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Fire shuts down Ross Street Gurudwara Sikhs in South Vancouver are waiting to learn the fate of their temple after a threealarm fire broke out early this morning.

At around 2:30 a.m. on Friday morning, Vancouver fire crews responded to reports of flames inside the Ross Street temple.

After arriving on scene, firefighters were able to locate the flames inside the ceiling on the second floor. Battalion chief Les Achtymichuk said poor ventilation in the building made it difficult for firefighters to get to the fire. “We moved fire crews in for the initial fire attack and we had to pull them out because of extreme heat.” “Fire crews [were] beaten up on this one pretty bad,” he said. Eventually firefighters were able to gain better access to the blaze by

opening skylights on the roof of the temple.

Sohan Singh Deo, president of the temple,

Fire Crew inside the Temple said the temple is the biggest and oldest Sikh temple in North America, with about 11,000 members. He said it’s unfortunate the building was recently renovated. “We spent millions of dollars on this building

Vancouver home sales drop 85% BC’s Liberal government will likely take a political hit for their decision to impose a foreign buyer tax on the Greater Vancouver housing market, even though the city’s housing correction began before the tax took effect, a report from Capital Economics says. “We would be amazed if B.C.’s Finance Minister, Mike de Jong, doesn’t get the blame when Vancouver house prices are falling next year,” the report said.

“By the time the B.C. provincial election rolls around next May [house price growth] will be close to, or even below, zero,” economist Paul Ashworth wrote in the report.

The prediction of flat or falling prices comes as preliminary data for August shows signs of a steep decline in Vancouver’s housing activity. According to Multiple Listings Service data obtained by Global News, homes sales in Greater Vancouver collapsed by 85 per cent in the first two weeks of August, compared to the same period a year ago.

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this year, so we are very concerned,” he said. “It’s very, very bad for us. It’s a great loss.” According to firefighters, no one was inside the temple when the flames broke out. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined and the extent of the damage is not yet known. The temple’s mezzanine area suffered the most fire damage, said Assistant Chief Dale Booth, and there was damage to the roof and the interior of the building from firefighting.

“I would think it’s going to be closed for a while,” Booth said. According to reports, a wedding was scheduled to take place at the temple this weekend, and it will have to be moved.

South Asian bank robber arrested Surrey RCMP have arrested a south asian man accused of robbing banks. Eric Kumar, 25 was identified by members of the public after Surrey RCMP published his image and details last week. Surrey RCMP says that Kumar has been arrested and charged for the August 10th bank robbery thanks to help from the public and media.

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Man carries wife’s body for 10 km after he is denied help A day after a tribal man had to walk 10 km carrying his wife’s body on his shoulder in Odisha’s Kalahandi after failing to get a vehicle from a government hospital, a probe was ordered to ascertain the circumstances leading to the incident.

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Cooling red hot Vancouver real estate market healthier, says economist A new forecast by Central 1 Credit Union predicts B.C.'s hot real estate market will remain robust for the next two years, despite fears a tax on foreign buyers is chilling Metro Vancouver sales.

But market overseers say the trend will even out and benefit other parts of B.C.'s housing market in the short term, with B.C. sellers remaining in a strong position.

Senior economist Bryan Yu said the new foreign buyers tax announced by the provincial government in July and rolled out on Aug.2 will temporarily slow sales in Metro Vancouver by about 10 per cent.

He says the 15 per cent levy on homes purchased by non-residents puts downward pressure on a market that was already beginning to slow after a blistering start to the year.

"The foreign buyer tax will result in a temporary but substantial short-term cut in Metro Vancouver sales trend ... the tax puts further downward sales pressure on a market already slowing from spring fever," said Yu Outcry is growing from Greater Vancouver realtors who blame the new provincial tax for halting new sales and killing deals caught up in the unexpected levy, but Yu said losses will be offset by sales gains in other B.C. locations — such as Vancouver Island and the Okanagan.

The annual median price in Metro Vancouver jumped by

nearly 20 per cent in 2016 to $705,000 dollars.

Yu said slower growth is healthier for the market because sky-rocketing Greater Vancouver prices seen during what he described as "spring fever" were unsustainable.

He predicts prices in the region will rise by about four per cent in both 2017 and 2018.

That is slightly lower than the B.C. Real Estate Association forecasts of 5.8 per cent average growth in Greater Vancouver home prices for 2017.

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Nearly a year after his federal election defeat, former prime minister Stephen Harper finally resigned his House of Commons seat Friday, ending a career in politics that spanned more than two decades.

The former Conservative leader announced he was stepping down as MP for the riding of Calgary Heritage in a statement and video that was posted to his social media channels.

“On seven occasions, I have been deeply humbled by your trust and support, time and again. And I leave elected office proud of what our team accomplished together,” Harper says in the video.

Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose offered her thanks and best wishes, saying he has a proud record in office.

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OPINION

Saturday, August 27, 2016

British Columbia’s failed primary care experiment

Paying doctors more did not improve primary care - and cost the province hundreds of millions of dollars

By Ruth Lavergne/ and Kimberlyn McGrail Troy Media If things are working properly, our first point of contact with the health system - often referred to as ‘primary care’ - should result in prompt and efficient care for our general health concerns, and coordinate our journey through the system when we need more specialized care. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case.

In the early 2000s, there was widespread concern across Canada that primary care was in decline.

Walk-in clinics and emergency departments became the de facto point of care for patients who lacked timely access to a family doctor. Patients struggled to find doctors to take them on as regular patients. Though British Columbia was not alone among Canadian provinces in recognizing the need for primary care reform, it was unique in its approach to solving the problem. B.C.’s chosen fix for primary care was based on the simple and appealing idea that we have to pay for what we want.

B.C. attempted to coax individual doctors to provide important primary care services (chronic disease management, mental health care and preventative care, for example) and discourage walk-in style practices by providing additional incentive

payments within the public fee-for-service system.

In contrast, other provinces changed the structure and organization of primary care, moving toward team-based models of care and away from fee-for-service compensation for doctors. Other countries also implemented incentive payments for doctors but, unlike B.C., these models were tied to reporting on performance. The costliest incentive implemented under the B.C. program was a $315 annual payment made to doctors - on top of regular patient visit fees - for providing ongoing care for complex patients (someone with two or more qualifying chronic diseases). B.C. now spends more than $50 million each year on this single incentive and another $100 million on similar ‘extra’ payments for obstetrics, mental health care, preventive risk assessment and management of individual chronic diseases.

In a recently-published study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, we investigated the effects of these complex care payments. We observed that two out of three eligible patients have these incentives billed for their care. However, we saw no change in the number of primary care visits patients received or in the continuity of their relationships with a regular doctor. Hospitalization

rates did not go down.

From what we can see looking back, care remained the same, while costs went up.

More broadly, B.C. patients today still struggle to access quality primary care where and when they need it. Even patients with a doctor often resort to emergency departments and walk-in clinics because less than a third of B.C. doctors report having any other arrangements for after-hours care.

The incentive payments for doctors failed to achieve the stated goal of improving primary care for patients.

While the program was no doubt implemented with the best intentions, it reduced physician motivation to dollars billed, while doing nothing to address other practical and structural barriers to doctors providing quality, accessible primary care.

There is a new push for primary care reform in B.C., this time embracing team-based models, which include nurses, pharmacists and other service providers to help improve accessibility, quality and efficiency of care. This is exciting, but there are lessons to be learned from the failed experiment with incentive payments.

The incentive-based programs were planned by the Ministry of Health and representatives from Doctors of BC (then the BC Medical Association), which helps explain their focus on the activities of individual physicians.

This time around, before spending billions, we need to agree on what success looks like, and monitor progress from the start. Some approaches may not work, and that’s okay - even expected - as long as a lack of effect is recognized and acted on quickly.

We need to measure performance in real-time against clear goals and accept ongoing change as a necessary part of doing better, rather than thinking a one-time course correction is enough.

Most importantly, we need to broaden the team that is involved in choosing reforms to include Health Authorities, nurses and other service providers - and patients. All are necessary to delivering primary care and so all should have a hand in shaping it.

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Vancouver home sales drop 85%

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In ritzy West Vancouver — where the benchmark price of a home was nearly $2.8 million in July, up 40 per cent from a year ago — home sales collapsed by 94 per cent, realtor Brent Eilers told Global. There were three sales in the first half of August this year, compared to 52 sales in the same period last year.

It’s impossible to tell from such a small data set whether this is a short-lived correction or the start of a longer, broader decline.

Much of the weakness appears to be concentrated at the upper end of the market.

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However, that doesn’t necessarily indicate falling prices, only a change in the mix of houses sold, reflecting the decline in upper-end home sales. But despite the fact the slowdown seems concentrated where the foreign buyers are, it appears that the foreign buyer tax had little to do with it, at least at first.

Home sales on Vancouver’s affluent west side fell by more than 38 per cent in June, year on year — well before the provincial government announced a 15-per-cent foreign buyer tax in late July. Some market observers say a crackdown by the Chinese government on illicit cash flowing out of the country dampened the flow of cash into Vancouver’s housing market well before the new tax was introduced.

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Ottawa brothers jailed for terrorism conspiracy after pleading guilty

Three Ottawa men who conspired to commit terrorism have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in Ontario Superior Court, with the alleged ringleader, Ashton Larmond, facing the stiffest penalty.

Twins Ashton and Carlos Larmond conspired over a five-month period from Aug. 1, 2014 to Jan. 9, 2015, in both Ottawa and Gatineau, Que. Suliman Mohamed was arrested just days after the twins, and conspired to participate in terrorist activity with them.

Ashton Larmond initially faced three charges, including facilitating terrorist activity, participating in the activity of a terrorist group, and instructing to carry out activity for a terrorist group.

He pleaded guilty Friday to the latter charge and was sentenced to 17 years in prison, minus 894 days for time already served. He also pleaded guilty to making death threats in jail and received 12-month sentences for each offence, to be served concurrently.

In court, Crown prosecutor Douglas Curliss said it was Ashton Larmond who directed plans to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Syria or kill people in Canada.

Curliss called Ashton “more of an organizer and director” in the planning of terrorist activities.

His brother, Carlos Larmond, was initially charged with participating in the activity of a terrorist group and attempting to leave Canada to participate in terrorist activity abroad.

He pleaded guilty to the latter charge and was sentenced to seven years in prison minus 894 days for time already served. He was also sentenced to another six months for making death threats in jail, to be served consecutively.

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Officers received information from the public allowing them to quickly locate the alleged suspect in the Abbotsford area. On August 18th, officers from the Surrey RCMP Robbery Unit arrested the suspect without incident.

Kumar, from Surrey, has now been charged with three counts of Robbery and one count of Use of an imitation firearm while committing an indicatable offence.

He is currently in custody pending his next court appearance.

“Thanks to some observant members of the public and our media partners, our officers were able to quickly apprehend the suspect,” says Surrey RCMP Cpl. Scotty Schumann. “Our Robbery Unit has a very high clearance rate for solving financial institution robberies and bringing those responsible to justice.”

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All lanes of Pattullo Bridge open on Monday as work finishes a month early The Pattullo Bridge will be reopened to all four lanes of traffic one month ahead of schedule, easing commutes in September when traffic volumes normally rise.

Rehabilitation work on the bridge deck has been underway since April 29 and TransLink had warned drivers to expect five months of delays until early October, with traffic reduced to one lane each way weekdays and complete bridge closures about two nights a week and one weekend a month.

“Despite wet weather in June, crews were able to get more done in a shorter period of time by scheduling additional weekend and overnight closures and reducing the number of concrete pours,” TransLink officials said in a release.

The return to four-lane traffic during the day happens Monday, Aug. 29. Regular

overnight lane closures that reduce the Pattullo to one lane each way at night for safety reasons will resume.

The final complete bridge closures were to be tonight, Thursday night and from 8 p.m. Friday Aug. 26 until 5 a.m.

Monday Aug. 29.

Crews repaired 1,180 square metres of bridge deck. The work included milling off the asphalt surface, removing all deck concrete down to the top layer of rebar. repairing delaminated concrete and cleaning or replacing rebar, and repaving the deck area with a concrete overlay.

The aim was to extned the life of the bridge deck with minimal maintenance to keep the bridge open while a replacement is desinged and built, a project expected to take up to seven years.

The $10-million project was dramatically scaled down from what was originally intended to be a $100-million rehabilitation lasting 18 months.

TransLink officials last fall ruled out seismic rehab work – they decided it was too expensive if it was even possible – and opted to minimize spending since it intends to replace the Pattullo with a new bridge as quickly as possible.

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South Asian community is known s a part of our daily chores, for the spices and wide range of food grocery plays an important items they include in their everyday role. Canada is a multicultural meals and also the specialities during country with a huge amount of their festive seasons. They need South Asian population living in specific and fresh ingredients for the each part. It has now become an essential measure exceptional taste which can only be to introduce the vital ethnic range of products found in India. However, looking for every grocery store to attract customers and at the demand and population provide them the best of their needs. growth in the community there have been many supermarkets that have included some of the crucial spices and ethnic food items. At variety of Indian sweets. present there are ample of supermarkets around the country Remo told us that after and Superstore is one of the finest names that people pick for in-depth analyzation of their grocery shopping. In Vancouver too, the supermarket market, the most demanded is becoming popular as a one stop shop for mainstream and products will be introduces ethnic products. The difference that makes Superstore distinct in other stores. is the element of ‘freshness’.

