The Asian Star October 14 2017 Diwali Special

Vol 16 - Issue 37

Saturday, October 14, 2017

DIWALI Let us Celebrate and Calibrate Zile Singh, (Ambassador Retd.)

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” - Mark Twain. Diwali or Deepavali is one of the most important Hindu festivals of lights celebrated throughout India in the month of October/November, depending on the Calendar. This year it is on October 19. Not only in India, this festival is celebrated in Fiji, Guyana, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and recently the Sindh Province of Pakistan. The celebrations are spread over five days, namely – Dhanteras, Continued on Diwali special page 1

Happy Diwali

South Asian with no criminal record charged in kidnapping and sexual assault case A Prince George man has been arrested and charged after a report of a kidnapping and sexual assault that prompted police to warn the public, especially women, to be careful when travelling alone. RCMP issue warning after woman kidnapped and assaulted in Prince George Sukhjinder Singh, 26, is scheduled to appear in court again Oct. 19, 2017 to answer to one count of kidnapping

and one count of sexual assault. He made his first appearance this week.

The charges stem from an incident on Sep. 3, 2017 at a Prince George gas station parking lot. Investigators say a woman was trying to fix a tire when a man, who was parked nearby, offered to help. This is the parking lot where

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Edmonton criminal lawyer suspended after domestic assault conviction The Law Society of Alberta has suspended an Edmonton criminal lawyer from practice for a year after he pleaded guilty earlier this month to domestic assault charges.

Ravi Prithipaul admits he repeatedly abused his wife Shannon Prithipaul for 17 years over the course of their marriage.

Shannon Prithipaul is an Edmonton criminal lawyer and the former president of the Criminal Trial Lawyers Association.

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South Asian Constable in middle of fight between VPD and IIO A court filing from B.C.’s police watchdog has made public the gruesome list of injuries suffered

by Myles Gray in his fatal encounter with Vancouver police two years ago. The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking for an order directing an officer who witnessed the altercation to sit for a second interview. The petition alleges Const. Hardeep Sahota has refused numerous requests from the IIO. Gray, a 33-year-old businessman from Sechelt, died after a violent struggle with as many as eight

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Vancouver police officers in August 2015. Gray was unarmed, and the officers were the only witnesses to the altercation.

According to the IIO’s petition, a forensic autopsy revealed a long list of injuries to Gray’s body, including a “fractured voice box; nasal fracture; dislocated jaw; fractured right orbital eye socket; fractured posterior right third rib; fractured sternum; hemorrhagic injury of one testicle; multi-focal bruising to thigh and right arm.”

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Ravi Prithipaul admitted he repeatedly abused his wife

Asian Star photographer Chandra Bodalia honored with Canadian flag presentation

The late Asian Star photographer Chandra Bodalia’s widow (third from left) being presented with the Canadian flag that flew on the Parliament Hill on the day Chandra died.

On May 24 2017 the Canadian flag gracefully flew over the Peace tower at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada and like every weekday morning the flag master had changed the Peace Tower flag. Also on that same day Chandra Bodalia peacefully took his last breath after a courageous battle with throat cancer. That flag that flew on that beautiful day was collected, saved and safely secured for the Bodalia family. To say that this is less than

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Highest proportion of high-rollers at River Rock Casino are real estate professionals: internal audit A background review of hundreds of VIP gamblers at Richmond’s River Rock Casino in 2015 found that the highest proportion of players involved in large and suspicious cash transactions worked in real estate, according to a confidential memo obtained by Postmedia.

The memo did not state whether these gamblers work in B.C.’s or China’s real estate sector. The Aug. 2016 internal review — filed to B.C. Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch compliance director Len Meilleur — was conducted to examine the amount of cash flooding through “high-limit” VIP rooms at River Rock, and the extent to which highrollers could buy chips with small bills and cash out with big bills. This process is known to anti-money laundering investigators as “colouring up” and can allow gamblers to deposit suspected drug-cash $20 dollar bills in casinos and walk out with bundles of $100s which appear to be clean money suitable for banking and investment, experts say.

The Aug. 2016 memo examined $243 million in total cash buy-ins for all of 2015 at River Rock and provides the most detailed picture yet of the characteristics of high-limit VIPs at the centre of growing concerns in B.C. casinos. Postmedia has reported that the RCMP have accused a criminal network

of using an illegal money-transfer business in Richmond to lend suspected drug-dealer cash to high-roller Chinese gamblers recruited from Macau. RCMP investigators allege these “whale” gamblers use huge wads of small bills to buy chips in B.C. casinos, and eventually pay back the illegitimate loans in China.

Organized criminals involved in the scheme are a public safety threat in B.C. casinos, according to an April 2017 B.C. government d o c u m e n t .

Responding to Postmedia’s reports, on Tuesday the B.C. Lottery Corporation stated: “Since mid2015, 180 players have been placed on sourced cash conditions, and over 270 people have been banned for posing a threat to public safety, involvement in criminal organization activities or criminal conduct likely to generate proceeds of crime. BCLC agrees money laundering and illegal casinos pose substantial public safety risks.” The Aug. 2016 memo said the B.C. government’s commercial gaming auditor studied the backgrounds of 800 high-rollers at River Rock Casino and tried to determine whether a player’s job could support an income that would justify massive chip purchases. Auditors looked for “particularly suspicious occupations.” They found it difficult to focus the occupational

Well known Punjabi poet and writer, Surjit Patar is pictured here at Punjab Bhawan with Indian Consul Amarjit Singh and renowned community businessman Sukhi Bath during a Punjabi Literary & Cultural Summit of North America 2017 in Surrey.

Surprise guilty plea entered in BC Liberals’ ‘quick wins’ scandal A former Liberal government communications director quietly entered a guilty plea to one count of breach of trust on Thursday in the so-called quick wins scandal from the Christy Clark era. Brian Bonney, who once worked on Clark’s Liberal leadership campaign, entered the plea to the criminal charge before provincial court Judge David St. Pierre in Vancouver. Bonney’s trial in provincial court had been scheduled to begin on Monday. A sentencing hearing for Bonney is expected on Dec. 6 and 7. David Butcher, the special prosecutor in the case, said in an email that his comments, which will include a thorough review of the case, will be

made during the sentencing proceedings.

“I think there’s lots to say, but I’m going to say it when we get there in December,” Ian Donaldson, Bonney’s lawyer, said when he was asked for comment late Thursday. The charge of breach of trust by a public officer, which was laid in May 2016, relates to an offence that occurred between Oct. 16, 2011 and Dec. 21, 2012. The charge came nearly three years after the RCMP, following a complaint by the then-Opposition NDP, opened an investigation into the B.C. Liberals’ controversial draft multicultural outreach plan.

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Time to question foreign influence on Canada’s oil debate

By Barinder Rasode, Adviser Canadians for Affordable Energy

democratic processes. According to a recent account in the Globe and Mail, a number of pressure groups out in force during the 2015

With the kids back to school and Thanksgiving now behind us, for Canadian households the fall season brings a few things back into sharp focus. We all have bills to pay, careers to foster, aging parents and extended family (sometimes on the other side of the world) to support. And now there’s one more thing to add to the list of serious concerns. Canada’s future independence and success as a nation is facing some big challenges. We’re all familiar with the trials and tribulations of globalization. Love it or hate it, globalization means fierce competition for things that were once taken for granted.

An emerging challenge is the role of foreign groups in dampening a nation’s economic success. In Canada’s case, our trusting nature is leaving us vulnerable even in our

federal election campaign - the Dogwood Initiative, Leadnow, and Greenpeace among them - receive substantial funding from a U.S. advocacy group called Tides.

But it isn’t only green activists funding local environmentalist. As the Canadian

Press recently reported, the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election is also probing Russian support for anti-oil campaigns in Canada. It is alleged by some U.S. lawmakers that a company with ties to Russian oil companies donated several millions of dollars to the Californiabased Tides Foundation. Tides calls the probe a witch hunt. Whatever the source of Tides money, what is not disputed is that Canadian politics along with our country’s regulatory process is being influenced by foreign funding sources. The flood of Tides cash is fueling subtle propaganda campaigns in hundreds of ways. Usually it starts out by defining some issue in highly polarized terms - like a pipeline proposal. There will be a suggestion that there is a government cover-up or some kind of high-level conspiracy between elected officials and the bureaucracy to get it done. A familiar cast of experts will be trotted out to provide elaborate but hollow explanations of why industry is lying about how many jobs are to be had from a contested project. Or why there is no demand for Canadian crude oil and liquefied natural gas even as global demand is rising. Smart minds in advertising are hired to come up with effective slogans and viral images designed to turn Canadians against one another. Once the hook is set, these advertising gurus play us like fish on the line. Do they care that their actions prop up failing or sadistic foreign regimes like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia? Not one bit.

