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Dinu Tailor: The Exchange District

United Nations Dept: A mini United Nations, is buzzing with activity seven days a week at 460 Notre Dame Ave., just one minute from The Exchange District. There are no lights flashing above the sign for Dino's Grocery Mart, and people often miss it on the busy one-way stretch. The trick is to start looking left in the block before Salter Street, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "We have customers from the Caribbean, Central and South America, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and many parts of Africa. And lately, a lot of people are coming from Bhutan," says Dinu Tailor, who runs the store with daughter Neeti Varma and son-in-law Rajan Varma and jOE BRYKSA / Dinu Tailor came to Canada from India in 1974. The first thing new customers notice is the background dance music -- reggae, Indian, African, upbeat world music. Sometimes you'll see people rocking their groceries to the music in the checkout line. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.