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The Government of Canada is facilitating the immigration of up to 1,000 Tibetans living in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India, at the request of the Canada Tibet Committee and Canada’s Tibetan community. Up to 1,000 displaced Tibetans, including principal applicants and their eligible family members, will be accepted over a five-year period. As... Read more »

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Café du Mile End, 5240, Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec H2V 4G7 August 25, 2012 @ 8 pm (doors open @ 7) Samedi 25 août à 20h, ouverture des portes à 19h 15$ prévente (+ frais de service et/ou frais Admission) 20$ à la porte (argent comptant seulement le soir du spectacle) 18 ans et... Read more »

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Grafton Peace Pagoda (Nipponzan Myohoji) are staging a walk around Lake Ontario over the coming weeks. Here’s a picture from one of their previous walks. Schedule and contact for the walk can be found at: http://www.sumeru-books.com/2012/07/no-more-fukushimas-peace-walk-around-lake-ontario-july-11-aug-11-2012/ The Peace Walks page is: http://peacewalks.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/no-more-fukushimas/ Their Flickr page is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/81076938@N02/

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Jeff Wilson, associate professor of religious studies and East Asian studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, has just published “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South” with the University of North Carolina Press. You can read a short description of the book and hear a podcast interview with Jeff at... Read more »

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