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Associate Editor @pressprogress ✍️Send tips: rjohal @pressprogress .ca 📩 I also tweet about reality TV, pop culture & discourses I hated
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I follow this fitness influencer on IG and she posted something like "if you don't learn a new skill or start a side hustle during this time, you lack discipline," & I almost pulled a muscle with how fast I blocked her. Ma'am. This is a pandemic. Not a sabbatical.
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Capitalist logic is so engrained in some of your personalities that you really think people need to be finding ways to be MORE productive under *literally* catastrophic conditions. It is going to be a big NO from me dawg.
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I know for many it may seem trivial that Rihanna added her voice to the millions in India & in the diaspora globally speaking about the
#FarmersProtests
but her shedding light on the ongoing human rights abuses in India may have very well saved lives. The world is now watching.
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Canada's vaccine rollout is like we are looking for golden tickets at Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory
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Anytime I tell my grandma I'm going somewhere, (even just locally), she gives me $20 and tells me "puth, candy lehla." 😂❤️
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“Oh yeah, she’s my friend.” — me talking about a girl I know from the internet who I’ve never met
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The South Asian bride to IG influencer pipeline is fascinating to me
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Sikh Canadians are facing targeted harassment and misinformation campaigns, in another attempt to paint Sikhs as "extremists" or "terrorists"
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It's really hard to focus on anything other than what's happening in Punjab.
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I urge all of you to look into
#NodeepKaur
‘s story. If you are a journalist or not — think about how we would react if this were happening here in North America. Unlawful arrest without reason is COMMON in India. We need to keep speaking up.
#FreeNodeepKaur
According to Nodeep’s lawyer, a medical examination of Nodeep was sought after she was arrested by the Haryana Police, that showed wounds on her body and private parts. “This points to the fact that Nodeep was sexually assaulted in police custody."
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Pretty wild to say that Sikh separatism "has thrown a wrench in Canada-India relations," instead of the literal murder of a Canadian citizen by India, but go off
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Weighing in on brown Twitter discourse (I will regret this) to say that your obsession with shaming brown women who show their bodies/do sex work is because you still look at women as things belonging to men and not individuals with agency
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Canadian news organizations, politicians, & activists are being blocked in India for tweeting about the repression of civil liberties in Punjab, but accounts harassing and threatening those speaking out remain active and unrestricted
My latest:
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And I'm not sure that most mainstream Canadian media outlets understand the magnitude of what's going on in India and the implications for Canadian Sikhs. Anyone who speaks out becomes a target — even for factual reporting.
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I wrote about the insidiousness of India’s disinformation machine in targeting Sikhs earlier this year.
And no, the Prime Minister is clearly not above their tactics.
Toronto Sun mindlessly repackaging Indian disinformation to own the libs, hell yeah brother
Can’t wait to have to fact check this for the next 87 years!!!!!!!!
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Vancouver Mayoral Candidate Ken Sim, proud co-owner of Rosemary Rocksalt and Nurse Next Door, quietly co-owned a long-term care staffing company that was mired in controversy, that he hasn't listed anywhere online. My latest
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Yesterday I had a stressful day and was making dinner and asked my mom how many potatoes she wanted and she said "Char-panj." That was my last straw. Is it char or is it panj??????
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Neeraj Walia of the Guru Nanak Food Bank says he hears about 1-2 international students a week, dying from drug overdose.
Surrey Gurdwara leader Giani Narinder Singh says they've spent hundreds of thousands sending the bodies of students back to India.
International students are dying from overdoses at an alarming rate, faith leaders and community workers say.
But BC’s government isn’t tracking the problem.
#bcpoli
#cdnhealth
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saying you don't have free speech when you literally never shut the fuck up is wild to me
This is one of the most pitiful things I've seen. This crowd is addicted to (self-imposed) victimhood.
Go to therapy or something, jeepers.
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"I was going to join a gang until I saw the RCMP Range Rover. Really changed things"
#SGET
out on patrol in their Range Rover - a seized proceeds of crime vehicle designed to raise awareness and deter young people from being lured into gang activity.
Thanks to Ceramic Kings Vinyl Wrap for the design, reflecting our anti-gang presentation Shattering the Image.
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Happy to announce that I am the new BC Reporter at
@pressprogress
! I am extremely excited to tell diverse stories from all across BC, and to be able to provide in-depth coverage to areas that may be overlooked.
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I stayed out of the brown twitter debate about ~that song~ but reading some of these hot takes shows old school thinking has permeated our generation and many of y'all are just uncles and aunties in training trying to make yourselves feel better by judging the choices of others.
