M. G. Vassanji

M. G. Vassanji

male, 59 years old
Afro-Asian-Canadian, university of nairobi, Order of Canada, Tanzanian, immigrant to Canada, South Asian…The Toronto South Asian Review, SouthAsianCanadian, Canadian
M.G. Vassanji, C.M. is an Afro-Asian-Canadian novelist. Although of South Asian heritage, Vassanji grew up in East Africa--he was born in Nairobi,...
Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootoo

female, 51 years old
Caribbean women writer, Trinidad and Tobago immigrants to Canada, Canadian women writer, Indo-Canadian, LGBT writer, From Canada…Canadian, SouthAsianCanadian
Shani Mootoo (born 1958 in Ireland) is a Trinidadian-Canadian writer and artist whose family has traversed the cultures of India, Ireland, England,...
Sonnet L'Abbé

Sonnet L'Abbé

female
from Old Toronto, Canadian women writer, Open Field 30 Contemporary Canadian Poet, South Asian, Franco-Ontarian, Canadian literature…Guyanese Canadian, SouthAsianCanadian, Canadian
Sonnet L'Abbé is a Canadian poet. L'Abbé received a BFA in film and video from York University, and completed a Master's degree in English li...

Kaushalya Bannerji

female
Canadian women writer, social conservative, article, cultural, SouthAsianCanadian, lesbian…Canadian
Kaushalya Bannerji is a Canadian poet. In her article: A Lotus of Another Color, she delved with the cultural complexities sexuality adds to one's...
Irshad Manji

Irshad Manji

female, 41 years old
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Islamic feminist, C-SPAN, Islamic feminism, LGBT, islam…Canadian women writer, Indian Canadian, SouthAsianCanadian, Canadian, royal canadian mounted police
Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian feminist Muslim, author, journalist, and activist. She is a well-known critic of radical Islam and orthodox...

Priscilla Uppal

female, 34 years old
Canadian women writer, poet, novelist, york university, Canadian, SouthAsianCanadian
Priscila Uppal (born 1974) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Ottawa, Ontario she teaches literature and creative writing at York University...
Haroon Siddiqui

Haroon Siddiqui

male, 67 years old
Indian-Canadian, journalism, From hyderabad, From Brandon, Manitoba, Order of Canada, immigrant to Canada…SouthAsianCanadian, Canadian
Haroon Siddiqui, C.M., O.Ont., (born June 1, 1942) is an Indian-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor.
Rena Heer

Rena Heer

female
SouthAsianCanadian, Simon Fraser University alumni, television journalist, Channel M Preview, Global BC Morning News, CHNM-TV…Canadian
Rena Heer is a Canadian television personality, seen as a traffic reporter on CHAN's "Global BC Morning News" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Heer...
Mobina Jaffer

Mobina Jaffer

female, 60 years old
immigrant to Canada, Simon Fraser University alumni, ismaili, ugandan, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Queen's Counsel…Canadian Senate, South Asia, Canadian, Canadian senator, SouthAsianCanadian
Mobina S. B. Jaffer, QC, LLB (born August 20 1949 in Uganda) is a Canadian Senator representing British Columbia. She is the first South Asian and...
Ian Hanomansing

Ian Hanomansing

male, 48 years old
Trinidad and Tobago immigrants to Canada, Indo-Canadian, Indo-Trinidadian, 2003 North America blackout, Maritimes, 1992 Los Angeles riots…Canadian National Debating Championship, Canadian, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trinidadian Canadian, SouthAsianCanadian
Ian Hanomansing (or Hanoomansigh) (born 1961) is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He is the anchor of...