The Asian Star May 26 2018

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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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Hunt on for two suspects as 15 people injured in Mississauga restaurant explosion A bombing at busy Indian restaurant in Mississauga injured 15 people, including three critically injured in explosion that one resident who lives four kilometres away described as a “small earthquake.” There’s no indication that this was a hate crime or an act of terror but nothing has been ruled out at this stage of the investigation, Peel Region police Chief Jennifer Evans said at a Friday morning news conference. Police are looking for two suspects behind an explosion at an Indian restaurant in Mississauga Thursday night, sending 15 people to hospital. “I want the community to know that every available police resource is being used to locate the people responsible for this horrendous act,” she said. In a surveillance image released by police, two men wearing hoodies and with their faces covered can be seen walking into Bombay Bhel restaurant on 5035 Hurontario St. near Eglinton Ave., at around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. The pair detonated what’s believed to be an improvised explosive device before fleeing the scene, police said. Const. Bancroft Wright couldn’t say definitively that the object one of the suspects is seen carrying in the photo is the device in question, but added in all likelihood, that is the case. “The fact that they walked into the restaurant carrying something, it would be fair to assume that that is the (explosive) device,” he said. Peel Police chief Jennifer Evans said at a press conference that the restaurant has been cleared and placed under lockdown in order to conduct a proper investigation. “[There] is no indication that this is a hate crime,” Evans said. Peel Police chief Jennifer Evans said at a press conference that the restaurant has been cleared and placed under lockdown in order to conduct a proper investigation. “[There] is no indication that this is a hate crime,” Evans said.

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Two men charged in ATM fraud in Vancouver Two men have been arrested and charged for allegedly tampering with ATMs in Vancouver to trap customers’ bank cards and secretly record their PINs. Vancouver police said suspects targeted machines at night. They’re accused of setting up a small camera on the ATM to capture a customer entering a PIN, then installing a device to trap the bank card in the slot after a transaction. “Everything would look OK as you put your card in, complete your transaction, but your card would not be returned to you,” said Const. Jason Doucette.

Const. Jason Doucette points to the lens of a discreet camera used to record customers’ PINs as part of the scam. The officer said the device would be stuck to the wall of the ATM with a magnet on the back and angled to film the pinpad. The officer said suspects “took the extra step” of scrubbing customer service contact information from the ATMs so customers would need to leave the machine to call for help. Once cardholders left, offenders would grab the card and use the camera footage to obtain the PIN. The investigation

was launched after Scotiabank officials called police to report compromised machines in early May, but a statement said the scam wasn’t limited to that particular bank. Four people were arrested after police searched a home near Pacific Boulevard in Vancouver on Friday. Two were released and two were charged. Catrlin Virgil Diugu, 37, has pleaded guilty to a fraudrelated offence. Liviu-Marius Dogariu, 33, has been charged with possessing a device to obtain computer service. Beware of scammers asking for bitcoin payouts this tax season: fraud watchdog Doucette said both men are Romanian tourists. The officer said it appears as though they’re part of a group making their way from Ontario to B.C. Anyone whose card gets stuck in an ATM is asked to call police or their bank’s customer service line. Doucette warned customers against leaving the trapped card unattended. The officer said investigators are still working to determine how much money may have been lost.

Modular housing for homeless in Burnaby The City of Burnaby is the latest municipality in Metro Vancouver to build modular housing for its homeless population. The province announced that it will invest $7.6 million to build 52 units at 3986 Norland Street west of Burnaby Lake. The site will be operated by the non-profit Progressive Housing society and, like other modular projects around Metro Vancouver, will

provide around-the-clock support to help residents maintain their housing and transition into permanent housing once they’re able. Meanwhile in Richmond and Maple Ridge, similar housing projects are drawing controversy, with some people supporting them, and others vehemently opposed. “Some of the community dialogue sessions have raised to the surface some stigma and stereotyping that still exists when we talk around homelessness, or mental health, or addictions,” Dominic Flanagan, strategic advisor on homelessness with BC Housing, toldThe Early Edition’s Stephen Quinn. “It’s really important that we see people who are homeless not as a distinct and separate population.” He applauds Richmond’s approval of its modular project announced last week, which will include 40 units of supportive housing at 7300 Elmbridge Way in the Brighouse neighbourhood just off Westminster Highway. These units will be open for five years and Flanagan said that offers a chance for residents to create positive connections in their community.

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Toddler dies after wandering away from daycare in Mission A toddler has died after she wandered away from a Mission daycare and into a pool on Wednesday afternoon. The girl, just a month shy of her second birthday, was reported missing by the daycare’s owner around 4:40 p.m. PT. The toddler was later found unresponsive in a neighbour’s backyard pool. Neighbours on the 33000 block of Hawthorne Avenue said police arrived and began searching the daycare and surrounding yards. ‘Don’t our children deserve the best?: Mom of boy who died in daycare writes B.C. premier “I was just working in the office and I heard female voices and a little bit of swearing and I thought ... ‘Oh, the teenagers,’” said Mitsuko Clydesdale. The neighbour said she heard the girl’s mother trying to find out what had happened. “She said, ‘Did you find her? Did you find her? Oh my God. Did you find her in the pool?’

And then she started screaming.” Police confirmed an officer spotted the girl in the pool and jumped in to pull her out. Officers immediately began CPR until paramedics arrived to take over. Staff Sgt. Steve Crawford said the girl was rushed to Mission Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Several neighbours said the child would have had to pass through a gate at the daycare and enter a second nearby gate at the home with the pool to reach the water. Investigators check one of the gates alongside the daycare on Wednesday afternoon. Several neighbours said a child who died Wednesday would have had to pass through two gates in order to reach the pool where she was found unresponsive. “It was just horrible for me as a parent. I was just feeling for them. It’s just kind of shocking because this is something that we’ve never seen in our neighbourhood,” said Clydesdale.

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OPINION

By Charles Lammam

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Canada must escape the corporate welfare trap

It’s been more than two months since federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau said he would study Canada’s crumbling business tax advantage - while cautioning against any “impulsive” measures in response to tax changes south of the border that overnight wiped away a decade-plus business tax advantage over the United States. Yet, despite a chorus of warnings from business leaders and economists, politicians across the country seem unwilling to admit that recent U.S. tax reforms have created a problem for Canada. In reality, however, Canada’s declining competitiveness - especially vis-à-vis the U.S. poses a real threat to the long-term prosperity of Canadians. As our country becomes a less attractive place to invest, we risk losing investment dollars - and the resultant economic benefits such as increased employment, gains in worker productivity and ultimately higher

wages - to more hospitable jurisdictions. As of last year, Canada’s federal-provincial combined statutory corporate tax rate was 26.6 per cent, compared to 39.1 per cent in the U.S. And when considering the effective tax rate on new investment - a broader measure of business tax competitiveness, which includes input taxes, credits and deductions - the rate gap was even greater (Canada’s 20.9 per cent versus 34.6 per cent in the U.S., according to calculations by University of Calgary economists). That advantage is now gone. U.S. tax reforms lowered the federal statutory corporate income tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, allowed immediate expensing of capital investment, and created incentives to move overseas profits to the U.S. Together, these changes dramatically reduced the effective tax rate on new investment in the U.S. to 18.8 per cent, bringing the U.S. rate below Canada’s (again, 20.9 per cent) for

the first time in well over a decade. Without a business tax advantage, Canada will have a harder time attracting investment since the country is already hampered by higher personal income tax rates on professionals and entrepreneurs, a growing regulatory burden and a smaller market relative to the U.S. But Canada can regain its business tax advantage without requiring Ottawa or the provinces to dig deeper into debt. So what’s this silver bullet? Scrap corporate welfare and use the fiscal room to cut corporate tax rates. Business subsidies distort the economy by giving advantages to particular businesses or industries, putting businesses that may be otherwise more innovative or productive (but lack the contacts or political clout to receive subsidies) at a disadvantage. Academic evidence finds that corporate welfare generally doesn’t stimulate the overall economy. Instead, it redirects resources from particular businesses or industries to those favoured by government. Business subsidies can also irritate our trading partners, threatening Canadian access to foreign markets such as the U.S. A recent study identified $29 billion in business subsidies - both spending and tax measures - from Ottawa and Canada’s four largest provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec). The federal share represents $14 billion. Eliminating just $8.5 billion (60 per cent) of federal corporate welfare would allow Ottawa to cut the general corporate income tax rate by five percentage points, from 15 per cent to 10 per cent. There’s really no excuse for Morneau not to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax reforms. Ignoring the problem will further harm Canada’s investment prospects. There’s a cost-neutral way to restore Canada’s business tax advantage and end the harmful practice of corporate welfare. Charles Lammam is director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute (www.fraserinstitute.org).

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Third South Asian suspect arrested in Mississauga beating of an autistic man

Sun he was placid and securely restrained. But he was not happy to see us as he was escorted off the plane and into a waiting Peel squad car. He didn’t offer any quotes, instead opting for the cowardly covering-up-his-face approach, just as his alleged tough guy accomplices did when they were brought into the station to be processed. Uppal is slated to make his first appearance in Brampton court Thursday at 9 a.m. to face charges of aggravated assault. His two coaccused have already been caught and made court appearances for the same charge. Parmvir Singh Chahil, 25, was arrested in Windsor in March 22 and had subsequently

been granted bail. Ronjot Singh Dhami, 25, turned himself in at a Brampton police station March 26th and remains in custody as he attempts to sort out bail. None of the charges have been tested in court, but Peel Police are sure happy to have all three before the system because if you recall when they first put out the video they had nothing. And even when the video was broadcast all over the GTA, it still didn’t garner many tips. Parmvir Singh Chahil, 25, leaves Brampton court and runs into a construction wall while covering his face with a folder.

Calling it a “vicious and brutal attack” Inspector Norm English and Det. John Farquharson knew right away what it must have meant. They were not from the GTA. So they put their net out wider — from coast to coast — and got a hit. Media playing the video, showing a man being punched and kicked while taking off his roller skates at the bottom of some stairs, on their local newscasts. People were recognizing the men in the video. Canada wide warrants were eventually issued for all three. And they started to investigate

and run down leads. “Our team of officers worked tirelessly on this investigation to locate and apprehend all three individuals on this senseless and vicious attack on the victim,” said Farquharson, who thanks police in British Columbia for their help and Windsor too. As Farquharson said last week: “We never give up.” Turns out it’s not only a Peel Police motto but as Chahil, Dhami and now Uppal have found out, it’s also true. The manhunt is over and Peel scored three big arrests in this case that stunned the nation.

Surrey, Delta residents arrested after $100,000 of stolen liquor found Two people from Surrey and one from Delta have been arrested after Vancouver police found $100,000 of stolen liquor at a Delta home on May 15. Cst. Jason Doucette said that the arrests followed a request from the BC Liquor Distribution Branch after an internal investigation in missing liquor from the Vancouver warehouse on Rupert Street.

Approximately 1,000 bottles of liquor were found in the Delta home. Viviana Zanocco, a spokesperson with the Liquor Distribution Branch, said that the investigation began early this year. “Our corporate loss prevention team launched an inquiry earlier this year after some discrepancy was discovered,” said Zannoco. Although the Liquor Distribution Branch does not measure theft directly, they do measure shrinkage, or a loss of inventory. About 0.07 per cent of their inventory is lost to shrinkage annually, Zannoco noted, compared to the B.C. average of 1.44 per cent. Zannoco said that a longtime male employee was arrested. He has been put on unpaid leave pending discussions with the union. Employee theft is “super rare,” Zannoco said, adding that the amount seized was “highly unusual, it’s unprecedented.” All three arrestees have been released pending further investigation.

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Saturday, May 26, 2018 Census and more. In four months on the job, Grewal has joined or started 30 actions against the federal government, from debt collection to carbon emissions. He has embedded himself with the Democratic attorneys general who’ve banded together since last year to take on Trump, and which Schneiderman had been a national leader on. Last week, Grewal added another, writing to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos saying that if she wasn’t going to investigate fraud at forprofit colleges, he would. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Then there’s the other aspect of what Schneiderman had been doing — talking with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about de-conflicting investigations that the New York office could pursue. The overlap stemmed from how much of the president’s business and campaign had been based at Trump Tower, and the number of financial transactions that pass through New York. Grewal’s jurisdiction doesn’t cover the banking transactions, and he’d only be able to prosecute crimes if they happened in his state. But Trump has spent many key moments during the transition and most weekends last spring and summer at his Bedminster residence in north Jersey. Those include a visit last May when Trump and his team plotted to fire FBI Director James Comey and complained in an unreleased letter that he wouldn’t publicly

Abbotsford man faces charges in hit and run in Delta An Abbotsford man is now facing multiple charges for a hit and run that happened nearly a year ago in Ladner. In the early hours of the morning on June 11, 2017, Patrick John Scott McIntyre allegedly drove his vehicle into a group of pedestrians at the 5300-block of 48A Avenue, intentionally hitting five men. The vehicle caused serious injury to two of the men and minor injuries to the remaining three. McIntyre, 20, then apparently fled the scene without stopping. Police investigation later found that the McIntyre was believed to have been in a physical altercation at a nearby pub with some or all of the victims. According to a Delta police press release, resources were used from patrol, major crime, forensics and traffic collision analysis departments to investigate the incident. It ultimately led to a warrant for McIntyre’s arrest in April 2018. McIntyre was arrested on April 14, 2018, in Langley and is now being charged with three counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, five counts of assault with a weapon and five counts of failing to remain at the scene of an accident. McIntyre has been released from custody and is due in court in Surrey on June 12 at 9 a.m.

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New Sikh AG itching to take on Trump

exonerate the president. “Much like Attorney General Schneiderman, we have more contact with properties in New Jersey, and if there’s any indication of any criminal activity, or anything like that, we’ll use the powers at our disposal to investigate,” Grewal said. “We have a lot of tools at our disposal.” He declined to answer specifics, including whether he’s been in touch with Mueller’s team. “There’s a nexus between the administration and New Jersey,” he said, “beyond that, I’m not going to touch on that issue at this point.” Grewal also wouldn’t discuss whether he’ll pursue statute changes. Schneiderman had been pushing the Albany legislature to change the law to enable state-level charges against people who might be pardoned out of federal charges by the president.A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment on whether there have been

communications with Grewal or his office over de-conflicting investigations of backstopping pardons. Most legal experts, though, have trouble seeing how a statelevel obstruction of justice charge would work, if it comes to that. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal pays his respects to fallen officers at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington. Unlike in most states, New Jersey’s attorney general is appointed, not elected, and Grewal says that’s a relief. He said he has no political ambitions to drive him to the kind of performing for the cameras

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that Schneiderman often did. But he is a committed Democrat, and he does think in terms of politics. “We organize. We vote. We push relentlessly for progress — that, after all, is the beauty of America,” he said, in a speech to the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies last week in Washington. And he loves the public role he now has as the highest ranking Sikh in the history of American government. Based on his reputation as a lawyer but also as a conscious statement about diversity in response to Trump, Grewal was plucked by new Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy out of a county prosecutor job he’d been appointed to by Republican Gov. Chris Christie. He had spent years building his reputation as a lawyer at a firm in Washington, in New York’s Eastern District U.S. attorney’s office and then in the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office.

