Arjan Singh Bhullar has once again made Richmond and Canada proud by becoming the first Punjabi Sikh to win the Mixed Martial Arts ONE Fighting Championship in Singapore. And his hometown Gurdwara, the India Cultural Centre of Canada Gurdwara Nanak Niwas joined the rest of South Asian community in congratulating Arjan and his family for his achievement. They also honoured him at the Gurdwara last Saturday. In view of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Gurdwara Management decided to make it a drive through event. Arjan’s well-wishers were invited to congratulate him from their cars and then move on. Richmond MLA Aman Singh, the first turbaned Sikh MLA in BC legislature, and Labour Minister Harry Bains are joined in the celebrations. Premier John Horgan also hosted a zoom meeting with the champ this week to congratulate him following twitter love from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, both of whom celebrated the big win of a proud Canadian athlete.
As businesses reopen, workplace outbreaks and infections are diminishing, but at an agonizingly slow rate. California reported an average of about 34 new workplace outbreaks and 404 new workplace cases per day, over a five-week period in April and May. Photo: Russ Allison Loar, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Foster Farms was fined $181,500 on May 24, 2021 by the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety (Cal/OSHA) for failing to protect workers from Covid-19 at its Livingston poultry plant and distribution center near Fresno, and for failing to report all infections. At least eight Foster Farms workers died from Covid-19.
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Fresno Bee called it “one of the steepest citations” Cal/OSHA has issued during the pandemic.
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“I was wondering why you don’t have an accent,” U.S. figure skater Mirai Nagasu recalled a parent asking her at a recent meet-and-greet, after asking if she was from California.
Nagasu froze, unsure how to respond.
Did the person assume all Asians were recent immigrants? Was it naive ignorance or subtle racism?
The moment passed, but Nagasu continued to dwell on the interaction. As a public figure and role model, she needed to be diplomatic, especially when interacting with kids. But she also felt the need to push back, especially now during the resurgence in anti-Asian hate and xenophobia that left her parents concerned for their safety.