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Couple charged with human smuggling after driving refugees to Canada A Saskatchewan her husband are human smuggling others are under

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after Mounties intercepted nine foreign nationals from West Africa who had bypassed formal channels to get into the country.

The woman is Michelle Omoruyi, a Canadian citizen of Saskatchewan. Her husband,

Victor Omoruyi, a Nigerian, is facing similar charges in US. As Victor Omoruyi was driving just south of the Canada-U.S. border in North Dakota last Friday evening, his wife was driving not far away on the Canadian side — in southeastern Saskatchewan near the North Portal border crossing. The Regina pair were stopped by authorities at the two locations and taken into custody that night as part of an investigation into the smuggling of foreign nationals.

Victor Omoruyi had crossed the border heading south around 8.p.m. CST. Officials had been investigating him since before Christmas for frequent border crossings.

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Cheema was hired through an open competition process spearheaded by a recruiting firm hired by PICS. “It was an extremely grueling process since we wanted the best for PICS. PICS is uniquely positioned to serve the community in Metro Vancouver and Mr. Cheema has the required experience and skills to take the Society to even greater heights,” said Bobby Pawar, President PICS Board of Directors.

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The New Democrats’ platform includes $10-a-day child care and eliminating tolls on two busy bridges in Metro Vancouver. But the party says a new tax on housing speculators and raising taxes on the top two per cent of earners and corporations will help it balance the budget.

Carole James, the NDP’s finance critic, dismissed the Liberal accusations on Wednesday as “fearmongering.”

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BC NDP leader John Horgan (left) and NDP candidate for Surrey-Panorama, Jinny Sims (second from left) with supporters at Sims’ campaign office in Surrey last week.

Sunset Beach field ‘trashed’ during annual 4/20 pot protest, says park board Vancouver Park Board officials estimate damage from Thursday’s unsanctioned marijuana protest could take several weeks and thousands of dollars to repair.

Acting park operations director Howard Normann says Sunset Field, behind Sunset Beach on English Bay, will have to be closed for three to four weeks.

He says the field is “trashed” and repairs could include aerating the soil and reseeding the area.

Thousands of people attended the annual 4/20 event on Sunset Beach and walked past 525 vendor tents that had been set up on the field, which had not yet dried out after days of rain.

The walkways quickly turned into muddy channels but Normann says the damage could have been prevented if organizers had laid plywood over the grass before setting up. This is the second year that the 4/20 event was held at Sunset Beach Park.

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The BC NDP will invest $10 billion in capital infrastructure that will create 96,000 jobs over five years by building schools, hospitals, transit and other infrastructure that works for BC. John Horgan and the BC NDP will build new schools and invest in our students by: • Replacing Surrey portables with real classrooms and building new schools in BC’s fastest growing region • Delivering stable and proper education funding to ensure kids have the support they need to thrive • Working with local governments, First Nations and communities to build and upgrade schools in every region • Building new schools with made-in-BC manufactured wood products where possible, spurring growth and creating jobs in our forestry communities.

John Horgan and the BC NDP will build schools to make sure Surrey students are learning in real classrooms, not portables.

“Surrey is one of the fastest-growing areas in BC. More than 1,000 new students are coming into Surrey schools each year. Christy Clark’s failure to plan for growth has resulted in 10 per cent of Surrey students – 7,000 kids – learning in portables,” said Horgan.

“We’re going to make sure that students get every chance to succeed. We’re going to build schools that create jobs for people and get Surrey students into real classrooms.”

For every portable in Surrey, $15,000 comes out of the district’s operating budget – money that could otherwise be spent on school programs.

Horgan said building proper schools using capital investments will get kids in Surrey out of portables and will free up desperately needed

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Canada creates history by winning the Singapore 7s

The Canada 7s team made history after winning the Singapore 7s Gold Medal final.

Canada scored four tries to beat USA 26-19 earning them their first ever cup title in any World Sevens Series tournament. Meanwhile the Vodafone Fiji 7s team were bundled out from the fifth place play-off semifinals losing to South Africa 19-14. Looking at the series standings, South Africa extended their lead to 157 points while Fiji are sitting on second place with 132 points.

England are in third place with 130 points while New Zealand are currently in fourth place with 110 points.

Looking at the Paris 7s next month, Fiji will face Russia, Samoa and Australia in Pool D. Canada is pooled with South Africa, Scotland and Japan in Pool A. Pool B will see USA, New Zealand, Wales and Argentina while England are in Pool C alongside Kenya, France and Spain.

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Why then is Finance Minister Bill Morneau so detached from the state of the economy?

Consider a recent interview on CBC’s Power and Politics. With respect to economic growth, the minister claimed: “Our plan is working. We’ve seen real improvements.”

In reality, however, growth expectations from private-sector economists have consistently declined since this government came to power. The Liberal’s 2015 economic update forecast average economic growth of 2.1 per cent over the next five years (2016-2020). Budget 2016, the first full budget for the new government, lowered expectations for future growth to 1.9 per cent. Expectations were further downgraded to 1.7 per cent in the 2016 economic update and 1.6 per cent in Budget 2017.

The minister is also mistaken about 100 Canada’s competitiveness and policies 100 that are critical to ensuring a positive 95 economic environment for investment and 95 entrepreneurship.

75 For instance, he claimed: “we have a very 75 competitive tax situation right now from a corporate standpoint.”

25 Morneau seemed to be talking about 25 statutory or listed corporate income tax rates.

Among 35 industrialized countries 5 VICTORthe BAINS 5 that make up the Organization for Economic 0 Co-operation and Development (OECD), 0 Canada’s federal corporate income tax rate (15 per cent) is tied for the third lowest.

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Liberal Finance Minister Morneau detached from economic reality Continued from Page 4...

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The minister also boasted about raising taxes on higher income earners, which seems to indicate he’s unaware how such increases affect potential investment from Canadian and international investors, businesses and entrepreneurs. The tax hike on upper-income earners has worsened Canada’s competitive disadvantage on personal income taxes.

The minister would also not state clearly that the government won’t raise capital gains taxes or taxes on stock options, both critical to entrepreneurs and business startups.

On tax fairness, the minister stated: “I want to know that two people living side by side, one earning the same as the next, actually have the same rate of tax.” Here, the minister seems oblivious to the fact that his own actions in Budget 2016 worsened tax fairness for households by ending the limited incomesplitting for couples with young children.

For example, in 2016, two households both with two parents and two children and the same income, say $120,000, would have had markedly different tax bills depending on the split of the income between the spouses. The household with two working parents each making $60,000 would have paid $21,187 in personal income and payroll taxes (both provincial and federal). The other house, where only one parent worked outside of the home, would have paid $30,409 in taxes.

Lastly, the minister’s comments about the importance of dealing with “middle-class anxiety” seem detached from his government’s policies. He clearly doesn’t think large budget deficits, with no plan to return to a balanced budget, causes anxiety for Canadians. This stands in direct conflict with recent polling data that shows Canadians are increasingly concerned about deficits. Indeed, in one poll released just after the budget, Canadians ranked deficits as the third most important economic issue facing the government.

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Air India bombing, the worst terrorist attack in Canadian Amarinder Singh, the history, which killed 329 top elected official in India’s people in 1985.

Punjab province, where Sajjan Indian authorities have was born, made the explosive since cracked down on the accusation in an interview more violent Khalistani on Indian TV in advance of groups inside the country, but Sajjan’s trip. warned that the separatists In the interview, Singh expressed anger over not continue to enjoy support in Canada and other places. being allowed to speak at Sajjan’s spokeswoman, political rallies in Canada Renee Filiatrault, refused last year before calling Tuesday to be drawn into a war Sajjan and the other Sikh members of Prime Minister of words with Singh, saying Justin Trudeau’s cabinet Sajjan visiting the Golden Temple the defence minister’s trip was in Amritsar on Friday. intended to strengthen ties “Khalistanis.” between Canada and India.

“I’m not going to meet him,” Singh said. “There are five ministers “Minister Sajjan is a proud Canadian, with a who are Khalistanis and I am not interested lifetime of service to Canada,” Filiatrault said in meeting any Khalistanis.” The Khalistani in an email, adding: “He is not scheduled to movement is comprised of Sikhs who want to meet with any representatives from the Punjab create an independent homeland and became government.”

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BC Liberals and NDP clash over spending promises Continued from Page 1... “Let’s remember that last election, Christy Clark literally put ‘debt-free B.C.’ on the side of her campaign bus,� said James, referring to Clark’s promise to eliminate the debt through a liquefied natural gas industry. “In four years since then, she’s added $11 billion to B.C.’s debt. It’s really quite incredible to see Christy Clark making these claims after her own credibility has been shredded time after time.�

Michael de Jong, the finance minister in Clark’s government, held a news conference where he said the Liberals’ analysis of the NDP platform reveals $6.5 billion in costs that the party has not accounted for because of what he called costing errors and a failure to account for interest costs on increased spending.

The analysis does not include the NDP’s revenue assumptions or 40 additional uncosted promises, de Jong said in a statement. The NDP’s platform calls for $7 billion in additional borrowing, but James said that will only raise the debt-to-GDP ratio by one per cent over five years.

Clark, wearing a blue hard hat while campaigning in Surrey, said B.C. is leading the country in job creation and economic growth and the New Democrats threaten that progress. “Their platform creates not a hole in our budget, it is a crater, a giant, smoking crater of a hole to the tune of billions of dollars that they are going to fill with your money in the form of new taxes,� she said.

The Liberals have been in power since 2001 and have a released a platform that promises $157 million in new spending over three years

above what they already committed to in the government’s budget tabled in February.100 Both the NDP and Liberal platforms are based on 95 the underlying numbers in the budget.

The Liberals have accused the NDP of 75 100 poorly managing B.C.’s finances in the 1990s, but James defended her party’s economic 95 record.

25 “The people that I talk to on the doorstep 75 want to talk about today. They want to talk 5 about the future,� she added. “They’re tired of hearing the same old storylines from the B.C. 0 25 Liberals.�

The New Democrats are planning to take a 5 $500-million “LNG prosperity fund� created

by Clark and apply it towards eliminating 0 bridge tolls. They’re also promising to eliminate medical services premiums and freeze BC Hydro rates.

The NDP platform commits to balancing the budget this year and the following two years, but the party says it is concerned that the Liberals’ pre-election budget does not reflect real needs in those years.

NDP Leader John Horgan campaigned Wednesday at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he promoted his plan to eliminate interest on student loans and offer a $1,000 completion grant to people who finish their studies.

Horgan said the numbers in the NDP platform are “very solid.� “[The Liberals] think they own this money. They don’t,� he said. “These are tax dollars that have been put into a pot by hardworking British Columbians and they want a government that’s going to make choices that benefit their lives.�

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RCMP pulled over Michelle Omoruyi as she was driving in an isolated area north of the border. The nine asylum seekers were in the vehicle, according to police.

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U.S. border agents flagged Canadian officials that a smuggling attempt may be in the works.

An hour later, around 9 p.m., Michelle Omoruyi, 43, was pulled over by officers and arrested with nine people from West Africa in her vehicle. Sources tell CBC that the nine people included five adults and four children.

South of her, in North Dakota, U.S. officials were taking her husband and two other people into custody for immigration violations.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said no charges have been laid against those three people yet.

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PICS current CEO Charan Gill is stepping down after 30 years of service to the organization.

Welcoming Satbir Cheema as CEO Gill said, “I am extremely pleased to hand over the baton to someone with whom I have worked closely for many years. I am rest assured that PICS will be in safe and able hands.”

He also said that Cheema’s familiarity with the culture and working environment of PICS and the community it has been serving for the last 30 years was most definitely an added asset.

Cheema has worked for PICS for the last 19 years. His most recent positon was Director of Employment Programs and Planning at PICS. Under Cheema’s leadership, PICS Employment Programs rose to new heights with the addition of a number of new programs including the successful Mega Job Fair, touted as the largest career fair in all of Metro Vancouver.

Talking about his selection as CEO of PICS, Cheema said that although he was excited to take over as CEO and has great plans to take PICS forward, it would be a daunting task to fill the shoes of someone like Gill.

“The road ahead is indeed exciting but I need the support of all community members,” said Cheema.

An Engineering graduate from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India, Cheema came to Canada to gain his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg in 1988. He moved back to India after his degree but chose to make Canada his permanent home in 1994 arriving in Vancouver as a landed immigrant.

Satbir worked in the banking and finance sector in Metro Vancouver before joining PICS in 1998. Over the last 19 years in the organization Satbir has gained experience in all aspects of the social services sector specializing in Employment Programs, a department he

has headed for the last 14 years. In his role as Director of Employment Programs and Planning at PICS, Satbir has managed multiple employment and community programs and has led an exceptionally committed and dedicated team that enhances the employability of new immigrants and facilitates their integration into the Labour Market. Over the years, these programs have helped thousands of clients in getting jobs and hundreds of clients in launching their own businesses.