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I am so happy to see that
#NodeepKaur
is free, and to see her beautiful smile upon her release, but I shudder thinking about what she endured while in jail in India. There are so many people who were unlawfully detained, and likely many more women who experienced what she did.
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This is so fucked. Trying to "reset" behaviour without finding people a permanent place to stay is just cruel and inhumane. Anyone applauding this needs to really ask themselves why they hate people living in poverty
Again, about a dozen tents on Hastings overnight and, again, city crews and police work to clear them and enforce fire chief’s order. According to leaked city plans, this will happen daily at first then assessed weekly. “May take several weeks or longer to re-set behavior.”
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Anytime my dad doesn’t like something he goes, “Can you talk to John Horgan?” And I’m like sir, that’s quite literally not how any of this works.
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Payal business centre is the wild Wild West bro. Traffic rules/signals do not apply. May the odds be ever in your favour
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Being a brown girl is not being home a few days in a row and then sitting with your parents while they watch India’s Got Talent on a Sunday night to compensate.
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If you want to know why I care so deeply about the way our government is royally fucking up this vaccine rollout, it's because I had COVID last month.
As a healthy, 24-year-old with no pre-existing conditions, I am still feeling some health consequences to this day.
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I did my makeup for my vaccine appointment today in case there’s some hunnies at the vaccine clinic
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Important to note he wasn’t just a “person of a colour” he was black. Being a person of colour doesn’t absolve you from anti-blackness, and because the South Asian community can be and is extremely anti-black, we need to be explicit in these differentiations, because they matter.
George Floyd, a Minnesota man, was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Dept because a grocery store suspected him of writing a bad check.
Anyone reading that sentence immediately recognizes that he was a person of color. He and his family deserve justice.
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yo this blew up follow me on IG I won't tell you to rise and grind i promise @ rumandwoke
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The South Asian Bride to Influencer Pipeline: Making sense of the micro-celebrity created by lavish South Asian weddings:
The South Asian bride to IG influencer pipeline is fascinating to me
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This idea of "random checks" is really concerning. Data has repeatedly shown that BIPOC are targeted by this & a blanket statement from the Premier saying they are "working with BIPOCs on this" isn't enough. The potential harm outweighs the potential benefit.
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I just said aloud to my dad, “COVID is stealing my 20s.” And my dad goes, “well it’s also ruining my 50s.” Can you let me be dramatic for five minutes
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My favourite thing about Surrey is that there’s construction on every major street but the road quality never actually improves I think that’s very brave
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Brown parents are so funny I shovelled (half) the driveway before my dad woke up and instead of saying thank you, he said in Punjabi, “who told you to do that?” And I think that’s beautiful
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My latest, based on emails that show Meta specifically censored posts from Canada’s largest Sikh organization calling on the Canadian authorities to investigate the assassination as well as “the role of foreign interference, specifically from India.”
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I am truly mind boggled at the drastic uptick in racism against South Asians, specifically against Sikhs. People are fabricating claims and they're spreading like wildfire, emboldening already growing anti-immigrant sentiments in 🇨🇦
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I was looking into this prior to todays explosive revelation from the Canadian government. Now, we see Meta’s actions in a whole new light.
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Canadian media is like: "oh you like to spew absolutely unfounded bullshit? Here's a weekly column"
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The first two words in this person's bio are "unhinged elitist" and that just about sums up this entire thread
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My grandma turned 89 this week and after she blew out her candles she looked at my unmarried cousins and I and said, "And I can't wait to watch all of your weddings." This woman plays chess, not checkers
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Based on the posts I'm seeing, I feel like it needs to be said: there is a difference between supporting truckers and the trucking industry that were a backbone/essential service during the pandemic & beyond, and supporting a racist convoy peddling far-right ideals.
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CSIS Investigating Southwestern Ontario Conservative Nomination Vote, Conservative Sources Say.
Full story here:
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When my bibi asked my dad how me and my bf met (dating apps) my dad said “internet vicholan si” 😂😂😂 Happy V Day
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Does anyone else's immigrant grandparent have a strong attachment to a random TV game show? My bibi religiously watches The Price is Right every single day. Never misses an episode.
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happy 4/20 to everyone except my mom who reads my tweets every day like it's the daily newspaper mom close your eyes
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"A kid from Punjab who made it big but still had family and community at the front of his mind and a talented artist who continually put out hit after hit—Moosewala still had so much life and art left in him."
A year after his passing.
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I’m sorry but the funniest part of Prince Harry’s memoir is him going, not only is my brother racist, aggressive and rude, he’s also BALD
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any time a guy says this its always someone whose mom for sure still washes his underwear like get a grip
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My 88-year-old bibi got her first dose of the vaccine today. We still have a long way to go, but I am relieved that we are at least starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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New, from me
Pierre Poilievre is presenting himself as the solution to Canada’s affordability crisis.
