The Asian Star September 8 2018

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Vancouver real estate turning into ‘a disaster’ Not long ago, it would have been hard to imagine a time when Vancouver’s real estate market was so quiet you could hear the crickets chirp. Yet here we are.There’s no papering over the latest bad news from the region’s real estate board: Sales in August were down 36.6 per cent from the same month a year earlier, the region’s real estate board reported Wednesday, and prices are now falling in all housing categories. “Buyers today have more listings to choose from and face less competition than we’ve seen in our market in recent years,� said Phil Moore, president of the Real Estate Board Continued on page 6

TransLink kicks off next phase of Surrey LRT project

7 Punjabi NRIs among 10 arrested in major Ontario drug bust The Peel Regional Police in Canada’s Ontario province has arrested 10 persons, including seven Punjabi NRIs, for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking and fraud.

The police had initiated an investigation about a year ago, focusing on a group of persons operating from Peel in Greater Toronto Area and South Western Ontario. They tracked the links of the arrested persons with criminals based in the US and Pakistan. “These arrests exemplify the excellent work our officers are doing to take drugs off the street and put criminals Continued on page 6

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Surrey last Tuesday to attend a fund raising event.

PM Trudeau met with the members of South Asian community in Surrey. Pictured above Justin Trudeau with MP Sukh Dhaliwal (left), Dr Gulzar S. Cheema (right) and his wife.

How the Patels came to run half of all motels in USA

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TransLink is ready to secure a contractor to begin construction in 2020 for Newton-Guildford LRT. “By 2041, we expect more than 400,000 people to move to communities south of the Fraser,� says Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT Project Director Stephan Mehr. “LRT will transform Surrey. It will encourage more livable neighbourhoods and support growing job centres. Three-

quarters of transit trips start in Surrey and end in Surrey. This shows people living there want to be able to work and play close to home. LRT will make that type of lifestyle easier to attain in Surrey, while preparing the city for decades of growth.� TransLink, with support from the Government of Canada and contributions from the City of Surrey, is funding the $1.65-billion Project, a key part of the Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council 10-Year Vision.

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taking the family business As a new immigrant to the forward. (Read more United States in the early 1970s, about the South Asian Jayantibhai Patel slept very little.

American experience By day he held down a job at a here.) Picture of a family bank in San Francisco. By night taking photos of each he toiled in the city’s run-down other inside of an old Tenderloin district at the Vincent hotel lobby The success Hotel, a property he had acquired Pratima Patel takes a photo of not long after moving to the her father (at right) and his two of Patel and his family country. Patel’s sleepless nights siblings inside the Vincent Hotel as mirrors the rise of Indian paid off. By the 1980s he and his her sisters, Sita and Katki, look on. Americans in the U.S. motel industry. About two sons were running several motels and hotels in California, and now, four half the country’s motels are now owned Indian years after Patel’s death, his granddaughters are by Continued on page 7

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Fraser Health investigating outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Guildford Public health officials are investigating a number of cases of Legionnaires’ disease contracted in Surrey, B.C. Fraser Health doesn’t say how many people are affected, but says it is looking into the source of a cluster of cases in Surrey’s Guildford neighbourhood. Fraser Health says most people in good health do not get the disease when exposed to the bacteria, but the elderly, smokers and people with chronic lung conditions or compromised immune systems are at higher risk. Symptoms include fever, shortness of

breath, severe fatigue, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and resemble symptoms often found in cases of pneumonia.

Legionnaires’ disease is caused when people breathe in small droplets of water containing the bacterium known as Legionella, often found in freshwater, groundwater and soil, as well as cooling towers, hot tubs, and larger plumbing systems. The statement says anyone who travelled to that area of Surrey since Aug. 21 should speak with their doctor about testing and treatments.

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Richmond, South Delta, Tsawwassen, Surrey, North Delta, Langley and White Rock. In some of those areas, the fear of density is tied to the loss of agricultural land.

But this housing “disconnect” between residents of different cities could be solved, according to Board of Trade president Iain Black, by addressing transit and transportation — the second key issue among voters. Many of the cities that argue development is happening too quickly, such as Surrey, also say the current transportation system can’t handle all those new people. “Transit is the key,” Black said, noting both the provincial and federal governments in power right now are “protransit administrations.” Indeed, Ottawa and Victoria have pledged a combined $3 billion for light-rail transit in surrey and a SkyTrain extension in Vancouver.

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Metro residents want their mayor, council candidates to focus on housing, transportation: survey Housing continues to be a top issue for most municipal election voters — but some residents want more affordable options and others want less development, which will require some “strategic” ideas from candidates running for office, says a new survey. “Residents’ concerns about affordable housing were most pronounced in the City of Vancouver, the North Shore and Burnaby/New Westminster,” says a new report VoteLocal, based on a recent survey by the Mustel Group, FleishmanHillard Highroad, and the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

“Despite concerns about housing affordability region-wide, many voters believe too much housing is being built. This suggests that politicians will need to be very strategic in how they address housing policy solutions.”

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OPINION

By Catherine Frazee

Saturday, September 8, 2018

Medically assisted dying cases need stronger review to safeguard us all

In the early days of Canada’s public conversation about medical assistance in dying (MAID), Dr. Jeff Blackmer, then vicepresident of the Canadian Medical Association, expressed the gravitas of the policy choices that lay ahead as “no less than a sea change” to the ethos and culture of the medical profession.

That was in 2016, after the Supreme Court had issued its landmark decision to authorize physicians to end the lives of consenting patients under certain strict conditions, but before the government of Canada had settled on its legislative response.

In the two years since Blackmer’s assessment, a federal law on assisted dying has been enacted and operationalized, procedures and protocols are in place, and numerous court challenges and academic studies are underway.

By the end of 2017, over 3,700 Canadians had died as a result of our new medically assisted dying policy. Yet an appropriate monitoring system is not yet in place.

On the surface, one might venture that this radical transformation to the Canadian health landscape has been made without a hitch. We have, it appears, moved on from moral angst and heated debate to second-tier concerns.

Rules to protect “vulnerable persons” are etched into the federal law. And professional authorities in each Canadian province and territory have issued practice directives and educational resources on MAID. A new professional body, the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers has emerged and is focusing attention on refinements, such as whether practitioners are adequately compensated, or if MAID’s bureaucratic requirements need streamlining.

But too little is known about how persons who are eligible for MAID actually experience this new ‘choice.’ And nothing is known about how those of us who care for those persons may have begun to calculate the value of their lives differently.

That’s why the federal government’s new

Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying, published mid-summer and scheduled to come into effect in November, are deeply disappointing. The regulations fall short of a good faith effort to understand the role that social determinants of health, such as poverty, insecure housing, isolation or social stigma, may play in motivating a request to die.

The monitoring promised to Canadians when the law was passed remains elusive, failing to provide the needed assurance, as the Globe and Mail editorial cautioned recently, that MAID “is never allowed to become a backstop for gaps in other care.”

There have been warning signs.

When Archie Rolland requested and received a medically assisted death in Québec in 2016, he made it clear that it was not his illness, but rather the distress and deprivations of inadequate care that had made his life intolerable.

More recently in Ontario, Roger Foley has reported that although his claims for disability support arrangements of his choosing have been denied, he’s free to pursue a medically assisted death. Assisted life, no. Assisted death, yes.

Are these isolated cases?

Or are they the tip of the iceberg?

Genuine, comprehensive monitoring could help us know. But it’s not in place.

Nor will it be, under the new regulations.

The “Impact Assessment” report appended to the new regulations makes it clear that the government’s expectation is that “approximately 10 minutes are required to electronically file each report submitted by a practitioner familiar with the reporting requirements” for MAID. Because medically assisted dying is, in fact, a narrow exemption to the criminal prohibition of homicide, and represents a departure from the Hippocratic oath by which physicians are bound, assessing its impacts must be infinitely more thorough than an electronic form where boxes are checked and cases are reported in 10 minutes or less.

Catherine Frazee is a professor emerita in Disability Studies at Ryerson University, a contributor to EvidenceNetwork.ca, which is based at the University of Winnipeg, and an adviser to the Vulnerable Persons Standard.

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7 Punjabi NRIs among 10 arrested in major drug bust From page 1 behind bars. Criminal operations today are borderless, and the partnerships we have are vital to our success,” Peal Regional Police Chief Jennifer Evans was quoted as saying.

The arrests were made following eight search warrants executed across Ontario on the basis of allegations ranging from importing and trafficking of heroin and opioids, possession of property by way of crime, traffic and possession of stolen property, and fraud. Those arrested include Ravi Shanker (56), Gurinder Bedi (52), Bhupinder Raja (64), Satnarine Ori (35), Sukhveer Brar (28), Gurpreet Dhillon (39), Dilbag Aujla (70) and Karan Ghuman (44) — all from Brampton, besides Azadali Damani (63) from Kitchener and Darshan Bedi (71) from Woodstock city.

80 charges laid after an eight-month international probe into drug trafficking and importation, trafficking of stolen property and fraud. The joint forces operation, led by Peel Regional Police, focused on a group of individuals who were operating within Peel Region and allegedly involved in numerous criminal offences.

Police claim criminal activity was taking place in Peel, the GTA and southwestern Ontario.

And the investigation exposed criminal connections to the U.S. and as far away as Pakistan, cops allege.

Due to the complexity of the investigation, Peel investigators partnered with 13 other organizations — Toronto Police, York Regional Police, Halton Regional Police, Hamilton Police, Waterloo Police, Woodstock Police, RCMP, OPP, Canada Border Services Agency, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Insurance Bureau of Canada, U.S. Department of Homeland

Vancouver real estate turning into ‘a disaster’ From page 1 Vancouver, in a statement.

“With fewer buyers active in the market, benchmark prices across all three housing categories have declined for two consecutive months across the region,” he added.

But so far, the real estate board’s numbers show price declines have been mild.

The benchmark cost of a detached home in Greater Vancouver sat at $1.561 million in August, down 3.1 per cent from a year earlier.

Thanks to strength earlier this year, condo prices are still higher than a year ago, up 10.3 per cent in a year to $695,500 in August. But prices have now turned negative, and are down 1.6 per cent since May. But some real estate insiders in B.C. say there are segments of the market where things are considerably worse than the real estate board’s data suggest. Realtor Ian Watt used independent figures from data-mining company SnapStats to determine that detached homes on Vancouver’s pricey west side have fallen by 26 per cent in the past year, to a median of $2.8 million, from $3.8 million a year ago.

In West Vancouver, detached house prices are down 30 per cent over the past year, to $2.5 million from a median of $3.6 million.

Security, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

“Criminal operations today are borderless, and the partnerships we have are vital to our success,” Evans said.

Cops executed eight search warrants simultaneously across Ontario on Aug. 30 and allegedly seized the following: – 2.6 kilos of Opium with a street value of $65,000.

– 1.4 kilos of Heroin with a street value of $140,000.

– 17 grams of Methamphetamine with a street value of $1,700.

–1kiloofmarijuanawithastreetvalueof$4,500.

– $4.5 million of stolen tractor trailer cargo.

– $50,000 in Canadian currency.

An international investigation into drug trafficking and importation, trafficking of stolen property and fraud led to 10 arrests â including eight Brampton residents â as well as the seizure of an assortment of drugs, cash and stolen property on Aug. 30, 2018. (Peel Regional Police handout) Police also arrested 10 people.

Ravi Shanker, 56, Gurinder Bedi, 52, Bhupinder Raja, 64, Satnarine Ori, 35, Sukhveer Brar, 28, Gurpreet Dhillon, 39, Dilbag Aujla, 70, and Karan Ghuman, 44, all of Brampton, along with Azadali Damani, 63, of Kitchener, and Darshan Bedi, 71, of Woodstock, face a slew of related charges.

Anyone with any information regarding this investigation is asked to call police at 905-453-2121, ext. 8800, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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The seeming collapse in house prices at the top end of the market could be the “canary in the coal mine” warning of a broader correction, realtor Stuart Bonner told the Vancouver Sun earlier this month.

“Vancouver will never be affordable, but it will drop 25 per cent or more,” the Sun quoted Watt as saying. Things are likely to get worse before they get any better. A key measure of the health of a housing market — the sales-to-active-listings ratio — indicates that Vancouver’s detached home market is now a “buyer’s market,” with fewer than 10 sales for every 100 active listings.

The townhouse and condo segments are headed there as well.

There were fewer than 27 condo sales for every 100 condos listed in August, down from around 57 sales per 100 active listings at the start of the year. That represents a rapid slowdown in the condo market. Despite the declines in house prices, Vancouver’s market is not getting any more affordable, data from National Bank of Canada shows.

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How the Patels came to run half of all motels in USA

Indian Americans. A majority of these owners are from Gujarat state’s industrious Patel community, leading them to be jokingly referred to as the Patel Motel Cartel. Growing up in motels run by their immigrant parents, many second- and third-generation Gujaratis in the United States imbibed an entrepreneurial spirit and ethic of hard work, which they are applying to modernizing the businesses they inherited and launching new businesses of their own.

“The way that my uncle and father worked was very mom-and-pop style,” says Katki Patel, one of Jayantibhai Patel’s granddaughters who is director of finance at the family’s San Jose–based Lotus Management. Starting in 2006, Katki’s older sister, Pratima, centralized the accounting processes for the company, allowing lenders and investors to easily assess the financial health of the properties managed by it. “Without this, it would have been impossible to grow the business,” Katki says. A certified financial planner by training, Katki got a real estate license so that she could broker deals on behalf of the company. Her younger sister, Sita, is in charge of developing new hotels. The company currently owns 12 properties and plans to open three new ones by the end of the year.

Picture of a father and son posing for a portrait in font of a boutique hotel The first Gujarati hotelier in the United States was a man named Kanji Manchhu Desai, who joined two Gujarati farmworkers in California in 1942 to take over a 32-room hotel in Sacramento, California, after the property’s JapaneseAmerican owner was forced to report to a World War II internment camp. According to Mahendra Doshi, a California-based historian who is working on a book about early Gujarati hoteliers in the United States, Desai moved in 1947 to the Hotel Goldfield in San Francisco, whose doors were always open to new immigrants from Gujarat. He encouraged them to enter the hospitality business: “If you are a Patel, lease a hotel.”

Many followed his advice. “They would give each other handshake loans—no collateral, no payment schedule, just pay when you can,” Doshi explains. Once a family purchased a motel, they would live there, and the family members would do all the tasks needed to run it, from cleaning rooms to checking in guests.

That helped keep costs down, and profits went toward acquiring new motels. By the 1980s Gujaratis had come to dominate the industry.

For many second-generation Gujaratis who were raised in a motel run by their parents, life was hard. Manoj Pandoria, a cheerful 47-year-old man with bright eyes, grew up at the Holiday Motel in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, which his parents took over in 1981, shortly after his family moved to the United States. Set on three acres in the middle of pine forests and cornfields, the 23-room property was a lonely place to live as a child. “My weekends were spent cleaning rooms with my parents,” Pandoria says.

No boundary existed between work and life. “Any time that someone wanted a room or wanted to buy a snack or needed toilet paper, or anything, they

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would come to the office,” he recalls, “and we would have to stop whatever we were doing and serve that client.” The only playmates Pandoria and his siblings had were some kids who lived in a trailer on the other side of the highway. That’s why they loved the summers, when the motel’s swimming pool would attract kids from the neighboring areas.

After college, Pandoria worked at IBM and at a hotel before starting a chain of beauty spas. (His parents sold the motel to a Patel family.) Looking back, he says he owes his entrepreneurial drive to his growing-up years. “I saw my dad working in the middle of the night,” he says. His mother had to straighten up rooms every morning without fail, no matter how tired she was. To succeed requires diligence, he says: “Hard work is not an option.”

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Asia’s growing market , but when it comes to these products, the Asia-Pacific market is the most lucrative region, making up more than half of the global market an estimated $7.5 billion out of $13.3 billion sin 2017, according to Future Market Insights, which studies markets in over 150 countries.

China accounts for about 40% of sales in Asia, Japan 21% and Korea approximately 18%.

