For over four decades, the diplomatic corridors between New Delhi and Ottawa have echoed with a singular, repetitive refrain: the “fomenting of violence” on Indian soil from Canadian sanctuaries. The “CSIS Public Report 2025, titled “A safe, secure and prosperous Canada through trusted intelligence, advice and action and published in March 2026, attempts to balance.
The quiet, tree-lined streets of LaSalle, Montreal, were never meant to be a battlefield. Yet, the brutal killing of Nancy Grewal—a 45-year-old personal support worker and outspoken critic of Khalistani extremism—has transformed a peaceful Canadian suburb into a scene of primal, ideological savagery. Stabbed 18 times outside a client’s home in March, Grewal did not.
