Khalsa Credit Union was founded to serve a gap that few others recognized at the time. Many Sikh families in BC struggled to access basic financial services simply because they could not communicate comfortably or were misunderstood by traditional institutions.
At just 13 years old, Ariya Jagpal already wears many hats: athlete, entrepreneur, mentor, and student. A Grade 8 student at Seycove Secondary School, she juggles a busy schedule filled with high-level soccer and basketball, schoolwork, and running her own jewelry business, Gummy Bear Wear.
It's Bombay (now Mumbai) from the 1940s. A young boy from present-day Gujarat lived with his large family on the footpaths of Mumbai. Every night, he and his father slept on the footpath while the others in his family slept inside a one-room home. Every morning, he witnessed fights for each and every drop of water. Even decades later, he could not forget his childhood struggles with clean water.
In a world where noise is constant but true connection feels increasingly rare, Professor Surinder Singh has devoted his life to reviving a sacred kind of listening, laced with healing, clarification, and reconnection to the inner self.
When Dr. Baldev Sanghera was elected President-Elect of Doctors of BC, it marked a historic first: he became the first turban-wearing leader of any regional or national medical association in a Western country.
When people describe Milan Mann, the word that comes up most often is “builder.” Not just because he leads one of Western Canada’s fastest-growing construction and development groups, the BM Group of Companies, but because every stage of his career has been shaped by a desire to build something meaningful—for his family, for his community, and now, for professional basketball in British Columbia.
