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Metro Vancouver residents express frustration at BC’s mask policy Do you still wear a mask in indoor settings? While the mask policy was lifted in B.C. on July 1, many people worried there might be a spike in COVID-19 cases following the decision.

Since the order was lifted, numerous locals expressed their experiences on social media. Several of them feel that the health and safety of businesses, employees and patrons are at risk due to the relaxed rules. Now, as cases have started to surge across the province, locals are raising concerns again that some restrictions should be reinstated Continued on page 6 province-wide.

Homicide police identify Richmond murder victim Homicide police say a 23-year-old man whose body was discovered in a Richmond ditch on Saturday morning may have had gang ties. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified the murder victim as Delta resident Christopher Singh. IHIT confirmed Tuesday that Singh was the victim of a targeted shooting.

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Conservatives unveil innovation policy ahead of elections The Conservatives on Wednesday laid out their new innovation policy ahead of an expected election call, part of an effort by the party to distinguish itself as an alternative to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, one that could dependably navigate the post-pandemic economic recovery. The Conservative proposal, if fully realized, could mark a departure from years of Liberal innovation policy, which many observers say has become unfocused and weighed down by a long list of incongruous subsidy programs.

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Prime Minister Trudeau may call snap elections for Sept. 20 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is likely planning to call a snap federal election for Sept. 20. According to four unnamed sources, Trudeau is planning to make the formal announcement on Sunday, following a visit with newly appointed Governor General Mary Simon where he must ask her to dissolve Parliament. There has been speculation of a federal election this year for several months and party leaders have been busy criss-crossing the country.

On Wednesday, Conservatives Leader Erin

O’Toole was in Waterloo, Ont., to announce his party’s plan to “unleash innovation” as part of his party’s Canada’s Recovery Plan. Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has been touring the Maritimes as he speaks to premiers about COVID-19 recovery and affordable housing. Trudeau has signed child care funding plans with more than half the provinces and made a series of funding announcement in recent weeks.

Will Kelowna’s Delta variant outbreak spread throughout BC? With a COVID-19 outbreak roaring in the Central Okanagan there is a large push underway to get more people vaccinated while the Delta variant quickly changes the outlook of the pandemic.

Health officials have placed partial blame for record-breaking local case counts on unvaccinated residents, but

the data shows the Central Okanagan could be doing much worse when it comes to those rates. Updated data from the BCCDC shows 77 per cent of Central Okanagan residents immunized with at least one dose. That is just two per cent behind Kamloops and ahead of most of the IH region.

Another heat wave warnings for Metro Vancouver Another heat wave is expected to roast parts of southern BC this week, with temperatures potentially hitting the high 30s in the Lower Mainland and the 40s in the Interior. It’s the third heat wave to hit the region this summer — a rare occurrence, said meteorologist Doug Lundquist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

“We are all shaking our heads,” he said.

“Not one of us remember anything like this summer, especially the record heat at the end of June.” This heat wave, which is expected to start ramping up Wednesday into the weekend, could feature daytime Continued on page 7

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Feds ensure contracts do not include ‘slave-made’ goods The Government of Canada says they’re committed to addressing forced labour and human trafficking in federal procurement supply chains via the National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking. In June, a briefing from the Department of Public Works stated that an assessment of areas of risk within government procurement had been undertaken, and results were being analyzed to determine next steps.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, there is no credible evidence that the government

has unwittingly bought slave-made products, but says vigilance must be ongoing as forced labour and similar practises are usually hidden and it is difficult to monitor what happens in other countries. Rights Lab, a University of Nottingham group, was hired in February “to conduct a risk assessment to identify which goods purchased by public works are at risk of having been produced using human trafficking, forced labour or child labour,” according to a staff report.

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Saturday, August 14, 2021 Being part of Canada’s Olympic-champion soccer team an ‘out-of-body experience’ for B.C. woman Those were the six words Bev Priestman, head coach of Canada’s national women’s soccer team, leaned in and said to longtime equipment manager – and Semiahmoo Peninsula resident – Maeve Glass, in the moments before the penalty shootout began between Canada and Sweden in the final match at the Tokyo Summer Olympics. The two teams had already battled in sweltering heat at Yokohama Stadium for 120 minutes, each scoring once. Now, a gold medal would be determined by penalty kicks.

And though the shootout took an agonizing six rounds to decide, the soccer deities Priestman had invoked ultimately looked favourably on the Canadians, who won on a strike from 20-year-old Vancouver native Julia Grosso, who was still in elementary school when Glass – the former president of Peace Arch Soccer – made her Olympic debut with the Canadian squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

“I’m still on Cloud 9… it hasn’t really sunk in yet. It was absolutely amazing,” Glass told Peace Arch News Wednesday, just two days after arriving home. That gold-medal match was watched by millions of Canadians – including many on the West Coast, who woke up at 5 a.m. to tune in – and though viewers were no doubt on pins and needles for much of the morning, Glass insisted the team was cool and collected until that final goal. However, once Grosso scored, “it was like an out-of-body experience.”

Before Grosso’s goal, the Swedish captain had sailed her penalty kick attempt high above the Canadian net. Glass, standing next to Priestman – also a resident of the Semiahmoo Peninsula – said only one thing, a statement of fact to those standing near her. “We were all quite calm. I just said, ‘If Julia scores, we win.’” The Swedish goalkeeper got a hand on Grosso’s shot, but rather than deflect the ball up over the net, it stayed under bar to seal the victory.

Dogs trained to detect COVID-19 in Vancouver health-care facilities Researchers in Vancouver are working to unleash a new weapon they hope will defeat the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.

The canine scent detection program at Vancouver Coastal Health is expanding to including dogs trained to sniff out COVID-19.

The program, formed five years ago to detect and reduce cases of the easily spread bacteria C. difficile, has added three new dogs capable of identifying COVID-19.

The two Labrador retrievers, Micro and Yoki, as well as Finn, an English springer spaniel, underwent six months of training and all three are now certified to detect the virus.

A statement from Vancouver Coastal Health says identifying pathogens like the COVID-19 virus or C. difficile bacteria in health-care settings can reduce infection rates and improve quality of care.

Dogs have more than 300 million olfactory receptors, compared with 400 in humans, and the health authority says the finely tuned ability to detect COVID-19 could also make dogs invaluable at airport screening sites, on cruise ships and at public events.

The skills of Micro, Yoki and Finn have been assessed for scent detection by a third party and each was found to have 100 per cent sensitivity in identifying COVID-19 in a laboratory setting, says the health authority.

Dr. Marthe Charles, head of medical microbiology and infection prev “The fact that we’re seeing such strong results speaks to the rigour of our training program,“ Charles says in the release.

“These findings are superior to certain antigen tests available on the market.”

Choosing the dogs was also challenging, says Teresa Zurberg, a nationally recognized canine handler, and a canine scent detection specialist.

Researchers worked with teams from around the world to find animals with the right combination of genetics and work potential.

“Every dog can sniff but not every dog can work,” says Zurberg.

