CANADIAN RADIO NEWS – Jon Pearkins
1200 BC Vancouver CJRJ
Even Radio has not escaped the “extortion-related violence impacting the South Asian community”, with six bullets fired through the CJRJ front door and aimed right at the studio where talk show hosts had fortunately already left for the evening on September 29th. To date, over the last several years, News coverage indicates that the extortions have focused on the Construction Industry in Surrey and Abbotsford BC, Edmonton AB and Brampton ON. Earlier in the day, CJRJ aired a lengthy interview with the Surrey Police Chief on the extortion cases. Last year, RED FM in Calgary AB saw one of their reporters attacked and seriously injured in the station parking lot because of the reporter’s coverage of these extortions. Extortion arrests have been made in Alberta and Ontario, but not yet in British Columbia. CJRJ broadcasts primarily in Punjabi and Hindi, and imprisoned Indian gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi leads a group designated as a terrorist organization by Canada’s federal government.
IRCA DX Monitor Oct 11, published Oct 6 via WOR iog (2025-10-07)