Your Sikhs today: Old Halifax druggie tries to murder his mother

Pictured above -- the one on the left -- is 58-year-old Satrajpal Singh Rai, a resident of Halifax NS, who seems to have problems with mind-altering substances and (perhaps) something of an Oedipus complex. He was convicted this week of attempting to murder his elderly mother by attacking her with a machete.

Mr Rai was held in custody since he was arrested just inside the door of a South Park Street apartment on 3 April 2024. When apprehanded shortly after midnight, he still had the machete in his hands, and his 80-year-old mother was on the hallway floor, covered in blood. Harbhajan Rai was so badly injured that responding officers at first thought she was dead. 

Mr Rai was charged with attempted murder, which, like murder requires a specific intent to kill. At his trial last year, the accused testified at trial last year that he was too impaired by cocaine and cannabis to be able to form that intent. Rather unusual for someone who was 56 years old at the time.

He conceded that he attacked his mother but said that at the time, he thought he was fending off a demonic being or entity that wanted to hurt him. He hadn't slept in three days, he said, and was lying on his mother’s bed when he heard voices outside the bedroom. When he rolled over, he saw the entity standing beside him holding a machete. 

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), it gets better [or worse. Ed.] He said the entity had hair like Medusa, reptilian skin and yellow fangs for teeth. No wonder he didn’t recognize it was his mother! Mr Rai said the entity asked him a series of questions and he could not make out who it was. Fearing for his life, he said he grabbed the machete and began swinging.

He recalled moving into the hallway, falling down and scrambling to get up in fear that he would be killed. He told the court that he was yelling for help and trying to get to the door. He indicated that he was able to open the door, but that it started to swing closed. He then observed the police burst through the door. 

On cross-examination, Mr Rai admitted that as he swung the machete at the entity, which he now knows was his mother, he said, "Just die!" over and over again, like the alien in Independence Day. The Crown introduced evidence that about half an-hour before the assault, Mr Rai sent a text to his ex-wife in Dartmouth that said, "Pray for me and my mother." At trial, he swore that the text did not have a violent meaning but was just a request to pray that he and his mother would get through the worst of her schizophrenic conditions.

Judge Chris Manning said, "Mr Rai is indeed fortunate that the police arrived no later than they did, and a brilliant trauma team was assembled to save Mrs Rai’s life," said Hizzoner. The accused was the primary caregiver for his mother, who suffers from dementia, schizophrenia and memory loss. "She was the victim of a horrendous, brutal attack committed by her son...in the apartment that they shared. He utilized a machete, and the savagery and force ...resulted in massive injuries, including deep lacerations to her head and body, fractured bones, loss of teeth, and fingers were cut from her hands."

The judge stopped just short of calling bullshit on Mr Rai's defence, and found the drug-addled Sikh guilty of attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. He was sentenced only on the attempted murder charge. Mr Rai expressed remorse for his actions in his presentence report and in his plea to the court. The judge thought a sentence of 18-years in prison sentence would adequately address denunciation and deterrence while not losing sight of the possibility of rehabilitation. [sic!]

He deducted 1203 days as credit for remand time, leaving Mr Rai with a net sentence of about 14 years and 8.5 months before he can become, once again, the kind of citizen (or at least resident) which the Liberal government thinks make Canada a better place. As Emperor Trudeau II famously said, "Diversity is our strength".

If she's lucky, Mrs Rai will be 96 when her son gets out. No worries until then.

In the meantime, our friend Johnny Canuck would like to know: How did a drug-user like Mr Singh Rai and his aged and infirm mother get into Canada? As a "temporary foreign student" perhaps? Or a "temporary foreign worker"? Or maybe a "refugee" or asylum-seeker? How long have these parasites been in Canuckistan? Who supports them? No prizes for guessing the answer to the last question.

UPDATED: Your Sikhs today: Halifax NS edition - mother of dead baby has died without speaking to police

First the facts, just the facts. Two people charged with concealing the body of a child and indignity to human remains appeared virtually in provincial court in Halifax NS today Monday. Sukhpreet Singh, 23, and his wife Ramandeep Kaur, 26, are also charged with resisting a peace officer and obstruction of justice. 

