South Asian

• ‘Protection money’: Mounting fears over extortion letters targeting B.C. businesses

  Global News has obtained an extortion letter purportedly from an "Indian gang" as police in the region investigate threats targeting business owners.

  Crime

  Dec 6, 2023
  
• Operation Tee-Time provides South-Asian youth in Calgary with free golf lessons

  The Calgary Police Service has launched Operation Tee-Time, a pilot initiative to provide free golf lessons to youth from the South Asian community between the ages of six and 18.

  Lifestyle

  Aug 23, 2023
  
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• Journalist allegedly assaulted as Punjab tensions spill over into B.C.

  Journalist Sameer Kaushal says he was surrounded and assaulted by protesters outside an event with India's high commissioner to Canada this weekend.

  Crime

  Mar 20, 2023
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• ‘He just understood everything’: Therapists gets cultural training at CAMH to help treat South Asian patients

  The centre said that while South Asians have a higher rate of anxiety and mood disorders compared with the general population, they are 85 per cent less likely to seek treatment.

  Health

  Mar 7, 2023
• Advocates warn of alarming rise in toxic drug deaths among B.C. international students

  The president of a Surrey gurdwara says he knows of four deaths this month alone, and that his temple has spent $200,000 returning victims' bodies to India in the last two years.

  Health

  Jan 17, 2023
• Calgary’s South Asian community reaches out to help newcomers

  Various settlement agencies and cultural groups were at the fair at the Genesis Centre on Saturday, which was organized by the South Asian Service Providers Collaborative.

  Crime

  Jun 25, 2022
• South Asian truckers say freedom convoy protests miss the mark on key issues affecting the industry

  Local South Asians, who represent a large portion of the trucking industry, say the trucker convoy protests miss the mark on key issues affecting truckers.

  Health

  Feb 5, 2022
• Hamilton researchers join study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness on South Asian community

  Immune response to vaccines and hesitancy around immunization will be targets in the Canadian study.

  Health

  Jun 3, 2021
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• Vancouver remembers Komagata Maru on 107th anniversary of ship denied entry

  The Komagata Maru steamship arrived in Vancouver on May 23, 1914 with hundreds of British subjects from India aboard who were sent back due to their ethnicity or religion.

  Canada

  May 23, 2021
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• ‘I’m so proud’: Asian Canadians reflect on family, community for Asian Heritage Month

  From tackling their career goals to inspiring artistic projects, Asian Canadians have continued to look to their own families, culture and community as sources of inspiration.

  Lifestyle

  May 19, 2021