Satbir understands the needs, requirements and expectations of the funders, has extensive knowledge of the working of community social services sector, and has deep understanding of the clients that PICS serves. He has developed strong relations with the local community, stakeholders, partners, businesses, media, elected officials, funders and Government Departments. He has represented PICS at various levels – both local and nationally even making a presentation to the Defense Diversity Council in Ottawa to give a community perspective to their recruiting efforts. It was Satbir who convinced the Canadian Forces to open a Recruiting Office within PICS Head Office that allowed people in the South Asian community choose Canadian Forces as a career. One of Satbir’s biggest achievements has been the conceptualization and implementation of annual Mega Job Fairs for PICS where 75+ exhibitors and 6000+ clients have annually participated. Satbir has served as a Board Member with ASPECT (Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training) for seven years and with Collaborate Delta for three years and has served as a member of Program Advisory Committee at Vancouver Community College. Satbir has participated and assisted with “Operation Remembrance”, an initiative by RCMP and Canadian Forces to arrange markers for 36 unmarked graves of veterans in Surrey.

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Clark, Horgan get personal in scrappy leaders debate BC’s election campaign veered sharply into personal attacks and name-calling on Thursday, in a confrontational first leaders’ debate. The BC Liberal, NDP and Green campaigns accused each other of dragging the debate into the mud during a raucous first 30 minutes in which NDP Leader John Horgan proved the most aggressive — some might argue too aggressive — debater of the trio.

It started with Horgan defending his party’s platform as fully costed, a day after the Liberals accused him of more than $6 billion in improperly costed promises.

“That is just not true though. … The NDP plan is not costed,” said Liberal Leader Christy Clark. “Just 14 of the promises that they laid out were costed, it’s a $6 billion hole in that. And yesterday.”

“Yesterday, your finance minister made an embarrassment of himself,” interjected Horgan, referring to a press conference in which Mike de Jong was challenged by reporters for incorrectly summarizing the NDP platform.

“Whenever she gets in a corner she makes stuff up, and this is why British Columbians have no confidence in the B.C. Liberals,” said Horgan. “You’ve got to use some real facts, not alternative facts. Where is (White House press secretary) Sean Spicer? Is he

going to be rolling in here any minute now?”

“Mr. Horgan, we didn’t make up five balanced budgets,” replied Clark.

At one point during another testy exchange, Clark turned to Horgan and said, “Calm down, John,” before briefly placing her hand on his arm. “The premier kept wanting to poke and poke,” Horgan told media afterwards. “She was physically pushing me. What was I supposed to do?”

Clark said she wasn’t trying to offend him, though her campaign did immediately launch a coordinated Twitter campaign using the hashtag #CalmDownJohn.

For Horgan, the event marked his most high-profile appearance so far and a chance to introduce himself to voters. He was left to walk a careful line between being critical of Clark’s premiership and appearing too aggressive or mean.

New Democrats immediately hailed Horgan’s performance as that of a champion and fighter for the common person, who is fed up by 16 years of Liberal government.

He vigorously attacked the Liberal record on housing affordability, seniors care homes, education underfunding, the Site C dam project and transportation projects like a bridge to replace the Massey tunnel.

Liberals accused him of condescendingly talking down to a strong female leader .

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Canadians have a right to be ‘concerned’ about 1984 Sikh massacre, Harjit Sajjan says A recent motion by the Ontario Legislature condemning 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as a “genocide” has led to some uncomfortable conversations for Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan as he visits the country of his birth.

In a conference call with reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday, Sajjan said the matter came up in meeting with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sajjan’s itinerary has

included meetings with senior Indian officials, including Defence Minister Arun Jaitley and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Sajjan, who immigrated to Canada from India with his family when he was five years old, downplayed any tension brought about by the motion’s passage on April 6, but also sought to put distance between the federal and provincial wings of the Liberal Party.

Trudeau gov’t says there’s no ‘free ticket’ to Canada as number of asylum seekers climbs The number of asylum seekers illegally crossing the border from the U.S. into Canada continues to climb, but the government says

they still represent only a fraction of the total new arrivals to the country.

In March, the RCMP intercepted 887 people entering the country outside an official crossing point, up from 658 in February and 315 in January. That brings the total for the first three months of 2017 to 1,860.

Most of the illegal crossings occurred in Quebec, where 644 people were intercepted by the RCMP. That’s up from 432 in February and 245 in January, and brings the total for the three-month period to 1,321.

Scott Bardsley, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, said the vast majority of immigration to Canada is carefully planned and managed and that spontaneous asylum seekers are much smaller and largely unpredictable.

“These are people who feel they are in danger or at risk, and once they get themselves into Canada by whatever means, they claim asylum in this country for their personal protection,” he said. “They represent only a fraction of all the newcomers we welcome every year, and do not impinge on the regular system.”

He said authorities are tracking the trends, planning for possible developments and managing the increase in a measured way

while respecting Canada’s international obligations.

Bardsley said the majority of irregular migrants hold visas for the U.S., so have already cleared a security screening. Once in Canada, they receive further security screening.

“To be clear, trying to slip across the border in an irregular manner is not a free ticket to Canada,” he said, adding that asylum seekers are apprehended and secured by police, their identities determined, health checks performed and records examined for immigration, criminal or terrorist flags in domestic and international databases.

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Homeless campers in a tent city in Duncan have received a court-ordered eviction notice.

100 According to the city’s mayor, Phil Kent, the 95 organized encampment which includes a dozen or so tents must be dismantled Thursday or residents will be in contempt of 75 the B.C. Supreme Court order and could face penalties.

The encampment began in 25 March as a peaceful protest to draw attention to homelessness, and 5 houses several residents who say they have nowhere else to go.

0 Homeless camp disrupts Vimy Ridge ceremony plans in Duncan, B.C. But Kent says the camp is in direct conflict with the city’s bylaws. “We do have bylaws which are congruent with the previous Supreme Court cases that allow for people who have no other shelter for a night [to] erect tents in our in our parks around our city,� he said.

“They can erect their tents in the evening but they have to be dismantled during the day.

[But] this encampment is basically set up and continues to grow ... which is in contravention of our bylaws.�

Kent says each camper will receive an

individual order to vacate. He says he wants to avoid any forceful removals. “If they don’t vacate ... we would be able to remove them at some point. We would have to cross that bridge when we get to it.�

Woman admits she fraudulently raised $30M A B.C. woman has agreed to pay the 100 Securities Commission (BCSC) a B.C. $3-million penalty after she admitted that 95 fraudulently raised at least $30 million she from investors. The BCSC said Virginia Tan 75 took money raised from investors and put it into short-term, high-interest loans, making interest and principal payments with money raised from other investors.

25 Similar arrangements are often referred to as5“Ponzi schemes.� “Tan did not earn income from any 0 other business,� the BCSC said in a release Wednesday. “She made interest and principal payments to investors with funds she raised

from other investors and with a small amount of her own funds.�

The BCSC said Tan was unable to raise enough funds to pay investors and she stopped paying them by late 2015.

As a result, several investors filed lawsuits against her, one of which forced her into bankruptcy.

The BCSC said a trustee has been appointed to liquidate Tan’s assets and to distribute the proceeds to her creditors, including her investors. The BCSC has also permanently banned Tan from various investment-related activities in the future, including consulting, managing and investor relations.

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Surrey Creep Catchers post another video of alleged sex predator Surrey Creep Catchers have posted another video of an alleged sex predator who came to meet a seven-year-old girl Wednesday night.

The video shows a man being confronted about wanting to meet a sevenyear-old girl for sex, and then being taken down by two people.

The man refused to admit that he was there to meet a child, but was forcibly kept on the ground until a security guard arrived. The man claimed he was joking and that he knew he was talking to Creep Catchers.

The video ended after an RCMP officer handcuffed the suspect.

Ryan Laforge, the vigilante group’s leader, claimed in a Facebook post Thursday that an arrest warrant was out for him after the incident. “I’ll go to jail any day for detaining a guy who comes to meet a ‘sexy’ 7 year old. Its how we do,” he said in his post.

Surrey RCMP has refused “to confirm or deny the existence of a warrant unless there is an investigational need or public warning to be made.”

The current video follows two incidents earlier this week relating to allegations of childluring.

Earlier this month, Surrey RCMP arrested and released Laforge after a similar encounter led to a physical altercation.

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A man who broke into a Surrey child’s bedroom and molested her seven years ago has had his application for parole denied.

Kyle Wayne Berkson, 43, is serving an indeterminate prison sentence after being deemed a dangerous offender. He was convicted in 2011 of break-and-enter to commit sexual assault with a weapon, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and uttering threats.

The assault took place in April 2010, when Berkson snuck into the nine-year-old

75 girl’s bedroom in the middle of the night, sexually touched her and threatened her.

He25 left his DNA and a prescription pill bottle bearing his name at the scene. He 5 was arrested less than a month after the incident.

0 Berkson previously committed a sexual assault against a young boy in the mid1990s and after his arrest for the 2010 incident, child pornography was found on his computers. He also has a lengthy history of drug and property offences.

Surrey singer Kirti Arneja signs on with Bollywood Kirti Arneja of Surrey, may be on her way to reaching pop star status after signing on with a Bollywood recording label.

The 20-year-old vocalist who sings in Punjabi, Hindi and English signed on with Music and Sound, the same label used by King Mika Singh, a well-known Indian singer. Singh has voiced songs for Bollywood films including Singh is Kinng starring Akshay Kumar and Jab We Met, which starred Shahid Kapoor.

Both Kumar and Kapoor are major stars.

“It was one of those things like...your mind just exploded at that moment,” Arneja said.

She met Singh in Vancouver in October 2015 after she sang during intermission for his show at the Orpheum Theatre.

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On April 28, she will release her first single with Singh — called Jogi — in India.

Even though Arneja dreamed of becoming a superstar since she was a 100 child, developing a stage 95 presence didn’t always come easy. “In all honesty, I used 75 to be very shy,” she said. “I used to stand there like a little 25 statue, look down and never be able to look up to people.”

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Vancouver real estate developer was fined $300,000 for goods and services tax evasion The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today that Vancouver real estate developer Brendan James Schouw was sentenced April 10, 2017, in the Provincial Court of British Columbia to one count of goods and services tax (GST) evasion. Mr. Schouw was fined $300,000.

A CRA investigation determined that between July 31, 2008, and July 1, 2009, GST of $203,082 was not remitted on personal units sold by Grace Residences Ltd. to Mr. Schouw.

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March home sales hit record high: CREA Home sales across the country hit a record high last month, propped up by transactions in the fiercely hot market of Toronto, further fuelling concerns about the city’s real estate sector.

The Canadian Real Estate Association said Tuesday home sales over its Multiple Listings Service system increased by 1.1 per cent in March to top the previous monthly record set in April 2016. On a seasonally adjusted basis, sales totalled 46,353, up from 45,856 in February.

“Almost the entire province of Ontario’s housing market is now on fire, while most of the rest of the country wonders what all the

fuss is about,” Porter wrote in a research note.

Policy-makers, think tanks and the Bank of Canada have issued repeated warnings that while concerns of an overheated housing market may be confined to the Toronto area, a correction could have repercussions for the national economy given the sheer scale of the city’s real estate industry.

The latest sales data came ahead of a meeting between Mayor John Tory and the federal and Ontario finance ministers to discuss soaring home prices in the Greater Toronto Area, which have leapt by more than 30 per cent in the last year.

The actual national average price for homes sold in March this year was $548,517, up 8.2 per cent from a year ago. Excluding Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto, the average price was $389,726.

Compared with a year ago, actual sales in Canada, not seasonally adjusted, were up 6.6 per cent. Gains in the Greater Toronto Area led the way with a 17.0 per cent increase.

But it wasn’t just Toronto posting whopping hikes.

Canada is moving to strip citizenship from a man accused of slaughtering villagers in Guatemala using a grenade, gun and sledgehammer during the country’s civil war.

The federal government said in newly filed court documents that Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes concealed his role in a 1982 massacre by the Guatemalan military when he obtained Canadian citizenship a decade later.

He’s one of four former soldiers arrested by U.S. authorities in 2010 on allegations of participating in the killing of more than 200 people in the village of Las Dos Erres.

Sosa, 59, is now serving a 10-year sentence for immigration fraud in the United States, where he also held citizenship until it was revoked in 2014.

Canada has opted to strip citizenship in only a handful of modern-day war crimes cases.

Sosa was arrested in Canada in 2011 and extradited to California, where he stood trial for lying about the massacre on his naturalization forms. He left Guatemala in 1985 and sought asylum in the United States,

claiming he was fleeing guerrillas. When he was denied, he went to Canada, where he became a citizen. He later married an

American, got a green card and applied to naturalized in 2007.

He had been working as a martial arts instructor in Riverside County. U.S. authorities searched his home in 2010, but he had left for Mexico and later Canada, where he was arrested on U.S. charges.

He was a second lieutenant in the army during the massacre. At Sosa’s trial, another former Guatemalan soldier suspected of helping carry out the massacre testified that Sosa fired his rifle and threw a grenade at villagers who screamed from within a well.

Sosa is expected to be deported after his U.S. prison sentence ends.

