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Jamie Sarkonak: Feds’ racial politics have plunged Canadian fisheries into chaos
Identity-based redistribution programs have been a disaster for fishermen on both coasts
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Published Jan 27, 2025 • Last updated 6 days ago • 5 minute read

There are Indigenous fishers, and there are non-Indigenous fishers — and every year, the federal government takes more and more away from one to give to the other, citing reconciliation and an ever-expanding notion of Indigenous rights.
The 2025 edition of this game of racial redistribution involved the Liberal government taking away half of the American eel quota and distributing it to First Nations in Atlantic Canada. Another 27 per cent was planned to be taken for distribution to employees of those who already have eel licences, but this was cancelled last-minute on Thursday, when Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier came to her senses and called it off.
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It was an instance of drastic favouritism: in the Maritimes, the Indigenous population is between 2.2 and 5.5 per cent, depending on the province, while in Newfoundland, it’s 9.3 per cent. The government previously defended its plans for identity-based redistribution as a moral move, with lucrative eel prices providing “a unique opportunity to advance reconciliation by reducing the longstanding socioeconomic gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.”
Aside from reconciliation-driven quota transfers like the eel quota redistribution of 2025, the feds are often motivated by a desire to honour the treaty right held by the region’s Indigenous groups to earn a “moderate livelihood,” as the Supreme Court of Canada set out in the 1999 case of R. v. Marshall. The feds have never been clear or consistent about setting limits on that right, though.
So when Indigenous groups exercise that right — which often seems to come without limits — their harvest cuts into the allowable catch for commercial fisheries, with the potential to devastate fishers big and small. Facing quota redistribution, eel fishers Tien and Anh Nguyen believed they wouldn’t be able to keep anywhere near as many staff. They weren’t going to be compensated for their loss, either.
Meanwhile, budding eel farming company NovaEel — which, if it succeeds, will be the first of its kind in Canada — now has rocky prospects. The eel suppliers it had lined up to get its farming operation off the ground were poised to have considerable quota taken away, which would mean that NovaEel wouldn’t be able to get up and running. The government has signalled that it can kill this kind of business at a moment’s notice, which is toxic to investment.
Plenty more of these identity-based initiatives in fishing have gone though. In 2025, $259.5 million in handouts are planned to support commercial Atlantic First Nations fishing businesses. These funds will be used on everything from licences, boats and gear to corporate governance; licences acquired under the deal can be leased back to non-Indigenous fishermen. Note that on the East Coast, the feds have spent more than $1 billion buying fishing licenses and equipment for First Nations over the years.
So, while the feds obliterate non-Indigenous businesses without compensation, they’ve been pumping millions into the Indigenous side.
Indeed, in 2021, commercial crab fishers in one fishing zone of British Columbia had half of their trapping allocation taken by the government and redistributed to Indigenous people to assist them in earning a “moderate livelihood.”
On the losing side of the reallocation were Jason Voong, a second-generation crab harvester whose family came here to fish crab after fleeing the Vietnam war, and Jeff and Cameron Edwards, whose family fishing business had been in the area for 32 years. “As a commercial fisherman, I feel like I don’t exist in the eyes of the government,” Jeff Edwards told the Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News. No one, of course, was compensated by the government.
As for lobster, the fishery is in absolute chaos due in part to federal cowardice. In southeast Nova Scotia, leaders of the Sipekne’katik First Nation set up a large out-of-season fishery in 2020, which they claim is an exercise of their Aboriginal right to earn a moderate livelihood from the land. The feds attempted to put a cap on their catch, but this was rejected by the First Nation, which continued to take lobster from the sea. That alone should raise questions about the legality of their actions.
You might be able to guess what happened to the lobster population in that area since. Commercial fishers have reported that lobster stocks are depleted due to over-harvesting. Meanwhile, say the RCMP, an organized crime group has been profiting from illegally harvested lobster, reaping profits and terrorizing locals.
Still, instead of putting its foot down and finding a resolution, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans largely watched from the sidelines, enforcing violations here and there but refusing to approve a tentative agreement between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishers that could have resolved the matter in 2022.
Instead, the problem of legally grey Indigenous fisheries spread: a Mi’kmaw group on Prince Edward Island followed their Nova Scotian counterparts and set up another “moderate livelihood” fishery; now, the group’s leader is asking for the government to provide them with commercial licences as well. And why not? The feds have proven to be generous so far.
The civil discord that comes from having parallel, competing, identity-based fisheries hasn’t been good. Prince Edward Island has noticed an uptick in gear tampering — such as cutting traps loose from lines — while Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have seen everything from vigilante trap removal to violence and sabotage. Buildings have been torched, and men who refuse to buy unlicensed catch have had their homes shot at. Non-Indigenous fishermen have removed traps from the water, while Indigenous fishermen have set up blockades to defend their wharf.
It’s not good. The Liberals, keen on neutering Canada’s resource sector, have done what they can to neglect their duty to provide a fair and prosperous playing field. On the coasts, this involves pitting subsets of the population against each other in the absence of clear rules.
They’ve turned the fishing industry into a ridiculous game of racial tug-of-war, which is corrosive to good community relations on the coast — and to the health of the Canadian fishing industry in general.
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Should this perspective also apply to those who ushered in forced lock-downs, forcing compliance to unproven unqualified medical procedures – by physical and ‘legal’ force, loss of paid work due to unproven unqualified medical procedures, administering “fines” for breathing and association, seized bank accounts, higher fuel prices, beatings upon citizens engaged in lawful activity, etc., etc., etc. ? Fixed elections ?
Notice what a change in administration can do for a culture ?
Have you noticed how many companies are now rolling back their woke, tranny-pushing DEI policies since Commander Trump won the election?
Target, McDonald’s, Walmart, and Meta are the latest in a long list that includes Harley-Davidson, John Deere, Boeing, Tractor Supply Company, Polaris, Lowe’s, Ford, Coors, Nissan, and many more. https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-cutting-dei-activist-backlash-harley-davidson-deere-tractor-supply-2024-8
All of these companies are hoping you’ll forgive and forget them for trying to ruin your life the last four years. They expect you to just let bygones be bygones. They assume you will now return to spending your hard-earned money on their products, because, after all, they’re just like you. Don’t you dare do it!