“In East Asian culture, women prefer lighter skin tone because they believe ‘‘a white complexion is powerful enough to hide seven faults,’ “ said Shuting Hu, who researches new ingredients for whiteners, looking at the mechanism in skin cells at the molecular level.

She is executive director and co-founder of SkinData Limited Hong Kong, a technology startup based on her research at the University

Skin whiteners are still in demand, despite health concerns of Hong Kong. And, as Lodhi found in childhood, darker skin signified more than just a mark against beauty.

Spotty reaction prompts recall of popular Japanese Kanebo-brand skin whitener Spotty reaction prompts recall of popular Japanese Kanebo-brand skin whitener “In many societies, especially in Asia, skin color was long seen as a sign of social class,” said Evelyn Nakano Glenn, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of gender and women’s studies and ethnic studies. “With Western colonial incursions during the 18th and 19th century, the light skin of European colonizers became a marker of higher status,

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Rachit Kumar of Future Market Insights added that “the demand is expected to continue to grow despite their potential health dangers. Asian consumers are highly concerned regarding their beauty and hence tend to spend more on such products, particularly the current generation of consumers in their teens who tend to have a significant beauty budget.”

Kumar attributes the rise in demand in Asia to these consumers, who are “ready to spend millions of dollars in order to enhance their overall appearance.”

Cosmetic manufacturers are launching skin-lightening products on a regular basis in order to cash in on this lucrative business.

Hu herself has tried most of the skin whiteners on the market, using them to treat acne marks or to even out her skin tone after a tan, she said. But she also grew up under pressure to be fairer.

“When I was very young, my parents, my friends and the superstars on TV all deliver a message that a whiter skin tone is pretty.

So in this culture, you will be influenced and be one of them,” she said. “Personally I don’t want to be whiter, just keep healthy skin.

Only after suntan, I want to be whiter, back to my original skin tone.”

However, she adds that many products need to keep up to date with research.

“Most of the whiteners are using outdated, at least to me, active ingredients,” she said.

“So personally, I prefer to try something new and novel.” The limit to skin whitening “The color of our skin is determined by melanin, which is produced by melanocyte, a type of skin cell. Everyone has different numbers of melanocytes, and that’s why we have different skin colors,” Hu said. “It’s impossible to change your gene or race, so there is a natural limit to whitening effects that you can achieve through using skin care products.”

Seventeen percent of those surveyed in the recent study in India reported adverse side effects from whiteners, yet only 3.1% sought help from a health professional.

“It is impossible to make one’s own skin color lighter than one is born with,” said Dr. Soyun Cho, professor of dermatology at the Seoul National University College of Medicine.

Cho explains that because Asian skin has more melanin than Caucasian skin, inflammation can lead to postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, or discoloration, which usually goes away within a few months but can last indefinitely.

Most commonly, people can develop contact dermatitis, an inflammatory reaction due to allergy or irritation, Cho said, leading to redness, itching, edema and heat. It can take two weeks to clear but can also lead to postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.

“The most dangerous thing is trying to whiten the skin in a short time, but still, some people keep doing it,” Hu said. “I think the reason is, they don’t know it results in serious problems to the skin,” such as allergies or depigmentation. This year, the Japanese cosmetic company Kanebo paid damages to an additional 44 women, after reaching settlements with more than 18,000 women who developed blotches after using the company’s whiteners. Nearly 20,000 customers reported white patches, or chemical leukoderma -- depigmentation -- after using products that contained the whitening chemical Rhododenol. The company recalled 54 products containing the chemical in 2013. The World Health Organization says that 61% of skin products in India are aimed at lightening, and when 23 skin fairness creams in India were tested by the International Journal of Pharmacy & Technology, almost half were found to contain steroids.

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‘Savvy’ Modi wants better ties but Trump neglecting India, says former US diplomat US President Donald Trump has neglected the country’s vital relationship with India unlike his predecessors George W Bush and Barack Obama, a former diplomat has alleged, ahead of the crucial 2+2 dialogue on Thursday in New Delhi.

The twice-delayed dialogue was earlier scheduled for July 6 in Washington, but was postponed by the US on June 27, citing “unavoidable reasons”. “The future is very bright for both countries, but the United States must fully prioritise and expertly execute on this relationship,” former US ambassador to India Tim Roemer said in an op-ed in the Foreign Policy magazine on Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are being hosted in Delhi by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. This is the first ever 2+2 talks between the two nations.

“It is essential that it devote sufficient time and consistent effort towards anticipating problems and implementing an overall strategy that helps deepen this growing relationship and facilitate abiding trust moving forward,” he said.

Roemer, who was a top US diplomat in the previous Obama administration, said it is a telling sign of how little the Trump

administration has prioritised India that this critical relationship, where both sides stand to heavily benefit, is not moving steadily forward.

“While the partnership has stalled in Washington, it is still seen as critical in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political and foreign-policy interests in deepening US ties are clear.

“While he is delicately balancing relations in his geographic neighbourhood with recent tensions with China in Doklam and arms sales with Russia, Modi sees a bright future with the United States,” he said in the op-ed.

The former diplomat said Modi displayed savvy instincts during his visits to the US, meeting and courting the Indian diaspora with packed town meetings.

“He has also valued the United States as an advocate for India’s permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, sought out access to cyber security cooperation to ensure progress in a growing e-commerce sector, acknowledged a growing reliance on the US liquified natural gas to bring clean energy to an overly polluted country, and emphasized a mutual commitment to democratic values,” Roemer wrote.

In another article in the magazine, thinktank scholars Atman Trivedi and Aparna Pande argued that just as the US is warming

Campaigners celebrate as India decriminalises homosexuality From page 1 Celebrations have erupted in India after the supreme court unanimously ruled to decriminalise homosexual sex in a landmark judgment for gay rights. A five-judge bench at the country’s highest court ruled that a 160-year-old law banning sex “against the order of nature” amounted to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and was unconstitutional. ‘Our lives should be lived in the sun’: the couple fighting to legalise gay sex in India The judgment, after 24 years of legal challenges, triggered elation among LBGT Indians and their allies across the country and plans for all-night parties in nightclubs in major cities. In Mumbai, people marched carrying a giant rainbow banner; in Bangalore they draped themselves in the LBGT flag and let off scores of balloons. In Delhi’s luxury Lalit hotel, run by one of the activists who fought Thursday’s case, and home to one of the city’s furtively gay-friendly nightclubs, staff danced in the lobby. “Criminalising carnal

intercourse under section 377 Indian penal code is irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary,” said the chief justice, Dipak Misra, in his decision, announced at about 11.30am on Thursday. Misra’s was one of four written judgments agreeing to scrap the ban. The rulings quoted Lord Alfred Douglas (“The love that dare not speak its name”), Leonard Cohen (“From the ashes of the gay/ democracy is coming”), William Shakespeare (“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”) and the German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (“I am what I am, so take me as I am”) Misra said: “Social exclusion, identity seclusion and isolation from the social mainstream are still the stark realities faced by individuals today, and it is only when each and every individual is liberated from the shackles of such bondage … that we can call ourselves a truly free society.” Indian activists celebrate after the hearing.

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ICBC reports ‘high volume’ of claims after acid spills on BC highway in Trail A major mining company has apologized after two acid spills earlier this year damaged a large number of vehicles in southeastern British Columbia.

Teck Resources says the two spills of sulphuric acid happened on April 10 and May 23, along a busy commuter route in Trail, after the company sold the acid and it was being moved.

In the first spill, about 220 litres of acid leaked as a truck travelled a 16-kilometre stretch of highway, and in the second, about 70 litres dripped from the truck over six kilometres along the same route.

Teck says both spills were cleaned up,

no acid seeped into area waterways and there is no damage to roads or bridges.

But the Insurance Corporation of B.C. says it is dealing with “an extremely high volume of claims” from vehicle owners.

It has set up a dedicated phone line for drivers who may have travelled the road and an adviser who answered the line says the acid has the potential to corrode vehicle undercarriages, especially brake lines and brake systems.

Teck says the spills are unacceptable and the company is “working with the parties involved in acid transportation to prevent any recurrence.”

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Cambie Street merchants awarded damages for loss of business during Canada Line construction A B.C. Supreme Court justice has awarded three Cambie Street merchants more than $180,000 as compensation for financial hardship experienced during Canada Line construction between 2005 to 2009.

Leonard Schein, owner of Park Theatre; Gary Gautam, owner of Cambie General Store; and Dale Dubberley, owner of Thai Away Home argued that the cut-and-cover tunnelling that ripped up a section of Cambie Street for three years greatly restricted access to their businesses and ate into their revenue.

“I can find nothing in the evidence to suggest that the loss of profitability in fiscal 2007 and 2008 was due to any other factor than the work,” Justice Christopher Grauer wrote in his judgment.

“What made the construction intolerable, resulting in unreasonable interference, was the extended time over which access was restricted.”

Schein told court that Park Theatre profits dropped significantly during construction.

His net income was $110,282 for fiscal year 2006, but dropped to $11,737 in 2007, $13,577 in 2008 and $26,759 in 2009.

TransLink has been ordered to pay Schein $128,880,Dubberley$44,560andGautam$7,600.

The three plaintiffs were part of a classaction lawsuit launched in 2014 by more than 200 Cambie Street merchants against TransLink, Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc., contractor SNC-Lavalin and others.

Lawyer Paul Bennett, who was representing the class-action members, argued in his opening statements that SNC-Lavalin and TransLink should have constructed a bored tunnel along Cambie Street between 6th Avenue and King

Edward to reduce the impact on merchants.

“The construction of the Canada Line tunnels using the cut-and-cover method of construction transformed Cambie Village into an intense and extensive construction zone for more than three years while the Canada Line was constructed,” said Bennett.

Schein, Dubberley and Gautam were pulled out of the class-action and their suit was put forward as a test case. The ruling sets a potential precedent for other judgments still to come.

Saturday, September 8, 2018 Weak regulations make Canada a money-launderer’s playground, says report Canada’s weak financial laws and regulations have made the country a prime destination particularly the loose legitimate funds — into for money launderers and others who want to requirements on identifying Canada’s financial system. hide the proceeds of crime, says a report being who really owns or benefits “[W]ith professional released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. from those corporations and know-how, complex “Organized crime, tax evaders and money trusts, known as “beneficial structures can be created launderers don’t stand still. Their dirty money ownership” information. in Canada, or offshore, flows on a path of least resistance to the The report says that the that will slow down or stop safest harbour,” author Denis Meunier writes. country’s federal system any intrepid investigator “Canada is widely seen as a destination has created a patchwork trying to connect the dirty choice for funnelling the proceeds of crime.” which often allows someone looking to money to the beneficial owner,” Meunier writes.

A casino employee surveys bundles of $20 register a corporation to pick a provincial Corporation rules weaker bills in a photograph released by the B.C. jurisdiction with the lowest bar on disclosure. than for ordinary Canadians attorney general’s office as an illustration of As a result, bad actors can effectively Canada’s rules for identifying the money laundering. (B.C. attorney general) hide the identities of their real owners and shadowy owners of shady corporations The report focuses on Canada’s lax rules funnel dirty money — often mixed with are much weaker than the rules for registering corporations and trusts —

Lower Mainland residents lament ‘decline in quality of life’ ahead of civic elections, survey finds The majority of the Lower Mainland’s business community believe that quality of life and affordability in Metro Vancouver have declined in the last five years — and almost half of Metro Vancouver’s residents have considered relocating due to affordability. Those are some of the findings of a new survey organized by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, calledVoteLocal.

On Wednesday, the survey’s findings were presented at a board of trade briefing for current civic politicians and election candidates. The civic elections are six weeks away, on Oct. 20, and half of Greater Vancouver mayors are not seeking re-election. One purpose of the survey, conducted by the Mustel Group and FleishmanHillard HighRoad, was to prepare first-time candidates for some of

the issues that lie ahead. The survey, which was conducted throughout the summer, asked participants what they thought was the most pressing issue facing their municipality. In total, 810 people were surveyed: 533 random Metro Vancouver adults, 184 board of trade members and 93 current or prospective politicians.

The results show that 67 per cent of residents, 75 per cent of board of trade members and 82 per cent of politicians think quality of life in the region has declined, and won’t improve anytime soon, due largely to housing affordability.

“The No. 1 issue facing folks was affordable housing,” said Iain Black, president and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

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imposed on ordinary citizens every day.

Applications for birth certificates, vehicle registrations, land registrations, personal bank accounts — even library cards — often require more identifying information than the rules governing corporations do, says the report.

Repeating criticisms previously levelled by groups such as Transparency International, Meunier notes that Canada’s weak system places the onus on financial institutions — such as banks — to provide ownership information, rather than on corporations themselves.

And Canada’s regulations exempt realestate brokers and others from identifying the owners of property, increasing the risk of money-laundering in hot housing markets such as Toronto and Vancouver.

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Warrants issued for Surrey man charged with murder of Nocholas Khabra An Ontario hitman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for trying to kill a highprofile Hells Angel at Vancouver International Airport more than three years ago.

Knowah Ferguson, now 21, travelled from Ontario in March 2015 with plans to shoot Damion Ryan.

Ferguson was arrested two months after the failed hit in April 2015, and later pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy.

In sentencing, Justice Joyce DeWitt-Van Oosten said sentencing was difficult because Ferguson was a young, first-time offender convicted of one of the most serious crimes under Canadian law.

“Sentencing is often described as a ‘delicate’ and, at times, ‘agonizing’ task,” she wrote in her reasons, released Thursday.

Ferguson had just turned 18 when he bussed from Hamilton, Ont., to Vancouver to make “quick and easy” money doing criminal work, according to court documents.

He told one of his co-conspirators, known only as Witness X as their identity is protected by a publication ban, that they could make $200,000 for the airport hit.

Ferguson planned to shoot Ryan, a fullpatch member of the Hells Angels, in the food court while the target sat with an associate from the United Nations gang, who had set him up.

On April 10, Ferguson, disguised in a burka, walked up to Ryan, lifted a gun to the back of his head and pulled the trigger.

The firearm jammed and all of the men escaped the airport.

An RCMP officer with weapon drawn at the Vancouver International Airport.

(The Canadian Press) After the failed hit, Ferguson, Witness X and a third man, Gino McCall, discussed plans for a second shooting and began preparing for the hit, gathering more guns and staking out a location.

On one occasion, they travelled to Surrey, B.C., to commit the murder, but returned to Vancouver when they couldn’t find their target.

The men were arrested on firearms offences after the stolen truck they’d been using was spotted by its owner in Vancouver, two months after the attempted hit at the airport.

In her sentencing, DeWitt-Van Oosten said the “considerable” premeditation and planning were among the aggravating factors in Ferguson’s sentence.

His previously clean criminal record, challenging childhood and remorse for his crimes, however, mitigated his sentence.

Ferguson was handed seven years for attempted murder and four years for conspiracy. He received 1,623 days’ credit for time served and will serve the remainder consecutively — leaving him with a little more than six years to spend behind bars.

Witness X pleaded guilty to a firearms offence and was sentenced to a little more than three years in prison in January 2017.

McCall, who had a lengthy criminal record, was handed seven years for conspiracy to commit murder in November 2017.

State of emergency ends as wildfire conditions improve Cooler weather and progress by fire crews has led the B.C. government to end the state of emergency covering the entire province Friday.

The state of emergency, which was declared Aug. 15, was in place as hundreds of wildfires were burning through the province.

“This past week, there was a significant reduction in the number of properties under evacuation order and many residents are now returning home,” a statement from the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General read.

“As such, the province has decided that the powers granted under a provincial state of emergency are no longer required.”

The province said the weather has been cooperating lately and resources have been redeployed to tackle the remaining fires.

As of Friday morning, the province said, there were still 485 active wildfires in B.C. It said 19 evacuation orders are still in place, affecting almost 2,000 people.

Thirty-nine evacuation alerts still remain, affecting more than 4,800 people.

A state of emergency ensures federal, provincial and local resources can be delivered in a co-ordinated response to protect the public.