He also told us that the Recently, The Asian Star had words with Remo Mastropieri, motive of Superstore is to Store Manager of Superstore located at 350 S.E. Marine Drive offer healthy food at lower Vancouver who told that the store’s speciality lies in offering prices for healthy living. products in different diversity groups.

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Superstore being a responsible corporate, also takes part in important South Asian Functions including Vaisakhi, Diwali etc.

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With the goal to feed everyone, Superstores is involved in many charities and organisations in order to feed the needy people. They also hold campaigns wherein the Superstore team goes to various schools and provide breakfast for the children.

Giving details on the same, Remo told,” We pick different schools at different times, go there, cook food for the kids and serve them which justifies Superstore’s goal.”

Also in coming weeks the Superstore fundraising is going to start wherein the grants proceed to disabled people.

Apart from being a responsible Supermarket catering towards the needs of variety of diverse groups in Canada, the store also understands its social responsibility which marks it highly special. They keep testing various things on timely basis for providing best of the facility to customers and the best of the freshness in the food so that people can enjoy and stay healthy.

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Smoking on balcony suspected cause of Surrey fire Balcony smoking is the suspected cause of a four-alarm fire that gutted a Surrey, B.C., apartment forcing 100 people to evacuate their homes on Saturday night.

Surrey’s Assistant Fire Chief Steve Robinson said the fire is the latest in a series in the city over the past few years that caused major damage because flames went undetected. “Somebody has to smell it, see it, hear it.

The building’s detection systems are bypassed because it starts on the outside of the building,� said Robinson.

He points to the lack on prevention systems on balconies and outside walls of B.C. buildings, calling on the province to

require multi-unit buildings have exterior fire detectors and sprinkler systems.

Fires that spark on the outside of a building take longer to be noticed and cause up to 2.4 times more damage, he added.

The fire that gutted The Celeste apartment building on 121a Street sparked on a second-floor balcony, but so far fire officials can’t find any obvious cause.

They suspect the cause was a burning or smoldering cigarette butt. “There was nothing else to give us an indication. There was no electrical on the outside, the barbecue was in the off position, so that doesn’t leave us with a lot else,� said Robinson.

Canada’s cellphone rates rank among highest Canadians continue to pay some of the highest rates for wireless service in the G7 and Australia, according to a study commissioned by the CRTC and released Thursday.

The study, which was carried out by Nordicity Group for the telecom regulator, found that Canadians looking for 150 minutes of monthly mobile service paid more than consumers in every other G7 country and Australia.

That entry-level wireless package costs an average of $41.08 a month in Canada. By way of comparison, the cheapest price for that level of service cost just $17.15 in Germany.

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French wireless customers paid the least — $24.17.

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Liberals commit $450M, up to 600 troops to UN peacekeeping missions

department and up to 600 military personnel.

In the last budget, the government also announced $47 million a year for the next three years to deploy up to 150 police officers for international police peacekeeping programs, which is the purview of the RCMP, and a separate $17 million has been set aside for expert deployments at the UN and overseas.

There will also be air transport, medical, engineering and training components to Canada’s plan.

The government is not committing to specific missions today. That will likely come Stephane Dion, left, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau goes to the UN General Assembly next month.

But sources say the leading candidates for The announcement was made by Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, International Canadian troop deployments include Mali, Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion and the Central African Republic. The Liberal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale at a government was required to make the specific commitment as prerequisite to get into the military air base in Bagotville, Que. According to a release from Global Affairs upcoming international UN peacekeeping Canada, the government will commit $450 conference in London, which will take place million to peace operations through that in two weeks.

Canada is committing roughly half a billion dollars towards United Nations peace support operations over the next few years, a commitment that includes hundreds of troops and police officers.

RCMP allows Muslim women Mounties to wear hijab

The Mounties have adopted a new uniform policy to allow female Muslim officers to wear the hijab.

Scott Bardsley, spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, confirmed that RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson recently approved an addition to the uniform policy to allow women officers to wear the head scarf “if they so choose.”

“The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a progressive and inclusive police service that values and respects persons of all cultural and religious backgrounds,” Bardsley said in an email.

Male members of the Sikh faith have been able to wear the turban as part of the RCMP uniform since the early 1990s, he noted.

That right was won by Baltej Singh Dhillon, a young practising Sikh who wanted to become a Mountie but also wanted to wear a turban on

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Man sought in alleged racist confrontation, assault on SkyTrain Transit Police are seeking a man for allegedly attacking a male passenger and hurling racial insults and threats at a woman and her adult son.

On the afternoon of Aug. 22, a witness — who is being kept anonymous to protect his safety — transferred from the 99 B-Line bus to the SkyTrain at Broadway-City Hall Station in the course of his Saturday errands. When he got into the station, the witness says he observed a white man unleashing a racist tirade against an Asian woman and her son.

“Go back to the country you came from,”

the witness alleges the white man said before hurling a number of racial epithets at them.

The witness says when he stepped in and told the man to stop, he says the man said there was a “war going on” and he was going to “take us out.” The situation escalated from there, the witness said.

“He turned on me and repeatedly tried to goad me into a fight,” he said. “He kept pacing back and forth. His words were basically, ‘get out of the f--king camera, ... so I can beat the s--t out of you.’”

The witness then began video recording the

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situation with his cell phone: in the video, the white man appears to spit on him and then threatens him further.

Then, the witness says, the man attacked him, violently and repeatedly slamming him against a wall.

The witness says he’s lucky his injuries were minor: he got the wind knocked out of him was scraped up and still has soreness in his neck and shoulder.

“I’m fortunate, very fortunate, it wasn’t more serious,” he said.

Transit Police spokeswoman Anne

Drennan backs the witness’s version of the story.

She says an investigation into the incident is “very active” and police have a “very good lead” on the man in the photos and video, and they’re asking him to turn himself in.

She wouldn’t disclose if Transit Police knew the man’s name, and when asked if the man has been involved in other incidents on TransLink property, she only said “possibly.”

The witness hopes by telling his story the man will be held accountable for his alleged actions.

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Overdoses continues as 24-hour supervised site opens Drug overdosescontinue in Vancouver even after the supervised injection site opened for 24 hours a day. That site in the alone saw 14 overdoses on thursday — double the usual number.

The 24-hour pilot project is set to run for six months.

The inaugural day of the opening was busy. Firefighters and paramedics scrambled to deal with a glut of calls in the wake of Wednesday cheque deliveries, known to fuel drug deaths.

“It’s kind of like anyone else. You get a paycheque and there is a temptation to spend it quickly,” said Insite manager Patrick Beattie.

It’s unclear if any of the overdoses reported yesterday and overnight were fatal.

Burnaby shooting suspect sought by police Police in Burnaby are asking for the public’s help after a non-fatal shooting in south Burnaby, Monday evening.

It happened in the 7700 block of 12th Avenue around 8:30 p.m., according to Burnaby RCMP. When they arrived on scene, they found one man with gunshot injuries.

Witnesses told police the suspect, a Caucasian male dressed all in black, ran from the scene to a waiting dark vehicle with a roof rack, where a driver was waiting to take him from the scene. It’s believed to be a targeted shooting, but police say they don’t have a motive at this time. The victim is in hospital with critical but non-fatal injuries.

Anyone who witnessed the shooting is asked to phone Burnaby RCMP at 604-2947922, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

Man found dead in Surrey clothing donation bin

Surrey RCMP are investigating after a man was found dead in a clothing donation bin Tuesday morning.

A passerby called 911 at about 6:45 a.m.

PT after seeing the victim caught in the bin in Surrey’s Guildford neighbourhood, said police. The BC Coroners Service said a man was pulled from the bin and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not confirmed the man’s identity, and the cause of his death remains under investigation.

Cpl. Scotty Schumann of the Surrey RCMP said the man appears to gotten stuck attempting to get inside the bin. He said rescue workers had to cut the bin open to free the man’s body.

“Most of these bins are designed in such a way to make it very difficult for people to remove donations that have been dropped off,” Schumann said. “This wouldn’t be the first person who would have gotten trapped attempting to do that.”

On August 4, Surrey firefighters rescued a woman stuck in a similar donation bin overnight. Last September, a 45-year-old woman died after getting stuck in a donation bin in Pitt Meadows.

Deaths are known to spike — up to 40 per cent more than usual — when social assistance cheques are delivered, according to a study done at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control of “the cheque effect” which looked of coroner’s data between the period of 2009 to 2013.

Vancouver is applying for five more supervised sites to help keep people safe and give them a place to find help and escape the stigma of addiction, a medical condition often seen as needing punishment. “That’s great news — excellent,” said Michael Yam, a drug user who frequents the supervised injection site and often gets help from the nurse with the needle, plus first aid treatment for cuts and bruises.

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ICBC wants a 5% rate hike — again In spite of a looming spring election, the B.C. Liberal administration is backing ICBC’s proposed 4.9 per cent hike in basic insurance rates.

The Insurance Corp. of B.C. on Thursday painted a dismal financial picture in its rate application to the B.C. Utilities Commission — “a perfect storm” of more claims, more accidents, more injuries and higher costs.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone bleakly agreed and said the government will forgo some $160 million in dividends from the Crown corporation to try to hold the increase to a minimum.

“Government will not be provided a dividend for this current year, to do everything we can to apply as much downward pressure on rates as possible,” he said The average increase will be about the price of an extra hipster coffee a month — $3.50 for basic insurance coverage, about $5 with extended third-party liability coverage, plus collision and/ or comprehensive insurance.

“There is absolutely nothing we like about having to ask our customers to pay more but these external pressures are very real and they have created a perfect storm which we are struggling to hold off,” said Mark Blucher, ICBC’s CEO. “We’ve worked hard to get this rate increase lower than last year’s but the amount of basic premiums we collect will still not cover the increasing amount we’re paying out in basic claims costs.”

Last year, the company increased rates 5.5 per cent.

In support of this year’s application, the insurance giant pointed to increases in nearly all of its claims costs and precipitous declines in its earnings.

Blucher said the increase would have been much higher if not for ICBC’s trimming of operating expenses and the government giving up the dividend. Stone said the government was also directing ICBC to use $472 million generated by its optional insurance business to reduce the cost of the basic service.

Vancouver police ask for help to identify driver in fatal hit and run

Vancouver police on Thursday released a picture of the badly damaged vehicle believed to have been involved in the hit-and-run accident that killed Ryan Barron.

At a media conference attended by Barron’s family members — who live in Windsor, Ont. — Vancouver Police Sgt. Randy Fincham showed for the first

time a picture of a silver Mitsubishi with the windshield badly smashed and caved into the seating area of the car they believe was involved in the fatality.

Judging by the damage to the windshield, Fincham said the driver would be fully aware that someone was hit.

North Shore woman recovers some money after online dating scam By quickly reporting an Internet dating scam that cost her $27,000, a North Shore woman was able to recover about 40 per cent of that money, North Vancouver RCMP said.

The police handed the woman back $11,000 because it had not yet left the country.

“Because the incident was immediately reported to police and the money was not transferred outside of Canada, some of the money transactions we’re reversed,” Const. Brett Cunningham said. “Had there been a delay in reporting the incident, the outcome would have been less favourable.

“Unfortunately, recovering money from Internet scams doesn’t happen often.”

After months of messaging with a man she met on Match.com, the woman agreed to send $27,000 to the man, who said he was a

contractor working in Saudi Arabia and would repay her upon returning to Canada.

As soon as she deposited the money, his profile disappeared from the dating site.

Police say alarm bells should go off for many reasons, including: The person does not want to meet in person, won’t talk over Skype or other web-camera formats, and the relationship seems too good to be true.

RCMP direct people to their website and warn to never give out credit card or bank account numbers or your home address (even if you’re promised gifts), and that when you first meet make sure it’s in a public place and let someone know who, when and where you are meeting.

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre also has information on how to avoid being scammed.

Delta pot shop slapped with judicial order to close for violating local bylaws The B.C. Supreme Court says that a marijuana shop in Delta is in violation of local bylaws and has ordered it shut down.

In her ruling granting the Corporation of Delta a permanent injunction against the WeeMedical Dispensary Society, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick found that the store lacked a business licence and contravened zoning bylaws.

The judge noted that although the federal government has indicated that it intends to bring in new marijuana laws, the operation of a medical marijuana retail dispensary as run by WeeMedical is currently not allowed under the criminal law. “I have no idea where the federal government is in that process,” said the judge.

“It appears to be moving in that direction, but when it might get to that point is anyone’s guess.

Further, it is as yet unknown what any new legal regime will look like.”

Court heard that WeeMedical, which has 23 marijuana dispensaries across Canada including 13 in B.C., opened for business in Delta in April and applied for a business licence in May but was refused. It applied for a reconsideration of the decision by Delta council but was again refused.

Delta, which also argued that the shop was in contravention of a zoning bylaw requiring that medical marijuana production be limited to premises on the Agricultural Land Reserve, issued various offence notices and tickets to WeeMedical. As of June 1, fines amounting to $11,900 had been issued. The fines are being appealed, according to the ruling.

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BC’s school system underfunded, more costs are being downloaded - Report Funding for public education is not keeping pace with growing costs and has fallen as a share of B.C.’s economy, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, released today.

B.C. provides school districts with $1,000 less per student than the national average.

Meanwhile, rising costs including medical services plan premium hikes and B.C. Hydro rate increases have cumulatively added about $192 million to school board budgets since the 2012-13 fiscal year, says the report.

There have been some changes in government accounting since 2001 that explain the differences, the Education Ministry said in a statement.

