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Waterloo, Canada — A Sikh psychology professor at Wilfrid Laurier University has received a prestigious Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.

Four Sikh players in the Canadian hockey team and their assistant coach will don red turbans at the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday.

EDMONTON - A Sikh worker is headed home to the United Kingdom after he was ordered off a job site in Alberta for refusing to shave his beard.

"I've never, ever been treated like this anywhere else I've been around the world - I'm completely stunned," said 24-year-old Av Singh, who was hired for an eight-week stint as a turbine adviser at a TransAlta Corp. plant west of Edmonton.

Two Sikhs have filed a human rights complaint against a sawmill firm in Canada [Images], saying its new hard hat policy is preventing them from returning to their jobs.

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal accepted the complaint of Kalwant Singh Sahota and Mander Singh Sohal last month and asked International Forest Products to file its response by April 9.

"Both of these guys are both long, long-term forestry employee workers and this is the first time this has ever happened," their lawyer David Perry was quoted as saying by the Vancouver Sun.

TORONTO: A Sikh who has lost his battle to ride a motorcycle without a helmet has decided to file an appeal against the Canadian Court decision, saying that it will be in "larger interest" of the community.

TORONTO -- A turban-wearing biker who was told last week he wasn't exempt from the province's helmet law plans to appeal the judge's ruling.

Baljinder Singh Badesha, 39, of Brampton, told Sun Media he plans to file the notice next week, well within the 15-day appeal period.

He said fighting the $110 ticket he received 2 1/2 years ago for riding a motorcycle without a helmet in Brampton isn't just for his own sake anymore.

Nor is it just for Sikhs.

Vancouver, February 11, 2008 - With the latest census showing a 35 per cent increase in its speakers since 2001, Punjabi is set to become the fourth largest spoken language in Canada.

Today, it is the sixth largest spoken language after English, French, Chinese, Italian and German, though it is already at the fourth position in the province of British Columbia.

Patiala, January 1
Sixtyfive Asian girls believed to be Punjabi are in the US jails for trafficking drugs and more than 100 Punjabi boys have lost their lives in drug war in the British Columbia (BC) state of Canada.

Though Punjabis still are considered a hard-working community in the West, their younger generation has also earned notoriety as they have ‘attained’ domination in the flourishing drug trade in Canada and even the US in one decade.

Ludhiana, December 28
Like thousands of NRIs, he too coolly abandoned his bride in 2004 after her family could not pay the dowry of Rs 30 lakh. But when she checkmated him by reaching Canada in August this year and sought her rights, he sent a friend to contract a gang of killers and supervise the murder of her father in Mundiya village, near here.

But for timely police intervention based on the information provided by a dhaba owner, who overheard the plan, Mundiya village resident Harphool Singh, father of the abandoned bride Pawanjot Kaur, would not have been alive today.

TORONTO: A paralysed Sikh, whose deportation from Canada was delayed on Monday due to protests by thousands of Indo-Canadians, has taken refuge inside a temple at New Westminster in British Columbia.

Laibar Singh, who entered the country in 2003 on a false passport, suffered a brain aneurysm last year, leaving him bed-ridden and unable to feed himself.

He appealed to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada to let him stay on humanitarian grounds. But the authorities rejected his plea, prompting the Indo-Canadian community to come out in his support.