{"id":2848,"date":"2003-02-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/15\/2003-02-15-calgary-hindu-awarded-order-of-canada\/"},"modified":"2003-02-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-15T12:00:00","slug":"2003-02-15-calgary-hindu-awarded-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/15\/2003-02-15-calgary-hindu-awarded-order-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Hindu Awarded Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"mailto:nksood@shaw.ca\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>CALGARY, ALBERT, CANADA, February 15, 2003: Dr Brijendra Sood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada has been named to The Order of Canada, the highest and the most prestigious honor bestowed on a Canadian Citizen by Canada. He will be receiving the insignia of this high honor from the Governor General of Canada at an investiture in Ottawa. The citation reads: &#8220;A dedicated physician, he has promoted multicultural awareness by recognizing and valuing the strengths of Canada&#8217;s rich cultural mosaic. Since arriving in Canada in 1964, he has worked to develop and strengthen the social and cultural fabric of Calgary&#8217;s East Indian community. He has played leadership roles in the city&#8217;s India-Canada Association, Multicultural Centre, Hindu Society and Temple. The recipient of numerous honors for his ethno-cultural contributions, he was also named Outstanding Physician of the Year 2000 by the Calgary Medical Society.&#8221; For more information contact Narindar Sood at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE CALGARY, ALBERT, CANADA, February 15, 2003: Dr Brijendra Sood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada has been named to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}