The dogs were then exposed to a wide variety of COVID-19 breath, saliva and sweat samples, prepared in a way that removes the risk of transmission from an active virus, protecting the humans and animals involved, says Charles.

Funding from Health Canada is supporting the health authority’s ongoing research exploring the signature scent of

Vaccine deniers hurl questions and insults during COVID-19 town hall meeting in Kelowna More than one caller was cut off before they could finish their flurry of questions and accusations during a telephone and online public town hall meeting for Interior Health residents, featuring B.C’s Provincial Health Officer.

Dr. Bonnie Henry and Minister of Health Adrian Dix hosted the town hall to answer questions as the Central Okanagan, and Kelowna in particular, remain the hotbed of new COVID-19 infections in the province.

The first caller was from Kelowna.

She suggested the government was using psychological manipulation and censorship to control what she claimed was ‘so much data’ showing the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines.

The second caller carried on that line of questioning, quoting information he had gathered that the PCR test isn’t reliable and again bringing up

reports of adverse effects of vaccines.

Dr. Henry weighed in to refute the claims. She said a lot of people are trying to undermine science and people’s confidence in vaccines.

“I would encourage you to speak to people who have been absolutely affected by this virus and to people who are protected from the vaccines that we have.

What we are seeing right now, with the increase in the number of people getting sick with the virus, is that it is happening.

97 percent of those people are people who are not yet protected through vaccination.”

Another man started his question by accusing Dr. Henry of being a “strategically placed agent of the United Nation and the Rockefeller Foundation working for Bill Gates and Big Pharma.”

The health minister was quick to jump in and defend the chief medical officer.

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Canada needs US to break impasse in row with China: Experts After more than 2½ years of diplomatic squabbling, Canada and China saw their relations sink to a new low this week after two Canadian citizens were handed stiff sentences by Chinese courts - one of them a death sentence.Ottawa says the two men and a third citizen have been the victims

of tit-for-tat punishments meted out after a top executive for Chinese tech giant Huawei was arrested in Canada in December 2018 on a United States extradition warrant.

Experts say only US intervention will break the “impasse”. Here is a look at the saga and

what could happen next:Meng Wanzhou, the 49-year-old daughter of Huawei founder and chief executive Ren Zhengfei, was arrested during a stopover at the Vancouver airport on Dec 1, 2018, at the request of the US, where she is wanted for fraud. For Dr Roromme Chantal, a political science professor and China specialist at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, that detention “suddenly poisoned relations which had been very good between the two countries since the 1970s”.

Meng, the company’s chief financial officer, is accused of defrauding HSBC by falsely misrepresenting links between Huawei and Skycom, a subsidiary that sold telecoms equipment to Iran, putting the bank at risk of violating US sanctions against Teheran as it continued to clear US dollar transactions for Huawei. Both Meng and Huawei deny the accusations, and the government in Beijing says the case is being used by the US to weaken the Chinese company, the world’s largest supplier of telecom networking gear.

“In this affair, Canada is clearly being held hostage in a geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China,” said Dr Chantal, who believes that China will do “everything to obtain the release of Meng Wanzhou”.

Final arguments in Meng’s extradition trial started on Wednesday (Aug 11) in Vancouver. During the entire legal battle, she has lived in her mansion in the western coastal city, wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet at all times. The hearing is scheduled to wrap up on Aug 20, but a decision in her case is not expected for several months - and appeals could make that longer. Just days after Meng’s arrest, China detained two Canadians - businessman Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig.

Both were tried and convicted in March this year of espionage - charges that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said were Continued on page 5

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Canada’s big three grocers see shifting shopping habits as Covid-19 restrictions ease Financial results from Canada’s three largest grocers offered a clearer picture of how the COVID-19 crisis has shaped shopping habits — and how consumers respond when public health restrictions are eased.

Metro Inc.’s thirdquarter earnings, reported Wednesday, largely mirrored results posted earlier this summer by competitors Empire Co. Ltd. and Loblaw Companies Ltd. At the onset of the pandemic, all three saw sales soar as shoppers stockpiled everything prompting shortages of things like flour and toilet paper. Many Canadians also opted for conventional full-service grocery stores rather than discount supermarkets and bought more items per visit as part of a one-stopshop effort to reduce their grocery trips.

But the opposite trend is now emerging as the vaccine rollout continues and COVID-19 infections drop.

Metro, Loblaw and Empire all noted an increase in traffic in their stores in recent quarters, but smaller basket sizes and more muted sales, an indication that people are shopping around more and potentially spending more at restaurants.

They also noted a gradual return to discount grocery stores as an increasing number of shoppers sought out promotions over simply convenience.

“Consumers are shopping around a little more with the easing of restrictions,” Metro president and CEO Eric La Flèche said during a conference call.

“We’re seeing a gradual shift to more normal pre-pandemic behaviour,” he said. “The From page 4

discount channel in general is benefiting from that versus conventional (stores), which had a big uplift during the pandemic.

The Montreal-based grocery and drugstore retailer, which operates under numerous banners including Metro, Super C and Food Basics, said Wednesday its food same-store sales were down 3.6 per cent in its third quarter compared with last year.

Empire, which owns Sobeys, Safeway and FreshCo, reported similar results in June, noting its same-store sales slid 4.5 per cent while Loblaw, behind store chains like Zehrs, Provigo and No Frills, said its food same-store sales declined 0.1 per cent.

La Flèche with Metro said he expects food sales will remain soft this fall.

“While we can’t predict exactly how the pandemic will evolve, we expect our food sales to decline in (the fourth quarter) versus last year’s high levels, but to compare favourably to fiscal 2019,” he said.

But Metro hopes to make up some ground through its drugstore division, which includes Jean Coutu and Brunet.

“We expect continued growth from prescriptions,” La Flèche said. “The easing of restrictions will have a positive impact on certain categories that were negatively affected by the pandemic such as beauty, cosmetics, and cold and flu products.”

Meanwhile, the grocer is also expecting to see some inflationary pressure from the higher cost of goods, transportation and labour.

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“trumped up”. On Wednesday, a Chinese court sentenced Spavor to 11 years in prison.

And the day before, a third Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, saw his death sentence on a drug smuggling charge upheld.

“The timing is not accidental. There is no coincidence,” said Mr Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China who has called the arrests tantamount to “hostage-taking”. “The Chinese want to put pressure on Canada and we can clearly see the Chinese strategy at work with the increasing severity of its moves. It is a strategy increasingly used by China and a real concern for democracies,” he told Agence FrancePresse. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Spavor’s conviction and sentence as “unacceptable and unjust”.

Many of Canada’s allies expressed solidarity with Ottawa. Despite the support, “there is a remarkable and growing asymmetrical power

imbalance between Ottawa and Beijing” that limits Canada’s ability to manoeuvre, said Professor Gordon Houlden, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta.

“It is difficult to envisage any concessions from China without the release of Meng Wanzhou,” he said, adding that if she is not set free, China will continue “to weaponise the justice system”. Kovrig is still awaiting sentence, but no date has been announced.

