to Toronto to deliver a series of lectures at the Universities of Toronto, Carlton and Queen's. Bukhara is a very well known and respected Persian language magazine printed in Tehran, Iran whose aim is to publish scholarly articles about Persian history, art, culture, philosophy and literature. Demographics Since the 1990s, Iranians have been among the top 10 immigrant populations in Canada. In 2008 alone, more than 6000 Iranians became permanent residents. Almost all of the newly arrived Iranians tend to choose GTA as the place of their residence. The current number of Iranian-Canadians in Southern Ontario is estimated to be over 140,000 and this number is rapidly increasing. The number of Iranians living in Richmond Hill for instance has more than doubled since 2001 and Persian is now the third most spoken language in Richmond Hill, behind English and Chinese. Persian makes up for 7% of the mother tongue languages spoken in Richmond Hill. Iranian-Canadians are also among the three highest educated ethnic groups in Canada (the other two being Chinese Canadians and Indo-Canadians). Around 10,000 Iranian students are estimated to be studying at the three big universities in Toronto with approximately 100 professors of Iranian background teaching in Canadian universities. Editor in Chief Mohsen Taghavi Editor-in-Chief Mohsen Taghavi is a professional journalist with close to 30 years experience, working as an editor with major dailies in Iran before migrating to Canada and working for other ethnic publications there. Columnists Azim Ahmed Hamaseh Doroudi Zahra Ziaie Dr. Bizhan Pardis Farahnaz Jahed Maxiar Mirhosseini Distribution In addition to subscriptions, and online editions, Salam Toronto is distributed to more than 150 common/high traffic locations in the GTA in hard copies and on a weekly basis (every Thursday). These locations include offices, restaurants, super markets, pharmacies etc. The table below depicts some of these locations: References External links Salam Toronto Weekly 2008 Better Newspaper Awards presented at the 2009 OCNA convention Interactive PDF Edition 2000 establishments in Ontario Newspapers established in 2000 Iranian-Canadian culture Persian-language newspapers Multicultural and ethnic newspapers published in Canada Bilingual newspapers Weekly newspapers published in Ontario