But donation records show Poilievre’s Conservatives have enjoyed support from CEOs at big real estate investment trusts who are driving up costs of living.
#cdnpoli
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Here it is, my labour of love, my Master's project on my city, rightfully entitled "Allow us to Reintroduce Ourselves." The audio documentary follows families in Surrey, in order to counter stereotypical media representations.
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It feels like the only way to get by these days is to dissociate from the constant barrage of bad news but it simultaneously feels so wrong to choose personal comfort over addressing the perpetual collective grief. I don't even know anymore.
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"White journalists are not asked to choose between their skin colour and their journalism because viewing news through the lens of whiteness is the norm."
.
@ShreeParadkar
: Hey CBC, journalist Ahmar Khan’s actions didn’t harm your reputation. Your own actions did:
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Personal news✨ Excited to announce my new role as associate editor at
@pressprogress
Excited to keep doing more important work and telling stories that matter
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Deleting dating apps after just two weeks because I realized I actually have to talk to and get to know people??? And most men are just generally uninteresting and uninspiring I'm sorry goodbye
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I made a joke on Tik Tok about how guys hit on you by liking your IG pics from 9 weeks ago, and someone commented “maybe you just haven’t had a good picture in 9 weeks” and honestly there’s nothing I can do other than take the L on this one.
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honestly most of brown twitter's drama is just people getting so passionately angry about shit that isn't their business in the first place
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It's my mom's 50th birthday so I got her a flower arrangement and the first thing she said was, "Why did you spend money on a vase, we have vases at home." LOLLL brown moms are the best.
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This article highlights the accounts being blocked and the threats and harassment being faced by those speaking about what's happening in Punjab. Since publishing it, I've also received a ton of threats/hate — literally for doing my job
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I have literally never talked about my feelings earnestly a day in my life and I don’t know how to finish a sentence without a joke, but I published a very personal piece so here goes nothin
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In other news, it is also my 25th birthday today, so the quarter-life crisis is right on schedule ⏰😂
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Not me in the middle of a serious interview having to yell, "BIBI, PHONE CHAK LO" because I was recording a podcast and you could hear the phone ringing in the background.
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Exclusive from me:
CSIS investigating a nomination battle in Southwestern Ontario.
A business card obtained from a source allegedly belonging to a CSIS agent was independently verified by a national security source as matching the cards used by CSIS agents.
EXCLUSIVE: CSIS is investigating a Southwestern Ontario Conservative nomination vote, Conservative sources say.
The Conservative Party of Canada is denying knowledge of a CSIS investigation involving a chaotic nomination battle in Oxford County.
#cdnpoli
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I have never, in my life, seen the same vitriol from brown men towards literal sexual predators in this community as I do towards women simply trying to live their lives and mind their business. Keep the same energy.
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My latest: What do Chip Wilson, the police union and members of Vancouver’s alt-right have to do with each other? Apparently, a lot.
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Hoping for a "return to a stable situtation" without acknowledging that human rights lawyers, journalists, and young people are being unlawfully detained and arrested in Punjab while voices who condemn this are censored feels like nothing more than empty words
BREAKING | In response to a question from
@IqwinderSGaheer
regarding the disruption of internet in Punjab,
@melaniejoly
shares that the Canadian govt is "aware of the evolving situation in Punjab and we are following it very closely" & that it hopes for a "more stable situation"
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The World Sikh Organization has issued a statement on the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey last night.
"The WSO Calls on Canadian intelligence and law enforcement to fully investigate the assassination of Nijjar, including the role of foreign interference"
PRESS RELEASE: NIJJAR ASSASSINATION FAILURE OF CANADIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
🔗
“The assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar is gravely alarming for Sikhs in Canada. Nijjar openly and repeatedly stated that he would be targeted by Indian intelligence and
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hey i just had a brand new idea: why don’t you all just like, get vaccinated?
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You know those memes about Indian parents coming in to interrupt an online class? I’m literally sitting in our home office, which has a clear glass door, and my dad just knocked on it 6 times WHILE IM IN CLASS. I turned to see what he wanted, and he just threw up a peace sign.
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My fiancé is the 1st one to read every one of my articles. When I'm in a rut creatively, he gives me suggestions to spark creativity & sends me "story ideas," for things he thinks I'd like to pursue. He also tells his friends about all of my career milestones. I'm very lucky.
Plz send heartwarming stories of straight male partners supporting your creative endeavors. Hungry for a story that isn't "I achieved unprecedented professional success and my relationship was never the same."
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