The 2017 wildfire season also prompted a state of emergency, which lasted for more than two months.

The changing weather has also brought improvements in air quality in Metro Vancouver. The regional district ended an air quality advisory for fine particulate matter Friday morning.

“Air quality has improved due to clean air pushing wildfire smoke out of the region,” the district wrote in a statement. “A significant change in the weather is also forecast to bring cooler temperatures and some precipitation to the region over the next week.”

New pattern begins for the province! AM showers have snuck in for Metro Vancouver, catching a ride on the jet stream. Main event will hold off until late this afternoon. Temps will likely stay down around 18c today.. and won’t get above that for at least the next week

BC budget surplus rises by $450M as growth remains stable: finance minister Finance Minister Carole James is projecting a growing budget surplus and stable but slower economic growth in her latest quarterly financial update.

James says the former Liberal government’s decision to rely on a speculative real estate market was unsustainable and irresponsible, leaving people without affordable homes, and businesses without workers.

Property transfer tax revenues to the government are down $250 million and the most recent housing sales statistics from April to June show a decline in home sales of 15.9

per cent, but home prices have yet to soften.

James says the government is delivering on its commitments and is forecasting a surplus budget of $669 million, $450 million higher than was projected in February’s budget.

The fiscal forecast is for stable growth of 2.2 per cent this year and 1.8 per cent in 2019, with medium-term growth expected to average about 2 per cent through to 2022.

James says her government’s economic forecast is prudent compared with the private sector’s outlook, recognizing the potential

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Judge gives district go-ahead to clear Saanich homeless camp The tent city is situated in Regina Park, grassy space alongside Highway 1.

A judge has granted a temporary injunction allowing the District of Saanich to evict homeless campers from a tent city in a local park.

The municipality has asked for the injunction to come into effect on Tuesday.

A lawyer for Saanich says the district will provide temporary storage for campers as they move their belongings off the site.

Chrissy Brett and homeless camp supporters speak at the courthouse. Says she will talk to police a

about options for complying with order Residents have named the settlement Camp Namegans, and it was home to about 90 people at the height of the summer. It sits in a grassy space along Highway 1 at the edge of a residential area.

According to a recent survey, more than 1,500 people in the Greater Victoria region do not have a permanent home.

The provincial housing ministry has said it is working with the district on plans to build modular housing for tent city residents.

Former CRA auditing employee & wife found not guilty of tax evasion judge has found a former Canada Revenue Agency auditing department employee and his wife not guilty of tax evasion, noting a big difference between being wrong and knowingly being wrong.

The Crown alleged Raymond Patry and his wife Tara Patry, who were charged in a six-count indictment under the Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act, evaded taxes by operating a tax-preparation business — Accounting Professionals — that caused numerous clients to claim false business losses.

Justice Murray Blok, who heard from more than 30 witnesses during a 12-day trial in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, found Tara Patry not guilty on all counts, concluding that the Crown had “not met its burden of showing beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms. Patry was involved, either as a principal or as a party.”

The judge also stated in his reasons for decision that “despite my conclusion that Mr. Patry’s tax strategy was flawed, I conclude that it is at least possible that Mr. Patry believed he had formulated a viable tax strategy.

“He cannot be convicted for being wrong, only for knowingly being wrong.

The Crown has therefore failed in its proof on this essential point,” Bloc decided.

“On my assessment of the whole of the evidence, I am left with a reasonable doubt on the matter of the necessary intent for these tax evasion offences.”

The court heard Raymond Patry, 52, who had worked full-time in the CRA’s audit department from November 1991 to April 2005, started his own business, Accounting Professionals, in 2005.

Surrey Board of Trade calls for funding formula change to tackle portable problem While the province reviews its school funding formula, the Surrey Board of Trade is calling to scrap the “archaic” model that currently exists in an effort to reduce the number of portables in this city.

Surrey opened the school year with 347 this year, which is 14 more than last.

“Hundreds of K-12 students in Surrey will yet again be learning in portables for the 20182019 school season and the foreseeable future,” said SBOT CEO Anita Huberman in a release.

The business group notes that many secondary and primary schools utilize portables as temporary classrooms for overflow students, and note the lack of classroom

space available for children in Surrey.

“We need to find a better way to fund and support high growth school districts,” Huberman added.

The Surrey Board of Trade says it has been trying to instigate change over many years to remove portables and increase space available for the growing Surrey student population.

The Independent Task Force on Funding K-12 Education in B.C. is currently underway that will review, among other things, how much funding is needed for Surrey schools.

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Man charged in school stabbing still too psychotic, doctors say The man charged with killing an Abbotsford Senior Secondary student in November of 2016 still hears voices “everyday, every hour of the day,” the BC Review Board heard Thursday.

The review board held a second hearing Thursday morning into the psychiatric health of Gabriel Klein, who is charged with stabbing an Abbotsford student to death and severely injured another in November 2016. A decision will be released at a later date, likely within the next week.

Both Crown counsel and the defence agreed Klein remains unfit to take part in the trial, with the main disagreement being on the length of time needed before another hearing is held.

Crown suggested the matter should reconvene in four months, while defence suggested six.

A judge determining this spring that he was unable to stand trial due to his inability to follow and participate in his own trial. Klein has been diagnosed with schizophrenia by his treating psychiatrist, Dr. Marcel Hediger, and the court had heard that he was afflicted by severe hallucinations and disorganized thinking.

He’s since been held at the Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, where Thursday’s hearing was held.

The review board is tasked with determining if Klein’s mental fitness has improved.

The family of one of the victims was present for the hearing, but due to a publication ban cannot be named. However, a representative of the family, Dave Teixeira, spoke with reporters following the hearing about how the family is holding up.

Teixeira said the family is hoping the board doesn’t rush to come back to another hearing on Klein’s fitness for trial.

“It’s these necessary delays for Gabriel Klein to get healthy to attend a trial in the future that’s important. The family has no issue with that delay, it’s the unknown that’s the frustrating part — no one knows when this will actually end,” he said, adding that it is challenging to hear Klein speak at the hearing.

“It’s distressing. They can hear this voice; they can’t hear their daughter’s voice.”

Klein spoke during Thursday’s hearing, although he mumbled and sometimes slurred words, causing members of the BC Review Board to ask Klein to repeat himself.

Klein said the voices he hears distracted him throughout Thursday’s hearing.

Crown lawyer Michaela Donnelly noted that “Mr. Klein came across as intelligent and able to articulate … far more than a yes or no answer.”

Klein also demonstrated some understanding of the court processes, saying that the judge’s role is “to prosecute me,” the Crown’s role was to “put me in jail” and his lawyer’s role was to “keep me out of jail.”

That, Donnelly said, demonstrated he could have some understanding of what is happening in court if he were to proceed with a trial.

Defence lawyer Martin Peters, however, countered with testimony from Hediger and Dr. Andrew Kolchak, an independent psychiatrist who also testified at Thursday’s hearing.

Surveillance camera to keep eye on White Rock’s Five Corners A surveillance camera is coming to White Rock’s Five Corners district.

City communications manager Farnaz Farrokhi confirmed Thursday that “plans are underway to have them installed.” The next day, she said that, “for now,” just one camera will be mounted. While she couldn’t provide costs – noting the city is still getting quotes for the work – Farrokhi said it’s anticipated the closedcircuit camera (CCTVs) will be operational early this fall. Vandalism to the city’s rainbow crosswalk – painted in Five Corners in July and defaced with a tire mark less than 24 hours later – was a consideration in the decision to site the camera, she said. (Friday morning, another dark tire mark stretched across the crosswalk.)

KPU Surrey, Centre for Child Development partner on fetal alcohol syndrome project Kwantlen Polytechnic University Surrey Michelle Hunsche, a KPU graduate who is the project co-ordinator, working with a girl at the Lifespan Cognition Lab at Kwantlen Polytechnic University Surrey.

KPU and the Centre for Child Development have partnered together for a study to to better understand the way children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and autism cope in social settings. They are now looking for participants.

The child in the photo does not have FASD or autism.

New road treatment for 10 high crash areas of Metro Vancouver BC gov’t hopes a new $3.9-million project will reduce crashes in 10 high collision locations in Metro Vancouver.

This month, Ministry of Transportation crews will be applying a high-friction surface treatment to 14 areas — 10 in Metro Vancouver and four on Vancouver Island — to help drivers stop faster. The ministry says the goal is to reduce rear-end collisions.

The surface treatment is made of a specialized aggregate and resin to help vehicles come to a full stop more quickly.

The following areas have been identified by ICBC as high collision zones: Highway 1 – Capilano Road off-ramp (westbound) in North Vancouver Highway 1 – Lonsdale Avenue off-ramp (eastbound/westbound) in North Vancouver Highway 1 – Willingdon Ave off-ramp (eastbound) in Burnaby Highway 1 – Brunette Avenue off-ramp (eastbound/westbound) in Coquitlam Highway 7 – 203 Street intersection (eastbound) in Maple Ridge Highway 7 – 207 Street intersection

(eastbound) in Maple Ridge Highway 7 – Kennedy Road intersection (eastbound/westbound) in Pitt Meadows Highway 7 – Laity Street intersection (eastbound) in Maple Ridge Highway 10 – 120 Street/Scott Road intersection (eastbound/westbound) in Surrey Highway 10 – 176 Street intersection (eastbound/westbound) in Surrey Highway 17 – Cloverdale Avenue intersection (southbound) in Saanich Highway 17 – Elk Lake Drive intersection (northbound/southbound) in Saanich Highway 17 – Sayward Road intersection (northbound) in Saanich Highway 17 – Mt. Newton Cross Road intersection (northbound/ southbound) in Saanich The gov’t says the surface treatments may be applied to other locations throughout the province if the project is successful.

Work will start the first week of September and is expected to be completed by end of the month.

Surrey Board of Trade calls for funding formula From page 13 The panel will review the current funding model — how government distributes more than $5.65 billion in operating funding to 60 boards of education throughout B.C. The business group says this is a “step in the right direction to ensure our children are given the best chance to perform.”

The current system was established in 2002 and according to Surrey Board of Trade “needs to be updated to reflect changes underway within B.C.’s education system to better support student success.”

It’s hoped a new model will be developed by government with implementation planned for the 2019-20 school year.

“The Surrey Board of Trade also looks forward to how a new funding model will better support vulnerable students, including children in care, children with special needs and Indigenous students,” Huberman added.

In an interview with Black Press Media on Aug. 24, Education Minister Rob Fleming said a projection-based funding model could be in Surrey’s future.

“Surrey has never had 2,500 fully funded spaces in a 10-month period, ever,” said Fleming, referencing recent dollars committed to Surrey’s school system.

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Saturday, September 8, 2018 Canada’s seesawing employment report posted particularly volatile numbers last month that showed big, mid-summer gains had essentially been wiped out by August.

The economy lost 51,600 net jobs last month in a decrease that helped drive the national unemployment rate to six per cent, up from 5.8 per cent in July, Statistics Canada reported Friday in its monthly labour force survey.

Last month’s drop, fuelled by the loss of 92,000 part-time positions, largely eliminated July’s healthy net increase of 54,100 positions.

However, August also featured a notable bright spot: full-time jobs rose by 40,400.

“A little bit of a mixed bag, but definitely not quite as bad as the headline would suggest,” TD senior economist Brian DePratto said of the August jobs report.

“Another messy one, to be frank… It’s always a noisy report, but it seems like the last few months have been particularly noisy.”

Canada loses 51,600 jobs, led by Ontario’s biggest drop in almost a decade US hiring picked up in August as pay surged most in 9 years Solid US job growth is likely to be reported for August A closer look at the August data revealed even more turbulence in the month-to-month numbers.

Ontario lost 80,100 jobs last month after gaining 60,600 in July — with both data points almost entirely driven by swings in part time work.

The August decrease, a drop of 1.1 per cent, was by far the biggest decline among the provinces. It helped bump Ontario’s unemployment rate up to 5.7 per cent, from 5.4 per cent.

DePratto said it’s difficult to determine the cause of July’s “odd, significant spike” in Canada’s most-populous province.

Some commentary, he noted, had connected the jump to a summertime hiring boost in the university sector that many expected would recede in the subsequent months.

But DePratto said the August drop didn’t reflect any significant reversals from earlier increases because the losses were concentrated in areas like construction and professional, scientific and technical services.

“Unfortunately, by and large, it looks like statistical noise,” he said.

Royce Mendes, director and senior economist for CIBC Capital Markets, summed up the jobs report in a research note to clients as “Now you see them, now you don’t.”

He described the Statistics Canada

Lower Mainland residents lament ‘decline in quality of life’ ahead of civic elections, survey finds “Housing affordability, and the trickledown effects involved in that, have made it a very challenging environment here over the last 15 years.”

The second most pressing issue, according the survey, was public transportation.

“We saw there is absolutely a priority on expanding public transit services regionwide,” said Black.

Residents, board of trade members, and politicians all expressed strong support for improvements to the region’s roads and public transit, says the survey.

In addition, the survey suggests board of trade members would like to see expedited permitting for new housing supply.

Black said the Wednesday briefing saw a large turnout of new candidates, and he hopes they will take the survey’s findings seriously while they campaign.

Canadian economy loses more than 51K jobs in August employment report as “always volatile and at times implausible”.

“While you can’t put too much faith in any one reading from the (labour force survey), there’s certainly nothing in the report to suggest that the economy is racing ahead,” Mendes wrote.

Mendes doesn’t expect the results to be enough to prevent the Bank of Canada from raising its benchmark interest rate in October, although if the economy remains in a “lower gear” he believes governor Stephen Poloz will need to follow a moregradual, rate-hiking approach thereafter.

The central bank will also pay close attention to more signs Friday that wages are softening in Canada despite the tightened labour market.

The report showed that average hourly wage growth, which is closely watched by the Bank of Canada ahead of rate decisions, continued its gradual slide last month to 2.9 per cent after expanding 3.2 per cent in July and 3.6 per cent in June.

Compared with 12 months earlier, Canada’s overall employment was still up 0.9 per cent following the addition of 171,700 jobs, including 326,100 full-time positions.

In August, the data also show the economy lost 38,000 public-sector

employee jobs last month, while the private sector shed 30,700 positions.

By industry, the goods-producing sector lost 30,400 jobs last month in a decline led by notable losses of 16,400 positions in construction and a drop of 9,200 in manufacturing.

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TransLink kicks off next phase of Surrey LRT project

LRT Project Director Stephan Mehr. “LRT will transform Surrey. It will encourage more livable neighbourhoods and support growing job centres. Three-quarters of transit trips start in Surrey and end in Surrey. This shows people living there want to be able to work and play close to home. LRT will make that type of lifestyle easier to attain in Surrey, while preparing the city for decades of growth.�

TransLink, with support from the Government of Canada and contributions from the City of Surrey, is funding the $1.65-billion Project, a key part of the Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council 10-Year Vision. The Surrey-Newton(VJMEGPSE -35 1SPKFDU XJMM GFBUVSF t km of street-level light rail service along King

(FPSHF #MWE BOE "WF t OFX TUPQT JODMVEJOH UXP OFX FYDIBOHFT t NJOVUF travel time connecting Surrey City Centre, (VJMEGPSE BOE /FXUPOt 'JWF NJOVUF GSFRVFODZ in peak hours Surrey Board of Trade CEO Anita Huberman is confident this Project will transform the city’s core. “Thanks in part to LRT, Surrey will become a more livable, walkable, thriving hub of economic activity.

It will cut congestion to get people and goods where they need to be in a timely way.� After the Request for Qualifications period closes, we will invite up to three proponents to submit detailed technical and price proposals as part of the Request for Proposalsprocess.

GTA real estate broker demands commission even after failed house sale A real estate broker north of Toronto is suing a consumer for commission even though a $900,000 home sale arranged by his company fell through. �He really feels he’s owed it and I don’t know why,� Marlene Nemeth said in an interview.

