Sikhism in Canada - Wikipedia
Sikhism is the second largest religion in the Vancouver metropolitan area where they form 8.5% of the total population, according to the 2021 census. In 2011 28,235 persons in the Abbotsford - Mission metropolitan area stated that they were of the Sikh religion, making up 16.9% of the population. [ 137 ]
India Aids U.S., but Is Stern With Canada, Amid Murder Plot …
21 hours ago · Oct. 18, 2024. In a week of geopolitical intrigue, in which Canada broadened its accusations that India was plotting to kill Sikh citizens on its soil and the United States provided incriminating ...
Understanding Canada’s Fight With India Over a Murdered Sikh …
4 days ago · It remains a rallying cry among some of the roughly three million members of the Sikh diaspora, particularly in Canada, Australia and Britain. Why is Canada involved? Many Sikhs have emigrated to ...
India denies Canadian allegation that it uses mobsters to target Sikh ...
1 day ago · Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and police officials went public this week with allegations that Indian diplomats were targeting Sikh separatists in Canada by sharing information about them with their government back home. They said top Indian officials were then passing that information along to Indian organized crime groups who were targeting the activists, who are Canadian citizens ...
Warned by police, some of Canada's Sikhs feel threatened by India
1 day ago · Canada's Sikhs have been in the spotlight since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last year accused India's government of involvement in the June 18, 2023, murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh ...
How did a killing at a Sikh temple lead to Canada and India …
4 days ago · India rejected the allegations, saying Canada had a “political compulsion” to blame India. A cyclist pedals past the Canadian high commission in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 after India and Canada expelled each other’s top diplomats over an ongoing dispute about the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada.
India denies working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists on ...
1 day ago · Four Indian nationals living in Canada were charged with Nijjar's murder and are awaiting trial. India's government on Thursday denied it was working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists in ...
Canada, India Expel Diplomats Over Sikh Separatist Nijjar Killing
3 days ago · Scores of Sikhs fled India in the 1980s and 1990s amid a violent crackdown on the Khalistan movement, which called for a separate nation-state for Sikhs in the Indian state of Punjab. Canada was ...
India-Canada tensions: What to know about the Sikh movement …
Sep 20, 2023 · NEW DELHI (AP) — Tensions between Canada and India have reached new heights with dueling diplomatic expulsions and an allegation of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil. The row centers around the Sikh independence, or Khalistan, movement.
‘They can kill us’: Fear and Sikh resilience in Canada city amid …
Dec 24, 2023 · Surrey, British Columbia – On a Saturday afternoon in a Sikh temple in Surrey, Canada, boys and men with determined faces wield swords and sticks at each other in an ancient martial art called...