“The reason the report’s GDP B.C. Education Minister Mike Bernier numbers are wrong is the CCPA ignores the fact that back in 2001 Public funding for elementary and high a number of items were included in the school education in B.C. has fallen to a education budget that are not included now,” projected 2.5 per cent of the provincial gross the ministry statement said. “For example, domestic product this year from 3.3 per cent debt service costs ($363 million) and the in 2001, the think-tank’s report says. The amortization of prepaid capital expenses Centre’s B.C. public finance policy analyst, ($201 million) were included in the 2002-03 Alex Hemingway, says that drop in the share education budget as expenses. Since 2009-10, of GDP is worth about $2 billion a year. those two major expenses are found in the “The big take-away is that the government’s Ministry of Finance’s budget. claims of record levels of funding are “When using the same comparable expenses fundamentally misleading,” Hemingway said, from the education budgets for 2002-03 and who wrote the report. “I’m spending record 2016-17 … funding has increased slightly levels on rent and groceries, but I’m not living once adjusted for inflation.” in a bigger apartment or eating more food.

The ministry also disputes the per-student You have to look at whether the spending is funding comparison, saying the Statistics keeping up with the costs of providing the Canada report from which the figures are service.” pulled doesn’t compare apples to apples.

Royal Bank ‘closely monitoring’ housing markets in Vancouver, Toronto

“The short supply of single-family homes in both cities — coupled with strong demand fuelled by household formation, including net immigration — has driven strong price appreciation,” McKay said during a conference call to discuss the bank’s (TSX:RY) third-quarter results.

“We have prudent underwriting practices in place and the necessary technology to closely monitor these markets and quickly react as situations may materialize.”

McKay added that he supports Ottawa’s plan to form a working group to study the housing market and develop recommendations to mitigate some of the risks stemming from the combination of soaring house prices and record levels of consumer debt.

Executives at RBC, which reported $2.895 billion of net income in the third quarter, were peppered with questions about the bank’s residential mortgage portfolio during Wednesday’s conference call.

Analysts wanted to know what contingency

plans the bank has in place in the event of a downturn in house prices.

RBC’s chief risk officer Mark Hughes touted the bank’s “diligent” process for verifying the incomes of borrowers and noted that the bank doesn’t participate in the second mortgage market or offer subprime mortgage loans.

Hughes also highlighted the fact that 48 per cent of the loan portfolio is insured, up from 46 per cent last year.

The bank purchased additional portfolio insurance this quarter, Hughes added.

“Overall, we remain comfortable with our exposure to the Canadian housing market,” he said.

“Our clients’ credit profiles are strong and have remained stable.”

Edward Jones analyst Jim Shanahan said that while having credit-worthy customers is important, it doesn’t insulate the bank from potential losses in the event of a correction or a crash.

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Anger management ordered for Iranianborn man who attacked wife’s boss

An Iran-born Edmonton man has been ordered to take anger management courses following a “nasty” attack on his wife’s boss stemming from a male co-worker saying hello to her in a mall.

Aadel Moradi, 39, was given a suspended sentence and placed on probation for 18 months on Tuesday in provincial court after pleading guilty to assault charges over what was an apparent clash of cultures.

“This was very nasty,” said Judge Kirk MacDonald, who described the Nov. 6, 2015, incident as a minor assault with “disturbing” undertones. “You are now in Canada. We do not place restrictions on the way that women live here, unlike in some other countries,” said MacDonald, adding it is “very sad” that Moradi doesn’t see it.

The judge told Moradi — a Kurd who emigrated here from a city near Tehran about

15 years ago — that he had considered sending him to jail, but accepted the joint submission

by Crown and defence.

“Just because you think someone has displayed bad manners, getting into a fight is no remedy for that,” said MacDonald.

Crown prosecutor Bethan Franklyn told court that Moradi and his wife had been at a city mall in late October 2015 when one of her co-workers came up to say hello.

Moradi asked the man how he knew his wife, then told him not to talk to her, said Franklyn.

On Nov. 6, Moradi went with his wife to the downtown office where she worked and asked to speak to human resources about the mall incident, said Franklyn. Court heard he eventually spoke to Ross Undershute, the CEO of the health consulting organization, and stated “No men are allowed to speak to his wife and she can’t speak to any men.”

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Convicted killer arrested while on parole in Abbotsford, could face new charges

When Anita Johnstone-LeFranc heard that the man who killed her sister 18 years ago — and was released on day parole last year — had been arrested, she was devastated, but not surprised.

“It always was just a matter of time,” Johnstone-LeFranc said.

“I hate to say that I am surprised that it took this long.”

Christopher Maurice Alexander is serving a life sentence for the 1998 murder of Linda LeFranc in Terrace. He was granted day parole in April 2015.

In December 1998, Alexander decided to rob LeFranc, who was his neighbour. Armed with a knife and wearing a disguise, he went into LeFranc’s townhouse using a key hidden outside the door. When LeFranc saw him and tried to run away, Alexander yelled at her, chased her and then stabbed her 83 times. LeFranc’s sevenyear-old daughter found her body a few hours later. Alexander was 17 years old at the time of the killing.

He became eligible for parole in 2006, and was subsequently denied parole four times.

Last year was the first time he was granted parole, in spite of a campaign by JohnstoneLeFranc to keep him behind bars.

Johnstone-LeFranc has long said that Alexander has not been rehabilitated and is a danger to the public — women in particular.

She relies on information gleaned from the parole hearings she has attended over the years.

“It’s not that I don’t believe there are those who can be rehabilitated, but it depends on the circumstances,” said Johnstone-LeFranc.

“He’s never taken really responsibility for what he has done.”

She lobbied to keep in him prison because she didn’t want to see anyone else victimized, but she received a call from the Correctional Service of Canada in June informing her that Alexander had been arrested “for the protection of society.” She said she was told that Alexander had allegedly reoffended violently.

“I was devastated. It was just so stressful in that this is what we were trying to avoid,” she said. “We fought so hard to keep someone else from being hurt at his hands.”

Langley has highest percentage of people on welfare in BC Despite being one of the smaller municipalities in the region, the City of Langley has the Lower Mainland’s highest rate of people receiving income assistance — with seven out of 100 people receiving government help each month.

The information was published in monthly reports from B.C. government’s online data, which reported there were 1,775 welfare recipients in Langley City in May 2016, under the government’s Employment and Assistance Program.

The provincial government has, over the past three years, budgeted $77 million for income assistance in 2016/17.

Those eligible can receive up to $610 for singles, $877 for couples and $1,101 for couples with two kids, per month.

In raw numbers, Vancouver had the highest numbers of recipients, at 26,514 people, with Surrey coming in second at 21,412, and Burnaby third at 6,992 recipients.

By rate per population, however, Surrey had the next highest rate after Langley City, with over four people in 100 in that city receiving

welfare each month. New Westminster, Vancouver and Maple Ridge were not far behind, and also had about 4% of their population on subsidies.

Richmond, Port Moody, North Vancouver District and West Vancouver, meanwhile, had the lowest rates of income assistance recipients — with fewer than twoin-100 receiving help — among 17 Lower Mainland municipalities examined.

The government data also breaks down the number of dependent children in each city with parents or guardians receiving income assistance.

Surrey had the highest rate of children living in an income-assistance household, with about one-in-three welfare-recipient families supporting a dependent child. Coquitlam and Pitt Meadows had about the same rates of children supported by income-assistance recipients.

Population counts were taken from the 2011 census, as that was the latest consistent population data available.

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TD, CIBC results beat expectations with higher profits The parade of Canadian banks reporting solid earnings continued Thursday as TD Bank and CIBC both posted third-quarter earnings that topped the average expectations of analysts.

TD said its overall profit for the quarter hit $2.36 billion, a rise of four per cent year over year, thanks to good results from its U.S retail banking division. In the same quarter of last year, TD made $2.27 billion.

After adjustments, TD said it made $2.42 billion, or $1.27 a share, up from $2.29 billion, or $1.20 a share, a year earlier.

According to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, analysts on average had expected earnings of $1.21 per share for TD in the most recent quarter. Meanwhile, CIBC said the sale of its minority stake in American Century

Investments boosted its thirdquarter earnings to $1.44 billion, or $3.61 a share. A year ago, the bank made $978 million, or $2.42 a share.

Even without the gain on the American Century sale, CIBC said it made $1.07 billion in profit.

Excluding adjustments and one-time items, CIBC reported

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a nine per cent increase in earnings per share, to $2.67 per share. Analysts had expected, on average, that the bank’s adjusted earnings per share would come in at $2.35 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. One market watcher agrees the banks have prevailed in areas where

trouble might have been expected.

“Everybody was very worried that the banks would have to take major loan losses on their exposure in Alberta, both on loans directly to energy related companies but also to people who live in Alberta who’ve lost their jobs or who can’t keep up their mortgages because they’ve lost their jobs,” David Baskin, the president of Baskin Wealth Management, told. “So far that hasn’t turned out to be the case.”

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SIKH SANGAT SEVA SOCIETY OF BC PRESS RELEASE Public meeting held Sunday, Aug. 21 to a standing-only crowd at South Hall in Vancouver. Supporters were standing in the lobby and outside.

The rally was started by former moderate multi-term Ross president Gurdev Singh Johal. After the passing of Amar Singh Sandhu who led the opposition for many years, Gurdev Singh Johal has come to the forefront to lead the troops. He was part of the moderate leadership for many years.

Johal, explained why he came forward and why it was necessary to make a change with the administration. He said this change is crucial and badly needed now. Many issues were highlighted.

He highlighted numerous examples of current mismanagement and explained the attendees that he hand-picked the Sikh Sangat slate and its President, Mr. Joga Singh Sangha. Sangha and his entire 15-member slate has vowed to keep tables and chairs at Ross Street langar hall intact. The only issue that current group was hoping to fight with was the tables and chairs issue which is now a non-issue with moderate leaders leading the way in opposition.

Johal also promised and guaranteed that he gives his personal guarantee that the tables and chairs will remain as they are.

He explained further that when in 1997 the tables and chairs edict was issued he went to India along with other leaders and met with the head of the Akal Takht, Jathedar Bhai Ranjit Singh. He explained the situation to him in detail and the politics involved and asked the Jathedar to visit Vancouver or at least send a delegation that could investigate the problem and address the wishes of the local BC Sangat. They had a three hour meeting but no solution was agreed to.

Our community has since suffered with divisions.

Johal said “I fought for this issue of tables and chairs and went to India and I personally guarantee to each and every one of you that it will not change. The tables and chairs will remain as they are. We need to elect Joga Singh and his slate because they will work hard and have financial transparency while delivering great programs. Sadly, right now the same few people are in charge for the past 18 years. They change a few faces from time to time, but always retain control.”

Johal asked why sports and education programs for the youth have suffered in the past 18 years, despite our community have greater numbers and more resources to work with. He asked how the Gurdwara was able to purchase properties and prosper 20 years ago yet today, this has all suffered under mounting financial debt. We did more in the 16 years prior to the past 18 years. Ask them what they have done? We purchased land and invested in sports program besides running great programs from the Gurdwara.

Iqbal Singh Sandhu, (Amar’s nephew and high school teacher) & Navjeet K. Randhawa (counselor) stressed the need to help the

youth, to mentor them and provide counseling as well as provide counseling for families and especially women. This service they want to have offered at the Gurdwara free of charge, confidentially and available to everyone.

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wasting thousands of dollars. They should provide all information to any member that requests it. If they cant do that then they should not be running the Gurdwara and be in the executive.

Candidate and financial expert Manjit

Keep the tables and chairs as is, modernizing the Gurdwara, implementing financial transparency, introducing engaging youth and seniors programs. Invest in the youth with sports programs especially during the evenings but particularly during the weekend.

Points to note: Total current debt according to 2015 financials is $4.1 million. $2.5 million is a loan $1 million line of credit is used Monthly payment is approx. $30,000 The debt 18 years ago was $3.8 million and it has grown to over $4 million. Where has all the donations gone? This loan should have been paid off long time ago. They don’t post anything and no one knows what is going on and we only got information that we have through the help of the courts and again

Singh Cheema, and bankermanager-Candidate Joga Singh Sangha, questioned how the Gurdwara is in debt after nearly twenty years and why this debt has grown to over $4,000,000.

Cheema (served with the current executive at Ross for 3 years but resigned because he was not being provided answers and he was not allowed to access all the financials even though he was a part of the executive, frustrated, he resigned) pointed out repeated financial irregularities under the current committee’s reign at Ross Street, including the mysterious transfer of $200,000 to the State Bank of India. Allegedly, the same account was later closed. Supposedly the transfer was made in order to increase the interest earned, however, the Gurdwara did not receive the monies the committee claims it was promised. Neither State Bank of India (SBI) nor the current Ross Street committee have explained this financial discrepancy, among questions about who exactly at SBI, made promises of higher interest

rates. The committee has also not been able to explain which other banks were interviewed about interest rates before transferring money to SBI. Nor has the committee explained why it refused to serve official Notice of Breach of Contract to State Bank of India.

Cheema also said that the current committee is denying access to full financial documents and reports that the courts have said they must give us. After many months we are still waiting for all the paperwork and they refuse to give them.

Cheema is very educated and respected finance expert.

He stated that “if I as an executive member could not access the financial details how will anyone from the public be allowed.

Why is there a secret? Why is the golak being counted in the back room instead of in the public as was the case many years ago.

Cheema promises, as the Treasurer that all the monthly golak donations will be posted at the gurdwara and online and everyone can have access and ask questions. It is your right to access this information and no one should have to go to court for it. This is your money and you have every right to know what is happening with it. He insisted that the Sangat will be consulted on all building contracts and tenders prior to pursuing them. “Nothing will be done in secrecy.”

