{"id":613970,"date":"2026-04-19T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:06:13","slug":"surrey-vaisakhi-parade-marks-40-years-of-khalistan-movement-honours-hardeep-singh-nijjar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613970\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Vaisakhi parade marks 40-years of Khalistan movement, honours Hardeep Singh Nijjar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Surrey Vaisakhi parade drew an estimated 450,000 attendees to celebrate the Sikh harvest festival. The event prominently featured the blue and yellow flag of Khalistan to mark the movement&#8217;s 40th anniversary and honour the assassinated activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. As the CBC&#8217;s Troy Charles shows us, beyond the traditional showcase of Sikh customs like serving free food, the festival provided a day of unity for the South Asian community dealing with an ongoing extortion crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Surrey Vaisakhi parade drew an estimated 450,000 attendees to celebrate the Sikh harvest festival. The event prominently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,208656,87674,104653],"class_list":{"0":"post-613970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-khalistan","11":"tag-surrey","12":"tag-surrey-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}