Mr Saint-Jacques said he expected Kovrig to be handed “an even more severe sentence because the Chinese know that this will have a strong impact since he is a former diplomat”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on Beijing to immediately release Spavor and Kovrig, while Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said “intense discussions” with Washington on securing their release were under way.

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Canada is in fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic, say top doc Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the country is amidst a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as variants of the virus continue to spread, namely among the unvaccinated. Tam said the national case count has taken a turn for the worse since the last modelling update two weeks ago.

“We have been closely monitoring increases in COVID-19 activity across the country. The latest national surveillance data indicate that a fourth wave is underway in Canada and that cases are plotting along a strong resurgence trajectory,” she said speaking to reporters on Thursday. There are currently more than 13,000 active cases in Canada, more than double the number from late July. Tam said that 1,500 new cases are being reported daily and the majority are among those aged 20 to 39.

“Fortunately, the number of deaths remain low, with an average of seven deaths being reported daily,” she said. “We need build up momentum to increase coverage among young adults, the age group where most of the transmission is occurring.” During the same news conference, International Development Minister Karina Gould and Procurement Minister Anita Anand announced Canada will donate an additional ten million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to the global vaccine-sharing network COVAX, to help low and middle-income countries boost their vaccination efforts. “Around the world, millions are still unvaccinated and unprotected against COVID-19. In low-income countries, only two per cent of the population have received one dose. We have a lot of work to do to vaccinate the entire planet,” said Gould.

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Metro Vancouver residents express frustration at BC’s mask policy

Kelowna General Hospital ‘swamped’, some surgeries rescheduled

part of a group that runs the Safer Shopping Network — a directory of retail/service outlets that continue to require masks. The hashtag #fireBonnie started to pick up steam on Twitter Monday (Aug. 9) night, with numerous Metro Vancouverites expressing their frustration with Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s handling of the pandemic.

In particular, people are voicing their concerns about masks. Originally from Terrace, Crystal Mundy spent her adult life in Kelowna and moved to Edmonton in June for her final residency with Alberta Health Services. She told Vancouver Is Awesome in a July interview that she’s been involved in several “COVIDrelated” projects through the pandemic. She’s

Covid-19 outbreaks at two Central Okanagan seniors’ care homes are growing and surgeries at Kelowna General Hospital are being rescheduled because of a rise in COVID cases. With the entire Central Okanagan a hotspot for a fourth wave of the virus, and subject to enhanced regional restrictions, Interior Health says 22 cases of COVID-19 have now been reported

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Homicide police identify Richmond murder victim

A member of the public found his body in a ditch off Cambie Rd. around 9:30 a.m on Saturday.

Although Singh did not have a criminal record, IHIT spokesperson Sgt. David Lee said he was known to police and was suspected of involvement in the Lower Mainland gang conflict. “This incident is confirmed to be a targeted shooting and does not appear to be

a random act,” Lee said in a news release. Lee said homicide investigators are looking to speak with anyone with information about Singh.

“A timeline for Mr. Singh’s activities is being established,” said Lee. “We are asking anyone who may have had contact with Mr. Singh to come forward.”

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Another heat wave warnings for Metro Vancouver From page 1 ranging from 29 C to 36 C in Metro Vancouver with high humidity making it feel even hotter.Equally concerning are the high overnight lows, said Lundquist. With overnight temperatures hovering in the 17 to 20 C range, there will little respite for residents, especially in the Lower Mainland where most homes do not have air conditioning.“It’s hard for some people to cool off when it doesn’t cool off overnight,” he said. The high pressure ridge sweeping the heat wave into B.C. is building from the west, meaning it’ll get hotter sooner in the Lower Mainland before the heat creeps into the Interior. It stopped short of issuing heat warnings for the Interior and the north and central coasts of B.C., which are under special weather statements. But that could change. “We’re contemplating putting heat warnings in Interior,” said Lundquist. “It’s almost going to be as hot here as last time, but it’s later in the season and the days are shorter.”

However, unlike the second heat wave in late July, there’s less smoke in the Interior which means less relief from the heat. In Kamloops, temperatures are expected to reach highs of 33 to 35 C Wednesday to Sunday. In the Fraser Canyon, daytime temperatures are persistently in the midto high 30s starting Wednesday, building up to a high of 37 C on Saturday. This heat wave won’t be as “off the charts” as the intense heat dome in late June that shattered temperature records, claimed hundreds of lives in B.C., and contributed to a wildfire that levelled the Village of Lytton, said Lundquist, but it’s still concerning.

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But rather than thank the real estate gods for their munificence, the Steeltown homeowner rejected the bid, convinced that a better one was just around the corner. It was the latest instance, says Rob Golfi, the realtor whose office attempted to broker the deal, of how

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The great Canadian real estate cool-down has come inflated expectations in still-hot-but-cooling Canadian markets such as the GTA are causing home sellers to miss out on otherwise profitable exchanges. As Golfi recalled the Hamilton case in an interview recently, the property in question remained unsold. “Many [sellers] are realizing weeks later that they botched a great offer and regret becoming overly confident and

unsatisfied with the offers they declined,” says Golfi, whose firm, RE/MAX Escarpment Golfi Realty Inc., is a leading brokerage in the territory stretching from Halton Region to Niagara. He adds, “It’s difficult for sellers to understand that we are now in an adjustment phase.”To be sure, the Canadian housing market is still robust, with the average home price reaching a little

over $679,000 in June, a year-over-year increase of 25.9 percent, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). By that same month, however, the first-quarter buying frenzy that saw record-high sale prices from January to March had markedly dissipated: June’s average price was 5.5 percent lower than the springtime peak of $716,828, while the number of transactions also tumbled more than 20 percent since March.

Canada violating int’l law by selling arms to Saudis: Report Canada is violating international law by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, according to a new report by rights groups Amnesty

International Canada and Project Ploughshares, which are urging Ottawa to suspend all arms exports to Riyadh. Released on Wednesday, the

report, titled ‘No Credible Evidence’: Canada’s Flawed Analysis of Arms Exports to Saudi Arabia, accuses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government of violating the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), an international agreement that Canada became a party to in 2019.Canadian w e a p o n s transfers to the Gulf kingdom could be used to commit or facilitate violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, the rights groups found, particularly in the ongoing conflict in Yemen.

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investigations and expert reports that Canadian weapons exports to [Saudi Arabia] are contrary to Canada’s legal obligations under the ATT,” the report reads.The war in Yemen broke out in late 2014 when Houthi rebels seized large swaths of the country, including the capital, Sanaa. The conflict escalated in March 2015 when Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates assembled a military coalition in an attempt to restore the government of Riyadhbacked President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

The ongoing war has pushed millions to the brink of famine in what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and at least 233,000 people have died, according to a recent UN estimate. “There is persuasive evidence that weapons exported from Canada to KSA [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia], including LAVs [light-armoured vehicles] and sniper rifles, have been diverted for use in the war in Yemen,” Wednesday’s report found. “Given the overriding risk posed

by Canadian weapons exports to KSA, Canada must immediately revoke existing arms export permits to KSA and suspend the issuance of new ones.”A spokeswoman for Canada’s foreign affairs department, Global Affairs Canada, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the government “is committed to a rigorous arms export system”. “Canada has one of the strongest export controls systems in the world, and respect for human rights is enshrined in our export controls legislation,” Lama Khodr said in an emailed statement.

