BC Minimum Wage Rises To $16.75 An hour On June 1

On June 1, 2023, B.C.'s lowest-paid workers will get a pay boost when the general minimum wage increases from $15.65 to $16.75 an hour. The 6.9% increase on Thursday, June 1, 2023, also applies to min...

PLEA Appeals To Surrey’s Parents To Pick Punjabi Over French

The Punjabi Language Education Association (PLEA) is urging parents in Surrey to pick Punjabi over French. In a press release last week, PLEA said Surrey School District has sent notes to parents of s...

PAUL SANDHU: Remembering A Bay Street Legend And Fixed-Income Guru

Paul Sandhu was chief executive of Toronto-based Marret Asset Management Inc. and among the most talented fixed-income investors of the past several decades. He suffered a horrible accident at his cot...

BC Byelections For Vancouver-Mount Pleasant And Langford-Juan de Fuca Scheduled For June 24

Premier David Eby has called two byelections for the electoral districts of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Langford-Juan de Fuca in late June. Final voting day for both electoral districts will be June ...

Another South Asian Man Goes Missing In Downtown Vancouver

Another South Asian man has gone missing from downtown Vancouver after the previous missing man’s body was discovered in False Creek after he was reported missing last month. Police are asking for t...

CHUCKY’S DEAD: UN Gangster Amarpreet Samra Gunned Down Outside Fraserview Hall

They got Chucky! A well known Indo-Canadian gangster Amarpreet Samra, aka “Chucky”, who recently appeared on a police list of most dangerous gangsters, was gunned down early Sunday morning outside...

Indo-Canadian Trucker Busted With 60 Bricks Of Cocaine

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) busted an Indo-Canadian trucker carrying a large load of cocaine. On April 17, 2023, Jasbir Singh, a Canadian resi...

Visiting Punjab Post Pandemic: Towns Of Bilga And Nurmahal Hold Historic Importance

By Balwant SangheraVisiting Punjab in particular and India in generaI is always a great pleasure for this writer. There is so much to see and do. India’s history and historical monuments are just am...

Indo-Brit-Led Gang Convicted In Multi-Million Dollar People Smuggling Ring

A multi-million dollar people smuggling ring led by an Indo-British gang was busted and 16 people have been convicted following a major National Crime Agency investigation into a West London-based org...