The brokerage claims, in a statement to the media, that it had a signed deal with the seller “which provides that our commission is payable upon acceptance of a satisfactory offer, even if the deal doesn’t close.�

Hans Ohrstrom, broker of record at HomeLife Eagle Realty, Inc., sent a bill for $45,765.00 to Nemeth in February of this year. A month later, he sent her a revised bill for $30,510.

When Nemeth refused to pay either invoice, on the advice of a lawyer, Ohrstrom’s company reduced its claim to $25,000 plus HST in order to be able to sue her in small claims court.

Ohrstrom’s lawyer denies Nemeth was kept in the dark about the buyer’s financial difficulties, and told Global News “regardless of the buyer’s financial situation, to Ms. Nemeth’s knowledge the buyer was the owner of an existing property of significant value.�

HomeLife Eagle Realty was also providing “customer service� to the buyer, Sayed Moussavi, according to documents filed in court.

Nemeth said she can’t understand how a real estate broker can bill her tens of thousands of dollars when the sale didn’t close and she didn’t do anything to interfere with the deal.

Ohrstrom’s website describes him as “No. 3 Top Producer of Home Life’s 5000+ agents!�

On April 17, 2017, Nemeth signed

a listing agreement with Ohrstrom’s brokerage to sell her Newmarket home.

The agreement was in place until Sept. 30.

In May 2017, she agreed to accept a $900,000 offer from Moussavi, the buyer.

It is legal for a real estate brokerage to provide services to buyer and seller, although Ontario’s real estate regulator considers the arrangement potentially problematic. “At its core, there is an inherent conflict of interest when one person represents a buyer and a seller. These two parties to a trade have different interests: A seller’s primary goal is likely to sell their property for as much money as they can, whereas a buyer would aim to purchase a property for as little as they can,� wrote Joseph Richer, registrar of the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) on the commission’s website.

While a document signed by the parties indicates that HomeLife did not represent the buyer in negotiations, it does say the brokerage provided “customer services� to the buyer.

Under the arrangement to sell Nemeth’s home, HomeLife Eagle Realty was to receive the entire real estate commission, but at a discounted rate: Three per cent of the selling price, rather than a typical 4.5 or five per cent split between two different brokerages.

Nemeth agreed to the buyer’s insistence on a long closing: 120 days. But on closing day, the buyer didn’t produce the funds to complete the deal, apparently because HomeLife hadn’t sold Moussavi’s home, according to Nemeth’s defence.

Her listing agent, Nina Bonakdar, asked Nemeth to give the buyer more time.

PM Trudeau & Premier Horgan reconfirm backing of Metro Vancouver transit projects expected to begin in 2020 and be complete At-grade light rail is coming to Surrey, by 2024. The estimated cost is $1.65 billion. despite what some municipal political Vancouver’s line will be an extension of hopefuls are saying in their campaigns, SkyTrain’s Millennium Line that will run said Premier Horgan on Tuesday. from VCC-Clark station to Arbutus Street “We’re not scrapping LRT and I think that’s through a bored tunnel under Broadway. the message today. We’re building the LRT It’s estimated that the project will cost and we’re going to continue to expand public $2.83 billion and be complete in 2025. transit not just here in F u n d i n g the Lower Mainland, contributions for but across British the two major Columbia,� Horgan said. projects are coming Horgan made the from three levels of remarks following government.

The an event with Prime federal government Minister Justin has committed Trudeau during which to $1.37 billion, they reiterated their while the province combined $3-billion has agreed to Prime Minister Trudeau announced $3-billion funding commitment funding for Light Rail Transit for Surrey and pay $1.82 billion. for two projects: light SkyTrain extension in Vancouver.

The contribution rail transit in Surrey from TransLink and the cities of Surrey and a SkyTrain extension in Vancouver. and Vancouver — which have paid for Horgan said the commitment marks preconstruction work — is $1.23 billion. “the end of the discussion� that has In his prepared remarks during the event, flared up in pre-election campaigning Trudeau specifically named the Broadway in Surrey around whether SkyTrain subway and the Surrey-Newton-Guildford or at-grade light rail should be built. line as projects that would be funded. “I’d like the councillors and those seeking “The new LRT will mean a faster commute, council seats here in Surrey to focus on less time in traffic and more money in people’s what’s the next phase of transit development. pockets as they trade their cars for public How do we address housing? How do we do transit,� Trudeau said of the Surrey project. something about the crime in Surrey? Those TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond are the issues people want to talk about,� said the announcement “locks down�

Horgan said. “This issue is now concluded all levels of government funding. and there will be more development going Surrey First mayoral candidate Tom Gill, forward, but that’s for another debate.� who is a sitting councillor, has long been The 10.5-kilometre at-grade light-rail a supporter of light rail and said that the line will run between Guildford, City plans had been in the works for many years.

Centre and Newton. Construction is

Airbnb renters may be trying to get around new Vancouver licensing rules People renting out their homes on Airbnb in Vancouver must now have a licence to do so.

In April, the city reached a deal with Airbnb requiring all short-term rentals on the site to display a valid business licence number

by September 1. Anyone found breaking the bylaw can now be fined up to $1,000 a day.

Airbnb says it removed close to 2,500

listings that didn’t comply with the city’s bylaw, but it looks like some people are already trying to get around the new rules.

After the deadline, software engineer Jens von Bergmann noticed listings without a licence number could no longer be booked for less than 30 days. He also noticed listings with information other than a valid number in the licence field. “I took data from Airbnb, the website. I looked at all the listings that they have and I compared that to the city licensing data,� said von Bergmann. “Some people just said ‘Oh, I will get a licence at some point,’ and just wrote that in the text. Or some people claimed to be exempt. They just wrote ‘exempt’ there.�

For one home with exempt written in the licence field, the site allowed for bookings of just one night -- a clear violation of the new bylaws.

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Mayor Hepner says coordinating different levels of gov’t requires patience & time With the federal and provincial governments’ re-announcements of their financial commitment to Surrey’s long-awaited LRT project, Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner says she can finally follow through on a key election promise from her 2014 campaign, even if it’s taken longer than she’d hoped.

The $1.65 billion light rapid transit project will link the areas of Guildford, Surrey Central and Newton with 10 kilometres of two-way, street-level track.

Trudeau confirms $1.37B in federal funding for Metro Vancouver transit projects Hepner spoke with On the Coast

host Gloria Macarenko about why it took so long and what to expect for future transit infrastructure in B.C.’s fastest growing community.

Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner says whoever replaces her as mayor needs to focus on developing a congestion strategy for the city. (CBC) During the 2014 municipal election campaign, you promised the Surrey LRT project would be built by the end of your term. Here we are, with a bit more than a month to go and the money’s finally in place. Why do you think it’s been so difficult to get this investment lined up?

BC & Federal gov’t on ‘deadbeat’ Port Mann toll list BC gov’t waited months to pay a Port Mann Bridge toll bill worth tens of thousands of dollars, and the federal government has yet to pay even more, according to a media report.

At just under $60,000, the Government of Canada owes the second highest amount, more than a year after tolls were taken off the bridge.

And in an ironic twist, the only account with a higher bill is from a company run by a man who says he’s in an active tax revolt.

“This sets a really poor example,” said the federal NDP’s finance critic, Peter Julian. “We expect Canadians to pay the taxes they owe. We don’t expect the federal government to be a deadbeat government.”

BC government had cancelled tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears Bridges in September and told drivers to pay up.

TransLink responded back in July with its list, which included businesses and charities. But the Transportation Investment Corporation, which manages the bridge on behalf of the provincial government, refused to provide the list, with one official saying he didn’t like “naming and shaming” customers.

Those customers included the provincial government, the list shows.

It includes several bankrupt or defunct trucking companies, a car rental company law enforcement alleged in court was renting to gangsters, and JMP Trucking, whose president Juan Lledo said he’s had enough of expensive tolls that he said amounted to an “unfair tax.”

“I pay my personal tolls, but it’s my company that is revolting,” Lledo said, explaining a list of grievances that included not twinning the old Port Mann Bridge, the “ice bombs” that have dropped from its cables in the winter, and the high cost of one of his trucks to cross.

45% of BC businesses report difficulty finding workers: survey Nearly half of BC’s small and midsized businesses had difficulty finding new employees during last 12 months.

According to Labour Shortage: a country-wide survey of 1,208 entrepreneurs released on Wednesday by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).

The BDC asked owners of small and medium-sized businesses a series of questions to assess the impact of labour shortages on their companies.

It says 45 per cent of British Columbian businesses had trouble hiring new workers — well above the national average of 39 per cent.

The percentage of entrepreneurs who said they had difficulty was only higher in Atlantic Canada where it came in at 50 per cent.

Pierre Cléroux, chief economist at the BDC, says the labour shortage will only worsen as Canada’s population ages and baby boomers retire.

“In British Columbia, it is a bit worse, because we have an aging population. But the problem exists in every part of the country,” said Cléroux.

Cost of living Cléroux said the BDC expects growth in Canada’s labour force to fall to near zero — and the group does not forecast labour shortages to get better for at least a decade.

In Vancouver specifically, Cléroux said the city’s high cost of living is contributing to the problem. Many potential workers are moving to more affordable areas to live. However, Cléroux also said Vancouver has a 4.5 per cent unemployment rate, one of the lowest of any major Canadian city.

Since so many people have jobs in Vancouver, it can be difficult to find new workers to hire, he said. But the main issue, said Cléroux, is retiring baby boomers.

“The cost of housing is definitely a factor, but the main cause of this issue is that our baby boomers are retiring and there’s not as many young people joining the workforce.”

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Tim Hortons seizes 4 Alberta locations amid franchise dispute Four southern Alberta Tim Hortons locations have been taken back by the coffee chain’s parent company after a dispute with the locations’ franchisee.

David Hughes was the owner of the four locations in Lethbridge, Alta., but the locks on his stores were changed over the weekend.

Restaurant Brands International Inc. (RBI), the parent company of Tim Hortons, confirmed it was behind the move. “We can confirm that Mr. Hughes no longer owns any Tim Hortons restaurants,� spokesperson Jane Almedia said in an emailed statement. “Those four Tim Hortons restaurants are open and under corporate management until a new franchisee is selected to own and operate those stores.�

Hughes was also part of an owners group called the Great White North Franchisee Association (GWNFA).

Tim Hortons franchisee files $4 million lawsuit against chain

after license renewal denied Its website says the group was formed to protect store owners and address mismanagement of franchise operations by the parent company. The group claims to represent about half of Canada’s Tim Hortons franchisees. RBI and the GWNFA have been embroiled in a public battle since the group formed more than a year ago. “I believe RBI has specifically targeted me in order to hurt the Great White North Franchisee Association,� Hughes said in an emailed statement. “Since our inception, the association has shone a light on many practices and policies that are detrimental to individual franchisees and the chain as a whole.� “The Tim Hortons franchisee agreement clearly states it is not allowable for any restaurant owner to share confidential company information with the media; disparage the company or the Tim Hortons brand in the media

More North Delta properties can be subdivided after bylaw update North Delta and Tsawwassen properties can be subdivided a little smaller, after council approved an amendment to the city’s zoning bylaw on Monday (Aug. 27).

The update reduces the minimum lot width for a single detached residential property from 12 to 11 metres in North Delta and Tsawwassen. (Minimum lot width will remain 12 metres for Ladner because of restrictions in its area plan.)

If the standard had not been changed, only 153 North Delta properties would have been eligible for subdivision. The 11-metre minimum allows more than double that number — 347 lots — to be subdivided.

The old zoning bylaw set the minimum lot width for residential properties at 11 metres, however Delta staff changed it to 12 when the bylaw was replaced in April. As council requested staff change it back before giving

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45% of BC businesses report difficulty finding workers: survey From previous page ClÊroux said the solution of making jobs more appealing by paying more doesn’t necessarily work for small to medium-sized business, simply because they can’t afford it.

Instead, ClĂŠroux said they might consider investing in new technologies to make their operations more efficient and, hopefully, cut down on the amount of workers needed.

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Weak regulations make Canada a money-launderer’s playground, says report From page 11 The report calls for the creation of a and dealers in precious metals and stones. central, publicly accessible corporate registry The report cites estimates of between $5 that contains information about the true billion and $100 billion in dirty money being ownership of corporations — along the laundered under Canada’s lax regime, despite lines of what Britain established in 2016 and at least 15 years’ of repeated commitments other European countries will soon require. from the Canadian government to close It says Ottawa and the provinces need to the gap. Those commitments include the harmonize their laws and regulations to spring federal budget, which promised to make the registry a one-stop search tool. tighten rules around trusts starting in 2021.

Meunier says corporations themselves must be forced to divulge ownership information through the threat of hefty financial — or even criminal — penalties, and the regime must be expanded to cover real-estate developers, accountants, casinos

The federal Department of Finance has said it’s been working with the provinces and territories since at least December 2017 to tighten disclosure rules, noting that fewer than 10 per cent of Canada’s corporations are registered at the federal level.

No NAFTA without cultural exemption and a dispute settlement clause, Trudeau vows Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is insisting that Canada will not sign a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement that doesn’t protect Canada’s cultural sectors — including the news media — or a dispute resolution mechanism.

As it stands, NAFTA includes a cultural exemption clause, which means cultural goods are not treated like other commercial products. But there have been growing concerns about what protections a new deal would have for cultural industries.

“It is inconceivable to Canadians that an American network might buy Canadian media affiliates, whether it’s newspapers or TV stations or TV networks. It would be a giving up of our sovereignty and our identity and that is something that we will simply not accept,” Trudeau told reporters during a transit announcement in Vancouver Tuesday.

“We’ve made it very clear that defending that

cultural exemption is something fundamental to Canadians.”

During the media availability he was specifically asked about the news media and NAFTA’s contentious dispute resolution mechanism, Chapter 19.

Trump’s chief of staff called White House ‘Crazytown,’ new tell-all Woodward book alleges Freeland calls for ‘flexibility’ as NAFTA talks break for weekend Chrystia Freeland to stress importance of cultural protections at NAFTA dinner The U.S. has not specifically targeted the cultural exemption clause in its list of NAFTA demands, but any changes to the pact’s rules on copyright, the digital economy and other technical matters could affect cultural industries here.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has raised Canada’s broadcasting content and telecommunication ownership rules in his annual international trade irritant report.

Canada needs Chapter 19 because Trump ‘doesn’t always follow the rules’: Trudeau Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending NAFTA’s dispute resolution mechanism as necessary in a world where the president of the United States “doesn’t always follow the rules.”

Chapter 19 is a known sticking point between Canada and the United States in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement; the two negotiating teams returned to the table Wednesday. The chapter allows companies that feel their products have been unfairly hit by anti-dumping or countervailing duties to request arbitration.

“One of the things that is clear is that we have red lines that Canadians simply will not accept. We need to keep the Chapter 19 dispute resolution because that ensures that the rules are actually followed and we know we have a president who doesn’t always follow the rules as they’re laid out,” Trudeau said in a radio interview with CHED in Edmonton Wednesday morning.

Trudeau insisted that cultural exemptions remain a red line for the Canadian negotiating team and left the door open for tweaks to Canada’s supply managed agriculture systems — a known

irritant with U.S. President Donald Trump.

“We will defend supply management, as I’ve said, but is there room for flexibility?

We’ll see, and that depends on the kinds of negotiations we have,” he said.

“We’re not going to accept that we have to sign a bad deal just because the president wants that. We’ll walk away and not sign a deal rather than sign a bad deal for Canadians.”

Trudeau’s comments came as Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland returned to Washington to meet with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

When asked about the prime minister’s comments on Trump, Freeland said she has agreed not to negotiate in public. Still, she called Trudeau’s words “important.”

“I agree with the prime minister in public all of the time and in private 99.99 per cent of the time. And I think those comments, you know, he made some important comments,” she said between meetings.

The bargaining teams are working to finalize the text of the agreement and deliver it to Congress by the end of the month.

Canada’s trade deficit shrinks in July, surplus with US highest since 2008 The federal agency reported that merchandise exports to the United States rose 3.3 per cent in July to $38.4 billion, while imports of American goods edged down 0.1 per cent to $33.1 billion in July.

