www.theasianstar.com Vol 17 - Issue 17
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Bombay Bhel Indian restaurant bombed
BC files constitutional challenge of Alberta’s fuel restriction law The British Columbia government has launched a lawsuit and is prepared to ask for an injunction and damages against Alberta over that province’s recently passed fuel restriction law. BC Attorney General David Eby says the government filed a statement of claim in Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench challenging the constitutionality of Alberta’s Preserving Canada’s
Ontario Police officer stand in front of Bombay Bhel restaurant, where two unidentified men set off a bomb late Thursday night, wounding 15
Mississauga, Ont. One witness says he heard a huge explosion, before coming upon a chaotic scene of broken glass and bloodied diners at a Mississauga Indian restaurant late Thursday, while another spotted two men running away from the scene. Peel Regional Police allege two disguised men entered the Bombay Bhel restaurant, near a major Mississauga, Ont. intersection, planted an improvised explosive device and then fled. Moments later, at around 10:30 p.m. the device detonated, injuring at least 15 people. 2 men wanted after restaurant bomb blast wounds 15 Nobody was killed, but when international student Rafael Concaceicao raced to the scene from a nearby patio, he saw a number of people who were bleeding and one man who appeared to have glass lodged in his eye, he said. “Glass was broken in the street ‌ everything was destroyed. Lots of blood in Continued on page 8
New Sikh AG itching to take on Trump The man aspiring to be the new face of the resistance is a practicing Sikh who likes to call attention to his turban and happens to have jurisdiction over 20 of President Donald Trump’s properties, including Bedminster. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (pictured) says he sees an opening in the continuing wake left by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s surprise resignation, and he’s ready to take it. “If with him not being there, there’s a gap, we’ll fill that gap to make sure there’s no backsliding,� said Grewal, ticking off a list of active or potential lawsuits against the administration over immigrants, the stripping down of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, threats to the state coastline, the proposed citizenship question on the Continued on page 7
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Economic Prosperity Act. The legal action says Alberta’s law is unconstitutional because it is intended to punish B.C. by limiting exports of fuel products. The court action comes amid increasing tension over B.C.’s opposition to the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline project from Alberta to the West Coast. Pipeline company Kinder Morgan has ceased all
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Third South Asian suspect arrested in Mississauga beating of an autistic man When Peel detectives went to the public for help with a shocking surveillance video March 13 of three men laying a horrible beating on a 29-year-old autistic man, they vowed to catch the trio. Detectives touched down at Pearson International Airport with Jaspaul Uppal (pictured) — in handcuffs — just six days after they had issued a Canada wide warrant for his arrest. Turns out their hunch he was not in the GTA was correct, because Uppal turned himself into police in Abbotsford early this week. Peel sent two officers out to get him to face Ontario justice. In shackles, he flew home on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver and was brought back to 12 Continued on page 6 Division. People on the plane told the
Amnesty says Rohingya militants massacred Hindus Last September, military officials in Myanmar told international journalists that they had found a mass grave of Hindus in Rakhine state, a month after the country began a bloody crackdown on the minority Rohingya Muslim population. There, in the center of a region already submerged in widespread violence, troops gathered local Hindus in a field to identify dozens of bodies,
many of whom were the residents’ friends and family. The Myanmar military blamed the massacre on a Rohingya insurgent group, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, based in the area which had launched a series of attacks on security outposts the month before. But the military’s announcement made little impression at the time. Myanmar was already allegedly carrying out atrocities of its own in response to the attacks, opening a brutal operation Continued on page 8
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