On January 1, 2016, BC Medical Services Plan (MSP) Premiums are going up again. Is this something that you should question? Recently, a socially and politically aware friend, Simran Walia forwarded me a petition to sign. This petition is to put a question mark on the revenue management around the tax collections from the residents to fund Medical Services Plan (MSP) of British Columbia. Lead by my habit, I started researching for the facts relating to this petition. For the b

A friend asked me yesterday that, " Meera, you are a Canadian now and has been for over two decades, why should you worry about Punjab? You left India a while ago. You should only be involved with social, economic and political realities of Canada.There are too many issues that we need to focus on to make life better here." This is not a new question that has been posed to me nor has this been the only prompt for me to think about it. I spent first twenty years of my life in