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Punjabi Canadians are Canadian citizens of Punjabi descent, numbering approximately 950,000 and accounting for roughly 2.6% of Canada's population, as per the 2021 Canadian census. [ b ] Their heritage originates wholly or partly from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan .
South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. [3] Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
A major drug bust conducted in April 2021 broke up an Indo-Canadian trafficking network primarily based in Brampton, Ontario. Of the 28 arrested, the majority were India-born Punjabi men. Police seized $2.3 million worth of drugs including 10 kilograms of cocaine, eight kilograms of ketamine, three kilograms of heroin and 2.5 kilograms of opium.
There was a short tunnel under Team Canada Dr. connecting the mall and Civic Centre outside areas, visible in early aerial imagery but since removed. [citation needed] Although Chinguacousy Township (and thus Bramalea) was amalgamated with Brampton in 1974, the Bramalea City Centre retained the name of the satellite community in which it was ...
Bhagwani is the pioneer in establishing Canada's first Indian Omakase-style restaurant in Toronto, Canada. [105] [106] Hemant Bhagwani is taking over Katha, an acclaimed modern Indian fine-dining restaurant on Preston Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to bring a stunning new concept later in 2025. [107]
Brampton is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, and the regional seat of the Regional Municipality of Peel.It is part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a lower-tier municipality within the Peel Region.
The first census which took place following Canadian Confederation was in 1871 and enumerated the four original provinces including, Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick found that the population with racial origins from South Asia (then-labeled as "Hindu" on the census) stood at 11 persons or 0.0003 percent of the national population, with 8 persons from Ontario, and the remaining ...
Ruby Dhalla — First Sikh women to serve in the House of Commons of Canada. Ruby Sahota — MP of Brampton North; Sabi Marwah — Member of the Canadian Senate; Sonia Sidhu — MP of Brampton South; Sara Singh — Deputy Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party; Sindi Hawkins — MLA for Kelowna-Mission, BC; Sukh Dhaliwal — MP for Surrey ...