by South Asian Star | Dec 9, 2025 | Local
Balpreet Singh, legal counsel and spokesperson for the World Sikh Organization of Canada, speaks at a Dec. 7 public town hall on extortion. The event was held at the Canadian Convention Centre in Brampton. A coalition of Sikh organizations is demanding action on what...
by South Asian Star | Dec 8, 2025 | Local
The BC Conservatives are asking B.C. Premier David Eby to reconvene the legislature immediately to repeal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). DRIPA was passed into law in November, 2019, and establishes the United Nations Declaration on the...
by South Asian Star | Dec 8, 2025 | Local
Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.In the last weeks of B.C.’s legislative session, Green Party Leader Emily Lowan has been a long way from...
by South Asian Star | Dec 8, 2025 | Local
Steven Globerman is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. Joel Emes and Austin Thompson are analysts at the Fraser Institute. The dream of home ownership is alive, but not well. According to a recent Abacus poll, nearly nine in 10 young Canadians, those aged 18 to...
by South Asian Star | Dec 8, 2025 | Local
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) is probing the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man in Surrey’s Guildford area, in what early indications suggest was a targeted organized crime incident. RCMP Surrey Provincial Operations Support Unit officers...
by South Asian Star | Dec 7, 2025 | Local
By Wolfgang Depner The Canadian Press Posted December 7, 2025 6:28 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in Surrey, B.C., say shots fired at a residence and two vehicle fires Sunday morning are connected, but it is not clear...
