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The Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism (CCCM) today complained to the CRTC, CTV network and the Canadian Hannah Rights Commission about a controversial CTV W5 telecast, citing its potential to incite suspiction and ill-will, if not hatred, against a particular identifiable minority. �;� ���'-,: ; v
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On behalf of the Executive and members of the CCCM, National Chairman Norman Kwong requested an immediate response from CRTC Chairman John Mei-sel, CTV President Murray Cher-cover and 'Canadian Human Rights Commissioner Gordon Fairweathen The CCCM is a 100 member advisory body which reports to the federal government through the Minister of State Multiculturalism on multicultural policy and programs.
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The Council decided to communicate its views after carefully reviewing thie September 30, 1979 telecast entitled-,'Campus Giveaway1 as well as relevant correspondence between CTV, echica-ttion institutions and associations, and concerned citizens^ The segment inferred that /foreign* students were -filling our universities, causing; hardship to Canadians by dfepriving them of education. (
in the tetters, the CC^M says that **wfci}e the program's-lead statements ; discuss an: 'abundance* of students from other countries Von our campuses, indeed the portrayal gives focus tp, Southeast Asian faces, .for the most part from the � Chinese community.'' :
"Biases are very evident visible minorities are shown and immediately branded as foreigners. In ;thls case, had the productipn ;st�ff e^tcted proper research,they'.woutd have known that six of tlje seven students who. have been identified are indeed Canadian-bom or permanent residents '� V the letters explained.
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'One must bear in imnd that Canada, during its history,: has brought people from ill backgrounds of the worlds to this country. Our settlement and progress as a nation have been a shared achievement. Surely the descendants of these - pioneers haye every right to live, to be"
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Delhi, Mar. 15. (UNi) � The first results from the mais of data gathered during the solar eclipse have revealed; interesting features of the sun-.., \. ��� � �.��'':- ';--., ' �'...
Though moit of the pictures of the eclipsed sain reveal -ia Compact corona, (the 'diffused outer layer of the sun); streamers at odd angles were'! visible even to the naked eye arid Vere found to much longer < thari was 'expected;
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One such streamer in jhe corona has spreadout td more ,th&n twice r.he radius of :the visibly disc.
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The radius oif the normally visible sun is abofct ,700,000
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/^<p/c4^njbil^weiti-oin';t^;^y^ thai ;Vind^ifco:f prejudice against a^ particular race, creed or >vay or fife fronj any country iwiiatsoever cannot help but invoke the same feelingsj against some of our own citizens* the CCCM is ;i0ncerhed that exjimipies of this type of reporting often depict in a detrimental manner one of Canada's cultural \ communities'^ ;
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laced with the exampl^ of stereo-typing qf Italian-Canadians by the CBC production of 'conjtieciions*. Now we are faced with the present example of ::-CTV>;;.iy&:'. dealing with the .Chinese community; .fPrograms of this nature require! scrutiny so that discrimination of any type is 'not aJlbwed to develop.^ ;
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services of a Supreme u>un judge to inquire into the charges made by leader of the opposition, Mr. Karunanidhi regarding'the ship deal..
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Mr. Ramachandran said that the Government had now filed a defamation case in the city sessions court and-was awaiting its outcome.
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K. Suppu (DMK) intervened to say that the case was against Mr. Karunanidhi and not against the Chief Minister*
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'The Council has requested CRTC, CTTV and the Canadian Human Rights Commission [ to inform it; of any decisions ttyey reach. j
Government will spend some $600 million over 1986-81 for the modernisation and expansion of port facilities said A.P. Sharma, minister for shipping.
Mr. Sharma pointed out that under the scheme, containerisa-tion facilities would, be given
Cochin. A sum of $45 million had been set aside for the project.
Mr. Sharma claimed that the Shipping Corporation which had been steadily reducing its loss might break even this year if the international freight market went back to December 1979 level.
� But.the streamers meant certain pockets in the sun which were not as active as the rest s^o that the magnetic lines of force .on the sun arc Unable to hoid the corona close to the visible disc: The magnetic field of the sjun which ]is feasic to the cororia is not uniform; ;
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New Delhi; Mar. 15 (pNI) -Kedar Nath Modi has been iinanimously elected president of the Federation oiP Indian Chambers of Commerce a^d Industry for J9aO-8i. He will assume
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Toronto -- Premier WUliaraG. X>ayis announced, today appoint-meiits to the Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism and Citizenship. In ally fifty-seven members were named. Mr. Davis saia the additional members to thelCouncil will enable it to:better fulfil its expanded mandate which reflects the government's desjire to. stress citizenship as an integral part of the Province's multiculturalism policy. ;
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Ttie appointment of a full-time chairman to the Council* Yuri^ Shymko, former Member of Parliament for Parkdale was made in No member, 1979. Mr. Shymko is act ve in Ukrainian organizations an<J -a leading spokesman for human rights. At the time of Mr. Shymko f $ appointment, the Hon-ouif able Reuben Baetz, Ontario Minister of Culture and Recreation, said that the new chairman
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�jChandrgarhv Mar.. 15 (UNI) -Haryana 'Chief Mimsier . Bhajan .La| has. declared a aish pri/c oCRs ''.. tcij million to anyonc'uho, oil jhc baKis of the Bh"avs>\\-:;id. Giia. couki lodaie ilic "spul" in KiirivkShcira v\Ijcrc Lord Krishna had deHAcrcd tfi<| mcsNagc viTthc Gi;a to Arjui-iii-.";.;-
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[New Delhi (IBS) - The Food Corporation of India (FC1), a St^ite-run venture is being run .at a > staggering operational cost v which in terms of per quintal is almost as much as the price of cereals it procures for the national buffer stock.
whose balance sheets have shown marginal profits during the lajst few years is actually incurring huge losses due to the exorbitant operational, costs- which are pres-ei^tly being met through large subsidies from the Government -t^e budget subsidy during 1978-79 was some SSOpmilHon.
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FCl isTeportedly running such a top-heaVy managemerit, and in-ciirring such high; costs on the siale of procured food grains, that
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j New Delhi (IBs) - Despite the massive adult education drive the number of illiterates in Delhi has increased. The reason is the lack of intensive implementation of the programme and the continuous inflow of outsiders in the city. �:"'�:��,-;--.;�-�-.,:/:.'-; -,':'�
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;Today, there are some 8,00,000 itliterates in the Capital against Half that number in the 1971 census. Even as the 1979-80 year ii ending, the target coverage of 60,000 people for the years educa^
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