Little doubt foreign buyers are pumping up Victoria’s housing market, says BMO chief economist The impact of a foreign buyer’s tax on Vancouver housing is clearly being felt in neighbouring Victoria, Doug Porter, Bank of Montreal’s chief economist, said Tuesday as three levels of government meet to discuss the Toronto market.

“If there’s really any doubt that the nonresident buyer tax in Vancouver had an impact, look no further than Victoria’s accelerating price growth since August,”

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A man has been charged with first-degree murder following the shooting death of a 34-year-old man in Nanaimo, B.C. RCMP say Brandon Woody, 30, also faces a charge of possessing a firearm while prohibited to do so.

The shooting happened at the Howard Johnson Hotel early Wednesday morning.

Const. Gary O’Brien had said officers arrived to find a man dead in the hotel lobby with apparent gunshot wounds.

A man was arrested about an hour after the attack and police said the incident appeared to be targeted.

Mounties say Woody, from Victoria, remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in provincial court on May 2.

The identity of the victim has not been released.

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Surrey man sentenced to six years for 2004 fatal shooting Harpreet Khela held a picture of his slain cousin, Amandeep Bath, outside the New Westminster courthouse Thursday as he described the unbearable suffering Bath’s 2004 death has caused his family.

Khela and dozens of relatives and friends

packed the courtroom to see Parminder Basran sentenced to six years for fatally shooting Bath over a “trivial” dispute on Sept.

24, 2004.

Last month, Basran pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and a murder charge against him was dropped. Bhabjit Aujla, who was with Basran the night of the shooting, was handed the equivalent of an 11-month sentence for assaulting Bath.

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Khela said his family was satisfied with the sentences that came after joint submissions

by Crown and defence lawyers.

“It’s nice to see that after 12 years … there is some closure to be had. Everyone worked very hard on this case,” Khela said.

“As a family, we believe that some sort of justice was served today. Nothing that they would do today would bring Amandeep back.”

Khela read an emotional victim impact statement to B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ian Bruce Josephson, noting that there had been no apology or expression of remorse from either accused.

Shortly afterwards, Aujla’s lawyer Michael Klein and Basran’s lawyer Ian Donaldson read letters of apology written by their clients.

Asked about the letters outside court, Khela said he accepted them at face value.

“If someone says they are remorseful, we hope that they are,” he said.

Crown Wendy Stephen read an agreed statement of facts to Josephson about the night of the deadly shooting.

She said Bath, who was 27 at the time, was out with a friend at a New Westminster nightclub when they began receiving calls from Aujla and Basran to meet up.

National flour recall due to E. coli contamination A national recall of flour due to E. coli contamination, which was first announced last month, has been expanded yet again.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s recall on March 28 affected Robin Hood flour sold in four provinces in Western Canada and was later expanded across the country.

Last week, more products were added to the recall, including certain flour goods produced by Ardent Mills of Brampton, Ont. Now Ardent Mills is adding even more

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items to the list, including various sizes of Robin Hood Best for Blending flour, as well as the brand’s bread and roll mix.

The federal agency says all recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store. The agency said after the initial recall there were 26 cases of people being infected with E. coli in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador. No deaths have been reported, but at least six people required hospital care.

The number of people seeking asylum in Canada from Mexico continues to rise.

New figures from the Immigration and Refugee Board show that March recorded the highest number yet of new claims in 2017 — 110, up from 85 in February and 71 in January, for a total of 266 so far this year.

In all of 2016, there were just 241, statistics from the IRB show. Last December, the Liberal government lifted a requirement for Mexicans to obtain a visa before travelling to Canada and an increase in claims was forecast. The volume of asylum seekers from Mexico had been the reason the previous government begin to require visas in 2009, but the move caused diplomatic bad blood between the two countries.

The federal Liberals had promised to remove the requirement and doing so was given new impetus given the impending renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Still, in lifting the visa, Canada told the Mexican government that if asylum claims reached a certain level, the visa could be reinstated. That figure has never been publicly released, but the current claim level is believed to be well below the threshold.

In 2008, the year before the visa was introduced, there were 9,000 claims lodged, making up nearly a quarter of all claims filed that year. Claims plummeted the next year and continued to drop; in the first three months of 2016, 11 claims filed in January, 4 in February and 11 in March.

The cost of lifting the visas has been pegged at $261.9 million over 10 years, after the expectation of increased tourism and travel dollars from Mexicans is factored in.

Flights between the two countries have increased, though some immigration service providers point out those increases lead to the corresponding increase in asylum claims — it is easier to get to Canada from Mexico.

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Former missing B.C. investment adviser appears in court on fraud charges An investment dealer and former Olympic rower who went missing for nearly 18 months made a brief appearance in a Victoria court Tuesday and had his case adjourned to May 2.

Harold Backer, who stared straight ahead during his time in court, was remanded until his next appearance.

Victoria police say Backer is facing two counts of fraud over $5,000 after he turned

up at the department’s headquarters last Thursday.

The 54-year-old man disappeared on Nov. 3, 2015, after telling his family he was going for a bike ride but failed to return home.

His son Harrison and daughter Emma were in court but declined comment outside.

A publication ban was placed on details of Tuesday’s hearing.

Alberta bans hiring foreign workers for 29 high-skilled jobs Alberta companies looking to hire temporary foreign workers in one of 29 highskilled job categories will be directed to a new service that will match them with qualified local workers.

The Alberta government initiative, believed to be the first of its kind in Canada, will be watched closely by the federal government to see if it can be implemented federally or in other provinces, federal Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Minister Patty Hajdu said in Edmonton Wednesday.

“We’re always interested in good ideas, to reach that goal — to make sure that Canadians have the first shot at good paying jobs — and so we’ll be following the progress of the pilot very closely and all of that data will help inform us, but we are certainly open to replicating it if it show success in Alberta,” Hajdu said.

The job categories covered under the new employer liaison service include civil and mechanical engineers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, construction millwrights and heavy equipment mechanics.

Under the 24-month pilot program, those job categories will be placed on a “refusal to process” list within the temporary foreign worker program.

Instead, any company seeking a permit to bring in a foreign worker in those job categories will be contacted by staff in Alberta

Labour and directed to potential local hires.

The job categories were selected because there is a sufficient pool of unemployed workers with those skills within Alberta.

The initiative was announced in Edmonton Wednesday by Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray. Hajdu was also there.

Gray said the program will be evaluated every quarter and future adjustments could be made to the job categories covered by the initiative.

“The data we gather, as Minister Gray has just finished speaking about, is going to be essential in deciding at a federal level whether or not there’s application in other provinces or other regions that are experiencing downturn,” Hajdu said.

“The focus of the federal government with the temporary foreign worker program is always to make sure Canadians have the first crack at available jobs, and then after that is done, then to look at supporting employers with prolonged labour shortages in very specific areas.”

BC Liberals say NDP promises will lead to $6.464 billion financial crater An analysis of John Horgan’s NDP platform reveals a $6.464 billion crater, BC Liberal Michael de Jong announced today.

“Horgan looked British Columbians in the eye and said his platform was balanced.

We now know that his claims couldn’t be further from the truth,” said de Jong, architect of five balanced budgets. “Horgan’s platform doesn’t add up. There is a massive $6.464 billion crater that can only be filled

with middle class tax hikes.”

The analysis – which covers four years and took six days to complete – is based on the 14 most egregious costing errors, plus the failure to account for interest costs on increased spending - covering empty promises that Horgan made that include freezing various rates, pledges to postsecondary students and MSP. The $6.464 billion figure does not include the NDP’s revenue assumptions or 40 additional uncosted promises. The impact on British Columbia’s credit rating is also excluded.

The BC Liberals have retained two respected economists, C. Scott Clark and Peter Devries, to complete a further review.

“I’ve seen what happens when people get in over their heads financially. The NDP’s $6.464 billion in uncosted spending will need to be paid for by all British Columbians, including our children and grandchildren,” says Tracy Redies, the BC Liberal candidate in Surrey-White Rock and former CEO of Coast Capital Savings. “We need a budget that is realistic and transparent, not one that is financially irresponsible so we continue to control spending and build the bright future we all want.”

“John Horgan is making promises that British Columbians can’t afford to keep and he’s refusing to come clean on the crater he’s deliberately creating,” says de Jong. “We’ve seen this before – Horgan and Adrian Dix put together the same playbook for the 1996 election. It wasn’t transparent, it wasn’t balanced and it wasn’t credible. It’s the same old BC NDP.

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Quebec murder suspect will remain detained while he appeals deportation order A man who was charged with killing his wife will remain detained by the border services agency while he appeals a deportation order, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ruled Thursday.

Immigration board member Stephane Morin said Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingam remains a flight risk and a danger to the public.

Thanabalasingam, 31, arrived in Canada as a refugee from Sri Lanka in 2004, and recently became the first person in Quebec to not have murder charges against him proceeded with due to unreasonable delays in the justice system.

Despite the stay of proceedings, Canada Border Services Agency arrested him before he was officially released on the murder

allegation and Canada’s immigration and refugee board ordered him deported to his country of origin.

Thanabalasingam is appealing that decision, which could take years to be heard.

His lawyer, Vic Artinian, argued at the immigration hearing that his client should be released into the care of his brother and sisterin-law while he appeals his deportation order.

Morin refused, stating that the two family members didn’t seem to understand Canada’s justice system, and had testified earlier in the day they didn’t think he did anything wrong, despite being accused of murdering his wife.

Thanabalasingam was also arrested and served jail time in 2012 for domestic abuse.

During Thursday’s detention review hearing, Thanabalasingam’s sister-in-law said

she believed his dead wife was the person causing problems “because she kept on calling

the police on him.”

“I am being asked to release you into the custody of people who believe you did

nothing wrong,” Morin said. “The alternative to your detention is not reasonable.”

Thanabalasingam was charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of his 21-year-old wife, Anuja Baskaran.

He was arrested in August 2012 and spent 56 months in jail without a trial, which is almost double the ceiling set out in a 2016 Supreme Court ruling referred to as the Jordan decision.

That ruling set a deadline of up to 30 months for a case in Superior Court to reach trial from the time someone is arrested. In lower courts, it is 18 months.

Superior Court Justice Alexandre Boucher stayed the charges against Thanabalasingam on April 6, triggering outrage and calls for more action from provincial politicians.

Canadian dairy protected ‘for good reason: Trudeau replies to Trump

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met U.S. President Donald Trump’s pointed criticism of Canada’s dairy industry with calm counterarguments in defence of how Canada prefers to manage its milk.

“Let’s not pretend that we’re in a global free market when it comes to agriculture,” he told Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait during a question and answer session in Toronto Thursday.

“Every country protects for good reason its agricultural industries. We have a supply management system that works very well here in Canada. The Americans and other countries choose to subsidize to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars, their agriculture industries, including their dairy,” the prime minister said.

“Different countries have different approaches, and we’re going to engage in a thoughtful, fact-based conversation on how to move forward in a way that both protects our consumers and our agricultural producers,” he said. Trudeau’s comments were, in the words of his interviewer, his first chance to react to the “constructive dialogue” started by Trump Tuesday, when he used a speech in Wisconsin to attack the unfairness of recent pricing changes for dairy ingredients in Canada that make American imports less competitive. The “terrible” plight of American dairy farmers has captured the attention of U.S. politicians of all stripes as the U.S. sector grapples with the twin difficulties of overproduction and low global prices for milk.

“How certain governors are speaking to certain constituencies on that, it’s politics,” Trudeau said. “At the same time, the U.S. has a $400-million dairy surplus with Canada. So it’s not Canada that is the challenge here.”

Trump’s jabs at Canada continued Thursday as the media was invited to watch him sign another memorandum on trade in the Oval Office.

“I wasn’t going to do this,” he told reporters as he changed topics away from the foreign steel investigation he was meant to be discussing.

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Panel hears about company used by alleged fraudster to sponsor lunch with Trudeau A B.C. Securities Commission panel heard this week about Organic Eco-Centre Corp., a company created as part of an alleged immigration-investment fraud and later used to sponsor a pre-election speech by federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

In hearings this week, lawyers for the commission alleged businessman Paul Oei

perpetrated a scam based around a Metro Vancouver recycling plant startup, Cascade.

The panel was told that Oei diverted $6.9 million of $13.3 million raised from Chinese investors for Cascade into his personal bank accounts, using money for his immigration business, Canadian Manu, and to fund charity donations and beauty pageants, and to rent luxury cars.Oei impressed while “rubbing elbows” with B.C. politicians, the panel was told. And Canadian Manu was used as a funnel to receive investor money after it passed through a legal trust at Peschisolido and Co., the firm of Richmond Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido.

The panel heard claims that Peschisolido and Co. was paid legal fees by Manu, using funds diverted by Oei from Chinese investors.

Organic Eco-Centre Corp. is the company listed as sponsor of a July 2015 Richmond Chamber of Commerce lunch featuring Trudeau. Oei and Trudeau shared the head table and embraced before the future prime minister addressed Richmond business and political figures. Trudeau’s speech was about improving the lives of middle class Canadians. Attendees included B.C. Liberal MLA John Yap and wealthy Richmond political fundraisers such as Cindy Chan and Pius Chan.

