The case of Zunera Ishaq, the 29-year old Muslim woman who came to Ontario from Pakistan in 2008 and refused to take part in a citizenship ceremony because she would have to show her face, is in the news again. The Committee of Progressive Pakistani- Canadians is a secular organization. We stand for the full […]
Deaths in the Mediterranean
The picture of the body of the little Syrian child lying dead face down in the Water after a boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe, has seared the consciousness of people across the globe. Thousands of others from Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan – and other African countries – making […]
The Great Bengal Famine of 1943
(Event Date 12 September, 2015)
An analysis of one of the most overlooked episodes of mass starvation in history and what we can learn from it today. DR. JANAM MUKHERJEE is an Assistant Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto and author of ‘Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire’, an account of the impacts of hunger […]
Karamat Ali – Face 2 Face
Karamat Ali – Face 2 Face You are invited to 2 events with Karamar Ali, a veteran trade unionist who played an important role in the Pakistani labour movement in the 1970s. He is the Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), which he helped found in the early 1980s. […]
Bulleh Shah Dehar –
(Event Date 22 August, 2015)
Bulleh Shah Day SATURDAY, AUG 22 Doors Open: 6.30 p.m. Program starts 7.00 p.m. BURNHAMTHORPE COMMUNITY CENTRE 1500 Gulledin Road (Burnhamthorpe Rd East, Dixie Road) TICKETS $10 Food: $6.00 per plate (vegetarian only) SPEAKERS: Ms. FOZIA TANVEER: ‘The Rebel Sufi’ Dr. WARAYAM SINGH SANDHU: ‘Message of secularism and religious tolerance in Bulleh Shah’ Musical Program: […]