because the truth needs to be told
WSN editor reviews the Public Safety Canada’s 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada which makes unsubstantiated reference to Sikh (Khalistani) extremism. Multicultural Canada, home to thousands of Sikh Canadians who now make 2 percent of the pop... More »
2019 as the year of Guru Nanak brings cheer to the Sikh world on many fronts. From 1 January 2019, The World Karate Federation has accepted the Sikh request for accommodation of Sikh headgear -the small turban, called Patka or Dastar for male competitors durin... More »
As the worldwide commemorations for the genocidal attacks on Sikhs in November 1984 come to a close, the World Sikh Organization of Canada has expressed disappointment at the Canadian government’s “lack of commemoration of the 1984 Sikh Genocide by Prime Minis... More »
The Supreme Court of Canada has disallowed the World Sikh Organization the leave to appeal against the decision of the Quebec National Assembly to not permit WSO representatives Harminder Kaur and Balpreet Singh to present their views in January 2011 on Bill 9... More »
French-speaking majority Quebec goes to polls on 1 October. Largely, this state has been unfriendly to Sikhs despite numbers. As a run-up to the polls, the World Sikh Organisation engages the government of Quebec and political parties to resolve issues, long ... More »
Supreme Court of Canada affirms that courts not to have any say in membership of private religious organisations in the landmark case of Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v. Randy Wall (‘Wall’), wherein WSO had intervenor status and presented their ... More »
World Sikh Organization of Canada, in partnership with the Peel District School Board launches the Sikh Faith E-Module to share information on Sikh faith, culture and heritage. The World Sikh Organization of Canada, in partnership with the Peel District School... More »
Civil liberties activist G. N. Saibaba languishes in jail, seeks medical attention as he confined to a wheelchair but the government of Maharashtra does not relent, courts have not helped, international refrain has been dismissed. WSO protests the treatment an... More »
WSO examines the Framework for Cooperation on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism between Canada and India on the human rights front. The WSO concern gives expression to Sikh fears and concerns. Without getting cowed down by the superfluous and baseles... More »
As a run-up to the visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his family and cabinet colleagues, Sikhophobia has struck. Indian magazines, veteran columnists and the establishment have joined hands to give a thumbs-down to the visit, ostensibly because o... More »
World Sikh Organisation of Canada hosts World Interfaith Harmony Week in Surrey to foster understand, love, respect and sharing in a strife-torn hate-filled world. As intolerance is being fed by a section of society and world political leaders, there is a cryi... More »
Ottawa, Canada: WSO intervenes in the Canadian Supreme Court in the TWU -Trinity Western University case and pleads for equal standards of review for communities WSO is on its heels intervening in cases involving communities other than Sikhs, in its true commi... More »