The panel heard this week that former Coquitlam mayor Lou Sekora introduced Oei to Cascade’s then-CEO, Jerry Salberg, in 2009. Sekora believed Oei could raise money because of his connections with wealthy Chinese immigrants. Documents suggest Sekora received shares in Cascade that were purchased through Oei, the panel was told this week.

As Oei raised funds from Chinese investors for Cascade, he “exploited” a language barrier between Salberg and the investors, and “controlled” the flow of information, the panel was told. It was shown charts that suggest that while some investor money was paid into Cascade, investor funds quickly started to pile up in Oei’s personal and company bank accounts.

Salberg was ousted from Cascade in 2012 and Oei became chairman, the panel heard.

The company went bankrupt in May of 2013, and Oei bought its equipment at a bankruptcy auction. Between June and August, 2013, Oei went back to the Cascade investors he is accused of cheating, and told them they could recover their investments by giving him a 15 per cent “top-up” to start a new company, Organic Eco-Centre Corp., commission investigator Sharmin Lyon testified this week.

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Ontario to collect citizenship, residency data for real estate purchases Starting Monday, homebuyers in Ontario will have to provide more information about their citizenship and place of residence when they buy a piece of real estate anywhere in the province.

The government first announced the news in last fall’s economic statement, but the new rules come into effect on April 24.

Starting then, anyone who buys a piece of land in the province that contains between one and six single-family homes — or agricultural land — must fill out the Prescribed Information for Purposes of Section 5.0.1 Form — one more piece of paper in the sea of red tape associated with real estate.

The form will be incorporated with documents that govern the payment of landtransfer taxes, which is a tax everyone in the province must pay when any property changes hands. (First-time buyers, however, don’t pay the tax on the first $368,000 of a home’s purchase price and can receive a rebate of up to $4,000 after that.)

Under current rules, the tax is between 0.5 and 2.5 per cent of the total purchase price, depending on the value of the property — although the City of Toronto also imposes its own municipal levy on top of that.

As part of collecting that tax, the province’s new form must contain information on: Whether the home is intended to be a principal residence or an investment property.

The type of dwelling (detached,

semi‑detached, condominiums, cottages, etc.).

Residency, citizenship and permanent resident status of the individual buying the property.

Information about the identity of who owns the corporation, if the purchaser is a numbered company.

Information about so-called beneficial owners, if the person nominally buying the property is acting on behalf of someone else.

The province says there will be a two-week grace period between April 24 and May 5, where there will not be any penalties if people fill out the new form incorrectly. But after that, the information gathered from the form will be one of the government’s newest tools to tackle the province’s ongoing housing affordability crisis.

The information is being sought “to support evidence‑based policy development with respect to Ontario’s real estate market,” is how the government explains the purpose of the new rule.

Policy-makers have long complained that Canadian data on real estate transactions is rudimentary and lacking compared to other jurisdictions. So the new rules are one small step in trying to change that.

Vancouver recently slapped a punitive tax of 15 per cent on foreign buyers in the city — the immediate effect of which was to slow down the feverish activity on the high end of the market.

Bank of Canada warns automation will lead to job losses A senior Bank of Canada official says while the country’s poised to reap economic benefits from technological progress – it must also brace for potentially painful side effects like job losses and greater income inequality.

In a speech in Toronto, senior deputy governor Carolyn Wilkins said Tuesday innovations like artificial intelligence and robotics are expected to help re-energize underwhelming productivity in advanced economies like Canada. Over the longer haul, she added that new technologies should eventually create more jobs than they replace.

However, the fastapproaching changes come with concerns for Wilkins – from the challenging adjustment for the labour force, to the distribution of the new wealth.

She noted how experts predict changes like automation to have downsides, which could include impacts on close to half of all jobs in some industrialized countries within 20 years.

Policy-makers, she added, must get ready to manage negatives like amplified income inequality brought on by conditions that could help workers whose skills are complemented by innovations and those whose tasks are replaced by machines.

Her speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade comes as governments grapple with the challenge of providing support to these emerging fields, while also easing the fears of workers who could lose their jobs.

For Canada to get the most from these changes, Wilkins argued it must address these concerns.

“Canada should embrace new technologies and their benefits while at the same time proactively managing their more-harmful side effects,” Wilkins said.

“Blaming the machines is not the way forward.”

Wilkins laid out potential approaches to ease the shifts that will likely accompany what she called “a new industrial revolution.” She said policy-makers will have to have to put more emphasis on education and skills training to help many workers and businesses adjust to what could be a difficult transition.

Canada, she said, has weathered past changes that have transformed sectors like the agricultural industry. For example, she pointed to farming innovations that helped lower food prices, which generated higher consumer demand in other sectors and new jobs.

“Innovation is always a process of creative destruction, with some jobs being destroyed and, over time, even more jobs being created,” said Wilkins, who added that what will change is the type of workers in demand.

She noted that advancements such as the steam engine, the combine, the jet engine and the assembly-line robot have boosted Canada’s productivity and helped raise the average income per person 20-fold – adjusting for inflation – over the last 150 years.

No amnesty plan for past pot convictions amid legalization move: Goodale The federal plan to legalize recreational marijuana does not include the general amnesty for past pot convictions some would like to see, says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

Newly tabled legislation would allow people 18 and older to publicly possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis, or its equivalent in non-dried form.

But the Trudeau government is not considering a blanket pardon for people with criminal records for possessing small amounts of the drug, Goodale said in an interview.

“That’s not an item that’s on the agenda at the moment.”

The government has also made it clear that the move to legalization by mid-2018 doesn’t mean lax law enforcement during the transition period.

“It is important to note that as the bill moves through the legislative process, existing laws prohibiting possession and use of cannabis remain in place, and they need to be respected,” Goodale told a news conference last Thursday.

“This must be an orderly transition. It is not a free-for-all.”

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Heartbroken and bankrupt: Why divorce can destroy your finances It’s well-known that debt can wreck a marriage. “Till debt do us part,” as financial guru and TV host Gail Vaz-Oxlade would say.

But breaking up won’t end your financial woes. Indeed, it can drive you deeper into debt and even lead to bankruptcy.

Divorce was a significant cause of insolvency for 14 per cent of respondents surveyed by Kitchener, Ont.-based debt management firm

Hoyes Michalos.

Among those between the ages of 40 and 49, the share who cited marital breakdown as a leading cause of insolvency was as high as 20 per cent. For those between 30 and 39 years of age, it was a similar 18 per cent.

There’s rarely a single cause of bankruptcy, says Douglas Hoyes, licensed insolvency trustee at Hoyes Michalos.

But if you were financially overstretched in marriage, divorce can push you over the edge.

Divorce lawyers will do their part in driving you deeper into the red. Legal costs range from $1,772 on average for an amicable

split-up to as high as $46,578 for a contested divorce, according to a 2016 survey of legal fees by Canadian Lawyer magazine.

Still, legal battles don’t appear to be the chief cause of insolvency for divorced couples.

The first reason that licensed insolvency trustees mentioned to Global News when asked about why divorce can lead to bankruptcy is the simple fact that going back to being single usually lowers your income and racks up costs.

“Two can live as cheaply as one” in marriage, by sharing fixed costs such as mortgage and utilities, said Hoyes.

You also generally have two incomes supporting one household, he noted.

“It’s the double-whammy of divorce: Your income goes down, and your expenses go up,” he added.

Suddenly you’re back to carrying all the bills on your own, just like when you were starting out.

And while you might have been accustomed to surviving on pizza and popcorn in your pre-marriage days, resizing your life to fit your shrunken budget might not come easy after a divorce. Being emotionally drained by the separation doesn’t make it any easier, said David Gowling, senior vice-president with MNP Debt, one of Canada’s largest personal insolvency practices.

Even if you are ready to downgrade your lifestyle, transitioning from your married life back to singledom can incur what one might call high re-startup costs.

Another Senator and his Soth Asian policy advisor face probe over workplace harassment allegations Conservative Yukon Senator Daniel Lang and his policy adviser were forced to fend off allegations of workplace harassment, multiple senior Senate sources tell.

After a complaint about his behaviour earlier this year, an internal investigation was launched by Senate officials into the senator’s treatment of a parliamentary staffer.

The Senate would not confirm the review, or identify the nature of the complaint.

“The integrity of any complaint-based human resources process is dependent on confidentiality being maintained. For this reason, the Senate does not disclose information of this nature,” Senate spokesperson Jacqui Delaney said.

This is the second complaint against Lang and his policy adviser, Naresh Raghubeer. The first complainant withdrew the accusation after quietly being transferred to another job on Parliament Hill.

Senate officials privately describe the complaints as being about bullying and intimidation, including screaming and belittling in front of other senators and staff.

The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters and/or they feared retribution from their superiors.

Lang, appointed by former prime minister Stephen Harper in 2009, declined requests for an interview but Raghubeer initially provided a statement quoting the senator.

“I don’t know where you heard this, but neither my office nor I are currently subject to any administrative review,” the senator said in the statement. Late Thursday, Raghubeer issued another statement in which a different version of events were presented.

“There was a workplace complaint against me in 2016 that was fully investigated by an

outside independent investigator and found to be ‘utterly baseless,’” Raghubeer said in the statement. “Senate harassment policy strictly prohibits me from commenting on this matter so as to respect the privacy of the complainant.

“I can confirm that legal fees were provided as part of the employer’s indemnification policy, and as the complaint was deemed ‘unfounded,’ the Senate assumed the

responsibility for the legal costs incurred.

“I do note that Senator Lang is not, and never has been, subject to a harassment complaint or a probe by the Senate.”

Lang and Raghubeer have applied for and received approval for Senate funds to cover legal expenses associated with the harassment allegations. In total, the Senate’s internal economy committee has approved more than $28,000 from the legal indemnification fund for Lang and his staff since the Yukon senator was first appointed, according to Michel Patrice, the Senate’s law clerk and parliamentary counsel.

The Senate would not specify how of much that $28,000 was allocated to deal with the harassment claims.

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Indian on FBI’s ‘most wanted list’ The FBI has added a 26-year-old Indian national on its top 10 “most wanted list”

and offered up to $100,000 reward for any information leading to his arrest, two years after he allegedly killed his wife inside a Dunkin Donuts restaurant. Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel, a native of India, is the newest addition to the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives list.

Patel had been traveling in the US with his 21-year-old wife. At the time of the murder, both were working the night shift at a donut shop in Hanover, Maryland. The agency warned that Patel, who stabbed his 21-year-old wife Palak multiple times with a large knife, should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday said Britain needs Sikh values of equality and respect more than ever as the country forges a “new and ambitious role” in the world post Brexit.

Greeting the Sikh community on the occasion of Baisakhi, May said Sikhs have set an example for all.

“I send my best wishes to everyone in Britain and around the world celebrating Baisakhi - one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar and a time when families and friends come together to commemorate the birth of the Khalsa,” she said in a video

message released by Downing Street. She said Sikhs in the country consistently follow the pillars of their faith, which sets an example to all.

Praising Sikh values of equality and respect, of fairness and helping those less fortunate, the British prime minister said these values Britain needs more than ever as it forges a “new, ambitious, role” in the world. “Come with your families and friends to celebrate, enjoy and be part of the best of Sikh culture,” according to a statement by the High Commission

Australian move to replace 457 visa unlikely to impact Indian IT workers: Nasscom

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The Australian government’s move to eliminate the 457 visa+ category would not have a major impact on visas granted to Indian IT workers, industry body Nasscom said on Wednesday. “... it is a surprise and seems to be have been driven by domestic political compulsions where we are seeing immigration as a matter of huge political concern within the current geo political environment,” Nasscom said in a statement. Australia has abolished a visa programme - 457 visa - used by over 95,000 temporary foreign workers, majority of them Indians, to tackle the growing unemployment in the country.

The programme will be replaced by another

visa programme with new restrictions. The programme allowed business to employ foreign workers for a period up to four years in skilled jobs where there is a shortage of Australian workers.

Nasscom said it will work closely with the governments of India and Australia to understand more details on the changes+ and ensure these changes can be implemented seamlessly to ensure business continuity for Australian customers.

“Our initial assessment is that the move should not have a major impact on visas granted to Indian IT workers as the 457 visa category covered a lot of fields and was difficult to manage,” Nasscom said.

Gandhi stamps sold for record Rs 4.14 cr in UK A set of four rare stamps featuring the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for record 500,000 pounds (Rs 4.14 crore) at an auction in the UK. The block of four was sold to a private Australian collector for the highest ever price for Indian stamps, said UK-based dealer Stanley Gibbons. Only 13 of the 1948 Gandhi Rs 10 Purple Brown and Lake ‘Service’ stamps are in circulation. PTI Baikonur (Kazakhstan): A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian and an American reached the International Space Station on Thursday, completing the first two-man flight to the ISS in over a decade. The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft

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Rs 1,000-crore budget for ‘Mahabharata’ movie A UAE-based Indian businessman is investing Rs 1,000 crore to produce India’s biggest ever motion picture, ‘The Mahabharata’.