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Bombay Bhel Indian restaurant bombed

the floor,” “Many people were screaming. They were trying to run out from the restaurant.” A woman comforts two children inside a Peel Regional Police cruiser in the moments after the explosion. Paramedics wheeled a number of people away on stretchers. Ontario Police officer stand in front of Bombay Bhel restaurant, where two Others limped away. unidentified men set off a bomb late Thursday night, wounding 15 Amid the flashing lights, one woman comforted an infant in the “It’s surreal, to say the least,” he said. back seat of a police cruiser. Vasic was called to the restaurant last night, Neighbour spots 2 men running but said he didn’t look at the destruction. Shitan Yan was getting groceries from his Instead, he focused on helping police with the car when he heard the blast and then saw investigation. Major police response Andre two men dressed in hoodies run “like crazy” Larrivee, who lives in a nearby condominium, past him. Yan said both men appeared to be was watching TV when he heard the blast. young, but he couldn’t discern anything else “It was really loud,” he said, comparing it about them. Investigators continue to search to the sound of an electric generator that for clues near the Bombay Bhel on Friday. had exploded at a nearby construction site “They looked back for a while and then just recently. Jess Dalessandro pulled into the kept running,” he said. parking lot to go to a nearby Shoppers Drug Yan said he didn’t realize how serious the Mart moments after the blast and watched explosion was until he checked the news this as police and paramedics descended on morning, and police came to interview him the plaza at Hurontario Street and Eglinton about what he saw. Avenue East. She described a sense of calm Owners of ‘loving restaurant’ among the chaos. “No one was freaking out,” In a Facebook post, the restaurant’s owners she said, adding many people in the plaza described the situation as “extremely horrific were suggesting it was just a minor kitchen and sad.” Mohan Nagpal, the restaurant’s explosion. The fact that it was a bomb, she owner, and several members of his family said, is “terrifying.” were inside at the time of the blast, according Dalessandro said she began realizing the to his son-in-law, Ilija Vasic. seriousness of the incident as police quickly “They’re OK,” he said, adding Nagpal wants cordoned off the entire area and a tactical to gather his thoughts before addressing the team rolled in. She said she heard one officer tragedy in the media. Vasic said he has no calling for a drone to be deployed. idea why anyone would want to bomb what Officers still wouldn’t let her move her truck he calls a “loving restaurant.” out of the parking lot on Friday morning.

Politicians react to explosion in Mississauga restaurant Politicians from across Canada are reacting Friday after an explosion at a Mississauga restaurant late Thursday night injured 15 people. Police are searching for two suspects who walked into a restaurant in Mississauga and detonated a bomb injuring 15 people. Police said two masked suspects detonated a homemade improvised explosive device in Bombay Bhel restaurant. Three people were initially in critical condition but have since stabilized. Twelve victims have been assessed and released from hospital. Political leaders in Ontario were quick to send out statements Friday morning condemning the horrific attack. New Democratic Party leader, Andrea Horwath, took to her Twitter page around 7:30 a.m. and said her thoughts were with the victims. Progressive Conservative party leader, Doug Ford, wasn’t far behind. Shocking and horrific. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. Deepest thanks to the first responders who arrived immediately last night to assist the victims of this cowardly attack. My thoughts are with all those injured in the blast last night in Mississauga. If you have any information, please contact Peel Regional Police. — Doug Ford (@fordnation) May 25, 2018 Ontario Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne also sent out a statement that said Ontario is shocked by Thursday’s explosion. “The entire province of Ontario is shocked this morning by the horrific act of violence in Mississauga last night,” the statement reads. “Family restaurants are the heart of our communities, a place where friends and families gather to celebrate life’s milestones or catch-up after a long week. Those shared moments are what brought people to Bombay Bhel yesterday night when two masked

men entered and shattered the peace with a homemade explosive device.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent a tweet around 10:30 a.m. that said the federal government is working closely with police and officials in Mississauga. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, encouraged Canadians to stand together as a community. We’re in solidarity with the victims of this violence, and wish a swift recovery to the injured. We’re working closely with police and officials in Mississauga on this. My sincere condolences to the family and friends of those injured in the explosion of #Mississauga restaurant Bombay Bhel. As the investigation unfolds, may we stand together as a community in comfort and support in the face of this tragedy. Navdeep Bains (@NavdeepSBains) May 25, 2018 Peel Regional police chief Jennifer Evans said police are using every resource to find the two suspects. “I want to assure everyone that every police resource is being used right now to locate the people responsible for this horrendous act,” she said. She also said they don’t believe the incident to be an act of terrorism or a hate crime. Minister of Justice, Bill Blair, spoke about the incident during question period at the House of Commons and said there is no indication of a national threat “We have offered the full support of federal office resources to this investigation. I’d like to advise the house that at this point there is no indication of a nexus to national security,” he said. Peel police are still investigating the incident and are searching for the two masked suspects who entered the restaurant Thursday night. Anyone with information is asked to call 12 Division Criminal Investigations Bureau at 905-453-2121 ext. 1233.

Amnesty says Rohingya militants massacred Hindus From page 1 Amnesty says the victims included nearly described by the United Nations and others two dozen children, 14 of whom were under as ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. Now, however, Amnesty International says it the age of 8 years old. All told, 45 bodies have has confirmed that the Rohingya armed group been excavated, and dozens of other people “is responsible for at least one, and potentially who disappeared from a neighboring village a second, massacre of up to 99 Hindu women, “are presumed to have been killed by the same men, and children as well as additional unlawful perpetrators.” Hindu residents react in grief when shown killings and abductions of Hindu villagers in the bodies of their dead family members in August 2017.” After a months-long investigation, involving Maungdaw township last September, shortly dozens of witness interviews and photographic after Myanmar’s military announced that it had evidence, the human rights watchdog released a discovered a mass grave in Rakhine state. As NPR reported in the months that followed, report Tuesday detailing ARSA’s assault on the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik. The attack the Myanmar military embarked on a broad allegedly occurred on Aug. 25, the same date campaign of violent reprisal. To date, some that ARSA launched its short-lived offensive 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled across the border into Bangladesh, where most still live against national military outposts. “Armed men dressed in black and local in dilapidated, disease-haunted camps and tell Rohingya villagers in plain clothes rounded up harrowing stories of the military’s systematic dozens of Hindu women, men and children. murder, rape and torture of Rohingya Muslims. U.N. representatives and other international They robbed, bound, and blindfolded them before marching them to the outskirts of the officials have described Myanmar’s actions village, where they separated the men from the as crimes against humanity. “I am becoming women and young children,” Amnesty explains. more convinced that the crimes committed “A few hours later, the ARSA fighters killed 53 following 9 October 2016 and 25 August 2017 of the Hindus, execution-style, starting with the bear the hallmarks of genocide,” Yanghee Lee, men.” Eight women and their children were U.N. special rapporteur to Myanmar, said in abducted and allowed to live on the condition a statement. Her remarks came following an that the women convert to Islam, Amnesty independent fact-finding mission released its reports. The survivors were then forced to flee report on the situation in Myanmar. As The to Bangladesh with their captors, eventually Washington Post points out, the grim results gaining their freedom with the help of fellow of that violence are set to become increasingly Hindu community members and Bangladeshi apparent — in a way that’s expected to give rise to even more health dangers for the refugees security forces. “They had knives. They also had some spades who are packed into the already overcrowded and iron rods. ... We hid ourselves in the shrubs refugee camps. Roughly 13,500 Rohingya there and were able to see a little,” an 18-year-old women endured sexual violence at the hands survivor told the rights group. “My uncle, my of Myanmar troops, according to the U.N. father, my brother — they were all slaughtered.” Population Fund.

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Canadian ISIS member interviewed by RCMP after he boasted of killing innocentslie to the New York Times or to CBC News? A Pakistani-Canadian man who says he spent time in Syria with ISIS and committed violent acts was interviewed by the RCMP this week. He was neither arrested nor charged with any offences, and was allowed to return home. There were angry questions in the House of Commons earlier this month, when Conservative House leader Candice Bergen asked the Trudeau government why the man is freely being allowed to live here. “This guy is apparently in Toronto. Canadians deserve more answers from this government,” she said. “Why aren’t they doing something about this despicable animal that’s walking around the country?” The man is known publicly as Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi (Abu Huzaifa the Canadian). Details of his story have been a study in contradictions — not only for police but for the journalists covering him. He says he travelled to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS, and fled months later in disillusionment with their violent tactics. And, depending on who he’s talking to, he either witnessed killings in the name of jihad, or carried them out himself. The man gave two very different accounts of his time with ISIS to CBC News and the New York Times. The contradictions only came to light after both news organizations published their stories. Opposition MPs have questioned the Liberals in the House of Commons about why Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi is being allowed to live freely in Canada. ‘Canadians deserve more answers from this government,’ Conservative House leader Candice Bergen said. On a New York Times podcast called Caliphate that was released last week, the man said he had followed orders and personally executed two men, which is at odds with what he said. “I was shocked — wondering, ‘Did he lie to me?’” says CBC News producer Nazim Baksh. He talked about the story and the journalistic dilemma it created in this week’s episode of The Investigators. The New York Times says it spoke to Abu Huzaifa several times, beginning just after he returned to Canada in 2016, but didn’t release the interviews until recently when its podcast Caliphate was finished. In the intervening time — and nearly a year after the initial interview

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— he’d also talked to Baksh. Baksh and CBC News reporter John Lancaster interviewed Abu Huzaifa last September. At that time, he had already been back living with his parents in Canada for more than a year. “We asked him repeatedly, did you do anything, did you kill, did you execute, did you participate?” Baksh said. “’No,’ he said, ‘I was a low-level police officer.’” Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi told the New York Times he executed two men Abu Huzaifa didn’t deny to either news organization that he’d carried out violence. He told CBC News he’d lashed a man with a whip. But in the podcast by New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi, Abu Huzaifa describes shooting one man in the back of the head and publicly executing another by stabbing him in the heart. “The blood was — it was warm, and it sprayed everywhere,” he said in the podcast. Baksh says after hearing the podcast, he immediately tried to find Abu Huzaifa, whom he hadn’t spoken to since their interview last year. “We tracked him down — and I said to him, repeatedly — ‘Why did you tell Rukmini Callimachi these things? These are very detailed involvements that you had in Syria and Iraq.’” Anonymity granted when there is a ‘legitimate risk of harm’ For Baksh, the differences amount to more than whether he or Callimachi had been lied to. Like Callimachi, Baksh had agreed to conceal Abu Huzaifa’s identity and only use his jihadi name in exchange for the interview. “He wouldn’t have talked to us had we not concealed his identity,” Baksh says. An offer of anonymity isn’t lightly made by news organizations. It is only granted when someone can argue a legitimate risk of harm if they’re identified. “He expressed a real fear that there could be backlash against him,” says Baksh. He says the man was worried about reprisals from those who didn’t know about the months he’d spent in Syria. Canadian ISIS fighter at heart of NYT podcast says RCMP gave him a lie detector test But agreements of confidentiality can be fraught. They also effectively shield people from having to be accountable for their comments.

BC files constitutional challenge of Alberta’s fuel restriction law

Morgan has ceased all non-essential spending on the project until it receives assurances it can proceed without delays, setting a May 31 deadline for those guarantees.

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley bowed out of a Western premier’s meeting this week saying she didn’t think she could politely discuss pharmacare when one of the other premiers is trying to “choke the economic lifeblood” out of her province.

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Saturday, May 26, 2018 suggested that in contrast to Ford, she is offering a positive alternative to Wynne’s Liberals. “Giving people something to vote for instead of just something to vote against,” she said. In terms of personal approval, Horwath was at 43 per cent approval, 26 per cent disapproval, and 31 per cent didn’t know. Ford was at 32 per cent approval, 51 per cent disapproval, and 17 per cent didn’t know. Wynne was at 19 per cent approval, 69 per cent disapproval, and 11 per cent didn’t know. Other publicly available polls are showing a similar NDP surge. Earlier this week, a Pollara survey of 870 people found the New Democrats at 38 per cent, the Tories at 37 per cent, the Liberals at 18 per cent, and the Greens at 5 per cent.

NDP ‘gaining momentum,’ surges ahead of Tories in latest poll

Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne’s party, which has been in power since 2003, were at 14 per cent while the Greens led by Mike Schreiner were at 4 per cent. “We’ve seen the NDP gaining momentum since our poll on the first day of the campaign,” Forum president Lorne Bozinoff said Thursday. “But their momentum has now propelled them into a position to secure a majority government, sapping support from both the Liberals and the Conservatives,” said Bozinoff, noting Ford “is having a terrible campaign.” “He’s had a fumble every day,” he said, referring to the Tory leader’s problems with candidate nominations. “But there’s still two weeks to go so things can change.” Using interactive voice response calls, Forum contacted 906 people

across Ontario on Wednesday with the results considered accurate to within three percentage points, 19 times out of 20. In the company’s previous poll, released May 9, the Tories led with 40 per cent, followed by the NDP at 33 per cent, the Liberals at 22 per cent, and the Greens at 4 per cent. While not commenting specifically on the latest survey, Horwath said Thursday that she and her team can feel the momentum. “We have people really coming in droves to our candidates’ campaign offices. It’s one of the things that’s been creating so much energy around our campaign. …they’ve had more volunteers

than they’ve had in memorable history,” she said in Liberalheld Regent Park. “ They’re getting all kinds of donations, the signs are flying out the doors to be put on people’s lawns. We’re pretty excited about the grassroots capacity that’s growing and that continues to grow.” Later, in Tory-held Whitby, Horwath said “there’s a sense of energy and excitement people are feeling.” The NDP leader

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British Columbians without family doctors who are forced to visit hospital emergency rooms could soon have another option as new “urgent primary care centres” were announced Thursday by the provincial government. Premier John Horgan said the goal is to hire more general practitioners and team them up with nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, mental health professionals, social workers, physiotherapists and others grouped together in new centres that are open on evenings and weekends. “Far too many British Columbians cannot find a family doctor,” said Horgan. “In Surrey alone … 78,000 do not have a primary care provider, that’s the entire city of Prince George. Imagine that, that there’d be no family doctors in Prince George. In Chilliwack, one in four people don’t have access to a primary care provider. For families, it often means if they need service in the evenings or weekends they often find themselves in an emergency room.” The locations of the first 10 urgent primary care centres will be announced in the next few weeks, said Horgan, but the goal is to open at

least two in each of B.C.’s five regional health authorities in the North, Interior, Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland. How each centre would operate could be slightly different depending upon the rural or urban community. The goal, said the Ministry of Health, is to have people seen on the same day they ask for help, whether it be through an appointment or walk-in. For example, a parent with a sick child on an evening or weekend could go to the clinic to see a nurse or doctor, then get referred to a nearby open lab for any required X-rays, tests, blood work, diagnostics or prescriptions so that they don’t have to sit for hours waiting as a non-urgent case at a hospital emergency room. The three-year plan is a major shift in how the government delivers primary health care, and comes with an annual $128 million funding increase once phased in. It’s also the latest attempt to solve the lack of family doctors. More than 780,000 in B.C. — almost 17 per cent of the population — don’t have a family doctor.

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Vancouver’s Canada Day Parade cancelled over rising costs There will one less big way to celebrate Canada Day in Vancouver this year. The Port of Vancouver says it has made a “difficult decision” to cancel the Canada Day Parade portion of its Canada Day at Canada Place festival, removing the parade from its traditional day-long line-up of events and festivities in downtown celebrating Canada’s birthday. This parade in downtown Vancouver is considered one of the Port’s flagship programming elements on July 1. “As overall costs continue to increase for such a large event, we are focusing our resources on the core elements of Canada Day at Canada Place to ensure we can continue to produce the best possible event for all attendees,” says

the Port. Every year, the festivities at Canada Day at Canada Place have included free concerts, food trucks, programming inside the exhibition halls of Vancouver Convention Centre East at Canada Place, and high-aerial fireworks launched from a barge in Coal Harbour. This programming will continue. But there will now be one less draw for the crowds. The six-blocklong parade, which begins on West Georgia Street in the West End and ends on Burrard Street near Canada Place, has been an annual affair since 2009. It is held in the early evening as one of the final events prior to the

fireworks. This year’s cancellation comes after the Port’s super-sized programming in 2017 to mark Canada 150, which attracted a record attendance of over one million people throughout the day. Last year, the festival was spread over two days, with the parade and other programming held on July 2. Canada Day at Canada Place is the latest major event in the city to be downsized or cancelled due to challenges with costs. Downtown Vancouver has been without its annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade since 2017, and last year’s Vancouver

Christmas Parade was nearly cancelled – until TELUS stepped in last minute to become the event’s new title sponsor. The Christmasseason parade will go ahead this year as TELUS has renewed its sponsorship. Another major loss this summer is the cancellation of the Davie Street Party, which has been one of Vancouver Pride’s flagship events for many years. The Vancouver Pride Society said its budget deficit from 2017’s festivities and the high policing costs associated with the late night street party led to the decision to axe the event. However, the Pride Parade will go on as planned. The Canada Day at Canada Place Festival is the Port’s largest community outreach initiative.

