Vancouver Celebrates Nagar Kirtan!

Despite the rain and wet-cold weather, Sikhs in Vancouver were out on the streets of South Vancouver to celebrate the first Nagar Kirtan post pandemic. The crowd was lower than usual which has never r...

JATT ROCKS COACHELLA: Punjabi Superstar Diljit Dosanjh Makes His Debut At The Big Show

Punjabi superstar Diljit Dosanjh made history as the first Punjabi singer to perform at the big American music festival known as Coachella. Dosanjh took to the stage at the Coachella music festival on...

Vancouver Police Updates Handcuffing Policy After Criticism Over High-Handed Incidents

Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is updating it’s handcuffing policy after criticism and backlash over it’s high handedness in controversial handcuffing of children as it happened when it wrongly...

NDP Says Kevin Falcon’s New BCUP Logo Gives Toll Nightmares To Surrey Residents

The former BC Liberal party officially changed their names to BC United Party (BCUP) and unveiled a new logo that looks eerily like the TReO logo that BCUP Leader Kevin Falcon and his party used to co...

Indo-Canadian RCMP Dies In Alberta Crash

An Indo-Canadian RCMP officer with the Strathcona County died after his vehicle hit a concrete barrier. Const. Harvinder Singh Dhami, 32, was driving to assist other officers with a noise complaint ca...

Police Seek Assistance In Locating Missing South Asian Woman

Surrey RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a missing South Asian woman. Jovaria Ghani was last seen at noon on April 13 in the 7800 block of 139A Street in Surrey. She has not bee...

Bank of Canada Pushes Another Pause On Rate Hikes But Is Not Sure About Cuts In Upcoming Announcements

The Bank of Canada announced on Wednesday that it’s doing another pause on its target for the overnight rate at 4½%, with the Bank Rate at 4¾% and the deposit rate at 4½%. The Bank said it is als...

BC Speaker Raj Chouhan And Others Honoured On Anniversary Of Right To Vote By South Asian Community

The South Asian community won the right to vote in British Columbia on April 2, 1947. The Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation commemorated this historic day by organizing an event on April 1 and honoured Raj C...

BC Minimum Wage Increasing 6.9 Percent To $16.75 An Hour On June 1

BC government announced this week that on June 1, 2023, B.C.'s lowest-paid workers will get a pay raise with the general minimum wage increasing from $15.65 to $16.75 an hour. "Having a minimum wage t...