This magnum opus is being directed by noted ad man and advertising film maker VA Shrikumar Menon.

It will be produced in two parts and is scheduled to go on the floors by September 2018 for a release in early 2020. The second part will be released within 90 days of the first.

“The film will be shot primarily in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu and will be dubbed into major Indian and leading foreign languages,” a release from a company owned by BR Shetty, who is backing the film, said.

The film will be a coming together of the crème de la crème of Indian and global cinema in terms of cast and crew. The technical crew would include “some of the great names in world cinema, including some Academy Award winners”. “This film will have an identity across continents, with their representatives donning the myriad characters in ‘The

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Mahabharata’. A global team led by an internationally renowned casting director will handpick the cast,” the release said.

It said it remains almost impossible to narrate ‘The Mahabharata’ on the big screen except by adaptation of MT Vasudevan Nair’s Jnanpeeth Award winning novel ‘Randamoozham’ (The Second Turn), which narrates the epic through the eyes of Bhima, second of the Pandavas.

“The screenplay is by the writer himself, who holds a record of maximum national awards for screen writing in the history of Indian cinema,” the release said.

This ancient Sanskrit epic has been a topic of creative adaptation in various formats for many decades.

Successes have been limited to the stage or serialisation for television audiences. Shetty, founder and chairman of UAE Exchange and NMC Healthcare, said the movie would be a true ‘Make in India’and would not only set global benchmarks, but also reposition India and its prowess in mythological storytelling.

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Sonu Nigam wants loud prayer calls to be banned Singer Sonu Nigam, in a series of tweets, has described as hooliganism or ‘gundagardi’ the use of loudspeakers to broadcast sermons and calls to prayers by mosques, temples and gurdwaras.

“Gundagardi hai bus (it is hooliganism),” he posted.

The 43-year-old singer said he didn’t believe that shrines should wake people up with the use of loudspeakers and demanded an end to “forced religiousness”.

“God bless everyone. I’m not a Muslim and I have to be woken up by the Azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India,” Nigam tweeted. In another tweet, he wrote, “And by the way Mohammed did not have electricity when he made Islam (sic). Why do I have to have this cacophony after Edison?”

Nigam said he didn’t believe temples or gurdwaras should use electricity either. “Why then..? Honest?

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Narendra Modi’s pitch against ‘triple talaq’ has added fuel to the contentious debate on the Muslim divorce practice, with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath today saying those silent on the issue were as “guilty” as the ones practising it.

The All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) asked the UP Government to draft a strict law against triple talaq, similar to the one which banned the practice of sati.

The Hindu far right also reacted angrily to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s (AIMPLB) assertion that Muslims have a constitutional right to follow their personal laws of which ‘triple talaq’ was a part, contending the Sunni outfit was responsible for “all problems” faced by the community.

While deprecating any outside meddling with the Muslim personal law, the AIMPLB had said it would issue a code of conduct under which those pronouncing ‘triple talaq’ without valid reasons mentioned under ‘Sharia’ (Islamic law) will face social boycott.

Drawing an analogy between the silence of politicians and that of the nobles during the disrobing of ‘Draupadi’ in the Mahabharata, he said: “Those in the political class that are keeping mum need to be put in the dock along with the perpetrators of the crime.”

At an event to mark the 91st birth anniversary of ex-PM Chandra Shekhar, he said: “There is a debate on a burning issue. Some are maintaining silence. This reminds me of the scene in Mahabharata where Draupadi is being disrobed and she asks a question to the gathering as to who is responsible for this sin.”

Calling Adityanath’s remark foolish, AIMPLB general secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani said: “I don’t know how to react to the jaahilaanaa (foolish) statement. He is linking talaq with a greater issue — the disrobing of Draupadi. No sane person will do so.”

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UN to issue commemorative stamps for International Yoga Day

he United Nations will issue special stamps commemorating the International Yoga Day on June 21 this year.

“Releasing soon. @unstamps Special Event sheet to commemorate International Day of Yoga,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin tweeted.

The UN postal agency, UN Postal Administration (UNPA) will issue the new special event sheet to commemorate Yoga Day that has been marked annually since 2015. The special sheet consists of stamps with images of the sacred Indian sound “Om” and various yogic postures.

The first International Yoga Day was commemorated at the UN in 2015 with aplomb, with External Affairs Minister

Sushma Swaraj leading the celebrations along with then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.

Ban and his wife had joined hundreds of students and yoga practitioners to perform asanas and mediate under the guidance of Shankar during the yoga day celebrations.

In December 2014, the UN General Assembly had adopted a resolution with a record number of 177 co-sponsoring member states to commemorate the International Day of Yoga every year on June 21. United Nations stamps are issued simultaneously at UN offices in New York, Geneva and Vienna. Each issue carries a related design theme, with different denominations for each office.

10 terror suspects held after police raids at Mumbai Police from different states in a joint operation raided various places at Mumbai, Jalandhar, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Natkatiyaganj (Bihar) on Thursday and arrested 10 terror suspects.

Delhi Police Special Cell, Andhra Pradesh CIE Cell, Maharashtra ATS, Punjab Police and Bihar Police were involved in the operation.

According to information, they were involved in enrolling members for the terror group and preparing them for terror attacks.

UP ATS IG Aseem Arun, in a statement in Noida, said the accused, associated with the ISIS Khorasan module, were planning to launch a major terror attack in the country.

Mufti Faizan and Tanveer, who are connected with ISIS, were arrested from Bijnor district. Nazim Shamshad Ahmed (26), who hails from Bijnor was nabbed from Mumbra township in Thane district adjoining Mumbai, and Muzammil was apprehended from Jalandhar district.

Read: Arrested ISIS suspect was living in Jalandhar for 3 years Arun said six persons have been taken into custody and they are being questioned.

He said the three accused will be produced in a Noida court where the ATS will seek their transit remand to take them to Lucknow. He said important documents relating to ISIS were seized from them.

The accused had got in touch with each other over the internet, he said, adding that central security agencies played an important

role in the operation.

According to the IG, the ATS had seized some important documents after the March 7 encounter in Lucknow in which a suspected terrorist belonging to the Khorasan module was killed. Following this, the probe was

expanded to five states.

The ATS had received information that the ISIS was expanding its network in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Punjab and Bihar and some youths from these areas had joined the terror organisation.

“All those arrested are in the age group of 18 to 25 years and were living in different places like Mumbai, Jalandhar and UP. We have also found that they were definitely influenced by the material available on the internet,” UP ADG (Law and Order) Daljit Chaudhary said in Lucknow said.

Couple claims ‘Mowgli girl’ is their daughter A family in Lakhimpur Kheri district has claimed that Ehsaas, popularly known as the ‘Mowgli girl’, who grabbed national headlines recently after being found living with monkeys, is their missing daughter ‘Lakshmi’.

The couple has submitted an application in the Singahi police station here claiming they are parents of the girl who went missing in 25 November, 2012. They have asked police to conduct a DNA test to confirm their relation. The couple, however, had not filed a missing complaint with the police earlier.

Makhana Devi and her husband Ram Adhaar, residents of Pukhri village here met the station officer of Singahi police station, Satyendra Kumar Singh, on Thursday and requested him to assist them in

getting custody of ‘their child’. In the absence of a missing complaint or evidence in support of their claim, Singh asked them to contact Bahraich police where the girl was rescued from the Katarniaghat forest range.

Eight-year-old Ehsaas was found with a troop of monkeys during a routine patrol by sub-inspector Suresh Yadav in the Motipur range of the Katarniaghat range. Forest officials later denied the possibility of her living with simians stating that she was found in the range’s buffer zone and never captured in camera traps installed in the area. She was discharged from RML hospital in Lucknow where she was admitted for a few days and sent to a shelter home there.

CJI removes red beacon, judges to follow suit Chief Justice J S Khehar set an example for other judges by implementing on Thursday the Centre’s decision to curb VIP culture by banning use of red beacon atop official cars irrespective of the Constitutional post held by the person. While official cars of the CJI and some other judges entered the SC premises on Thursday morning without the red beacon, other judges probably waited for the May 1 deadline.

But by evening, almost all judges said they had asked for removal of the red beacon on their official vehicles.

Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi and Madan B Lokur have removed beacons atop their official cars. All the SC judges spoke to welcomed the move by the Centre to do away with the red beacon. But some of them flagged

another important issue - time has come for the government to do away with traffic blockades resorted to by police for VVIP movements. Former CJI and present Governor of Kerala, Justice P Sathasivam, said he had acted promptly and removed the red beacon atop his official car on Wednesday evening itself. “I have ordered removal of beacons atop all official and private cars used by the Raj Bhavan,” he told.

More than three years ago, a Supreme Court judge dealing with a PIL alleging rampant misuse of red beacons atop vehicles had set the ball rolling by expressing strongly against the ‘Lal Batti’ culture despite the Congress-led UPA government strongly defending the use of red beacon atop official vehicles of high constitutional dignitaries.

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Manpreet’s drive against ‘lal batti’ pays off The Modi government may have won accolades for abolishing “lal batti”, but it was Manpreet Singh Badal who had taken a stand against this symbol of VIP culture way back in 2007. He was then Finance Minister in the Parkash Singh Badal government. His colleagues would deride him for refusing an official vehicle and not having the red beacon atop his own SUV. “He did not seek reimbursement for train or air travel and would willingly pay at the toll barriers,” said Jasbir Singh, his confidant. Manpreet parted ways with the SAD in 2010 and formed the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP). In the 2012 Assembly elections, the PPP election manifesto vowed to end the VIP culture and ban the red beacon atop vehicles of VVIPs.

Wanted in rape case, suspended SP gives up

Suspended SP Salwinder Singh, who had been recently declared a proclaimed offender (PO) in a rape case, surrendered in a local court today.

The SP, escorted by an advocate, walked into the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohit Bansal in the afternoon. He was remanded in judicial custody till May 5. City police station SHO Vishwa Nath, who was standing outside the court room with a police force, took him to the Central Jail.

However, the local prison authorities refused to lodge him here, following which he was shifted to the Amritsar jail by the police.

A senior jail official, who did not wish to be quoted, said the prison staff here feared that the officer may be attacked by some inmates having enmity with him. Salwinder had served as the SP (headquarters) before he was transferred to the PAP, Jalandhar, after the Pathankot airbase attack. The Punjab and Haryana High Court had rejected Salwinder’s bail application on September 23 last year.

He surrendered in a case registered against him under Section 376 (2) (public servant taking advantage of his official position to rape a woman) of the IPC. He was booked on August 3 last year after the victim’s husband had approached the then CM Parkash Singh Badal. An offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act was also made out after the husband complained that the SP sought money to hush up a case.

The SP was also booked under Section 354 of the IPC on October 20 last year after senior IPS officer Gurpreet Kaur Deo probed the allegations of sexual assault, levelled by Gurdaspur-based women police employees.

The officer had been allegedly abducted by a group of militants on December 31, 2015, two days before the terror attack on the Pathankot Air Force station. After an interrogation and a polygraph test, the NIA had given him the clean chit.

No tolerance for corrupt officers, asserts Sidhu

When he authored the manifesto of the Congress in January, Manpreet’s main thrust was again the same. On coming to power, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh backed Manpreet and made his ministers to shun red beacons despite opposition from some quarters.

Following in the footsteps of the Congress government in the state, now Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed all concerned to do away with the red beacon culture. The campaign has almost spread across the country.

“I am happy that the campaign that I launched against the VIP culture about a decade ago has paid off,” said Manpreet Badal, commenting on the Prime Minister’s move. Quoting Victor Hugo, he said: “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

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Minister for Local Government Navjot Singh Sidhu today termed corruption as the main reason behind the removal of the Chief Town Planner and the Chief Vigilance Officer from their posts yesterday.

Talking to the Tribune, Sidhu said, “Hemant Batra, Chief Town Planner, was not even a qualified town planner. There are serious allegations on his educational qualifications which need to be verified. Reports on Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) and Engineer in Chief Anil Kumar Kansal led to doubts on his professional integrity too. Both will be verified separately. Meanwhile, the office work needs to continue. Fresh appointments will be made very shortly.”

Department sources said Chief Town Planner Batra faced a number of departmental inquiries and even court cases on different accounts, including his qualifications for his job throughout his career. Former Municipal

Town Planner Raj Kumar who fought against him with the department and court, said, “I am once again seeking information from the department regarding the authenticity of certificates on the basis of which he has served the department for so many years. His basic appointment was as a ‘work charge tracer’ for 89 days and he continued to get extensions till a formal appointment in 1984. Somebody is responsible for the undue favour granted to him.”

Kansal faced charges of having sought gratifications for favouring certain officials in vigilance reports. In reply to question of his removal, CVO Kansal said, “I am continuing in my office for the second year after the age of 58 years as per the government policy.

Change in my job profile is the prerogative of my department.” Transfer orders of both officials have been signed by Additional Secretary Hargunjit Kaur.

