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    He will be joined by Christina Ora, a 17-year-old from the Solomon Islands, whose village has been hard-hit by flooding associated with climate change since 2006. "My first task is to get people excited about the idea of global warming" said Bose, from his Mumbai home. Full Article at Canada.com
    My first task is to get people excited about the idea of global warming
    Rahul Bose – Rahul Bose SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
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Green group enlists Bollywood to sell climate message to South-Asian Canadians
  1. It is important to reach all of the different minority communities ... but when you pander, you begin to isolate communities based on what you perceive to be popular with an ethnic minority.
    SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
  2. If you look through the 50 or so ridings across the country that the political parties are fixated on . . . you see a largely suburban reality surrounding the major cities of Toronto and Vancouver — and you see in those areas significant constituencies of new Canadians.
    SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
  3. One of the most interesting and dynamic things about Canada is that it's overwhelmingly, but by no means exclusively, a country of immigrants ... The Canadian environmental community hasn't done a good enough job of reaching out to new Canadians; these are extremely important political constituencies in...
    SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
  4. I think there is a bit of a myth that, somehow, certain communities vote in a certain way
    SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
  5. We are putting indirect pressure via these communities on the Canadian government to look at Copenhagen and make sure something constructive comes out of it
    SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
  6. Sean Penn of Asian cinema
    SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago
  7. I don't think it is something that South-Asian Canadians, or even Indians, put on the top of their agenda as of yet. The great thing about climate change is you can excite people with what is happening — but sadly, you can, because it's exceptionally scary
    SOURCE: Canada.com 1 month ago

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