The real goal is to make Canadian politicians dance to the American groups’ eco-tune.

Thanks to the incessant seeding of doubt, many Canadian residents have adopted ideas that ultimately will drive up our cost of living and steal opportunities from our children.

Some politicians become tools of the Tides group and its many proxies, because they think there are votes to be gained. Plus it’s trendy to say we can power Canada with windmills and solar panels.

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South Asian Constable in middle of fight between VPD and IIO

Myles Gray’s family has waited 26 months for answers in his death. Officers made no notes, petition alleges On the day of Gray’s death, police were called to South East Marine Drive after

receiving a report that a man was harassing a woman by spraying her with a garden hose. Sahota was first to respond and called for backup after an “aggressive confrontation” with Gray, according to the petition.

The ultimate encounter with eight officers took place in a backyard on Joffre Avenue in Burnaby, hidden from

view by bushes and trees.

The probe into what happened has now dragged on for 26 months, thanks in part to a standoff between Vancouver officers and the IIO over co-operation with investigators.

The IIO’s petition has also revealed allegations of incomplete record keeping by the eight officers who dealt with Gray.

The court document alleges that none of the officers made any notes about the altercation, contrary to VPD policy. It says seven of them did submit evidence pages to PRIME, the police database, but

not until at least five months after Gray had died.

Gray’s mother Margie is calling on the police department to come clean.

“This situation continues to be tortuous for the whole family. We have lost our Myles by the hands of those who are sworn to protect us. We want answers. We want the truth.”

‘Lost confidence’ The dispute between IIO investigators and Vancouver police has been simmering for months.

The union representing the officers

said this spring it has “lost confidence 100 per cent” in the independent body, and that officers wanted to be allowed to review their notes or listen to archived radio transmissions before interviews.

But the IIO’s petition alleges Sahota was told she could review her PRIME evidence page and a transcript of her previous interview before sitting down with investigators a second time. Her police union lawyer objected to the stipulation that could only happen inside the IIO office, according to an email included in the petition.

VPD spokesperson Const.

Jason Doucette said he couldn’t comment on the petition but wrote in an email: “This has been a long, difficult process for everyone involved, including Mr. Gray’s family and friends and our officers and their families.”

This is the second time this year the IIO has asked the court to intervene in its dispute with the Vancouver police force. The first petition, filed in March, calls for Chief Adam Palmer and seven of his officers to co-operate with the probe into the fatal shooting of a man outside a Canadian Tire last year.

Under a memorandum of understanding between B.C. police departments and the IIO, officers who have witnessed an incident involving death or serious injury are required to cooperate with IIO investigators.

Officers suspected of causing harm don’t have that responsibility. They have the same right to protect themselves from selfincrimination as any other citizen.

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South Asian with no criminal record charged in kidnapping and sexual assault case From page 1 a woman was reportedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Sept. 2017. When the tire could not be repaired, the man then offered the woman a ride home, which she agreed to.

But instead, police say, the suspect drove to another parking lot, held her against her will and sexually assaulted her.

“Charges such as forcible confinement and kidnapping are not something we deal with everyday,” Prince George RCMP Insp. Shaun Wright told reporters at a news conference.

But what makes the case even more unique is that the alleged attacker and victim don’t appear to know each other. “[Kidnapping] incidents that involve a suspect who is a stranger to the victim are quite rare,” said Wright. Insp. Shaun Wright, operations officer for the Prince George RCMP, speaks to reporters at a news conference. Little is known about the accused, except that he does not have a prior criminal record. “Naturally, everyone always thinks it’s going to be your prolific offender. But [cases could] be one-offs. They can definitely be people who haven’t hit our radar,” said Wright.

“People should feel safe. These are relatively rare incidents.” Police say the September incident occurred just a few blocks from another one in which a female jogger was reportedly attacked from behind at Foothills

Boulevard. and Ochakwin Crescent.

Investigators described the suspect as a South Asian male with a slight accent, in his mid-to-late 20s with brown eyes, short brown hair, and facial hair. The description is close to that of a suspect wanted in connection with a series of indecent acts reported earlier this year. “There’s some similarities between [them] but there’s insufficient evidence at this time to support charges,” said Wright.

“But we are actively pursuing that avenue of investigation.”

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Asian Star photographer Chandra Bodalia honored with Canadian flag presentation

an honour is an understatement. It was presented to his wife Nirmilla Bodalia and his family on October 5th,

2017. Through joy, tears, laughter, very few word’s and humbled hearts we accepted this beautifully folded flag; wrapped in gold tissue, gently placed in a perfect red box. My dad was a humble, softspoken man who came to this country with very little. He had dreams for his parents and for his children. He never asked for much and

always tried to do good and be a service to other’s.

He has left a legacy in his children Mona and Vimal as well as grandchildren Thomas and Isaiah. A legacy that will continue to fulfill a promise of a better life in Canada.

Canada became his only home, in which he cherished and respected with all that he was. As he captured many hearts, Canada captured his heart. I pray his heart is now at peace. The flag represents sacrifice, hard work and if you work hard enough dreams are possible.

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BC students allege overcharging, fraud by international recruiters B.C. colleges are spending millions luring international students to the province, leading to a growing windfall for loosely regulated overseas recruiters who often take a cut of the proceeds, and sometimes even extort foreign students and their families. The province’s public and private colleges often rely on a cross-border network of recruiting agents and international schools to supply them with undergraduate students willing to pay tuition fees that are often three to four times higher than what domestic students pay. Budget figures for several postsecondary institutions show that their spending on recruiting international students has soared in recent years.

In its proposed budget for 2017-18, Langara College has allocated $1.672 million for international agent fees — more than triple the figure from two years ago. Douglas College, meanwhile, paid more than $1.1 million on agent commissions for the 2015-16 year compared to $575,000 in its 2013-14 budget.

Between 2014 and 2016, the travel budget for Douglas International, the department that deals with recruitment of international students for the college, jumped from $122,000 to $300,000.

According to Ajay Patel, Langara College’s vice-president of external development, 60 per cent of the international students who are enrolled at Langara employ the services of recruiting agents.

Research universities such as the University of B.C., Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria rarely use third-party agents, relying instead on their substantial marketing budgets, brand recognition and in-house recruiting staff.

However, SFU’s first-year pathway college, Fraser International College, which is a collaboration between the university and Australian company Navitas, does employ third-party agents. Navitas contracts 180 agents

who serve in 130 countries.

According to a 2016 study by U.S.-based language school Bridge Education Group, agents accounted for as much as 41 per cent of international enrolments in Canada. The industry of third-party recruiting agents contracted by colleges and universities is largely unregulated by federal or B.C. governments and the codes of ethical conduct are often voluntary in nature. Douglas College, for example, requires agents sign a statement committing themselves to “be of good character and reputation” and to not “adversely impact” the reputation of the college. International agents often recruit for multiple colleges and universities in Canada.

They receive a commission from Canadian institutions for each student they recruit, usually a percentage of the first-year tuition paid by the student, according to administrators. The percentage can vary between 10 per cent to 40 per cent, depending on the college, the country of origin and the contract with the agents.

Many within the recruiting world point to the essential role that the third-party recruiting agencies play in bringing students to Canada.

Mike Henniger, vice-president of sales and marketing for Berlin-based International Consultants for Education and Fairs, believes third-party agents in countries like India and China play a vital role in the international education industry. “People coming from sometimes small centres in rural parts, their family doesn’t speak English, and they’re making one of the largest transactions of their life,” Henniger said.

“They’re spending a lot of money and a huge amount of faith. They need to talk to someone to get information, and schools aren’t set up to provide the counselling like that. The agent provides a super-important role and that gets undervalued.” Some agents bad apples, says industry veteran

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RCMP investigate drive-by shooting between vehicles

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Surrey RCMP are investigating what they call a drive-by shooting near a residential area Thursday night. Officers responded just after 10:00 p.m. to a report of shots fired in the 6100-block of 150 Street. A dark-coloured SUV was reportedly seen pulling up to two vehicles that were parked next to each other,

when police say someone in the SUV fired shots at the other two vehicles.

