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Surrey targeted shooting leaves one injured One person was injured in a targeted shooting in Surrey’s Whalley neighbourhood early Tuesday morning, not far from Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre. The Surrey Police Service said its officers were called to the area of 106 Avenue and 135A Street at around 3:44 a.m. with reports of a shooting. A woman was found with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said, but the suspect had already left the area. Surrey police said the shooting is under investigation and believed to be targeted, but not extortion-related. Just three days prior, the SPS said it was investigating another targeted shooting that happened in Surrey’s East Clayton neighbourhood. Anyone with any information, CCTV, or dash camera footage related to the shooting has been asked to call the SPS at 604-5990502, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 and quote file number 26-78965.
Vancouver mayor asks premier for urgent action on foreign influence at City Hall Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has asked the province to take urgent action to restrict what he described as “foreign interference” after a local union enlisted supporters from the U.S. to phone into a city council meeting this week. Sim became concerned, he said, after a public hearing on Wednesday, during which several people in California phoned into Vancouver City Hall to address council. The callers, who confessed upon questioning they had never been to Vancouver, used similar talking points and urged council to reject the so-called villages proposal, a contentious land-use plan that would add commercial and residential density to 17 areas around Vancouver. Then, on Thursday, the president of Unite Here Local 40, B.C.’s largest union representing hotel workers, confirmed to Postmedia her organization had asked contacts in the U.S. to phone into the meeting. Continued on Page 10...
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25-year old Uber driver from Punjab arrested for sexual assault in Canada
'Significant growth' possible on wildfire threatening Clinton
A 25-year-old man of Indian origin from Punjab has been charged in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Burlington, Canada, last month. The accused, identified as Mandeep Singh, 25, was working as an Uber ride share driver at the time of the alleged incident. According to the Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS), the incident took place on June 16 at 5:15 pm in the parking lot of the Burlington GO Station located at 2101 Fairview Street. Police said Singh approached the woman and, during their conversation, allegedly sexually assaulted her. The woman immediately left the area but was allegedly followed by Singh to a nearby business, where he is accused of sexually assaulting her a second time. Police said the woman did not suffer any physical injuries and later reported the incident. Continued on Page 9...
The B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) says a fire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes in and around Clinton, B.C., could see "significant growth" Tuesday. "Extreme fire behaviour is expected today," BCWS said in a response update. It said the Pear Lake wildfire was active throughout the night with a "highly vigorous surface fire," and that dry thunderstorms were in the forecast. The fire, which merged with the Fiftynine Creek wildfire over the weekend, was burning over an area of 668.7 square kilometres (66,871.2 hectares) as of Tuesday morning. Numerous evacuation orders and alerts remain in place. Continued on Page 10...
New permanent residents down 20% in Canada Nearly half the drop came from India Canada admitted 20 per cent fewer permanent residents in the first three months of this year, with study permits and asylum claims also falling.
The country took in 83,130 permanent residents between January and March, down from 104,320 over the same three months in 2025, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada data analyzed by the Association for Canadian Studies. It is the second consecutive year admissions have fallen. New study permits dropped 24 per cent and asylum claims fell 35 per cent over the same period. Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, said in an email the pattern is not a quarterly fluctuation. “Canada has moved from rapid immigration expansion to a deliberate, government-driven contraction,” he Continued on Page 10... said.
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