This gathering was support to express the need for change. The attendees want change. The fresh and new faces on the executive will bring new ideas and bring a new beginning.

Other points to note that the public is concerned with: - the current committee’s closing down of the Gurdwara for a “VIP” visit.

- the same committee accepted a token $600,000 Komagata Maru payment without a Parliamentary apology, after earlier rejecting a $5,000,0000 offer by the Liberal government.

- Collabrating with the Conservative government and “creating a museum” at the Gurdwara which no one will see or visit. Instead this memorial for the Komagata Maru should have been at the BC Museum in Victoria or at a busy downtown Vancouver location where the general public could see and visit. Instead they took the money and hung up a few photos.

- For parents and kids, the current committee’s decision to close the elementary school while wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars in wasteful court costs over election procedures has been particularly disheartening. Estimated Milllions have been wasted in court costs for the past 18 years.

- Using the gurdwara for politics and campaigning against a candidate from the stage by calling him a terrorist and publically telling the media and making allegations of WSO links. That candidate however won and has become a minister in the government.

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Surrey man rammed by impaired driver awarded $290,000 in damages A Surrey man who was attempting to remove his granddaughter from a parked vehicle when it was rammed by an impaired driver has been awarded $290,000 in damages for injuries he suffered during the incident.

Court heard that Jose Granja was trying to get the little girl out of her car seat when Csaba Jozsef deliberately rammed his car into the passenger side door of the parked vehicle and twice rammed the rear bumper. Jozsef, who has pleaded guilty to several criminal charges in connection with the June 2010 incident, got out of his vehicle and approached Patrycia Arana, the driver of the parked vehicle and the mother of the girl, while screaming obscenities and punched her in the face.

He tried to punch Granja but due to his highly intoxicated state could only hit Granja’s open hands and kick him in the legs.

The incident happened in the parking lot of Granja’s Surrey condo.

At trial, Jozsef and ICBC, a third party to the lawsuit, admitted the collision was caused by his negligence but Jozsef insisted that because of his intoxication he wasn’t capable of injuring Granja, a refugee from Colombia.

Real Estate Council suspends realtor

The Real Estate Council of British Columbia has suspended the real estate licence of Jacob (Jack) Stephanian, formerly licensed with Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty of Vancouver, pending completion of its investigation into Mr. Stephanian’s conduct.

Effective immediately, Mr. Stephanian is prohibited from providing real estate services to or on behalf of any member of the public.

The Council has suspended the licence in the public interest after uncovering evidence that Mr. Stephanian deliberately omitted relevant information and provided false or misleading information on his initial licence application and on subsequent licence renewal applications.

Concerned clients of Mr. Stephanian should contact his brokerage, Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty (Vancouver branch office) at 604-879-8989.

The defendant, who testified that due to his intoxication he had no recollection of the events and could not explain his actions, argued that the cause of Granja’s physical and psychological injuries were as a result of preexisting factors and not related to the accident.

ICBC argued that any injuries suffered by Granja were because of the assault and not as a result of the collision.

Granja, a government employee who witnessed the assassinations of two colleagues before he came to Canada in 2003 as a refugee with his family, filed suit over the injuries from the collision but did not seek damages for the “slight injury” he suffered when Jozsef assaulted him.

After the collision, Granja experienced some slight pain in his hands and right knee, the pain in his right hand more pronounced because he had a pre-existing workplace injury. “Emotionally, he was very distraught and confused as he could not comprehend why someone would act in such a way towards him in Canada,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Martha Devlin said in a ruling released Monday.

Noise complaints as trains whistle warns homeless near Newton tracks Some Newton residents have been sleeping a little less soundly due to an increase in the frequency and length of train whistles in their neighbourhood.

“We’ve had a significant increase in complaints from that area in the past two weeks,” said J. Singh Biln, director of community relations and chief mechanical officer for the Southern Railway of B.C., which has tracks running through New Westminster, Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford and Chilliwack. The complaints — at least 20 — have come from mostly people who live adjacent to the tracks between 64th and 72nd avenues. Biln said that train operators are required to blow their whistle at every crossing, whether or not it’s controlled. Generally, it’s a series of long and short blasts that last about 20 seconds, but Biln said the engineer has the discretion to blow the whistle longer if there

are people or vehicles near the track.

He said the more frequent whistles in Newton can be mostly attributed to train operators alerting homeless people living near the tracks that a train is approaching.

Biln said that during the past month, the number of people camping next to the tracks has increased. Southern Railway has spent about $25,000 during that period to have a contractor, RECYCLE-IT Earth Friendly Services, move the campers along and clean up their mess. According to Transportation Safety Board data for all railways, there have been 26 trespasser fatalities in Canada this year. “When they’re that close to the tracks, it’s very, very dangerous,” said Biln, adding that he’s also seen large items left on the tracks that have the potential to derail trains.

Radiothon for PICS Diversity Village on Red FM Listeners of Red FM raised $100,000 during a successful fundraiser recently for PICS Diversity Village, a culturally sensitive complex care home for seniors that Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS) is building in the community of Cloverdale, Surrey.

Thanking the listeners of Red FM, PICS CEO Mr. Charan Gill said, “Homes such as PICS Diversity Village are greatly needed for our seniors and I am extremely grateful to each and every person who contributed towards this cause during the radiothon”.

Gill especially thanked Red FM who provided their popular platform to PICS to raise funds for this project. He also thanked all hosts and volunteers at the radio station who worked hard all day dispersing information and collecting donations.

“A special thanks to Mr. Kulwinder Sanghera; President, Red FM who chose to not only donate all proceeds from Red FM’s Annual

Walk and Run 2016 to PICS Diversity Village but also made a generous contribution of $16,000 on behalf of Red FM.

PICS has already bought land in Cloverdale and engaged professional teams to plan the care home which when built will be a state of the art care home delivering customised culturally sensitive services to our seniors in need.

For more information on PICS Diversity Village or to donate visit www.pics.bc.ca.

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BC Liberals launch election ads 9 months before May vote

A little less than 9 months before the next B.C. provincial election, the B.C. Liberals have released their first campaign ad, featuring leader Christy Clark sitting around a kitchen table drinking coffee with a group of British Columbians.

What’s remarkable to political communication experts is not the party’s messaging on the economy, but that voters are seeing ads so far out from the May 9, 2017 voting day.

It shows that more aspects of the constant campaign cycle often attributed to U.S. politics have crept north of the border, said Royal Road University associate professor David Black. “As

a first sign of the B.C. Liberal communication strategy ... it is an unsurprising and likely very effective start,” said Black.

Black added that the B.C. Liberals are trying to own the economy and job creation as their success stories. In the ad, Premier Christy Clark said “if you look around the rest of the country, around the United States, a lot of places are struggling ... with unemployment, with joblessness.”

“We have to redouble our efforts, keep the eye on the ball and focus on controlling government spending,” she told a pair of nodding women at the table.

About 180 ‘individuals with a nexus to Canada’ suspected of participating in terrorist activities overseas Canada’s “principal terrorist threat” comes from those inspired by extremist ideologies to conduct attacks, the government said Thursday in its latest update on the security challenges facing the country.

Released by Pubic Safety Minister Ralph Goodale just over two weeks after a failed ISIL-inspired suicide bombing in Ontario, the report said ISIL and its sibling al-Qaida “continue to appeal to certain individuals in Canada.” Some promote violence online, radicalize their peers, recruit and fundraise, it said. “Others may consider travelling abroad to join a terrorist group or conducting terrorist

attacks themselves,” said the 2016 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada.

As of the end of 2015, about 180 “individuals with a nexus to Canada” were suspected of participating in terrorist activities overseas, up from 130 the previous year, it said. More than half were thought to be in Turkey, Iraq or Syria.

About 20 per cent of Canada’s extremist travellers were women, the report said, adding that in Syria the women were not only serving as brides but were also training and fighting in some cases. Some have brought their children with them.

DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr Ranjit Singh Grewal, 92 of Raikot, Ludhiana passed away in Surrey this week.

His Funeral will be held on Tuesday, August 30th At 10:00 AM at Valley View Funeral Home on 146th Street and 72nd Avenue, Surrey and antim ardas will be held at Gurdwara Singh Sabha on 132nd Street and 81st Avenue, Surrey.

Contact Kuldeep Grewal at 778-891-2395

Krishna’s Janam Ashtmi was celebrated by Hindus in metro Vancouver last week.

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Catherine McKenna calls for review of government photo spending Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has asked her department to review the practice of hiring photographers for events, while defending the importance of pictures to chronicle her work.

According to a Canadian Press report based on documents obtained by the news agency, McKenna’s department paid nearly $11,000 to hire a French photographer during the climate change conference in Paris last year.

During a news conference Tuesday in Ottawa, McKenna said the cost was lower than the figure initially reported. She said the cost was $6,600.

“But as someone who uses social media actively, personally, I think there are ways

to reduce costs,” McKenna said. “We need to be mindful of the costs to taxpayers.

That’s something we’re committed to as a government, so I have instructed the department of Environment and Climate Change Canada to review the practices so we can reduce the costs to Canadians.”

McKenna said it’s not unique for departments to hire official photographers.

“This is a long-standing practice under previous governments including the Conservative government because clearly pictures are an important way we communicate the government business to Canadians,” McKenna said.

The government uses the material on

“official channels” like Twitter feeds, McKenna said.

She vowed that the department will have a “serious look at this.”

Spending by federal Liberal cabinet ministers has been under increased scrutiny since the public learned of Health Minister Jane Philpott’s expenses for limousine services and special access to airline lounges.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Tuesday that his government must do better to control such expenses and left open the possibility of greater transparency in divulging ministerial spending.

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Health minister billed taxpayers $520 for access to Air Canada’s executive lounges The federal Conservatives are raising new questions about Health Minister Jane Philpott’s travel expenses.

A receipt obtained by the official Opposition shows she billed taxpayers $520

for a year’s membership to Air Canada’s executive airport lounges in North America and Europe.

Conservative health critic Colin Carrie wants Philpott to pay back the money, calling it another example of the minister’s lack of judgment.

Philpott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Last week, Philpott said she would pay back $3,700 in high-end car service costs after it was revealed she billed for $1,700 on one day and more than $1,900 on another day.

The minister’s department is also reviewing 20 trips to Toronto Pearson International Airport that cost $3,815 to see if taxpayers were charged fairmarket value.

The car service — used to take the minister between work events — was provided by a limo company owned by a volunteer who canvassed for Philpott in the last election.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the minister’s situation is a reminder his government must be “extremely careful” about its expenses and the public trust it holds.

Canadians now spend more on taxes than on food, clothing and shelter combined The Fraser Institute calculates that the average Canadian family paid $34,154 in taxes of all sort last year, including “hidden” business taxes that are passed along in the price of goods and services purchased.

The study’s authors conclude that visible and hidden taxes would have been equal to 42.4 per cent of the cash income for an average Canadian family in 2015, estimated at $80,593.

By comparison, the study estimates the average Canadian family spent $30,293 on housing, food and clothing last year — about 37.6 per cent of the family’s total cash income.

The Vancouver-based thinktank estimates that the average bill for income taxes collected by governments was $10,616 in 2015.

The second-biggest category was payroll and health taxes, at $7,160, followed by sales taxes at $4,973 and property taxes at $3,832.

The other categories include taxes on profits, liquor or tobacco, fuel, natural resources and import duties — totalling

$7,573.

The Fraser Institute uses its own “Canadian consumer tax index” to track the tax bill paid by a family with “average income.”

“The objective is not to trace the tax experience of a particular family, but rather

to plot the experience of a family that was average in each year,” the 11-page report says.

“The ‘consumer’ in question is the taxpaying family, which can be thought of as consuming government services.”

Canada Post, CUPW agree to mediation after union files strike notice

Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk said a special mediator will begin working with Canada Post and the union representing the majority of its employees Friday morning in

hopes of avoiding a strike.

“Sometimes when negotiations have been going for a long time, like now, they fall into a rut, and sometimes you need to shake things up,” Mihychuk said Thursday evening in Saguenay, Que., the site of the Liberal

caucus retreat. While Mihychuk said it was a positive step that both Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers were co-operating with the mediation process and that the hope was for a resolution by Sunday, she added, “Canadians need to get prepared for a potential work stoppage. I think that’s the reality.”

Mihychuk said the name of the mediator would be released as soon as possible.

Earlier, the union in a statement accused Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra of going “rogue” after refusing a request for a 24-hour extension of negotiations, forcing the union into a labour dispute.

The union filed a 72-hour notice of job action that will put it in a legal strike position as of 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday.

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A day after the Punjab Government decided to hand over investigation into the attack on RSS leader Brig Jagdish Gagneja (red) to the CBI, the Jalandhar Commissionerate today brought four Ludhiana jail inmates on production warrant on a suspicion of their involvement in the attack.

The inmates were Shiv Sena leader Amit Arora, his domestic help Mani, Samar D’Souza and Bharti Sandhu. They were remanded in seven days’ police custody.

The Ludhiana police had on June 23 arrested Arora, along with Mani, on the charge of concocting a story of attack on him. Arora had claimed he was attacked on February 3.

D’Souza had surrendered in a Ludhiana court on August 12. He is an accused in a stage-managed attack on Shiv Sena leaders RD Puri and Arora in 2013.

