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Vol 20 - Issue 15
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Trust in Canadian political leaders has cratered during the pandemic, poll finds — except in Quebec A new poll suggests that most Canadians have less trust in their current political leadership because of how the Covid-19 pandemic was handled, with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau taking the worst hits.
But the poll also found one province to be a notable outlier: Quebec, where respondents reported a substantial increase in trust in Premier François Legault’s leadership. The only other place where respondents
reported an increase in trust was in Atlantic Canada, though the gains were much less than in Quebec. The survey suggests that incumbent governments — at least from Ontario westward — may run into trouble when the next election comes around. Continued on page 6
Mother of Surrey Six victim praises police and criticizes courts, as gang violence escalates Eileen Mohan knows what it’s like lose someone to gang violence. Her only son, Christopher Mohan, was shot and killed when he was 22-yearsold, one of six people murdered, in the spree of killings dubbed the Surrey Six. to
India received US $83 billion in remittances in 2020 India received over USD83 billion in remittances in 2020, a drop of just 0.2 per cent from the previous year, despite a pandemic that devastated the world economy, according to a World Bank report. China, which received USD59.5 billion in remittances in 2020 against USD68.3 billion the previous year, is a distant second in terms of global remittances for the year gone by, as per the latest World Bank data released on Wednesday. In 2019, India had received USD83.3 billion in remittances. The report said India’’s remittances fell by just 0.2 per cent in 2020, with much of the decline due to a 17 per cent drop in remittances from the United Arab Emirates, which offset resilient flows from the United States and other host countries.
Mohan and another man, Ed Schellenberg, were both innocent victims. “It’s been 14 years, but for me, it’s like yesterday,” Mohan said, “holding my own dead son in my arms.”
India saw a record rise in Covid-19 deaths with 4,205 new fatalities taking the country’s death count to 2,54,197, while 3,48,421 new coronavirus infections were reported, according to Health Ministry data. Total tally of Covid-19 cases in the country now stands at 2,33,40,938. The active cases have reduced to 37,04,099 comprising 15.87 percent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has
we saw before the coronavirus pandemic. “Last week, I went to the Chinese version of Burning Man. It’s a big art and camping festival with people all over the country,” said Nikk Mitchell, former Vancouverite.
Muslim candidate wins local body elections in Hindu dominated area in India In what could be termed as a perfect example of brotherhood and unity, a Muslim candidate has registered a win in the UP Panchayat Elections from Rajanpur village in Ayodhya. The village which is
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India sees record 4,205 deaths by Covid-19 in 24 hour Karnataka, Maharashtra suspend vaccination
China largely returns to normal as Canada continues to battle Covid-19 pandemic As pandemic restrictions continue to be extended across Canada, life is largely back to normal in the country where Covid-19 was first detected. Restaurants, malls, conferences and even music festivals are all operating at capacity levels
Mohan has been watching the escalation in gang-related gun violence across the Lower Mainland, including high-profile public assassinations, with horror and the sense that history is repeating itself.
dominated by the Hindu population has selected Hafiz Azeem Uddin as their village head (Pradhan). Hafiz Azeem Uddin is the only Muslim family in his village, and even after that, he defeated Continued on page 7
improved to 83.04 percent, the data updated at 8 am showed. On a day when two of India’s worst-hit states, Karnataka and Maharashtra decided to halt the vaccination for 18 to 44 years of age group due to vaccine paucity, the Central Government claimed that India was the fastest country globally to reach the landmark of administering 17 crore doses in 114 days.