The prolific Deepa Mehta has done it again! Made a film that is likely to provoke extreme responses. In the year 2000, Deepa Mehta had started Water in Varanasi which had to be stalled when religious ...

The little trial going on at the New Westminster courthouse has been full of startling testimony. Manny Buttar, 34, is facing three counts – assault with a weapon – in this case a bar glass, uttering ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Mumbai, Sep 22 (IANS) Canada has not only been home to Khalistan sympathisers, but also provided refuge to Indian gangsters wanted by enforcement agencies. Even as the names of Goldie ...

Buttar, known as one of the most notorious of Indo-Canadian gangsters who boasted that he "killed for a living", was sentenced on Thursday for an assault on a stranger. Buttar, known as one of the ...

I was tipped by blog readers in July about murder victim Alexander Kucovic’s links to B.C. But I wasn’t able to follow up before heading on leave over the summer. When I learned this week that York ...

Acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta, who has developed a bit of a reputation for choosing controversial themes for her films, is at it again. While Her 2000 film Water, then being shot in Varanasi, had to ...

When I was a young reporter, a gang known as the Russians were trying to corner the drug trade in Vancouver. Two brothers, Taras and Sergei Filinov, thought they were tougher than the Hells Angels and ...

For the past decade, Vancouver has been caught in the grip of a gangland war that reads like the script for one of the Godfather movies or The Untouchables. More than 50 gangsters have been murdered, ...

They were small-time gangsters who sold drugs at schools and nightclubs. But with muscle, firepower and wads of cash, they moved about like big guys who ran the city. Stories linking violence, drugs ...

They aren’t quite the most celebrated Indians in North America. Not all of them are even alive. They have names like Johal, Sanghera, Buttar, Durhe. And while the community has taken pride in its ...

When sirens blare in the middle of the night, parents in the Surrey, B.C. neighbourhood of Newton lie awake and pray it doesn’t involve their child. “An ambulance goes past and I can’t sleep because I ...