Beloved Indo-Canadian Bus Driver Charanjit Parhar Dies After Being Pinned Between Two Buses

Charanjit Parhar, an experienced bus driver, had left his driver's seat to remove the power poles connected to overhead wires to electrically power his bus to allow another driver, who was running lat...

Gurdwara Nanak Niwas Raises $50,000 For Richmond Hospital

By Balwant SangheraIndia Cultural Centre of Canada Gurdwara Nanak Niwas, 8600 Number 5 Road, Richmond is proud to be an active member of the South Asian community and the City of Richmond. It has alwa...

KOMAGATA MARU APOLOGY: New Westminster Apologizes To The South Asian Community And Descendants Of The Victims Of The Historical Wrongdoing

On Monday, September 27 at the Open Meeting of Council, with representatives of the South Asian Community in attendance, Mayor Jonathan X. Cote read the City of New Westminster’s official apology to...

Indo-Canadian Businessman Buys The BC Lions Football Team

Amar Doman is the son of pioneering Indo-Canadian Ted Doman and nephew of lumber tycoon Herb Doman, who along with a third brother Gordon, founded Doman Industries in 1953, the company was one of Nort...

16 Indo-Canadians Elected MPs In Trudeau’s Returned Minority Government

All prominent Punjabi-Canadian faces were reelected—including Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan from Vancouver South, Minister Bardish Chaggar from Waterloo, minister Anita Anand from Oakvilla and Jagm...

Indo-Canadian Top Cop In Victoria Assaulted At Memorial For Indigenous Woman

The event was meant to honour Chantel Moore, a Vancouver Island woman who was killed by New Brunswick police last year. Shortly after the blanketing ceremony a woman came up behind Del Manak and poure...

WSO Condemns Australia’s New School Kirpan Policy

The World Sikh Organization of Canada said NSW Department of Education, Australia’s new kirpan policy fundamentally alters the nature of the kirpan by requiring that it be no more than 8.5cm in leng...

Trudeau And O'Toole's Reaction To Racist Bill 21 Debate Question Truly Outrageous, Says WSO

Debate Moderator Shachi Kurl, in engaging Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said, "You denied that Quebec has problems with racism yet you defend legislation such as Bills 96 and 21 whic...

Popular Indo-Canadian Vernon Councilor Loses Decade Long Battle With Cancer

Dalvir Nahal was in her second term as a councilor. She was first elected in 2014, finishing fifth out of 14 hopefuls for the six seats with 3,919 votes. Nahal was re-elected in 2018, finishing third ...