We’ve been forced to endure their hateful and racist rhetoric for four long years; we’ve been passed over for raises; job promotions, or even getting hired in the first place in favor of unqualified, low-IQ sex deviants and Affirmative Action candidates. We’ve been denied benefits and scolded in a million different ways over our “racism” and “privilege,” and now they want us to be nice and give them our money? Not a chance!
The only reason they’re abandoning these policies now is because the presidential candidate of their choice lost. Do you really think that if the man impersonating Joe Biden or that dumb bitch who pretended to be his Vice President had stolen another election that these companies would be rolling back their failed DEI policies? Absolutely not. In fact, they’d be doubling down on those policies, which tells you two things.
First, it tells you they’re cowards. If they really believed in their woke initiatives and policies, they’d keep them in place. That they’re scrapping them now just because Trump won, tells you that all they care about is joining the winning side. That’s the sign of a coward. It’s also a very feminine characteristic.
The second thing it tells you is they think you’re a fool. They think all they have to do is roll back the policies you hate, throw you a token apology, and you’ll come running back. Don’t do it. Not unless you like being played for a fool.
If you’ve been boycotting these companies, you must continue to do so. If you haven’t been boycotting these companies – and shame on you if you haven’t – then you must start immediately. That’s especially true when it comes to professional sports and anything coming from the entertainment industry – music, movies, television, etc. I suppose you can watch Dr. Phil. After all, he just helped our country’s border czar, Tom Homan, apprehend a dangerous criminal accused of sex crimes against children: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1883682412644974874
But not Selena Gomez or anyone else: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1883975187676430702
And what I said about boycotting the pedophile scum who populate the entertainment industry goes double, triple, quadruple for teachers and school officials. Say good riddance and have nothing to do with them ever again.