The SUV was last seen heading southbound on 150th Street. RCMP said no one was injured. Anyone who witnessed the shooting is asked to contact police.

$1 million offered by Surrey Homeless and Housing Society for shelter projects The Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society is celebrating its 10th anniversary by offering up $1 million to help fund innovative housing solutions in Surrey.

The request for proposals, issued on Thursday, comes after this year’s Metro Van c ou v e r A large number of homeless live in Whalley area homeless count kicked off with a $1-million grant to help found the number of homeless people in start the Maxxine Wright Centre, which Surrey increased by nearly 50 per cent over provides supportive housing for women the past three years, to 602 from 403. and children. Since then, it has given out “We’re all aware of the opioid crisis approximately $250,000 a year in grants and the lack of housing to move people to organizations for projects aimed at off the streets, so the time is now to do reducing homelessness. It’s given out a something and our society wants to total of $3.5 million since it was formed in make an impact,� said Surrey Coun. Judy 2007. Villeneuve said the grants typically Villeneuve, who chairs the society’s board. come from the interest earned from the When the society started 10 years ago, it foundation’s money.

Edmonton criminal lawyer suspended after domestic assault conviction

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She told CBC News she is in the process of divorcing her husband and former law partner.

Shannon Prithipaul told CBC News she is in the process of divorcing her husband.

Ravi Prithipaul was committed to stand trial after a preliminary hearing held in July 2016.

The trial was scheduled to begin Oct. 2. Ravi Prithipaul entered guilty pleas on Oct. 3 and was sentenced Oct. 6.

A Crown prosecutor was brought in from Calgary to prosecute the case, which

was heard in Edmonton by Calgary Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Glen Poelman.

Prithipaul will not spend any time in jail. He was given a $200 victim fine surcharge and one year of house arrest.

For the first six months, he must remain in his home around the clock. For the second half of his sentence, he’ll have an overnight curfew between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

The court also ordered a 10year firearm prohibition.

Large fire burns through auto recycling facility on Mitchell Island A large fire broke out on Mitchell Island in Richmond Thursday night.

By 8:30 p.m., at least one structure was engulfed in flames and thick smoke was visible from South Vancouver. Loud popping sounds could also be heard from across the Fraser River.

Richmond Fire Deputy Chief Tim Wilkinson said the owner of the business was on the property when the fire started, but they were able to escape uninjured.

The fire rages on a recycling facility in Mitchell Island

Man dies in RCMP-involved shooting on Vancouver Island A 35-year-old man is dead following a confrontation with police on Vancouver Island. RCMP say officers were called to the side of a highway near Qualicum Beach on Thursday morning after receiving reports about a man who had stabbed himself inside a vehicle. Shortly before they arrived, an RCMP news release says officers were told the man was running down the highway.

RCMP say a struggle ensued when they arrived, resulting in at least one shot being

fired by police.

Paramedics provided medical assistance at the scene, but the man later died of his injuries. Two police officers sustained minor injuries in the struggle and were taken to hospital for medical attention. The Independent Investigations Office has been asked to determine whether the officers’ actions had anything to do with the man’s death. The agency investigates all policeinvolved deaths or serious injuries.

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Canadian man and family rescued after held

by Taliban-linked group for 5 years Joshua Boyle, his wife and their three Pakistan where they remain. He said the family children are free after spending five years in is fit to travel but hasn’t yet decided if they will fly captivity, held by a group associated with the to Canada or the U.S. Linda Boyle, left and Lyn Taliban. In 2012, Boyle and his American-born Coleman hold photo of their married children, wife, Caitlan Coleman, set out on a journey Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who were through Central Asia and were captured near kidnapped by the Taliban in late 2012.Another U.S. official said the AfghanistanBoyle was nervous Pakistan border. about being in On Thursday, “custody” given U.S. officials said his background. in a statement that For five years the Pakistan army the family was “recovered five being held by Western hostages the Haqqani including one network.

U.S. Canadian, his U.S. officials call the national wife and Mother’s Linda Boyle, left and Lyn Coleman hold group a terrorist their three children photo of their married children, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan from terrorist Coleman, who were rescued by Pakistan border agencies organization and have targeted its custody through an intelligence-based operation by Pakistan troops leaders with drone strikes. But the group also and intelligence agencies.” Boyle’s aunt, Kelli operates like a criminal network. Unlike the O’Brien, told Global News she was thrilled and Islamic State group, it does not typically execute shocked by the news. “After all the hopes of Western hostages, preferring to ransom them five years, all the prayers… this time it’s actually for cash.

On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump happening,” O’Brien said.

“The children are young enough that they can said Pakistan’s release of the family is a sign live a normal life and know what family means.” that “a lot of countries are starting to respect The High Commissioner for Pakistan to Canada the United States of America once again.” He said Boyle and his family were then flown by praised Pakistan for its willingness to “do more helicopter to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, to provide security in the region.”

Man dies after being shot by Mounties on Vancouver Island A man is dead after The RCMP says a struggle being shot during a struggle with police in ensued after the Qualicum Beach early officers arrived and shots were Thursday morning. fired by police.

Oceanside RCMP were called out to assist The man Emergency Health died from his injuries.

Services who were attending a complaint of According to Man dies after being shot by Mounties in Qualicum Beach RCMP release, a man who had stabbed himself inside a vehicle two officers on the Inland Island Highway. Mounties then were taken hospital with minor injuries. The received a 9-1-1 report that the same man was Independent Investigations Office of B.C. has running down the highway and that someone been called in to investigate the incident. was trying to restrain him.

Metro Vancouver mayors renew call for TransLink governance review The Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation is urging the provincial government to move ahead with a promised review of TransLink’s governance structure. In their election platform, the B.C. NDP said they would “work with Metro municipalities to develop a new TransLink governance model that provides the structure, the funding model and the certainty to make good transportation decisions to manage the system well …” The mayors are holding the new government to that promise, resolving during an in camera meeting in July (the results of which were just released) that they would ask the province to announce that it will review the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Act — which created TransLink — to consider governance changes.

TransLink is governed by a board of directors, which is considered the decisionmaking body for the transit authority, and the Mayors’ Council, which approves transportation plans and long-term strategies.

The 11-member board is comprised of seven individuals appointed by the council, the council’s chair and vice-chair and up to two members appointed by the province. “Really,

it’s a holdover from the previous government and the previous issues where we had suggested some time ago that … frankly, the governance model at TransLink needed to have a majority of people around the table who were elected by the people,” Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner, who is vice-chair of the Mayors’ Council and therefore on the board of directors, said of the resolution. “It was always a request to reconsider the existing model to allow for a broader voice for elected officials.”

TransLink’s governance structure has been a long-standing issue for Metro Vancouver mayors. The last time they called for a review was in 2015, following the failed transportation tax plebiscite. Metro Vancouver even struck a task force to consider alternative governance structures — including modelling transit like a public utility or following examples from other countries. The task force met three times and recommended legislative changes to allow the Mayors’ Council to assume sole responsibility for transportation policy in the region. In the interim, the task force recommended that there be quarterly joint planning sessions between the TransLink board and Mayors’ Council.

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Metro Vancouver mayors renew call for TransLink From page 11 governance review did not end up being updated — Hepner said there have been some positive changes to the structure. She said elected officials have been included in a number of committees and there have been joint meetings of the board and council. “The engagement of the mayors has been much more inclusive in the last year, but I still know that the mayors would prefer a model that has a majority of elected officials around the table,” Hepner said. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said he fully expects the NDP to live up to its campaign promise to conduct a review, and would prefer to see it done sooner rather than later — before next year’s municipal election would be ideal. He said TransLink’s governance is top of mind for most mayors in the region, and having just the mayors of the

two biggest cities on the board is not enough.

“It’s unanimous on the part of the mayors that they want governance change,” Corrigan said, adding that his preference would be to dissolve the board altogether. When asked about the resolution, Minister Responsible for TransLink Selina Robinson said, “Right now it is in my mandate letter to do a review and that’s something we’ll be certainly taking a look at.”

