On a warm July night two years ago, Moninder Singh received a chilling message from special federal agents who showed up at his house in British Columbia: You are being formally warned that there is an imminent threat to your life. Avoid public spaces. Enhance security at home. The first …
Read More »With Unusually Forceful Words, Canada Charges India With a Criminal Conspiracy
Thanksgiving has never been the outsize family gathering time in Canada that it is in the United States. (In Atlantic Canada, it’s not even a holiday.) But this year, it was marked in an unusual way. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a force that normally defaults to stony silence about …
Read More »Canada Expels Indian Diplomats, Accusing Them of Criminal Campaign
Canada accused the Indian government on Monday of homicide and extortion intended to silence critics of India living in Canada, escalating a bitter dispute that began last year with an assassination of a Sikh activist. Canada expelled India’s top diplomat and five others, saying they were part of a vast …
Read More »Justin Trudeau Accuses India of a Killing on Canadian Soil (Published 2023)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said on Monday that “agents of the government of India” had carried out the assassination of a Sikh community leader in British Columbia in June, an explosive allegation that is likely to further sour relations between the two nations. Speaking in the House of …
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