Now when it comes to family or friends, then obviously you can cut them some slack. The same with your co-workers and neighbors. After all, you have to live and work with them. If your neighbor is like mine, a black pill doomer with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), then you can remain cordial with him. I remain cordial with my neighbor, although I couldn’t resist rubbing it in a little when Trump won.
My neighbor’s TDS is so strong, he actually thought that a drunk, washed-up old whore was going to win the election. He bet a small fortune on Harris. I told him not to. I told him to bet every dollar he could afford on Trump. Instead he took all the money he won in last year’s Super Bowl after I told him the game was fixed for Kansas City to win and bet it all on the whore. Some people are their own worst enemy. (By the way, it looks like Kansas City again this year.)
So it’s okay to remain cordial with people like that, even if they’re stupid like my neighbor. But not these woke corporations. They tried to cancel you. They tried to turn your children into demon-infested, homosexual trannies, and now they want you back?
To let these companies and these people off the hook, after they’ve worked overtime to make your life miserable, would be the stupidest thing ever. Not only should you continue to boycott them, you should tell everyone you know to boycott them. Boycott them into oblivion. The people running those companies are scum – human scum – and they deserve to be treated as such.
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Mike Stone is the author of the new book REAL or FAKE: The Donald Trump Assassination Attempt and Teen Boy’s Success Book: the Ultimate Self-Help Book for Boys; Everything You Need to Know to Become a Man
Project Poppie: 14 Additional Arrests Made and 105 Charges Laid in Firearm Discharge Investigation,
Nine Suspects Outstanding,
Queen Street West and Sudbury Street area,
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Project Poppie: 14 Additional Arrests Made and 105 Charges Laid in Firearm Discharge Investigation,
Nine Suspects Outstanding,
Queen Street West and Sudbury Street area,
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Fourteen additional arrests have been made and 105 charges laid as part of Project Poppie, an ongoing investigation into the gunfight that occurred on Queen Street West on November 11, 2024.
The media conference is available to watch on YouTube.
“This incident was an audacious and reckless exchange of gunfire in downtown Toronto. It is nothing short of a miracle that no one was injured or killed, including innocent civilians and our officers,” said Superintendent Paul MacIntyre of Organized Crime Enforcement. “This case serves as a powerful reminder that the Toronto Police Service remains unwavering in its commitment to holding individuals accountable for actions that endanger public safety.”
There are nine suspects who remain outstanding.
“The members of this task force have worked tirelessly since day one to identify and track down those responsible,” said Inspector Paul Krawczyk of the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force. “Our message to anyone carrying illegal firearms or engaging in gun violence is clear: we will not stop coming after you. The work of the Toronto Police Service doesn’t end when the gunfire stops.”
On Monday, November 11, 2024, at approximately 11:20 p.m., plainclothes police officers from the 52 Division Major Crime Unit (MCU) and Public Safety Response Team (PSRT) were conducting an investigation outside of a building in the Queen Street West and Sudbury Street area.
It is alleged that:
- three individuals arrived in a stolen vehicle, exited the vehicle while each armed with a handgun, and discharged numerous rounds towards the back of 1196 Queen Street West, which was being operated as a recording studio
- individuals at the recording studio returned fire and the original three individuals took cover behind an unmarked police vehicle
- this vehicle, which was occupied by two police officers, was struck by bullets several times
- as the original suspects attempted to flee the scene, their stolen vehicle was struck by another unmarked police vehicle, causing the vehicle to be disabled, and the three suspects fled on foot
- one of these suspects was apprehended, while the two others remain outstanding
- a search of the area led officers to recover several firearms that had been discarded by the fleeing suspects
- individuals also fled the recording studio, discarding their firearms in garbage bins and other areas as they left
- one individual leaving the recording studio was apprehended by police. He was found to be in possession of a handgun
- officers entered the recording studio, taking several other people into custody and locating numerous firearms
- some of the firearms seized were modified in order to be capable of fully automatic fire
Initially, 23 people were arrested, eight were charged, and 16 firearms were seized. Following further investigation, charges were stayed against five people. One suspect—a 16-year-old male—was charged with the homicide of Matthew Bergart, which occurred in April 2024.
Original Arrests and Charges Include:
A male youth, 16*, of Brampton, was charged with:
- Second Degree Murder
He has also been charged with the following in relation to the shooting incident on November 11:
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm
- Possession of a Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Possession of a Loaded Prohibited or Restricted Firearm
- Possession of a Weapon Dangerous to Public Peace
- Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition Contrary to Prohibition Order three counts of Possession of a Prohibited or Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
Osman Aim, 21, of Toronto, was charged with:
- three counts of Discharge Firearm with Intent to Wound or Endanger Life
- three counts of Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- three counts of Possession of a Loaded Prohibited or Restricted Firearm
- three counts of Possession of a Prohibited Device Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- three counts of Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm in a Motor Vehicle
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing Serial Number has been
Ras Montague, 20, of Toronto, was charged with:
- two counts of Fail to Comply with Recognizance
The investigation has continued since the time of the incident in November 2024, culminating in Project Poppie, a task force dedicated to tracking down and arresting those involved.
As part of Project Poppie, fourteen additional people have been arrested and charged, and nine additional people are outstanding and being sought by police.
Project Poppie Arrests and Charges:
Jahvon Myles, 18, of Brampton, has been charged with:
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Device Knowingly Not Holding a Licence
- Possess Firearm No Licence
- Possess Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Firearm While Prohibited
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Hakeem Thomas, 23, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- Discharge Firearm With Intent to Wound or Endanger Life
- Use Firearm Carelessly
- two counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- two counts of Unauthorized Possession of Firearm
- two counts of Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- two counts of Possession of a Weapon
- Carrying a Concealed Weapon
- two counts of Possess Firearm While Prohibited
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, November 28, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
Tevon Hutchinson, 21, of Brampton, has been charged with:
- Possession of Property Obtained by Crime
- three counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- three counts of Unauthorized Possession of Firearm
- three counts of Possession of Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- two counts of Possess Prohibited/Restricted Device Knowing No Authority
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, January 9, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Faisal Musah, 25, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Possession of a Loaded Prohibited or Restricted Firearm
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm in a Motor Vehicle
- Possession of Firearm or Ammunition Contrary to Prohibition Order
- Fail to Comply With Probation Order
- Careless Storage of Firearm, Weapon, Prohibited Device
- two counts of Possession of a Prohibited Device or Ammunition Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Breach of Conditional Sentence Order
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 107.
Liban Guedi, 24, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- two counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- two counts of Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
Ajmain Rahman, 27, of Mississauga, has been charged with:
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence or Certificate
- Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing no Authority
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Firearm while Prohibited
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Trevaun Gregory, 19, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Firearm With No Licence
- two counts of Possess Prohibited Device Knowing no Authority
- Alter/Make Firearm Automatic
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Ras Montague, 20, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- three counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- three counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- three counts of Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
He was scheduled to attend court at Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., in room 301.
Reggie Amankwa, 30, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possession of Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Possession of a Weapon
- Possession of a Firearm While Prohibited
- Fail to Comply with Release Order
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Friday, December 6, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Kristian Carter-Lopez, 23, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- three counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- three counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly not Holding a Licence and Certificate
- two counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- two counts of Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
- Possess Firearm While Prohibited
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Firanz Toni, 32, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- two counts of Fail to Comply with Release Order
He was scheduled to attend court at Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Friday, January 17, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., in room 203.
Jahneil Brown, 26, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing no Authority
- Fail to Comply with Release Order
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Sunday, December 8, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
Aisosa Osadebamwen, 19, of Toronto, has been charged with:
- two counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- two counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing no Authority
- two counts of Fail to Comply with Release Order
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
A Male Youth, 17*, has been charged with:
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- two counts of Unauthorized Possession of Firearm
- two counts of Possession of Firearm Knowing Its Possession is Unauthorized
- Possess Prohibited/Restricted Device Knowing No Authority
- Fail To Comply with Release Order
He was scheduled to attend court at Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Friday, January 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 606.
Project Poppie Outstanding Suspects:
Additionally, nine suspects have been identified and are currently wanted in connection with this investigation. Images of these individuals have been released, with the exception of the wanted youth, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Mohamud Kheyre, 28, of Brampton, is wanted for:
- two counts of Possession of a Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Firearm Licence or Certificate
- two counts of Possession of a Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence or Firearm Certificate
- two counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- four counts of Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
- Alter/Make Firearm Automatic
- Possess Firearm/Restricted Weapon While Prohibited
He is described as 6’5” tall, 220 lbs., with black hair.
Caleb Odulate-Stewart, 25, of Toronto, is wanted for:
- four counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence or Registration Certificate
- four counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- three counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Unloaded Regulated Firearm
- three counts of Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
- Possess Firearm with Altered Serial Number
He is described as 5’10” tall, 157 lbs., with black hair.
Olad Olad, 25, of Toronto, is wanted for:
- two counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- two counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- two counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- two counts of Possess Prohibited/Restricted Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
- Fail to Comply with Release Order
- two counts of Possess Firearm/Restricted Weapon While Prohibited
He is described as 5’11” tall, 185 lbs., with black hair.
Jahdane Hamblett, 22, of Brampton, is wanted for:
- Two counts of Possession of a Firearm knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Two counts of Possession of a Prohibited Device
- Two counts of Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm in a Motor Vehicle
- Two counts of Possession of an Unloaded Regulated Firearm
He is described as 5’7” tall, 185 lbs, with black hair.
Jahmarley Smith, 23, of Toronto, is wanted for:
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
He is described as 5’3” tall, 106 lbs, with a thin build, and black hair.
Dylano Williams, 25, of Toronto, is wanted for:
- two counts of Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm
- two counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- two counts of Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- two counts of Possession of a Weapon
- two counts of Possession of a Firearm While Prohibited
He is described as 5’11” tall, 170 lbs., with long black hair, and a goatee.
Johnary Walker, 19, of Brampton has been identified and is wanted for:
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Possess Unloaded Regulated Firearm
- Possession of Firearm or Ammunition Contrary to Prohibition Order
- Fail to Comply With Release Order
- Fail to Comply With Undertaking
He is described as 6’1” tall, with a light complexion, and black hair.
Noah Belnavis-Essue, 19, of Mississauga, is wanted for:
- Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Possess Firearm Without Holding a Licence
- two counts of Possess Prohibited Device Knowing No Authority
- Breach of Probation
He is described as 5’10” tall, 150 lbs., with black hair.
A Male Youth, now 18*, is wanted for:
- two counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Without Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- two counts of Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- two counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Weapon or Prohibited Device Knowingly Not Holding a Licence and Registration Certificate
- two counts of Possess Loaded Regulated Firearm
- Fail to Comply with YCJA Sentence
Images of the outstanding suspects have been released. A video inside the recording studio where the incident occurred has been released and is available upon request.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-2510, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), or at www.222tips.com.
**Please refer to Section 110, Subsection 1, of the YCJA:
110. (1) Subject to this section, no person shall publish the name of a young person, or any other information related to a young person, if it would identify the young person as a young person dealt with under this Act.***
By Constable Stephanie Miceli for Inspector Paul Krawczyk Wanted Suspect,
Mohamud Kheyre, 28