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$50m vaccine-manufacturing site set for Vancouver’s False Creek flats Vancouver’s East side will serve as the site for a 75,000-square-foot facility capable of manufacturing both vaccines and biotech therapeutics.

Precision NanoSystems Inc.’s (PNI) revealed Wednesday its new headquarters and $50-million biomanufacturing facility, expected to be completed by the end of 2022, will sit on 1055 Vernon Dr. within the False Creek Flats area. Founded in Vancouver, PNI is best known for producing technology to develop and manufacture genetics medicines that deliver RNA or DNA directly into cells to treat disease at its molecular root cause. Last fall, Ottawa earmarked $18 million for the company to pursue its own

COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to enter Phase 1 of clinical trials shortly.

PNI specializes in a class of vaccines known as self-amplifying RNA vaccines. These have the potential to create more potent vaccines as they amplify the signal, allowing PNI to manufacture more doses for less volume.

PNI’s facility would be able to produce up to 240 million of its own selfamplifying RNA vaccine doses, compared with two million of the mRNA doses.

Plans for the specific site of the new head office and biomanufacturing plant come two months after U.S. innovation giant Danaher Corp. (NYSE:DHR) acquired PNI for an undisclosed amount.

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BC app shows proof of COVID-19 vaccination The federal government is working out the details to introduce a national passport system to help eager Canadians travel once again, however, there’s already a system like that available in B.C. — it’s just not many people know about it.That national document will include where, when and what brand of vaccines you got. In Canada, those vaccines will be Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca.

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vaccination credentials for international travel It’s free to get and it’s called the BC Services Card app You apply through the app and once you’re registered, your medical history is essentially on your phone, including what you’ve been vaccinated for, like COVID. It also has everything the federal government is putting on the national document, meaning — where, when and what kind of COVID vaccine you got.

No more charges in BC legislature spending scandal, say prosecutors In a statement, the B.C. Prosecution Service said special prosecutors David Butcher and Brock Martland “have declined to approve any further charges” after receiving the final report from police who investigated activities of senior staff at the legislature. Britney Spears’ lawyer fails to convince judge to move up conservatorship hearing The special prosecutors concluded that B.C.’s charge assessment standard was not met for any charges beyond those that had been approved earlier against former B.C. legislature clerk Craig James. Butcher

and Martland — both senior lawyers — were appointed by the prosecution service in November 2018 to provide legal advice to the RCMP as they investigated a string of allegations of wild spending and abuse of power within the legislature — primarily against James and Lenz. The allegations were made by then Speaker Darryl Plecas, who gathered evidence against the pair as he worked and travelled with them. On Dec. 18, 2020, six charges were approved against James for breach of trust by a public officer and fraud in excess of $5,000.

O’Toole says all Canadians should get a shot as Conservative MP calls mandatory vaccination ‘tyrannical’ Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said today that all Canadians should get vaccinated so that the country can turn the page on COVID-19 — but at least one member of his caucus is spoiling for a fight against efforts to make vaccines mandatory for federal public servants. In a statement released late Tuesday, Conservative MP David Yurdiga, who represents Fort McMurray, Alta. in the Commons, said a government plan to study the value of

making vaccination mandatory for federal bureaucrats was “another example of the Liberals using severe government overreach for political gain.” Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau directed the clerk of the Privy Council, the most senior public servant in Canada, to look into making vaccines mandatory for federal employees and those working in federally regulated sectors (airlines, banking, broadcasting and railways, among others) in an effort to boost stalled vaccination rates.

Saturday, August 14, 2021 Detached home sales and prices cool in Metro Vancouver Metro Vancouver home sales and prices are beginning to cool from their pandemic-fuelled highs.

“Detached properties fail in the latest attempt to surpass the two-million (dollar) price barrier,” was how Dane Eitel, a Vancouver real estate analyst and agent, described the scenario as the average sale price for all homes in the region reached a peak at $1.982 million in June and then slid $67,000 to $1.915 million in July.

Real estate: 5 tips for choosing a realtor | Vancouver Sun He and other observers say growth will stall after a crazy stretch during the past year.

In July 2020, the average sales price was $1.602 million, meaning there was a “torrid price increase” of 24 per cent to that high in June this year, Eitel said.

The most pressing questions for some are how low might the dip go and how long will it last?

Analysts also wonder if a combination of market fatigue and the usual slow days of summer will eventually give way to the prospect of rising interest rates and a return of normal travel and increasing immigration that will again fuel the market.

“We are going through what I would consider

a seasonal correction,” said Romana King, who looks at market trends for Zolo Realty.

“This is the regular time when the markets are closed. A lot of people want to go on vacation, see their kids. They want to travel. So we’re going to slow down, and I don’t think that the market correction is abnormal.”

“We haven’t normalized yet” from the pandemic, she said. “We still have restrictions across the world.

Immigration is going to start rolling in. That will increase demand.

But there will be higher mortgage rates that will decrease demand.”

A Bloomberg Economics report in mid-June ranked New Zealand, Canada and Sweden as the world’s top markets among countries that are mostly members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It looked at whether prices could sustain their rise based on indicators including rent costs and price-to-income ratios. The main factors for the rise in prices included low interest rates, buyers tapping into savings, limited inventory, and expectations for a strong economic recovery.

New listings for detached homes locally fell to the lowest they have been in 20 years, according to Vancouver real estate agent Steve Saretsky.

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Saturday, August 14, 2021 Sunny Leonne shooting ‘Shero’ Sunny Leone was busy shooting Malayalam film ‘Shero’ has finally wrapped up the schedule. The upcoming multilingual film is helmed by Malayalam director Sreejith Vijayan. Sunny Leone’s upcoming film Shero is simultaneously made in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, and Telugu languages.

The film is touted to be a psychological thriller. Sunny took to Instagram and shared a picture with the director while announcing the wrap.

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Loved shooting with this amazing Team @ikigai_ motion_pictures @shero_ movie_official,” Sunny Leone wrote. Due to the second wave of COVID-19, the shooting of the film was delayed. The actor had resumed shooting for the same around July 17. She had taken to Twitter to inform her fans about it. She tweeted, “Finally resumed shooting for my South Indian movie Shero.

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Shilpa Shetty making her first public appearance since Raj Kundra’s arrest Shilpa Shetty is set to make her first public appearance since the arrest of her husband, businessman Raj Kundra in a porn racket case. The actor is expected to join Bollywood and international stars, such as Arjun Kapoor, Dia Mirza, Ed Sheeran, Karan Johar, Parineeti Chopra, Saif Ali Khan, and Sara Ali Khan for a Covid-19 relief fundraiser.

The virtual event, titled We For India: Saving Lives, Protecting Livelihoods, is set to take place on August 15. The proceeds from the event will be

utilized to provide facilities such as oxygen concentrators, cylinders, ventilators, essential medicines, and ICU units. Funds will also go towards supporting the staffing of vaccination centres.

