The Killing of Nancy Grewal: Khalistani Threats and Canadian Security Failures

PUNE, India – The month of March began with the most tragic news of the brutal murder of a 45-year-old Canadian YouTuber who lived in Windsor, Ontario. It shocked me to read about it, just as all Khalistani terror acts strike me. Then, as the news developed, I realized it was Nancy Grewal, whom I had spoken to some time ago, and it hit even harder.

Nancy was a health-care giver, who was reportedly stabbed 18 times in the stomach and left for dead, near the home of her client, in a desolate part of the LaSalle suburbs in Ontario. The police were called in, and by the time she was attended to, her wounds were so severe (and almost professionally brutal) that they left no chance for her survival.

Nancy had also become a famous Punjabi YouTuber, TikTokker & Instagrammer who had migrated from Punjab some 8 years earlier. Her Mother lived in Punjab, and her sister lived between India and Canada.

I was fortunate to connect with her in the summer of 2025, when I spent a month in Ontario on my speaking tour across Canada/ USA. We had chatted briefly, and she was an extremely tough lady with a very strong, independent mind. It would be correct to say that one could not easily change her views, but she was a tender soul within. At the time we spoke, she had already received a few warnings and threats about her life and safety, and was warned to stay off the Khalistani gravy train, but she was made of steel.

We shared a few thoughts and ideas and discussed Khalistani issues in general as fellow travelers on the same journey. She was completely focused on what she was doing. I continued my engagements in Hamilton, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Seattle. Cut to 2026: I was working on a book about the Khalistani terror network of the 1980s, until I saw an online post about her appearance on a popular Canadian Punjabi Podcast in January 2026. That was the last time I heard from or about her until the 3rd March.

She had apparently taken on some big people, both in the Windsor Gurdwara and across Canada, and also pointed fingers at a few people out of Punjab who were allegedly helping the Khalistani forces. Her truth bore no discrimination or brooked any boundaries, whether they were political people from Punjab or Canada, as long as they supported Khalistan and the idea of criminal activities, she was dead against them.

She had been warned by many at her local gurdwara on County Road 42 in Windsor to shut her mouth. Nancy, A Canadian Sikh herself, had been against the criminalization of the gurdwara (which was a religious place of worship) into becoming a Khalistani terror outpost. The lax Canadian laws did not prohibit this, unlike the stronger American Anti-terror laws that were put in place post 9-11.

She had said on a TV interview to CBC only days before her murder “I’m not feeling safe in this country right now”, On the Saturday morning 530 am 8th November, Nancy was home alone and as she described it –“a white man wearing a mask, came with a red gallon of gas and spread it on my wooden deck in front of my door, whilst I was inside the house. Another guy waited in the Car.” “Afterwards, they burnt it.” “I believe in God, God saved me, God saved my life, nothing happened to me or my house.” “I called the police and told them, ‘I know who this person is, he is Khalistani. ‘He sits in the 42-county road gurdwara.”

“Sometimes I get scared, when they say ‘I will kill you’ and I say ‘kill me anytime, too much of death threats, 40 death threats, the Windsor police work on this.”

Despite 40 death threats, one of them which was an actual arson attack, neither the Windsor Police nor the RCMP provided any protection to Nancy Grewal, and no apparent monitoring by the Windsor Police or the RCMP. There was, however, active monitoring by her killers, alleged to be Khalistanis.

The silence is deafening, despite the arson attack having taken place in early November 2025; neither the Windsor Police nor the RCMP has even made any serious headway into the case. This, despite having video footage and a street cam not too far from Nancy’s house. Were the Police waiting for more attacks to take place?

On the evening of 3rd March 2026, Nancy, who was a healthcare-giver, went to attend to her client near Todd Lane, near Malden Road, Lasalle, Ontario. When she finished up there, she was allegedly accosted in the quiet neighborhood, which was ringed by woods, and brutally murdered. The killing bore the hallmarks of a professional hit, which had been cased long enough, a quiet neighborhood, no cameras, a quick getaway route. At roughly 9:30 p.m., police in LaSalle, Ont., were called to a home on Todd Lane regarding an individual in distress. They tried to administer first aid and take her to the hospital, but she succumbed to her injuries.