Premier Horgan rescinds recognition of Vancouver Imam after antisemitic, homophobic remarks Premier John Horgan has on the Premier to rescind the rescinded a certificate of certificate on May 16, after they felt Ramadan was exploiting the recognition for a firebrand Vancouver imam after his recognition to publicly vindicate his antisemitic and homophobic slurs views on what he calls “malevolent Jews.” were uncovered online. Imam “We are relieved that the Tarek Ramadan, who preaches at Premier’s Office has finally done a mosque on Kingsway, made the the right thing,” Michael Mostyn, offensive social media posts last Imam Tarek Ramadan Chief Executive Officer of B’nai week. In one, he described Jewish soldiers as “f*gs.” He also shared delivers Friday sermon at Brith Canada, said in a release. a crude caricature of a Jewish MAC Centre on July 28, “No one who has been exposed 2017. as a hatemonger should receive woman about to stick a knife into the back of a World War-era German soldier, a recognition from a high government official in meme that can be interpreted as justifying the any province.” On April 20, Horgan had lauded Holocaust. That post has since been removed Ramadan’s “work as a community activist” from social media. The move made by the and extended his “best wishes for (Ramadan’s) Horgan government on Thursday follows continued success.” The recognition had pressure from B’nai Brith, a Canadian Jewish infuriated B’nai Brith because of antisemitic organization. B’nai Brith had publicly called remarks made by Ramadan in the past.

RCMP investigating after woman groped on Surrey street Surrey RCMP are investigating a disturbing attack on a woman who was allegedly grabbed and groped on her way to work early Sunday morning. Police say the woman was walking on 144th Street near 76th Avenue around 5:15 a.m. when a man passing in the opposite direction grabbed her by the arm and groped her. Staff Sgt. Dale Carr said the woman was able to fight off the attacker and escape. Police say the attack happened early Sunday morning in Newton. “My understanding is she just resisted and fought him off, and just not succumb to his groping and pushing,” he said. “It sounds like that scared the individual off, and off he went.” The victim lives in the area, and Sukh Bal, a nearby resident whose wife knows her, painted a more detailed picture. “This guy just grabbed her and pulled her jacket off,” he said. “She kicked him in, like, his balls and started screaming.”

She’s said to quite shaken up, though. Others in the neighbourhood are as well. “[My wife] was scared. I told her not to go out. She wants me to change the door locks,” Bal said. Police described the suspect as South Asian and about 30 years old. They say he’s about 5-7 with a medium build and short facial hair. He could also be associated to a brown or grey sedan. A surveillance camera is perched above the intersection, and it may help police get a clearer description of the suspect. Carr reminded residents to trust their instincts, and take another route or cross the street if something seems off or dangerous while walking.

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Metro Vancouver mobility pricing could cost up to $8 per day per family: report Drivers could end up paying an average of between $3 and $8 per day to get around Metro Vancouver if decongestion charging is introduced in the region. The cost estimates were in a report presented by the Mobility Pricing Independent Commission to a joint meeting of TransLink’s Mayors’ Council and board of directors on Thursday. The report caused concern for a number of the region’s mayors, who called it a good start and agreed the conversation needs to take place, but worried that mobility pricing would not be fair or affordable for residents. “Going through the report, definitely some of the charges that are talked about here are definitely up there and certainly are going to catch people’s attention,” said New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Coté, who described mobility pricing as a difficult, complex and controversial issue. It’s

been proposed that mobility pricing could pay for transit and transportation improvements in the region, replace the declining gas tax and deal with traffic gridlock. The commission looked at two options for decongestion charging, both of which could reduce congestion by 20 to 25 per cent. One option is congestion point charges, where drivers are charged when they pass a certain location — including bridges — and complemented by further charges at locations on the Burrard Peninsula. Based on early analysis, a regional congestion point charge would cost the average driving household $5 to $8 per day, or $1,800 to $2,700 per year. This option would see the regional gas tax, which is 17 cents per litre, remain in place so that people who don’t cross tolled points would still contribute to paying for transportation.

Massive load of chicken feathers dumped as tractor-trailer rolled over highway near Tacoma A tractor-trailer made a fowl mess when it rolled over in Washington state. It dumped about 40,000 pounds (18,145 kilograms) of chicken feathers across Interstate 5. Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson says the driver told investigators he fell asleep at about 3:30am on Wednesday north of Tacoma and lost control of the truck, Chicken feathers cover the ground alongside Interstate 5 in which hit a guardrail and Washington state in US overturned. including pet feed and soap. The truck was hauling the The News Tribune newspaper of Tacoma feathers from a poultry facility to a rendering reports traffic backed up for 11 miles (18 company in Vancouver. The Canadian company recycles animal kilometres) as crews scooped up the feathers. Johnson said the driver would be cited for byproducts into ingredients for items negligent driving.

St. Paul’s opens supervised injection site outside the hospital St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver has set up the first overdose prevention site at a hospital in B.C., as new figures show an ever-increasing rise in overdose deaths from illicit drugs. It is also the first overdose prevention site to be located outside the Downtown Eastside, within the boundaries of the Vancouver Coastal Health region. As the overdose crisis has fleshed out and spread across Vancouver, a need arose for a site serving the West End and Granville corridor, said Scott Harrison, director of urban health, Indigenous health, substance use, maternity and neonatal intensive care with Providence Health

Care. “And we had multiple overdoses within the hospital and nowhere to send people that was in close proximity to us,” he said. Overdose drug deaths in B.C. rose almost 60 per cent in March over February overdoses, according to the B.C. Coroners Service. The St. Paul’s site is in a bright blue tent off the hospital’s Thurlow Street entrance, behind the Vancouver Police Foundation’s Transitional Care Centre. Alida Geraldi, a peer support worker with Raincity Housing, was there on Wednesday as 24 people visited the site, the busiest day the tent had seen so far.

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City of Surrey plans to buy out 400 Crescent Beach homes as sea levels rise

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City of Vancouver kicked off a year-long anniversary of AIDS Vancouver. The flags will celebration of LGBTQ contributions to the fly from May 23, 2018 to August 19, 2018. cultural fabric of the city, proclaiming 2018 to According to Osmel Maynes, executive be the ‘Year of the Queer’. director of Qmunity, the event symbolizes The city raised rainbow and trans flags decades of activism by members of the lesbian, in front of City Hall on Wednesday to mark the yearlong celebration. Two-spirited flags were also crafted and on display at the event. Safe Place program for LGBTQ community launches in Prince Rupert, B.C. “As far as we know, this is the first time any city has proclaimed a Year of the Queer,” said Tim Stevenson, Vancouver’s deputy mayor. According to the city, the ‘Year Pride Flag and Trans Flag will fly outside of Vancouver of the Queer’ is a celebration City Hall through summer of queer contributions to the artistic, cultural and social landscape of gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited, and Vancouver. Musicians and artists in attendance queer community that have helped define to celebrate Vancouver’s ‘Year of the Queer’ Vancouver as a welcoming and inclusive city. ceremony on May 23, 2018. But he says it’s also an opportunity to “[2018] marks significant anniversaries for highlight how much more work needs to be 15 local [LGBTQ] arts, cultural, community done to ensure all voices in the community are and health organizations, all of which have heard. “This is a platform for us to discuss the made substantial contributions to Vancouver’s lived experience of [LGBTQ] individuals here artistic, social and cultural landscape,” in Vancouver who continue to face racism and according to a City of Vancouver staff report. sexism,” said Maynes. Politicians, community Those include the 40th anniversary of advocates, and activists gathered for the official Vancouver Pride Society’s Pride Parade and flag raising outside of Vancouver City Hall. Sunset Beach Festival, the 40th anniversary He says many members of the community of Qmunity — B.C.’s Queer, Trans, and Two- are still marginalized, and hopes the year-long Spirted Resource Centre — and the 35th celebration can elevate awareness.

The City of Surrey is hatching a plan to buy out roughly 400 Crescent Beach homes to prepare for the prospect of rising sea levels. City of Surrey engineer Matt Osler says it may take decades before climate change floods Crescent Beach, but the city is already zeroing in

diking system start to grow exponentially,” Osler told On The Coast host Gloria Macarenko. “The existing dike would have to be raised by about two and a half metres. When it’s at that height, costs such as erosion control and other operating costs start to go up considerably. “When you look long term, it is very much the most sustainable and fiscally prudent approach.” Osler says the effort for Crescent Beach could be a decadeslong process that would buy and remove homes, businesses and infrastructure as Crescent beach, white rock, BC sea levels rise. B.C. on a “managed retreat” of homes and businesses government drops greenhouse gas target for new as the preferred solution. ‘The new normal’? It’s 2030 goal “Over time, the area would turn into too early to blame B.C.’s floods on climate change, a wetland,” he said. He says the city has been scientists say “When you start to look 80 years working with residents and communities for into the future with the [predicted] one metre rise two years on a plan to deal with climate change of sea level, the costs of maintaining an existing impacts on Crescent Beach.

VPD provides tips on how to survive an armed attack The Vancouver Police Department has released a video of a simulated public shooting as a way to help people in the event they’re faced with a gunman bent on inflicting mass harm. Chief Adam Palmer said the main options are: “Run, hide and fight.” ‘This could be the fight of your life’: New program shows how to survive an armed attack “These are high stress situations and we don’t want to over complicate the messaging,” Palmer said. “You may do all three, you may do two of the three, you may do one of the three.” VPD Chief Adam Palmer says people need to be prepared for a variety of scenarios from mass shootings or stabbings to vehicle attacks. At a news conference Wednesday, Palmer said Vancouver is safe and there is no particular threat that motivated the force to make the video. He also says the city has been lucky to avoid some of the situations seen elsewhere where mass casualties were inflicted, such as last month’s van attack in Toronto, which killed 10 people. But he points to the 2014 shooting of a man in Yaletown, followed by a shoot out with police at Science World as a local emergency that involved a person with a firearm. Palmer said the force is not trying to fear monger. Rather, the video is a way to instruct

people how to protect themselves. Survival tips

‘Run, hide or fight’: “It is like preparing for earthquakes or anything else, it may not happen for 150 years, but you have to be prepared for it.” The dramatic video begins with people walking into an office building and heading to their desks. But it takes a violent turn as a shooter opens fire in the lobby. The video then plays out the three options for those elsewhere in the building: run, hide or fight. He said running to escape is one option. “An important part of this is taking the time to understand your environment no matter where you go in your travels so you know the best way to get out safely,” Palmer said. Vancouver police say fighting is a last resort, but people should know how to defend themselves when facting threat. If that isn’t an option, the video tells people to hide, including silencing your phone or shutting it off. If that’s not possible, the third option is to fight. “This is a last resort, but you have every right to defend yourself under high risk situations like this,” Palmer said. The video shows people using a fire extinguisher and even keys to try to fight off a shooter.

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Wildfire services battle new wildfires across BC The BC Wildfire Service is battling three wildfires across the province — two that have exploded in size over the course of an afternoon. The Allie Lake fire, north of Kamloops, has grown to 800 hectares. It was around 60 hectares earlier in the day. The blaze isn’t far from the perimeter of last summer’s Elephant Hill fire, which was one of the largest in the province during the season. Another wildfire near Xusum Creek, about 35 kilometres west of Lillooet, has tripled to 300 hectares. The wildfire service says the fire has moved over Highline Road and crews are working to minimize fire growth in the area. Late Thursday, an evacuation order was issued for two properties along Highline. Two other evacuation alerts are in place and residents are urged to check the SquamishLillooet Regional District website for further information. Both the Allie Lake and Xusum Creek fires were out of control as of Thursday afternoon. Vancouver Island fire A third wildfire is burning on Vancouver Island, about 15 kilometres southwest of Campbell River. The B.C. Wildfire Service

says the fire, near Middle Quinsam Lake, is now bigger than 12 hectares. There are 19 firefighters on the ground with two helicopters in the air. In the midst of floods, B.C. Wildfire Service warns of hotspot flare-ups Hikers rescued after being trapped by B.C. forest fire The fire started Wednesday and is believed to be human caused. Smoke is visible from Campbell River, but the Strathcona Regional District says there is no threat to the city at this time. Crews don’t anticipate any complications getting the blaze under control. Fire bans and restrictions “At this point it’s not a tinder box, but we are still encouraging people to be careful with their fires,” said Jeanne Larsen with the Coastal Fire Centre. Although the fire isn’t burning near any homes, it has reached an area close to the Quinsam coal mine, which has been evacuated as a precaution. The B.C. Wildfire Service is reminding people that “category 2” open burns are currently banned in the Coastal, Prince George, Kamloops and Cariboo Fire Centre regions.

Police warn public after early morning sexual assault in Surrey Mounties are advising the public about a sexual-assault investigation in Surrey. The assault happened at approximately 4:45 a.m. on Monday, according to a Surrey RCMP news release. Police say a woman was walking east on 72nd Avenue at 134th Street when she was grabbed from behind by a man and sexually assaulted. The woman managed to break free, at which point the assailant ran away, heading west on 72nd Avenue. The attacker is described as a South Asian male between 35 and 40 years old, about 5-foot-10, with medium-length hair and a

clean-shaven face. The investigation is being led by the Surrey RCMP special victims unit, which will be comparing the evidence in this assault to other recently reported sexual assaults to determine if there is any connection. Police have also provided personal safety tips for Surrey residents, which include staying alert, walking with others whenever possible and avoiding isolated areas. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502.

Rejected NPA mayoral candidate Hector Bremner to launch new municipal party A new political party looks set to carve just live in, but thrive. “We all agreed that out space on the centre-right of Vancouver’s our #LetsFixHousing movement cannot be stopped. We have been political spectrum. getting more calls of support In an open letter posted than ever before.” Mike Wednesday afternoon to his Wilson, Bremner’s campaign official Facebook page, Hector manager, told Postmedia Bremner says he and his team that out of respect for the are “looking into what would NPA’s process nothing would be required to create a new happen until after the NPA municipal political party.” holds its nomination meeting, Bremner is the Non-Partisan currently set for June 3. Still, Association city councillor “we’re excited,” he said of who was recently rejected by what’s to come. Bremner his own party as a potential has set up a website where mayoral candidate. Last week, Hector Bremner he pitches his campaign, with he writes, he met with a “wide group of supporters.” “(From) that we‘ve the tagline “Let’s Fix Housing.” Bremner’s had an incredible group of people step up to letter raises four “key principles” of what the help shape our future. “This movement has party will founded upon: on open nomination never been about just me or just winning. process for candidates, “a professional, It has always been about building a city uncorrupted candidate approval process” where working people can afford to not and a commitment to “fiscal responsibility,

Worker in serious condition after stabbing at Abbotsford mushroom farm A mushroom farm worker has been airlifted to hospital with stab wounds suffered at an Abbotsford farm on Wednesday morning. Abbotsford police say the man, 40, was stabbed at around 11:30 a.m. inside the facility located in the 27800-block Townshipline Road in the Bradner area. The victim was transported via air ambulance to hospital, where he remains in serious condition, police said in a news release

Wednesday evening. Two males have been detained in connection with the stabbing, which appears to have resulted from a dispute on the property, police said. Abbotsford police spokeswoman Sgt. Judy Bird said the department’s major crimes unit has taken over the investigation. “It’s still very early in the investigation,” said Bird, when asked if there had been any arrests.