Sukhbir should quit, says Channi Congress Legislature Party chief Charanjit Singh Channi today welcomed the handing over of the investigation in the case of assault on RSS leader Brigadier Jagdish Gagneja to the CBI. He said, however, the decision had portrayed the failure of the state investigative agencies under the command of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Sukhbir should own up his miserable failure as the home minister and quit, he said. “This is the third major case in Punjab in which the state investigative agencies have failed to nab the culprits. The first one was the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib that triggered a series of such actions. The second case was the assassination of Mata Chand Kaur, 80, at Bhaini Sahib. The state government agencies have failed in all three. It is Sukhbir Singh Badal who stands disgraced as the Home Minister,” Channi added.

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GM mustard gets technical clearance from govt panel A government panel has cleared commercial use of what would be India’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop, but politicians still have to give final approvals amid widespread public opposition.

Technical clearance for indigenously developed GM mustard seeds was given on August 11 by the panel of government and independent experts, following multiple reviews of crop trial data generated over almost a decade, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The decision to go ahead is likely to be

made public soon by the environment ministry’s Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, and is expected eventually to move to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s desk via Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave.

Dave could not immediately be contacted for comment.

The environment ministry said in a statement late on Thursday that no final decision has been taken yet and that its Genetic Engineering Approval Committee will put up a “safety document” on the issue

on its website seeking comments from the public.

The news of the technical approval comes when US seed maker Monsanto — which dominates the GM cotton market in India — faces heightened government regulation that has forced it to consider quitting a country it has operated in for decades.

Reuters reported on Wednesday that Monsanto had withdrawn an application seeking approval for its next generation GM cotton seeds in India, escalating a longrunning dispute between New Delhi and

the world’s biggest seed maker.

Top India executives of multinationals like Monsanto, Bayer Biosciences, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont Pioneer and Syngenta have called a joint news conference on Friday to make an “important announcement”, following what they called difficult times that have impacted operations of seed companies.

Political and public opposition to labaltered food remains strong amid fears that GM crops could compromise food safety and biodiversity.

Three diplomats in race for India’s next envoy to US The race for the next Indian ambassador to the US has started in earnest. Arun Singh, the current Indian envoy to the US, is set to retire by August-end and the government is mulling its options on the next person to head its mission in Washington DC. Sources informed The Tribune that there were three people in contention.

Navtej Sarna, currently India’s High Commissioner to the UK, Pankaj Saran, India’s Ambassador to Russia, and Navdeep Suri, Indian High Commissioner to Australia. The government is looking at the merits of all three candidates with sources pointing out that the final call will be taken by the Prime Minister.

That also sets in motion some major reshuffles within the Ministry of External Affairs. Santosh Jha, Joint Secretary (policy

planning) in the Ministry, is all set to move to Washington DC as Deputy Ambassador.

Dinesh Patnaik is set to move to London

as the Deputy High Commissioner as his stint as India’s Ambassador to Morocco ends. Yash Sinha, who is currently serving as the High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, also lobbied hard for the Washington posting but sources point out that he might get to go to London as High Commissioner if Sarna moves to Washington DC. Taranjit Sandhu, who is India’s deputy chief of mission in Washington, is headed to Sri Lanka as the new High Commissioner.

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Rs 10 lakh insurance for train travellers The Indian Railways has decided to offer a travel insurance cover of upto Rs 10 lakh to its passengers from August 31, a step coming in line with a similar facility available to air travelers. A premium of 92 paise per ticket would be charged for the service.

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a railway subsidiary, has assigned the task to three private firms: Shriram General Insurance, ICICI Lombard General Insurance and Royal Sundaram General Insurance.

The insurers, said sources, were selected through an open bidding from among 17 companies, which participated in the process.

The cover, however, would not be applicable for children up to 5 years of age and foreign citizens, he said. “It would only be meant for passengers holding tickets

China concern over India’s plan to deploy BrahMos on border

such as confirmed, RAC and wait-listed ones,” said the official.

Apart from rail accidents, it would also take care of terrorist attacks, riots, robbery and accidental fall of a passenger from a train.

At first, insurance would be available only to those travellers who buy tickets for reserved seats for their single travel, the official said. But the scheme would later be extended to ‘season ticket travellers’ where a premium of Rs 200-300 would be charged.

Even passengers travelling with unreserved tickets would be included at a later stage.

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“The District Collector of Kalahandi has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

Sub-Collector of Bhawanipatna has been directed to conduct the probe and submit a report at the earliest,” state Urban Development Minister Pushpendra Singhdeo, who hails from Kalahandi district, said in Bhubaneswar.

“Sub-Collector Sukanta Tripathy has been asked to ascertain whether the man, Dana Majhi,

had been denied a vehicle to take his wife’s body from the hospital,” said a senior officer.

Amang Dei, 42, had died of TB at the district

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2 victims get compensation 3 decades after anti-Sikh riots The Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the district administration to pay compensation with interest to two victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Justice S C Sharma passed the order on August 17 while hearing the petitions filed by Surjeet Singh (67) and Sharan Singh (68).

Advocate Himanshu Joshi, the petitioners’ lawyer, told reporters today that Surjeet Singh’s timber shop was burnt down and Sharan Singh’s liquor shop was looted during the anti-Sikh riots in the city in 1984 following the killing of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. The

district administration had denied them compensation because their names were not on the official list of victims. On the basis of records submitted by the petitioners, the high court declared both as riot-affected persons and directed the district Collector to give them compensation for the loss of property with 8.5 per cent annual interest from 1984.

The HC also imposed a total cost of Rs 50,000 on the state government, to be paid to the petitioners, and asked the Collector to file a compliance report within 90 days. If the order was not complied with, the court will initiate contempt proceedings, the judge said.

Kerry to visit India next week US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to New Delhi to attend the second IndiaUS Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, according to the State Department. “On August 29-31, Secretary Kerry will travel to New Delhi, India, for meetings with senior Indian officials,” the State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau said yesterday.

On August 30, Kerry and US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will cochair the second US-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue (S&CD), she said. Kerry and Pritzker will be joined by their respective Indian co-chairs, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman, along with members of the US delegation and their Indian counterparts.

“The S&CD is the signature mechanism for advancing the United States’ and India’s shared priorities of generating sustainable economic growth, creating jobs, improving the business and investment climate, enhancing livelihoods, and sustaining the rulesbased global order,” Trudeau said.

Kerry, however, would begin his visit to South Asia by travelling to Bangladesh. This will highlight the longstanding and broad US-Bangladesh relationship, she said.

“Secretary Kerry will meet with government officials to discuss our growing cooperation on global issues. He will also focus on strengthening our long-standing bilateral partnership on democracy, development, security and human rights,” Trudeau said.

Chilli-based ‘PAVA shells’ in place of pellet guns The Centre’s expert committee, tasked with finding a replacement to the pellet gun, is learnt to have agreed on newly developed “PAVA shells”, a chilli-based less-lethal munition that temporarily incapacitates the target and renders it immobile. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today indicated in Srinagar that security agencies will get an “alternative” to the pellet gun “within a few days”.

The pellet gun, used extensively in quelling the “stone throwing” violent protests at several places in the Valley, had come in for severe criticism as they caused extensive injuries among protesters.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had constituted the committee to find an alternative.

The Home Minister, while addressing a joint press conference with J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Srinagar today, said the seven-member panel, comprising officials from various security forces and munitions experts, will submit its report soon and “within few days, we will give an alternative to pellet guns”.

Sources said the committee held a demonstration of the maiden shells at a test

field in the national capital early this week and gave its thumbs up for use by security forces in crowd control and during protests like those witnessed in the Valley.

An official privy to a draft prepared for the purpose said: “The PAVA shells were under testing for over a year at the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratory, in Lucknow and its full development has come right on time when it was most needed.”

Sources said the panel favoured “PAVA shells” as an alternative to pellet guns and had recommended that the Tear Smoke Unit (TSU) of the BSF in Gwalior should be tasked with the bulk production of the shells “immediately”, with the first lot of 50,000 rounds.

“PAVA” or Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide, also called Nonivamide, is an organic compound found in natural chilli pepper.

“PAVA” can be put in the less-lethal munitions category and once fired, the shells burst out to temporarily stun, immobilise and paralyse the target (protesters) in a more effective way than a teargas shell or pepper spray.

AI diverts Mumbai-Newark flight to Kazakhstan An Air India flight from here to Newark, carrying around 300 passengers, was on Thursday diverted to Kazakhstan due to technical issues. The Boeing 777-300 ER

plane landed at the Aktobe international airport at 8 am after “some alarm went off ”.

A relief aircraft from New Delhi would ferry the stranded passengers to Newark.

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FIJI

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Fiji Times charged with inciting communal antagonism The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Christopher Pryde, has sanctioned charges of inciting communal antagonism against the Fiji Times. The charges have been laid

against Josaia Waqabaca, Anare Ravula, Fred Wesley, Hank Arts, and the Fiji Times Ltd under section 65 (2) (a) (i) and section 53 (1) of the Crimes Decree in relation to an article published by the Fiji Times in its supplemental iTaukei language newspaper Nai Lalakai on 27 April 2016.

It is alleged that Josaia Waqabaca, Anare Ravula, Fred Wesley, Hank Arts, and the Fiji Times Ltd made, or caused to be published, a statement in the iTaukei language Nai Lalakai newspaper that is likely to incite dislike, hatred, or antagonism of the Muslim community. The statement reads: “Ko ira na Musulomani era sega ni taukei kei Viti, sai ira nai lawalawa oqo era a curu botea na vanua eso ka dua vei ira ko Bangladesh mai Idia, kara vei vakamatei kina, kucuvi na nodra yalewa, ra vakararawataki na gone me yacova sara nira sa lewa ka sa nodra tu edaidai” (Translated as “Muslims are not the indigenous of this country.

These are people that have invaded other nations,for example, Bangladesh in India, where they killed, raped and abused their women and children. Today they have gone to the extent of having a part in the running of the country”). The matter will be called for first mention tomorrow.

RBF to issue commemorative coin to honour the Fiji Rugby Sevens team’s Gold The Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) today announced that a colored commemorative circulation coin will be issued in early 2017 to honor the Fiji Rugby Sevens team’s Gold Medal win at the 2016 Rio Olympics. RBF Governor Barry Whiteside said the RBF Board of Directors in their last meeting in July had approved the minting of a colored commemorative circulation

coin in limited quantities should Fiji win a gold medal at the Rio Olympics. He said this will be the first colored commemorative circulation coin for Fiji and design work is currently being finalised. “Together with the production time, which is dependent on availability of a slot with the mint, actual completion of the coin could take around six months.

Anne Dunn is Miss Hibiscus 2016

Miss Home and Living Anne Dunn was tonight crowned Vodafone 2016 Hibiscus queen. The 24-year-old law student who also won the Best Research Presentation award earlier in the festival was picked ahead of four other finalists after the judges named the top 5 following a series of judging at the week-long event.

The top 5 contestants were given the last chance to impress the judges with a final question and Ms Dunn impressed the most as she tackled a question about sports development and how she if chosen as Miss Hibiscus would empower women and youths and work with authorities to further enhance their participation in sports. Speaking to FijiLive after the crowning, an elated and emotional Miss Dunn said while she was composed and confident all week long, winning the crown was not really on her mind.

“I entered the Hibiscus festival to become a more confident and bold person and the who experience has just been amazing and fantastic to me.

I am just speechless at the moment and just want to thank God, my family, my parents, my friends and my sponsors Home and Living who were there for me from the beginning and helped me at every stage in this journey.” “My advocacy message was on gender equality and

now that I have been chosen as the winner, I will use this platform and my reign as Miss Hibiscus to advocate more on the issue and work closely with authorities in raising more awareness. I will also continue to emphasise on the issue during my participation in the Miss Fiji pageant as well,” she said.

Miss Connect Veti Vukalokalo finished as the first runner up while Miss Apco Sheenal Swastika was named the second runner up.

Miss Lunchbox Unise Radinitoga finished fourth while Miss Foneology Sotiana Mele finished fifth. Meanwhile Mr Apco Christopher Prasad walked away with the Hibiscus King crown beating 10 other contestants in the Kings category. Mr Fatburger Sakiasi Labekewa finished as first runner up while Mr Rentokil Initial Viliame Vunakoro was named the second runner up.

Woman murdered, husband found dead Police are investigating the alleged murder of a 39-year-old in Tauvegavega, Ba early today. Police Spokesperson, Ana Naisoro has confirmed the deceased was allegedly murdered by her 49-year-old husband. She said that they received an anonymous call at

around 5am and were told about the incident.

It is alleged that the victim was attacked by a cane knife resulting in her death. Police then went looking for the suspect and found him dead. Ms Naisoro said Police are still getting more information on the matter.

PAKISTAN

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Wiping out militancy imperative for Pak’s existence

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that wiping out the threat of militancy is “imperative” for Pakistan’s existence and survival.

The Prime Minister chaired a meeting at the Prime Minister House here to review the progress on the implementation of National Action Plan (NAP), adopted after Peshawar school attack to deal with terrorism.

According to an official statement, Lt General (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua, National Security Advisor and the Convener of Implementation and Review Committee of National Action Plan, made a presentation detailing implementation status as to various components of the NAP. Sharif expressed his satisfaction on the progress made by various provincial and federal agencies so far and directed that the pace of implementation should be further expedited. Sharif said that, “eradication of the menace of terrorism was neither a choice nor an option, but an imperative for our existence and survival.”

Various laws governing the anti-terrorism efforts were also reviewed and ways and means to make these laws more effective were discussed.