In fact, the review is not mentioned in Robinson’s mandate letter, although funding the Mayors’ Council’s 10-Year Vision for Metro Vancouver Transportation is. Robinson said her focus is currently on other issues, including moving forward with the mayors’ vision.

Regarding when the review may take place, Robinson said, “Not as of this very second.”

Mystery surrounds proposal to build Surrey outdoor stadium An as-yet-unnamed group has proposed to build an outdoor stadium on city-owned land in Surrey for a yet-to-be-identified pro team, said Coun. Bruce Hayne, rolling out a mystery as to who that might be. It doesn’t appear to be either the B.C. Lions or the Vancouver Whitecaps as management of both teams, which play home games at B.C. Place Stadium now, expressed little knowledge of the proposed development.

However, Surrey has received an unsolicited bid from a group, Hayne said, though he declined to even name the sport in question, citing a non-disclosure agreement signed with the proponent. But the city has opened a request for expressions of interest to see if other proponents are willing to put in competing bids for a stadium. “It wasn’t of our own volition that we went out and said, ‘Gee, this is the time to test the market,’ ” Hayne said.

“We had an unsolicited opportunity come to us and in order to do this properly, we put out

this request for expressions of interest.”

In it, the post indicates that Surrey wants to “establish a shortlist of preferred respondents with the required expertise, capabilities and resources” to finance and build a multipurpose outdoor stadium. Hayne was also coy about how big a proposed stadium would be, which would depend on the proponent’s business model, including the kinds of amenities, such as restaurants or entertainment options. To this point, Hayne said the city’s contribution to high-level discussions over the proposal is to point out plots of city-owned land it would consider leasing to a stadium. But the proposal would also fit in with Surrey’s ambitions for a signature sporting facility. From fields to arenas and Olympic-sized swimming pools, Hayne said Surrey has great sports facilities for residents, but lacks facilities capable of hosting significant national or international sporting events.

Driver plows into South Vancouver home, police believe alcohol a factor A 31-year-old Alberta man was arrested after police say he crashed his pickup truck into a house in south Vancouver late Tuesday night. Police believe alcohol was a factor in the incident. The man was driving down Champlain Crescent, near Matheson Crescent, around 11:30 p.m. when he apparently lost control and ended up crashing through a fence and into a two-storey house.

Battalion Chief Mike Sereda, with Vancouver Fire Rescue, was at the scene and said the house has some structural damage,

but no one inside was hurt.

Fire crews used a beam to support part of the house that was hit by the truck.

“The corner of the house has been hit by the vehicle and we have it temporarily shored,” said Sereda. “The people inside the house are fine, it was two people and a couple of cats and they’re all fine.”

The driver was arrested on scene.

Vancouver police say they are continuing to investigate and will recommend charges of impaired driving.

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Sprayable earthquake-resistant concrete could ‘save lives,’ researchers say Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a spray-on concrete substance they say will make buildings earthquake-resistant and can be used to retrofit schools for half the price.

“This material can be sprayed on vulnerable structures to significantly enhance their resistance to earthquakes and save lives,” said Nemy Banthia, a UBC civil engineering professor.

In the coming weeks, the material will be used to strengthen Dr. Annie B. Jamieson Elementary School in Vancouver, which is already undergoing upgrades.

Researchers hope the material will be used to strengthen other schools and buildings around the province.

“If you look at our B.C. schools, you will see miles and miles of unreinforced masonry corridor walls, and, during an earthquake, these are the corridor walls that would collapse and our children would suffer causalities, unfortunately,” said Banthia.

By spraying the material called EDCC, an eco-friendly ductile cementitious composite,

researchers say walls will become ductile or pliable.

Researchers say spraying a 10-milimetre layer of EDCC on a masonry wall kept it from crumbling in a simulation that mimicked the 9.0 magnitiude earthquake that hit Tohoku, Japan in 2011. “It can take shaking of about 200 per cent level of the actual intensity of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake ... The same wall without the retrofit will normally collapse at about 60 -65 per cent of the intensity,” said Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki, a PhD candidate. “This costs half of the cost of standard retrofit,” said Ono. In August, the province reported that 155 schools in earthquake-prone areas are considered “high risk” and have no scheduled upgrades planned. But the Ministry of Education said given EDCC is a relatively new product, it is far too early to say how many schools in B.C. will be retrofitted using it.

“Each seismic project will utilize the most appropriate materials for the specific circumstances of the project,” said the ministry in an emailed statement.

South Asian student UBC attack victim on her terrifying ordeal A UBC student (pictured) testified about an attack in which a male student burst into her room, held a knife to her throat and tried to choke her. Mary Hare told a judge that she’d just woken up in her third-floor dorm at the Salish house student residence on Oct. 4, 2016 when she heard a knock on her door. When she opened the door, a man entered and attacked her with a knife, she said. “He grabbed me and he had a knife to my throat and he was cutting me,” Hare told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Margot Fleming.

“I didn’t know what was going on. I just started screaming. I was saying, ‘Someone help me.’ ” Hare, 20, told the judge that in addition to cutting her in the throat, her attacker started choking her and put his hand over her mouth.

She said she tried to pull the attacker’s hand away and pulled at the knife blade to try to get the attacker to let her go. “I was terrified. I thought this was when I realized

the guy was going to kill me. I was just so scared.” Hare, a first-year arts student at the time, said her attacker got on top of her and she felt she was losing consciousness.

She said, however, that she kept “fighting and fighting” and eventually two other female students came in the room to help her. Thamer Hameed Almestadi, an 18-yearold international student from Saudi Arabia, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in connection with an incident at the Salish House student residence on the UBC campus on Oct. 4, 2016. Thamer Hameed Almestadi, an 18-year-old international student from Saudi Arabia, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in connection with an incident at the Salish House student residence on the UBC campus on Oct. 4, 2016.

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Canadian in NYC terror trial met with Omar Khadr’s lawyer in prison A Canadian teen who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges in connection with a plot to attack New York City landmarks has met in prison with Alberta lawyer

Dennis Edney, who previously defended Omar Khadr, CTV News has learned.

Nineteen-year-old Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy’s parents asked Edney, who

represented Khadr, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, to look at the case, CTV’s Glen McGregor reported Tuesday.

Edney’s involvement suggests the family

may intend to question the fairness of arresting a young person with addiction issues and possible bi-polar disorder in a scheme an FBI agent helped co-ordinate.

New York terror case involving Canadian shows growing reach of ISIS Feds say they thwarted NYC plot targeting concert venues Canadian pleads guilty to terrorist charges in NYC Newly released letters from defence lawyers and a New York prosecutor, filed with a U.S. court, show El Bahnasawy suffered from drug addiction and mental health issues.

The letters say the teen from Mississauga, Ont., suffered a relapse in prison and tested positive for a prescription drug used in opioid-addiction treatments.

“He has a long history of drug use, drug treatment, and relapse,” his lawyers, Sabrina Shroff and Clay Kaminsky, wrote in a letter to a judge as they argued for the court to restore his family visits.

El Bahnasawy has been in U.S. custody since the FBI arrested him in New Jersey in May, 2016.

Details of his guilty plea in what has been described as an ISIS-inspired plot to target New York City landmarks only recently came to light, after American court records were unsealed.

The other two accused in the case have been identified as Talha Haroon, a 19-yearold U.S. citizen residing in Pakistan, and Russell Salic, 37, from the Philippines.

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Man dead after overnight fall from construction crane A man is dead after falling 20 storeys from a construction crane outside the UBC Student Recreation Centre sometime overnight. University RCMP Sgt. Drew Grainger said the body was discovered at the side of the building by a janitor around 5:30 a.m. PT. “This male had obviously sustained

some significant trauma,” said Grainger.

“We don’t know if it’s a student or a worker, but it looks to be a very unfortunate accident.”

A janitor found the body at the side of the UBC Student Recreation Centre early this morning. Grainger said the area

4.5-magnitude earthquake rattles Vancouver Island Officials say a small earthquake has struck off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The United States Geological Survey says the 4.5-magnitude quake struck at 2:26 a.m. Wednesday.

The tremor’s epicentre

was recorded about 170 kilometres west of Tofino at a depth of 10 kilometres.

No injuries or damage were reported.

Emergency Info BC said in a tweet that the earthquake did not pose any threat.

Bodies of 2 adults and a child pulled from burning home in Nanaimo A relative has confirmed the identities of a family of three found dead following a suspicious house fire in Nanaimo Tuesday, including a seven-year-old girl who had a deep appreciation for music.

