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Surrey Vaisakhi Parade to return on April 22 Surrey Vaisakhi Parade will take place on Saturday, April 22. After being cancelled for three years in a row because of the pandemic, organizers say the annual Surrey Khalsa Day Vaisakhi Parade will be back this year. In a news release from event organizers, the group says that more than half a million people are expected to crowd the streets for the colourful event. “After having to cancel the parade and the other weekend celebrations for the past three years, we know that the community locally in B.C. as well as guests who travel from as far away as across the U.S., Europe, and Australia will be thrilled to hear that the 2023 Surrey Khalsa Day Vaisakhi Parade is definitely back on,” Gurdwara Sahib Dasmesh Darbar President Gurdeep Singh Samra said in a release.
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remier David Eby vowed to take the first bit of new money in B.C.’s $27.47 billion deal for health care funding from the federal government to give struggling emergency rooms and primary-care systems some relief. The agreement in principle Eby announced with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Langley on Wednesday comes with an immediate $273 million to address urgent needs, especially in pediatric hospitals and emergency rooms where patients suffer Continued on page 11
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and BC Premier David Eby tour the nursing training area at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley on, March 1.
Trudeau defends Toronto Liberal MP accused of benefitting from Chinese interference
U.S. urges Beijing to come clean on COVID
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claims that if you’re concerned about Beijing’s interference into Canadian elections, you’re probably just a bigot. While Trudeau wants to shirk responsibility for yet another scandal, it’s disappointing that he’s decided to do so in such an offensive and divisive way. Since November, a series of bombshell news reports have exposed the extent of China’s interference into Canadian democracy. The reports, which are based off of classified documents leaked from the Canadian Security
The U.S. ambassador to China says Washington must put pressure on Beijing to be more “honest” about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nicholas Burns made the comment after it was reported on Sunday that the U.S. Energy Department had concluded that the pandemic probably arose from a Chinese laboratory leak, which
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Inside a shrine overlooking snow-capped mountains, Hindu priests heaped spoonfuls of puffed rice and ghee into a crackling fire. They closed their eyes and chanted in Sanskrit, hoping their prayers would somehow turn back time and save their holy — and sinking — town. For months, the roughly 20,000 residents in Joshimath, burrowed in the Himalayas and revered by Hindu and Sikh pilgrims,
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