Students? Huh, well you would think they would take their studies more seriously than that….
FrozenToonies on
Time to offer rewards for reporting.
If you’re a student and your texts/emails leads to an arrest, you get the same+ more.
Live-Border2995 on
This article makes me so mad. So these “international students” just happen to come here thinking that a little bit of “harmless extortion” will help them pay for naughty Canada’s expense education fees? FO with that. No one commits a little bit of thoughtless extortion. They know exactly what they are doing and how they intend to get away with it.
Kind_Palpitation9814 on
For what it’s worth, I would take his claims with a grain of salt. He’s basically trying to slyly suggest that these extortions are some Indian government conspiracy by invoking the Bishnoi gang as the main/sole perpetrators in these extortions. This is a common tactic among certain pro-Khalistan elements to attribute all crime within the South Asian diaspora to some Indian conspiracy rather than local criminal opportunism. I actually believe some of these crimes may be linked to pro-Khalistan gangs, as whenever a major positive development would take place between India and Canada, there would conveniently be some high profile extortion attempt or violence immediately after, followed by pro-Khalistan elements seizing the opportunity to frame India and try to apply political pressure on the Canadian government to recede from normalizing ties with India.
Multiple government officials and police chiefs including the RCMP have stated that there is no evidence that India is behind this crime wave and have attributed the violence and extortions to copycats and local gangs.
[https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/12/extortion-threats-prompting-families-in-peel-region-to-leave-canada/](https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/12/extortion-threats-prompting-families-in-peel-region-to-leave-canada/) (“The issue that we’re currently dealing with and responding to has implications, not just here in Peel, but on a national level, and for that matter, even an international level,” said Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich.
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Students? Huh, well you would think they would take their studies more seriously than that….
Time to offer rewards for reporting.
If you’re a student and your texts/emails leads to an arrest, you get the same+ more.
This article makes me so mad. So these “international students” just happen to come here thinking that a little bit of “harmless extortion” will help them pay for naughty Canada’s expense education fees? FO with that. No one commits a little bit of thoughtless extortion. They know exactly what they are doing and how they intend to get away with it.
For what it’s worth, I would take his claims with a grain of salt. He’s basically trying to slyly suggest that these extortions are some Indian government conspiracy by invoking the Bishnoi gang as the main/sole perpetrators in these extortions. This is a common tactic among certain pro-Khalistan elements to attribute all crime within the South Asian diaspora to some Indian conspiracy rather than local criminal opportunism. I actually believe some of these crimes may be linked to pro-Khalistan gangs, as whenever a major positive development would take place between India and Canada, there would conveniently be some high profile extortion attempt or violence immediately after, followed by pro-Khalistan elements seizing the opportunity to frame India and try to apply political pressure on the Canadian government to recede from normalizing ties with India.
Multiple government officials and police chiefs including the RCMP have stated that there is no evidence that India is behind this crime wave and have attributed the violence and extortions to copycats and local gangs.
[https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bc-premier-says-no-information-india-involved-in-extortion-in-his-province/](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bc-premier-says-no-information-india-involved-in-extortion-in-his-province/)
[https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/12/extortion-threats-prompting-families-in-peel-region-to-leave-canada/](https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/12/extortion-threats-prompting-families-in-peel-region-to-leave-canada/) (“The issue that we’re currently dealing with and responding to has implications, not just here in Peel, but on a national level, and for that matter, even an international level,” said Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich.
Although many of the extortion incidents in Surrey, B.C., another hotspot, Brampton and Caledon have claimed to be the work of [**the Lawrence Bishnoi gang**](https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/13/what-is-the-bishnoi-gang-and-why-do-some-want-it-labelled-a-terrorist-group/), an India-based terrorist group, Milinovich sees little evidence of that.)
[https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/rcmp-says-no-current-clandestine-activities-in-canada-linked-to-government-of-india/](https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/rcmp-says-no-current-clandestine-activities-in-canada-linked-to-government-of-india/)