Thursday 16 April 2015

Bollywood atmosphere in Toronto

Seneca College and other Canadian institutions have signed agreements with the National Skills Development Council of India to work on curriculum development and teacher training for many of the professions which we call "Technologists" and "Technicians" (obtained after 2 and 3 year diploma programs). Seneca will work on projects in training for aviation and health. The agreements were signed during a visit of the Prime Minister of India to Canada (1st time in 42 years the Indian PM did visit Canada). He visited in 3 days Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. Yesterday I was one of  10,000 people who came to listen to Modi's speech (fully delivered in Hindi to the 9,900 Indo-Canadians in the stadium). Before the speech took place there was Indian song and dance from 5 to 9 PM....
Prime Minister Harper briefly introduced Prime Minister Modi and then the Indian PM was welcomed as a true "Bollywood star" in the stadium. It was an interesting evening....

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