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WHY CAN'T SURREY RCMP DO SOMETHING ABOUT DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS? WILL SOMEONE INNOCENT HAVE TO DIE FIRST?
Or they can look outside the box and set up a special unit to deal with this menace as Vancouver Police Department did by forming a special force known as the Firearms Interdiction Team that used different tactics that resulted in a significant decrease in drive-by shootings in that city.
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Why it is so important NOT to forget Komagata Maru
The purpose of the gathering according to Harbhajan Gill of the Komagata Maru Heritage Foundation, organizer of the event, was " to remember the achievements made by our forefathers who made Canada what it is today and to remember the injustice that is still ongoing and not rectified today".
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Racist attack on Indo-Canadian man in Newton by two white teenagers
(The Vancouver Sun that just loves to run down Indo-Canadians shamelessly removed the ethnicities in their tiny report on the incident though the Surrey RCMP quite rightly mentioned them and so did the Province newspaper! Would the Sun have done the same thing if the attackers were Indo-Canadians and the victim a white guy like their white reporters and editors?)
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Surrey United 94 wins U-12 Provincial A Cup
Surrey United 94 won the under 12 Provincial A Cup this month and ended the season as one of the most successful youth teams in recent years. This past year the team, which has 10 players from the Indo-Canadian community, placed second in the league standings and won the Conference Cup and the Coastal Cup and then topped it off with winning the Provincial Cup.
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Women's Team India play their hearts out and make Indo-Canadians proud
This year in the annual Nations Cup tournament held in Richmond, India had a women's team. The men's team has been a regular fixture and a contender for many years, but now the Indian community is also looking to promote women's soccer.
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Mahilpur 'pind dey mundey' bury three teams to win US$2,500
Mahilpur brothers cashed in again after winning a first place award of US$2500 in Seattle last weekend - just one week after their second prize of $1000 from the annual Punjabi Sports Club tournament in Williams Lake during the weekend of July 15.
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Look out for the Dhol Beatz kids on Whitcaps' Indo-Canadian Night
Dhol Beatz with its partnership with the Vancouver Whitecaps entertained more then six thousand soccer fans during the Nations Cup match between the India's national team and the Vancouver whitecaps last week at Burnaby's Swangard Stadium.
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Three Indo-Canadians appointed to Order of Canada
Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean announced this week 77 new appointments to the Order of Canada. The new appointees include 25 officers (O.C.) and 52 members (C.M.).
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RCMP will take two more months to complete Grewal's political donations case probe as his credibility takes yet another hit
RCMP Commercial Crime Section's major case manager Inspector Lesley Bain told The VOICE this week that the Mounties are still working on the political donations case involving former Conservative M.P. Gurmant Grewal and hope to complete it "in the next couple of months."
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Indo-Canadian provincial court judge faces criminal charge
B.C. provincial court judge Bill (Balwinder William) Sundhu, 47, of Kamloops was arrested February 16 when staff at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Vancouver called police when Sundhu reportedly got drunk and started harassing the staff. He spent the night in jail.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
…The Vancouver Sun splashed the incident on the front page of Section B under the heading, "Sikhs fear return to violence in temple election." The paper thought this negative news was far more important than all the positive things at the annual Miri Piri Day event at Surrey's Guru Nanak Sikh Temple grounds.
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YOUR TURN
#1. VANCOUVER SUN'S BIG NEGATIVE HEADLINES ABOUT INDO-CANADIAN COMMUNITY
#2. BAINS: HAYER HAS PROPAGANDA NOT FACTS
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WorkSafeBC has failed BC Workers
The WCB (now reinvented as WorkSafeBC) states that their vision is "Workers and workplaces safe and secure from injury, illness and disease". They state their core mandates are "Prevention, Rehabilitation and Compensation". I believe Grant De Patie, Bhupinder S. Kang and William Cowburn would take exception to these statements and for good reason.
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NEWS ROUND UP
CAMPBELL: EMBRACING TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY & OPENNESS
FRUITICANA SPONSORED INDIAN SOCCER TEAM
PICS: NEW PROGRAMS & EXPANSION OF SERVICES
FREE EYE CLINIC AT MIRI-PIRI
CAPTIVATING HINDI FOLK MUSIC PROGRAM
VANCOUVER APPOINTS TWO INDO-CANADIANS TO BOARD OF VARIANCE
SURREY: FUND FOR THE HOMELESS
B.C. ON THE GROUND IN ASIA
HEY, LIGHTEN UP, GUYS!
VPD PROMOTING GROW-OP AWARENESS
AUTO THEFT DOWN IN SURREY
KIDS' SAFETY: WATCH THOSE WINDOWS!
SURREY MEMORIAL: HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY GOES HI-TECH
POLITICAL ELITE OF B.C.
VEHICLES WITH HIDDEN COMPARTMENTS USED FOR COCAINE
NEW CONSULATE GENERAL IN SAN FRANCISCO
HARPER ANNOUNCES FINANCIAL AID FOR HEPATITIS C VICTIMS
LIBERALS: CONSERVATIVES WILL HAVE TO SLASH PROGRAMS & SERVICES
CANADIAN SOLDIER KILLED IN LEBANON
TWO MORE CANADIAN SOLDIERS DIE IN AFGHANISTAN
BC HYDRO AWARDS ENERGY CONTRACTS
GOOD HEALTH NOT A MUST FOR SENIORS' SATISFACTION
B.C. RETAIL REMAINS IN GOOD SHAPE
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VOICE - ONE YEAR AGO
(This is from The VOICE of July 30, 2005)
 
 

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