Flood victims could be denied $300K assistance because of insurance changes Some B.C. flood victims might not be eligible for Disaster Financial Assistance because of a change in the flood insurance that’s available in B.C. The provincial Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) program pays victims of flooding and other natural disasters up to $300,000 — but only for losses that

were uninsurable. It was recently approved for flooding victims in the province’s Interior where flooding badly damaged hundreds of homes, leaving some so contaminated by sewage they were deemed unsalvageable. Crews assess whether B.C. homes are livable in wake of flood damage

Nanaimo city councillor would ‘love’ to see tent city at the Legislature A Nanaimo city councillor says he’d pitch a tent in front of the BC legislature to make a statement on the province’s ongoing struggle with homelessness. Gord Fuller and his fellow Nanaimo city councillors are being pressured by local activists to act on the city’s homelessness issue. A tent city has been erected in a vacant lot in Nanaimo as both a form of protest and a space for some of the city’s homeless to camp. Activists have been drawn from across the Lower Mainland, many unhappy after the city failed to secure provincial funding in February for a modular housing project because it couldn’t identify a suitable site. New modular-housing project aims to provide shelter for Nanaimo’s homeless Fuller says he and several other councillors were in favour of the development, and the city will eventually find space for the units.

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Costco undersells other gas stations by 23 cents a litre Some drivers in Metro Vancouver have one rule when it comes to filling up the tank: they only stop for gas at Costco. That’s because Costco stations in the region routinely sell gas for significantly less than their competitors. On one day last week, the Costco in Langley was charging 138.9 cents a litre while most stations were charging 161.9 – a difference of 23 cents, or nearly $15 on a 65-litre tank. “They’re using it as a mechanism to attract consumers to the store,” said Katherine White, a marketing professor with UBC’s Sauder School of Business. Last week, the Costco in Langley was selling gas for 138.9 cents a litre, 23 cents less than most stations in Metro Vancouver. “They’re attracting consumers to buy memberships and they’re keeping consumers loyal.”

The industry sometimes blames tiny profit margins for the punishing gas prices in Metro Vancouver, which raises some interesting questions: How does Costco manage? Is the wholesale giant taking a hit on gasoline, which it only offers to members who pay at least $60 a year in fees? To the contrary, the company said its stations manage to turn a profit all on their own. “We have taken many operating costs out of the equation – enabling us to reduce the sell price,” a spokesperson said in an email. “Each one of our business units needs to stand on its own and generate sustainable profit margins.” For one thing, Costco stations aren’t open 24 hours a day, which cuts down on labour costs. They also don’t offer windshield cleaning supplies or sell mid-grade gas, which the company said saves “on infrastructure

Anti-immigrant, anti-racist protesters face off at Canada-US border A protest organized by the far-right group Storm Alliance to denounce the Canadian government’s tolerance of what that group calls “illegal immigration” attracted about 250 people to the

Lacolle border crossing Saturday afternoon. A smaller group showed up earlier that day to denounce that protest. Police separated the two groups.

Complaints levelled at B.C. naturopaths offering ‘complete elimination’ of autism Three registered B.C. naturopaths who offer a treatment promising “complete elimination” of autism through homeopathy are the subjects of a complaint under investigation by their regulatory body. The procedure is called CEASE therapy — an acronym for “complete elimination of autism spectrum expression” — and it’s based on the scientifically unsupported claim that autism spectrum disorder is largely caused by vaccines. The College of Naturopathic Physicians of B.C. has acknowledged it is investigating a public complaint made earlier this month, alleging CEASE practitioners are misleading families and putting children at risk. CBC News has obtained a copy of the complaint, but it is not available to the public. The concerns in the complaint are shared by Pat Mirenda, director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism at the University of B.C. “It’s totally bogus,” she said. “It makes me both angry and sad at the same time.” But he pointed out that college bylaws prohibit false and misleading advertising, including marketing “likely to create in the mind of the recipient or intended recipient an unjustified expectation about the results which the registrant can achieve.” Pat Mirenda is a professor of educational and counselling psychology and special education at UBC. She calls CEASE therapy ‘totally bogus.’ (University of British Columbia) A college policy on vaccination also states that naturopaths “must not counsel a patient against obtaining immunizations in the absence of a sound, and properly documented, medical rationale for doing so.” ‘None of that is evidence-based’ CEASE was developed by a Dutch homeopath named Tinus Smits, who claimed that 70 per cent of autism is caused by vaccines, 25 per cent by medications and other substances, and five per cent by disease. Smits claimed that autistic children can be “detoxified” using highly diluted homeopathic versions of those substances, along with doses of vitamin C, minerals and fish oils.

“None of that is true, none of that evidence-based,” Mirenda said. A 1998 study that connected autism to vaccines was eventually discredited as ‘an elaborate fraud.’ One of the main sources for the belief that vaccines cause autism is a 1998 study that has been discredited as “an elaborate fraud.” The complaint to the college concerns three registered naturopaths who offer CEASE treatment. An identical complaint has been made to regulators in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. The naturopaths in question include Victoria’s Anke Zimmermann, who recently made headlines around the world for treating a small boy with an unlicensed homeopathic is

costs and the purchase of inventory.” Even more money is saved by only accepting payment on MasterCard or debit. And the strategy of offering lower priced gas seems to be working – the company said it sells 10 times more fuel than regular stations. Not every driver wants to shell out for an annual membership, however. White said

non-members can still potentially reap some of the benefits by filling up at nearby stations. “As a competitor, they’re probably going to want to lower their prices to compete,” she said. When the Langley Costco was selling for 138.9 cents a litre last week, the closest Esso offered gas at 149.9 cents, 12 cents cheaper than most stations in Metro Vancouver.

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Vancouver police make arrest in double shooting that targeted man, pregnant woman Vancouver police arrested a man in connection with a targeted double shooting on Friday that left a man injured and caused a heavily pregnant woman to lose her unborn baby. Officers arrested Carleton Stevens, a 37-yearold Surrey resident, on Sunday evening near 154A Avenue and Fraser Highway. He has been charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of possessing a firearm contrary to a prohibition order. Stevens has an extensive record of previous criminal charges and convictions. After an incident in 2013, he was convicted of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and was sentenced to three months in prison and given a lifetime ban on owning guns. Dollie Middleton, a witness at the scene, and Jeff Grayston, the owner of the print shop where the attack took place, have identified the man pictured as Stevens. Sgt. Jason Robilard said in a news release that the investigation is ongoing, and police

expect more criminal charges may be laid. According to police, the woman, 31, remains in serious but stable condition. The man, 23-year-old Taj Lovett , is recovering from his injury. His friends and family said he was shot in the arm and has been released from hospital. Robillard said The shooting happened just after sunrise in a printing shop where Lovett worked at Industrial Avenue and Scotia Street. Acquaintances of the woman said that she had spent the week before she was shot sleeping on a mattress in the break room of the shop because she was trying to get away from her ex-boyfriend. Lovett’s family said he was not romantically involved with the woman, and Grayston said they provided the room as a safe space for her. Middleton also said she saw a second man with the suspected shooter at the scene and that both fled in a luxury vehicle.

Miami fugitive wanted in connection to gruesome 2011 murder living freely in Vancouver A former mixed-martialorchestrated the hit, is arts fighter believed to be believed to be hiding hiding from U.S. authorities in Spain. after a gruesome MiamiMarin, a Miami area slaying is living with grocery-chain his family in B.C. while his owner, is alleged immigration status is under to have recruited review. Ariel Gandulla is Gandulla and others alleged to be one of four to kill Salazar, whom men who participated in detectives later learned the vicious killing in 2011 was having an affair of Camilo Salazar, whose with Marin’s wife. body was found mutilated Cellphone evidence and charred on a dirt road detailed in the warrant Former mixed-martial arts fighter (left) is in South Florida. Salazar’s show Gandulla believed to be hiding in Vancouver hands were tied behind his was in constant back, his throat was slit and communication with his pelvic area was burned. U.S. prosecutors Marin and other suspects the day Salazar was have been aware that Gandulla is in Canada and kidnapped, while phone records pinpointed now court documents, local speeding tickets his location to cell towers close to the victim’s and other relevant files have revealed that the home. Gandulla’s fingerprint was also found 50-year-old fugitive is living in the Vancouver on Salazar’s truck. Gandulla first came to area with his wife, Kelly, and three children. Kelly Canada in June 2012 as a Cuban national with Giraldo (right), owner of a Burnaby hair salon, permanent residency in the U.S. His wife — and her husband Ariel Gandulla. Gandulla reached Wednesday at the Burnaby hair salon is wanted on murder charges in Florida. The where she works — declined to speak about her couple and their husband’s case. “I spoke to my lawyer and I’m three kids came going to let them do all the talking,” she said. to Canada in The lawyer, Peter Edelmann, responded after June 2012. They several attempts to reach him, saying he does have been living not have comment at this time. Vancouver in the Lower police also didn’t return requests for comment. M a i n l a n d . The Miami-Dade Police Department would F a c e b o o k only say that there is an active arrest warrant for photo. PNG Gandulla. Little is known about Gandulla’s life Last month, in B.C., outside of his involvement with MMA. p r o s e c u t o r s The 5-foot-11 middleweight lost a trio of filed an arrest fights in Victoria, Fort St. John and Richmond warrant for between November 2012 and March 2015, four suspects in according to MMA websites. During that time, Salazar’s death. he trained at Franco Kickboxing/Pankration on Gandulla is Fraser Street, where he was known as a quiet facing charges family man who loved judo and Muay Thai, of murder, owner Chris Franco said Wednesday. kidnapping and Franco said he was left “disheartened” after conspiracy to a friend texted him a clip from a news article commit murder. earlier this week describing the allegations. After Roberto Isaac 18 years of running his dojo, which has trained and Alexis Vila thousands, hearing that a former student may have pleaded have been linked to such a heinous crime came not guilty and as a shock, Franco said. The two men first met remain in jail in in September 2012, when Gandulla approached Miami. Manuel Franco about training and competing. There Marin, who was no way Franco could have known about investigators say the fighter’s history in Miami, he said. “He came to me in 2012 saying that, you know, he wanted to change his life and all this stuff,” Franco said. “He wants to kind of … find a better environment for his family.” Franco said Gandulla struggled with English and his conversations with Franco and other students were usually brief. But, during their time training, Franco heard about Gandulla’s work as a welder, his efforts to gain Canadian citizenship and his close relationship with his family, who would sometimes come to the dojo to watch him train. Gandulla did a trio of months-long training “camps” with Franco ahead of his events. After Gandulla’s final defeat in 2015, Franco suggested the aging fighter consider retiring and instead spend more time with his family. “After that, he trained sporadically — once every two, three months,” Franco said. The men didn’t speak much after the last fight, Franco said. Gandulla last came to the gym five or six months ago for a Saturday boxing class, but hasn’t returned since. “I had no indication that he had a background of violence. He was very softspoken — like he was not a very loud person. He was quiet, to himself,” Franco said. Franco said he will wait for the U.S. courts to pass judgment, but in the meantime he wants nothing to do with Gandulla, who he feels had been deceitful.

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Canada cracks down on illegal border crossers Canada is vigorously enforcing its own immigration rules now that more illegal immigrants are crossing its borders, Reuters reports, granting refugee status to fewer and fewer asylum seekers. The decision to crack down on illegal border jumpers apparently originates right with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who famously chided American President Donald Trump for closing off the United States’ borders to illegal immigrants, and, in a tweet, offered to welcome America’s rejected asylum seekers with “open arms.” Once Canada realized precisely what the “open arms” policy would entail — a massive increase in border-jumpers and a huge drain on resources, particularly

in the province of Quebec — Canada’s government quickly reversed its position, although Trudeau has remained quiet. Reuters reports that, although illegal immigration is way, way up along Canada’s border with the United States, Canada is granting far fewer refugee requests, down 53% from 2017. Canada screens all asylum seekers who cross into the country at designated border checkpoints. But across the northeastern United States, there are “unofficial” border crossings: towns that straddle the border, roads that run from upstate New York into Quebec, and unprotected forest areas where immigrants can simply cross through to Canadian soil. Once they’re through an “unofficial” border crossing, immigrants can request asylum,

Migrant says his Facebook posts designed to counter western anti-ISIS propaganda A British Columbia man whose Facebook and Refugee Board hearing is now determining posts allegedly celebrated lone wolf terrorist if the resident of Fort St. John, B.C., will be attacks says his mission was to counter the deported to Jordan. western media’s propaganda machine against the Islamic State group. Othman Hamdan was acquitted last September of three terrorism charges but immigration officials arrested him on grounds that he poses a danger to Canadians. An Immigration Othman Hamdan shields his face from the media on his way into a bail hearing in Fort St. John in 2016.

Man facing deportation from Canada says terror accusation resulted in PTSD Hamdan says his Facebook posts highlighted the one-sided account of western journalists reporting on a United States-led alliance of countries that began air strikes against the Islamic State group in August 2014. He says he merely used his right to freedom of expression to post his views against western powers, including “stupid Facebook,” which suspended and then deleted his accounts citing graphic violence. B.C. man acquitted of terror charges sues provincial, federal governments Hamdan says he now realizes he went too far in an angry letter he wrote to Facebook, saying the social media firm might need some mercy when its offices were taken over by him and his social media followers.

Vancouver to pay Kinder Morgan for legal costs

The Supreme Court of British Columbia threw out two challenges against BC government’s environmental approvals for the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline project, adding to Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.’s nearperfect record of winning legal cases even as the project faces stiff opposition on the ground. The BC Supreme Court dismissed applications by the City of Vancouver and the Squamish Nation to overturn the environmental certificates the former Liberal BC government had granted to the Trans Mountain project. In a decisive victory for the company, Justice Christopher Grauer ruled that Vancouver would need to pay Kinder Morgan unspecified legal costs. Prior to the two cases, Kinder Morgan had won 14 court challenges in a row for its Trans Mountain pipeline project. Kinder Morgan did not respond to a request for comment Thursday, but the company continues to face other legal challenges to its project to expand an oil pipeline system between Alberta and the B.C. coast. The company cited obstructionist legal challenges from various levels of government in B.C. when it announced last month it would suspend all non-essential spending on the project until the federal government steps in to provide assurances before it builds the pipeline. The company gave Ottawa the end of May to resolve the issue. Despite the ongoing challenges, the double legal victories Thursday help eliminate some of the uncertainty facing the project.

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Amazon to open Ottawa-based distribution centre, creating 1,000 jobs: reports Amazon is gearing up to open a giant distribution centre in Ottawa that will create about 1,000 new jobs, several news outlets are reporting. Online retailer will be the new tenant of a one million-square foot warehouse to be located at 5371 Boundary Road, close to Hwy. 417. CBC News later reported the news, based on confirmation from Andrew Leslie, MP for Orléans. In a statement to Global News Friday afternoon, Amazon said it is “not yet commenting on any specific plans in Ottawa.” “Amazon is constantly investigating

new locations to support the growth and increase the flexibility of its North American network to address customers’ needs,” a spokesperson said in an email. According to the site plan application Broccolini submitted to the city of Ottawa’s planning department, the warehouse will be a single-storey facility, equipped with 99 truck loading bays and just over 1,000 parking spaces. Construction on the structure itself has not yet begun.