The bodies of Jason Stephenson, Amberlee Scarr and their young daughter Piper Stephenson were pulled out of a laneway house that burst into flames in the 700-block of Nicol Street, a family member confirmed Wednesday. “Just crippling. There’s no words,” said Peter Hudson, a close friend of Amberlee. “Both parents loved their daughter immensely. It’s what kept them together.” The bodies of mother Amberlee Scarr, daughter Piper Stephenson and father Jason Stephenson, Amberlee Scarr were pulled out of a burning home in Nanaimo Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Emergency officials are seen outside a home in Nanaimo where three bodies were found on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.

Neighbours say the family was kind and Piper was known around the block for her love of music. “I feel so bad. She was a beautiful, very talented young girl and her dad really believed she was going to be a wonderful musician and was very excited,” said Carolyn Butula. Other friends tell CTV News that Jason lived with Piper at the home and Amberlee had recently moved back in with them. They said there had been an ongoing dispute between the two parents over custody of Piper. RCMP confirmed in a news conference Wednesday morning that the three people killed were a family, but did not confirm their identity or comment on reports of a custody battle.

“At this time we have no other information about the people involved in the fire, other than it was a male and female and a seven-

year-old child,” Cpl. Jon Stuart told reporters.

Asked why the child would have been home on a regular school day, Stuart said it wasn’t a Pro-D day and investigators don’t have answers as to why she was at the home.

RCMP also responded to neighbours’ reports saying they’d heard shouting and glass breaking at the home at the time of the fire. Stuart said the loud noise was actually a passerby who spotted the fire and was trying to raise the alarm to get people outside.

“People heard banging and yelling and might’ve attributed that to something,” he said.

“There’s no altercation that we have any knowledge of prior to the fire.” The family’s cause of death is still unclear.

Police weren’t confirming that Wednesday, saying there was much investigative work left to do. “An investigation like this does take time.

around the construction crane is “wide open” all hours of the day and night as part of a transit hub that sees a high volume of foot and vehicle traffic. Police have talked to several witnesses but do not know how the incident unfolded. Grainger said there doesn’t appear to be any useful security

camera footage of the location. The area surrounding the fatality was behind police tape this morning and traffic was being diverted around the area of Wesbrook Mall and Student Union Boulevard.

The victim has not been identified.

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Hail storm turned South Surrey, White Rock into winter wonderland

In South Surrey and White Rock several residents posted pictures by saying that it had snowed on early Wednesday, but Environment Canada, confirmed that was hail. ‘It’s not unusual to have large accumulations of hail during an intense lightning storm, and it may have looked like snow’, Snow is expected Wednesday on the North Shore mountains.

The freezing level is stable, , so any snow that falls should stick. Whistler should also see some snow flurries Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, a meteorologist with Environment Canada said. Castellan said the storm brought thunder, hail, and an estimated half a dozen lighting strikes over South Surrey on Wednesday morning.

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Waterspouts, a phenomenon in which a rotation in the clouds causes water in the ocean to spin and become airborne, were also seen off the coast near Richmond, he said.

The National Weather Service in Seattle also issued a warning about waterspouts Wednesday, saying a severe thunderstorm was producing waterspouts that could easily overturn boats.

Environment Canada had been calling for heavy showers in the White Rock area with a risk of hail and thunderstorms and a high of 12 C. Castellan said the weather in Metro Vancouver should dry up over the next couple of days, before the region is hit with more rain storms on the weekend.

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Man and woman charged in slaying of 4 people in Calgary but investigation is ‘full steam ahead’ Murder charges have been laid against a man and a woman in connection with the July slayings of four people found dead in Calgary over a two-day period, and police now say all six people involved were known to each other. Tewodros Mutugeta Kebede, 25, and Yu Chieh Liao, 25 — who were identified as people of interest three weeks after the killings — are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hanock Afowerk, 26, and three counts of accessory after the fact in the slayings of Cody Pfeiffer, 25, and sisters Tiffany Ear, 39, and Glynnis Fox, 36. The bodies of Pfeiffer, Ear and Fox were discovered in a burned-out car in Calgary on May 10, 2017. Two days later, Afowerk’s remains were found near a road west of the city. Homicide charges still have

not been laid in connection may have burned with the three victims clothing near the found in the vehicle, and Canadian Forces although Kebede and base in Moose Liao are also considered Jaw, Sask., or at a suspects in those deaths, nearby airport and Insp. Paul Wozney said the are asking locals, investigation is “full steam particularly farmers ahead” and police believe in that area of Tewodros Mutugeta Kebede, left, and Yu Chieh Saskatchewan, there are others involved. to Liao, also known as Diana Liao, are charged with Police are now keep an eye out for first-degree murder in the death of four people. backtracking on prior suspicious-looking statements that the victims found in the burned items. “If you’re scared, if you feel vehicle were in the “wrong place at the intimidated, we would be able to provide wrong time.” “All six of these people were you with assistance if you come forward known to one another,” said Wozney. with information,” said Wozney.

“Investigative theories sometimes change.”

A vehicle belonging to the Calgary Investigators believe the suspects

Police Service’s forensic crime scenes unit was parked outside the site where three bodies were found in a burned-out car in the northwest Calgary community of Sage Hill in July. Liao and Kebede made brief appearances in a Calgary courtroom on Wednesday. Liao was in person, while Kebede made a video appearance from the Calgary Remand Centre. The case was put over for three weeks while Kebede looks for a lawyer. Kebede is also accused of wearing a disguise and possessing a gun during an armed robbery against a husband and wife on June 29, 2017, which is believed to be unrelated to the homicides. The bodies of (from left) Glynnis Fox, Tiffany Ear and Cody Pfeiffer were found in the burnedout car on July 10, while Hanock Afowerk,

Liberal government tells CRA to back off plan to tax employee discounts Federal revenue minister is blaming bureaucrats at the Canada Revenue Agency for hatching a plan to tax employee discounts, reversing a new interpretation of the tax code she says she never approved in the first place while instructing the agency to pull the plans from its website.

In a statement sent to CBC News, Diane Lebouthillier’s press secretary said she is “deeply disappointed” employees at the tax collector issued a directive — or a “folio” — with new rules around how employee discounts on merchandise would be treated for tax purposes. The CRA had said on its website that when an employee receives a discount on merchandise the value of the discount should be included in the employee’s income at tax time.

“This document was not approved by the minister and we are deeply disappointed that the agency posted something that has been misinterpreted like this,” John Power, a spokesperson for Lebouthillier, said in an emailed statement. “The agency issued a guidance document that does not reflect our government’s intentions and the minister of national revenue has instructed officials to clarify the wording.”

Employee discount at work? Revenue Canada wants you to pay tax on it Shortly after the statement was sent out, the folio was pulled from the CRA’s website. Power said the minister has instructed the agency to review its interpretation of the tax code and consult with stakeholders in the industry.

The government’s backtrack comes amid a stunning backlash to the change from the Retail Council of Canada and thousands of the country’s two million retail workers.

Tax ruling demanded new interpretation of employee benefits While the minister has called for a review, the tax collector is still expected to address taxation on employee discounts.

A 2011 tax court ruling found the CRA’s guidance to employers on this matter was out of date and did not adequately conform to the Income Tax Act, which stipulates most employee benefits should be deemed taxable income.

Indeed, subsection 6(1) of the act states that income should include the value of “benefits of any kind whatever received or enjoyed by the taxpayer ... by virtue of the taxpayer’s office or employment,” with few exceptions.

In response, in its 2016 folio — a document written in plain language and disseminated to employers to help them interpret the tax code — the CRA said employers should start tracking employee discounts and report that

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Premier vows to eliminate wait-list for youth anti-gang program The B.C. NDP says any young person currently waiting to be accepted into the Wrap Program — a successful initiative aimed at keeping youths away from gangs — won’t have to wait much longer.

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth appeared with Premier John Horgan at a Surrey high school Friday morning to announce the province will spend $500,000 annually on Wrap.

“The wait-list, to my understanding, is down to about 12,” Farnworth said.

“That’s something that we’re going to work to get down to zero, as soon as possible.”

Wrap has helped hundreds of families in Surrey, but there hasn’t been enough funding in the past to accommodate all of the at-risk youths in the city.