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Gounder, aides kill 3 of rival gang in Gurdaspur A four-member gang, led by notorious gangster and Nabha jailbreak mastermind Vicky Gounder, created terror in the city by killing three of a rival gang and seriously injuring another today.

Around 12.45 pm, a car carrying Gounder and members of his gang pulled up in front of an SUV at Kahnuwan road bypass. Eyewitnesses claimed that three of the five persons travelling in the SUV were shot at point blank range. “The crime was committed by Gounder and his gang

so swiftly that the SUV occupants failed to react,” said an eyewitness.

Gounder was accompanied by Sukha Bikhariwal, Happy Chatta and Gian Kharlanwala, all hardened criminals.

While Sukhchain Singh of Sangalpura area of Gurdaspur and Harpreet Singh alias Subedar Bhatti of Mustafabad village died on the spot, Happy succumbed to his injuries on way to the hospital.

Prince, who sustained critical injuries, was shifted to an Amritsar hospital. The fifth occupant of the SUV, Daman Mahajan alias Daman Nabipuria, sustained minor

injuries. He told the police about the involvement of Gounder. A case has been registered under various sections of the IPC, including Section 302 (murder), at Tibber police station. IG (Border) Naunihal Singh and SSP Bhupinderjeet Singh Virk confirmed Gounder’s involvement. A senior officer confided that the notorious gangster’s presence had taken them by surprise because he was not known to have a network in this area. “The last time Gounder was sighted by the Punjab Police after the Nabha jailbreak was at a place near Mansa in the last week of December.

Since then the police have been hot on his trail,” said an officer. The cops launched a massive manhunt by putting up 20 check posts in the area immediately after the crime.

“We are working on several clues and are expecting a breakthrough anytime,” said the SSP. Nabha jail escapee strikes again • Around 12.45 pm, a car carrying Vicky Gounder and members of his gang pulled up in front of an SUV at Kahnuwan road bypass • Eyewitnesses claimed that three of the five persons travelling in the SUV were shot at point blank range • “Gounder and his gang were so swift in their action that the SUV occupants failed to react,” said an eyewitness • An officer said the gangster’s presence had taken the police by surprise because he was not known to have a network in Gurdaspur.

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Sukhbir mum on Jathedar’s charges Akali Dal chief and former Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal today refused to comment on Takht Damdama Sahib Jathedar Giani Gurmukh Singh’s allegations that the SAD and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) top brass had put “undue pressure on him for political gains”.

In a video, Giani Gurmukh Singh had said that SAD leaders had repeatedly asked him not to speak against the SAD over seeking support from Dera Sacha Sauda in the recent Assembly elections.

Talking to mediapersons at Tarmala village, Sukhbir said, “This is an SGPC matter. All Sikh religious issues are handled by the SGPC.” The former Deputy CM visited the village to attend the bhog ceremony of SAD worker Gurdev Singh, who died recently during a police raid. He presented a turban to the

deceased’s son.

On the Congress government’s decision to scrap university status accorded to

Amritsar’s Khalsa College, he said, “The new government is resorting to vendetta.

The university status was given after due deliberations. When other universities can come into existence, why not this one?”

He accused the government of targeting SAD workers. Sukhbir assured the cadre that the party leadership would stand by them in their toughest times.

“We have formed panels of advocates in districts and the state capital to deal with cases of political vendetta,” he added.

Capt seeks Modi’s support to sell power to Pak Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought the Centre’s support to the state to sell its surplus power to Pakistan or Nepal.

It was Capt’s second meeting with Modi after he became the CM. The meeting lasted about 45 minutes. Later, Amarinder met Union Minister for Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Capt informed Modi that Punjab had 1,000 MW of surplus power and, if supported to sell

it to Pakistan or Nepal, the state’s economy would benefit. He justified the proposal on the grounds that the locus of the Goindwal Sahib thermal power plant was contiguous to the International Border.

The CM also sought the Centre’s support in helping farmers diversify. He specifically sought help in instituting a ‘Deficiency Price Payment’ mechanism to encourage a shift from the traditional paddy cultivation.

In the present dispensation, the Centre bears only 50 per cent of the loss.

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Police hunt for 2 men who got away with $100,000 from Sugar City Mall

Statement by the NFP Leader on Lt-Col Pio Tikoduadua joining the NFP I am very pleased that Lieutenant-Colonel Pio Tikoduadua has decided to join us. As he has said, we got to know each other well during the UN Roundtable process.

This was a man who, although he was loyal

to the RFMF and its then Commander, could listen with respect to our opposing views. He could accept criticism and look for common ground.

He was never arrogant to us. He built trust with us and welcomed our ideas. If the Prime Minister had listened more to Pio and less to other people, Fiji would be a very different place now.

People should clearly understand that LtCol Tikoduadua is not an ordinary politician.

Many Fiji First Party MPs are unhappy with

the Government’s direction, but they stay silent. On the other hand, Lt-Col Tikoduadua gave up his position in 2015 as a matter of principle.

He gave up his Ministerial and Parliamentary salaries. perks and privileges. Very few politicians would make such a sacrifice.

We welcome Lt-Col Tikoduadua and his supporters to our party.

We are proud that they have chosen to join us.

In next year’s general elections, NFP will put before the people of Fiji a strong line-up of candidates. These will be people who are well known in the community and who have the deep skills and experience required to work in the next Government.

We intend to make the next election a serious contest for the people’s votes. We will be making further announcements in the weeks and months ahead about new people, new policies and our vision for the future.

We are inviting everyone to join us – as party members, candidates, volunteers or supporters – to help to change Fiji for the better. We believe that for NFP the best is yet to come.

Supreme Court dismisses Fiji Times Limited’s appeal The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Fiji Times Limited, Brian O’Flaherty and Fred Wesley against the Court of Appeal judgment regarding the contempt of court case against the newspaper company.

The appellants had earlier pleaded not guilty and the High Court Judge after the hearing found the appellants guilty of contempt scandalizing the Court and made the following orders.

Fiji Times Limited was convicted and fined $300,000 to be paid within 28 days from the date of the judgment.

The Appellants appealed against the judgment and orders of the High Court to the Court of Appeal.

The Court of Appeal by judgment dated 2nd October 2015 dismissed the appeal subject to the variation of the fine imposed on the 2nd appellant by reducing the fine of $10,000 to $7,500.

Now the Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal and has also ordered that Fiji Times Limited, O’Flaherty and Wesley shall jointly and severally pay a sum of $5000 as costs to the Attorney General.

Two million $7 banknotes and one million fifty cents coins have been printed to commemorate the gold medal win of the Fiji 7s team at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Speaking at the launch of the commemorative banknote and coin, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says this commemoration is an acknowledgement, not only of the tremendous achievement the coach and players have accomplished but for the meaning it held for every Fijian man, woman and child.

Bainimarama says that victory is immortalised with the launch of a commemorative banknote and coin that honour our players, coaches and staff and give their victory the ever-lasting place in our history it deserves.

He says that in 2012, we honoured the now Assistant Minister for Sports, Iliesa Delana’s gold medal victory at the Paralympics with a commemorative coin because his victory embodied the resilience, determination and tenacity of the Fijian spirit.

Bainimarama says it was an achievement that showed the world that, regardless of our

Police are hunting for two men who got away with $100,000 from the Sugar City Mall in Lautoka yesterday afternoon.

Spokesperson Ana Naisoro says the two men robbed two Bank of Baroda employees and a security officer while they were going to refill the ATM at the Sugar City Mall.

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Christian man tortured for ‘befriending’ Muslim woman A 21-year-old Christian man was allegedly assaulted and burnt with hot iron rods by the family of a Muslim woman for ‘befriending’ her in Pakistan’s Punjab province, according to a media report. Ansar Masih first established contact with the Muslim woman two years ago and their friendship grew with time, Dawn News reported.

They often spoke over phone and Masih would also visit the woman’s neighbourhood to meet her, according to the First Information Report (FIR) signed by Masih’s sister at a Sheikhupura police station.

When the woman’s family learned of the friendship, her father, Manzoor, and her brothers called Masih’s father asking him to tell his son to stay away from the woman, warning them of dire consequences if their instructions were not followed, the FIR stated.

Earlier this month, Ansar’s mother sent him to run an errand in the woman’s neighbourhood where he was allegedly

kidnapped by the accused and his two sons, the report stated.

The three unclothed him, beat him and burned him using hot iron rods, it said.

The FIR further stated that the accused then brought Ansar to his house and told his family that he had met with an accident.

Ansar’s family then rushed him to Sheikhupura’s District Headquarters Hospital where, after gaining consciousness, he narrated the incident.

He received severe burn wounds and after failing to get proper medical care in Sheikhupura, he was shifted to a hospital in Lahore. Ansar’s condition was reported to be stable. His sister lodged the FIR following which the police took the accused into custody.

The victim’s father was quoted as saying that the family was being pressured by the accused as well as the area police to reconcile and take back the case.

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Detained woman says she was to be used as suicide bomber A 20-year-old medical student, who visited Syria in February to join the ISIS and receive weapons training, has said that she was to be used as a suicide bomber to attack a church on Easter in Pakistan’s Lahore city.

Naureen Leghari, a second-year student of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences in Jamshoro, Sindh, said she left her house to go to Lahore on her own.

In a video confession played during a press conference by Pakistan’s Military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor here, Naureen said that she was to be used by the Islamic State as a suicide bomber on an attack to be conducted on a church on

Easter Sunday.

The woman said they were given two suicide jackets, four grenades and some bullets by the ISIS to carry out the mission.

However, their mission was foiled by the security forces which killed one militant and arrested two others, including the woman, on Friday night.

The woman had visited Syria to join the ISIS terror group in February, the Dawn reported, citing sources.

She had also received training in Syria for using weapons, the sources added.

Naureen came to Lahore about three weeks ago and was being tracked by security personnel.

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Saturday, April 22, 2017

6 Madhesi parties in Nepal merge ahead of local poll Six prominent Madhesi parties in Nepal today merged to form Rastirya Janata Party ahead of the May 14 local elections. The six parties that have merged into a single party include Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party, Sadbhawana Party, Rastriya Madhes Samajbadi Party, Tarai Madhes Sadbhawana Party, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum- Ganatantrik and Nepal Sadbhawana Party.

The six Madhesi parties have 24 lawmakers represented in Parliament.

The new party is likely to pick up Mahantha Thakur as its Chairman. It has decided to choose umbrella as the election symbol. The merger of the six agitating Madhesi parties based on southern Nepal’s Terai region comes ahead of the country’s first local level elections in two decades.

Madhesi parties have warned the government that they would disrupt the May 14 local election if their demands, including proportional representation in Parliament, are not addressed.

The Madhesi parties, who claim to represent the interests of inhabitants of the southern Terai region who are mostly of Indian origin, demand that the Constitution promulgated in 2015 be amended to revise the provisions of citizenship and re-demarcation of the provincial boundary before going to the May polls.

Although they have announced to boycott the polls, Prachanda-led coalition government is making all efforts to bring them to the electoral process so as to implement the constitution.

Nepal braces for ‘traffic jam’ at Mount Everest Nepalese officials are bracing for a “traffic jam” at Mount Everest this season due to a surge in the number of climbers eyeing to conquer the world’s tallest peak.

This time, there would be around 400 climbers who will embark on the journey to scale the 8,848-metre-high Mt Everest from mid-May, according to the Department of Tourism.

As climbers are accompanied by high altitude workers, whose number is usually more than that of climbers, there could be around 1,000 individuals on their way to the summit, creating a queue whose snail-paced movement will be punctuated by frequent halts, The Kathmandu Post reported. Expedition teams have started arriving at the base camp a month before the start of the season to acclimatise.

“Everyone will be in a hurry to reach the peak when the weather clears; there is no management up there to fix turns for the climbers,” said Sonam Sherpa, who has scaled Mt Everest five times working as an aide to climbers.

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“So there is a possibility of a traffic jam this year.

Returning climbers in general have depleted stock of oxygen with them and they are exhausted, which means life hangs in the balance,” he said.

A good weather means expedition teams will start climbing up from camps two, three and four, resulting in “traffic jam”, the report said.

Those with 2014 permission are likely to return to scale the peak this year as in 2015, the government introduced a new law allowing climbers a three years’ window to scale Mt Everest with a single permit and fare.

“This is the final year of the three-year period and the climbers who had taken permission earlier have also arrived to ensure that they do not miss the chance. That is why the number of climbers this season is high,” Durgadatta Dhakal, information officer at the Department of Tourism, was quoted as saying. This year, 267 climbers have already started trekking from Namche to the Everest base camp, said Kapindra Rai, programme officer of the Everest Pollution Control Committee.

Around 290 climbers had arrived at the base camp after acquiring permission to climb Mt Everest last year when hundreds were able to reach the summit following two years of disasters on the mountain.

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A canteen leaseholder at Bangladesh’s prestigious Dhaka University has been fired for serving beef to Hindu students and hurting their religious sentiments, a media report said on Thursday.

The university has formed a committee to investigate the incident. The committee has been asked to submit a report within a week.