The report presented to the Prime Minister by the Federally Administered Tribal Areas Reforms Committee was also discussed and it was decided that the report shall be made public to elicit further debate and discussion towards developing a national consensus on the committee’s recommendations.

Attack on university in Kabul orchestrated from Pakistan, says Afghanistan government Cooling ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan took a further hit on Thursday evening, with the Afghan government saying the attack on Kabul’s American University was orchestrated from Pakistan. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke with Pakistan Army chief Raheel Shariff and demanded strong action against the terror networks responsible for the attack. Kabul’s accusation that the attack was orchestrated from across the Durand Line, the AfPak border, comes at

a time of spiralling relations between the neighbours. Recent developments have also seen Kabul increasingly playing up the optics of its closeness with New Delhi, and of lethal weaponry transfer from India.

Afghanistan’s accusation came in a statement from the country’s National Security Council, which met at the Presidential Palace for an extraordinary session on Thursday, reported Afghan news outlet Pajhwok.

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US concerned about human rights situation in Pakistan-held Kashmir The US is concerned about human rights situation in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir+ and the country’s Balochistan province, the State Department has said.

US State Department spokesperson Mark C Toner on Tuesday said the US was concerned about the “ human rights situation+ “ there and had “reported it for several years in our Human Rights Report”.

He made the remarks while responding to a question about Pakistan Army’s oppression in Pakistan-held Kashmir and Balochistan+ , during a press briefing here.

Toner also said the US had always urged Pakistan to work out differences in its region peacefully and through a political process.

“We’ve obviously -- are always urging all parties in Pakistan to work out their differences peaceably and through a valid political process,” Toner said.

He also said that Pakistan was well aware of the US policy on the Kashmir issue.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

How hundreds of students survived deadly attack on university in Kabul Thirteen people, including students and a professor, were killed in an attack on the American University+ in Kabul that had students leaping from the windows in panic, the Afghan government said on Thursday.

The attack began on Wednesday evening with a large explosion from what officials said was a car bomb followed by gunfire, as suspected militants stormed into the complex where foreign staff and pupils were working.

It ended early on Thursday when two gunmen were shot dead by Afghan special forces who surrounded the walled compound and worked their way inside, interior ministry officials said.

The Afghan presidential palace said in a statement that seven students, three security force personnel, two security guards and one professor were killed in the attack, the second incident involving the university this month.

The gunmen got into the building despite armed guards and watchtowers.

Students recounted barricading themselves in classrooms or jumping from windows to escape when the attack started.

“Many students jumped from the second floor, some broke their legs and some hurt their head trying to escape,” Abdullah Fahimi, said a student who escaped. He injured his ankle making the leap.

Modi invites Nepal PM Prachanda to visit India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended an invitation to new Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ to visit India at the earliest while expressing commitment to strengthening traditional bonds of friendship and kinship.

Modi conveyed this to Bimalendra Nidhi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs of Nepal, when he called on him here.

During the meeting, Modi conveyed his greetings and best wishes to the new government of Nepal led by Prachanda and extended an invitation to him to visit India at his earliest convenience, a PMO statement said.

Nidhi briefed the Prime Minister about developments in Nepal where the new government took over recently.

Modi said the relations between India and Nepal were not merely between the two governments but between the people of the two countries and that India is committed to strengthening these traditional bonds of friendship and kinship with the people of Nepal.

The Prime Minister also said that India is fully committed to support the government and the people of Nepal in the postearthquake reconstruction efforts.

Relations between India and Nepal went through a bad phase last year and the two countries are hoping to make a new beginning after the new government took over in Kathmandu.

It’s books, bands and Buddhism in Bhutan

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Seven years ago, Mountain Echoes, a gritty little literary festival put down roots in Thimphu, hoping to grow a forest of ideas. Over the years, writers, academics, diplomats, environmentalists, culinary and cultural artists attended the event from the subcontinent and farther, contributing to its creative canopy and setting off writing collaborations and literary enterprises that went beyond the stage. In this, its seventh year, Mountain Echoes returns on August 26, with the fruits of its labour, its attempts to reach deep and pull out new stories from the mountain kingdom.

Year One started tentatively with a lineup that featured more speakers from outside Bhutan than within; this year however, people from both sides of the Bhutanese border figure equally on the bill. They bring to the schedule a range as broad as the mountains itself - climate change, oral histories, detective fiction, noir, brandbuilding, mountaineering, identity, travel and stillness, digital libraries, and Buddhism, with a roll-call that includes Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck, Pico Iyer, Amitav Ghosh, Tabu, Piyush Pandey, Graeme Simsion, Zac O’Yeah, and others. Buddhism, incidentally, has a prominent place in this year’s schedule.

“2016 is a special year for Bhutan,” says Siok Sian Dorji, Founder-Director of the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy and codirector of Mountain Echoes.

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Shraddha beats Alia to be the lead in Golmaal Again?

Kareena still a part of Sonam’s Veere Di Wedding!

Today morning, the biggest news of Kareena Kapoor Khan walking out of Sonam Kapoor’s Veere Di Wedding left us SHOCKED! It was reported that Bebo wanted to leave the film because she is in her second trimester and isn’t feeling good health-wise. However, BollywoodLife has an EXCLUSIVE update on this film that will surprise you!

Kareena Kapoor Khan has finally agreed to be a part of Sonam Kapoor‘s Veere Di Wedding, but with a few conditions. As a source reveals to us EXCLUSIVELY, “After Kareena Kapoor Khan spoke to producers – Rhea (Kapoor) and Ekta (Kapoor), they discussed and have come to a common understanding. Kareena will be a part of the film, but she will start shooting only after her delivery. The actress doesn’t want her bump to be seen in the film and wasn’t feeling well too. So the producers have decided to wait.

Sonam Kapoor is also ready to wait coz they want Kareena to be a part of the film.”

After Kareena Kapoor Khan chose to stay away from the fourth installment of the Golmaal franchise, Alia Bhatt and Shraddha Kapoor were to be the frontrunners to replace her in the film.

However as per a report in the film, it seems like Shraddha Kapoor is all set to beat Alia Bhatt to be a part of Ajay Devgn’s madcap entertainer, which is reportedly called Golmaal Again. When this news gets confirmed, we will make sure you will be the first ones to know of the development.

Rohit Shetty, who will return to direct the latest film, had already hinted that Kareena Kapoor Khan, who was a part of Golmaal Returns and Golmaal 3, will be having a guest appearance in his film ormay be a special song.

Ajay Devgn will of course be returning to franchise, along with his usual gang of Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade. There will also be a younger hero in the film, who has not been cast in yet.

The first Golmaal was a remake of a Gujarati play, which bowled over both audience and critics.

Golmaal Returns may not be a big hit with the critics, but it worked with the audience.

Golmaal 3 was the biggest hit of them all.

SRK plays a womaniser in Imtiaz Ali’s next?

Shah Rukh Khan has begun shooting his next which is Imtiaz Ali’s next. He plays a tourist guide in the film and Sikh one at that. He isn’t a sardar but the acquiring the nuances of Sikhs will be cakewalk for him since he has portrayed such roles in a lot of films. But the look is pretty different and we are so digging that. From whatever we have seen of the actor from the sets, we just can’t stop ogling at him. How…just how does this man make simple look so hot? And guess that’s why Ali has given a sensational twist to his character. We hear Shah Rukh plays a womaniser in the film!

Yes, that’s shocking and that’s also a first for this man. WOW! That will be even more exciting, won’t it be? We have seen him as an obsessed lover, obedient lover and someone who’s ready to spend his whole life in jail to save the honour of his love but we have hardly seen him as a womaniser in any film. And that has made this film even more alluring for us now. We can’t wait to see him in this film. But then look at the pictures of Shah Rukh Khan from Prague. He will fit in the character perfectly if he keeps looking like that in the film. And that dimpled smile…SIGH!!

Bundle of joy arrives! It’s a girl for Shahid Kapoor-Mira Rajput Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor and his wife Mira Rajput were blessed with a baby girl at around 8.15pm on Friday night.

Sources at the Hinduja Healthcare Surgical Hospital, Khar, where Mira had been admitted on Thursday night, said it was a normal delivery and that both mother and child were doing well.

“She was taken to the labour room at 7pm and delivered a healthy baby girl about an hour later,” added a source.

The source added that the child weighed around 2.8kg.

Shahid took to Twitter to announce the news. “She has

arrived and words fall short to express our happiness.Thank you for all your wishes,” he tweeted.

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Ranveer Singh is ANGRY with Padmavati director Sanjay Leela Bhansali Ranveer Singh is not an angry young man, in fact this young superstar is best described as goofy and easy going. However, seems like something that Sanjay Leela Bhansali did has angered the young hero. The actor is angry with one of his dearest filmmakers and if our

sources are to be believed then Ranveer and SLB are no longer close. Speculations were rife that Ranveer was pissed with Shahid Kapoor being roped in for Padmavati. Well, many assumed that bringing Sasha on board has angered Singh. However the real reason is something else. The actor is not insecure about Shahid’s entry in Padmvati team, it is the filmmakers actions that has caused Ranveer to distrust in him.

A source revealed to BollywoodLife that Ranveer learnt that Bhansali was having closed door meetings with Shahid to discuss Padmavati. Ranveer felt even more betrayed

Saturday, August 27, 2016 when buzz started doing rounds that the director had promised Kapoor a meaty role, a condition that the actor had put forth before accepting the role of Deepika Padukone’s husband. Ranveer and Sanjay shared a mutual admiration club until recently the actor demanded for a bounded script from the filmmaker ahead of signing the dotted line. This has caused a lot of strain in their relationship and we hear that it’s not just Ranveer but even Sanjay who is equally pissed with Singh.

Shahid joined the starcast of Padmavati only recently after Deepika refused to work with a TV star and even rejected Masaan famed hero Vicky Kaushal. It seems that the actress will have a lot of intimate scenes with the second hero of the film and she wasn’t willing to do it with a lesser known star. The other reason why not many heroes were keen on Padmavati was that the King Raval Ratan Singh’s role wasn’t as prominent as that of Allauddin Khilji or Rani Padmavati played by Ranveer and Deepika in the film.

There were rumours suggesting that Fawad Khan and and even Shah Rukh Khan were approached to play the role, however neither agreed to it.

Can you believe Shahid Kapoor got rejected at a 100 auditions before he got the big break?

Shahid Kapoor may have given a performance of a lifetime as Tommy Singh in Udta Punjab. Wait a minute, he did that being in and as Haider, or was it in Kaminey?

Anyways, Shahid Kapoor is one of the most exciting actors of his generation, someone who is comfortable with both commercial as well as offbeat films.

He is also at the cusp of entering paternity, as his wife Mira is expected to deliver any time soon. So all in all, Shahid Kapoor is going through a very great time in both life and career. But it was always not so, especially when he was trying to break into Bollywood, despite being a star-kid.

Years ago, he was in the popular Aryans’ song Aankhon Mein Tera Hi Chehra, and later was a part of Shiamak Davar’s dance troupe. But before he got the break with Ishq Vishk, he had to, in the actor’s own words, face 100 rejections at the auditions.

Speaking about his early ordeal, Shahid Kapoor revealed, “Everyone thinks that he is Pankaj Kapur’s son, so he must have got a break. But I have been rejected from 100 auditions. Sometimes, I didn’t have money to eat food or to even go to the auditions. I have lived that life, and I don’t like talking about it.

But that is my reality.”

Saturday, August 27, 2016

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Navya Naveli Nanda was a part of Katrina Kaif and Varun Dhawan’s Dream Team Tour Finale?

A few days back, Katrina Kaif, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Badshah and Karan Johar brought an end to one of the most successful international tours of all time – The Dream Team Tour 2016.

While we told you that Priyanka Chopra, Nargis Fakhri and Abhishek Bachchan had visited the team during their shows, there was one more visitor that they had. Who? Well it’s none other than Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter and teenage sensation Navya Naveli Nanda.

We all know Navya is a really filmi girl who loves to party. She and Aryan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan‘s son) have been spotted chilling with friends on various occasions during their schooling days in London. And now that they

have graduated, the star kids are relatively free. So along with Abhishek, Navya also attended the Grand Finale of the Dream Team Tour 2016. Not only that, she enjoyed the show and was seen cheering the team throughout the evening. As a source EXCLUSIVELY revealed to us, “Navya attended the finale along with mother Shweta Bachchan Nanda. They all were seated in the first few rows and were having a really good time.

Navya was seen cheering the whole team, but she was very impressed by Karan Johar’s dance. She kept on praising the act.”

Apart from Shweta and Navya, Karan’s mother Hiroo Johar was also in the audience and was stunned by KJo’s performance.

Sushant Singh Rajput injures himself on the sets of Raabta Sushant Singh Rajput who is known for preparing for his roles rigorously went a bit ahead this time. The Shuddh Desi Romance star has injured himself while shooting one of the action sequences of his upcoming movie Raabta and as a result, a ligament of his right knee suffered a tear. The actor now has been advised a month’s rest from his strenuous workout regime and has been even asked to avoid running. However, there was no delay in the shoot as the actor made sure he gave his perfect shot in spite of his injury.

About his injury, Sushant said in a statement that, “We practiced a lot and I could do the stunt properly

every time, but unfortunately on the day of the shoot it was pouring and the ground was slippery. That caused the injury. I am glad that we could still finish the scene as planned.”

