STAYING STRANDED: Not Many Takers For Canada’s $2900 Return Ticket Out Of India

An estimated 25,000 Canadian passport holders and PRs remained in India at the time the lockdown to help curb spread of Covid-19 was imposed and as international flights petered out, there was no oppo...

SIKH HERITAGE MONTH: Trudeau Applauds The Canadian Sikh Community’s Efforts Against COVID-19 Fight

Surrey-Newton MP Sukh Dhaliwal’s Private Member's Bill C-376 to designate April as Sikh Heritage Month also passed in the House and Senate and received Royal Assent into law. “Today we celebrate t...

BC COVID-19 UPDATE FRIDAY: Another 53 New Cases Takes BC Total To 1174

How far is the end game in the Coronavirus disruption> Given BC’s slow and steady climb with average new cases this week of just above 50 per day, we should hit the peak by mid April. Health Ministe...

New Restaurant Happy Singh Eats Joins Effort To Provide Food To Health Workers

SURREY - Happy Singh Eats, the newest restaurant endeavour by Tandoori Flame Restaurants, may not be open to the public just yet, however they are already serving their community.Teaming up with the k...

South Asian Family To Donate $100,000 To Richmond Hospital’s COVID-19 Response Fund

The Nanji Family Foundation has offered to match every dollar donated to the Richmond Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund up to a total of $100,000. That means that your generous donation will ...

Jinny Sims Cleared In “Letter-Writing” Scandal, Calls Out Liberal Leader Wilkinson For Promoting Baseless Allegations

“I’d like to thank the RCMP and Special Prosecutor for their fair and thorough investigation into these baseless accusations,” Sims said in a press release. Unfortunately, Andrew Wilkinson’s d...

BC COVID-19 UPDATE THURSDAY: 55 New Cases Takes BC Total To 1121 With Six More Dead

"In the last 24 hours, we are saddened to report six deaths in the Vancouver Coastal, Fraser and Island health regions. There have been 31 COVID-19 related deaths in British Columbia. The majority hav...

Brampton-West MP Kamal Khera Tests Positive For COVID-19

Kamal Khera said she started experiencing flu-like symptoms before testing positive last Tuesday.OTTAWA — An Indo-Canadian Liberal member of Parliament has confirmed that she has tested positive for...

Healthy Ismaili-Canadian Man First South Asian To Die Of COVID-19 In Toronto

An Ismaili-Canadian man is the first South Asian reported to have died from COVID-19 in Toronto last Saturday. Mubarak Popat became infected with COVID-19 after returning to Canada from the United Kin...