News By Joe Ruttle

Elderly Vancouver Island aunt allowed to stay in Canada after five-year fight

KATHERINE DEDNYA  VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST [caption id="attachment_554989" align="alignright" width="402"] Surjit Bhandal, 83, received word Friday that Citizenship and Immigration Canada will allow her ...

Surrey Vaisakhi Parade 2013 draws an estimated 220,000 people

The annual parade and community party that fills the streets of Surrey with sights, sounds and the smell of delicious Indian ...

Vancouver celebrates Vaisakhi with a hearty parade (with video, gallery)

[ooyala code="11eWN5YTrR_nSRJ6dNEotGYSAVghzJ8d"] LARISSA CAHUTE VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_536266" align="alignright" width="311"] The annual Sikh Vaisakhi parade rolls through Vancouver, B.C. to the delight of thousands ...

All India Sweets to get plaque honouring Vancouver’s fast-vanishing Punjabi Market

LARISSA CAHUTE VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_535424" align="alignright" width="266"] All India Sweets & Restaurant received the historical plaque on behalf of the entire Punjabi ...

Rape horror in paradise: teen victim ordered to be whipped in Maldives

VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_524799" align="alignright" width="400"] A campaign image from Avaaz.org, which is trying to reverse a Maldives decision to whip a ...

Villagers incensed by slow police response to rape, killing of three young sisters

NIRMALA GEORGE  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [caption id="attachment_508985" align="alignright" width="360"] In this Dec. 29, 2012, file photo, Indian women participate in a silent procession ...

RELIGION: Malaysian Sultan tells Sikhs, Christians they cannot call their God ‘Allah’

[caption id="attachment_436694" align="alignright" width="400"] Sultan of Selangor State in Malaysia[/caption] Vancouver Desi A Malaysian Sultan from the State of Selangor has decreed that ...

VANCOUVER ISLAND: MP pleads with immigration minister not to deport elderly Sikh woman

[caption id="attachment_393149" align="alignleft" width="460"] Surjit Bhandal, 83, surrounded by family and friends at the First Metropolitan United Church in Victoria on ...

CRIME: Ex-boyfriend and another charged in Maple Batalia murder

[caption id="attachment_383049" align="alignright" width="300"] Maple’s sister Roseleen, with her father Harkirat and mother Sarbjit, at the press conference announcing police had ...

B.C. GANG WAR: Sukh Dhak’s murder will only lead to power struggle, says expert

[caption id="attachment_376464" align="alignright" width="177"] Sukh Dhak leaves BC Supreme Court Oct. 22, after the morning session of his drug trial.[/caption] IAN AUSTIN VANCOUVER ...

GAY BASHING: Victims, others weren’t certain of the accuseds’ identities, lawyer tells court

[caption id="attachment_369329" align="alignright" width="400"] Brothers Parminder (r) and Ravinder Bassi arrive at BC Provincial Court in Vancouver, BC., March 21, 2012. ...

VIRGIN MARY: Malaysian church gets hospital window that drew crowds believing they saw divine image

[caption id="attachment_353329" align="alignright" width="367"] People pray underneath an image that is said to resemble the Virgin Mary (not in picture), which ...

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