Wanted Suspect,
Caleb Odulate-Stewart, 25

Wanted Suspect,
Olad Olad, 25

Wanted Suspect,
Jahmarley Smith, 23

Wanted Suspect,
Dylano Williams, 25

Wanted Suspect:
Jahdane HAMBLETT, 22

Wanted Suspect:
Johnary WALKER, 19

Wanted Suspect,
Noah Belnavis-Essue, 19

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More Indian Migrant Truck Drivers Caught Trafficking Drugs Across Border with Canada

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More Indian migrants licensed as Canadian truck drivers are being arrested by U.S. authorities for smuggling dangerous drugs through the United States.
The growing role of Indian truckers is another problem imposed by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invite millions of poor Indians to live in once-prosperous Canada.
The latest, Amarjeet Singh Matharu, a migrant from India to the greater Toronto area, was nabbed by Arizona State Troopers on Monday as he drove his semi on Interstate 40 near Holbrook, according to the Toronto Sun.
Officials say Matharu was caught with 550 pounds of cocaine hidden behind his load of produce headed to Canada. The drugs were reportedly picked up in the Los Angeles and Salinas, California, area.
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He is far from the only Indian national from Canada arrested in the U.S. Officials also arrested many other truckers out of Canada including, Sukhraj Singh, 22, of Caledon; Sukjindr Singh, 29, of Peel Region; Naseeb Chisty, 49, of Etobicoke; Jasbir Singh, 40, of Paris, Ontario; Arshdeep Singh, 23, of Quebec City; Juli Sabosan Sathiaseelan, 42; and Gagandeep Singh among others.
Last year, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced a wide-ranging investigation into a ring of criminals from India that had gone on a terror spree across the country to silence those criticizing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi or supporting his opponents.
In one particular incident, these accused criminals allegedly fired fourteen bullets into a home near Victoria and then torched the place.
Ultimately, six diplomatic and consular officials posted at India’s foreign missions in Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver were identified as being involved in the criminal conspiracy and they were expelled from the country and sent back to India.
But Canada has been beset with an increase in human smuggling from India that has brought in an increasing number of criminals from the Asian nation.
In one high profile case from November, an Indian national and an American were convicted of human smuggling in an incident that led to the deaths of a family from India that had been abandoned at the Canadian border near Minnesota. The family perished during a blizzard in 2022 as they attempted to walk into Canada while avoiding legal ports of entry.
The problem is not Canada’s alone. It was also reported in November that the U.S. has seen a ten-fold increase of Indian nationals who had entered Canada illegally, also trying to enter the U.S. from Canada. There are already more than 725,000 Indians living illegally in the U.S.A.
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The Aryan Invasion of India
How modern science has vindicated an old theory
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The theory of an ancient Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent was first proposed by William Jones, a British philologist in the 18th Century. At the time a stunning and original theory, Jones proposed a common root language to European languages and Sanskrit, writing that:
The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.1