As a result, Canada’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States widened to $5.3 billion in July, from $4.1 billion in June — the biggest monthly trade surplus with its largest trading partner since October 2008.

Canada’s surplus with the United States was offset by a $5.5 billion trade deficit with other countries, up from $4.8 billion in June.

The total value of Canada’s exports to all countries rose 0.8 per cent to a record $51.3 billion, mainly because of higher crude oil prices, while the value of imports from all countries declined 0.4 per cent to $51.4 billion due to fewer aircraft imports, Statistics Canada said.

The overall trade deficit in July fell sharply from $743 million in June, a figure that was revised from $626 million in the previous report.

Several analysts said they had expected July’s trade deficit would rise to about $1 billion and noted trade volumes reported

by Statistics Canada on Wednesday were

down overall — with exports falling 0.8 per cent and imports dropping 1.1 per cent.

They attributed most of the positive gains to higher energy prices.

“Overall, the rise in export prices masks what was actually a disappointing month for outbound shipments. Moreover, oil prices have since levelled off and other commodity prices have also softened,” CIBC economist Royce Mendes wrote in a commentary.

“In spite of the narrower deficit, there’s little reason then, to change our call for growth to slow in the third quarter.”

A short time after the Statistics Canada report, the central bank announced its key interest rate will remain unchanged at 1.5 per cent, where it has been since July 11. Many economists have said the rate will likely be increased in October.

The trade report came as Canadian and U.S. negotiators resumed talks in Washington, D.C., following a four-day break from last week’s intense efforts to reach agreement on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trump claimed that US needs to eliminate large trade deficits with Canada.,

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Canada’s economy is set to slow down even with a NAFTA deal, economists say Much has been said about the importance of a trade deal with the U.S. for the Canadian economy, as officials from both sides of the border continue to try to hash out a new agreement. But, even if a new NAFTA deal is reached, it will not prevent the Canadian economy from slowing down from the robust growth it has seen recently, economists said.

Royce Mendes, senior economist at CIBC Capital Markets, forecasts that gross domestic product (GDP) growth will fall to 1.8 per cent next year, and then drop to 1.3 per cent growth in 2020. Canada’s growth slowed to 1.7% in fourth quarter, but 2017 ended with 3% expansion

Canadian economy grew at 2.9% pace in 2nd quarter, lower than expected That compares to an expected two per cent growth rate this year, according to the Bank of Canada. The economy grew a strong three per cent last year. “Our research finds that even with a NAFTA deal in place, the longdesired rotation in growth towards exports and business investment will be sluggish and won’t offset the coming slowdown in household spending and housing activity,” Mendes said in a note on Thursday. Rising interest interest rates will hold consumers back from spending and make housing affordability even more costly, he said.

Trudeau considering an appeal or legislation to end Trans Mountain impasse A week after the Federal Court of Appeal quashed cabinet approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday his government is looking at all options to get construction back on track — including an appeal of the ruling and new legislation.

Speaking to reporters in Edmonton, Trudeau said he wants to see “shovels in the ground as quickly as possible” because the project is in the country’s best interests, adding he also wants to satisfy the court’s concerns to avoid further litigation.

“We’re looking at various options, including legislation, including appeals, and we’re looking at what we need to

do to satisfy the court,” Trudeau said.

“We have to move forward on a path that takes community and environmental a s s e s s m e nt s into account.”

Citing Canada’s uncertain trade climate and U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist push, Trudeau said his government is “taking it seriously and we’re moving forward because this pipeline project needs to get done and the only way it will get done is by doing it the right way ...

“Canadians understand how important it is to get our resources to markets other than the U.S. right now, across the Pacific.”

Bank of Canada holds key interest rate steady at 1.5% The Bank of Canada is keeping its benchmark interest rate steady at 1.5 per cent. The central bank’s rate, known as the target for the overnight rate, affects the percentage borrowers and savers get from retail banks on mortgages, savings accounts and other financial services.

All things being equal, the central bank raises its rate when it wants to cool down an overheated economy but cuts it when it wants to coax people to borrow money to spend and invest in a sluggish economy. In a statement announcing the rate decision, the bank said trade uncertainty stemming from NAFTA negotiations continues to weigh on the outlook, but the economy overall is performing about as expected. “Business investment and exports

have been growing solidly for several quarters,” the bank said. “Meanwhile, activity in the housing market is beginning to stabilize as households adjust to higher interest rates and changes in housing policies.” While it opted to stand on the sidelines for now, the bank gave every indication it does plan to keep ratcheting its rate higher in the near future. “Recent data reinforce Governing Council’s assessment that higher interest rates will be warranted to achieve the inflation target,” the bank said.

Toronto-Dominion Bank economist Brian DePratto interpreted the bank’s comments as suggesting a “gradual approach” when it comes to hiking rates.

Jagmeet Singh will not let ousted Saskatchewan MP return to caucus or run in 2019 DP Leader Jagmeet Singh has rejected requests from exiled MP Erin Weir to return to the federal caucus and run for the party in the next general election. In a letter to the Saskatchewan MP, obtained by the Star Thursday, Singh says he is not satisfied Weir has done what is necessary after an external investigator concluded in May that accusations of harassment and sexual harassment against him were “sustained.”

Saskatchewan MP Erin Weir is being defended by a group of former New Democrat politicians after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh rejected Weir’s request to rejoin the party caucus.

“The mean-spiritedness, heartlessness of all of this, coming from the leader — that is difficult to understand,” said former Saskatchewan cabinet minister Patricia Atkinson.

“I have not seen evidence of a genuine understanding of how your behaviour needs to change,” Singh wrote, calling his decision

“final.” “I am not confident that the harassing behaviour will not be repeated.”

Weir declined to comment when contacted Thursday. But a group of former New Democrat politicians from his home province is raising concerns on his behalf. In an email this week to NDP MPs in Ottawa, former Saskatchewan cabinet minister Patricia Atkinson said she and 66 other former provincial MLAs and federal MPs are “absolutely stunned” by the process Singh chose to investigate and ultimately eject Weir from the party caucus. The group also sent a letter to Singh May 7 that outlined “serious concerns” about the leader’s treatment of Weir, including how the investigation was launched based on “hearsay” in an email last January, in which Quebec MP Christine Moore accused Weir of unspecified harassment towards women. “The mean-spiritedness, heartlessness of all of this, coming from the leader — that is difficult to understand,” said Atkinson

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Supreme Court ruling decriminilises consensual gay sex Supreme Court decriminalised gay sex between consenting adults in private, bringing cheers to millions of members of the LGBT community who have been fighting a protracted battle against Section 377 of the IPC that penalises it.

A five-judge Constitution Bench headed

by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said constitutional morality would prevail over popular social morality.

The Bench also comprising Justices Rohinton F Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code a British era law that had been used to hound the LGBT community. The Bench, however, made it clear that non-consensual homosexual acts, such acts against children and acts of beastiality would continue to be a crime under Section 377. The Bench--which had on July 17 reserved the verdict after hearing the petitioners and those seeking retention of the controversial provision--delivered four concurring verdicts in a jam-packed court number 1 of the Supreme Court.

Section 377, which talks about ‘unnatural offences’, says whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal,

shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to pay a fine. “Spectacular,” said advocate Maneka Guruswamy who had argued on behalf of some petitioners opposed to the provision.

After the verdict, many LGBT activists and their advocates were seen hugging each other. “I am very happy. Wanted to scream inside. The judgments were amazing. The court says the judgment needs to be given wide publicity. I am no more illegal, would be no more in shadows...I can live freely. Hopefully now my marriage with my husband would be recognised here too. I would take the fight on,” hotelier Keshav Suri, a petitioner in the case, told reporters. Those present to witness the historic verdict included author Devdutt Pattnaik and former Indian Foreign Service officer Vivek Katju.

During the hearing, those opposed to de-

Where Trump’s bet on India comes up short In the most important geopolitical region in the world, the Asia Pacific, the Trump administration has its bets placed squarely on India.

The big picture: The U.S. strategy depends on closer relations between the U.S. and India, and India playing a larger role throughout Asia. So as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrive in New Delhi tomorrow for the so-called 2+2 dialogue, one of the highestlevel dialogues between the two countries since Trump took office, it bears asking: how are things going?

On many fronts, relations between the U.S. and India are on an upward trajectory.

Perhaps the strongest area of cooperation is on arms sales—where India went from importing zero U.S.-made equipment in 2008 to around $15 billion in the decade since.

Secretaries Pompeo and Mattis are looking to use their trip this week to sign a longstalled defense pact that would enable billions more in weapons deals and expand military ties, including the sharing of encrypted communications and communications systems. Recent US decision to cut off military aid to Pakistan should certainly help boost trust. But there remain points of friction, particularly on economic issues, that could ultimately limit the deeper cooperation

envisioned by U.S. strategy.

India has a large trade surplus with the U.S., a particular bone of contention for President Trump, and was hit by US steel and aluminum tariffs earlier in the year— which though not yet economically damaging have proven to be an irritant.

In addition, the U.S. is currently considering two different sanctions packages against India — one for its planned purchase of a Russian-made air defense system, the other because of its continued reliance on Iranian oil imports.

Trump’s tendency to mimic his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is certainly not helping his administration’s efforts to cozy up to a man who oversees one-sixth of the world’s population. Even if they can get along, there’s a broader question: Could India ever provide the U.S. the reliable foothold it wants in Asia? Here, the U.S. faces two problems. First, India remains a reluctant power that will struggle to challenge China strategically in the region. Second, deeper ties with India will do little to combat China’s growing economic clout — of which India is, and will continue to be, a willing beneficiary.

For the U.S., it will take more than 2+2 to tango in Asia.

Telangana state assembly dissolves seeking early election Telangana Cabinet decided to recommend dissolution of the state assembly on Thursday to advance elections in the state.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao met Governor ESL Narasimhan to relay his Cabinet’s decision. The decision was unanimous, sources said. The Governor accpeted the Cabinet’s recommendation and appointed KCR—as the chief minister is popularly called—as head of a caretaker government, a communique from the former’s office said. At a press conference held later on Thursday, KCR released a list of 105 candidates for the state assembly elections and said he hoped for elections in November. He will contest from his Gajwel

assembly segment, while his son from Sircilla.

Elections for Telangana’s 119-member assembly were originally due in April-May next year. In its first reaction since the decision was announced, rival Congress said it was confident of “sweeping” the polls.

“Telangana people are happy that they have got rid of a despotic and autocratic rule,” Telangana Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy said. Talks of early elections have been doing the rounds for days now, leaving rival Congress confounded. Speculations were rife that Rao would announce his decision at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s public meeting on Sunday, but it passed without any such happening.

Rickshaw driver arrested for killing sister’s lover A 23-year-old auto-rickshaw driver was arrested Thursday here in Maharashtra for allegedly killing a man who was in love with the former’s sister, police said.

The accused, Rahul Namdeo, had Sunday informed the Shivaji Nagar police in Ambernath that he saw a man lying injured near a temple in the town, Thane police spokesperson Sukhada Narkar said.

On finding the man dead, the police had initially registered a case of accidental death.

However, the police got suspicious about circumstances of the death of the man, identified as Babbu Bagdi (25), and launched a probe during which it came to light that

Namdeo knew the deceased, Narkar said.

Bagdi was apparently in love with the 21-year-old sister of Namdeo and the latter was against the relationship.

The accused had even reprimanded Bagdi over it, she said.

On Sunday, Namdeo took the victim to an isolated spot where he allegedly beat him to death and then posed as if he had accidentally seen the deceased lying there, Narkar said.

Based on the investigation, the police arrested the accused and registered offences against him under IPC sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 177 (furnishing false information), she added.

Woman killed over dowry, husband & father-in-law arrested Barely five months into her marriage, a 21-year-old woman was allegedly strangled by her in-laws because her family could not meet their dowry demands, police said Thursday.

Phugana police station SHO Deshraj Singh said that Amrin, who got married to Sameydeen of Jogiyakheda village in April, was facing harassment at the

hands of her in-laws since her marriage.

She was killed Wednesday evening, he said.

The woman’s family staged a protest over the incident and demanded strict action.

The SHO said that the police registered a case against five people in connection with the case and arrested Sameydeen and his father.

PUNJAB

Saturday, September 8, 2018

National Green Tribunal directs gov’t to monitor deforestation National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEF) to monitor deforestation being done for development projects in Punjab.

The orders came following a petition filed by an environmentalist, Amandeep Aggarwal, who alleged mindless cutting of trees and challenged the compensatory afforestation being done by the Forest Department.

In his petition, Aggarwal said in 2001, Punjab was ranked 11th in the country in terms of the forest cover, which was 2,432 sq km. The state got a loan of Rs 630 crore from a Japanese bank for improving the depleting green cover. The loan had to be repaid in 20

to 30 years against interest, varying between 0.75 per cent and 1.8 per cent, per annum.

An amount of around Rs 470 crore of loan was spent on planting about 96,000 trees along the Zirakpur-Bathinda stretch of the National Highway-64. When the trees matured, the state gave an order to cut the trees in 2012.

He said as per official portal of Niti Aayog, Punjab now figures on the bottom of the list with just 3.52 per cent of forest cover. Niti Ayog portal shows that Punjab has a meager 1,772 sq km of forest and tree cover whereas in 2001, the forest cover was 2,432sq km. “If the claim of compensatory afforestation by the state is to be believed, the forest cover should have gone up,” the petitioner has pointed out.

Sons kill mother over land dispute In a gori incident, three people allegedly killed their own mother over land dispute in village Gulaba Bhaini, district Fazilka. They also tried to dispose off the body by setting it on fire, but police reached on the spot and took the body in possession.

Sources said the victim, Malo Bai, 60, had divided her 17 acres of land equally among her four sons and retained one-fifth share to her.

Earlier, she was staying with her three sons — Pritam Singh, Balwinder Singh and Chhinder Singh. But after the distribution of land, she started living with her fourth son, Ramesh Singh. The sources said Malo Bai then transferred her share of land in favour of Ramesh Singh. The latter told the police that the development enraged his other brothers.

On Tuesday evening when he and his mother went to the residence of his three brothers to get her belongings, they allegedly attacked them. They reportedly locked Ramesh Singh in a room and brutally thrashed their mother, who died on the spot. The accused and their wives allegedly took the body to nearby fields and tried to set it on fire after sprinkling kerosene oil. In the meantime, Ramesh Singh informed the police. Sanjeev Setia, SHO, Sadar police station, Fazilka, said the police with the assistance of villagers doused the fire and recovered the body.

Ramesh Singh was admitted to the local civil hospital. The body has been sent to Faridkot Medical College for a post-mortem examination.

The SHO said Pritam Singh, his son Sandeep Singh, Balwinder Singh, his wife Raj Rani and Chhinder Singh and his wife Soma

Farm labourer wins Rs 15 million lottery When he borrowed Rs 200 to buy a lottery ticket, Manoj Kumar, a dailywager belonging to Mandvi village in Sangrur, did not know that it would be his ticket to fortune.

Now, Manoj is smiling his way to bank by becoming a crorepati overnight, winning Rs 1.5 crore jackpot in Punjab State Rakhi Bumper, 2018, announced by the Punjab State Lotteries on August 29.

One of the first two prizes, Rs 1.5 crore each, has gone to Manoj. The jackpot has come as a big relief to him and his family, as the marriage of his eldest 20-year-old daughter, Rimpy, will be solemnised in a few days.

While Manoj Kumar and his wife, Raj, were away to a nearby church for the evening prayer, his 65-year-old mother Krishna said: “My son ekes out a living by working as farm labourer and other odd jobs. The Almighty has listened to his prayers.”

Bai had been booked under Sections 302, 201, 323, 148 and 149 IPC. The accused are yet to be arrested.

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Punjab to revoke teachers’ suspension, withdraw FIRs Punjab Education Minister OP Soni announced the state government would reinstate teachers suspended over the past two years and FIRs lodged against them during that period would be withdrawn. Sources said the government was likely to withdraw FIRs against 7,000-8,000 teachers.