“At the end of summer, we had 48 kids on the wait-list,” said Rob Rai, the Surrey School District’s director of school community connections.

“With this infusion of new resources, it means that we’re servicing 121 families currently.”

The WRAP Program identifies young people from Surrey who have had negative contacts with police. It then connects the youths and their families with counselling and mentoring services to help steer them straight. Former gang member Jordan Buna — who now

makes presentations to high school students about the risks of gang life — is one of Wrap’s mentors. “You can bring a kid — and I’m talking serious criminality, where a 13-or 14-yearold kid being in places where there are firearms present — and turn them around,” he said.“They’re back in school, trying to get their studies in order and their negative police contacts are way down.

Buna says if there was a similar program when he was in high school, his life might have turned out differently.

“That’s the one thing I’ve noticed working in this program is that the kids you work with, as you mentor them and as you work with them, they almost feel like they’re accountable to you,” he said.

“They feel like they don’t want to disappoint you by messing up. That’s a lot of what I was missing, when I was growing up.”

Rai says the program’s success has schools, police and politicians from all over wondering if they can introduce a similar program.

“I understand there’s a lot of interest, especially at the provincial level of expanding the program,” he said.

“I’ve actually personally met with a number of cities, and we’re working to support them.”

Toronto man charged after 2 children struck with hammers, choked: police Toronto police say they have charged a suspect with two counts of attempted murder after two children were struck on their heads with a hammer and choked.

Police say the suspect, 53, was home with the two children, who were both under 10. Police say they responded to the incident near Jane St. and Steeles Ave. on

Saturday afternoon. “Both children were rushed to hospital with lifethreatening injuries,” according to the Toronto Police Service press release. “They were both treated and are expected to make a full recovery.”

To protect the identity of the children, police say they are not releasing the man’s name. He has been charged.

Man found dead in Richmond identified as gang associate A man found dead in Richmond this week has been identified. Ibrahim Amjad Ibrahim, a 30-year-old Surrey man, had suffered gunshot wounds, according to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. RCMP were called to Garden City Park in Richmond Tuesday just after 4:15 a.m. after the discovery of the dead body. According to homicide investigators, Ibrahim was known to police and was associated with criminal groups in the Lower Mainland. Police have not established a motive for the killing. “Anyone

in the area of the parking lot of Garden City Park during the overnight period of Oct. 9 is asked to contact IHIT,” said Cpl. Frank Jang.

“This is yet another life that has been lost too soon. It is a reminder that if you are involved in or associated to criminal activity, then you are not immune to its inherent dangers.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca. Those who wish to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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Couple charged in slaying of four people in Calgary

From previous page right, was found days later west of Calgary.

(Facebook/Facebook/Megan Snell/Calgary Police Service) On July 10, the first three victims — Pfeiffer, Fox and Ear — were found dead in a burned-out car in the northwest Calgary neighbourhood of Sage Hill.

Afowerk, who owned the vehicle, was found deceased two days later west of Calgary near the traffic circle where Highway 22 and Highway 8 meet.

Police said they believed all four deaths were connected and that the three people in the car were caught up in a targeted attack against Afowerk.

3 victims in quadruple homicide in ‘wrong place at the wrong time,’ Calgary police believe Pfeiffer was described by a friend as “a small town kid with a big heart.”

The sisters were described by family members as “beautiful souls” who left behind 16 children between them.

A cousin said Fox and Ear, who were born and raised in Morley — an Indigenous community west of Calgary — had a difficult youth and still struggled

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at times in adulthood. Two weeks after the bodies were discovered, Kebede was taken into custody in Toronto on drug charges unrelated to the homicides Days after that, police arrested Liao, who had been identified as a person of interest in connection with the killings, in Toronto.

She was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for fraud. At the time, police said Liao was believed to have played a “significant

role” in what officers described as the brutal and ruthless slaying of four people.

Kebede has a criminal history in Toronto, including convictions for assault and drug trafficking.

Other policing agencies — including Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat, RCMP and the Toronto guns and gangs unit — have “bent over backwards” to help Calgary police with what Wozney described as a “complex” investigation.

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Average Canadian house price up 3% in past 12 months, CREA says

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he average price of a Canadian home rose by three per cent in the year up to September, even as sales came in 11 per cent lower than they were a year ago.

The Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday that the deceleration in price gains largely reflects softening price trends in Ontario’s Greater Golden Horseshoe area, which stretches around the southwestern corner of Lake Ontario.

Double-digit annual increases were the norm in the region throughout 2016, before a slowdown earlier this year that saw price increases slow to single digits and then briefly dip into negative territory before recovering.

‘The market has changed,’ and buyers welcome the Toronto housing cooldown ANALYSIS — Sniffing out the truth about Canada’s housing market is tricky “National sales appear to be stabilizing,” CREA president Andrew Peck said in a statement. “While encouraging, it’s too early to tell if this is the beginning of a longer-term trend.”

While sales were down 11 per cent from

last year’s level, 2016 marked the busiest September for home sales on record.

When discussing Canada’s real estate picture, the Toronto and Vancouver markets get a lot of attention — because they are large and have had such outsized gains, which skewed the national numbers higher, the realtor group has long warned.

“The national result continues to be influenced heavily by trends in Toronto and Vancouver, but housing market conditions vary widely across Canada,” Peck said Friday.

Vancouver took steps in the summer of 2016 to cool its market via a foreign buyers tax, and Toronto did the same in April 2017.

Both appear to have had a cooling effect on their respective markets, although they are both at different stages in the cycles.

After an initial slowdown in the summer of 2016 after the new rules came in, Vancouver prices are bouncing back sharply, with the average selling price in the city up more than 17 per cent to $1,046,982.

Sears to close all stores in Canada, lay off 12,000 emplyees Sears Canada is closing up shop, announcing Tuesday that it is seeking court approval to close all of its stores across the country and lay off about 12,000 employees.

The move came after weeks of discussions with executive chairman Brandon Stranzl to save the money-losing retailer, but the company failed to reach an agreement after his most recent bid last week. “Following exhaustive efforts, no viable transaction for the company to continue as a going concern was received,” said a statement from the retailer, adding the liquidation was recommended by its financial advisors and its court-approved bankruptcy monitor, FTI Consulting.

“The company deeply regrets this pending outcome and the resulting loss of jobs and store closures,” the statement said.

Sears Canada could face liquidation by Oct. 19 if rescue deal remains elusive RioCan’s $2 billion sale raises question about future of retail properties, says confidential report Sears Canada entered bankruptcy protection in June, saying it could not continue to operate as a going concern without a new source of financing. Sears Canada has 74 fullline department stores, 8 Sears Home stores and 49 Hometown dealer stores in smaller markets across the country. The retailer wants to start liquidation sales no later than Oct. 19 and expects them to continue for 10 to

14 weeks. The news comes after more than a decade of sales declines for Sears Canada, which was founded as Simpsons-Sears in 1952, a national mail-order business in partnership between Toronto’s Robert Simpson Company of Toronto and Sears Roebuck Co. of Chicago.

Sears Canada was viewed as the most likely inheritor of the market share void left

by Canadian department store chain Eaton’s when it folded in 1999 and Sears bought out its remaining assets. But in the lengthy interim period, Sears failed to adapt to a changing marketplace, ceding customers and market share to Walmart, Canadian Tire, Best Buy, Costco and Winners, and more recently, Amazon.

Sears Canada’s sales were $2.6 billion in 2016, down from $6.7 billion in 2001. “This took a heck of a long time, because the writing was on the wall almost 20 years ago,” said retail consultant Richard Talbot of Sidney, B.C.based Talbot Consultants International Inc., who has followed the company for decades.

“It’s very sad, and it’s just amazing how they could fritter away their name, reputation and business model,” Talbot said. “What I found astounding was here was a company with a catalogue business across the country and they somehow messed up when e-commerce was coming in. It was theirs to lose. For the longest time, Sears was the only place for young families to go.

Canada’s largest pot grower plans to double capacity with BC greenhouses Canopy Growth Corp. says it will develop up to three million square feet of greenhouse growing capacity in British Columbia, more than doubling Canada’s biggest licensed marijuana producer’s production footprint.

The company said in a statement that it has entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with a large-scale greenhouse operator where it will be a majority shareholder of BC Tweed Joint Venture Inc., a new company.

Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton says the greenhouses currently grow peppers and the company will spend tens of millions of dollars to transform them to grow cannabis, the majority of which will be sold domestically.

The company will spend $20 million to develop 1.3 million square feet and

hopes to have product available as soon as July 1 next year when recreational marijuana sales are set to be legalized.

The company will lease the facility from the partner’s affiliate and will have the option to acquire it. The undisclosed partner will receive Canopy shares as consideration.

The deal expands Canopy Growth’s greenhouse production footprint to about 2.3 million square feet.

Company spokesperson Caitlin O’Hara says the company has an option for an additional 1.7 million square feet in B.C. as well for a total of three million square feet.

She says the company currently has one million square feet of greenhouse space in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

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Rajapaksa’s son arrested for protesting outside Indian consulate to public property, unlawful The elder son of former assembly and defying a Lankan president Sri court order not to hold Mahinda Rajapaksa has demonstrations in the been arrested along with two Hambantota judicial area. other parliamentarians for They were produced protesting outside the Indian before the Hambantota consulate in Hambantota magistrate and ordered to over the proposed lease of an be remanded until October airport to an Indian company.

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Opposition backing ex“We recorded statements president Mahinda Rajapaksa Namal Rajapaksa from organisers and staged the demonstration to protest the Sri Lankan government’s deal taken those responsible into custody,” with India to handover the Mattala Mahinda a police spokesman said. The number Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in of people arrested since Friday over Hambantota in the country’s Southern Province. the incident now has risen to 40.

This was a major infrastructure project The Opposition said they stand opposed to of Rajapaksa during his presidency the selling of state assets by the government with loan support coming from China. to foreign entities. Namal on Monday Namal Rajapaksa and six other protestors during a zero-hour debate in parliament were summoned by the Hambantota police on the Indian airport deal charged that last night to record a statement over the the government was making Sri Lanka a violence at the demonstration, police said. “playground” for international power games.

They have been accused of causing damage

Burma’s army is in ‘systematic’ campaign to drive Rohingya refugees from Myanmar: UN Myanmar’s “systematic” crackdown on the Rohingya is aimed at permanently expelling the minority Muslim community from their home in Rakhine state, the United Nations said Wednesday.

The UN report, which is based on interviews with refugees who have fled to Bangladesh, details a campaign by Myanmar’s military to terrorise the Rohingya through atrocities that range from indiscriminate killings to rape.

“Brutal attacks against Rohingya in northern Rakhine State have been wellorganised, coordinated and systematic, with the intent of not only driving the population out of Myanmar but preventing them from returning to their homes,” the UN said.

UN researchers spoke to people who arrived in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar area since August 25, when militant attacks on Myanmar’s security forces in Rakhine sparked a major military backlash.

More than half a million people have fled, UN figures show.

But the probe found that the latest wave of military “clearance operations” in Rakhine actually began before that date, possibly in early August, contradicting government claims that the crackdown was a response to militant strikes.

The investigation outlines an armyled campaign to erase the Rohingya’s connection to their homeland in the majority Buddhist nation, where they have suffered persecution for decades.

Myanmar’s troops also often operate “in concert with armed Rakhine Buddhist individuals,” the UN said.

“In some cases, before and during the attacks, megaphones were used to announce: ‘You do not belong here -- go to Bangladesh. If you do not leave, we will torch your houses and kill you’,” it said.

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Police to arrest those who gave shelter to Honeypreet The Panchkula police are now According to sources, a looking into the role of Iqbal special investigation team Singh, whose wife Sukhdeep of the Panchkula police has Kaur was arrested with recorded the statement of Honeypreet, for having made Sharanjeet Kaur, mother of arrangements for the latter’s stay Gurmeet Singh, in which at Jangirana village, near here. she cleared that she had The house in Jangirana told Sukhdeep to leave the village is owned by Gurmeet house, as it had come to Singh, cousin of Iqbal Singh. her notice that Honeypreet Iqbal Singh hails from Balluana was living with Sukhdeep.

Honeypreet has been associated in Bathinda, but he left his The Haryana Police with Gurmeet Ram Rahim for more house a decade ago and will register another case than a decade. shifted with his family to Sirsa. against those persons After the arrest of Honeypreet, the Panchkula who had given shelter to Honeypreet, but police marked two destinations in Bathinda the Bathinda police will not initiate any — one in city and other at Balluana village. action against those who had given shelter Iqbal Singh is the owner of both houses to her as the Haryana Police have not give in Bathinda and Balluana. The Haryana anything in written to the Bathinda police.

Police visited the houses with Honeypreet on October 5, but failed to find anything.

Yesterday they got clues about her stay at Jangirana village during hiding.

Police took Honeypreet to Rajasthan villages Abohar: The Haryana police took Honeypreet to Loonkaransar, where she had stayed with dera followers’ family in a dhani outside Jagdevwala village. Earlier, cops confiscated the mediapersons’ mobile phones and cameras when they gheraoed the vehicle carrying her near the SriganganagarHanumangarh border. The police later returned the items. Honeypreet was taken to Gurusar Modian, native village of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, for a meeting with his family. She was also brought to the girls’ hostel and hospital run by the sect, where she had reportedly stayed for three nights.

Sugarcane price hike In a bid to appease farmers Government plans to increase the state-agreed price (SAP) for sugarcane by Rs10 per quintal.

With this, the early yielding variety of cane could fetch Rs310 per quintal, mid-yielding variety Rs300 and late-yielding variety Rs295.

The SAP will be increased after two years.

Sources in the Agriculture Department told The Tribune the rates had been recommended to the government after meetings with cane growers and representatives of private and cooperative sugar mills in Punjab.

A meeting of the Sugar Cane Control Board, headed by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, is likely to be convened later this month, where the new rates at which cane is to be bought will be finalised and subsequently notified. The cane crushing season will officially begin on November 15.

It is learnt that the area under sugarcane this year is higher (97,000 hectares) than last year (95,000). The production is expected to be around 67,000 quintals (as against 66,000 last year).

“Since retail prices are much higher, the government has decided to increase the SAP,” a senior officer said.

However, there is still no word on clearing Rs 95.04-crore dues pending since the previous crushing season (2016-17). A private sugar mill owned by Power Minister Rana Gurjit Singh and another by a relative of late liquor baron Ponty Chadha owe Rs 1.05 crore and Rs 2.9 crore, respectively (as on October 4).

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Sword-wielding groups clash at Golden Temple, several hurt Panic gripped devotees at the Golden Temple today when rival Sikh groups brandishing swords clashed at the entrance of the shrine complex, leaving several injured.

The clash occurred between the SGPC task force members and radical Sikhs as the latter tried to head towards the Akal Takht. The verbal duel turned ugly and soon it was freefor-all in the presence of police personnel.

The SGPC task force pushed president of the managing committee of Chhota Ghallughara Gurdwara, Qadian, Master Johar Singh out of the complex. He was there to appear before “parallel” Jathedars of the Takht to clarify his stance on the ruckus witnessed at the Qadian gurdwara in August after some devotees caught management panel member Boota Singh in an objectionable position with a woman there.

As Master Johar Singh was being dragged out of the shrine complex, “parallel” Jathedars,

led by “acting Akal Takht Jathedar Dhyan Singh Mand”, reached there and tried to gain entry.

While their attempt was blocked by the SGPC task force, a violent fight broke out between sword-wielding supporters of the two sides.

Timely intervention by the police helped defuse the situation, but not before SGPC task force staffer Amrik Singh, additional secretary Vijay Singh and radical Sikhs — Satnam Singh Manawa and SAD (Amritsar) general secretary Jarnail Singh Sakhira — had suffered injuries on their hands.

Mand held SGPC chief secretary and manager of the Golden Temple responsible for the incident. Later, they submitted a complaint to the police demanding slapping of attempt-to-murder charges against SGPC men who blocked their entry into the shrine.

“We were not allowed to enter the Akal Takht on the directions of the SGPC chief.

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Last month Montreal-area home sales hit 8-year high The real estate market in Greater Montreal matched September’s heat wave with sales reaching an eight-year high for the month. The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says 2,893 residential sales were completed last month, a six per cent increase from a year ago. Four of the area’s five metropolitan areas sustained growth, led by a 17-per-cent jump in sales in Laval, north of Montreal. Paul Cardinal of the Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards has attributed monthly housing gains to strong job creation, consumer confidence and foreign migration. Condominiums continued to drive sales volume, rising 11 per cent overall, including a 49 per cent jump in Laval, north of Montreal.