Federal Conservatives could win majority if election held today: Poll The Conservatives would have a shot at a majority government if an election were held today, according to Monday’s Angus Reid Institute Poll. It’s the latest in a number of polls showing a general trend of Liberal support slipping following the prime minister’s gaffe-prone India trip. The poll, which was conducted via online survey, reports that the Prime Minister’s approval rate has more than 50 per cent of Canadians in the “disapprove” camp — the first time his disapproval rating reached that high since the Liberals were elected. It also shows 40 per cent of Canadians view the Tories as the “best party to lead.” On top of that, 33 per cent of Canadians would likely vote for the Conservatives — compared to just 25 per cent who would cast their ballot for the Grits. The drop in Liberal support, like in a number of other recent polls, is attributed to continued discontent with Trudeau’s India

gaffes — from tone-deaf attire to inviting a convicted attempted murderer to an official event — and “simmering unease” over the government’s deficit spending. Angus Reid’s latest poll comes shortly after Ipsos found the Conservatives would carry an election with 38 per cent of the vote. Since March polling numbers shows the Tories leading the Liberals with 0.3 per cent more support; however, it still suggests a Liberal government is the most probable outcome in its projection. Forum Research’s poll also points to a Conservative win. The Conservatives are creeping into the margin of error with the Liberals in both the Léger and Nanos Research tracking poll, meaning an election could be a toss-up. Abacus Data is the lone wolf with a March poll that predicts a 3 per cent Liberal lead with a +/- 1.5 percentage point margin of error.

PC Leader Doug Ford hammered over allegations stolen data helped boost campaign The rookie leader of Ontario’s poll-leading Progressive Conservatives came under concerted attack on Saturday over allegations his candidates for next month’s election might have used stolen data to further their cause. The leaders of the Liberals and New Democrats called for the police and Elections Ontario to investigate the alleged data theft, while PC Leader Doug Ford dismissed the attack. At a campaign event in Baysville, Ont., Saturday, Ford said he won the Tory leadership to “clean up the mess” in his party — and said he had done so, blaming his predecessor for any problems. “This goes back to Patrick Brown,” Ford said. “You want to get answers on this, Patrick Brown was the leader under this whole group of people.” One Tory candidate nominated under Brown was Simmer Sandhu, who resigned Wednesday from a riding northwest of Toronto, citing unspecified allegations about his work life and nomination campaign. His resignation came shortly after his former employer issued a statement about what it called an “internal theft of customer

data” affecting 60,000 people. “We heard of one candidate,” Ford said. “As you know, I acted immediately. If there’s any other issues, I can assure you I’ll deal with it immediately.” Ford faces tough questions as NDP asks for probe into ex-PC candidate’s alleged role in data breach Police in York Region have confirmed they are looking into a data breach from the 407 Express Toll Route — the private highway that runs north of Toronto. During a campaign rally in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., NDP Leader Andrea Horwath shot back at her opponent. “I have a news flash for Mr. Ford: He’s now the leader of the party,” said Horwath. “It’s now his responsibility to own up to what his party has done.” Liberals, NDP take aim Horwath said she has filed a complaint about the data breach with Elections Ontario, but has yet to hear what form their investigation might take. Liberal campaign co-chair Deb Matthews rejected Ford’s explanation as a brush-off that didn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Calgary police charge man with second-degree murder 16 years after his wife’s death Calgary police have charged a man with murder 16 years after his ex-wife’s death. Terri Ann Dauphinais, 24, was found dead in her northwest Calgary home in April 2002, while her three young children were discovered there alive. The death was deemed a homicide and police believed the killer was familiar with the home. The victim’s

estranged husband was not living there at the time and the case went cold in 2005. The Calgary Police Service thanked Winnipeg, Edmonton and Saskatoon police for their help in the investigation, as well as the RCMP and the media. Acting Staff Sgt. Ken Carriere says the accused was arrested at the Calgary airport.

Calgary woman charged after faking cancer A Calgary woman has been charged after allegedly holding a fake fundraiser to raise money for cancer treatment she didn’t need. Krysta-Lyn Williams, 30, has been charged with one count of fraud over $5,000, Calgary police said. The news has left those that knew the young mother in a state of disbelief. Nicky Arsenault said she first heard about Williams battling cervical cancer last fall, but in early spring Williams allegedly told her colleagues it had returned and had spread to her major organs. “A GoFundMe page popped up for her and said she was going to undergo surgery in Seattle,” Arsenault said. “Obviously it not being in Canada, it was really expensive, like $70,000 and they were trying to raise half that.” “She has a two-year-

old daughter and you don’t want a kid to be left without her mom, so we started sharing the GoFundMe page,” she said. Arsenault said a couple of weeks later Williams then contacted her to help sell tickets for a raffle. “She said WestJet had donated two tickets for anywhere WestJet flies to help raise money for her surgery,” Arsenault said. A post on social media shared by Arsenault reads that people can e-transfer their money to “westjetraffle@gmail.com” and that a local news company would also be present for the raffle, “possibly Global News.” “There was apparently an AGLC number in place, the raffle was going to be held with Global involved, and so everyone contributed,” Arsenault said.

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Canadian students owe $28B in government loans A petition circulating online is calling for the elimination of interest charges on federal and provincial student loans. With Canadian students collectively owing over $28 billion in student loans to all levels of government, The Canadian Federation of Students has posted several Facebook ads about this issue, in addition to launching an online petition to have interest charges scrapped. The petition claims that the federal government is using interest fees on student loans as a source of revenue that is projected to earn approximately $862.6 million in revenue from the Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP) in 2018. Public records show that revenues generated by the federal government off student loan interest rates was $662 million during the 2016-2017 school year and $635 million the year prior.

“It doesn’t have to be this way. If the federal government can issue interest-free loans to Bombardier, they can also give them to students,” reads the petition. According to data released in 2017 by Statistics Canada, tuition fees increased by over three per cent for undergraduate programs in the 2017-2018 academic years. Data from the Canada Student Loans Program reveals that in the 2014-2015 fiscal year, the government provided 489,000 fulltime students with $2.7 billion in loans and a further $20.9 million in loans to 12,100 part-time students. Borrowers typically take between nine and 15 years to fully pay off their loan and the period usually overlaps with when Canadians are most likely to start a family. The report also stated university students graduate with an average

Trudeau’s 3 funniest excuses for having a secret fundraising dinner with Chinese billionaires “We’re asked to believe that Justin Trudeau ... wandered into a house in Toronto and was astonished to discover that there’s a Chinese businessman and party donors.” Last May, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended an exclusive $1,500 Liberal Party fundraiser at the home of a wealthy businessman where Trudeau rubbed elbows with Chinese billionaires. Also on the guest list at the private fundraising dinner were senior Chinese state officials and a business executive who is currently seeking approval for a new bank from Canadian regulators. In addition to their generous donations to the Liberal Party of Canada, two wealthy dinner guests donated $1 million to the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation – including funds to erect a statue honouring Justin Trudeau’s father. Liberal officials argue Trudeau broke no official rules – although they do appear to violate the Liberal Party’s own guidelines. The guidelines, released in November 2015, explicitly state ministers “must ensure that political fundraising activities or considerations do not affect, or appear to affect, the exercise of their official duties or the access of individuals or organizations to government.” After releasing the guidelines, Trudeau had this to say: “We will uphold the highest standards of integrity and impartiality both in our public and private affairs. The documents we are releasing today provide guidance on how we must go about our responsibilities as ministers, and I encourage Canadians to read them and to hold us accountable for delivering these commitments.” So the Prime Minister was at a private fundraising dinner for the governing party with foreign billionaires, foreign state apparatchiks and a guy looking to get approval for his bank. You might ask yourself: how does this not appear to be a conflict-of-interest? Don’t worry, Trudeau doesn’t just have a good explanation – he seems to have three good explanations:

1. Liberal fundraising dinners are in Canada’s national interests? Asked directly about the secret Liberal Party fundraiser in the House of Commons this week, Trudeau suggested his efforts are helping attract Chinese investment to Canada. Trudeau spoke of how important it is to “grow the economy and create jobs” by “drawing in global investment.” In fact, Trudeau said his activities showed him “engaging positively with the world”:Canadians faced a period of 10 years of lower-than-needed growth under the previous government. That is why we have committed, engaging positively with the world to draw in investment. We know that drawing in global investment is a great way to grow the economy and create jobs.” So making a donation to the Liberal Party of Canada and helping erect a statue of the Prime Minister’s father is good for the economy? 2. The wealthy businessman was merely a “volunteer”? Didn’t buy the last excuse? How about this excuse floated by one Liberal Party spokesperson: “As one would expect, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau meets with thousands of people each month, at a wide variety of events and meetings all across Canada. Mr. Trudeau attended a fundraising event on May 19 of this year in the private residence of a volunteer.” To be clear, this “volunteer” is a wealthy business executive who, as coincidence would have it, invited an insurance tycoon who is currently awaiting final approval from federal regulators to open up a domestic bank in Canada. 3. Hey guys! What are you doing here? Speaking of coincidences, according to Toronto Star columnist Paul Wells, the Liberals circulated a letter internally last week suggesting that fundraising event attendees are a complete surprise to cabinet ministers before they show up at the event:

Canada blocks Chinese takeover of Aecon on national security grounds Canada has blocked a proposed C$1.51 billion ($1.18 billion) takeover of construction company Aecon (ARE.TO) by a Chinese state builder on national security grounds, underscoring rising wariness of Chinese firms buying up assets in Western countries. Aecon’s takeover by overseas investment and financing arm of China Communications Construction Co Ltd (601800.SS) was scheduled to close in February. But this was delayed after Canada extended a national security review. Aecon, which has helped build Canadian landmarks including the CN Tower and the Saint Lawrence Seaway, saw its shares tumble 15 percent to a 10-month low on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday. The Canadian government has now ordered CCCC International Holding Ltd not to implement the proposed investment to protect national security, Canadian Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said in a statement on Wednesday. “Our government is open to international investment that creates jobs and increases prosperity, but not at the expense of

national security,” Bains said. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said earlier his government would closely monitor security issues when it decided whether to allow the deal, examining the implications for intellectual property protections. China’s foreign ministry said it hoped Canada could “abandon its prejudices” and provide a level playing field for Chinese enterprises in response to a question about the Aecon deal. “In principle, China always opposes the politicization of this kind of trade and investment activity and we oppose the mistaken method of carrying out political interference on the basis of socalled national security reasons,” ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Thursday. Aecon said it was disappointed with the government’s decision and was no longer pursuing a sale process. “We believe ... uncertainty around the company’s future strategic direction, particularly with a CEO search underway, is likely to weigh on share prices substantially,” AltaCorp Capital analyst Chris Murray said.

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Federal minister Hussen in hot seat over spike in asylum seekers illegally crossing border Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says officials will attempt to correct misinformation being circulated in New York state offering instructions to asylum seekers on how to illegally cross the border into Canada as political pressure mounts for government to do more to address the influx of irregular migrants from the United States. Pamphlets produced by a group called Plattsburgh Cares are being circulated in Plattsburgh, N.Y., giving would-be asylum seekers step-by-step instructions on where to cross the border, how to contact immigration lawyers and what to tell border security officials during interviews. The pamphlets even include details about how much migrants should expect to pay in taxi fare to the unofficial border crossing at Roxham Road in Quebec. “Part of this humanitarian mission includes providing basic, non-legal information so people will know how to obtain the legal and other supports they need to make optimal choices for themselves and

their families,” a group spokesperson said in a written statement. The organization’s website says its efforts were spurred by racist messages on social media and flyers in the community that had left some feeling threatened. Hussen said Thursday his department has reached out to the group and that the Canadian consul-general in New York will address what he says is misinformation in the pamphlets. “The contents of the flyer are incomplete, they don’t really paint an accurate picture of our asylum system and it’s unfortunate, because people will rely on this,” Hussen said. “That’s why our outreach campaign that has been ongoing is really important to give people the real information about Canada’s systems.” This comes on a day Hussen was already set to face pointed questions about the ongoing surge in migrants entering the country through unofficial entry points and the pressures this is creating on the country’s immigration system.

Canadian government spending tens of millions on Facebook ads, sponsored posts The government of Canada has been increasing its use of paid Facebook advertisements over the last three years, spending tens of millions of dollars on boosted posts, videos and ad campaigns, new figures tabled in Parliament show. From Jan. 1, 2016 to March 2018, federal government departments and agencies spent more than $24.4 million on Facebook and Instagram ads, promotions and sponsored posts and videos. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the EU Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. European Union lawmakers plan to press Zuckerberg on Tuesday about data protection standards at the internet giant. Meanwhile, the Canadian government is increasing its reliance on Facebook for advertising The data, tabled earlier this month in the House of Commons, includes a breakdown of spending by each government department and agency, showcasing a growing government reliance on Facebook for promoting events and publicizing key government messages and policy initiatives. The biggest spender was Destination Canada, which expensed more than $9.2 million for promoting tourism in Canada to Facebook users during the designated time frame. The Immigration Department,

meanwhile, spent more than $2 million on campaigns, including some international ads promoting visa requirements and economic immigration streams. It also spent $47,497 domestically to provide information about the Syrian refugee program “in response to the outpouring of support and interest in how to get involved from Canadians,” the department stated. In 2016-17 the federal procurement department reported that government spending on digital advertising surpassed television for the first time ever. Digital media represented 54.7 per cent of all advertising expenditures last year, with social media representing 23.3 per cent. The data tabled this month shows agencies that use Facebook for promotion have been increasing their spending on quizzes, campaigns and so-called boosted posts, saying they need to reach people where they are — and more than 20 million people in Canada are on social media. “More and more Canadians are receiving their news and information via social networks. It is important to connect with Canadians on the channels they are using,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in her written response tabled last week.

Things to know about govt’s proposed changes to family law Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould tabled legislation Tuesday which, if passed, would introduce a number of changes to federal family laws — billed by the Liberal government as the first substantive update for the laws in 20 years. Five things to know: Why now? Updating Canada’s Divorce Act and other long-standing family laws may not have been a centrepiece of the Liberal election campaign in 2015, but Wilson-Raybould says it’s been a personal commitment of hers for a while to heed the calls for Divorce Act reform, which have been echoing for decades. She says individuals and advocates alike have been calling on the government to bring the law up to “modern times.” Words matter. The bill proposes more “child-focused” language, which means replacing terms like “custody” and “access” — terms that have long been seen as fostering conflict between parents — with “parenting orders” and “parenting time.” “Shared

custody” is a phrase common in divorcespeak, Wilson-Raybould noted, but it’s not always the goal if it’s not in the best interest of the child. Clear and present danger. The legislation being proposed by the Liberal government would also require courts to take family violence and other factors into account when deciding on parenting arrangements. Judges have long taken the risk of violence into account when making such decisions, of course; the legislation would codify a detailed list of factors for courts to take into consideration. Taking take-home pay into account. In some cases, Bill C-78 would permit parties to make an application to the Canada Revenue Agency for more detailed income information when determining the appropriate amount for settlements both in and out of court, and when the time comes to enforce timely child support payments.

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India’s Prime Minister Modi and his Dutch counterpart agree to deepen cooperation in energy & agriculture sectors Prime Minister Narendra Modi on huge scope for the two countries to deepen Thursday held wide-ranging talks with his cooperation in areas of trade and investment, Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte during which clean energy, agriculture and smart cities. both sides decided to deepen engagement in This is Rutte’s second visit to India as Prime a range of areas, including trade, investment, Minister and he is accompanied by a strong business delegation. His last visit to India was energy and agriculture. After the talks, Modi, in his media statement, said his commitment towards economic reforms will remain strong. He said besides bilateral matters, he and Rutte discussed regional and global issues of mutual interest. Modi also hailed the Netherlands for Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (left) meets with PM Modi, becoming part of the says Netherlands keen to invest in India. International Solar Alliance today. “I had called upon the Netherlands to join in June 2015. Rutte’s visit comes within a year the International Solar Alliance and I am of Modi’s trip to the Netherlands in June last. happy to tell you that the country has become India and the Netherlands have a bilateral a member of it today,” Modi said. trade of USD 5.39 billion and they are likely In his comments, Rutte said there was a to focus on increasing it further.

