Thank you so much Randeep for this great gesture. I’m thrilled to have this honour recognized in the House of Commons! It’s more icing on the cake! Thank you! And Thanks to my Friend The Oracle!!! @BcHof@The_CMPA@desibuzzcanada@TomZillich
Today, I virtually rose in the #HOC to recognize the artistic achievements of @rpauldhillon!
As a South-Asian award-winning screenwriter, producer, director, and journalist, R. Paul Dhillon has earned his place among BC Entertainment Hall of Fame’s latest inductees. 💫
BC NDP Government Should Not Bail Out The “Racist” CVBC, Say “Discriminated” South Asian Veterinarians
https://t.co/wU5Xkz7p4F #cvbc#veterinarians#Racism
Young Werther Premiere!
Being treated to old time magical love triangle circa Jane Eyre but in a modern Canadian setting - Young Werther, releasing this Friday, is an instant romantic classic, beautifully told by a director with five names (look him up)! #VVS#youngwerther
Gladiator 2 is fake and awful! What a waste of all this grandiose, epic filmmaking to service a story concocted by an overfed, lazy and hack collective. Fighting badly done vfx monkeys and sharks! Wtf! Death to excess!!!
#Gladiator2#Movies
It’s Election Day in BC today but we already have a list of the big winners and losers and the biggest winner in this political fight has to be John Rustad, who beat out his chief rightwing rival Kevin Falcon. https://t.co/hfHACn2N2X #bcelection#BCConservative#BCNDP
Sound Check!
Getting ready for the biggest Awards party of the year tonight - the prestigious Darpan Awards - with the rocking sound check last night by UK Bhangra star Sukshinder Shinda. Get ready to party and dance with Munda Turban Wala. #sukshindershinda#Awards
Emma Stone has done more in three films she has collaborated with the great Yorgos Lanthimos than her entire oeuvre. I recently watched their kinds of Kindness and Poor Things and thought wow that’s a bold collaboration Lanthimos likes rawness in everything especially sexuality.
Mission councilor Ken Herar, who is known for his community work including Cycling4Diversity, has been subject to an expensive Code of Conduct investigation led by City’s Mayor Paul Horn over alleged misconduct but Herar says he did nothing wrong. https://t.co/Obu924LusT
#mission
Was LONGLEGS Behind Trump Asassination Attempt?
Was the fictional serial killer from the just released super-hit horror film LONGLEGS behind the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump? 😂 Trump was born on July 14, 1946!
https://t.co/C3UmnMciHF
Surrey RCMP said Friday that Jatinder Singh of Langley was the man who died in hospital after being shot early Monday morning in the Home Depot-Cineplex Cinemas parking lot.
https://t.co/P23tiWogor #surrey#crime#ihit
An icon of the South Asian community in Vancouver, Nizar Dhamji, passed away on June 5. In the 1970s and 1980s, Dhamji was a prominent cultural and broadcasting figure. https://t.co/mxQOaQaXTO #icon#pioneer#artist
Even though 85% of the members of Okanagan fruit growers Co-Op are Indo-Canadian-South Asian, they don’t see that representation in the leadership of the administration and feel they are not being listened to is because of their race. https://t.co/n8maz3hQbZ #indocanadianfarmers
GINO, CHILD OF WAR: Italian WWII Film Featuring Sikh Actors To Be Screened On June 2! Centro Italian Cultural Centre is hosting a special event - a screening of “GINO: A CHILD OF WAR” - with two screenings at 2:00pm and 7:00pm.
https://t.co/SSk0urkpAf #film#italian#sikhs#ww2
The son of slain controversial Sikh businessman Ripudaman Malik has been warned by Canadian police that his life maybe in danger, possibly from the same entity behind Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s murder!.
https://t.co/c02GKgbVOp
#india#CanadaNews#Sikhs#politics#deathtgreat
The Vancouver Bandits didn’t disappoint hometown fans with a dominant first half on their way to a 95-75 win at home opener against the Montreal Alliance. Koby McEwen Ematched his CEBL career-high with five made threes to lead the Bandits to victory.
https://t.co/pFxU9gomGl
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre marked the 110th Anniversary of the Komagata Maru Incident by calling it a shameful mark on Canada’s past. “The tragedy of the SS Komagata remains a shameful mark on Canada’s past,” he said.
https://t.co/icnuJfdBKu #CanadianPolitics
Blunt Talk: Immigration Minister Marc Miller spoke at Surrey Board of Trade Monday and he was blunt about issues facing the immigration system, which his government mostly created. He said students who are not studying will be shipped back to their home countries. #Immigration