The Crown prosecutor, Paul Carver, told the court "The mother of the deceased newborn is currently in critical condition and unresponsive in the hospital." He asked for a three-day adjournment because of the "potential for additional very serious charges under these circumstances." Mr Singh and Ms Kaur remain in custody pending a bail hearing on Thursday.

The charges stem from an urgent search and investigation over the weekend for a missing newborn baby, whose remains were eventually found in a wooded area in the Goodwood NS region. Halifax Regional Police said they were first called at around 9:40 p.m. Friday about a woman in life-threatening condition who "appeared to have just given birth." 

An extensive search was launched by police and Nova Scotia Ground Search and Rescue, who combed the area around an apartment building in Halifax’s Clayton Park neighbourhood. That search continued overnight and through Saturday. Police said remains were discovered Sunday afternoon in a wooded area off Old Coach Road, 6 miles from the initial search site.

Constable Martin Cromwell told reporters today that the initial call was made through 911, although he couldn’t say who made the call. The woman was taken to hospital by ambulance from an apartment on Willett Street; however, the baby was not located. 

Four people, all known to the woman, were initially taken into custody for questioning. Halifax police said two were released and Mr Singh and Ms Kaur were charged. Mr Singh is described as a "relative of the woman."

An autopsy will be held to determine the cause and manner of death. PC Cromwell said it's unclear whether the baby was born alive. He said the woman's condition is still very serious, and investigators haven't been able to speak to her. 

Comment from Google AI: Sex-selective abortion is a deeply rooted practice driven by a strong cultural preference for sons. It remains an acute issue in parts of South Asia, such as India, and persists among certain diaspora communities in Western countries, resulting in skewed male-to-female birth ratios.

Further reading: "Over 23 million girls killed by sex-selective abortion", The Christian Institute, 21/5/19.

Update added 28/5/26: Halifax police announced yesterday that the 23-year-old woman who arrived in hospital last Friday in critical condition after giving birth has died. An investigation into the deaths of a woman and her newborn baby will be "challenging", the cops said. 

A spokesthingy said police investigators didn’t get a chance to interview the mother, who was described by a Crown prosecutor earlier this week as "unresponsive". Two people charged in connection to the discovery of the newborn's remains will remain in custody after a bail hearing did not proceed.

Sukhpreet Singh, 23, and his wife Ramandeep Kaur, 26, are each charged with concealing the body of a child, indignity to human remains and two counts of obstruction of justice. 

Ms Kaur's lawyer appeared on her behalf in court on Thursday, while Mr Singh played the "no speak English" card when he appeared via video with a Punjabi interpreter. Police have previously said Mr Singh is a "relative" of the baby's mother. The pair did not seek bail and will return to court on June 22nd.

Your Singhs today (Halifax edition)

Halifax, Canada, police have closed their file3 on the death, last October 19th, of Gursimran Kaur, a 19-year-old resident of the Canadian city. The young woman, originally from India, had immigrated to Canada with her mother about two years previously.

Balbir Singh, secretary of the Maritime Sikh Society, told the meeja that Ms Kaur's body was found by her mother at the Mumford Road Walmart, where the two had worked for about two years. 

According to police, the mother became frantic on the night of October 19th after her daughter failed to answer her phone during the Saturday night shift. The mother, whose name was not released, eventually opened the bakery oven and found her daughter's burned body.

On November 18th, a Halifax Regional Police spokesthingy posted a video on Facebook, saying police "do not believe that anyone else was involved in the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death." To this day, no further information, such as the cause of Ms Kaur's death, has yet to be released. 

If it wasn't for Mr Singh saying the quiet part out loud, we wouldn't even know her name, ethnicity, or religion. "We acknowledge the public’s interest in this case and that there are questions that may never have answers," said the cop in the video. "Please be mindful of the damage public speculation can cause."

So everything's OK then. Please stop asking questions such as:

- How is it that the mother was the first to find the girl's body?

- Did she not notify police before going to search the store by herself?

- How did she know exactly where to look, without saying anything to anyone else?

- Were there no CCTV cameras in the area?

- Did the oven not have a mechanism, similar to that on a microwave, preventing it from being operated unless it was locked from the outside?

- Was Ms Kaur engaged to be married to a suitable boy who was supposed to be coming from India?

- Was she, errr, with child?

On October 30th, the Sikh organization said Ms Kaur’s father and brother were headed to Halifax from the Punjab region of India, having received emergency visas on compassionate grounds. So far as is known, they arrived in Canada shortly thereafter, and are still in the country.

