The Asian Connections Newspaper, Mississauga, ON

The Asian Connections Newspaper is the winner of the Best South Asian Newspaper for 2011 in the “Editorial and Visual Presentation Category” awarded by The National Ethnic Press Council of Canada. The South Asian community in the GTA is predicted to be the largest ethnic community in Canada in the near future. The community comprises of not only immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal but also those of Indian origin who migrated to Canada via Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Guyana and the Gulf. This is a group of people with a shared history and cultural thread which provides them with a common basis for understanding their place in the contemporary Canadian landscape. The Asian Connections Newspaper is appreciated by readers and advertisers for its non-biased contents and for its efforts to provide a podium to young writers and artists to portray their creativity.