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It’s not everyday you meet a tattooed Senator who makes Indian sweets from scratch

I travelled to six countries over the course of an evening at last week’s Asian Heritage Month party on the Hill.

Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer hands out her homemade mini gulab jamuns, which she worked eight hours to prepare, at the Asian Heritage Month reception last week at the Sir John A. MacDonald Building.Martin Lipman photograph courtesy of the Senate of Canada

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

May 17, 2017

I remember in elementary school we had a day dubbed “International Day.” Students shuffled between classrooms that were designed to represent different countries. Each country usually had a spread of food and music, as well as volunteers who taught students about the culture and heritage of tha...

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