William Jones
Observing what he took to be two distinct Aryan and non-Aryan lineages in India, Jones proposed an Aryan conquest of indigenous Indian tribes, bringing the Indo-European Sanskrit language with them. The theory became more popular in the 19th Century, propounded by well-known philologists like Max Müller. It fell out of favour with the end of British colonial rule in India and the mood of anti-racism that gripped intellectuals the world over after WWII.
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While Aryan Invasion Theory has been wrongly dismissed as resulting from Western scientific racism, Hindu scholars have also expounded theories on the origin of the invasive Aryans. Dayananda Saraswati, a 19th Century philosopher and founder of a major reform movement in Hinduism, theorised that the Aryans originated in Tibet, arguing that the flora and fauna mentioned in the ancient Rigveda were native to Tibet, and the Aryans worshipped the sun and fire due to Tibet’s extremely cold climate — the ancient Rigveda has 10 hymns dedicated to worship of the sun.
Taking this further, the Indian scholar Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote a work titled The Arctic Home in the Vedas in 1903, arguing that Aryans originally inhabited the Arctic before being driven from the northern tundras by an Ice Age and migrating to Central Asia. Tilak used a combination of Vedic calendars, analysis of Vedic hymns, and astronomical analysis to conclude the Aryans left their home in the North Pole around 8,000 BC. Traditionalist philosophers Julius Evola and René Guénon later endorsed this theory of a polar origin for the Aryans, with Guénon endorsing Tilak’s reading of the Vedas.2

However, although the Aryan Invasion Theory was long comfortably discarded as a relic of Western scientific racism, and its more esoteric proponents had to rely on speculative interpretations of religious texts, modern advances in genetic science have provided more incontrovertible evidence that has only served to vindicate the Aryan Invasion Theory. As I will demonstrate, not only does the genetic record show an enormous Aryan migration to the Indian subcontinent, but the latest evidence attests to this being a violent conquest that utterly transformed India.
The genetic record
In 2019, two major studies were published which gave some of the strongest evidence yet to the theory. And yet, an Indian publication reported that these studies were ignored by media in India, where the theory has been opposed by Indian nationalists. It wrote that:
Much of the Indian media did not bother to explain that the new research actually upheld the theory that people with European Steppe ancestry had brought the Indo-Aryan language branch to India – not overturned it.
At the time of the decline of the Harappan Civilisation — the first Indus Valley Civilisation, which grew alongside Ancient Egypt and Mesopatamia as one of the first agricultural-based civilisations along the fertile Indus River — this founding population began to mix with an Indo-European people carrying the DNA of Steppe peoples. These were the descendants of the Proto-Indo-Europeans who originated in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, whose conquering descendants spread across Eurasia and contribute a significant amount of ancestry to modern Europeans. The Indo-European invaders entered India through Central Asia.

The Indo-European population mixed with the Harappan people to form the Ancestral North Indian (ANI) population. The study found significantly elevated rates of steppe ancestry in Brahmin communities in North India. In the words of one of the co-authors David Reich, the study is “not ambiguous” on proving a foreign origin of Indo-European languages in India.
Interestingly, Reich has also reported an incident where his Indian colleagues threatened to shut down a 2009 research project if the term “West Eurasian” was used to describe this major population group in the North of India, which led to renaming it “Ancestral North Indian” to satisfy Indian nationalist sentiment. Many prominent figures associated with India’s ruling BJP party have made subscription to the discredited “Out of India” theory a prerequisite to Hindu nationalism. For example, the leader of BJP’s parent organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) claims “the DNA of Indians has been the same for 40,000 years.”
Steppe ancestry being concentrated among ethnic Brahmins is interesting, since it has long been theorised that India’s caste system had a racial origin. A 2020 study on the DNA profiles of Brahmin men concluded:
This ethnic group did not originate from a single ancestral population, but instead emerged from at least 12 progenitors who, with one exception (haplogroup H), emerged from foreign lands that were geographically near or coterminous with India.3
The Indo-European ancestors of the Brahmins:
Brought Sanskrit and tenets of the Vedic religion with them. After the demise of IVC, starting around the second millennium BCE, some inhabitants, mostly the newcomers, remained in the north and others dispersed to the eastern and southern parts of India, resulting in the ANI [Ancestral North Indian] and ASI [Ancestral South Indian] population clusters. Over time, the Brahmins expanded and spread Hinduism throughout the Indian subcontinent.4
The Brahmins maintained the dominance of Sanskrit, the oldest existing Indo-European language in India. Reflecting the pattern of Sanskrit being enforced by the Aryan invaders, older Dravidian languages are dominant in the South of India.

This is reminiscent of Mediterranean Europe, which has far lower Steppe ancestry than Northern and Central Europe and where many non–Indo-European languages are reported still existing in classical sources.
The study notes that by the time of the Aryan arrival to India in the second millennium BC, the Indus Valley Civilisation was already in decline, and DNA evidence suggests the Aryan invaders rapidly dislodged the existing elite and dominated the region.

However, genetic and archaeological evidence has shown that these Indo-European invaders of India did not come directly from the steppe, but actually originated from people of the kind we find in the Corded-Ware culture of Central and Eastern Europe. These Corded-Ware populations had mixed with early European farmers and are most closely related to modern Northern Europeans:
Many of the samples from this group are individuals buried in association with artifacts of the Corded Ware, Srubnaya, Petrovka, Sintashta and Andronovo complexes, all of which harbored a mixture of Steppe_EMBA ancestry and ancestry from European Middle Neolithic agriculturalists (Europe_MN). This is consistent with previous findings showing that following westward movement of eastern European populations and mixture with local European agriculturalists, there was an eastward reflux back beyond the Urals.5
So while Proto-Indo-Europeans expanded out of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe in all directions, it was their later Northern European branch which mixed with native European farmers that then expanded back eastward and became the founders of Vedic civilisation.

