Nominate Today for the Prestigious DARPAN Extraordinary Achievement Awards 2021
Darpan News Desk, 11 Aug, 2021 03:08 PM
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Presented by RBC, The Darpan Awards 2021 will welcome people comprising of Vancouver’s top social and business elite in the South Asian community.
Recognized as the pre-eminent South Asian event-of-the-year, the spectacular Awards gala will honour ten remarkable individuals within the South Asian community who embody the spirit of community and believe in giving back through their own avenues in an effort to build society.
A reserve military officer who was ordered suspended from the Vancouver police three years ago for an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate is no longer working for Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
The department says Canadian consular officials in Miami are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and they are also in touch with the affected families.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is resisting calls to fire Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett over a text message he acknowledges was "wrong" and "hurtful" and harmed his government's progress on reconciliation.
Jill St. Louis, a former Vancouver bureau chief at The Canadian Press who thrived in a fast-breaking news environment and was a friend to anything with four legs, has died after a battle with metastatic lung cancer. She was 66.
There are 72 new COVID-19 cases in BC for a total of 147,418 cases. The rolling 7 day average is now 74 new cases. Lowest since August 14. There have been 2 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,749 deaths in British Columbia.
The head of the World Health Organization said the COVID-19 delta variant, first seen in India, is “the most transmissible of the variants identified so far,” and warned it is now spreading in at least 85 countries.