Donations are also expected to support long-term public recovery and rebuild livelihoods.

The three-hour videothon is set to stream on Facebook starting Sunday evening and will be hosted by Rajkummar Rao.

Sima Taparia returns to Netflix matchmaker Sima Taparia is coming back to Netflix.

The streaming service renewed the show Indian Matchmaking for a second season and the matchmaker from Mumbai will return to help people find their match.

Indian Matchmaking sparked many controversies after its release.

On the other hand, Sima secured a nomination at the 73rd Emmy Awards under the ‘Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program’ category.Indian Matchmaking is produced by Industrial Media’s The Intellectual Property Corporation LLC. Aaron Saidman, Smriti Mundhra, JC Begley, and Eli Holzman are

executive producers.

Over eight episodes, Sima will employ multiple techniques, from matching interests and exploring ambitions to astrological readings, to help her clients.

The show’s first season also saw awkward first dates, couples going on adventures, and family meetings, and the second season will probably follow in its steps.

Recently, Sima also announced that she’s all set to enter the Bigg Boss house.

“Watch me on Bigg Boss OTT on 10th August on @voot!” she shared on Instagram.

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Returning to the homefront, Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao and their son Azad are back from Kashmir after shooting ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’.

Aamir Khan was busy shooting for his upcoming production, ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ in Srinagar and Kiran Rao is part of the production.

“In these 15 beautiful years together we have shared a lifetime of experiences, joy and laughter, and our relationship has only grown in trust, respect and love. Now we would like to begin a new chapter

in our lives — no longer as husband and wife, but as co-parents and family for each other,” they had said in a statement in July.

Earlier this month, Aamir and Kiran discussed making the Union Territory a popular filming destination. The two had a conversation with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.

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LOCAL / NATIONAL Huge lineups at Canada, US borders last Monday & one was 7 hours long

There were long lineups at several of Canada’s land border crossings on Monday, as the country officially reopened to fully vaccinated Americans for the first time in over a year.

While lengthy wait times were expected at Canada’s major entry points, those travelling between International Falls, Minnesota and Fort Frances, Ontario experienced delays of up to seven hours, per CBC News. Heibel said that cars were lined up for over two miles and that some travellers had been waiting in line since 3:15 a.m. on Monday morning.

“License plates from so many different states!” she wrote. “Utterly amazing!”

Those crossing the Thousand Islands International Bridge between northern

New York and Ontario experienced wait times between one and three hours on Monday, while as many as 200 cars lined up at B.C.’s Peace Arch crossing.

This comes as Canada reopened its land and air borders to eligible fully vaccinated Americans and U.S. citizens on Monday, August 9, for the first time since March 2020. They are now permitted to enter the country for non-essential purposes, including shopping, travel and tourism. There had originally been concerns that Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) strike action could impact the border reopening and cause long delays for travellers. However, the strikes were cancelled after an agreement was reached.

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Surrey teachers concerned about returning to school Going into the 2021-22 school year “doesn’t look like it’s going to be any less of a risk” than last September, says one Surrey school district teacher.

On Saturday, the Safe Schools Coalition BC will be holding a rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s north plaza at 1 p.m., with parents, grandparents, teachers and education advocates calling for safer COVID-19 measures going into the new school year.

The group is demanding masks for all students and staff in school buildings, regardless of vaccination status; ventilation improvements; and quality remote options.

Annie Ohana, who will be taking part in the rally, said it “just became this reality of we need to step up and put our voice out there.”

“Are we going to be told to go back with almost no protection?” said Ohana, who is a teacher at Surrey’s L.A. Matheson Secondary which was in one of the city’s hotspots during

the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I mean we knew the delta variant was already around, but I guess the way it’s taken hold, especially of unvaccinated folks, the fact that it is a lot of younger folk, and that of course even though you’re vaccinated you can still transmit, you can still carry.”

The reality, she said, is “most of us still don’t know how school is going to look like,” such as if there will a quarter or semester system.

However, Ohana noted that she’ll be at a secondary school where she expects most students to be vaccinated.

That’s not the case for Lisa Singer, an inclusion support teacher at Coyote Creek Elementary.

Currently, only Pfizer-BioNTech is approved for those aged 12 and older.

Singer said she feels “very anxious” about heading back to an elementary school after the summer as she expects “a lot of children will be unmasked.”

RCMP say activists used garbage, vehicles and trenches to prevent access to Granite Mainline Forest rd Nearly two dozen protesters have been arrested in the Granite Mainline Forest Service Road area, as RCMP enforced a BC Supreme Court injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.

Police say the suspects linked arms and sat across the road and also used vehicles, piles of garbage and several deep trenches to prevent or delay access to the area.

A total of 23 people were arrested, four of whom were removed from under a vehicle they had attached themselves to earlier in the day.

In a statement, Chief Superintendent John Brewer, Gold Commander of the Community-Industry Response Group, called the protesters’ tactics “appalling.”

He says for people who claim to be stewards of the land, the protesters have created severe environmental damage to the grounds which will take great efforts to clean up.

RCMP says since enforcement of the court injunction began in May, 579 people have been charged, at least 39 of whom were previously arrested.

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Former bureaucrat accused in alleged $11M COVID-19 fraud bought and sold more than $500K in gold last summer, A former Ontario bureaucrat, who was fired after the alleged theft of $11 million in COVID-19 funds, bought and sold “more than $500,000” in gold in India last summer, court documents show.

In an action filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the province alleges “some or all of ” Sanjay Madan, his spouse Shalini,

their adult sons Chinmaya and Ujjawal, and associate Vidhan Singh perpetrated “a massive fraud” to funnel pandemic cash to numerous bank accounts at branches of TD, Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada, Tangerine, and India’s ICICI Bank.

Shalini, Chinmaya, and Ujjawal have denied any wrongdoing as has Singh.

Meng Wanzhou’s dishonesty ‘abundantly clear’ and she should be taken into custody, Canadian govt lawyers say Meng Wanzhou’s dishonesty was “abundantly clear” and the US had successfully made a prima facie case of fraud against the Huawei Technologies executive, who should be taken into custody pending her surrender to American authorities, Canadian government lawyers told her extradition hearing. The marathon extradition battle on Wednesday finally entered the committal stage, the last courtroom process before Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes will decide whether to release Meng or recommend to Canada’s Justice

Minister David Lametti that she be sent for trial in New York. Meng is accused of defrauding HSBC by lying to the bank about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran, conducted via an affiliate called Skycom, thus putting the bank at risk of breaching US sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. The charges centre on a PowerPoint presentation that Meng delivered to a banker in a Hong Kong teahouse in 2013. She denies the charges. Canada’s Department of Justice chief general counsel,

China upholds death for Canadian in drugs case A Chinese court on Tuesday rejected a Canadian drug convict’s appeal against death sentence in what appeared to be an effort to step up pressure on Canada to release a detained executive of tech giant Huawei.

The Canadian Government condemned the ruling and appealed to China to grant clemency to Robert Schellenberg. His sentence was abruptly increased from a 15year prison term to death after the December 1, 2018, arrest of Meng Wanzhou on US charges related to possible dealings with Iran.