The R1a DNA associated with the Indo-European expansion into India is found most in Southern Central Asia and Iran, and concentrated in the Northwest of India where the Aryan invasions would have begun. In Europe, its spread looks like this:

It’s important to note that had the origin of steppe DNA in India been the earlier Yamnaya culture, then males in the region would carry the R1b marker rather than the later R1a. But, as a 2018 study notes:
Early Bronze Age Yamnaya-related migrations had limited direct genetic impact in Asia.6
That R1a is what is present in the region shows that the entrance of Indo-Europeans came from a later European expansion:
The Steppe ancestry in South Asia has the same profile as that in Bronze Age Eastern Europe, tracking a movement of people that affected both regions and that likely spread the distinctive features shared between Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages.7
So we now know, as another major 2019 study argued, that Indo-European languages spread into South Asia from a group of European origin that had already mixed with European agriculturalists:
From Eastern Europe via Central Asia in the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE, a chain-of-transmission now documented in detail with ancient DNA. The fact that the Steppe pastoralist ancestry in South Asia matches that in Bronze Age Eastern Europe…provides additional evidence for this theory.8
An article in the Journal of Human Genetics points to a series of migrations to India in 2,000-1,500 BC that was transformative to the region, and overwhelmingly male dominated.9 40% of the male lineages of northern India carry the R1a DNA marker associated with the Indo-European invasion, compared to less than 10% of female lineages. In other words, while critics of the Aryan Invasion Theory have tried to recast it as one among many simple migrations to India, it was anything but peaceful.
Over a millennium later, during Alexander the Great’s attempted conquest of the Indian subcontinent, the Brahmin descendants of this European invasion were noted for engineering particularly fierce resistance to the Macedonian. The Brahmins incited a holy war all along his invasion route, creating the toughest challenge of all his invasions. One of the subsequent battles led to Alexander being wounded badly enough to prompt a retreat from India.
Vedic sources on the Aryan conquest
As mentioned, faced with the incontestable genetic evidence of a large influx of steppe populations into India, some have proposed an “Aryan Assimilation Theory” and argued this influx was gradual and peaceful. This is not only challenged by the genetic record showing a male-dominated invasion, but also from the historical record provided by ancient Indian sources.
Written between 1,500-1,000 BC, the Rigveda is one of the foundational Hindu texts — one of the four Vedas, and the oldest Vedic Sanskrit text. It records the story of the Aryan incursion into India and their encounter with the local populations.
The Indo-Iranian peoples apparently referred to themselves as “Aryans”, meaning “noble” or “civilised”. An inscription on the tomb of Darius the Great uses the term “Ariya” to describe the Iranian people, apparently describing Darius as an “Aryan of Aryan descent.” In Avestan, the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism, “Airyanem Vaejah” is used to describe an ancient “Aryan expanse” which was the homeland of the Iranian people. Similarly, the Sanskrit term ārya, meaning noble, is used throughout the Rigveda to describe the conquerors who subdued the native Indians, who are referred to as Dasa/Dasyu.
Indra, the principal deity of the Rigveda, is a Vedic-Aryan deity who the Aryans petition as a god of war. He is frequently depicted enjoying soma, an ancient drink identified with ancient steppe cultures. Soviet archaeologists identified the Bactria Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), a Bronze Age civilisation that existed in the Pamir mountains in modern Tajikistan around 4,000 BC. Among the remains of this ancient culture were alters; cannabis; four-wheeled chariots and horse sacrifices; and ephedra, one of the ingredients for soma. The soma-drinking practices of Indo-Europeans are documented in other ancient sources.

Although partly mythical, the Rigveda was written near the time of Aryan incursions into India, and its many descriptions of the fair-skinned Aryan invaders contrasted to the dark-skinned, “snubnosed”, godless natives seems to record real events.
Indra and his light-skinned friends conquer the land:
“He (Indra), much invoked, hath slain Dasyus and Simyus, after his want, and laid them low with arrows. The mighty Thunderer with his fair-complexioned friends won the land, the sunlight, and the waters. May Indra evermore be our protector, and unimperilled may we win the booty” [RV Hymn C, 18–19]
Aryan invaders slay “darksome creatures”:
“Day after day far from their seat he (Indra) drove them, alike, from place to place, those darksome creatures. The Hero slew the meanly-huckstering Dasas, Varcin and Sambara, where the waters gather.” [RV 6.47.21]
The Aryans drive out a “dusky brood”:
SING, with oblation, praise to him who maketh glad, who with Rjisvan drove the dusky brood away. Fain for help, him the strong whose right hand wields the bolt, him girt by Maruts we invoke to be our Friend. [RV 1. 101. 1]
Indra conquers to spread the might and glory of the Aryans:
Armed with his bolt and trusting in his prowess he wandered shattering the forts of Dasas. Cast thy dart, knowing, Thunderer, at the Dasyu; increase the Arya’s might and glory, Indra. [RV 1. 103. 3]

Drawing by Christian Sloan Hall
The aboriginals of India are cursed with “dusky skin”
Indra in battles help his Aryan worshipper, he who hath hundred helps at hand in every fray, in frays that win the light of heaven. Plaguing the lawless he gave up to Manu’s seed the dusky skin; Blazing, ’twere, he burns each covetous man away, he burns, the tyrannous away. [RV 1. 130. 8]
The “swarthy fifty thousand” are defeated:
Thou to the son of Vidathin, Rjisvan, gavest up mighty Mrgaya and Pipru. Thou smotest down the swarthy fifty thousand, and rentest forts as age consumes a garment. [RV 4. 16. 13]
Indra hates “swarthy skin”:
O’er Sire and Mother they have roared in unison bright with the verse of praise, burning up riteless men, blowing away with supernatural might from earth and from the heavens the swarthy skin which Indra hates. [RV 9. 73. 5]
Indra is described with a yellow beard and yellow hair
At the swift draught the Soma-drinker waxed in might, the Iron One with yellow beard and yellow hair. He, Lord of Tawny Coursers, Lord of fleet-foot Mares, will bear his Bay Steeds safely over all distress. [RV 10. 96. 8]

