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A survey conducted by Statistics Canada titled "Survey on Sexual Misconduct at Work" found that immigrants in Canada are less likely to experience workplace harassment compared to Canadian-born individuals. However, experts suggest that fear of reprisal is preventing newcomers from reporting incidents of harassment. The survey revealed that 35% of immigrant women and 20% of immigrant men reported experiencing harassment or sexual assault in the workplace, compared to 52% of Canadian-born women and 36% of Canadian-born men. The fear of losing their jobs, violating work permit conditions, and jeopardizing their permanent residency status were cited as reasons for underreporting among temporary foreign workers. The survey also highlighted variations in reporting percentages among different immigrant groups, with Latin Americans reporting the highest incidents of harassment. Immigrant women face challenges such as language barriers, unfamiliarity with their rights, and fear of stigma or shame within their communities, which hinder their ability to report incidents. Lack of support networks and resources further compound their vulnerability. Awareness programs and career workshops are recommended to provide platforms for immigrant women to openly discuss challenges and prepare themselves to address instances of harassment or assault. [Extracted from the article]

A survey conducted by Statistics Canada titled "Survey on Sexual Misconduct at Work" found that immigrants in Canada are less likely to experience workplace harassment compared to Canadian-born individuals. However, experts suggest that fear of reprisal prevents newcomers from reporting these incidents. The survey revealed that 35% of immigrant women and 20% of immigrant men reported experiencing harassment or sexual assault in the workplace, compared to 52% of Canadian-born women and 36% of Canadian-born men. The fear of losing their jobs, violating work permit conditions, and jeopardizing their permanent residency status were cited as reasons for underreporting among temporary foreign workers. The survey also highlighted variations in reporting percentages among different immigrant groups, with Latin Americans reporting the highest incidents of harassment. Immigrant women face challenges such as language barriers, unfamiliarity with their rights, and fear of stigma or shame within their communities, which hinder their ability to report incidents. Lack of support networks and resources further compound their vulnerability. Awareness programs and career workshops are recommended to provide platforms for immigrant women to openly discuss challenges and prepare themselves to address instances of harassment or assault. [Extracted from the article]

The article announces the election of Jayaram Jayalalithaa as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, India in 2011.

The article reports that cheaper Indian lentils and delicacy ingredients are sold in Saskatchewan which accounts for over 30% of global pea and lentil exports.

It is tempting to believe the Manmohan Singh's Sharm el-Sheikh goof-up was all his own. He certainly must take a large share of the blame. But, in a fundamental sense, he hasn't done anything that other Indian prime ministers haven't. Singh's naivete in assuming that the insertion of Balochistan in the Indo-Pak statement was something minor will be proven wrong as Pakistan starts tom-tomming Indian encouragement of terrorism on its soil. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Eight months ago, when the world was staring at the possibility of its second Great Depression, the uppermost thought in the minds of most governments was how to throw money at the problem and somehow avoid this fate. Today, that danger is gone. Short of showering money on people from helicopters, everything has been done to put cash in the hands of whoever seemed to need it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Eight months ago, when the world was staring at the possibility of its second Great Depression, the uppermost thought in the minds of most governments was how to throw money at the problem and somehow avoid this fate. Today, that danger is gone. Short of showering money on people from helicopters, everything has been done to put cash in the hands of whoever seemed to need it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Peter Principle suggests that every person rises to his level of incompetence. The Principle, enunciated by Laurence J Peter and Raymond Hull some 41 years ago in a path-breaking book, has almost never been contradicted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even as hyper competition forces diversified conglomerates to divest unrelated businesses and focus on the core, in India a new force will add to the pressures: the proposed goods and services tax (GST). In his union budget, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that he intends to shift to GST by next April. That's just eight months away. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even as hyper-competition forces diversified conglomerates to divest unrelated businesses and focus on the core, in India a new force will add to the pressures: the proposed goods and services tax (GST). In his Union Budget, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that he intends to shift to GST by next April. That's just eight months away. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If blame has to be apportioned for the god-awful mess in civil aviation, and for Air India's latest flirtation with bankruptcy, here's the obvious candidate: Praful Patel, the minister in charge. In the last five-and-odd years that he has been at the helm, he has, almost single-handedly, brought the sector to its knees. Both airports and airlines are gasping for breath. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One of the paradoxes concerning former finance minister P Chidambaram is that he had the best ideas, but only an average ability to implement them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One of the paradoxes concerning former finance minister P Chidambaram is that he had the best ideas, but only an average ability to implement them. Early in the UPA government's first tenure, he talked about outcomes being more important than outlays. His own tenure ended up being largely about outlays. His main legacy is a humongous budget deficit that we didn't have even in the darkest days of 1991. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For nearly two decades now, Kashmiris have been battling off and on for azadi. They are fighting for a wrong cause, a cause that may have made some sense 60 years ago, but not in today's world of globalisation, economic migration, demographic pressure and multiculturalism. Kashmir is never going to be independent, because its independence is defined in xenophobic terms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Anyone who has lived in India knows one thing for sure: when government appoints a committee or commission to suggest something or find something out, they don't necessarily want to hear the answers. Committees are a way to avoid decisions, not to make them. Commissions may be used to harass or embarrass people out of power. They are not meant to report the truth or deliver justice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Anyone who has lived in India knows one thing for sure: when government appoints a committee or commission to suggest something or find something out, they don't necessarily want to hear the answers. Committees are a way to avoid decisions, not to make them. Commissions may be used to harass or embarrass people out of power. They are not meant to report the truth or deliver justice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Whoever thought up the 90-10 quota scheme for students seeking admission to junior colleges in Maharashtra needs to have his butt (or butts) kicked. Quite apart from the fact that the Bombay high court has thoroughly exposed the state government's transparent effort to pander to the SSC stream, there is a more fundamental issue at stake here: does the state have a right to arbitrarily change the rules in the middle of the game, leading to unnecessary confusion and tension? Can the goalposts be shifted when the game is on? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three words sum up Pranab Mukherjee's short, and not so sweet, budget speech: yesterday, today and tomorrow. The approach was so yesterday, the proposals all about meeting the needs of today, and the best ideas were left for tomorrow. No great flashes of brilliance punctuated Mukherjee's speech. Caution and incrementalism were the watchwords. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It took five years and a comfortable election victory for the Congress-led UPA to do the half-right thing in the oil sector. The hike in petrol and diesel prices announced last Wednesday is an absolute must, and should not be rolled back when the political pressures start to build. But it's simply not enough to be called a reform. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The needless controversy over the burkha stirred up by French president Nicolas Sarkozy did serve two useful purposes: one is to reaffirm the importance of the liberal ethos; the other is to remind us that even democracies may not be all that liberal when we scratch a bit below the surface. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]