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Vol 19 - Issue 25
Saturday, July 20, 2019
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RCMP hunting for South Asian suspect for Burnaby Mountain Trail assault
Third Councillor quits Surrey Mayor McCallum’s party over police transition
The Burnaby RCMP says investigators are “particularly interested” in speaking with two women who helped the victim The suspect is described as a South Asian man between 19 and 23 years old Police have released a composite sketch of the suspect in an alleged assault on Burnaby Mountain Trail on Sunday. The Burnaby RCMP says a 19-year-old woman was walking on a trail near the Simon Fraser University campus just before 9 p.m. on July 14, when a man allegedly followed her and tried to engage her in conversation. He is alleged to have grabbed her hand, but she was able to pull away and run to a nearby parking lot at Horizons Restaurant to get help. He followed her to the parking lot and continued to try to engage with her, but then left in a grey or black four door Acura. Investigators are “particularly interested” in speaking with two women who helped the victim in the lot shortly after the Continued on page 7
A third city councillor in Surrey, B.C., has quit the mayor’s coalition, saying Doug McCallum shrugged off his extensive expertise in public safety when it came to conversations around building an independent police force. Coun. Jack Hundial worked as an RCMP officer for 25 years before he was elected as part of McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition last fall. Hundial announced he was leaving the alliance in a statement Thursday morning. He said he has spent less than an hour talking policing one-on-one with the mayor in the nine months since election night. Surrey’s former police chief blasts Mayor Doug McCallum over plan to replace RCMP “Since the time I was elected, I’ve only had one 30-minute meeting with the mayor on public safety, which was him telling me not to be involved in public safety anymore, when, realistically, Continued on page 7
Officials warned China, India could use communities in Canada to advance agendas Some of the federal government’s top bureaucrats have been warned that China and India might try to use their respective migrant communities in Canada to advance their own interests. The stark warning is in a secret report prepared for deputy ministers attending a retreat on national security last year that also
flagged the challenge in preventing foreign countries from launching “hostile actions” against Canada. Such actions include cyberattacks, spreading of misinformation and using diaspora communities, either directly or indirectly, to steal technology, influence elections and target the Canadian economy
and infrastructure. Obtained by The Canadian Press through the accessto-information law, the report’s release comes as the Liberals and Conservatives have sparred ahead of the fall election over the best way to deal with Continued on page 7
GuruLucky - From home to contemporary marketing “My message to youngsters is to do whatever you want to do, but first become a good student of what you want to do. You must have the curiosity to learn all about it first.” day, he was asked to supply 5 more cases each. Customers identified with the product and enjoyed it, they started gaining popularity. Bigger food stores also started selling and creating a demand for their brand. Sunar Bhai took their produce to distribute to stores in the Lower Mainland. When his father was cooking at home, he was approached by the Health
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oday’s successful businessman is the proud generator of delicious snacks, Mr Jitender Patel, popularly known as Jeetu Bhai. He proudly tells the story of his dad, who in 1987 started a small business from his home in Vancouver. He first delivered a case of four snacks each to Kanti Bhai of Khanna grocery store. The first milestone was achieved by the
Well known businessmen Jitender Patel (left) with his brother Dinesh Patel of Guru Lucky Sweets in Surrey.
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