Former British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh, an alumnus of UBC, called the decision to scrap the event ‘most ill-considered’ and not behoving of a world-class university.
Bal was scheduled to speak at UBC’s Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial programme. But alleged pressure from 'radical' Sikh activists forced the university to cancel it.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
He is not a Sikh leader. He hates Sikhs and is misleading people.