Condo sales have b e e n growing steadily for months w h i l e selling times are down, said Mathieu Cousineau, GMREB president.

He said the condo market has returned to a balanced market with 10 months of inventories.

“For a little more than four years, there was a surplus of condominiums on the resale market and inventory had reached a new peak of 15 months exactly two years ago. The turnaround has therefore been quite impressive,” he said in a news release.

Although fewer in number, sales of buildings with two to five units were up 23 per cent. The weak spot was singlefamily homes, where sales dipped by one per cent to mark the first sales decline in five months. Canada’s second-largest city remains a real estate bargain as the average price of homes grew 2.6 per cent to $364,862. That compared to $775,546 in Greater Toronto, also up 2.6 per cent from the prior year, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board.

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‘JD (U) MLA’ dances on stage with scantily-clad woman ‘to beat of his conscience’ NEW DELHI: The RJD has posted a video it says is of a JD (U) MLA dancing suggestively on stage with a scantily-clad woman and a pole as his prop “to the beat of his conscience”.

The undated video the RJD posted on Twitter, shows a man looking a lot like JD(U) MLA Abhay Kumar Sinha, gyrating on stage with a woman - and occasionally grabbing at her - at what appears to be a public event. Sinha is the JD (U)’s MLA from Tikari in Bihar. TOI cannot

independently verify if it is indeed Sinha in the video. Lalu Prasad’s RJD, still smarting from Nitish Kumar and the JD (U) splitting from the ‘grand alliance’ in Bihar+ in July, has been regularly taking potshots at its erstwhile ally.

Nitish had cited moral reasons and the “voice of my conscience” as the reason for the split, after Lalu’s son and Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi had a corruption case registered against him by the CBI.

Talwars did not kill Aarushi: HC Reversing a CBI court judgment, the Allahabad High Court today acquitted dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar of the charge of murdering their 14-year-old daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, 45, in May 2008. They are expected to be freed from Ghaziabad’s Dasna jail tomorrow after the

completion of paperwork. The 263-page verdict ends, at least for now, the nine- year ordeal of the Noida couple, who were sentenced to life by a Ghaziabad CBI court in November 2013 for the double murder that not only transfixed but also shook the nation with its element of filicide.

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We are ready for joint operation to destroy Haqqani safe havens if US gives evidence: Pak foreign minister

Election Commission rejects Hafiz Saeed’s bid for entering into mainstream politics

Pakistan is ready for a joint targeted areas, our troops, along operation with the US to destroy with the US, would destroy them once and for all.” The Haqqani the Haqqani network if it provides evidence about the presence of safe network has carried out a number havens of the dreaded terror outfit of kidnappings and attacks against US interests in Afghanistan. The in the country, foreign minister Khawaja Asif has said. His remarks group is also blamed for several came after US President Donald deadly attacks against Indian Foreign Minister, interests in Afghanistan, including Trump, in August, had accused Khawaja Asif the 2008 bombing of the Indian Pakistan of harbouring “agents of chaos and terror”+ and the “very enemy mission in Kabul that killed 58 people. The US forces have fighting in Afghanistan” foreign minister also said that Pakistan for the past 17 years. Asif, who recently Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited Washington and met senior Trump had made the same offer to Afghanistan administration officials, told Express News, President Ashraf Ghani during his Kabul “We have offered American authorities to visit earlier this month. Pakistan’s offer is visit Pakistan with evidence of Haqqani a major concession to Washington, as so network’s safe havens in the country. “If far it has resisted US boots on its soil, and they find any activity [of Haqqanis] in the it comes ahead of the expected visits of

(LeT), the parent organization of The Election Commission of JuD. While hearing MML lawyer’s Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday arguments on the matter, chief rejected the application of Milli election commissioner Saradar Muslim League (MML), the political Muhammad Raza Khan suggested front of Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD), a Pakistan-based banned that the party should clear its name with the home ministry before militant organization, for registration Hafiz Saeed as a mainstream political party. The applying for registration. “Under decision was taken on basis of a letter which law the party should consult that the Pakistan home ministry had sent to the interior ministry when it had fulfilled the ECP last month asking it to avoid registration set criteria of the ECP for any political party’s of MML as a political party for its ties to registration,” MML’s counsel questioned the banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba Khan-headed five-member panel of ECP. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis to Islamabad in the coming weeks. They needed proof of Osama bin Laden hiding in Terroristan too.

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Narak Chaturdashi, Main Diwali, Diwali Padva and Bhaidooj. Jains also celebrate Diwali to mark the attainment of Moksha by the 24th Tirthankar Lord Mahavir.(599 BC) Also, Gautam Gandhar Swami, the chief disciple of Lord Mahavir achieved omniscience (Kevala Gyan) on the day of Diwali. Sikhs celebrate it as Bandi Chhor Divas ( Day of Liberation ) to mark the release of Guru Har Gobind alongwith 52 Hindu kings from the prison of Mughal Emperor Jahangir. In the post- Guru Gobind Singh era, Sarbat Khalsa used to meet on Diwali day and Baisakhi day in Amritsar to discuss important issues concerning the Panth.

Newari Buddhists in Nepal celebrate Diwali by worshiping goddess Lakshmi. In the context of the Hindu Epic ‘ Ramayana’, Diwali is celebrated to welcome Lord Ram to Ayodhya after spending fourteen years in exile. In fact, Rama drowned himself in Saryu river to atone the killing of Ravana. As a Kshatriya, Rama was not supposed to have killed a Brahmin of

Ravana’s stature. It was in violation of Chatur Varna Maryada. The myth that it was a victory of good over the evil, light over darkness, wisdom over ignorance etc. cannot be justified keeping in view the power, prowess and the knowledge of Ravana in comparison to Rama.

In some region of India, Diwali is associated with the legend of Yama and Nachiketa. The Nachiketa story about right and wrong, true wealth and transient wealth, wisdom and ignorance, mind and intellect and to see the light and darkness through meditation is recorded in the Katha Upanishad composed in 1st millennium BC. The religious significance of Diwali varies from region to region in India, depending on the school of Hindu philosophy, legends and beliefs. However, the main festival is celebrated in the following sequence: Dhanteras is the day of the churning of cosmic ocean of milk between the forces of good and of evil. This day marks the birthday of Lakshmi – the Goddess of Wealth and Prosperity and the birthday of Dhanvantri – the God of Health and

Healing. Since 2016, Dhanteras has been declared as “National Ayurveda Day in India”. Narak Chaturdashi is called Choti Diwali. According to Hindu literature, Asura Narakasura was killed on this day by Lord Krishna, Satyabhama and Kali.

It was the victory of light over darkness. After Main Diwali, Padva is to celebrate the love and devotion between the wife and the husband.

Last day of the festival is Bhaidooj. It marks the sister-brother affinity. It might have a reference to Ravana and Swarupenkha, because Rama had no sister. Festival of Peace: The Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities organize charitable causes on this day. At the Indo- Pak border ( Attari – Wagah ) every year on Diwali the Indian soldiers offer traditional Indian sweets to the Pakistani soldiers and as a return gesture, the Pak soldiers offer an assortment of Pakistani sweets. Lately, with the increasing strength of Indian diaspora in countries like UK, USA and Canada, it has become necessary for the governments of these countries to become a part of the celebration of various Indian festivals, including Diwali.

Issues: There has been a growing concern about the environmental and health impact of Diwali like Air pollution and its after effects, Burn injuries and unwanted expenditure on fireworks.

To safeguard the environment issue the Supreme Court of India has banned sale of firecrackers in Delhi ahead of Diwali.

In spiritual and philosophical terms, the following quotes will prove that light and darkness compliment each other. We have to understand both. One cannot stand on its own. - “ We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light (truth)” - Plato “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” -- Og Mandino Let us celebrate this great festival in the light of composure and equanimity and reflect on our dark side with the help of a small Diya.

Message : Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. Eat sweet and speak sweet.

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Hon. Hedy Fry Vancouver Centre 604.666.0135

Randeep Sarai Surrey Centre 604.589.2441

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On behalf of the Province of British Columbia we wish everyone a Happy Diwali and hope that the spirit of Diwali brings family and friends together to celebrate peace, joy and happiness.

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