Japman Bajaj

You may know that for the past few years, I’ve been par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Stroll for Liver, an event by the Cana­dian Liver Foun­da­tion that began in Ottawa after the unex­pected death of a close friend’s cousin in 2005.
At the time, Trisha Nag­pal was 18 years old — not to men­tion, a pop­u­lar youth leader and […]

A recap of #GenY­OTT 4.5 on June 3rd 2010

I, Jap­man Bajaj, am a change­maker.
That’s hard for me to admit! Call it an inher­ent Canadian-ness, but I’d much rather talk about how other peo­ple are change­mak­ers and how I wish I could be more like them.
Once in a while, though, it’s okay to reflect on some of your accom­plish­ments. I am a change­maker. I have, […]

Back in the Lit­tle City! Faced a week of “you’re from where? what’s Ottawa?” from dozens of Big City Amer­i­cans. Can’t say I’m sur­prised! It gave me the chance to talk about my town a bit more!
For those of you who didn’t catch my last blog post, I went away for about 10 days to […]

All around the world, we’re doing things to help heal Haiti. I’ve been in mar­vel at what the folks at #YYC4Haiti have been able to accom­plish. Alex Ruiz, Camilla Di Giuseppe, and Angela MacIsaac have spear­headed the ini­tia­tive, and i imag­ine tens of thou­sands of dol­lars will be raised on Jan­u­ary 28th in Cal­gary.
A few […]

As a believer that there is a com­mon thread that unites each indi­vid­ual on this planet, the tragedy tak­ing place in Haiti right now tugs at my heart strings. I imag­ine it does so even for peo­ple who do not share that belief.
Before any­thing else, I’m just so grate­ful that I live in Canada. For […]

I’m proud to say that I’m a found­ing father of #GenY­OTT. In our lit­tle crew are two other found­ing fathers, Matt Rich­ling and Brian Alk­er­ton, as well as one found­ing mother, Jen­nifer But­son.
A recur­ring ques­tion that we’ve encoun­tered is “what is #GenY­OTT?”. We’ve debated this amongst our­selves at meet­ings, as well as over Twit­ter. We […]