Speaking at a function to award 51 teachers, Soni said, “We will reinstate all teachers suspended in the past two years. FIRs against them will also be withdrawn. The Education Secretary has been instructed in that regard.”

Most of the FIRs are against members of the Sanjha Adhyapak Morcha (SAM), an umbrella organisation of 26 unions representing over one lakh teachers in Punjab. These were lodged against 500 teachers (five by name) during an agitation at Mohali on March 6 this year while 8,000 others were booked (20 by name) for protests in Ludhiana on March 25, 2018. Five SAM leaders were suspended after a protest in Amritsar on July 27, 2018.

Director General School Eduaction (DGSE) Prashant Kumar Goyal clarified that FIRs related to protests alone would be cancelled and not against those facing personal or criminal charges. He said, “The department hasn’t yet made any estimate on the numbers of FIRs and suspensions. The process in this regard will be set in motion soon. The quashing of FIRs will be done as per the due procedure.” Senior advocate PPS Ahluwalia said the government could not cancel FIRs in criminal cases but those related to protests could be withdrawn. Didar Singh Mudki, state co-convener of the SAM and president of the SSA/RMSA Teachers Union, welcomed the government decision. “Our agitation has been against the government’s insistence on reducing our pay scale to Rs 10,300 (basic pay) on regularisation. We will continue to protest till our demand that we be paid Rs 42,800 is met,” he said.

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INDIA

Saturday, September 8, 2018

Alagiri’s show of strength turns out to be a tame affair Sacked DMK leader M K Alagiri’s rally, billed as a “massive show of strength” to press for his re-induction, was a tame affair on Wednesday with the usually abrasive son of M Karunanidhi sparing party chief MK Stalin any criticism, a move seen as extending an olive branch to his younger brother.

Alagiri, a former Union Minister who was expelled from the party by his father and then DMK boss Karunanidhi in 2014 at the height of the siblings’ tussle for supremacy, was expected to breathe fire and brimstone at the rally ostensibly called to show his strength but the event ended not with a bang but a whimper. The once strongman of Madurai, clad in a black shirt and dhoti as a mark of mourning for his father, was said to have mustered around 10,000 people for the rally that began from Wallajah Road junction and concluded at Karunanidhi’s mausoleum on

Marina Beach, 1.5 km away.

Alagiri’s children—son Durai Dayanidhi and daugther Kayalvizhi— besides a few hardcore loyalists, including former deputy mayor of Madurai Corporation PM Mannan, also wore black for the occasion, and followed him to Karunanidhi’s grave where they paid floral tributes to the DMK stalwart.

Contrary to expectations, not a single DMK functionary was present. The DMK had recently sacked village-level leader Ravi for shaking hands with Alagiri.

No speeches were delivered nor any grand action plan announced, but Alagiri showed some of his characteristic belligerence when he dared the DMK leadership to sack partymen supporting him. “Over 1.5 lakh people attended the rally. You ask them (DMK) if they will act against all of them,” Alagiri said.

BJP MLA Ram Kadam trolled for tweet on Sonali Bendre BJP MLA Ram Kadam, who has been in the news for his remarks that he would help young men “kidnap girls they fancied”, landed in another controversy on Friday when he tweeted that actress Sonali Bendre is no more.

Earlier today, Kadam posted a message in Marati that translated as “Sonali Bendre, the actress who ruled Hindi and Marathi cinema was to all, and is no more.”

About Sonali Bendre ji It was rumour . Since last two days .. I pray to God for her good health & speedy recovery — Ram Kadam (@ramkadam) 1:42 AM Sep 7, 2018 The tweet, posted along with a photograph of the actor has since been deleted.

The message did not go unnoticed and the BJP lawmaker was widely condemned for spreading fake news and rumours. Called out, Ram Kadam issued an apology. “About Sonali Bendre ji It was rumor. Since last two days..

I pray to God for good health and speedy recovery (sic),” he tweeted.

Sonali Bendre had announced that she had been diagnosed with metastatic cancer in the first week of July and that she would undergo treatment in the United States.

Both the inaccurate post by the BJP MLA and the apology that he posted thereafter received several comments, mostly in Marathi, trolling him for being a source of fake news.

Kadam has found himself at the centre of a huge controversy following his comments at a Dahi Handi (Janmashtami) celebration in Mumbai on Monday.

A video clip showed him saying that youngsters often seek his help after girls reject their proposals.

“Come with your parents. What will I do if your parents approve? I will kidnap the girl and hand her over to you,” he was heard telling the crowd.

A non-cognisable offence was registered today against the BJP MLA in Maharashtra’s Solapur district over his controversial remarks.

Kerala battles ‘rat fever’ outbreak after heavy flooding The southern Indian state of Kerala is battling an outbreak of a bacterial disease that authorities suspect has killed dozens of people since mid-August after the worst flooding in a century.

A health ministry spokesman said as of Sunday there had been nearly 200 confirmed cases of what is locally called rat fever - the waterborne disease leptospirosis transmitted via the urine of infected animals, with symptoms including muscle pain and fever.

The surge in cases comes after torrential rain beginning on Aug. 8 flooded almost the entire state, killing hundreds of people, destroying thousands of homes and causing at least 200 billion rupees ($2.81 billion) worth of damage. The health ministry began distributing preventive medicine last month and warned about the outbreak of leptospirosis and other waterborne diseases such as typhoid and cholera, Health Minister K.K. Shailaja told reporters.

“The victims had unfortunately not taken preventive medicine,” the minister said.

Overall, nine deaths from the disease have been confirmed, but the number may rise to over 40 pending full medical reports, the ministry spokesman said. Leptospirosis rarely spreads from person to person and can

be treated with common antibiotics. “In the past week, we have seen about 30 deaths in Kozhikode and Wayanad,” said Mohammed Javeed, internal medicine specialist at a private hospital in Kerala, referring to two of the worst flood-affected districts on the state’s southwest coast.

Javeed said the state has leptospirosis cases every monsoon season as paddy fields fill with water, increasing the chance of infection for farmers, especially through wounds such as cuts. Of particular concern, however, is that some of the victims this year did not have usual symptoms such as mild jaundice, blood in urine or bleeding spots on the skin, he said.

“This time it is a fast, progressive infection,” Javeed told Reuters. “The recent deaths indicate clearly the threat of an epidemic.”

Medical professionals are continuing to dispense preventive medicine in the form of tablets which need to be taken once a week for a month, Javeed said.

Trump’s rougher edge complicates trip by Pompeo & Mattis to India There have always been irritants in relations between India and the United States. But few have been as perplexing to New Delhi, or left as bitter a taste, as President Trump’s tendency to mock Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accent in English.

A video of Mr. Trump imitating Mr. Modi has gone viral in New Delhi. So have reports that Mr. Trump often mimics his Indian counterpart in internal discussions.

“There’s a general understanding here that Modi is not sure he can do business with Trump,” said Suhasini Haidar, foreign affairs editor of The Hindu. “India is just now coming

to terms with the idea that Trump will not treat India with the same kind of benevolence that previous presidents have.”

This is the diplomatic headache that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will confront when he arrives in the Indian capital on Wednesday with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Tiptoeing around the president’s indiscretions is one in a suddenly long list of challenges to a relationship that, according to senior State Department officials, Mr. Pompeo would very much like to preserve — and even improve.

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Twin attacks in Afghan capital kill 20, wound 70 Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday killed at least 20 people and wounded 70, Afghan officials said.

Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said a suicide bomber struck at the center and then a car bomb went off nearby. He said two Afghan reporters were among those wounded.

No one immediately claimed the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the country’s Islamic State affiliate, which has carried out a wave of deadly bombings against minority Shiites. The Sunni extremists of IS view Shiites as apostates deserving of death.

Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police

chief, said at least seven police were among those wounded in the car bomb explosion.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a roadside bomb killed a district police chief and another policeman in the northern Badghis province, according to Jamshid Shahabi, spokesman for the provincial governor.

No one claimed the attack, but Shahabi said it was likely carried out by the Taliban, who are active in the province and frequently target security forces and government officials.

Afghan forces have struggled to combat both the Taliban and IS since the U.S. and NATO formally ended their combat mission in 2014.

Sri Lanka probes deaths of wild elephants Sri Lankan authorities on Monday began investigating the deaths of wild elephants in the east of the island after pulling seven carcasses out of a marsh, a minister said.

Wildlife minister Palitha Thewarapperuma said six out of the seven animals found in the swamp were young - below the age of 12 - and he suspected that many more may have died there.

“We have wildlife experts and vets who are investigating the cause,” Thewarapperuma told AFP from the district of Polonnaruwa, 220 kilometres (135 miles) east of Colombo.

He said a possible reason was that the swamp is currently strewn with water hyacinth, an invasive plant known locally as Japan Jabara.

The swamp is located on a migratory route and the animals may have become bogged down and exhausted battling through the plants and then drowned.

Japan Jabara was introduced to Sri Lanka at the turn of the last century and has spread rapidly since World War II. Allied forces stationed in Sri Lanka planted the free-floating species on waterways in a bid to mislead Japanese pilots on bombing missions into thinking that they were grassy fields suitable for landing in emergency.

“It is heartbreaking to see so many young elephants killed here. We are trying to see how we can flush out Japan Jabara and make this area safe again,”Thewarapperuma said.

Nepal PM says BIMSTEC summit ‘fruitful’ The recently concluded 4th BIMSTEC summit, hosted by Nepal, was “fruitful” in terms of both the decisions taken during the summit and its success, Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli said Tuesday.

The two-day summit, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi among others, was held on August 30 and 31 in Kathmandu.

The BIMSTEC is a regional grouping comprising India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal.

The grouping accounts for 22 per cent of the global population, and has a combined gross domestic product of US $ 2.8 trillion.

The summit concluded with the seven member states approving an 18-point Kathmandu Declaration that called for identifying and holding accountable States and non-State entities that encourage, support or finance terrorism, provide sanctuaries to terrorists and falsely extol their virtues.

Briefing the Parliament about the summit, Oli said that Nepal’s reputation, reliability, ability and prestige have been enhanced after successfully conducting the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit in Kathmandu.

Founder of feared Haqqani network dead Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the dreaded militant Haqqani Network, responsible for some of the deadliest terror attacks against the US, Nato and Afghan troops in the last 17 years, is dead. The Afghan Taliban confirmed his death, on Tuesday.

Without giving any details about the timing and place of his death, the Taliban said in a statement, “Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani was ill and bedridden for the past several years.”

The Haqqani Network, founded in 1970s, fought the former Soviet Union

throughout the 1980s. Jalaluddin, the founder was seen as a prized asset of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the time.

He allied himself with the Taliban after they took power in Kabul in 1996 and became a cabinet minister. Following the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime, Haqqani turned his guns towards them. His outfit was one of the several militant groups operating from the tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Bangladesh ex-PM decries lack of justice over prison court hearing

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Former Bangladesh premier Khaleda Zia said on Wednesday there was ‘no justice’ as she was produced before a makeshift court inside a prison where she is serving a five-year sentence for corruption.

The prison court appearance could escalate a rivalry between Zia and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who have dominated politics in Bangladesh for more than two decades.

Khaleda’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Wednesday announced rallies across the country for Saturday to protest the government’s

decision to set up the court inside the prison.

“You can punish me as long as you want. I know there is no justice,” said Zia, 73, who was jailed in February and was brought to the court room in a wheelchair. The hearing was for a separate corruption case.

“I am extremely ill. My leg will swell if I sit for long. I can’t come here again and again in this condition,” she told the court.

Zia’s lawyers said the decision to use the jail as a trial venue was “unconstitutional and illegal”. The justice minister denied this.

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FIJI

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Six police officers charged with criminal offences 106 people were charged with a total of 144 counts of separate serious crimes in the month of August which includes six police officers.

This included 2 cases of murder, 2 cases of attempted murder, 20 cases of aggravated robbery, 24 cases of aggravated burglary, 40 cases of theft, 3 cases of arson, 11 cases of act with intent to cause grievous harm, 6 cases of criminal intimidation and 4 cases of resisting arrest. Three police officers were charged with aggravated robbery whereby it is alleged they robbed a person of $1,530 worth of goods and also assaulted the victim. One police officer was charged with the theft of a mobile phone,

another police officer was charged for assaulting his wife causing her actual bodily harm while another police officer was charged with careless driving.

There were nine juveniles who were charged with aggravated burglary and theft offences. There were 81 victims of the 144 separate incidents. Of the 81 victims, there were 9 incidents where the accused and victims were related to one another, 3 incidents where foreign nationals were robbed and 3 incidents where police officers were assaulted during arrests. A 38-year-old man was charged with the murder of his 35-year-old wife and in another incident a 26-year-old man was charged with

Sunny Leone coming to Fiji Top sensational Bollywood actress Sunny Leone is coming to Fiji for two shows in August. The major announcement has just been made by C ommunications Fiji Limited, the parent company of Radio Navtarang, FM96, Viti FM, Radio Sargam, Legend FM, Total Event Company and Fijivillage. com. Leone, who is an Indo-Canadian and American Bollywood actress, is currently involved in the filming and post production of 4 movies, Kuch Kuch Locha Hai, Mastizaade, Tina and Lilo and One Night Stand. Leone is looking forward to coming to Fiji for the first time and she will fly in directly from Los Angeles as she will be in the middle of shooting a new movie.

Leone who is an international sensation says she wants to tell the people of Fiji that they have to come and see her live when she performs at her ‘Spice It Up’ Fiji Tour with some of her hit songs. She will lead the two Sunny Leone ‘Spice It Up’ FIJI TOUR shows with top Indian entertainers, Akshat Singh and Vikas Sawant. 9-year-

old Akshat is an Indian dancer who became an overnight sensation in India’s reality show, India’s Got Talent.

He has also appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Choreographer Vikas Sawant is also expected to rock the stage in the upcoming shows. He captivated millions of hearts on Star Plus’ India’s Dancing Superstar. Radio Navtarang Programs Director Satya Nand says negotiations were going for quite a while and they are happy that it is now finalized. He says the contracts have been signed and everyone should get ready for two pumping shows.

Total Event Company is also involved in bringing the most entertaining show the country has ever seen in August. Total Event Company Manager Loretta Jackson says it’s an honor to be part of the Sunny Leone ‘Spice It Up’ Fiji Tour. Jackson says TEC is really excited to be involved in the production of the shows which will have entertainers of Sunny Leone’s caliber.

Mother charged with daughter’s murder wants psychiatric report reassessed The defense lawyer of a woman who is charged with the alleged murder of her 4-year-old daughter wants a reassessment of the woman’s psychiatric report. Razia Khan allegedly tied herself up with her 4 year old daughter and drove their car off the road into the Rewa River on the 6th of May this year. Razia Khan’s husband had alleged that

she had called him while driving with their daughter saying that she will take both their lives. She had earlier pleaded not guilty to the charge and High Court Judge Justice Daniel Goundar asked her lawyer if Khan had offered to plead guilty for the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Pacific leaders making pact on climate change and more security issues Pacific leaders meeting in Nauru are expected today to sign a security agreement that addresses climate change and crimes such as drug smuggling and illegal fishing that cross borders.

Leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum have said they consider climate change their nations’ biggest security threat, since low-lying Pacific islands would cease to exist as sea levels rise. The signing of the security declaration, which also addresses cybercrime and health concerns such as communicable diseases and pandemics, is the centerpiece of the three-day meeting. Jacinda Ardern arrives in Nauru for challenging first Pacific Forum The issue of refugees is dominating the Prime Minister’s visit. Source: 1 NEWS New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived today to attend an all-day leader’s retreat and the signing ceremony.

Earlier today Pacific fishing and community groups signed an agreement with the European Union to improve sustainable fishing and ocean governance in the region.

Under the PacificEuropean Union Marine Partnership, the EU will provide 35 million euros ($NZ61.9 million) and Sweden will provide 10 million euros ($NZ17.7 million) over five years. The program will provide direct assistance to regional organisations.