Indra bestows the land to White people:
The Thunderer bestowed on his White friends the fields, bestowed the sun, bestowed the waters. [RV 1. 100. 18]
More passages on black skin:
Indra protected in battle the Aryan worshipper, he subdued the lawless for Manu, he conquered the black skin. [RV 1. 130. 8]
Stormy gods who rush on like furious bulls and scatter the black skin. [RV 4. 73.5]
Indra, the manifold protector (of his worship) battles, defends his Aryan worshipper in all conflicts, in conflicts that confer heaven. He punished for (the benefit of) man the neglecters of religious rites. He tore off the black skin (of the aggressor), as if burning (with flame), he consumes the malignant; he utterly consumes him who delights in cruelty. [RV 1. 130. 8]
Natives are described as Godless, lawless and inhuman:
Thou conqueredst, boundest many tribes for ever. Like castles thou hast crushed the godless races, and bowed the godless scorner’s deadly weapon. [RV 1. 174. 8]
The foolish, faithless, rudely-speaking niggards, without belief or sacrifice or worship,— Far far away hath Agni chased those Dasytis, and, in the cast, hath turned the godless westward. [RV 7. 4. 3]
These final passages especially don’t help the case of proponents of Aryan Assimilation Theory, who might argue the Aryans merely adopted existing Vedic religion. The Vedas are clear that the religious practices of the natives were considered without virtue and practicing a demonic, inferior religion.
The blonde-haired Indra is the central deity of the Rigveda. Many scholars have seen in Indra the same deity as Thor and Zeus, reflecting their Indo-European origins. The Swedish archaeologist Oscar Montelius remarked that:
Amongst the Aryan peoples of India we find a god whose favourite weapon in his fight against the demons is the thunderbolt. This god, glorified above all others in the Rigveda hymns, was Indra, that fabulously strong deity who corresponds to the Thor of the Scandinavians. His original weapon was the “heavenly stone” which the primeval smiths had sharpened for him; it was thus a kind of stone axe. Then a bolt was prepared for him which, according to some hymns, was made out of the skull of a horse, while others describe it as being made of bronze. Strictly speaking, it was made of “ayas,” the same word as the Latin “aes,” which word in the earlier Indian language signifies copper or bronze, but which in later times, after iron became known, means this new metal. From the fact that one of the Rigveda hymns gives to the lightning the name of the axe of heaven, we may rightly infer that Indra’s axe is really the lightning.10

Indra, god of thunder

Thor, god of thunder
Like Thor, Indra is considered the god of thunder, but he is also represented as the sun. Montelius and other scholars have argued that the god of the sun and of thunder had originally been the same in Indo-European mythology, with some depicting this god as wielding an axe and some a hammer. This god reflects the pole of a more fundamental conflict that animates Indo-European mythology:
As far back as written accounts extend, the struggle between Light and Darkness, Summer and Winter, Good and Evil, has formed the principal foundation of the religious belief of the people of the North.11
Horses in Vedic Civilisation
Another notable aspect of the Rigveda is how prominently horses are featured. Horses are mentioned 215 times in the text, far more than any other animal. The twin Ashvin gods are described as horsemen. Ushas, the most exalted goddess in the Rigveda, and Agni, one of the principal male deities, are both described as riding horse-drawn chariots.
This is significant because in the Harappan civilisation, there are hardly any traces of horses, either as skeletal remains nor engraved as images on any artefacts. Even before genetic advances totally rebuked proponents of Indigenous Aryanism, its proponents in India had to claim Harappan civilisation was Vedic, but were at a complete loss to explain the absence of horses in this civilisation and their sudden appearance in the Vedas. This is all the more conspicuous considering many of the terracotta seals recovered from Harappan sites are engraved with various animals, but never horses.

We now know the native population of wild horses had disappeared from India by about 8,000 BC, and only ancestors of the Indian wild ass remained. It was the incursion of the Indo-European population that brought domesticated horses to India, and they are featured so prominently in the Vedas because they are of Aryan origin.

Horses were crucial to the success of the Proto-Indo-European peoples, providing a great military advantage that allowed their vast conquests over peoples without horses. They were also central to the pastoral economies of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, likely used a lot for herding the livestock of these nomadic populations. As such, horses were revered in Indo-European cultures.
Horses were connected with the cult of the sun deity and seemed to have magical powers attributed to them. Hippomancy, divination through horses, was widespread among Indo-European groups. It was believed the future success or failure of a military enterprise could be judged by the snorting of a horse.

One of the great markers of Indo-European culture is the horse sacrifice, “one of the most enduring and widespread traditions in world history.”12 The archaeological record shows evidence of elaborate ritualistic sacrifices of horses in Celtic, Germanic and Slavic cultures. Vedic India too, carried forward this Indo-European tradition in the form of the Ashvamedha — literally meaning “horse sacrifice”.
This ritual involved the release of a stallion, allowed to roam freely for one year with the escort of the king’s army. During this time, any incursions into neighbouring territories was seen as an assertion of sovereignty. The horse would be sacrificed on its return following an elaborate religious ritual, which included the queen being stimulated with the penis of the dead horse as a fertility ritual.

