15 year old Arshpreet Chahal has been crowned the 2015 Miss Petite Teen Canada Globe. This is a great feat for the Vancouver-born young woman as the competition is worldwide and had 70 contestants fighting for the title. Arshpreet comments that she is proud to represent Canada in the pageant as an Indo-Canadain citizen. We as a community are just …

Everyone knows there’s one event in every girl’s life where they way she looks matters almost as much as the event itself: her wedding. While grooms pull out their hair gels and year old beard trimmers the night before the event, the very first thought that pops into the mind of every to-be bride is “Who should I book for …

My sit down conversation with a young girl whose careful words and chilling memories paint the picture of what it’s really like to date a drug dealer in Surrey (note: names have been excluded for privacy protection). How would you describe [him] as a boyfriend? (Smiles) He was everything you could ever want in a boyfriend. He was smart, he …

It has been almost four years since 19-year-old Maple Batalia was gunned down while leaving Simon Fraser University after a night of studying. Since then, her name and her story still pour into the hearts of Surrey residents each day. WHO WAS MAPLE BATALIA? She was a model. She was an actress. She was an artist. She is the girl …

Sukhi Bath: Surrey’s Biggest Hero  On the exterior, Sukhi Bath may look like the ordinary suit wearing, business owning,  corporate mogul counting the zero’s on the ends of his bank statements. With one sit-  down conversation, however, my entire perception of him changed. Sukhi Bath is the ultimate paradox: a successful business man with the softest of hearts.  “Mere thou …

   A recent health survey found that in 2014 alone, Canadians spent an astounding 33.9 billion dollars on pharmaceutical drugs1. With the cost of medicines slowly rising, pharmacists are giving their patients the same advice: buy generic medicine. What is generic medicine? Pharmacist Jaspreet Virdi explains that after a company gets approval for a new medicine, Health Canada awards them …

Travel into Inkquisitive’s mind to swim along a sea of rainbows and let his colors dance down the spine of your imagination. The unique artist, Amandeep Singh, better known in the art world as “Inkqusitive,” holds a Master’s degree in Illustration. He credits his dad, a calligrapher, as a major source of his art inspiration. He recalls watching his dad in …

Whether it be at a wedding function, a family BBQ or during that two minute commercial from your mom’s favourite Indian Drama, the “Puth, what are you doing with your life?” is the most common question kids will get these days. Our typical, and apparently very non-sufficient, answer is simply “I don’t know.” Our parents’ glazed, high expecting eyes are …

Although these couples now have 20+ years of getting to know each other, there was a time when they were mere strangers. Here’s some of the interesting things people confessed to us about their arranged marriages.

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