Tensions over China and refugees have been running high at the forum after Nauru yesterday accused a Chinese official of bullying and temporarily detained a New Zealand journalist. Nauru President Baron Waqa said a Chinese official had demanded to be heard when other leaders were due to speak, and had been “very insolent” about it.

Chinese rep walks out after tense exchange China’s representative to partner dialogue at the Pacific Islands Forum stormed out of the meeting, after a tense exchange with Forum chair, President Baron Waqa of Nauru.

The incident shocked delegates to the regional meeting, as the Chinese delegation sought unsuccessfully to address the session

on climate change. Problems had been brewing in past days, after Nauru – a country that maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan rather than the People’s Republic.– had delayed visas for China’s official delegation to attend this year’s Pacific Islands Forum.

Alcohol banned in villages THE Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, has supported the Cakaudrove Provincial Council’s call for the complete ban of alcohol, home-brew liquor production and consumption of alcoholic beverages in villages within the province. Council chairman Ratu Jekesoni Yavalanavanua said last week that Ratu Naiqama had initiated the effort in his village of Somosomo, Taveuni, banning the

use of home-brewed liquor among his people.

Ratu Jekesoni lauded the move and said it was encouraging to see the paramount chief support the effort. “We had been rallying for the ban of home-brew production and consumption in the media and at the council meeting this year and it is really good to see our efforts have not been in vain,” he said.

Two students get suspended sentence for burglary & theft Two tertiary school students have felt the mercy of the court after they received a suspended sentence by the Lautoka High Court. Sairusi Tagivetaua, 21 and Eveni Koroituku, 20 had pleaded guilty to a count each of aggravated burglary and theft.

The duo were sentenced to two and half years which has been suspended for three years.The court heard that on July 5 in Tavua, the two entered into a person’s home and stole a mobile phone valued at $500. Judge

Justice Sunil Sharma while sentencing the two took into account that the two are university students. He added that Tagivetaua is a recipient of the Tertiary Education Loans Scheme (TELS) and is in the third year of finishing his Bachelor of Engineering.

Justice Sharma also highlighted that there was full recovery of the phone andthat Tagivetaua also paid $500 as restitution for the damage caused.

PAKISTAN

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Supreme Court orders investigation in corruption cases against Zardari Supreme Court ordered Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe money-laundering cases, involving Asif Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur.

The decision was taken as a three-member Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, resumed hearing into a suo moto case regarding an investigation into the fake transactions worth billions of rupees conducted through several mainstream banks.

A Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been investigating a case since 2015 regarding fake

accounts and fictitious transactions conducted through 29 ‘benami’ accounts. The accounts were allegedly used to channel funds received through kickbacks. Zardari, Faryal and five other individuals are respondents in the case.

Two days ago, the FIA recorded their statements at its headquarters in Islamabad. Bashir Memon, director general of FIA, submitted a detailed report before the court regarding the case and recommended the formation of a seven-member JIT, like the one constituted against the former

Pakistan’s military quietly reached out to India for talks Concerned about Pakistan’s international isolation and faltering economy, the country’s powerful military has quietly reached out to its archrival India about resuming peace talks, but the response was tepid, according to Western diplomats and a senior Pakistani official.

The outreach, initiated by the army’s top commander, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, began months before Pakistan’s national elections.

Pakistan offered to resume on-and-off talks with India over their border dispute in the Kashmir region, which stalled in 2015 as violence flared up there.

A key objective for Pakistan in reaching out to India is to open barriers to trade between the countries, which would give Pakistan more access to regional markets. Any eventual peace talks over Kashmir are likely to involve an increase in bilateral trade as a confidence-building measure.

Increasingly, Pakistan’s military sees the country’s battered economy as a security threat, because it aggravates the insurgencies that plague the country. Pakistan is expected to ask the International Monetary Fund for $9 billion in the coming weeks, after receiving several billions of dollars in loans from China earlier this year to pay its bills.

US foreign minister Pompeo asks Pakistan to do more against terror The United States insist Pakistan to take “sustained and decisive” action against terrorists and militants threatening the “regional peace” as secretary of state Mike Pompeo held talks in Islamabad aimed at resetting bilateral ties.

Pompeo travelled to Pakistan with the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with foreign minister Shah Mehmood US military chief, Gen Joseph Dunford, Qureshi and Imran Khan at the Prime Minister’s Office in Islamabad on September 5.

US Military Chief Gen Joseph Dunford and Pakistan Army Chief ahead of a visit to New General Bajwa were also present at the meeting.

Delhi for inaugural 2+2 dialogue with India. This was the first highlevel US visit since Prime Minister Imran Khan’s and trust”, he also made it clear there was “a long new government assumed power last month, way to go” before the US could think of resuming and came days after Washington cancelled $300 security-related aid to Pakistan. Pompeo didn’t million in security-related payments to Islamabad. mention India but his remarks placed the onus for Though Pompeo adopted a conciliatory tone by peace in the region on Pakistan. Pompeo landed saying his meetings with Imran Khan and Foreign in India on Wednesday evening and was received Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had laid the at the airport by external affairs minister Sushma ground for outcomes that can build “confidence Swaraj.

Pompeo defends $300 million aid cut to Pakistan

Lawmakers elect new President Pakistani lawmakers elected a nominee from Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party to the ceremonial office of president on Tuesday, further cementing its hold on power. Arif Alvi will replace President Mamnoon Hussain, who completes his five-year term on Sept. 9. Pakistan’s elections oversight body will certify the result Wednesday. The president is elected by lawmakers from the National Assembly, the Senate and four provincial assemblies. Alvi, a senior member of Khan’s party from the southern Sindh province, faced little challenge from Aitzaz Ahsan, from the opposition Pakistan People’s

Party, and Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a pro-Taliban, anti-U.S. radical Islamist.

The opposition failed to unify behind a single candidate. Tuesday’s election came two weeks after Khan, a former cricket star and longtime politician, was elected prime minister. His Tehreeke-Insaf party won the most seats in July’s national elections and joined with independents to form a government.

Alvi won 212 votes in the upper and lower houses of parliament, while Ahsan got 81 and Rehman secured 131, according to the Election Commission. Alvi also got the most votes in

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has defended the Trump administration’s decision to cut $300 million aid to Pakistan, saying Islamabad did not make satisfactory progress in combatting terrorism. Pompeo is arriving in Islamabad along with General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, days after the Trump administration cancelled $300 million in military aid to Pakistan as it was not doing enough against terrorist groups inside its borders, the latest controversy to hit Islamabad’s troubled relationship with Washington. Pompeo’s talks will be the Trump administration’s first high-level dialogue with Pakistan since the new government

of Prime Minister Imran Khan assumed office after the July 25 elections. Talking to reporters travelling with him hours before landing in Pakistan, the Secretary of State said: “The rationale for them (Pakistan) not getting the money is very clear. It’s that we haven’t seen the progress that we need to see from them”.

The top American diplomat, during his meeting with Khan, army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, would convey the same message of acting tough on terrorist organisations in Pakistan.

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3 Indian-Americans win primaries in US house of reps

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Indian-Americans Hiral Tipirneni, Anita Malik and Sanjay Patel - all from the opposition Democratic party - have won their respective primaries to advance to the US Congressional elections in November.

While Tipirneni and Malik - both women - are running for the US House of Representatives seats from Arizona, a State which is known for its Republican leanings, Patel is seeking to enter the House from the 8th Congressional district of Florida, a traditional swing State. Tipirneni won the Democratic primary from the 8th Congressional District

of Arizona uncontested, while her party colleague Malik won the party primary in a three-way contest from the 6th Congressional District of Arizona. In November general elections, Malik is pitted against Republican incumbent David Schweikert. Tipirneni, who lost to Republican Debbie Lesko in the Special Elections early this year, is battling against the same opponent.

Patel is challenging Republican incumbent Bill Posey. He won the seat uncontested. Congressional primaries in Florida and Arizona were held on August 31.

NRI gets 3-yr jail term for making prank calls to Singapore Police An Indian-origin Singaporean serial prank caller was sentenced to three years of imprisonment on Thursday for repeatedly making nuisance calls to the police, despite being jailed for the same offence previously.

Gurcharan Singh, a 61-year-old cleaner, usually made the “999” emergency calls after drinking alcohol, the court heard. The latest incidents occurred over two days in June, with Singh making two calls on the first day and 15 on the second. On June 10, Singh called the police using a public phone at a void deck of an apartment block in Chai Chee housing estate. In one of his calls, he told the operator: “You are stupid.” He also said: “I put one dynamite to the immigration

house.” He knew this message to be false, Deputy Public Prosecutor Daphne Lim said.

The police traced Singh’s phone call location and arrested him that day, according to a Channel News Asia report. Three empty beer cans were also recovered from his possession, it said. Despite this, Singh made another 15 calls to the police, all in one day, later that month. Singh has been reoffending since 2000, with the most recent conviction in 2016, when he was sentenced to two-year jail term, the prosecutor said. Lim asked for a jail sentence of three years and nine months, noting that Singh reoffended while out on bail and breached his remission order, which makes him liable for an enhanced jail term.

British MPs seek inquiry into cheating ‘scandal’ involving NRI students British parliamentarians have demanded an independent inquiry into the “forgotten scandal” of thousands of international students, including Indians, being accused of cheating by the UK government in an English language examination. In a parliamentary debate at Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Labour Member of Parliament P Gareth Thomas said that given the seriousness of the issue, the “scandal merits a proper, thorough independent inquiry”. “I strongly agree. In fact… an independent inquiry is

necessary,” added Wes Streeting, the Labour MP who had called the debate, which was attended by Indian-origin Labour MP Seema Malhotra among others.

Terming the incident as “social injustice” which happened under the “government’s watch”, Malhotra said the entire episode hit the reputation of the students’ families.

She said the incident led to depression and affected whole families, including children, and demanded an “extensive apology and potential compensation”.

NRI wins 12 Million Dirham lucky draw in UAE An Indian man in the UAE has won a whooping Dh12 million in a monthly raffle, according to a media report.

George Mathew, who purchased ticket number 175342 at Big Ticket Abu Dhabi, was announced as the winner of the bumper prize on Monday, reported the Khaleej Times.

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In January, another Keralite in the UAE had won a dirham 12 million in the biggest-ever raffle prize money in Abu Dhabi. Download The Times of India

Indian-origin anti-Brexit campaigner releases memoir of her struggle An Indian-origin campaigner who mounted a successful legal challenge to prevent British Prime Minister Theresa May triggering Brexit without Parliament’s approval has released a new memoir to trace her journey through death threats and abuse from Brexiteers. Gina Miller, born Gina Nadira Singh in British Guiana (now Guyana) to Guyana’s former Attorney-General Doodnauth Singh, reveals in her new book titled ‘Rise’ that she inherited her fighting spirit from her father, which prevented her from giving up even when online trolls threatened her children.

“My father was actively involved in setting up a political party against our dictator [Guyana]

and ironically I was sent to the UK to be safe.

So, I have a sense of fatalism that I am exactly where I should be, fighting for things I learnt at my father’s knee,” she said, at the UK launch of her book here this week.

Miller, an investment fund manager who became the face of the legal battle over parliamentary supremacy in the aftermath of Britain’s vote in favour of leaving the European Union (EU) in June 2016, admitted going through very “low” moments and tears in the face of the attacks after she successfully brought a legal challenge forcing the UK gov’t to seek Parliament’s approval.

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Homeless can’t be left to fend for themselves, says SC Taking the government to task on the issue of urban homeless, the Supreme Court on Friday said the people without shelter cannot be “left to fend for themselves” as there were “grand plans” which were not implemented.

Noting that housing was a basic need for everyone, especially in view of the approaching winter, the apex court slammed 12 states and union territories for not notifying the names of civil societies members in their committees to take care of the needs of the urban homeless, while slapping fines on them ranging from Rs 1-5 lakh.

It observed that submissions given on behalf of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on the issue depicted a “sorry state of affairs” as these states and the UTs had not yet notified the names, despite the court’s order to this effect on March 22. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta slapped a cost of Rs 1 lakh each on nine states and UTs of Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Manipur, Goa, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Odisha and Tripura, while a cost of Rs 5 lakh was imposed on Haryana.

The Bench, however, did not impose cost on Kerala and Uttarakhand considering the “peculiar circumstances” in these two

Former PM Manmohan attacks PM Modi over BJP govt’s ‘failures’ Dr Manmohan Singh launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the BJP-led government of all-round failure leading to agrarian crisis, economic turmoil and deteriorating ties with neighbouring countries.

Singh was speaking at the launch of Congress leader Kapil Sibal’s book “Shades of Truth—A Journey Derailed.”

The Modi government “has not constructively dealt with the agrarian crisis facing the nation and the indication of that is that every now and then in state capitals and the national capital, farmers die in protest. Farmers are still not assured of receiving the remunerative prices of their produce”. He said Sibal’s book was a comprehensive analysis of the functioning of the Modi government in the last four years.

“It highlights the failure of this government to fulfil important promises made to the people on the eve of 2014 Lok Sabha elections,” he said. Referring Modi’s 2014 promises of 2 crore jobs, Singh said the employment growth rate has been declining in the last 4 years.

“People are not impressed by the figures that are being put out by the Modi government to justify the creation of large number of jobs.

Industrial production and exports are nearly stagnant. Programmes like Make in India and Standup India are yet to make any meaningful impact on the growth of industrial production.

states due to the natural disasters there.

“We make it clear that unless necessary steps are taken by the states/UTs, we have no option but to impose heavy cost particularly since winters are coming and persons without shelter cannot be left to fend for themselves,” the bench said. “Housing is a basic need for everybody. When there is a policy of the Union of India, it has to be implemented by all,” the apex court said and directed these states and UTs to deposit the cost within three weeks to the Supreme Court Legal Services Authority.

It directed these states and UTs to issue notification in this regard within two weeks.

When the issue of inaction by several states and UTs on notifying the names of civil society members in the committees, the bench asked Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A N S Nadkarni, “Why are they not doing it?”

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Supreme Court will summon to Home Secys if they don’t file compliance report on lynching With only 11 of the 29 states and seven union territories having filed compliance reports on its order to take steps to check mob lynching, the Supreme Court on Friday warned that it will summon home secretaries of states/UTs if they did not file their reports within a week. Taking strong exception to non-filing of compliance report by several states and UTs, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra gave them last opportunity to file their report.

The Centre told the Bench that an empowered Group of Ministers had been set up to consider framing a law on mob violence following the verdict.

The top court was hearing a petition by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala seeking contempt proceedings against Rajasthan officials including the Chief Secretary and the

police chief for allegedly violating its verdict in the alleged lynching of dairy farmer Rakbar Khan on July 20. Amid growing concern over incidents of mob lynchings in various parts of the country, the Supreme Court had on July 17 ordered a set of preventive, remedial and punitive measures to check vigilante groups from taking law into their own hands.

Such acts have to be curbed with iron hand, it had said, directing the Centre and states to implement its order within four weeks and file compliance reports.

It was the duty of the State to ensure maintenance of law and order, pluralistic social fabric and rule of law in the country, it had said, adding, “Horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be tolerated... it cannot be allowed to become a new norm. It has to be curbed with iron hand.”

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Salman Khan launches Bigg Boss 12 The ‘vichitra’ season of television’s the biggest property on television, said, “I most controversial show Bigg Boss watch the Bigg Boss episodes twice, so I is just a week away and the makers tend to build a relationship with everyone.” recently made a big announcement s per the buzz, estranged sisters Shafaq about it. This year the show will be aired at 9 pm on weekdays instead of the earlier slot of 10.30 pm. only the weekend episodes with Salman Khan aired at 9 pm.

Un l i k e the previous years, the makers have shifted the Salman Khan launch of the show from October to September. and Falak Naaz, couples Dipika Kakar and Salman launched the show in Goa Shoaib Ibrahim, Bharti Singh and Haarsh a couple of days ago and promised Limbachiya, Siddharth Sagar and Subuhi a rollercoaster ride for the audience Joshi, Milind Soman and Ankita Konwar and for the next 100 days. At the launch, mother-son duo Vibha and Puru Chibber Salman who believes Bigg Boss is have been approached for Bigg Boss 12.