PM Modi accepts Virat Kohli’s ‘fitness challenge’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepts cricket captian Virat Kohli’s fitness challenge saying he would soon be sharing his own video. PM Modi took to Twitter to respond to Kohli’s challenge, writing, “Challenge accepted, Virat! I will be sharing my own #FitnessChallenge video soon. @imVkohli #HumFitTohIndiaFit”. Kohli on Wednesday had accepted the challenge of Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and posted a video of him doing Butt Plank on Twitter.

“I have accepted the #FitnessChallenge by Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore sir. Now I would like to challenge my wife @AnushkaSharma, our PM @narendramodi ji and @msdhoni bhai for the same. #HumFitTohIndiaFit #ComeOutAndPlay,” Virat had tweeted. The #FitnessChallenge, part of ‘Hum Fit Toh India Fit’ campaign, was started by Rathore on May 22, when he posted a video of him doing push-ups.

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Govt sees big money in power trade The state government is raking in big money by selling “surplus” power. With most states in North India facing an acute shortage of power because of low availability of coal, Punjab is selling its surplus power generation for anything between Rs 7 and Rs 8 per unit, making a profit of 66 per cent on the cost of generation. With the rakes for carrying coal to most thermal units in North India being in short supply, many thermal plants, located in states neighbouring Punjab, are learnt to be undergoing coalshortage and thus power supply. Punjab’s demand for power presently is just 8,059 MW as against its generation capacity and total power availability of 13,500 MW. Since the average cost of power generation is Rs 4.50-5.50 per unit, the PSPCL saw a good opportunity in selling power at the power exchange for up to Rs 9.50 per unit. The government has thus started operating one unit of Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant, Lehra

NGT sends notice to Punjab & federal govts on river Beas spill Even as the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on Wednesday issued a notice to Chadha Sugar Mill for the molasses spill into the Beas, asking why action should not be initiated against it for alleged violations, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Delhi issued a notice to Punjab, the Centre and their agencies on a petition filed by Punjab’s AAP MLAs. Acting Chairperson of the NGT Justice Jawad Rahim issued notices to the Punjab Pollution Control Board, the Municipal Corporations of Ludhiana and Jalandhar and the Central Pollution Control Board besides the Punjab and Union Governments. Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Sukhpal Singh Khaira accused Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh of “tacit support to owners of industries guilty of polluting Punjab’s rivers.” Khaira, Bathinda (Rural) and Mansa MLAs Rupinder Singh Ruby and Nazar Singh Manshahia, who moved the NGT, were represented by AAP’s Dakha legislator HS Phoolka. The petitioners alleged that poisonous discharge — untreated water, industrial and chemical waste — into the Beas

Notice to sugar mill, not the owners The state government has issued a show-cause notice to Chadha Sugars and Industries, asking why action should not be initiated against them for release of molasses in the Beas last week. However, none of the promoters of the company, including Jasdeep Kaur Chadha, has been named in the notice. The notice, it is learnt, was served on the officials of the company at the mill in Kiri Afgana. Since it has not named promoters of the sugar mill, owned by a kin of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s religious adviser Paramjit Singh Sarna, any action (if taken) would not be against them personally. The government has also given a one-time opportunity to the company to explain the sequence of events, as well as give its reply on the anomalies found in the now sealed mill to prevent molasses spillage. Thus only the senior officers of the mill are expected to appear and represent the company before the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) chairman, KS Pannu, in Patiala on Thursday. Official sources have told The Tribune that while the probe report mentions that the spillage was “accidental and not caused by any human error”, the company has been asked to explain why

Mohabbat, and two of Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant, Ropar, to generate power to be sold at the exchange. A Venu Prasad, CMD, PSPCL, told The Tribune that they had sold 100 MW (megawatts) of power at Rs 7.84 per unit on Monday and another 200 MW on Tuesday. “In April, we managed to sell surplus power at the power exchange for Rs 56 crore,” he said. He added that they had been selling power on the exchange ever since Punjab turned power surplus, generating Rs 107.54 crore in 201617, and Rs 445.50 crore in 2017-18. The state has also increased its gross hydel generation capacity by 636 units during 2016-18. He added that even though they had shut down Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant, Bathinda, long-term power purchase agreements (for 25 years) have been signed with Power Trading Corporation and Solar Energy Corporation of India to buy 750 MW of power at rates ranging between Rs 2.52 and Rs 3.49 per unit.

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Six months needed to resolve water pollution problem Environment Minister OP Soni admitted that the water pollution problem in Punjab is grave. The minister, who visited the dera of environmentalist Balbir S Seechewal at Shahkot, tried to get away with any query related to the ecological disaster post discharge from Chadha Sugars. He said: “We will narrate before the tribunal how it happened and what action has been taken by the government. We have got a report on the case from the inquiry committee.” The minister agreed that the water pollution affected villages of Shahkot and surrounding areas, which as Environment Minister OP Soni with Environmentalist cancer prone. “I joined this department Balbir S. Seechewal in Jalandhar last week. hardly a month back. Give me just six Representatives of the company will appear months to set things right. We will get all before the board.” He said: “Though there mills checked and punish the offenders.” Soni has been a huge loss, we have tried our level was accompanied by PPCB chairman Kahan best to ensure that drinking water is not Singh Pannu, who said: “We acted swiftly and contaminated.” issued a show-cause notice to the company.

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BJP has stolen mandates in state after state, say Congress A day after BJP president Amit Shah accused the Congress and JD(S) of having entered into an “unholy” alliance in Karnataka and claimed that the “mandate of the people” in the Assembly polls was “anti-Congress”, the Opposition party hit back on Tuesday, saying that the BJP’s “hypocrisy” and “double standards” were exposed in Karnataka and that it has neither the “moral authority” nor “credibility” to question the Congress and the JD(S) now. “The BJP as a party stands exposed for its political opportunism and naked pursuit of power…The voters’ verdict was for formation of a coalition government. Congress and the JD(S) are natural allies…It was wrong on part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

and Shah to claim victory… They neither had the numbers nor the popular vote,” senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said. He said Shah needs to be reminded that the Congress got more votes than the BJP and together the JD(S) and the Congress got 21 per cent more votes than the BJP. “We need no sermons from Shah or the BJP… The BJP has in state after state stolen mandates. They have cobbled artificial majority in Goa and Manipur and stolen the government in Arunachal Pradesh. “There are many unholy alliances…which Shah would be unable to explain….look at the embrace of Nitish Kumar and Modi after what they had said to each other,” he said.

Police firing toll reaches 13, DMK party president & CM trade accusations Chennai: Police firing toll at Tuticorin went up to 13, even as cases were registered against Opposition leaders, including DMK’s MK Stalin and actor-politician Kamal Haasan, for defying prohibitory orders, officials said. Amid a political slugfest over the incidents of police-public clashes, Stalin held a sit-in at Fort St George, the state secretariat, before being physically lifted and removed by security personnel, while Chief Minister K Palaniswami blamed

the Opposition for “instigating” violence. Cases were filed against Stalin, MDMK chief Vaiko, and Kamal Haasan, who recently founded political outfit Makkal Needhi Maiam, for defying prohibitory orders on Wednesday while visiting a hospital in Tuticorin where those injured in clashes were convalescing. Over 100 people were arrested in Tuticorin for rioting, setting ablaze and damaging public property, and assaulting police personnel.

Chargesheet reveals plot, training & execution of RSS leader The first chargesheet filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) against 15 accused in the killing of senior RSS leader Ravinder Gosain (pictured), who was shot dead outside his house by two masked bike-borne assailants in Ludhiana on October 17, 2017, reveals how Hardeep Singh (Shera) and Ramandeep Singh (Canadian), were radicalised into executing the murders. Four Proclaimed Offenders (POs) Harmeet Singh (suspected to be in Pakistan), Gurjant (Australia), Gursharanbir (UK) and Gurjinder Shastri (Italy) were the main ‘masterminds’ behind targeted killings, who recruited and trained the duo. According to NIA, Harminder Singh Mintoo, the self-styled chief of Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), met Shera, a permanent resident of Italy, at Hardeep’s uncle’s house in Solarolo Rainerio, Cremona, Italy, in June 2013 and allegedly convinced

Shera to commit violence in the name of ‘Khalistan’. After Mintoo’s arrest, Harmeet Singh alias PhD, communicated with Shera through a skype ID (billobakra) and via signal messenger application. Harmeet PhD, originally from Amritsar and suspected to be in Pakistan since 2008 allegedly under the tutelage of ISI, also recruited Ramandeep Singh (Canadian) through Facebook. He allegedly tactically and mentally brainwashed the duo that RSS and Shiv Sena were responsible for carrying out an anti-Sikh campaign and Sikhs were being persecuted. Harmeet arranged for Shera’s training in Dubai in May or June 2015, but Shera’s visa was denied since he was too young to travel without a guardian. Therafter, he received training in Italy from Gursharanbir Singh. Shera flew between Italy and India on seven occasions between December 21, 2015 and November 10, 2017.

Cook bugged Indian diplomat’s house in Pakistan, gave info to ISI A native of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, who worked as a cook at the house of an Indian diplomat in Pakistan for nearly two years, was arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly working for Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) and leaking classified information in exchange of money. Ramesh Singh, 35, was arrested from his house in Pithoragarh’s Garali village in a joint operation by UP’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), military intelligence and Uttarakhand police. Singh worked with an Indian defence attaché and bugged his house with the help of ISI to get sensitive information, police said. His elder

brother worked with the Indian Army. Singh was produced in court on Wednesday from where he was taken to Lucknow on transit remand. UP ATS IG Asim Arun said Uttarakhand DGP had sought their help in the case a few months ago and directorate of military intelligence was also roped in. Sources said Singh was into farming when a relative approached him with the offer of a job of cook in Pakistan. He then worked as a domestic help from mid-2015 to September 2017 at the residence of an Indian defence attaché in Pakistan.

‘No ad hoc step’ to slash fuel prices With petrol and diesel prices being hiked is a matter of debate and concern,” he said , admitting to a for the 10th day in a new sense of row, the government urgency” on Wednesday said with the it was working on a ge op ol it i c a l long-term solution to situation address the volatility leading to and frequent revisions uncertainty in rates. The BJP-led o v e r government had in international June last year junked oil prices. “The a 15-year-old practice g ov e r n m e nt of revising rates every A petrol pump employee changing the fuel rate card as is keen that fortnight and introduced prices reach highest-ever in India. instead of daily revisions. Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, talking to having ad hoc measures, it may be desirable the media after a Cabinet meeting, offered to have a long-term view that addresses not little insight if a reduction in tax was on the only the volatility but also takes care of the cards. “The issue of frequent hike in fuel price unnecessary ambiguity arising out of frequent

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Pakistan, China, Iran, Russia alliance in the region haunting US: Analyst Pakistan’s most important partner is China rather than the United States and Beijing allows Islamabad to exercise an independent foreign policy, an independent political analyst and peace activist in London says. Writer and journalist Adam Garrie said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday that Pakistan also continues to develop good ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran who now share a common enemy in the form of the United States. Garrie made the remarks when asked if Pakistan is responsible for America’s failure in Afghanistan, and why US President Donald Trump is mad at Pakistan. “And they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools,” wrote the US president on Monday. “They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!” Pakistan summoned the US ambassador over Trump’s controversial remarks. Ambassador David Hale was summoned to Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry to discuss Trump’s statement. During the meeting, Pakistan lodged a strongly-worded protest and asked for clarification of Trump’s comments. Garrie said, “The only people responsible for America’s failure in Afghanistan are the Americans themselves, who went into Afghanistan in 2001 without any real mandate at all. It was a total disaster from the beginning.” “They said that they were trying to hunt Bin Laden even though the Taliban said in 2001 that they would hand Bin Laden over to the United States if certain protocols were reached and Pakistani authorities would have almost certainly cooperated and so the entire premise for the US presence in Afghanistan was forced to begin with and Bin Laden is of course long gone and according to the assassinated former prime

minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, Bin Laden was dead long before the US admitted that he was,” Garrie said. “What’s really going on is that the United States wants the very rich minerals that lie below the surface of Afghanistan. It is a very wealthy country below the surface and because of this America has made it a very poor country, and a very dangerous country above the surface,” he added. “What we are seeing though because of America’s foolishness which has been augmented by Donald Trump’s so-called troop surge in Afghanistan is that a new alliance for peace is forming in the region. It has been led by the efforts of China, by Russia and by Pakistan and by Iran, all of whom want the United Stated gone from Afghanistan and all of whom want to see stability within the region both for security reasons, and of course because economically One Belt One Road, the Chinese trading initiative, will benefit greatly from a smooth roads through Afghanistan which will link many countries including Tajikistan, Pakistan, Iran and others,” the analyst noted. “We could even see the port of Gwadar in Pakistan built by China and the port of Chabahar in Iran link-up as part of a wider transport corridor within One Belt One Road,” he stated. “All of this America knows and all of this America wants to stop, because the United States can only exert its bullying power over other countries if they’re economically dependent on it. And if such a cooperative initiative was successful and I have no doubt that it will be, the United States would not be able to leverage concessions through blackmail.

Australian minister says Chinese billionaire bribed UN officials A government lawmaker has accused a China-born Australian billionaire who generously donates to Australian political parties of conspiring to bribe a top United Nations official, threatening to further inflame diplomatic tensions between Australia and China. Lawmaker Andrew Hastie told Parliament late Tuesday that Chau Chak Wing was the real estate developer referred to in an unsealed U.S. indictment as “CC-3,” which is short for the third co-conspirator. He allegedly arranged to pay $200,000 in 2013 to then- U.N. General Assembly President John Ashe to attend a conference in China, plus $25,000 for the travel expenses of Ashe’s entourage. Hastie told Parliament that during a visit to the United States last month, U.S. officials confirmed to him that the 63-yearold Chinese-Australian dual citizen was CC-3. Hastie also cited an internal U.S. State Department document from 2007, labeled

“sensitive but unclassified,” that linked Chau to the Chinese Communist Party. In Beijing, Lu Kang, a foreign ministry spokesman, said on Wednesday the accusation was “purely fabricated out of thin air and not worth refuting.” “Some parties and individuals from the Australian side keep stirring up trouble out of nothing and making an issue of China out of their personal concerns about the domestic politics,” Lu said, calling such actions “unreasonable.” Chau is currently suing two Australian media organization for defamation for publishing similar accusations. But Hastie has avoided the same legal threat by making his accusation under parliamentary privilege. The contentious privilege, common in British Commonwealth legislatures, creates a legal immunity that prevents lawmakers from being sued for anything they say in Parliament. The immunity also extends to media that report the lawmakers’ words.

Malaysia appoints first Sikh minister in cabinet The newly-elected Malaysian government has appointed the southeast Asian country’s first ever Sikh minister. On May 21, Gobind Singh Deo was sworn in as the minister of communications and multimedia. The 45-year-old lawyer is part of the new cabinet instituted by the country’s prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who wrested power from incumbent Najib Razak in a closely-watched election earlier this month. Deo hails from a family long involved in Malaysian politics. His late father, Karpal Singh, the “tiger of Jelutong,” was a prominent and popular lawyer and member of parliament representing Jelutong, a constituency in Penang in northwestern Malaysia. Like his siblings, Deo has held key positions in the Democratic Action Party (DAP), besides serving as a parliamenteraian

from Puchong constituency. He’s often referred to as the “little lion of Puchong,” and made headlines back in 2009 after being suspended from parliament for a year for accusing Najib, then the deputy prime minister, of being involved in a murder case. Deo’s appointment is a milestone for the Sikh community in Muslim-majority Malaysia, which traces its origins back to the 19th century. The first Sikhs to arrive in the country (pdf) were reportedly Bhai Maharaj Singh and his follower Karak Singh, two freedom fighters sent away from colonial India by the British. In later years, many more would migrate from India to Malaya as soldiers and policemen working for the British. In 1890, they built Malaysia’s first gurdwara in the state of Selangor.

