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03 Jesus in Islam
04 Masjid Al Noor
10 Exercise Basics
to stop financing 05 Centre provincial uplift projects
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05 graves The Canadian 08 UK reports highest
16 The Fall Of Dhaka From Bihari Eyes
committee presented The community showed its generous Anti-Racism Date legislation-Engagement
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‘Now is not the time’: Federal government warns against travel abroad as Omicron spreads
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ttawa is advising Canadians to avoid non-essential travel outside the country. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is asking Canadians with plans to travel abroad to cancel their trips as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spreads worldwide. To prevent travel-related infections at a time of mounting case counts, the federal government has changed its official guidance to advise Canadians to avoid all non-essential travel outside the country for the time being. “To those who were planning to travel, I say very clearly — now is not the time to travel. The rapid spread of the Omicron variant on a global scale makes us fear the worst,” Duclos said. Ottawa to toughen international travel restric-
tions as Omicron concerns escalate Omicron variant caseload expected to ‘rapidly escalate’ in the coming days, Tam says With tens of thousands of Canadians planning trips abroad over the coming weeks, the new advisory could wreak havoc on vacation plans and void some travel insurance policies. Acknowledging that introducing a new advisory so close to Christmas is a “drastic” move, Duclos said he’s acting now because he’s “afraid” and “concerned” for people who travel abroad because the Omicron situation is changing quickly. The rate of spread is “huge,” he said, and Canadians may find themselves stranded if countries impose lockdown To be Continued at page 6
Canada’s inflation rate stays at 18-year high of 4.7%
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nflation rates are spiking around the world Canada’s inflation rate remained at 4.7 per cent in November, matching the annual pace seen the previous month. The data point released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday morning was in line with economist expectations, tying October’s level, which
was the highest inflation rate since 2003. Inflation rates are soaring around the world right now, as the combination of record government spending, supply chain disruptions and a surge in demand for consumer goods has caused prices to rise quickly. For comparison purposes, U.S. data last week showed that country’s inflation rate rose to an almost 40-year high of 6.8 per cent last month. Consumer prices are heading higher at their fastest pace in decades, and so far incomes aren’t keeping pace. Statistics Canada data shows that while the cost of living has increased by almost five per cent in the past year, incomes have only risen by about half that, or 2.8 per cent. Economist Tu Nguyen with consultancy RSM Canada said wages should start to catch up soon, though. “There is usually a time lag between inflation and wages, with the latter being stickier and taking longer to shift. However,
with the tight labour market, and wages already increasing substantially for job hoppers, we will soon see rising wages to match inflation,” she said. The data agency says higher prices for gasoline, furniture and food were the biggest factors pushing up the annual consumer price index. Gasoline prices rose by 43.6 per cent in the year up to November. Grocery prices, meanwhile, rose by 4.7 per cent. That’s the fastest pace of increase since January 2015. We’ll all be paying a lot more for food next year, says Canada’s Food Price Report Prices for furniture rose 8.7 per cent amid higher shipping costs. The data agency says the introduction of tariffs earlier this year may have contributed to the increase in prices for upholstered furniture, which were up by more than 11 per cent compared to what they were a year ago. Source: cbc.ca
PM asks Sindh to join healthcare scheme, okay islands uplift • Launches Rs35bn Green Line bus service • Expects K-IV water project to complete by Sept 2023 • Says Karachi needs autonomy with direct election of mayor ARACHI: Striking a tone of reconciliation for a second consecutive time during his as many visits to Karachi, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday called for better coordination between Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led Centre and the Sindh administration of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for Karachi’s uplift. He made a “request” to the provincial government to participate in the health insurance scheme and approve Bundal Island’s development.
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In his 13-minute address at the opening ceremony of the Green Line bus service, PM Khan was focused and sounded convinced about a few issues ranging from Karachi’s development to building new cities and from the role of the upcoming local governments in urban centres to the working relationship between the federal government and the provinces. The speech also covered sketchy details of the Karachi Transformation Plan of the federal government.The PM, before summing up his speech, directly addressed the Sindh government with an advice that their participation in the health card scheme and nod to the development of the To be Continued at page 6