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Vol 16 - Issue 09
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South Asian woman dies in Fraser Health emergency room while waiting for treatment A 73-year-old woman spent her final hours of life sitting in a wheelchair in Royal Columbian Hospital’s emergency room waiting for
a treatment bed to open up. Her family says she died an “undignified death” and was not being properly cared for. Surjit Kaur, a mother and grandmother, was taken to the
emergency room on March 6. She was diagnosed with a bladder infection and sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. At home, she began throwing up for several days. Without any improvements after a week, a clinic doctor gave Kaur an urgent care note and sent her to the emergency room. That day, on March 14, Kaur was seen by a doctor in the emergency room at Royal Columbian Hospital. She had her blood taken, and was seated in a wheelchair in the waiting room. “After that, there was nothing. My cousin called me around seven o’clock saying, ‘Hey we’ve been here for six hours and she’s still sitting in a wheelchair. Continued on Page 6...
Calgary mosque that hosted ‘Canadian jihadis’ to shut down A mosque that became a focus in terrorism investigations after several men who prayed there left to fight abroad is closing its doors Friday — a move that leaves its imam and community with a sense of relief. Salman Ashrafi, Damian Clairmont and others who left Canada to
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fight with jihadi groups in Syria and Iraq, had attended prayers at the 8th and 8th mosque in Calgary. The imam, Navaid Aziz, said the community plans to begin anew, although it hasn’t finalized its new mosque location. Continued on Page 7...
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Abdul and his family boarded a flight from New York to Seattle at the end of February and then took a taxi to the Washington border town Blaine. Pushing a stroller with their newborn baby inside on that town’s A Street, they crossed an unguarded, unfenced park onto 0 Avenue in Surrey, B.C. Then police arrived.‘We walked around five to seven minutes and then [they] caught us,” said Abdul, whose last name and identity of his family is being withheld out of concern for their safety. Continued on Page 3...
Robin Hood flour banned after reports of E.coli tainting There have been 25 cases of E. coli infections linked to a recalled batch of Robin Hood brand all-purpose flour, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. The flour in 10-kilogram bags was sold in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It was recalled Tuesday by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) after it was determined some of the flour was contaminated with E. coli O121. The 25 cases of illness occurred in four provinces — 12 in B.C., four in both Alberta and Saskatchewan, and five in Newfoundland and Labrador. Continued on Page 6...
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