In separate cases, two other Canadians,

a former diplomat and an entrepreneur, were arrested on spying charges as China demanded Meng’s release. The Higher People’s Court of Liaoning province rejected Schellenberg’s appeal and sent the case to the Chinese supreme court for review.

— Beijing recalls envoy from Lithuania Beijing: China has recalled its ambassador from Lithuania after the latter allowed Taiwan to open a representative office under its name, a move that could cast a shadow over Beijing’s ties with the European Union.

China views Taiwan, an island which has been independent since 1950, as its own.

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Canada extends ban on direct passenger flights from India until September 21 Canada has again extended its ban on arriving passenger flights directly from India till September 21 due to the risks posed by the Covid pandemic, the federal transport ministry has said.

In April, Canada banned all direct flights to and from India when the second Covid wave hit India. The date of reopening has been postponed many times.

“Protecting the health and safety of Canadians continues to be our top priority.

After reviewing public health data, we have decided to extend the direct flight ban between Canada and India until September 21,” Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport of Canada, tweeted on Tuesday.

“The Government of Canada has suspended flights from India until September 21. During that period, passengers who travel to Canada from India via an indirect route will need to obtain a pre-departure negative Covid molecular test result from a third country before continuing their journey to Canada,” Transport Canada said in a statement on Monday.

“Travellers who have previously tested positive for Covid must provide proof of a positive Covid molecular test conducted between 14 and 90 days before departure, instead of a negative Covid molecular test.

Prison term raises pressure on Canada and USA in high-stakes China standoff Hours after a court in China sentenced the Canadian Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, Meng Wanzhou appeared in a Vancouver courtroom, as final arguments began in her fight against extradition to the United States. The two cases, while not officially linked, are at the heart of a geopolitical feud between the United States and China, which has left Canada suffering collateral damage. Michael Spavor and a second Canadian, Michael Kovrig, were arrested by Chinese officials in December 2018, days after Canada arrested the Huawei executive on a US extradition request. China has repeatedly demanded she be released, even though Justin Trudeau has said his government cannot interfere in the country’s judicial process. A protest against the detention of Michael Spavor and Michael

Kovrig in Vancouver in 2019. Legal experts have denounced the charges against the two as baseless. But after Spavor was sentenced on Wednesday, Ottawa must grapple with the reality that Beijing plans to tie the fate of two jailed Canadians to Meng’s legal saga. Spavor’s verdict and sentencing, which follow an opaque and secretive trial, were denounced by Canada and its allies, who have accused China of “hostage diplomacy”.

But, according to Jack Cunningham, coordinator at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, Canada’s options are limited. “China is playing by rules they’ve created for themselves. They’re free to manipulate their own domestic judicial process. It’s a regime that sees the rule of law in essentially political terms,” said Cunningham.

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Saturday, August 14, 2021 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said his top priority is to make sure Indians are able to travel abroad with the least number of restrictions and hoped that Covaxin, one the two vaccines being primarily used in India, would get WHO approval by next month.

“As a country whose people look at the world as a global workplace, it is up there in my priority,” Jaishankar said while responding to Tech Mahindra CEO C P Gurnani’s observation about travel impediments at the CII’s virtual annual session on Thursday.

Jaishankar said a lot of talk about travel impediments was “speculation” and “not fact based”. Many countries, including the US, don’t insist on being vaccinated. They want a RTPCR test done before boarding the plane. “At the moment, it is an India issue. They [the US] are not allowing people who have stayed for a length of time here to go to the US directly.

The general practice is testing based rather than vaccine based.”

He also acknowledged the issue about vaccines at some places, saying that Europe started the problem by exempting people

Govt working to ease overseas travel curbs: Jaishankar only with certain kinds of vaccination from quarantine. “We got Covishield in. Covaxin is still a problem. Maybe in September, we should get some kind of indication,” he said.

The solution was a vaccination certificate on the lines of the ‘Yellow Fever’ certificates where there was no insistence on a particular type of injection. “I do see it as a challenge. Some

countries try to get across their viewpoint that their vaccine is a must to deal with them. There will be a push and pull out there,” the Minister observed.

Govt derailed House: Opposition draws battelines A day after the Parliament ession of Parliament came to an abrupt end, Opposition parties launched an offensive against the government, alleging that “outsiders” who were not part of “Parliament security” were brought into the Rajya Sabha to “manhandle” MPs, including women members, during passage of the General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill.

Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu condemning “the authoritarian attitude and undemocratic actions of the government”.

A delegation of senior Opposition leaders then met Naidu and conveyed their protest.

Opposition MPs from both the Houses, including senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, also met at Kharge’s chamber and then staged a protest march from Parliament to Vijay Chowk. The Congress, that has played a leading role in rallying the Opposition together, said Thursday that the party’s official Twitter handle, handles of six of its state units, as well as handles of at least 22 leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, had been locked. Starting with Rahul, the handles were locked by Twitter ostensibly over posts containing photograph of the family of a nineyear-old suspected rape-murder victim.

The head of the Congress’s social media department, Rohan Gupta, claimed around 5,000 accounts of its top leaders and workers had been blocked by Twitter.

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Archaeologists unearth ancient dagger linked to enigmatic Indian civilization

Wednesday’s events in Rajya Sabha were nothing short of murder of democracy, say protesting Opposition leaders A day after marshals were deployed in the Rajya Sabha during the passage of the insurance amendment bill, a united opposition on Thursday questioned the excessive use of security personnel in the House describing it as a “murder of democracy”. Leaders of 15 opposition parties, including Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, SP’s Ram Gopal Yadav, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, CPM’s Elamaram Kareem, CPI’s Binoy Viswam, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva among others will shortly meet Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to lodge a protest.

After a meeting in the chamber of leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday all opposition members marched to Vijay Chowk where they accused the government of muzzling the opposition voice in Parliament.“The parliament session

is over, and frankly, as far as 60 per cent of the country is concerned, no parliament session was held because their voice was crushed, humiliated and yesterday in Rajya Sabha it was physically beaten. This is nothing short of murder of democracy,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said.

Gandhi said the opposition raised the issue of Pegasus and sought a debate on it but the government refused.

“We raised farmers’ issue outside Parliament because we were not allowed to speak inside.

We raised the price rise issue outside because we were not allowed to speak inside. We are not allowed to speak in Parliament.

Therefore, we are before you today. What happened in Parliament is nothing short of a murder of democracy,” said Gandhi.

Archaeologists working in the village of Konthagai in southern India have found a rusted iron dagger preserved in a burial urn alongside skeletal remains, the Times of India reports.

The discovery is part of a major excavation effort in the state of Tamil Nadu that seeks to shine a light on the ancient Keeladi civilization.

Though the dagger’s 16-inch steel blade was rusted and broken in half, part of its wooden handle remained intact. R. Sivanandam, director of the Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology, tells the Hindu that this type of weapon was used by warriors during the Sangam period, which spanned roughly the third century B.C.E. through the third century C.E. The wood’s unusual preservation may allow researchers to precisely date artifacts found at

the site. Sivanandam says a lab in the United States will attempt to date the dagger handle.

