WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has busy since taking over the presidency last Friday and is on executive order signing spree in attempt to show that he was really serious about many of his crazy ideas during the campaign. Trump signed two executive orders early this week in keeping with campaign promises to boost […]
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promoted nine first-term backbenchers in appointing a new roster of parliamentary secretaries but there were no Indo-Canadian MPs included from his large contingent of Indo-Canadian MPs. In fact, he demoted one Indo-Canadian MP who had previously been named a parliamentary secretary. MP Anju Dhillon was among seven Liberal […]
SURREY – Surrey RCMP is asking the public to be on the lookout for a maroon coloured van and male driver which were involved in two suspicious incidents in the Guildford and Fleetwood areas. On January 24th in the 16400 block of 80th Avenue at 5:00 pm, a woman was jogging and noticed a van […]
Grade 12 students from Christian Secondary School on Richmond’s Highway to Heaven (#5 Road) visited India Cultural Centre of Canada Gurdwara Nanak Niwas on Tuesday, January 24 to learn about Slkhism. They were impressed with the reception and thanked the Gurdwara Management for a very warm welcome. They were given a brief talk on Sikhism […]
SAN FRANCISCO – In an alleged hate crime, a restaurant owned by a Sikh man in the US state of California has been targeted with abuses like “terrorist” and the “N” word written on its front wall. CJ Singh, owner of Quiznos in Woodland, California said, “someone also unsuccessfully tried to light the business on […]
SUV Riddled With Bullets Near Indo-Canadian Banquet Hall In Surrey Last Friday! A shooting near a busy Surrey Indo-Canadian banquet hall at 80th and near 120th in Surrey took place late last Friday night (January 20). On Monday night, a young Indo-Canadian man was killed at a McDonald’s on 96 Avenue. On Thursday night, Surrey […]
The annual Republic Day celebrations were held at the Indian Consulate offices in downtown Vancouver on Thursday, January 26. It is the Day when India became an independent Republic.
The Progressive Intercultural Services Society (PICS) held their first ever media luncheon (they finally got enough funding -Lol) at their Assisted Living facility to introduce their programs and staff to members of the South Asian media. PICS has been growing ever since OASIS, the first such immigrant-community services society serving the South Asian community went […]
The US Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, as US ambassador to the United Nations. WASHINGTON – The US senate confirmed Nikki Haley as the next ambassador to the United Nations, a position of cabinet rank that an Indian-American will hold for the first time in the country’s history. […]
VANCOUVER – NDP Critic on Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees, Jenny Kwan issued a press releasing deploring the actions of the newly elected US President Donald Trump. “Today Donald Trump signed executive orders to erect walls and barriers to the peaceful immigration of people into the United States. These actions are aimed at specific ethnic groups […]
