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VOL 25 - ISSUE 48
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to reset Canada-China relationship in Beijing
Well-known Surrey businessman killed in daylight shooting
Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Beijing on Wednesday for the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to China in eight years — part of his government's efforts to rebuild Canada's fractured relationship with China and expand non-U.S. trade. After declaring in 2022 that China is a "disruptive global power" that does not share Canada's values, the Liberal government is now shifting its China policy in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to upend global trade with tariffs. Upon landing in Beijing, Carney posted on social media that the relationship between Canada and China has created prosperity on both sides of the Pacific. "We’re ready to build a new partnership, one that builds on the best of our past and responds to the challenges of today," Carney said on X. Continued on Page 10...
Prominent businessman Baljinder (Binder) Singh Garcha has been identified by homicide investigators as the victim of a fatal shooting in Surrey this week. Just after noon on Tuesday, a man was found by police lying in the street near a roadway with gunshot wounds, in the 3500-block of 176th Street in South Surrey. The man, now identified as the 46-year-old Garcha, was pronounced dead at the scene. About an hour before, Surrey police responded to a vehicle fire in the 18900-block of 40th Street that is believed to be related to the shooting investigation, said the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, which has taken over the Continued on Page 10... case.
3 South Asian men including an international student killed couple for money Three men accused of killing an elderly Abbotsford couple in 2022 were motivated by “debt, financial pressure and greed,” a packed courtroom was told Monday (Jan. 12) at the opening of their trial. Co-Crown counsel Dorothy Tsui, in her opening statements in B.C. Supreme Court in Abbotsford, said Khushveer Toor, Gurkaran Singh and Abhijeet Singh of Surrey acted together to commit first-degree murder. “The ultimate cost of accomplishing their shared
objective of stealing money were the senseless deaths of Arnold and Joanne De Jong,” Tsui said. The bodies of the De Jongs were discovered on the morning of May 9, 2022 in their home in the 33600 block of Arcadian Way, a rural road in east Abbotsford. Tsui told the court that Joanne, 76, was found in her bed with her hands and feet tied by rope and surrounded by a “significant amount” of blood. Continued on Page 10...
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India eyes new markets with US trade deal in limbo
India is aggressively seeking trade deals to open markets for exporters and soften the blow of steep US tariffs, as efforts to secure an agreement with Washington remain elusive. Relations between Washington and New Delhi plummeted in August after President Donald Trump raised tariffs to 50 percent, a blow that threatens job losses and hurts India's ambition of becoming a manufacturing and export powerhouse. That pressure, experts say, has pushed New Delhi into a rapid diversification drive beyond its biggest market. India signed or operationalised four trade agreements last year, including a major pact with Britain -- the fastest pace of dealmaking it has seen in years -- and is now eyeing fresh deals. Continued on Page 6...
Another extortion-related shooting in Surrey Surrey police are investigating a business in Newton after another extortion-related shooting early on Wednesday morning. The Surrey Police Service said officers responded to a shots-fired call just after 2 a.m. near 80th Street and King George Boulevard. They discovered that the front of a business, the Bojhan Sweets and Restaurant, was damaged and bullet-holes could be seen in the windows, but luckily, no one was injured. Surrey’s major crime section has now taken over the investigation as they believe this to be linked to the ongoing series of extortions in the area.
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