Nancy’s mother was interviewed by Punjabi TV and India Today, which reported that “Shinder Pal Grewal, Nancy’s mother, alleged that the attackers stabbed her daughter 18 times in the stomach and claimed the killing stemmed from an earlier dispute. She also alleged that her daughter’s tongue had been chopped off during the attack.” Though there is no confirmation of the dismemberment of her body parts, as alleged. The body is kept at the morgue awaiting Nancy’s family’s arrival.

Her mother alleged that the assailants had planned the attack in a desolate spot that lacked CCTV cameras, and she had received plenty of death threats in the past. Nancy’s distraught mother had initially stated on a Punjabi TV channel that “it had to be Kooner who was close to Rode,” and they had told her that Nancy should apologize, take down all her rants about them, and they would consider forgiving her.’ However, she withdrew those allegations soon thereafter.

Avtar Singh Kooner is a very powerful man in Windsor and a well-known Khalistani Supporter who was taken in for questioning by the RCMP during the Air India Kanishka bombing in 1985, and was also questioned by the FBI in connection with the New Orleans plot. He was closely linked with the late Lakhbir Singh Rode, the nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Rode was the self-styled head of the banned Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) and the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), another banned and proscribed terrorist organization.

Rode himself had also been questioned over the Air India bombing and then fled to Pakistan, where he organized terrorist activities from there, including the Punjab Tiffin bombs of 2021, and the Ludhiana Court bombing for which his assets were seized by the National Investigation Agency of India.

Nancy’s mother alleged that the people involved in the earlier arson attack on her daughter’s house could also be behind the killing. That incident was reported to the police. Shinder Pal Grewal also claimed that whenever her daughter received threatening messages or notes, she would immediately inform the police, but no effective action was taken.

The Canadian police and legal system are incapable of dealing with acts of terror and violence.

The United Kingdom had, in 2006, enacted laws to ensure that religious hatred, terrorism, hate speech, or upsetting public order by religious groups or in religious places could not be permitted. This helped the UK to somewhat tackle growing Islamist and Khalistani terror within the UK.

The US Supreme Court, the doyen of Free Speech, has established that speech inciting imminent lawless action or actively encouraging violence, terror, or criminal acts will not be protected by the First Amendment and will be prosecuted. Similarly, if they (places of worship) give safe harbor or material support to terrorists or organizations, it is a federal crime and can also result in that religious institution losing its status and tax benefits.

Canada’s laws are too weak to control this, and even the proposed C-9 bill (Hate crimes) is much too weak to tackle this properly. The Khalistani hate factory has taken so many lives and injured so many more before this. We have seen the Air India Kanishka bombing, the world’s worst act of aviation terror until the 9-11 attacks, that claimed 331 lives with two bombs across the globe, the killing of Sardar Tara Singh Hayer, the attacks on Ujjal Dosanjh, Balraj Deol, and many more. The silencing of Tarsem Singh Purewal in London (another witness in the Air India bombing) gurdwara factions and politics, the attacks on the High Commissions across Canada since the mid 1980s until recently, the vandalism of Hindu temples in Canada and the USA, all rankle the mind.

Nancy’s death has brought about calls in anguish for the protection of women across Canada; it also raises the bogey of the exercise of free speech and silencing of criticism by Khalistani terrorists, and the sway they hold over the Canadian and North American ecosystem. There have been political and social commentators who have called out for the banning of Khalistani organizations, and there is a section that wants to outlaw all violent actors and terror incidents from the religious places of worship, to break the stranglehold that terror groups and criminals have over the Gurdwara network across Canada, which also serve as a conduit for the Khalistani illegal arms, drugs and human trafficking rings.

Nancy Grewal, the 45-year-old YouTuber, has paid the ultimate price. Will she ever get justice? Will the guilty ever be punished, or will they get away scot-free like hundreds of others? I wonder if her gruesome death can bring about some change in the policing, administration, and banning of these Khalistani Groups in Canada and North America, so we can purify the Khalistani Killing Fields of Canada, in memory of her departed soul.

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