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Monday’s rejection by Abbotsford city councilors of a proposed 500-seat crematorium highlights the need for the increasingly powerful Indo-Canadian community to come together and work out a strategy to build one in that city no matter what.
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#1. SCC’S RINA GILL: WE NEED A FAIR SYSTEM
#2. FEDERAL ELECTIONS: WHAT IS HARPER’S GAME?
#3. AND IN B.C., NDP RULES - FOR NOW
#4. VIJAY SINGH: ‘I’M THE BEST PUTTER IN THE WORLD’
#5. YES, MLA BRUCE RALSTON WAS THERE!
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Outgoing Indian Consul General Ashok Kumar, who’s leaving for Zambia on a promotion as high commissioner, spoke to me last week about his experience here. Ashok Das from New Delhi has been appointed the new Consul General.
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I have spent many months thinking about whether I should run for City Council in Vancouver, and after a lot of encouragement from a wide variety of supporters, I announced this past Monday that I was going to put my name forward for a Vision Vancouver nomination.
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Canadian writer / director R. Paul Dhillon’s debut feature film Sweet Amerika will hit theatres in Canada on September 19. The film, produced by Bobby Nagra and Dhillon under their MMM Films banner, will be released in theatres Canada-wide by CSS Releasing.
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Mississauga mom Aaditi Kulkarni was so blown away when a few years ago she read a classic book in her mother tongue, Marathi, that she laboured for eight months to translate it into English so that she could share its message with the world.
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#1. HERB DOMAN’S MISSING DAUGHTER?
#2. DAVID GREWAL TURNS HIMSELF IN
#3. SHAHZAD SARDAR-ALI ARRESTED
#4. VLMFSS CORRECTS PHONE NUMBER
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The RCMP “E” Division Commercial Crime Section and Vancouver Police Department announced on Tuesday that two Vancouver area men have been charged and arrested as a result of an investigation into complaints of fraudulent real estate transactions.
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#1. SCIENTIST-TURNED-SAVIOUR FOR THE DESTITUTE
#2. LIBERALS ARE WRONG ON KOMAGATA MARU APOLOGY
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When the news spilled out about the massive 43-per-cent pay raise Gordon Campbell gave to his top deputies, the Campbell Liberals sent B.C.’s hardest workers a clear message – you don’t matter. The Premier should start by explaining why he pushed through more obscene wage hikes for his top executives and then snuck out of town on a private jet before it was announced.
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#1. LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES NECK-AND-NECK
#2. INDIA’S INGENUITY IN AFRICA
#3. SIKH LEADER: MURDER OF INDIAN CHRISTIANS LATEST IN ANTI-MINORITY VIOLENCE
#4. UNIVERSAL POSTAL SERVICE – BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
#5. AKAL ACADEMY SURREY’S ANNUAL PICNIC AND SPORTS DAY
#6. JAPJI SAHIB AND SHABAD KIRTAN CD RELEASED BY SIKH RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN
#7. TRAFFIC LONG WEEKEND
#8. CROSS-BORDER BACK-TO-SCHOOL SHOPPING TIPS
#9. WALK TO SCHOOL OR RIDE A BIKE
#10. BACK TO SCHOOL TIPS TO HELP STUDENTS SUCCEED
#11. CRIME RATE IN B.C. DROPS TO LOWEST LEVEL IN 30 YEARS
#12. CHARITY FUNDRAISING RECORD SET IN SCOTIABANK VANCOUVER HALF-MARATHON
#13. LIBERALS: HEALTH MINISTER CHOOSES AMERICAN POLITICS OVER OUR HEALTH
#14. AN UPDATE ON THE OUTBREAK OF LISTERIOSIS
#15. LIBERALS ADMIT FLAWS IN RISKY CARBON TAX
#16. PREMIER CONGRATULATES B.C. OLYMPIC ATHLETES
#17. B.C. APPROVES GOLD STANDARD SCHOOL IN GROWING COMMUNITY
#18. B.C.’S ESTABLISHED GAS RESERVES CONTINUE UPWARD TREND
#19. GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION TO ELIMINATE DRUGS IN FEDERAL PRISONS
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In a few weeks, the media will be full of stories reminding us of the horrendous October 19 gangland execution-style murder of six people at Apartment 1505 of the Balmoral Towers at 9830 East Whalley Ring Road in Surrey that still remains unsolved.
