Prince Harry announced the return of Invictus Games to Canada in 2025 for the first-ever winter sports edition

Just prior to the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games 2022 in the Hague, Prince Harry announced that the Games would return to Canada in 2025 for the first-ever winter sports edition of the competition. Whistler and Vancouver, Canada, would be the venue of the games 2025. This place holds a special meaning to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The reason is simple. It was here in 2019, the royal couple and baby Archie spend their vacation before they announced their decision to step down as senior working royals. During a visit to Canada House in London in early 2020, Meghan recalled - "Just to be able to take in the warmth that we experienced from the people but also just to walk around and just see the beauty of Canada.” incidentally, it was in Canada where the two started secretly dating. Meghan had spent years in Toronto, Canada during the filming of Suits. Subsequently, the two debuted their relationship at the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto. Prince Harry Announces the Invictus Games Are Returning to Canada.

The venue for the next Invictus Games will be in Dusseldorf, Germany, next year. Subsequently, the first-ever Winter Hybrid Games will be in Canada in 2025. Prince Harry indicated this in the website of the Invictus Games Foundation. The statement said - "As Invictus continues to adapt and evolve, I am extremely excited to announce that the Invictus Games Foundation has selected Canada to host the first-ever Winter Hybrid Games in 2025.” These Games will offer a global platform to expand the range and profile of winter adaptive sports. Canada will hold the Games in partnership with the First Nations, in the spirit of truth and reconciliation with indigenous communities.

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This is the success story of four NRIs from Punjab who are the top suppliers of carrots in Canada - last year, their turnover was $15-millon. The eldest of the brothers landed as an immigrant in Vancouver in 1970 from Phalpota village, near Jalandhar, in Punjab and, subsequently, the whole family joined him in 1976. Like any new immigrant, they worked in factories to make a living in their earlier years.
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Being farmers, they bought 40 acres of land in Cloverdale near Vancouver even as they continued to work in factories. It was only in 1988 that they decided to devote full time to it. Their produces included potatoes, cabbage, parsnips and, pumpkins but, it was carrots that made their day. Today, they are the largest carrot growers in western Canada and the only producer of baby carrots in the whole of western Canada. They are proud of the fact that a packet of carrots, potatoes, cabbage or parsnips at any supermarket in Canada invariably bears the label of Sahotas' Canadian Farms.
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