Zakir Hossain, a class-four employee who became the leaseholder of Faculty of Fine Arts canteen, was expelled on Sunday for ‘creating disorder’ on ‘Pahela Baishakh’ when thousands of students gathered on the campus to celebrate the Bangla New Year.

The students of the faculty said beef was never allowed in their canteen considering the fact that it is ‘forbidden’ for Hindus.

“He was running the canteen without permission (from the authorities),” Acting Proctor Amzad Ali was quoted as saying by bdnews24.

The students ordered Tehari for breakfast after working overnight to prepare for the ‘Mangal Shobhajatra’ procession.

Zakir admitted to making the Tehari with beef, but alleged that Bangladesh Chhatra League leader ‘Sohag’ and his associates in the Pahela Baishakh Celebration Committee ‘intentionally’ ordered the beef Tehari and fed it to their Hindu ‘co-students’, the report said.

Zakir said they did so because he did not agree to their demand to pay extortion money.

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Saturday, April 22, 2017

Nepal, China hold first-ever joint military exercise Nepal and China on Sunday began their first-ever joint military exercise with a special focus on combating terror, a move that could make India uneasy.

The 10-day-long military drill “Sagarmatha Friendship 2017” that will last till April 25 is

being organised by the two countries as part of their preparedness against terrorism that has posed as a serious security threat globally, the Nepal army said.

Sagarmatha is the Nepali name of Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s squad has already arrived in the capital to participate in the military exercise that will focus on counter terrorism and disaster response, it said.

The joint training with China marks Nepal army’s extension of military diplomacy. The Nepal army has long been conducting joint military drills with Indian and American armies.

“A small Chinese troop will be participating in the first ever drill with an equal number

of Nepali army personnel,” said military spokesman Jhankar Bahadur Kadayat.

He did not mention the strength of the participating troops. The exercise will take place at the army’s Maharajgunjbased Training School, where Yuddha Bhairab, Mahabir and Bhairabnath Battalions are located.

The Nepali army has said the joint military exercise with China is a step towards preparations against the possible threat from terrorism.

It maintains that the drill is a part of its regular bilateral and multilateral military exercises aimed at sharing experiences, skills and professional knowledge which it has been doing regularly with the nations that Nepal shares diplomatic ties.

Nepal had proposed joint military exercises during Chinese Defence Minister General Chang Wanquan’s official visit to Nepal on March 24.

Experts believe that the joint military exercise could make India uneasy as China attempts to exert influence in the region.

Nepal, a landlocked country, is dependent on India for its imports.

Nepal had witnessed a shortage in essential supplies from India during the 2015 Madhesi blockade. China at that time had extended its help to Nepal to ease the situation.

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Lanka garbage toll hits 33; PM vows to clear area on priority The death toll from the collapse of a giant open garbage dump near Colombo reached 33 today with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe promising to clear the area as soon as possible.

Wickremesinghe, who cut short his state visit to Vietnam and returned last night, today visited the site and promised a house to each of the affected families in the disaster.

He promised to remove the Meethotamulla garbage dump as soon as possible, Colombo Page reported.

A portion of the 91-metre dump collapsed following a fire incident on Friday as the residents celebrated the traditional Sri Lankan New Year, burying dozens of residential buildings and trapping many people in Meetotamulla area in Kolonnawa.

At least seven children were among the dead. Some still remain untraceable after the mishap, officials said.

The death toll climbed to 33, the report said.

After the explosion in the 23-milliontonne garbage mound, the air force was deployed to douse the flames. Nearly 1,000 military security personnel, including police and special task forces, have been deployed for rescue operation.

The tragedy has displaced nearly 200 families numbering more than 1500.

Nearly 80 houses were completely destroyed while many more suffered partial damage, according to Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre.

The affected families have blamed politicians for the tragedy, though President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered officials to ensure maximum relief to them.

The National Building Research

Organisation said people still living in over 130 houses in the area must be relocated to safety.

The true scale of the damage remains unclear, police said as about 800 tonnes of garbage were added to the dump daily.

The Parliament was recently warned that 23 million tonnes of garbage at Kolonnawa dump was a serious hazard.

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Neelam Kothari Is Upset With Samir Soni For Kissing Another Woman!

Neelam Kothari and Samir Soni were introduced by their good pal Ekta Kapoor and now she is the one causing trouble in their six-year-long marriage. No, Ekta Kapoor is not playing the other woman

in this case. Instead, she has signed up Samir to play the leading man in her web series Bewafaa Sii Wafaa.

Now, the show revolves around an extramarital affair and involves plenty of intimate scenes between Samir Soni and the leading ladies Dippanita Sharma and Aditi Vasudev.

When Samir was narrated his character, he knew that the show will include lovemaking scenes and Neelam too knew that the role demanded that her husband kiss and make love to other women.

Deepika Padukone And Irrfan Khan To Pair Up For Vishal ’s Gangster Drama According to a leading tabloid, the film will recreate the life of Rahima Khan aka Sapna Didi, the dreaded Mumbai mafia queen who almost got Dawood Ibrahim killed. The film will be directed by Vishal’s longtime associate Honey Trehan and coproduced by Prerna Arora and Arjun N Kapoor. According to the report, Deepika will play Sapna Didi, one of the most feared dons from the ’80s, Irrfan will portray a local gangster who is in love with her and helps her in her mission to eliminate Dawood.

Sonam Kapoor: You Might Call Me A ‘Bimbo’ Or A ‘Naachne Wali’ But...

Rajinikanth-Akshay’s 2.0 Vs Aamir’s Secret Superstar Clash Averted Aamir Khan’s Secret Superstar and Rajinikanth’s mega film 2.0 will not lock horns in Diwali.

2.0, which stars Akshay Kumar

in a nergative role, is not ready with its VFX effects which it needs of extremely high quality.

Aamir’s next production, which was earlier supposed to release in August, had been shifted to Diwali. Which means it was going to have a face-off with 2.0, which was set to release on the same day.

Taran Adarsh had taken to Twitter and written: “Aamir Khan Productions’ #SecretSuperstar will now release in Diwali 2017. Zee Studios presents. Directed

by Advait Chandan.” The film has been directed by Aamir’s close friend and stars Zaira Wasim, who won the National Award for Best Supporting Actor for Dangal.

Adarsh revealed that Aamir wanted to avert the clash with Shah Rukh Khan’s untitled film directed by Imtiaz Ali in August. Hence, he spoke to Rajinikanth and the two stars mutually decided to have Secret Superstar and 2.0 releasing on the same day.

The new release date of Secret Superstar had left everyone shocked at the same time and speculations had been made on who will have the last laugh.

Sonam Kapoor is not the one to mince words and she is taking on trolls this time. In a column published in a leading daily, she states that trolls may be sexist and judgemental but she is capable of expressing an opinion.

“I’m a successful woman, a feminist, a humanist, a national award winner and I say this with a great sense of pride and satisfaction: I get to live a fairy tale life every single day. I walk the international stage, I’m an avid reader with a library full of books, I am a consumer of news, an engaged Indian and so very capable

of having a discussion on any issue, with anyone. Just because I’m an actor, it doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion,” she says. She goes on to mention that she may be called names, but she is a self-assured woman. “You might call me a ‘bimbo’, a ‘naachne wali’, but you know what, I’m a terribly self-assured woman.

I have a strong sense of self and I don’t need you to tell me who I am. I would not have the balls to do what I do, wear what I wear or say what I say, if I didn’t have self-worth. Each one of us should cherish who we are,” Sonam adds.

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I have never known Ajay Devgn: KJo After talking about his strained relations with Kajol in his biography which released in February, Karan Johar took on Kajol’s hubby Ajay Devgn in an interaction with journalist Barkha Dutt in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Asked about Ajay, he said, “I have no relations with that man. I have never known him; I never did. He was always her husband, he was not my friend. He’s not even an acquaintance. He’s just a man in her life.” We just cannot wait for Ajay to respond to KJo’s remark.

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LAUGHING MATTER

After hosting four seasons of Science of Stupid, Maniesh Paul is set to anchor the fifth edition the quirky Saturday, Aprilof22, 2017 show. The series presents recordings of home videos and the science behind them in a humorous manner

Anil gets waxed

PeeCee dragged into azaan controversy

Anil Kapoor is the latest B-Town star to have his wax statue. Yesterday, he took to social media to unveil a picture of himself posing with it.

He wrote, “Unveiling...

Yours truly. Thank you, Madame Tussauds Singapore for making me look good in wax.”

Looking in the mirror is Anil’s obsession, but for a change, he can look at his replica.

Priyanka Chopra now finds herself embroiled in the ongoing Sonu Nigam azaan controversy. An old video of PeeCee, where she is talking about the call of prayer, has gone viral on social media.

The clip, which was shot during the Bhopal schedule of Prakash Jha’s Jai Gangaajal (2016), has her saying, “When the film’s shoot wrapped up for the day, I would always wait for the azaan in the evening.

I would prefer sitting on the terrace during sunset. It is soothing and relaxing to hear the azaan and, luckily, I get to hear it from six nearby mosques.”

She adds, “I really like those five minutes. It’s a strange, peaceful time to hear azaan on the microphone. It’s my favourite time of the day.” We think Sonu would beg to differ.

It’s finally happening Last night, Paresh Rawal tweeted, “Soon will be doing a film written by Satyajit Ray himself with Naseeruddin Shah and directed by Ananth Mahadevan.” The film, titled The Storyteller, was planned in 2013, but didn’t take off. Mahadevan is now reviving the project. It will be a treat to watch Naseer and Paresh — two powerhouses of talent — on screen again.

This is what Aryan and AbRam make Shah Rukh Khan watch and it’ll leave you shocked

Loo-ny fan Esha Gupta was taken aback when a male fan followed her to the washroom in Dubai. The actress was slated to walk the ramp for designers Anjalee and Arjun Kapoor at a recent awards gala. The fan tailed her on the pretext of helping her with her gown’s train.

Esha asked him to step out, but he insisted on clicking a selfie. There was no way she would have allowed him in the ladies’ washroom.

The things fans do to catch the attention of stars!

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Diljit gets his own wings Diljit Dosanjh has bought a private jet. He shared the news on social media, writing, “New beginning starts with private jet.” He also shared a video in which he is seen sitting inside the cockpit and saying, “Thug life, jet life.”

The singer-actor is keen to live the high life — literally.

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Shah Rukh Khan has always spoken fondly about his kids. Aryan, Suhana and AbRam are very dear to him and if it was possible, he would spend every waking hour with them. But since he is a busy superstar, he rarely gets the time and when he does, he makes the most of it. But we are sure that like us, you might have often wondered as to what does he watch with his kids. Guess what? We have unearthed that for you! Yes, we know what Shah Rukh watches with his kids and all three of them have varied tastes.

In an interview, Shah Rukh revealed, “If I am sitting with the girl, then watching Pretty Little Liars or some chick flick. If I am sitting with the son then watching Doremon and if I am sitting with the elder son, then watching something deeper and darker from Korea which I don’t understand but my son does.” Now you know why Shah Rukh Khan knows everything from around the world in terms of entertainment. His kids keep him clued in to everything.

So, we think he should always be closer to his kids!

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Sushant Singh Rajput & Kriti Sanon Are Inseparable In Raabta’s Ik Vaari Aa with their fans, Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon shared a poster of the film with words, “They knew it.

Time, Distance, nothing could separate them, because they knew they had a Raabta.”

While Ik Vaari Aa has ingredients of a chartbuster, the picturisation reminds us of Tum Hi Ho Bandhu from Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty-starrer Cocktail.

Talking about the trailer, which was released a few days back, Shiv (Sushant) and Saira (Kriti) are much in The track showcases the lead pair reminiscing the moments they spent together and how everything they go through during the day reminds them of each other. The peppy number has been penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya, sung by Arijit Singh and composed by Pritam.

The last time the trio of Arijit, Amitabh and Pritam collaborated for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, their melodies weaved magic.

Sushant and Kriti make for a great pair and their comfort level translates into electrifying chemistry.

Earlier, sharing the news of the song release

Kapil Pulls Sony Down To No.5. Is His Renewal Contract In Danger?

Sony Entertainment Television woke up to the horrific news of its flagship show, The Kapil Sharma Show, not making it to the Top 10 for the second consecutive week. For the first time since its premiere, the comedy show has a TRP rating of less than 2.

With the ‘development’, Sony has been relegated to No. 5 amongst GECs. You may note that before the infamous mid-air brawl between Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover, the channel was at a cool No. 3. However, little did they know that quarrelling comedians of The Kapil Sharma Show will turn the game around.

From the results of Week 15 (April 7-13), it’s clear that Sunil Grover was responsible for grabbing eyeballs and was one of the main reasons behind the comedy show’s success.

It’s also evident that Kapil Sharma’s image has taken a serious beating and fans no longer look forward to watching the show. The host tried every trick in the book – A-list stars, popular comedians, below-the-belt jokes – but to no avail. The Kapil Sharma Show went from bad to worse with each passing day.