Since the start of the digging season in February, archaeologists in Konthagai have discovered 25 burial urns. Some were filled with bones, weapons and other objects. Scientists at Madurai Kamaraj University in Tamil Nadu are conducting DNA tests on the human remains.

As the Times notes, the researchers think that Konthagai was a burial site for the Keeladi civilization. Teams are also excavating ancient Keeladi sites in the villages of Agaram, Manulur and Keeladi— the place that gives the civilization its name.

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Marshals used as ‘gender shields’ in Rajya Sabha: Opposition The Parliament session ended prematurely on Wednesday with bitter clash between Opposition and ruling party over use of security personnel in the Rajya Sabha during the passage of the insurance amendment Bill to privatise general insurance companies.

The Opposition MPs walked out of the Rajya Sabha this evening alleging heavy deployment of marshals to prevent their protests.

Congress Chief Whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh termed the day as “worse than atrocious” amid indications that

Opposition leaders and MPs would assemble in Parliament tomorrow to protest.

“The insurance amendment Bill to privatise general insurance companies was passed in the Rajya Sabha with a large force of security personnel present. The government refused to send it to a select committee as demanded by all Opposition parties, including those close to the BJP. What happened this evening was worse than atrocious,” Congress chief whip Jairam Ramesh said.

PM Modi and Sonia Gandhi share smiles at Speaker’s meet After days of disruptions and bad blood between the government and the opposition in the Monsoon Session of Parliament, there were happy faces today at a meeting of leaders called by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla post the adjournment of the House this morning.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, seated not too far apart, shared smiles and space after 17 days of bickering between their parties

over the Pegasus snooping issue.

Also present in the meeting held at the Speaker’s chamber were Home Minister Amit Shah and leaders of all Opposition parties in the Lok Sabha.

Birla later tweeted a picture of the happy faces, a departure from norm in the just-concluded session of Parliament, where the Opposition and the government remained daggers drawn.

Shutdown marks day when J&K lost special status On August 5, the day the Central government ended Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in 2019, people observed a shutdown, most markets remained closed and the regional parties expressed their anguish. However, the BJP held celebrations in Jammu and Srinagar. While the authorities decided not to block the Internet facility, extra deployments were made across the Valley. The shutdown resulted in skeletal traffic on the roads. Residents, fearing clashes, preferred to stay indoors in most

parts of the old city. However, no violence was reported from any part of the Valley.

Wearing a black band, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti led a street protest outside the party headquarters in Srinagar. Her party workers described August 5, 2019 as a “black day”, raised slogans against the Centre’s decisions and demanded an end to “oppression and summary arrests”.

Ms. Mufti said, “Today is a day of mourning for J&K. When unbridled oppression is unleashed and gross injustice heaped, there is no other choice but to resist to exist”.

10 dead, 50 feared buried as massive landslide hits bus, other vehicles in Himachal’s Kinnaur Ten persons, including one child and five women, were killed and thirteen others injured, while about 50 persons are feared buried under the debris after a massive landslide trapped an HRTC bus, a truck and other vehicles near Neugal Sari, about 170 km from here, in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Wednesday.

The tragedy struck around 12.30 pm this afternoon. The incident was reported by the driver of the HRTC bus, who was seriously injured. The ill-fated 42-seater HRTC bus was on its way from Rekong Peo to Haridwar when the landslide occurred. The bus and three light vehicles were buried under the debris, while the truck was hit by a shooting

boulder and plunged into the Sutlej River.

One vehicle was fully damaged and a Swift car was partially damaged while the truck, which was hit by a huge boulder, plunged into the river and the driver died on the spot.

The road was cleared for small vehicles in the late evening. However, there was no trace of the bus and a Balero till the filing of the report.

The rescue operation, meanwhile, is in full swing and a team comprising ten ambulances, four earth removers, 52 ITBP personnel, 30 police and 27 NDRF personnel are on the spot.

The rescue operation would continue all night till all the persons were recovered, said Kinnaur SP Saju Ram Rana.

Court grants bail to former BJP spokesperson A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to former BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay, arrested in connection with the communal slogans allegedly raised during a protest at the Jantar Mantar here.

Metropolitan Magistrate Udbhav Kumar Jain granted relief to Upadhyay, who is an advocate, on a bond of Rs 50,000.

The accused was sent to the judicial custody yesterday by a court here, considering that his bail application was pending.

A video showing anti-Muslim slogans being raised during a protest at Jantar Mantar here was widely circulated on social media, following which Delhi Police registered a case in connection with the matter on Monday.

Hundreds of people had attended the protest organised by ‘Bharat Jodo Aandolan’ at Jantar Mantar on Sunday.

Shipra Srivastava, media in-charge of Bharat Jodo Aandolan, had said the protest was held under the leadership of Upadhyay.

Allegations serious, truth has to come out in snooping issue: Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Thursday made it clear that “truth has to come out” in the Pegasus snooping issue.

A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana and Justice Surya Kant said the allegations of the government using Israel-based technology to spy on civilians, journalists, Ministers, parliamentarians, activists were “no doubt serious”, provided the news reports were true.

The Bench directed the petitioners, including senior journalists N. Ram, the Editors Guild of India, Rajya Sabha Member John Brittas and five journalists, reported to be targeted by Pegasus spyware, to serve copies of their petitions to the offices of the Attorney General of India and the Solicitor General. Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, represented by senior advocate Manish Tiwari, has also filed a petition.

Red Fort gears up to host Independence Day celebrations The historic monument of Red Fort in the national capital is gearing up to host the nation’s Independence Day celebrations on August 15. All security arrangements including extra precautionary and preventive measures against Covid-19 are being put in place to ensure a seamless event.

A two-day vaccination camp was organised for all the staff present in the Red Fort in a step towards taking guard against the coronavirus whose first wave last year and the second wave earlier this year went on to create rampage.

The Prime Minister hoists the flag every year on Independence Day and addresses the country from the ramparts of the Red Fort.

The security personnel and other

staff engaged in security near the Prime Minister will be tested for Covid-19 two days before August 15. Also, those who have not been vaccinated will be given the jabs.

Similar to last year’s arrangements, limited chairs have been placed this time as well. The chairs of all the leaders sitting around the Prime Minister have been installed, maintaining a distance of two yards.

Students of NCC will be called on Independence Day, although their number will also be limited.

According to the information, athletes who won medals at the Tokyo Olympics will also get a place near the Prime Minister this time.

Opposition to move to Jantar Mantar With proceedings in both Houses of Parliament remaining stalled for the third week of the monsoon session over the Pegasus spyware snooping controversy and the farm laws, Opposition members on Friday are likely to hold a symbolic protest at Jantar Mantar to express solidarity with protesting farmers.

Since the start of the Parliament session, a section of farmer leaders have been protesting at Jantar Mantar to demand the repeal of the three controversial farm laws.

The modalities are likely to be worked out at the routine floor coordination

meeting of Opposition leaders on Friday morning but former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is expected join the protests.