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About 280 Tamils, including 29 children, who had surrendered before the Sri Lankan Army on the final day of the war against the LTTE in 2009, had gone missing in the single largest incident of enforced disappearance in the country’s history, according to a rights group report. The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) website has listed 280 names of enforced disappearances of people in Sri Lanka which included at least 29 children, a release from the ITJP said. “This is the largest single group of enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka’s history - hundreds of people disappearing at the same time and place with multiple eyewitnesses both inside and outside the country,” ITJP executive director Yasmin Sooka was quoted as saying in the release. Calling on Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons to question the military commanders if it wants to recover the truth about these cases, the ITJP claimed that the commanders had even shook hands with the surrendered Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) leaders, who were alleged to have been executed.

Rohingya terrorists robbed & killed innocent villagers Rohingya Muslim militants brandishing guns and swords massacred 105 Hindu men, women and children over two days in Myanmar last year, Amnesty International has revealed. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a Rohingya rebel group, terrorised, murdered and abducted Hindus in northern Rakhine state just before a disproportionate campaign of violence was carried out by Myanmar’s security forces against the Rohingya, forcing some 700,000 of them to flee to Bangladesh. On August 25, 2017, the same day that ARSA staged coordinated attacks on 30 police outposts and border guards, killing a dozen government forces and sparking the government crackdown, ARSA captured scores of Hindus and slaughtered them outside their own villages. Twenty Hindu men, 10 women, and 23 children, 14 of whom were under the age of eight, were killed by ASRA in the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik, according to Amnesty. The same day all the 46 Hindus in the neighbouring village of Ye Bauk Kyar disappeared. Based on dozens of interviews with survivors, as well as forensic pathologists’ analyses of photographic evidence, Amnesty has revealed how at 8 am on August 25, 2017, the ARSA attacked the Hindu community in the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik in northern Maungdaw township.

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17 cases of people abusing hurricane relief funds 17 cases of people found to be allegedly abusing the Homes-CARE initiative have been referred to the Ministry of Economy’s Audit team.This has been confirmed by the Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Josefa Koroivueta. The Ministry for Poverty Alleviation, Women and Children stresses that only Fijians whose homes were directly damaged or destroyed or whose possessions were lost or damaged by Tropical Cyclone Josie and Keni are eligible to receive assistance under Homes CARE. The Ministry is making this clear to people as there have been reports that some people

who were not affected by the cyclones are giving false information to get the assistance provided by the government. The Ministry says under the False Information Act 2016, any false information given to Government for the purposes of receiving a benefit is an offence punishable by law, and may result in the requirement to repay the benefit, a fine of up to $20,000 or an imprisonment of up to 10 years or any of the foregoing. It states that spot checks will be conducted by the Ministry of Economy audit teams to verify claims and ensure that information provided is truthful and accurate.

Grandfather gets 11 years for rape of nine year old A man convicted of raping his granddaughter aged nine years in February 2016 at the Muslim League settlement in Nabua was today sentenced to 11 years and 10 months imprisonment. The accused appeared before High Court judge Justice Riyaz Hamza in the High

Court in Suva and was charged with two counts of rape. Justice Hamza said that such act is unacceptable and it seems to be very prevalent in Fiji. The man will be eligible for parole after serving 9 years and 10 months behind bars.

Judge throws out govt’s case against Fiji Times THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will appeal the decision of High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe’s judgment to acquit the accused persons in the Fiji Times sedition trial last Tuesday at the High Court in Suva. This was confirmed in a statement issued this afternoon by the ODPP following a review of the summing up and judgment of the case by the Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Pryde. “In our view the court has made a number of fundamental errors in its interpretation of the law and we now have conflicting High Court decisions in Fiji which require clarification from the Court of Appeal,” Mr Pryde said.

He said this was a case that concerned not only the boundaries of freedom of expression by a media organisation but also the rights of vulnerable minority groups in Fiji to lead lives in harmony with their neighbours and free from unlawful discrimination. “The court agreed that the State had shown there was a criminal case to answer but in our view the court failed to give adequate weight to the constitutional limitations as they relate to what is commonly referred to as hate speech,” he said. Mr Pryde said freedom of expression should never be used to protect advocacy for hate speech.

Father jailed for raping daughter A father who raped his biological daughter was today sentenced to 16 years and nine months imprisonment. The 37-year-old was convicted of four counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. The incident started in 2005 when the victim was only 12-years-old. The matter was reported last year to Police.

High Court judge Justice Thusara Rajasinghe said during the trial, the now 25-year-old victim had said that her father used to threaten her to have sex with her before she went to visit her boyfriend. The man will be eligible for parole after serving 15 years and nine months behind bars. More on this report in tomorrow’s edition of The Fiji Times.

European Union should grant Fiji visa-free access It seems unfair that Fiji is one of only two countries in the Pacific whose citizens cannot get visa free entry to the 28-member countries of the European Union. Currently, countries like Kiribati, Palau, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have already been given visa free entry. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama yesterday raised the issue in his opening remarks at the Fiji-EU Third Enhanced Political Dialogue in Suva. In May 2016, the then EU Head of Delegation for the Pacific Ambassador Andrew Jacobs said Fijians might be able to visit 28 European countries without the need for a visa from 2017. He said then Fiji and PNG were not so far partners to this agreement. He said the EU was working on that. He said that would come sometime in the future. He said, “our colleagues in Brussels are working on the migration issue rather have their hands full at the moment with the migration challenges in Europe, but our intention also is to extend this visa waiver scheme into Fiji in due course”. Yesterday the current Head of EU Delegation for the Pacific Ambassador Julian Wilson in his speech said they were now looking into the matter. But, Mr Bainimarama said, three years ago Fiji raised this issue with the EU, yet yesterday they could not report that any progress had been made. Over the years, Fiji built its relationships with the EU – relationships that had benefitted many Fijians and Europeans. When Fijian officials met their EU counterparts in Brussels in 2016, they pushed for the visa waiver. But the EU officials said no definite time had been set to when they would consider Fiji’s inclusion in visa-free access. They told journalists that a review of

From left: European Union Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Julian Wilson, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, and French Ambassador to Fiji Sujiro Seam during the third high level EU Political Dialogue Forum at Suvavou House in Suva on May 23

Fiji’s inclusion into the scheme was not high on their agenda. The review is done every three years. The last one was done in 2012 where the application of Samoa, Tonga and Palau were considered. The next review was to be undertaken in 2015. However, with the migration issue high on their agenda, the review was not done. The 2015 review of the list of countries was not done. It was indicated then that the review could happen soon. Now it’s 2018 and the EU is still looking into it. The other issue that was complicating the matter in 2016 was the indication that France would stop processing Schengen State visas – the visa required to travel to EU member countries at its Suva embassy. Then last year it happened. The embassy was downgraded and core functions including the visa processing were shifted to Vanuatu. EU officials in Brussels had unsuccessfully lobbied for France not to stop the processing of visas in Suva. Currently, Fiji allows visa free access to all 28 EU member states including France. We hope that with the strengthening of relations between French president

Woman who allegedly caused death of her daughter sent to hospital for psychiatric evaluation The woman who allegedly caused the death of her 4-year-old daughter last month has been referred to Saint Giles Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Rozleen Razia Khan appeared before High Court Judge Justice Vinsent Perera today. Her lawyer Lice Manulevu made the request today saying that Khan had told her that she was in a state of depression when the alleged incident occurred. Justice Perera has ordered Khan’s psychiatric evaluation to be done in 14 days. The case will be called on the 12th of June

to assess the outcome of the evaluation. Khan allegedly tied herself up with her 4-year-old daughter and drove their car off the road into Rewa River on the 6th of this month. She allegedly drove the car into the river in Kasavu after leaving their home in Vuci South Road. Khan and her daughter were taken to the Nausori Hospital where the 4-year-old girl was pronounced dead. Khan’s husband had alleged that she had called him while driving with their daughter saying that she will take both their lives.

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Pakistan borrows $1 billion from China to avoid crisis Pakistan’s all-weather friend China has yet again helped the country avoid a foreign currency crisis by lending it $1 billion on “good, competitive rates”, according to a media report. In an interview with The Financial Times, the State Bank of Pakistan governor Tariq Bajwa confirmed that the loans were made by Beijing-backed banks in April on good rates. “The money strengthens the financial, political and military ties between the two countries,” the top Pakistani banker was quoted as saying by the newspaper. “Chinese commercial banks are awash with liquidity,” Bajwa said. Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves have dropped from $18.1 billion in April last year to $10.8 billion in May this year. According to the report, Pakistani officials also hope

that borrowing from Chinese banks will save the nation from seeking help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since December 1988, Pakistan has had nine separate engagements with the IMF - three of them were double programmes. That means there have been 12 IMF programmes in Pakistan in the last 28 years. Only four of them - all initiated in the 2000s and 2010s - were completed successfully; all the rest were abandoned halfway in the 1990s, the report said. Lending money to Pakistan also favours China, said FT quoting Pakistani officials, as it does not wish to disclose details of the loans that are part of the China-Pakistan Economic Cooperation (CPEC) project.

Muslim community gather in Texas for paryers at Sabika’s funeral Houston’s Muslim community gathered on Sunday to offer prayers for a 17-year-old Sabika Shaikh, a student killed in a mass shooting at Texas high school last week. About 1,000 people, Sabika Shaikh many with Pakistani origin wearing traditional Muslim prayer dress in Islamic centre in Stafford to pay homage to Sabika Sheikh, her body was brought by hearse to the sombre event from Santa Fe, the nearby small town where a gunman killed 10 people, including eight students. Among the mourners were late student’s few family memebers and cousin who lives in the United States. She said Sabika’s family and relatives are completely devastated. “The family back home, we are in touch with them.

They’re crying in every moment. Her mother is in denial right now,” a graduate student in Washington, said at the gathering. “It’s a shock we need entire life to recover from,” the 26-year-old added. Mourners lined up in rows to offer funeral prayers as Sabika’s coffin, draped in green and white Pakistani flag. Sabika was due to return her home country Pakistan in merely week in time for holy day of Eid-ul-Fitr. Her parents live in Karachi. 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis Dimitrios Pagourtzis identified as killer, is being held on charges of murder and aggravated assault.

Federal minister slapped by opposition party’s chief of staff Federal minister for privatisation Mr Daniyal Aziz was slapped by Chief of Staff of fopposition party Tehreek-e-Insaf, Naeem ul Haque during a TV talk show on air. 36-second clip posted on Geo News website showed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Naeemul Haque and Aziz mudslinging each other’s party in program ‘Aapas Ki Minister Daniyal Aziz Baat’. All of a sudden the federal minister Daniyal Aziz, in an aggressive tone, addressed Naeemul-Haque and said: “Am I afraid of you... afraid of thieves like you”. then Naeem-ul-

Haque lost his temper when Aziz called him a “thief ”. Aziz said: “How dare you slap me?” At this Haque retorted: “How dare you call me a thief?” This is not the first time Haque is getting involved in such trouble. In 2011, during a TV show, he Naeem-ul-Haq threw a glass of water on Pakistan Peoples Party leader Jameel Soomro. Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for your device. Read more World news in English and other languages.

I’m being punished for high treason case against Musharraf, says former PM Sharif Pakistan’s former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, claimed on Wednesday that all corruption cases against him were the byproducts of a high treason case that he had filed against his country’s former military dictator, General Pervez Musharraf. Sharif made the claim while recording his final statement in the accountability court in a reference pertaining to properties in Avenfield House, an apartment block on London’s posh Park Lane. Apart from the Avenfield reference, Sharif and his family face two other references filed by the anti-corruption watchdog National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on the orders of the Supreme Court in last year’s Panama Papers case verdict. When accountability court judge Muhammad Bashir asked him why the Avenfield reference had been filed against

him, Sharif replied that the references, as well as the 2014 sit-ins against his government, were reciprocal punishment for taking legal action against Musharraf despite being warned not to do so. In 2014, the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and cleric Tahirul Qadri, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, had staged a four-month sitin in Islamabad demanding the resignation of Sharif over alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections. “All of it was orchestrated so that I could be ousted from the PM’s office and the case against Musharraf would come to a grinding halt,” he remarked. “But I dismissed these warnings and proceeded nonetheless,” he added. After the 2013 elections, Sharif said, his government reached out to lawyers to start formulating a treason case against Musharraf in accordance with the law.

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NRI husband charged with pharmacist’s murder in UK The husband of a 34-year-old Indian-origin pharmacist found murdered in her home in northern England earlier this week was charged with her murder on Saturday. Mitesh Patel, 36, appeared at Teesside Magistrates Court where he was charged with the murder of Jessica Patel and was remanded in custody to appear before Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday. “We have lost Jessica, a kindhearted, gentle and selfless person who was

loved dearly by her family and friends. She was completely dedicated to all of her family and her loss has brought an unbearable pain,” said a statement released by local Cleveland Police on behalf of Jessica’s family. “We as a family are devastated and we would kindly request that everyone respects our privacy and allows us the time to grieve in peace,” the family tribute added.

Indian student dies after falling off the rock into the ocean In a tragic incident, a 20-year-old Indian student has died after falling off rocks into the ocean from a popular tourist attraction in Western Australia while trying to take a selfie, media reports said. Ankit was with friends when he slipped off the 40-metre precipice at The Gap, near the historic port town of Albany, the ABC news reported. He was studying in Perth, and had been running and

jumping on the rocks before he slipped and plunged into the ocean while taking a photo with friends on Thursday, the report said. His body was recovered from the water just over an hour later following a search involving a rescue helicopter. “He was just very careful, just to take a picture and he just slipped down there, on the hill,” his friend was quoted as saying by the report.

Representatives rip FCC Chairman Pai’s ‘lack of candor’ Thirteen members of Congress have written to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai criticizing his “repeated evasive responses to our inquiries” and “outright refusal to respond to some of the members of this Committee.” Unsatisfied with the answers or evasions he has offered to date, they reiterate questions related to net neutrality and other issues that they’ve sent over the past months. “While we appreciate your continued willingness to testify before our Committee, we are concerned that you have been unable to give complete responses to verbal questions, questions for the record, or oversight letters from our members,” reads the letter from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Democrats. “We take our oversight responsibilities very seriously, and we expect witnesses before the Committee

and recipients of our letters to treat their responses the same way,” they wrote. These Representatives, led by Frank Pallone Jr (D-NJ) and Mike Doyle (D-PA), have sent multiple letters of inquiry to Pai over run-up to and aftermath of the net neutrality vote. In June, they questioned the nature of and response to the cyberattack on FCC systems during the net neutrality comment period. Pai responded saying that much of what they asked he could not answer because the threat was “ongoing” and revealing the measures they took would “undermine” them. Before the passage of the rules, they warned that the FCC’s proposal “fundamentally and profoundly runs counter to the law”, and that they spoke with the authority of people who had helped craft particular law.

NYPD gets first female turbaned Sikh auxiliary police officer First female turbaned Sikh auxiliary police officer included in New York Police Department (NYPD), whose induction aims to motivate others to join law enforcement and help create better understanding of Sikhism. Gursoach Kaur will join the New York Police Department as an Auxiliary Police Officer (APO) after graduating last week from the New York City Police Academy. “We are proud to welcome first Sikh turbaned female Auxiliary Police Officer in the New York Police Department. APO Gursoach Kaur (pictured) and other Auxiliary Police Officers graduated from the academy. We are proud of you. Stay safe. #sikhsinlawenforcement,” the Sikh Officers Association tweeted. The association said in a Facebook post that it is “proud” to welcome Kaur to the Police

Department. “Your service will be a motivation for others to join the Law enforcement Family,” it said. The association is the nation’s first organisation to represent Sikh Officers in Law Enforcement. Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri also tweeted about Kaur, expressing hope that a turbaned lady officer will help create better understanding of Sikhism in the US. Delighted to see a turbaned lady officer in NYPD. Hope this fosters better understanding of Sikhism & Sikhs “Delighted to see a turbaned lady officer in NYPD. Hope this fosters better understanding of Sikhism and Sikhs and corrects perceptions in the US so that incident which happened with me in 2010 and recently with Canada minister Navdeep Bains do not recur.