Anushka Sharma promotes ‘Sui Dhaga’ Is Anushka the perfect example of how to balance personal and professional life? The actress is busy promoting her upcoming film Sui Dhaga, somehow manages to make time for Virat Kohli who also has an extremely hectic schedule given his professional commitments.

And now, it seems like the frequent travelling is taking a toll on her health.

According to reports, the Phillauri actor is suffering from a bulging disc and has been advised rest by her doctors. But, despite being in acute pain, Anushka has refused to pull out from Sui Dhaga promotions.

In fact, despite her Anushka health conditions, Anushka is completely dedicated to promoting her upcoming film opposite Varun Dhawan. Meanwhile, her team is making sure that she doesn’t stress herself too much.

As per reports in Pinkvilla, Anushka has developed a bulging disc issue and she undergoing intensive physiotherapy sessions.

On one hand, while Sui Dhaaga will hit the screens on September 28, the actress also has Zero in alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif. Bollywood had a rather busy day on Thursday with film promotions dominating the show.

Sui Dhaaga’s Anushka Sharma and Varun Dhawan were promoting their colourful new film. Every promotion is marked by a different display of beautiful threads and colours — trust Yashraj Films to do things differently.

The star duo was seen posing with yards and yards of bright and colourful threads.

Paltan’s screening saw star relatives of the cast.

Biggest attractions were Sonakshi Sinha and Shraddha Kapoor. Laila Majnu team of Tripti Dimri and Avinash Tiwary and Loveratri team of Aayush Sharma and Warina Hussain were out promoting their respective films as well.

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HOROSCOPE Aries

March 21 - April 20 With both chatty Mercury and luscious Venus changing signs this week, your focus could shift from play to work. Eloquent Mercury shifts gears and moves into Virgo on Wednesday, and sultry Venus enters passionate Scorpio on Sunday.

This ushers in a time of focused attention and hard work.

And the achievement of your goals will be even more possible because sobering Saturn pushes forward on Thursday.

Taurus

April 21 - May 20 Leisure, creativity, and romance continue to be on the agenda as the sun journeys through a more dynamic sector of your chart. It’s joined by lively Mercury midweek, which could see you taking pleasure in reading, learning a new skill, or perhaps playing sports that require

If you had to bypass an opportunity, this might have been due to Saturn’s retrograde phase.

Gemini

May 20 - June 21 A positive link between lively Mercury and

friend. This minor aspect can bring pleasant interactions that lead to positive opportunities.

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letters, papers and unwanted books.

Cancer

June 22 - July 23

This looks like it should be an upbeat week in which astrological shifts can bring positive change into your life. Perhaps the biggest is that sobering Saturn turns direct in your relationship sector, which means that those you interact with daily are likelier to get their act together. If a partner, loved one, or boss has been dragging their feet for whatever reason, a more positive approach can have a pleasant impact on you.

Leo

June 24 - August 23 If you’ve been overwhelmed by too much responsibility and work, there could be light at the end of the tunnel. Practical Saturn turns direct in your work and lifestyle sector on Thursday. As it pushes forward, you might

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can take to ease your present burdens. You might begin to feel more energetic, too.

Regarding money, go easy around Friday because a purchase could seem appealing.

Libra

Sept. 24 - Oct 22 This week, the sun continues its journey through a quieter zone, one that’s linked with your subconscious mind and psyche.

Considering this, a positive aspect between interactive Mercury and convivial Venus on Monday encourages you to enjoy any social events because your focus could soon change. Chatty Mercury moves into this secluded zone on Wednesday, and remains here until September 21.

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reaching deadlines, or if you’ve felt overwhelmed by the amount of paperwork, admin, or other tasks you face, this might now change. Practical Saturn turns direct in your sector of talk and thought on Thursday, and this could make all

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Sagitarius Nov 23 - Dec 22

This is very much a time to show the world what you can do, and you get the help of animated Mercury as this planet moves into Virgo midweek. This can be a good time to interact with others and give and receive advice.

Plus, if you’re good at public speaking, giving a talk or lecture could boost your reputation.

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Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, who is popular on social media, treated her fans with an adorable throwback picture from the sets of her father Anil Kapoor’s 1989 hit movie ‘Parinda’.

The ‘Neerja’ star took to her Twitter handle to share the ‘lovely memory’, in which her father can be seen posing alongside his ‘Parinda’ co-star Jackie Shroff and director Vidhu Vinod Chopra. While Jackie is all smiles in a pink ‘sehra’, it’s Anil and Vidhu who grab the limelight.

With a baby’s tie-knot cap and a baby nipple, the duo is too cute to miss! “Such a lighthearted and lovely memory!� wrote Sonam.

Directed by Vidhu, ‘Parinda’ also starred Madhuri Dixit and Nana Patekar in lead roles. The 1989 crime drama revolved around Kishen (Shroff )

who takes to crime in order to take care of his younger brother Karan (Kapoor).

Meanwhile, Bollywood’s dynamic fatherdaughter duo Anil and Sonam are all set to share screen space for the first time in ‘Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga’.

Directed by Shelly Chopra Dhar, the film also stars Juhi Chawla and Rajkummar Rao. It will hit the theatres on October 12.

It stars the real-life father-daughter duo, Anil Kapoor, and Sonam Kapoor, who will be seen together on screen for the very first time.

Capricorn Dec 23 - Jan 20

If it has seemed like nothing but ups and downs recently, or two steps forward and one step back, this might be about to change. As karmic planet Saturn pushes forward in your sign this week, resistance can begin to ease, making positive progress possible. It might take a few weeks to get back into its forward trajectory, but once it does, you’ll really feel a push to make headway.

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is part of this, resolving related issues can be healing. Structured Saturn turns direct in your spiritual sector on Thursday.

Pisces Virgo Things seem to pick up for you midweek as talkative Mercury, your guardian planet, moves into your sign until September 21. Its presence here could see you truly in your element and enjoying study, planning and organization, and attending to the details of current projects.

If your creative energies seem to have stalled recently, prudent Saturn turns direct this week in your creativity zone, and its forward movement could see you making progress in this area.

Feb 20 - March 20 Relationships seem important, particularly once adaptable Mercury moves into Virgo and your relationship zone midweek. The sun, already in this sector, can help shed light on areas that might need attention, particularly regarding close bonds. Chatty Mercury’s presence here can encourage conversation and reaching out. This is the time to negotiate and, when necessary, meet each other halfway. $ # #

your social life, especially if you’re working with a group or club, this could begin to change.

Bollywood Stars’ Birthdays

AKSHAY KUMAR SEPTEMBER 9

ASHA BHOSLE SEPTEMBER 8

RISHI KAPOOR SEPTEMBER 4

PREETI JHANGIANI AUGUST 18

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Saturday, September 8, 2018 Sikhi Awareness Foundation (SAF) would like to formally invite the Press to our 2018 Fundraising Dinner Gala being held this coming Friday, September 7th at the Crystal York Hall in Surrey. The Sikhi Awareness Foundation est.2014 is a nonprofit charity operating from Surrey, Canada.

Our mission is to put underprivileged people on a path of social mobility. Our services are meant to provide the marginalized with the necessary resources for success and prosperity.

Our focus for this year’s gala is on helping impoverished areas occupied

by Sikligar Sikhs such as in Hyderabad,

2018 looks like a year of contentment for Punjabi Cinema. Some really good films and new pairs hit screens this year. For Pollywood, coming years showcase the unseen level of craft and some commendable scripts. The director of Rabb Da Radio and Sardar Mohd, Harry Bhatti coming up with a new movie ‘Aate Di Chidi’ to grace the league of good movies coming in future.‘Aate Di Chidi’ will star the Pollywood’s queen Neeru Bajwa, who will be playing female lead in this film and asinger Amrit Maan will

would like to offer one complimentary ticket per media outlet, so please be sure to make it out! Please do not forget to present your media card at the door when checking in. Doors close at 7pm!

We want to shed light on these forgotten Sikhs and would really value your support.

Enclosed are the invite, program details and information about our Keynote speakers. For any further details please feel free to e-mail us or call in at our office 604-572-5577.

Sikhi Awareness Foundation Fundraising Gala Invitation Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Jammu.

In particular, our efforts are focused in helping to develop their communities.

Centuries ago, the Sikligar people were skilled weapon makers who were chosen to develop Sikh Armory. Their important contribution in the fight against oppression led to Guru Gobind Singh Ji giving them the name Sikligar Sikhs. However, with the onset of modern weapons and industries, the Sikligar community’s skills in weaponry

has become obsolete, thus forcing them into poverty as they have no other education or skills to support themselves.

Today the Sikligars are one of the most marginalized communities in India, and for the most part out of sight for most to care about. Most Sikligar communities have limited electricity, no clean water, toilets or sanitation.

Media Outlets: There is one table reserved just for the media and SAF

Punjabi films growing markets all around globe? be seen as male protagonist for the first time. The stellar star cast of the movie includes Gurpreet Ghuggi, BN Sharma, Anmol Verma, Karamjit Anmol, Harby Sangha and veteran actor Sardar Sohi. The genre of ‘Aate Di Chidi’ is comedy and it will giggle audience out by showcasing Punjab’s issues in a humorous way. The movie will be directed by Harry Bhatti. It’s a presentation of Teg Productions. This movie will be shot

in Punjab and Canada. Neeru Bajwa, the leading lady, said, “I have recently worked with Amrit Maan, which was a short sweet experience. Now we are about to start Aate Di Chidi and are definitely excited.

I had liked the idea right from the time the story was narrated to me. Working with Maan and the director, Harry Bhatti will for sure be an enriching experience.”The lead actor of the film, Amrit Maan said, “I had started my acting journey with a grey shade character and then tried to entertain with a comic and carefree role.

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Metro Vancouver housing prices drop for 2nd straight month The cost of home ownership is down in Metro Vancouver for the second straight month as demand for housing continues to slide across the region.

According to August 2018 numbers released by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, prices across all residential housing categories — detached homes, townhouses and apartments — dropped 1.4 per cent compared to July 2018, to an average of $1,083,400. “Home buyers have been less active in recent months and we’re beginning to see prices edge down for all housing types as a result,� REBGV president Phil Moore said. “Buyers today have more listings to choose from and face less competition than we’ve seen in our market in recent years.�

At 1,929, residential home sales in August 2018 were down 36.6 per cent versus the same period last year (3,043), and down 6.8 per cent compared to July 2018 (2,070).

The number of homes for sale on the Multiple Listing Service across the region (11,824) was up 34.4 per cent over the same month last year, although down slightly from the previous month.

In the single family detached home category, Burnaby East had the largest drop in average price, down 4.2 per cent to $1,269,200.

Whistler was the only area to show an increase, rising 0.8 per cent to $1,783,200.

In the townhouse category, Coquitlam registered the largest drop of 2.9 per cent to an average price of $690,500, while in Tsawwassen prices were up 4.5 per cent to $793,900.

In the apartment category, Squamish showed the largest drop, down 4.2 per cent to an average price of $513,400 while Coquitlam was the only area where prices went up, increasing 0.7 per cent to $552,500.

Areas covered by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver include Whistler, the Sunshine Coast, Squamish, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Richmond, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and South

Delta.A real estate broker north of Toronto is suing a consumer for commission even though a $900,000 home sale arranged by his company fell through. �He really feels he’s owed it and I don’t know why,�

Marlene Nemeth said in an interview.

The brokerage claims, in a statement to the media, that it had a signed deal with the seller “which provides that our commission is payable upon acceptance of a satisfactory offer, even if the deal doesn’t close.�

Hans Ohrstrom, broker of record at HomeLife Eagle Realty, Inc., sent a bill for $45,765.00 to Nemeth in February of this year. A month later, he sent her a revised bill for $30,510. When Nemeth refused to pay either invoice, on the advice of a lawyer, Ohrstrom’s company reduced its claim to $25,000 plus HST in order to be able to sue her in small claims court.

Ohrstrom’s lawyer denies Nemeth was kept in the dark about the buyer’s financial difficulties, and told Global News “regardless of the buyer’s financial situation, to Ms. Nemeth’s knowledge the buyer was the owner of an existing property of significant value.�

HomeLife Eagle Realty was also providing “customer service� to the buyer, Sayed Moussavi, according to documents filed in court.

Nemeth said she can’t understand how a real estate broker can bill her tens of thousands of dollars when the sale didn’t close and she didn’t do anything to interfere with the deal.

Ohrstrom’s website describes him as “No. 3 Top Producer of Home Life’s 5000+ agents!�

On April 17, 2017, Nemeth signed a listing agreement with Ohrstrom’s brokerage to sell her Newmarket home. The agreement was in place until Sept. 30.

In May 2017, she agreed to accept a $900,000 offer from Moussavi, the buyer.

It is legal for a real estate brokerage to provide services to buyer and seller, although Ontario’s real estate regulator considers the arrangement potentially problematic. “At its core, there is an inherent conflict of interest when one person represents a buyer and a seller.

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Average price of a Canadian home was $481,500 recently, a rise of one per cent in the past year.

July marked the first time this year that average house prices eked out an annual increase, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Wednesday, as the impact of tougher mortgage rules implemented earlier this year is starting to wane.

Stress tests, foreign buyers and higher rates likely to impact housing market in 2018 “This year’s new stress test on mortgage applicants continues to weigh on home sales, but its effect may be starting to fade slightly in Toronto and nearby markets,�

said Barb Sukkau, the realtor group’s president. “The degree to which the stress test continues to sideline home buyers varies depending on location, housing type and price range.�

After years of annual increases that frequently touched the double digits, Canadian house prices have cooled

considerably in recent months, especially after the implementation of the new mortgage stress test rules that hold borrowers to higher income standards, which has resulted in less borrowing or taking some people out of the market entirely. Prices inched higher but July saw the total number of homes sold during the month decline compared to last year, by

Developers say Vancouvers housing density plan wont address the missing middle Overhauls to the City of Vancouver’s bylaws covering laneway homes are part of the municipality’s overall strategy to tackle housing affordability, and the changes were approved by Vancouver City Council meeting earlier today with only Green Party councillor

Adrianne Carr opposed. Policy changes will significantly cut down the process time for applications, with an outright process for lager two-storey laneway homes. The process is streamlined and no longer requires an extra conditional design review

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For economist Doug Porter with the Bank of Montreal, the housing market numbers released Wednesday paint a picture of what economists call a “Goldilocks� market. “The main takeaway is that the housing market has ceased to be a major source of concern for policymakers — neither too hot, nor too cold, at least for now,� Porter said. Average prices inched up on an annual basis for the first time since the start of the year.

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Metro Vancouver housing prices drop for 2nd straight month The cost of home ownership is down in Metro Vancouver for the second straight month as demand for housing continues to slide across the region.

According to August 2018 numbers released by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, prices across all residential housing categories — detached homes, townhouses and apartments — dropped 1.4 per cent compared to July 2018, to an average of $1,083,400.

“Home buyers have been less active in recent months and we’re beginning to see prices edge down for all housing types as a result,” REBGV president Phil Moore said. “Buyers today have more listings to choose from and face less competition than

we’ve seen in our market in recent years.”

At 1,929, residential home sales in August 2018 were down 36.6 per cent versus the same period last year (3,043), and down 6.8 per cent compared to July 2018 (2,070).

The number of homes for sale on the Multiple Listing Service across the region (11,824) was up 34.4 per cent over the same month last year, although down slightly from the previous month.

In the single family detached home category, Burnaby East had the largest drop in average price, down 4.2 per cent to $1,269,200. Whistler was the only area to show an increase, rising 0.8 per cent to $1,783,200.

In the townhouse category, Coquitlam registered the largest drop of 2.9 per cent to an average price of $690,500, while in Tsawwassen prices were up 4.5 per cent to $793,900.

In the apartment category, Squamish showed the largest drop, down 4.2 per cent to an average price of $513,400 while Coquitlam was the only area where prices went up, increasing 0.7 per cent to $552,500.

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