Surrey Changes Bylaws To Give Taxi Companies An Equal Playing Field With Ride Hailing

City Council endorsed the following improvements to City bylaws to ensure that all passenger directed vehicles, including taxicabs, reflect the same regulatory environment as provided in the IMBL to t...

Ontario NDP MPP Gurratan Singh Tables Sikh Genocide Awareness Week Bill

WSO President Tejinder Singh Sidhu said, "we welcome the tabling of An Act to Proclaim Sikh Genocide Awareness Week by Brampton East MPP Gurratan Singh. The acknowledgment of the Sikh Genocide and pas...

Disappointment And Criticism Greets NDP Government's Final Approval To Create Surrey Police Force

Opposition Surrey Councillor Linda Annis says that even though the province has given Surrey the go-ahead to create a local police board, she feels there has been a serious lack of transparency with t...

Surrey Police Transition Chairman Wally Oppal Says Local Police Will Be More Costly To Taxpayers

Respected Supreme Court judge and former BC Attorney General Wally Oppal, who is also the chair of the Surrey Policing Transition Task Force, provided an update at the Surrey Board of Trade meeting on...

NDP Calls On Trudeau Liberals To Make Changes To Improve Media Support Fund

The first change would move the cap for a salary admissible for a tax credit from $55,000 to $85,000. The second change would increase the amount of the salary admissible for a tax credit from 25% to ...

INDIA CENSORSHIP: Disney-Owned Hotstar Blocks John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' Episode Criticising Narendra Modi

The recent episode of the half-hour satire Last Week Tonight with British comedian John Oliver examines the protests in India, Trump's visit and BJP's Hindu nationalism. The comedian also discussed de...

ANOTHER 1984? India Must Put An Immediate Stop To Delhi Violence, Says WSO

The rightwing Hindutava goons have created chaos in Delhi using old tricks of setting commercial, residential and religious places on fire. The violence erupted on Sunday after supporters of the Citiz...

Indo-Australian Mayor Sukhi Turner Is Politician By Choice, Punjabi At Heart, Kiwi By Nature

Sukhinder Kaur Gill, aka Sukhi Turner, arrived in New Zealand in July 1973 after marrying the country’s most glamorous cricketer Glenn Turner and 20 years later, became the first Person of Indian Or...

Sri Srinivasan Becomes The First Indo-American Chief Judge

Sri Srinivasan, who was born in Chandigarh, is widely expected to be named to the apex court at some stage, possibly by a Democratic president — he was named to the DC circuit by Obama.WASHINGTON - ...