Farm workers To Get 2.8 Percent Rate Increase On January 1 BC announced Thursday that farm workers and producers are reminded that the minimum wage for agricultural piece rates will increase by 2.8% on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. The increase applies to 15 agricult...
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke’s Year End Message Highlights Keeping The RCMP And Saving $235 Million Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke delivered her year-end message Thursday and keeping the RCMP as the main police force in the city and saving $235 million in the process was the central message. “Policing ...
BC Hoping To Please Both Landlords And Renters With New Speedier Dispute Resolution Process On Wednesday, the government announced that renters and landlords in B.C. will soon benefit from more timely and efficient supports and services as the government takes action to speed up and strength...
IDEOLOGICALLY BENT: Basic Liberties Can Become Irrelevant In Guise Of Good Governance By Promod PuriDo political parties under a democratic structure need to base themselves on their distinctive ideologies, or can they do away with that and solely project themselves as suppliers of goo...
Council Votes To Re-Establish Surrey Ethics Commissioner Office Surrey City Council voted to re-establish a Surrey Ethics Commissioner Office during its Regular Council Meeting recently. A Committee consisting of three members of the public, two City of Surrey Cou...
Meet The South Asian Press! Newly-minted Premier David Eby and his rebooted large South Asian cabinet including senior ministers Ravi Kahlon and Harry Bains met with members of the South Asian media Monday morning to discuss iss...
GOOD NEWS: India Restores e-Visa For Canadian Passport Holders It’s certainly good news for travelers heading to India as the country has finally restored e-visa services for Canadian passport holders who have faced huge delays and backlog in processing their v...
Federal Government Must Provide More Funds For Healthcare By Harinder MahilCanada’s premiers held a joint press conference last week and asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeaufor an “urgent” meeting with them to “hammer out a deal” on health-care fund...
Surrey Board of Trade Urges Minister Farnworth To Speed Up Approval Of Plan To Retain Surrey RCMP The City’s main business lobby group is urging the provincial government to speed up approval plan to keep the Surrey RCMP. The Surrey Board of Trade said this week that they are urging Minister Mik...
Amedkarites To Remember The Father Of India’s Constitution On December 6 By Zile SinghDr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar(April 14, 1891 – December 6, 1956)Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 in Mhow, a town and military cantonment in the Central Province (now M...