Raabta will mark the directorial debut of Dinesh Vijan who has produced movies like Cocktail and Love Aaj Kal with Saif Ali Khan and Badlapur was his first project which he produced solo after parting ways with Saif. Raabta has been shot exclusively in locations like Budapest, Mauritius and others. As for Sushant, he will be next seen in M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story which releases next month. He will be essaying the role of India’s current captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

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Bollywood Horoscope Aries

Libra

March 21 - April 20

Sept. 24 - Oct 22

Money will be of increasing importance over the next few weeks. The simple reason is that it will become blindingly obvious that you won’t be able to afford some of your plans unless you boost your income. Secret romances are signified by Venus’ changing position.

The week’s major planetary movements favour your interests, whether at work or at home. However, you may be knocked off balance by a feeling that all is not right moneywise. Watch out for confusion and misunderstandings midweek. Rest will be just fine.

Taurus

Scorpio

April 21 - May 20

Oct 23 - Nov 22

Now that Venus, planet of love, is moving into new and romantic regions, you must make friendship and social life your priority. It seems inevitable that a special new person will be walking into your life.

Magnetic Mars only reinforces this lively message.

Hrithik Roshan has been one actor who had managed to rock the throne of King Shah Rukh Khan with just his debut film.

Kaho naa…Pyaar Hai in 2000 had broken so many records that even Salman Khan‘s Sultan would have

Sagitarius

May 20 - June 21

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The Moon makes some of its most intriguing alignments on Wednesday and Thursday, so it stands to reason that these could therefore be the best times for family occasions. Watch out for hidden financial costs. It is difficult to see that there is anything that can genuinely harm your personal interests.

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Aquarius

June 24 - August 23

Jan 21 - Feb 19

The combination of charming Venus and aggressive Mars is almost irresistible.

There will be few people able to withstand your wiles and graces, and this seems like an ideal time to achieve many of your goals. Romantic activities are well-starred, which is probably one of your major considerations.

Virgo

The risk this week is of clashes with colleagues at work or people in authority.

Such arguments may flare up without warning, so be prepared and ready to do your best to restore a good feeling. The best opportunities, both personally and professionally, come later in the week, so save your fire.

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Your material well-being needs a little extra attention. You could even be running up additional expenses. Yet this is all part of life’s annual cycle, so no doubt you’ll cope as well as usual. Social trends are set to sparkle after Thursday, and life will be generally optimistic and colourful.

Venus, planet of love, is becoming steadily more down-to-earth, bringing all its joy and charm to your life with concrete, practical results. You may be shy and sensitive, but don’t let this stop you from pushing yourself forward in new social situations.

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looked small in comparison. But after such a spectacular start, his career threatened to fade away into oblivion, due to his career choices.

From an earnest loverboy, he turned into a brainwashed youth in Fiza and a terrorist in Mission Kashmir.

Some of the planets are in contradictory mode, others are at peace. So while there are people around you who may be in an argumentative frame of mind, others will be on your side. In a positive sense, this may be a good time to get something off your chest.

Gemini Geminians who have professional ambitions will now find it much easier to get along with people at work. All of you will soon discover that you receive much wider appreciation for your achievements.

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Movie Review

‘A Flying Jatt’

Tiger Shroff is FANTASTIC but a preachy second half stops him from soaring!

Tiger Shroff becomes the youngest actor in his generation to play a superhero in his latest release, A Flying Jatt.

Jacqueline Fernandez plays the heroine in the film while Mad Max: Fury Road actor Nathan Jones is the main villain. The film is directed by the ABCD fame Remo D’Souza.

What’s it about Superhero films as a genre have been a perennial favourite in cinema across the world.

Watching an undergo or a regular Joe suddenly posses super powers and beat the baddies makes for a good movie plot.

Bollywood has had its share of superhero films with Krrish and Ra.One. A Flying Jatt which is being typecast in the same genre is a mashup of everything that has gone wrong with the superhero franchise. Tiger plays Aman a Sardar, has an alcoholic mother played by the versatile Amrita Singh. Kay Kay Menon is an industrialist whose factories pollute the city with its dump. But wait before you say pollution, let me tell you that this track goes on to play a major role in the climax.

Tiger gets his super power when he has a face off with the baddie Raka- a monster whose strength increases by inhaling the toxic gases of the city.

Once Tiger becomes A Flying Jatt, things start picking up. The story is

predictable and you know good will trump evil.

What’s hot Tiger’s likeability and easy charm play a very big role in making this Jatt somewhat entertaining. He’s already proved his

mettle at dance and action in his first two films, Heropanti and Baaghi. Stepping out of his comfort zone, he tackles comedy and tries something new with Jatt. As the blue masked super hero, Tiger is spot on. The first half is light and the portions where Tiger struggles to adapt to his new life are hilarious. Amrita Singh who plays the alcohol loving mother and constantly nags Tiger to go save the world is outstanding. Her scenes with Tiger are the highlights of the film. Remo puts together some slick action scenes, the best ones are the hand combat scenes which don’t have an overdose of VFX. Nathan Jones who

plays Raka looks menacing and means business.

What’s not The film goes downhill from its second half taking a mighty tumble. There is a sudden change in Tiger’s demeanour and once Jatt starts taking himself too seriously, there is very little fun left in the film. Also the climax is a royal mess.

Remo sort of loses his grip on the plot and makes it into a public service announcement to curb pollution. You really smack your forehead in dismay and go ‘no way!’ when that happens. The fun flying Jatt becomes a sullen flying Jatt who now has the job of promoting environmental welfare.

The climax fight between Jatt and Raka takes place in space and on moon and even on an orbiting satellite. Of course there is ample scope for cinematic liberty in this genre but this was stretching it way too much. There are too many brand placements that pop up till the very end and several scenes straight lifted out of Hollywood superhero flicks. What starts off as a fun, light and breezy entertainer suddenly looks burdened by the weight of its bad plot. Jacqueline doesn’t have much to do but look glam in the Beat Pe Booty song and her chemistry with Tiger just didn’t work for me.

Captain Nawab first look

Not many know this but Emraan Hashmi is all set to become a producer soon, joining the likes of his Bollywood peers like Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and others. Mahesh Bhatt sir, beware… your nephew is ready to give you some tough competition.

His first production will be called Captain Nawab and it will have him play a soldier. This will be for the first time he will be playing a army man in a movie, even though he has played a cop in a few movies like Ungli and Zeher.

He also revealed the first look of the film to popular daily Mirror, which is actually the first look of the character. Interestingly, his uniform is a mix of both Indian and Pakistani uniforms. So does that mean he will be seen traipsing across the border a la Bajrangi Bhaijaan, but in a more action packed way. Speaking to Mirror, the actor says, “That’s the DNA of the film. I know it’ll spark off assumptions but I’ll hold the suspense for now” The film will be directed by Tony D’Souza, who earlier made Azhar with Emraan Hashmi. The scripting is still underway, though Emraan hints that the film is inspired by true events.

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In the top league Deepika Padukone has made it to the world’s 10 highest paid actresses’ list. Yesterday,. Forbes released the list and Dippy is the new entry at No 10. The magazine states, “Padukone is a popular Bollywood actress,

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who supplements her film earnings with numerous product endorsements.” Recently, there was buzz that she was paid R8.5 crore for a recent airline endorsement.

And not to forget, some R12 crore for her next, Padmavati.

Yeah! You will kill it alright

THE LIST OF THE TOP 10 HIGHEST PAID ACTRESSES 1. Jennifer Lawrence: $46,000,000 2. Melissa McCarthy: $33,000,000 3. Scarlett Johansson: $25,000,000 4. Jennifer Aniston: $21,000,000 5. Fan Bingbing: $17,000,000 6. Charlize Theron: $16,500,000 7. Amy Adams: $13,500,000 8. Julia Roberts: $12,000,000 9. Mila Kunis: $11,000,000 10. Deepika Padukone: $10,000,000

The first look of Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil starring Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Anushka Sharma will be unveiled on August 30. Karan made the announcement on Twitter yesterday. The film is scheduled to release during Diwali, clashing with Ajay Devgn’s Shivaay.

The countdown begins

Mira Rajput and Shahid Kapoor

Shahid Kapoor and wife Mira are all set to welcome their bundle of joy next month. The actor, being the doting husband that he is, is spending as much time as possible with his pregnant wife. He has already taken time off from work commitments. He has wrapped up Vishal Bharadwaj’s Rangoon, which is due to release in February. There is also buzz that he will feature in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati.

Priyanka Chopra and Usher Priyanka Chopra has sent out good wishes to Yeah hitmaker, Usher for his film, Hands Of Stone. The actress posted a snapshot on Instagram and wrote, “Congrats and good luck to my friend and talent extraordinaire @usher for the premiere of #handsofstone you will kill it as #sugarrayleonard (sic).”

Not just Hrithik, Tiger is also a SUPER FAN of Akshay Kumar When Akshay Kumar’s Rustom and Hrithik Roshan‘s Mohenjo Daro released on the same day a couple of weeks ago, Tiger Shroff was one of the very few celebs (make that rare) to wish both the actors very best for their film. While Salman Khan, Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Karan Johar went out on social media to promote Rustom, Tiger Shroff went on to support both the film.

Shoulder to lean on SOHAIL KHAN lends a patient ear to former cricketer VINOD KAMBLI at an event in Bandra.

Social media love Thanks to social media frenzy, love stories begin with friend requests and likes, and end with ‘last seen’. Or so believe singers Vasudha Sharma and Rashi Mal (remember Gauri from Channel [V] show

Rashi Mal (left); Vasudha Sharma

Paanch?). Their single, Sacchi Savitris, which releases today on Culture Machine’s Being Indian Music channel, is a witty take on ‘social media love’. Dressed like 1960s pin-ups, the video has Vasudha and Rashi showing the journey of a new-age relationship and its development on social media. The acoustic Ukulele-toned refreshing re-make of Gerua is silly on purpose. Says Vasudha, “Everyone is internet-savvy today and girls are going through these phases, which is why this video fits in well.”

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Foodie

Kadhai (Kadai) Paneer Kadhi Paneer is a great main dish for any special occasion. Paneer and colorful bell peppers are sauteed in spicy tomato gravy.

Ingredients: 1/2 pound paneer 1 medium red bell pepper (shimla mirch, capsicum) 1 medium green bell pepper (shimla mirch, capsicum) 3 tablespoons oil 3 medium tomatoes About 1/4 inch piece of ginger 1 green chili Pinch of asafetida (hing) 1 teaspoon cumin seed (jeera)

1 and 1/2 tablespoons coriander powder (dhania) 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi) 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 tablespoons chopped fenugreek leaves (methi) or dry fenugreek leaves (kastoori methi) 3/4 teaspoon salt, adjust to taste Method: Cut paneer and bell peppers into ½ inch cubes.

Blend the tomatoes, ginger, and green chili to make a puree.

Heat the oil in frying pan on medium heat and stir fry paneer for about 2 minutes – take

them out before paneer starts changing color.

Next stir-fry bell pepper until they are tender. Do not over cook the bell pepper. Take them out and drain on a paper towel.

Using the same frying pan, Test the oil by adding one cumin seed to the oil; if seed cracks right away oil is ready.

Add the asafetida and cumin seeds.

After the cumin seeds crack, add the tomato puree, coriander powder, turmeric, fenugreek

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leaves and cayenne pepper.

Cook for about 4 minutes on medium heat.

Tomato mixture will reduce to about half in volume.

Add about 2 spoons of water, and the salt.

Wait till gravy comes to boil add paneer and bell pepper and let it simmer for about five minutes on low medium heat.

Now it is ready to serve.

Mango falooda recipe

Ingredients Milk - 1 1/2 cups Sugar - 5 tbsps Falooda seeds - 1 tbsp (sabja/basil seeds) soak in 1/2 cup water for 20 mins Falooda sev - 1 cup Mango puree - 1 1/2 cups Mango ice cream - 4 scoops Chopped mango cubes - 1 cup Pistachios - 8, sliced Almonds - 6, sliced Cherries - 4, for garnish Method Bring the milk to a boil and simmer till it reduces to 1 cup. Turn off heat, add 2 tbsps sugar and mix well. Bring to room temperature and chill until use.

Soak falooda seeds in water for 15 to 20 mins and allow to bloom. Set aside.

Blend mango puree with 3 tbsps of sugar and refrigerate until use.

Make falooda sev by following the link provided above. Place the prepared sev in cold water and refrigerate until use.

Chill the serving falooda glasses in the fridge for at least half an hour.

To assemble falooda: Take the chilled serving glass and add few mango cubes in the bottom of the glass followed by 2 tbsps of bloomed falooda seeds.

Next layer with 2 heaped tbsps of falooda sev/noodles followed by 3 tbsps of mango puree. Slowly pour few tbsps of chilled milk.

Next layer with few more mango cubes, followed by a generous tbsp of bloomed falooda seeds. Next layer with 2 tbsps of falooda noodles followed by 3 tbsps of mango puree and chilled milk.

Finally, place a scoop of mango ice cream on top. Garnish with sliced nuts and a cherry.

Serve immediately to avoid the ice cream from melting and over flowing.

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BLACK CAT SECURITY LTD., 7085-141A Street, Surrey, Bc Requires One Full Time Permanent Office Manager.

Duties: Oversee And Co-Ordinate Office Administrative Procedures; Establish Work Priorities, Delegate Work To Office Support Staff And Ensure Deadlines Are Met And Procedures Are Followed; Co-Ordinate And Plan For Office Services; Assist In Preparation Of Operating Budget And Maintain Inventory And Budgetary Controls; Assemble Data And Prepare Periodic And Special Reports, Manuals And Correspondence., Education: Completion Of High School.

Experience: 2-3 Years.