Depiction of Ashvamedha
Traditionally, handling of horses was kept to the Kshatriyas, or warrior caste. Lower caste Dalits riding or handling horses was seen as a great insult and challenge to the power of the ruling castes. This attitude is still present in India today, where Dalits have been killed for owning horses. If there was a racial division in the original caste system between invasive Aryans for whom horses were such a central part of their traditions and military success, and natives whose adoption of horses might have been seen as a threat to their conquerors, this would help explain why this particular division was so strongly enforced.
Race in the caste system
The word “caste” is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word casta, which roughly translates to breed or race. This stuck after Portuguese explorers used the term for the Indian system after encountering it in the 15th Century. The “caste system” now generally refers to the Indian system of jāti, which is a more complex and localised system of hierarchies than the broad categorisations we associate with caste.
This is closer to the Indian varna system, from where we get the traditional social groups of:
- Brahmins (priests & scholars)
- Kshatriyas (warriors, rulers, administrators)
- Vaishyas (merchants, agriculturists, artisans)
- Shudras (labourers, service providers)
A fifth class of Dalits or “Untouchables” was excluded from the fourfold varna system and considered fit only to perform undesirable menial work. They were also considered impure since their typical occupations often involved tasks considered to be ritually polluting, such as removing human waste.

The term varna itself literally translates to “colour”. In the epic Mahabharata, written in the 4th Century AD, a sage named Bhrigu identifies each varna with a particular colour: “Brahmins Varna was white, Kshtriyas was red, Vaishyas was yellow, and the Shudras’ black.”13 This is rebuked by another sage, who argues the colours are present among all varnas and what really distinguishes them is behaviour.
Could this reflect a progression of the understanding of the varna system, which was originally based on observable racial differences which became less solidified with time? These colours are now taken to represent the different Gunas or qualities — white represents Satva (purity and knowledge), Red represents Rajas (activity) and Black represents Tamas (destruction).

Depiction of Krishna
However, while rebuking Bhrigu, his interlocutor acknowledges that Bhrigu himself is indeed talking about complexion:
If the distinction between the four varnas is only on the basis of complexion and that is how the varnas are to be differentiated, then it is evident and can be seen that among the varnas, there has been a mixture of varnas.
So while later scriptures reject a racial foundation to the varnas, it does seem to be acknowledged that a division based on complexion and racial qualities had at one time been the prevailing view.
The earliest theorists of the Aryan Invasion Theory believed the different racial qualities of the major castes suggested it had once been a means of the Aryan invaders differentiating themselves from the darker-skinned natives. What can we surmise about this today?
The large study on Indian population changes cited at the beginning of this article reports the following:
We report genome-wide data from 73 groups from the Indian subcontinent and analyze linkage disequilibrium to estimate ANI-ASI mixture dates ranging from about 1,900 to 4,200 years ago. In a subset of groups, 100% of the mixture is consistent with having occurred during this period. These results show that India experienced a demographic transformation several thousand years ago, from a region in which major population mixture was common to one in which mixture even between closely related groups became rare because of a shift to endogamy.14
In other words, around the time Aryans began to arrive in India, there was a sudden shift from free mixing between groups to caste-based endogamy. Initially, the male Aryan invaders likely engaged in a lot of rape and mixing with the local populations.

The confusion of so many mixed offspring not clearly belonging to one or the other groups is probably what led to the institution of a caste system, which gradually became institutionalised. Indeed, the genetic record attests to high-caste Indians with a high ANI (West Eurasian) DNA mating outside of their caste but not allowing the resulting mixed offspring to enter their caste. Per a 2016 genomic study on India:
In eastern and northeastern India, populations such as the West Bengal Brahmins (WBR) and the TB populations continued to admix until the emergence of the Buddhist Pala dynasty during the 8th to 12th centuries CE. The asymmetry of admixture, with ANI populations providing genomic inputs to tribal populations (AA, Dravidian tribe, and TB) but not vice versa, is consistent with elite dominance and patriarchy. Males from dominant populations, possibly upper castes, with high ANI component, mated outside of their caste, but their offspring were not allowed to be inducted into the caste.15
So in summary, we know that:
- An Indo-European language speaking group who called themselves Aryans entered North India and overturned the existing elite, leaving their genetic mark through a flurry of male mixing with native females
- Genetic and archaeological evidence shows these original invaders came out of Europe, similar to the people of the European Corded-Ware culture
- The Rigveda describes fair-skinned Aryan invaders conquering dark-skinned natives and imposing a new religion on them
- The caste system began around the time of the Aryan entrance to India
- The caste system was originally described as a colour-based system with the highest castes identified with the colour white and the lowest with the colour black
- Vedic sources as late as the 3rd Century AD say some identified the mark of the varnas as skin colour
- Steppe DNA is focused in the higher castes, who mixed outside their group but whose mixed offspring were excluded from their father’s caste
- Horses were introduced to India by the Aryan invaders, and handling of horses by the lower castes was strictly prohibited
Given these facts, the conclusion that the varna caste system was originally a way for the Aryan invaders to enforce racial divisions between themselves and their conquered populations seems unavoidable.
Modern genetic science has helped us put to bed a centuries old-debate on the origin of the people who created Vedic civilisation. We now know that around three thousand years ago, a war-like Indo-European people, descendants of the Proto-Indo-Europeans of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, invaded India. They conquered and subjugated the native population, imposed the liturgical language of Sanskrit, wrote the Vedas and created Vedic civilisation. Initially mixing widely with the natives, then instituted a caste system along racial lines. The Aryans imposed their aristocratic warrior culture on India; they provided its greatest literary accomplishments in the form of the Vedas; and later the most advanced development of monistic metaphysics in the form of the Upanishads.
Over time, their distinctness was lost as their bloodline blended with the more numerous populations native to the subcontinent. Today, their mark is still found in the genetics of India, especially among the elite Brahmin caste and people in the North-West of India where the Aryan incursions began.