Any rumours concerning "honour killing" are, of course, completely unfounded.

Canuck newspaper apologizes for printing flag on Canada Day

Canada's government and its lamestream media have earned a reputation for extreme liberal wussiness, pandering to every minority "cause" and ignoring Canada's white native sons and daughters. The TDS, BLM, LGBTQ2S propaganda machine has been in overdrive this year. Dare we hope that running about the red line [Nice pun! Ed.] will cause the machine to burn out? Perhaps not!

"Down East" (as Canadians call their maritime provinces), the population is still mainly white, English-speaking or French-speaking, and heterosexual. But Maritimers are a friendly lot, and typically Canadian when it comes to saying "Sorry!" and apologizing for themselves. Still, many Haligonians (denizens of Halifax) must have been shocked, shocked to see this "trigger warning" across the front page of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald this past Saturday.

Can't believe your eyes? Yep, it says: "To our readers: inside today's edition, on page A9, you'll find a Canadian flag to clip and post to help celebrate July 1. We understand the flag doesn't mean the same thing to everyone, however, we hope our readers recognize their ability to play a role in shaping Canada's future is a freedom worth acknowledging."

The flag then appears on page A9, well inside the first section of the alleged newspaper.

The flag, with its stylized maple leaf, has been a source of pride for Canadians since it was adopted in 1965. Will it soon become like the Confederate Battle Flag, vilified for symbolozing racism, colonialism, white supremacy and all the other evils that the liberals their controlled media see in our society? Must it be taken down -- or, better, burned -- lest it offend some snowflake who feels entitled to reparations for wrongs done a century ago? It's sad that the question should even be asked.

As a public service to all our friends and reads in Canuckistan, Walt Whiteman, Poor Len Canayen [and Ed.! Ed.] are pleased to show the Maple Leaf Flag.

Long may it wave!

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

Canadian money more funny-looking than ever

Americans have long made fun of Canada's "funny money". As you can see, the paper "beaverbucks" come in different colours. On the front are pictures of a foreign woman and four dead white men who many Canadians fail to recognize.

Four men and only one woman seemed politically incorrect to the Liberal government of Canuck Prime Minister "Mr Socks" Trudeau. To make matters worse, not one of the five people pictured is a vizmin. So a decision was made -- an egregious example of tokenism, even by Canadian standards -- to replace one of the white men with a black woman.

Conveniently, the white man who was the first to die was Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada's first prime minister (and a Conservative!), about whom there has been a good deal of controversy in recent months, similar to the controversy in the Excited States of America about Robert E. Lee. So, away you go, John Eh, and a big welcome to Viola Desmond, now appearing on the new $10 (= $7.50 in real money) banknote which goes into circulation this week.

featuring Viola Desmond’s portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S.

The Canadian Ministry of Truth describes the late Viola Desmond as a civil rights pioneer and businesswoman. Her business was a hairdressing salon (surprised?) which she operated in the "historic north end" of Halifax NS, home to one of Canada's oldest black communities. On 8 November 1946 -- nearly a decade before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama -- Ms Desmond was dragged out of the Roseland Theatre by police, arrested, kept in the lockup for 12 hours and fined. 63 years later, the provinice of Nova Scotia issued her a posthumous pardon and apology.

A spokesthingy for the black community said he hopes the new banknote will "inspire young girls to pursue their dreams and push back against injustice." He went on to say, "I'm hoping having Viola on the bill will prompt people to want to know what's the story behind her, because still, there's a lot of people who have no idea who she was and what she stands for."

Walt says good luck with that. It won't be surprising (to me) if a lot of Canucks refuse to accept the new bill on the grounds that it just doesn't look like money, at least not Canadian money. Some will wonder if the queen had a facelift. I also predict some comments from the usual gang of NPCs that Ms Desmond has been made to look as if she was "passing". All this for political correctness!

Was the Mountie's photo the "most Canadian"?

Walt's posting of the iconic photo of the Mountie in full dress uniform playing pond hockey (see below), prompted Agent 3 to forward this one, posted on Twitter by @halifax_ukie.

Somehow, though, Walt doubts that "Halifax Ukie" is really in Halifax. Either that or it's not a recent picture. They've got waaaaay more snow than that "Down East". See below.