First Nations Say VPD’s Ongoing Failure To Properly Apologize Puts Human Rights Settlement At Risk Heiltsuk Nation members seek a culturally appropriate apology from VPD Constables’ failure and ask the constables to apologize in a culturally appropriate way is systemic racism in action and is pre...
Veteran Ontario Public Servant Prabhu Rajan Appointed BC's Next Police Complaint Commissioner Veteran Ontario public servant, a South Asian man, has been appointed as BC’s next Police Complaint Commissioner. The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia announced Wednesday that they have appo...
BC Goes After Six Properties Owned By Accused Kelowna-Based Drug Trafficker Kulwant Bal BC wants Kulwant Bal, an alleged member of a criminal organization, to forfeit more than $6 million in real estate in the Okanagan because it was bought using the proceeds of drug trafficking and frau...
Vancouver Names City’s Waterfront Street As Komagata Maru Place Vancouver mayor Ken Sim and members from the local Sikh community including Raj Singh Toor, the vice-president of the Descendants of the Komagata Maru Society and a grandson of one of the ship's passe...
Surrey City Manager Backs Mayor Locke On SPS Budget Overrun Surrey City manager has come to defence of Mayor Brenda Locke’s fight over not paying the Surrey Police Service officers because the controversial upstart police force has exceeded it’s approved b...
BC Minister Selina Robinson Forced To Resign After Offending Muslims, Palestinians With Her Callous Remarks BC Minister of Post Secondary Education Selina Robinson was forced to resign after offending both Muslims and all reasonable human beings with her callous remarks which drew continued pressure to resi...
Sikhs Come Out In Droves As Over 127,000 Vote For Khalistan Referendum In San Francisco More than 127,000 American Sikhs voted for the Khalistan Referendum for the first time on American soil — just weeks following the US government announced it had prevented the Indian state from assa...
Talking Civic Politics With Surrey First’s Poll-Topping Councilor Linda Annis Recently, DESIBUZZCanada sat down with Surrey First’s poll-topping Councilor Linda Annis and her friend and former running mate Bilal Cheema in the last election that resulted in another victory for...
Canada Finally Curbs The Massive Influx Of International Students But Is It Enough Canada finally acted to curb the massive influx of foreign students with more than one-third from India who seem to be more problematic with crime and abuse of the student program to basically get imm...
DRUG DEATHS: 2023 Claims More Than 2,500 Lives As Deadly Pandemic Rages On Toxic drugs including fentanyl overdoses continue to claim thousands of British Columbians as the deadly pandemic rages on. Preliminary reporting released by the BC Coroners Service on Wednesday confi...