Wages 22.00/Hr.

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immediate vacancy for Carpenter.

We design and manufacture high end solid wood exteriors doors, solid wood interior doors and custom doors.

Job specification: Full time position with wages of $25/hour.

35 to 40 hours per week.

Job requirement: High School with 2-3 years of experience.

Trade certificate will be considered as an asset.

Job duties includes read & interpret drawings & sketches to determine specifications; estimate height, width, length and other proportions; measure, cut, shape & assemble wood materials using woodworking machines, power tools and hand tools; Build exterior doors, interior doors, customs doors with jams; moulding, make transom arch shape; specially skilled in fancy wood design, traditional murals crafting on doors; Install hardware such as hinges, handles, catches; Repair doors and replace panels of doors.

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All Star Railing & Awning Ltd., #20 12318 84 Avenue, Surrey, BC requires a full-time permanent Welder Helper. Will be required to read and interpret work orders, operate metal cleaning equipment, assist welders, transport raw material and finished products manually or by using devices, clean work areas and equipment and perform other related duties to assist the welders. Should have high school education with some experience. Knowledge of English is required. Punjabi/Hindi will be an asset. Wage: $20/hr. Apply by mail, email: 4242kamal@gmail. com -------------- July 09 2016 Western Door Manufacturing Ltd located at #109-8250, 124th St, Surrey, BC V3W 3X9, has an

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Planet Pride Logistics Ltd. of Richmond, BC is urgently seeking an Office Manager on f/time, perm. basis. Must have min. high school education and either min. 2 yrs. exp. in clerical/ secretarial/office admin. or a university degree or college diploma in business admin.

Duties incl. manage office staff and assign tasks as needed; analyze internal processes

“Vacancy for Stock Supervisor A1doors and mouldings, located at 12625 – 80th Avenue Surrey, BC, V3W 3A6 has an immediate vacancy of Stock Supervisor Term of employment : Full time, Permanent with 35 to 40 hours per week Salary : $18/hour Job duties : To supervise and coordinate activities of stock staff, plan and organize the display of stock in the showroom, identify outdated & defective stock, ensure orders are executed & delivered in time, maintain inventory and order merchandise, prepare periodic inventory reports, assign duties to stock clerks, providing stock clerk with the training, information, guidance encouragement &recognition needed to meet expectation, investigating, resolving & escalating customer issues as appropriate.

Requires: Completion of secondary school with one year of related experience.

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time.

PICS is taking a huge step in trying to help those who are interested in improving their English or simply learn to informally converse with others. Classes will be open to both men and women willing to learn.

The conversation classes will consist of activities, games, worksheets and oral exercises. Students will participate in weekly verbal discussions in order to improve their conversation skills.

The aim of these classes is to help nonEnglish speaking individuals improve their English and conversation skills to settle into the Canadian Society. PICS hopes that English Conversation Classes will help individuals with their personal and professional growth. We wish these classes will have a positive outcome and will flourish in the future.

Please contact Sukhwinder Gosal (Vancouver Settlement office) at 778371-8552 for further inquiries.

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South Asian Seniors - India Day Celebrations August 21st 2016 from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.

Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) is consistently recognized as one of the leading and most important non-profit organizations in Vancouver. The work PICS has done in the last two decades to provide invaluable services and initiate various community based programs has been nothing short of remarkable. PICS has consistently tried to help people integrate into the Canadian Society. In order to maximize the number of people PICS can help, The Vancouver Settlement Office has come up with an idea to provide Informal English Conversation Classes for the 1st

Vedic Seniors Parivar Centre of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey invites all South Asian Adults, Seniors and Families to join all devotees of Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple Surrey for India Day Celebrations organized by Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey BC on August 21st 2016(Sunday) at the temple grounds 8321 - 140th street Surrey BC, starting at 10.00 am with Wrestling Competition to 4.00 pm. Please come and join us for the India Day Parade of different States of India starting from Brookside Gurudwara Sahib to Temple grounds at 1.00 pm.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE Aarambh Shri Akhand Path Sahib on Friday September 2nd, 2016 10:00 AM Bhog Shri Akhand Path Sahib on Sunday September 4th, 2016 10:30 AM Followed by Kirtan & Langar LOCATION PICS Assisted Living 12075, 75A Avenue Surrey, BC, V3W1N3 Please grace us with your presence Charan Gill, CEO Inderjeet Hundal PICS Society Administrator, Seniors Housing

Round Wrap Industries, #150 1680 Savage Road, Richmond, BC V6V 3A9 A reputed company manufacturing foiled PVC doors, requires one Production Supervisor on full-time indeterminate basis. Duties: supervision, coordination and scheduling of workers; resolving work problems; training of workers; preparing reports and ensuring safe and smooth running of the production.

Education: Minimum secondary school.

Experience: Minimum 5 years as Supervisor in same or similar trade or industry.

Language: English & Knowledge of Punjabi / Hindi will be an asset.

Salary: $32/hr.

Contact by email: info@roundwrap.com or fax 604 278 1463

Community News Senior Lady Parivar members will do Seva ( Service ) for preparing food for all devotees in the kitchen. Seniors team of volunteers will be there to do seva ( Service ) for supply of prepared food to all the stalls and for serving snacks and variety of food items to be served free to all the audience in different food stalls. Seniors team of Volunteers will also help to wind up at the temple grounds. Let us all make it a successful event by showing good example for spirit of Volunteerism. Please contact Surendra Handa Coordinator Tel. 604 - 507 - 9945 for volunteer positions and for further details.

Project funded by Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program for Hindi speaking Seniors.

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Dr. Ramesh Avinashi on August 7th 2016 from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm.

Vedic Seniors Parivar Centre of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey invites South Asian Adults/ Senior members and also nonmembers to attend the Powerful Presentation on Common Disorders of the Pancreas in Our body by Dr. Ramesh Avinashi a well-known Family Physician on August 7th 2016 (Sunday) from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm at Shanti Niketan hall of Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple 8321 - 140th street Surrey BC. It will cover Causes, Symptoms & Treatment and you can ask questions concerning Pancreas, Dr. Ramesh Avinashi will answer all your questions professionally after the presentation. Tea and light snacks will be served in the end. Project funded

by Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program for Hindi Speaking Seniors. Please contact Surendra Handa Coordinator Tel. 604 - 507 - 9945 for further details.

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The National Bank analysts, led by Peter Routledge, expect the Vancouver market will continue to be dampened by the additional property transfer tax that went into effect this month on residential properties purchased by foreign buyers. Analysts don’t expect much fallout to be visible when Canada’s largest banks report third-quarter earnings this week, beginning with Bank of Montreal on Tuesday. As one veteran banking analyst put it: “Certain things need to happen before this becomes a big issue, and we are not there yet.”

But regulators are clearly concerned about heated pockets of Canada’s real estate market, including Vancouver and Toronto.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has made a handful of recent moves intended to put greater scrutiny on mortgage underwriting practices, increase the amount of capital held against mortgages in markets where prices are rising rapidly, and impose more conservative stress testing for real estate at smaller financial institutions.

Ratings agency Fitch also zeroed on housing in a report Monday, placing particular emphasis on the recent decline in home sales in Vancouver. Fitch said the trend “suggests that the city’s market may already have begun to cool and is increasingly vulnerable to price declines if there is a rise in the unemployment rate.”

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With a new tax on foreign homebuyers in Vancouver expected to slow purchase activity, there is a greater risk the city’s lofty real estate prices would be vulnerable to a potential jump in local unemployment, Fitch Ratings said on Monday.

The new tax will likely be effective in tamping down buyer activity, Fitch analysts wrote, but with signs that the market may have begun to cool even before the tax, that leaves Vancouver home prices more exposed to potential changes in Canada’s economy.

“We feel that foreign investors have been propping up real estate in Vancouver, creating more demand, which is raising prices,” said Susan Hosterman, director of U.S. structured finance at Fitch Ratings.

“With them potentially out of the picture, Vancouver is more susceptible to Canadian supply and demand behavior, which is mainly driven by employment.”

While Vancouver’s job growth has been strong, Hosterman said it was a question of how long it will last given lackluster job creation in other parts of the country.

Simon Fraser University professor Andrey Pavlov says the real issue isn’t that higher local unemployment might make the local market unsustainable absent foreign buyers — it’s that without foreign buyers, the region’s already low unemployment rate won’t be enough to support the market.

“We’re hooped even if there’s no change in employment,” he said. “Clearly our prices have nothing to do with local

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The tenant has committed for a 10th of the 370,000 square feet – leaving a state of emptiness that is unusual for an office skyscraper in this city. Even so, a huge shift in business tenancy is expected as the region experiences something it has not seen before: an office-tower building boom much of which is speculative construction rather than for specific committed tenants.

“This is kind of uncharted territory for Vancouver,” said Mehdi Shokri, a principal with the capital markets team at Avison Young.

“But I don’t see a big disaster occurring.”

The Credit Suisse tower is only the most visible and furthest along of a second wave of new office towers planned for Vancouver and some key suburbs. A first cluster of towers – some two million square feet – was built downtown in the past three years.

Another 11 office developments are proposed within blocks of Credit Suisse’s Exchange tower at Howe and West Pender streets, even while the office-vacancy rate in the region continues to inch up as a result of the first wave of building.

But commercial brokers say the city is not about to be populated by ghost towers.

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Mr. Shokri and others say they expect many of the new towers to start signing tenant leases as they get closer to completion. That is partly because companies in Vancouver, which do want to be in new, energy-efficient buildings, tend to operate on short timelines.

As well, he said, prices in the new buildings will likely come 4 i Saturday, July 25, 2015down in the

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The landlords who will likely suffer as a result of the current boom are owners of older buildings, Mr. Shokri said. As well, new developments in the suburbs, which have already experienced higher vacancy rates in recent years, may have trouble as they compete with each other.

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economic fundamentals. They’re driven by intergenerational transfers and foreigners and migration within Canada.”

“I wouldn’t worry about unemployment.

If we’re going to have to worry about local economic activity to support these prices, we’re

in trouble anyway.”

Pavlov says the Canadian economy as a whole is more dependent than even the U.S. economy was prior to the financial crisis. That means if real estate prices tank, it could take many jobs with it.

For that reason, University of British Columbia professor Tsur Sommerville says if the region were to experience a sudden spike in unemployment, the most likely culprit would be the real estate sector.

“It’s not just that there’s less buyers in the real estate market: you’ve got all these people whose jobs are dependent on the over-exaggerated real estate market. They’re taking a hit, too,” he said.

“Whether they be Realtors or people in construction or stores that sell granite countertops or Maserati dealerships, they’re going to see an effect from it.”

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next two years due to competition.

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it Suisse tower is optimistic his building will start to fill as the completion date gets closer.

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Could the controversial foreign buyers tax in Metro Vancouver finally be working?

The provincial government introduced the tax — which requires foreign nationals buying real estate within the Metro Vancouver area to add a 15 per cent property transfer tax — as a measure to address high real estate prices in the Lower Mainland.

But ever since the tax came in to effect on August 2, the market has been in a tizzy.

Some foreign buyers were forced to consider abandoning their bids and face legal action; some lost thousands; others

scrambled to find enough money to cover the shortfall.

On the other side, Canadian citizens who had sold their houses to foreign buyers were faced with lost deals from buyers who could not or would not pay the 15 per cent surplus.

Lawyers declared that thousands of locals could end up in litigation over reneged contracts.

As for the real estate market, Vancouver realtor Steve Saretsky says that sales have taken a nosedive.

“The market has been slowing down since

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‘The market was totally out of hand’ During the peak period, he says sales offers would come in without conditions and thousands of dollars above the asking price.

“The market was totally out of hand. You ask any other Realtor, and they’ll tell you the same thing. To adequately protect clients, there needs to be subjects on there, whether that’s financing or building inspection or so forth.”

“As a Realtor, it comforts me that I can advise my client, guide them and protect them properly,” he said.

Saretsky says this cool-down period has changed peoples’ mentality, reducing fears they would miss out on getting into the real estate market.

Still, Charles Wiebe, president of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, says he’d like to see compensation for clients who were blindsided by the tax.

“We feel like that’s absolutely not fair to the sellers of this province who are British Columbians,” he told CBC’s The Early Edition. “A lot of those people were not only expecting to have the sale complete, but they had also made other arrangements to buy other properties from other British Columbians in B.C.” Wiebe says the province should immediately grandfather any contract that was entered into prior to August 2 and compensate people who lost their deposits.

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stunning home possesses every luxury possible with high ceilings, crown molding, stainless steel appliances,Granite counter tops, open floor plan, large gym room, grand patio, sundecks, built in vacuum, top of the line security system, separate wok kitchen and much more! This gorgeous home is situated in the middle of serene farmland yet only two minutes away from Aldergrove Town centre and with quick access to Hwy #1. The second house is rented as well as fruit stall.Rare opportunity to advantage of this stunning City of R home! Call today for a personal viewing.

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next two years due to competition.

The landlords who will likely suffer as a result of the current boom are owners of older buildings, Mr. Shokri said. As well, new developments in the suburbs, which have already experienced higher vacancy rates in recent years, may have trouble as they compete with each other.

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“This is kind of uncharted territory for Vancouver,” said Mehdi Shokri, a principal with the capital markets team at Avison Young.

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Another 11 office developments are proposed within blocks of Credit Suisse’s Exchange tower at Howe and West Pender streets, even while the office-vacancy rate in the region continues to inch up as a result of the first wave of building.

But commercial brokers say the city is not about to be populated by ghost towers.

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