“All of us, including Rahul-ji will go to Jantar Mantar and reiterate our stand that the farm laws are ‘black laws’ and need to be withdrawn,” a senior Congress leader from the Lok Sabha said, adding that the Pegasus snooping controversy continues to be the “number one issue”.

On Thursday too, the Lok Sabha witnessed multiple adjournments over the Pegasus

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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh meets PM Modi Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately initiate steps for the repeal of the three controversial farm laws, and amendment to the relevant law for including farmers in free legal aid category.

The Chief Minister, who called on the Prime Minister here late this evening and submitted two separate letters, called for immediate review and revocation of the three farm laws that had triggered widespread

resentment among farmers of Punjab and other states, who had been protesting at the Delhi borders since November 26 last year.

Pointing to the prolonged agitation, which had cost the lives of more than 400 farmers and farm workers, the Chief Minister said the stir had the potential of posing security threats for Punjab and the country with Pakistanbacked anti-India forces looking to exploit the farmers’ disgruntlement with the government.

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu appoints four advisers Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday appointed four advisors, including Lok Sabha MP Amar Singh and former IPS officer Mohammad Mustafa.

It was the first such appointment made by the cricketer-turned-politician after becoming the president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee last month.

“I hearby, appoint four advisors to seek their wise counsel, as president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect. I personally hold each of them in high regard

for their vision and work to envisage a better future for every Punjabi,” he said in a letter.

Lok Sabha MP Amar Singh had been advisor to Sidhu when he was the local bodies minister.

Later, Singh, a former IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, successfully fought the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Fatehgarh Sahib (SC) seat.

Mohammad Mustafa, a former IPS officer, is the husband of Cabinet minister Razia Sultana.

After being named as the PPCC chief, Sidhu had reached out to several leaders and visited their residences, and Sultana was one of them.

Chandigarh, Himachal, Rajasthan lead 1st national ranking on quality of life for elderly Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Chandigarh lead the first national rankings on the Quality of Life for Elderly Index. This was released on Wednesday by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.

The Index has been created by the Institute for Competitiveness to assess

the challenge of ageing in India and determine the preparedness of states to deal with a rising elderly population.

India is currently enjoying the demographic dividend but will be growing older, with persons above the age of 65 becoming the fastest-growing age group by 2050. Greying is not very rapid in India,

Pakistan Pakistan reaches milestone of administrating 40m Covid-19 jabs Federal govt minister for planning & development said that Pakistan had reached the milestone of administrating 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. In a post on Twitter, he said that the last 10 million took only 9 working days to administer. The minister urged the citizens to get vaccinated and make Pakistan safe. On August 3, it was reported that Pakistan passed a major milestone of vaccinating

1 million people in a single day against the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the NCOC on Wednesday announced that complete Covid-19 vaccination certificates would be mandatory for air travel after September 10.

The interval between the first and second doses of all types of vaccines is reduced from 42 days to 28 days.

10 killed, 6 injured in gas cylinder blast in Gujranwala At least ten people were killed after the gas cylinder of a van exploded when it was hit by a mini truck in Pakistan’s Punjab province, according to a media report on Monday. The

accident occurred in Gujranwala on Sunday.

An initial probe by the authorities found that the van was carrying passengers from Rawalpindi to Gujranwala.

Imran Khan ‘helpless’ PM, says banned journalist A banned journalis, Hamid Mir, who was taken off air indefinitely for making hard-hitting remarks against the powerful military establishment, has said that Imran Khan is a “helpless” prime minister and underlined that there is a growing “climate of fear” for media personnel in the country.

Mir, the host of the now-off air primetime political talk show ‘Capital Talk’ of Geo News channel, on May 28 delivered a fiery speech at a protest staged by scribes against an attack by three “unknown” persons on journalist

and YouTuber Asad Ali Toor in Islamabad.

Mir demanded accountability for the attack, which was a series of such assaults on media persons who are critical of the country’s military. Following his speech, he was taken off air on May 30.

In an interview to the BBC, Mir criticised the shrinking space for press freedom and the growing “climate of fear” for journalists in Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Inflation, pandemic pushing people into poverty Economic condition in Pakistan has been reeling on the financial bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), forcing the Imran Khan-led government to increase prices of all basic commodities, triggering price hikes of commodities of basic necessities, and pushing the lives of people into misery and poverty.

Food price inflation has been on a consistent upsurge, escalating the pressure on lower-middle-income household budgets.

As per statistics, headline inflation in

Pakistan may have fallen below 10 per cent in the previous few months; food inflation continues to stay in double digits.

It should be noted that Pakistan is among those countries, where more than half of the income of a house, is spent on food. With the increase in cost of petrol, electricity units, transport, coupled with indirect taxes, the low-income families have plunged into further poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

FIJI Hospitals in chaos as Fiji battles spiking Covid-19 cases Fiji’s spiralling COVID-19 crisis reached a terrifying new milestone this month, as the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the country’s spread of infection was one of the highest in the world. With more than 200 dead – including three pregnant women and a 15-year-old – there have been more than 27,000 confirmed

coronavirus cases in the country since the current outbreak began in April this year. Actual numbers are estimated to be much higher.

With a total population of fewer than 900,000 people, Fiji is surrounded by vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean that often present enormous logistical challenges even under normal conditions.

Fiji reports 398 new cases and five deaths Fiji has reported 398 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours and five deaths over two days.

Ministry of Health permanent secretary Dr James Fong said 254 cases were from the Western Division and 144 cases from the Central Division.

He said there had been 703 new recoveries reported since the last update that meant there were now 23,981 active cases – 17,999 active cases in the Central Division and 5982 active cases in the Western Division.

Travel restricted from Fiji to New Zealand Travel is restricted to New Zealand from Fiji this weekend.

There are more than 24,000 active cases of Covid-19 in Fiji and at least 330 deaths, since the outbreak began in April.

Fiji is now considered “very high risk,” to New Zealand and from midnight Sunday, only New Zealand citizens, their partners and children, will be able to travel there from Fiji under certain conditions.

Travellers from Fiji who meet these restrictions will be required to spend 14 days in MIQ when they arrive.

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins New Zealand’s Covid-19 Minister made the announcement on Wednesday, to “protect the health of New Zealanders.”

“We put these stronger measures in place for specific countires as outbreaks there are out of control and we want to reduce

Accountant denies murdering ex-wife’s partner An accountant accused of murdering his ex-wife’s partner in central Christchurch will stand trial next year.

Niraj Prasad, 38, is accused of killing Faiz Ali, a manager at Indian grocery store Krazy Price Mart, on February 21 this year.

Prasad was arrested and appeared at Christchurch District Court the following day on a charge of murder.

He denies murdering Ali and will defend

the charge at a trial at the High Court in Christchurch starting on August 1 next year.

The trial date was confirmed at a brief hearing this morning before Justice Rob Osborne.

Faiz Ali was killed in Christchurch in February.

Photo: Supplied Faiz Ali was killed in February. It is understood that the trial could be brought forward if an earlier date becomes available.

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