US senate candidate ends lawsuit over ‘fake Indian’ sign An Indian-American candidate for the US Senate from Massachusetts, who had filed a lawsuit against the city of Cambridge for being asked to remove a sign from a campaign bus that read ‘Only a Real Indian Can Defeat the Fake Indian’, is now ending the lawsuit. Shiva Ayyadurai is running as an independent, anti-establishment candidate, in the 2018 election for the Senate from Massachusetts. He had in April filed a lawsuit in the US District Court, District of Massachusetts in response to the city of Cambridge’s enforcement order to levy a fine of $300 a day if Ayyadurai did not remove his election slogan - ‘Only a Real Indian Can Defeat the Fake Indian’ - from a campaign bus. The slogan on the campaign bus was accompanied with a picture of Ayyadurai

alongside Democratic US Senator Elizabeth Warren who was shown as a Native American. In a court filing, Ayyadurai and his campaign Shiva 4 Senate said that because the city of Cambridge has rescinded its April 5, 2018 enforcement order, they are requesting dismissal of their lawsuit against the city. Ayyadurai’s campaign page claims he is the inventor of email and holds four degrees from MIT. He is currently the founder and CEO of CytoSolve Inc, which is discovering cures for major diseases from pancreatic cancer to Alzheimer’s. He had come to America in 1970 as a seven-year-old. Ayyadurai and his campaign team termed the city’s decision to rescind its enforcement order against them as a historic victory to protect the right to free speech.

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Raveena Tandon to put her photography skills on display Raveena Tandon will showcase her wildlife photographs alongside the works of 75 wildlife photographers for a cause. Tandon, in support of Sarita Subramaniam and PV Subramaniam, is joining the Earth Brigade Foundation’s effort to help avert water crisis in wildlife sanctuaries. The actress said in a statement: “Wildlife Renowned is AAAA my passion and photojournalist Chandra capturing momentsPradeep on camera is and fi lm historian S.M. M. sheer thrill. The excitement andAusaja love havethejoined a unique for foresthands and to to curate conserve what show “Frames 75,� planet which with uses we havetitled on our beautiful rarebeautiful photographs, paintings, its creatures, which sketches, man is posters,destroying, block printisart,what vinyldraws LP covers, slowly me cardsand andtake hand-bills in 75 frames tolobby support up initiatives like to celebrate Amitabh Project Aquarius. � TheBachchan’s exhibitionjourney titled so far. Bachchan is running 76, andArt this H2PHOTO will begin at Jehangir ode is on the May completion hisconclude platinum Gallery from 25 and of will year. on May 29. The proceeds from the sale

I ‘Don’t want to be a shining diamond on-Screen’ says Alia Bhatt

will go towards installing solar pump event,sanctuaries which was hosted setsTh atewildlife to help reviveat St Regis, watering May 9, was inaugurated depleting holes. Raveenaby Bachchan. present at the event were Tandon said:Also “Conservation is absolutely guests film andare art the needfrom of thethe hour as afraternity lot of species world, and celebrities across fields. already extinct and wefrom are on the verge of losing many more of these beautiful The toexhibition be accessible beasts the war will between man andto fans and“Byfilm studentsforests at Whistling animal. destroying we are Woods International, Ghai’s destroying the very baseSubhash of mankind’s well-known filmare institute. existence as we upsetting the whole ecological cycle.

Before her triumphant performance in Meghna Gulzar’s “Raazi� is out for all to see, Alia Bhatt says she prefers to show the vulnerable and unpolished side of the characters she essays rather than shining like a perfect diamond on the big screen. In an interview, Alia Bhatt spoke about “Raazi,� her film journey and what’s on the plate next. Q. You had a private screening of “Raazi.� What were the responses like? I can’t be objective about my own work. This film is different from my others in that it has certain suspense element. All of us associated with the film knew what the surprise element was. So I was looking at the responses of my guests to see how they reacted to the surprise element. And it was all very heartening, very encouraging.

Q. Does people’s approval matter to you? Of course, it does. There are some people in my life whose opinion is really valuable to me. That apart, I make all my decisions myself. The scripts I read and decide to do are chosen by me. Of course, I sound off the scripts to some people close to me. But for better or worse, the final decision to do or not do a film is mine. Q. You got to work with your mother (actress Soni Razdan) for the first time. What was that like? A. It was as though she had come visiting me on the sets and decided to join me in front of the camera. We were very professional in front of the camera. And like any mother and daughter when it was off. Sadly, it was mostly work, work, work. We hardly got any time to hang around together.

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riyanka Chopra, as an ambassador of United Nations’ children’s agency, said that the world should be more compassionate to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children who desperately need help in Bangladeshi camps where they’ve been sheltered. Some 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since late August to escape military-led violence and are now seeking UN protection to return home. Almost 60 percent of the total refugees children, and 60 babies are being born every day in camps in Bangladesh. Many children crossed the border into Bangladesh without a parent, according to UNICEF. They saw violence, dead bodies, burned homes while many saw their parents and family members killed in front of their eyes and their mothers and sisters raped. Children were also shot in their hands and legs. Many are recovering from psychological trauma. Chopra, who came to Bangladesh directly from London after attending the royal wedding of her American friend Meghan Markle on a four-day visit, visited camps in Cox’s Bazar bordering Myanmar and passed time with the desperate children at safe homes, makeshift schools and helped them draw pictures of sunshine and hope.

On Thursday, during a press conference and a subsequent interview with the Associated Press, she refused to answer any questions beyond children’s welfare in the camps and beyond. She recognized the Rohingya refugee crisis is a “political crisis� but would not talk beyond her mandate as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF. “I’m here on behalf of children. I’m too small, I feel, to speak about political situation like this. I’m not someone who believes in a blame game. I think that creates more hatreds and animosities,� the former Miss World said. Chopra, whose third Hollywood film is expected to be released on Valentine’s Day next February, said she was overwhelmed to see the condition of the children in the camps she visited. “Open your heart to the children,� Chopra, a star in India’s Hindi films, urged the world community in the interview with the AP. “Be compassionate for the sake of the humanity,� she said. During her visit to the camps Chopra saw children being screened for malnutrition, a statement by UNICEF said. With 163,295 children younger than 5 years old living in the camps, UNICEF’s nutrition centers offer a vital lifeline by screening and treating children for malnourishment.

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Film: ‘Bioscopewala’

Cast: Danny Denzogpa, Geetanjali Thapa, Tisca Chopra Director: Deb Medhekar Rating: 4 stars (out of five) As loose an adaptation of a short story as any ever attempted, Deb Medhekar’s Bioscopewala takes the kernel of Rabindranath Tagore’s fabled Kabuliwala and turns it, on one level, into an affecting meditation on paternal love, bereavement, loss and redemption. On another, the tender, warm, pensive film, set in contemporary Kolkata and Afghanistan, ruminates upon the ravages of war and time, the repercussions of religious bigotry and the regenerative power of stories that humans tell, no matter where they come from. First-time director Medhekar, who also wrote the film’s screenplay with inputs from Radhika Anand, imparts a mellow tone and distinctive visual texture to Bioscopewala, which is as much a celebration of the manifestations of humanity across cultural

boundaries as an ode to cinema as a means of both recreation and rebellion. The well-crafted film is wonderfully served by a fine cast and its cinematographer Rafey Mahmood, whose lighting and angles imbue the frames with dynamism and an air of immediacy as two individuals, separated by geography, social moorings and age, seek desperately to reconnect with emotions that once defined their deep bond but have inevitably faded with time. The passage of time may dim the glow of moving images just as it can reduce the intensity of human feelings, but do they ever vanish altogether? In Medhekar’s take on Tagore’s timeless classic, they certainly do not; if anything, they assume new depth and urgency. Like the hand impressions of two five-year-old girls imprinted on a piece of cloth keep the titular protagonist from disintegrating in the face of a series of misfortunes, memories of life-affirming connections of yore help a grieving girl surmount the untimely loss of her father. Bioscopewala is the story of Rehmat Khan (Danny Denzongpa), a man uprooted from his homeland. He depends upon his bioscope for livelihood and emotional sustenance. Having lost his makeshift cinema hall in his small Afghan village in a vicious attack by Taliban militants, he lugs around the

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Laxmikant–Pyarelal were a popular and successful Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers, including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, B.R. Chopra, Shakti Samanta, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, J. Om Prakash, Raj Khosla, L V Prasad, Subhash Ghai, K Vishwanath and Manoj Kumar. Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar was born on the day of Laxmi Pujan, Dipawali on 3 November 1937. Probably, because of the day of his birth, his parents named him Laxmikant, after the goddess Laxmi. He spent his childhood amidst dire poverty in the slums of Vile Parle (East) in Mumbai.[citation needed] His father died when he was a child. Because of the poor financial condition of the family he could not complete his academic education either.[citation needed] Laxmikant’s father’s friend, a musician himself, advised Laxmikant and his elder brother to learn music. Accordingly, Laxmikant learned to play the mandolin and his elder brother learned to play the tabla. He spent

two years in the company of the well-known mandolin player Hussain Ali. Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 3 September 1940) is the son of a renowned trumpeter Pandit Ramprasad Sharma (popularly known as Babaji), who taught him the basics of music. He started learning violin at the age of 8 and practised it 8 to 12 hours daily. He learnt to play violin from a Goan musician named Anthony Gonsalves. The song “My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves� from the movie Amar Akbar Anthony is regarded as a tribute to Mr. Gonsalves (the movie had music by Laxmikant–Pyarelal). By the age of 12, his family’s financial condition had deteriorated, which in turn forced him to earn money by playing in studios. Pyarelal then used to frequent and play the violin in studios such as Ranjit Studios, to earn money for his family. Formation of composer duo Composer Laxmikant died two decades back on May 25, the senior half of Hindi cinema’s most prolific, longest-lasting, most versatile and successful music composers LaxmikantPyarelal. Their phenomenal records included scoring the maximum songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi, topping the Binaca Geet Mala Annual countdown the maximum number of times in their 36 year career and having the maximum signature tunes.

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Saturday, May 26, 2018 We met the no-nonsense woman director, Meghna Gulzar, at the J.W. Marriott for a chat on her latest and most hyped film “Raazi,” which narrates the real-life story of Sehmat, a 20-something young girl who was taken out of college and married off to a Pakistani young man by her dying father to be a spy. Gulzar’s and Raakhee’s daughter Meghna Gulzar, after burning her fingers with “Filhaal” (still cherished for its brilliant music) and “Just Married,” directed a dramatic story in “Dus Kahaniyan” and went on to do the intense “Talvar,” again a dramatized real-life saga. With smart marketing

Meghna Gulzar on Making of ‘Raazi’ and her increased respect for the audience, “Raazi” promises to be a delight for the audience. Interview: Q: Why did you choose this story of Sehmat and want to make “Raazi?” A: I was actually working on other scripts when Priti Shahani of Junglee Pictures told me this story. Then another source got me to read the book “Calling Sehmat,” which

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narrates this story. I thought that there must be some reason why the same story came to me from two different people. I met Harinder Sikka, who wrote the book, and struck a rapport with him. He said that he would like only me to direct a film on it, so I told him that I will develop it and cull a cinematic story from it. After that, I told him we will look for a producer.

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Afterwards, I went to Priti Shahani, because she had told me about the story first as it seemed morally right. Q: This is your first adaptation of any book. What were your challenges? A: When you read a book, what you interpret visually is with your imagination. When you watch a film, what you get is my imagination – that of the writer. Cinema has so many tools – visuals, sound, music, performances, costumes – all of which are arts. So as a director I must damn well make them work to take the film to a higher level than the written material.

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Salman Khan becomes writer Salman Khan, has written a film (“Chandramukhi”) and song in “Wanted” (“Most Wanted”) Salman also has penned two songs for “Race 3.” The first of these two songs is “Selfish,” surprisingly, a soulful romantic track. Interestingly, the conception of the song was incidental. It was during a creative brainstorming session, where Khan penned the lyrics on a piece of paper, which made composer Vishal Mishra make a tune for Khan’s words. Announcing the new song on social media, actor Bobby Deol said, “Super excited for my first song in #Race3 with @ BeingSalmanKhan and @Asli_Jacqueline!

#Selfish releasing this Friday! @itsaadee @IuliaVantur @ VishalMMishra @remodsouza @RameshTaurani @ SKFilmsOfficial @tipsofficial #Race3ThisEid” Salman Khan has been treating the audience with action entertainers on the festive occasion of Eid for years now, continuing the tradition of presenting a film since 2009’s “Wanted.” He is set to release “Race 3” this year. Produced by Salman Khan Films and Ramesh Taurani under the banner of Tips Films, “Race 3” is directed by Remo D’Souza.

Beach vibes for Nushrat’s first music video

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FOLLOWING her act in the sleeper hit Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, earlier this year, Nushrat Bharucha is set to join the league of actors featuring in music videos with an Atif Aslam composition. The actor, who is set to jet off to Los Angeles today to film the video, tells mid-day, “The song is being shot on the beaches of LA. We have zeroed in on a few exotic houses. My look in the song is soft, pretty and demure. I need to look lovable. It will be a challenge to keep up that personality, and add an element of vibrancy to my act. I am getting some style factor into it,” says Bharucha, evidently excited that her first music video has her collaborate with the Pakistani megastar. “He is a wonderful singer, and I am a fan. His unique voice quality has a lasting impact. It’s an honour to work with him. I am excited to hear him belt out my favourite tracks. Atif’s songs, like Tere bin, Kuch iss tarah, Tu jaane naa, Doorie, Tera hone laga hoon, Woh lamhe and Dil diyan gallan are played on loop on my phone,” she says. The three-day-long shoot for T-Series, we hear, is tentatively titled Baarish, and has been sung and composed by Aslam. This will mark the first collaboration of the duo.

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and prices saw double-digit annual declines, the Canadian Real Estate Association reported on Tuesday. Sales sank 13.9 per cent yearover-year and the national average sale price dropped by 11.3 per cent year-over-year to just over $495,000. But excluding large declines in the pricey Vancouver and Toronto markets, the national average price was down 4.1 per cent to $386,100. Sales also fell 2.9 per cent between March and April, bringing the total number of sales to 36,297. Listings with CREA members fell by 4.8 per cent to 67,616 — a nine-year low for the month — a sign that the flurry of

activity that usually kicks off the spring real that CREA warned the government about. As estate market didn’t materialize in April. The provinces whose economic prospects have large decline in new listings has also helped to faced difficulties because they are closely tied keep 60 per cent of local markets in a balance to those of natural resources, it is puzzling that the government would describe the effect of its new policy as intended consequences.” Policymakers at the Bank of Canada and the federal banking regulator have said the stress test is intended to reduce the risk of mortgage defaults if interest rates rise. As of Jan. 1, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions requires buyers who don’t need mortgage insurance to prove they can make payments at a qualifying rate of the greater of two percentage points higher than the contractual mortgage rate or the central

between buyers and sellers. The organization representing about 100,000 real estate agents across Canada blamed a new mortgage stress test that came into effect at the beginning of this year for the majority of the drop. It has long been critical of government intervention in the housing market at both the federal and provincial levels. CREA chief economist Gregory Klump said the new stress test has lowered sales activity and destabilized market balance in regions where sales were already weak, including Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador. “This is exactly the type of collateral damage

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