Furthermore, earlier this month, it was reported that Sony Entertainment Television has given Kapil one month to get things back on track after which they will take a call on the renewal of his contract. We wonder with the current scenario, will they be willing to burn their fingers? The comedian’s contract expires on April 29 and this was the last thing they wanted to hear 10 days before deciding on the future course. Undoubtedly, Sony had second thoughts which is why they renewed the contract and who knows their ‘second thoughts’ might have precipitated with the dismal performance of The Kapil Sharma Show.

love, however, it’s not the first time they are seeing each other.

The two are connected by their past. They were lovers many years ago, however, destiny had other plans and Sushant’s character’s untimely death leaves their love story incomplete.

After a gritty performance in Neerja, Jim Sarbh is back to essaying a negative role.

Directed by Dinesh Vijan, the film is set to release on June 9. Shot mostly in Budapest, the story revolves around two individuals, their dreams and destinies.

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Bollywood Horoscope Aries

Libra

March 21 - April 20

Sept. 24 - Oct 22

Real estate investments will be profit able. Someone may be trying to take advantage of you. You can accomplish a lot if you work out of your home this week. Moves or the possibility of having someone different living with you may be difficult at first.

Your lucky day this week will be Thursday.

Past partners are likely to reappear.

Don’t vacillate about asking for assistance if you need it. You may not see your situation clearly. You will have a great deal of insight when dealing with others.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Taurus

Scorpio

April 21 - May 20

Oct 23 - Nov 22

Trips, educational pursuits, or projects that could lead to new outlooks should be on your agenda. Interaction with colleagues will only be upsetting. It’s a favorable time for real estate, investments, and moneymaking opportunities to be successful. You will have excellent ideas for changing or renovating your home.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Money can be made if you use your ingenuity. Try to slow down, and take another look. You can visit clients and make a big impression just by giving them some hands-on help. Try to have patience and refrain from being judgmental.

Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

Gemini

Sagitarius

May 20 - June 21

Nov 23 - Dec 22

You should be promoting your ideas. It might be time to pick up the slack and do your share. You must watch your tendency to spend whatever you make. Sudden romantic encounters are quite likely, but discretion will be a must.

Your lucky day this week will be Sunday.

Cancer

You can pick up some overtime this week. You may not have the same ideas when it comes to what you both enjoy. You need to make your lover feel wanted, not like a piece of the furniture. You have the stamina and determination to succeed.

Your lucky day this week will be Monday.

Capricorn

June 22 - July 23

Dec 23 - Jan 20

Someone you care about may not be too pleased with you. Unexpected changes in friendships could occur. It is time to clear your decks. Try making some changes to your appearance and your attitude that will reinforce just that.

Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

Leo

Do not blow situations out of proportion.

Encourage the youngsters in your family.

Do a little shopping. You’re likely to find a real bargain. It’s a good time to make changes to your living quarters that will give you more space.

Your lucky day this week will be Wednesday.

Aquarius

June 24 - August 23

Jan 21 - Feb 19

Be careful not to lead someone on if you truly have no interest. Your ability to be a self starter will help get things done and motivate others. You’re on the right track and you can make money if you are willing to go out on a limb. Now is the time to concentrate on building a strong financial future for your family. Your lucky day this week will be Wednesday.

Virgo

Your diplomatic approach and rather outgoing nature will enhance your reputation and bring you the support you need. Socializing will be more than just entertaining. Do not let others exhaust you financially. Don’t get upset.

Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

Pisces

August 24 - Sept 24

Feb 20 - March 20

Self-deception regarding your own worth may lead you down the wrong path. Relatives will be happy that you dropped by. You should be setting up interviews or sending out your resume this week. Uncertainties regarding your love life will surface if you have neglected your mate.

Your lucky day this week will be Thursday.

Advancement can be yours if you put your efforts into work related matters.

Don’t make excuses. Go out with close friends who understand your situation and your needs. Don’t let others know about your private affairs.

Your lucky day this week will be Wednesday.

Historical Vimy Ridge Trip strengthens patriotism in students

Surrey , Apr 17: Having had the privilege of marking the 100th anniversary of the First world war and the Battle of Vimy Ridge , Abhayjeet Singh Sachal and 16 other Canadian students have returned back after spending 10 days in France and Belgium. They had been selected by the Vimy Foundation on a Vimy Pilgrimage award to visit historical World War 1 sites in France and Belgium. The historical tour included paying homage at the Vimy memorial on Apr 9 at the Government of Canada commemorative ceremony and Abhayjeet had the honor of meeting His Royal Highness Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General and Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister at the Visitor Centre. Abhayjeet also got an opportunity to present a picture of his grandfather, Brig Mohinder Singh(Retd) with Prince Philips taken at Barbados to Prince William. The students also visited tunnels and trenches used by the soldiers in the war and had a rare glimpse of the hardships faced by the armed men of the forces from all over.

Students then spent a week visiting sites from the First World War including participating in the Last Post Ceremony (laying wreaths) at the Menin Gate.

Sites included the Maison Blanche, an old chalk mine that was transformed into an underground tunnel system and safe house for Canadian Soldiers during the First World war. The site includes the rooms where soldiers used to stay, and the tunnel walls are covered with names and carvings - mainly of soldier regiment logos.

Students also visited Canadian, and Common Wealth Cemeteries as well as German ones. They went to museums, and spent their days learning about the First World War, particularly those in the North East of France and Belgium. Students were

accompanied by their Chaperones, who taught them about the historical aspects of their visits. “ It was an eye opening experience to witness the hardships endured by the soldiers during the war and the visit has further strengthened my respect and honour for these brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for us. It is now upon us to further their dreams of a fair and just society”, says Abhayjeet about the trip.

Students were asked to do a detailed study on a soldier of the war and then they gave presentation to their peers. Abhayjeet focused on Private Harold Bell from Manitoba. He was 23 when a hail of bullets hit him and he died fighting valiantly at Vimy Ridge on April 9 .

It may be recalled that the battle of Vimy Ridge began on Easter Monday, Apr 9,1917.Vimy Ridge is still referred by many as the battle that marked Canada’s coming of age as a country, as it was the first time the four divisions of the Canadian Corps served together.

Regiments from coast to coast saw action together in a distinctly Canadian victory helping create a new and stronger sense of Canadian identity.

On land granted to Canada for all time by a grateful France, the Canadian national Vimy memorial is inscribed with the names of 11285 Canadians who were listed as “missing, presumed dead” in France during the First World war. The site encompasses 117 hectares and is the largest of eight Canadian and five Newfoundland memorial sites in France and Belgium. Designed by Canadian sculptor and architect, Walter Seymour Allward, the memorial two pylons represent Canada and France. The monument features 20 symbolic sculptures representing broad themes including the strength of shared ideals, the sorrow of a young nation and prayer for peace.

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Sonakshi Sinha does her best to hook you in this fairytale about the highs and lows of journalism. But that’s it

Nope, just no hope. I still have to meet a journalist – male or female – like the one out here, determined to prove that she can be the new Barkha Dutt on the media block. Squawk.

Now the censors may have had issues with

jogging daily on any kind of beat, requires skill and stamina? There are hundreds of journos out there who know that one has to start out as a rookie and then it’s merit that counts. Not moaning and groaning, in which case they’d

the mention of Ms Dutt’s name, but as it happens Pahlaj Nihalani and party could have saved themselves the bleep-o-suction. Because director Sunhil Sippy’s Noor is as incredible as an investigative reporter who works strictly out of an armchair. Despair.

Research here largely means moving the mouse on a computer and knock-knocking on hostile doors. Plus, there’s that predictable ho-hum about covering silly non-news stories and dissing dear Sunny Leone (if you ask me, it would be challenging to draw out Ms Leone in a tell-all heart-to-heart).

Indeed, did digdarshak Sippy even take into account the fact that ferreting trivia and

be shown the door. But hey, before this becomes a rant against the bad ole cliched portrayal of the media (in recent years, No One Killed Jessica, has been one exception to the rule), let me stop already.

I didn’t expect realism, kasam se. I merely expected at least some believable situations and recognisable characters in this adaptation of Pakistani writer Saba Imitiaz’s bestseller novel Karachi, You’re Killing Me! Okay, so what’s killing about a Pakistani journo’s hard day’s night is applicable to a Mumbaikar patrakar’s slog as well. Fair

enough, the universality of the theme, accepted.

Over then to the bespectacled, caloriecombating Ms Noor Roy Chaudhury (Sonakshi Sinha). Oh ho, she’s having a bad hair day although she resides with her cute dad, cuter cat in a cozy apartment, possesses a nifty wardrobe, is served by a household help and supported by her fabulous friends. Her professional field isn’t as perfect. Tsk. From a “seedhi Savitri�, she’s desperate to become a “tedi Savitri.� Right, we’re with you gal.

Alas, her editor (Manish Choudhary) has sold his soul (heh heh, why aren’t we surprised?). Worse, her love life is zilch. Hang yawn though. Her heart starts beating, keeps on repeating, on espying a photographer (Purab Kohli) of some self-proclaimed

gravitas. She’s picky, you see. Presumably ordinary blokes aren’t just good enough for her. Frown.

The plot has to pep up. And presto, it does

when our disgruntled journo stumbles upon scoop material – an organ-selling racket. Postintermission, the impossible dream backfires but she won’t throw in the towel. Kya kool hai she! Only if wishes were scoops, all journalists would be riding on insta-fame.

At its best, the Saba Imtiaz book in its Mumbai adaptation, turns out to be a fairytale some journos dreams about. No harm in indulging in a fantasy, perhaps. Snag is that the screenplay in its endeavour of being feel-good leaves you with the burden of feel-puzzled.

Sunhil Sippy’s earlier film Snip!, 2000 did have its wacky passages which are conspicuous by their absence here – unless you’re partial to jokes about drinking rum and freaking out to the remix of the R. D. Burman’s Gulabi Aankhen Jo Teri Dekhi (Train, 1970).

In addition the tempo is uneven, as speedy as a hare at times, and slower than a tortoise at others.

On the positive side, cinematographer Keiko Nakahara captures several unexploited locations of Mumbai, marvellously. And the acting crew appears to be inspired, particularly Kanan Gill as Noor’s buddy.

Gratifyingly, Sonakshi Sinha gives her part, never mind its implausbile elements, all she’s got. She’s sufficiently expressive and diligent, far more likeable than she was in that yucktion fest Akira.

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Deepika Padukone gets stuck in an elevator, Bollywood in panic mode It would come to you as a huge revelation that even celebrities take elevators once in a while. We still don’t have a technology which can carry the celebrity directly to the destination floor which has to be reached.

Recently we had Bollywood’s top actress Deepika Padukone stuck in a malfunctioned elevator.

Our Faking News reporters are working extra time to figure out what may have happened in the lift or how Deepika would have kept her calm in this adverse situation.

We had heard Anu Malik sing ‘Unchi hai building, lift teri bandh hai’, and well in Deepika’s case it did come true. Our reporters got access to the exclusive footage of Deepika entering the lift. It is right here for you to see.

Deepika was scheduled to give an interview about her next project and even before she could talk about her next project, she had to take a new project, the project named ‘Getting out of an elevator’. The footage does show a stranger, in this case a housekeeping person who is also stuck with Deepika. Well someone does gain from an adverse situation, and in this case there is no prize for guessing who it is.

The news spread like fire in forest and in a blink of an eye we had producers, directors and media persons reaching the spot. We are told that the directors had scripts in their hands to narrate them to Deepika as getting her time during normal days is as tough as getting her time during normal days. We also happened to speak to the lift maintenance guy who conveyed that the lift had been serviced just few days back which makes us more curious. Is Deepika preparing for her next role, which may demand her to be in the lift for a sizeable amount of time? Well, with the ever increasing space for off-beat movies, the possibility cannot be ruled out.

We would try to bring you the exact

happenings as soon as we get in touch in Deepika and meanwhile you may keep praying that someday your lift malfunctions and you have someone like Deepika to spend time with. Well, only someone like Deepika has the aura to convert a lift-malfunctioningstory into a story of hope and optimism.

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Production Clerk required for production and distribution of window screens and must complete general office duties.

Duties: Cut, shape and fit materials to make window and door screens; assemble parts and components to form final products; repair defective products for repair or recycle Check manufactured items for defects and conformance to specifications; answer calls; prepare invoice and collect payment. needs to use saws; drills and other small tools.

Education: High School or GED; Spoken and written English The position is full time 8:30-4:30pm with some overtime during summer months.

If you believe you have the necessary experience and skills, please submit your resume and references to info@ vancouverscreens.ca Vancouver Screens Ltd. #112 - 13085 115 Avenue Surrey, BC V3R 0C3 Phone: 604 - 520 - 6768 ------------ Apr 08-2017 Vacancies for Framer-Helper MN Framing Ltd. located at 6281 Knight Street, Vancouver BC V5P2V9 has an

immediate vacancy for Framer Helper.

Job Title: Framer Helper Number of Vacancies: 1 Location of work: Job requires on-site at various job sites within the lower mainland.

Job Type: Full time, permanent position with 30-40 hours per week. Overtime at the rate of 1.5 times after 40 hours per week.

Compensation: $20 per hour Benefits: WCB Coverage with 4% vacation pay Key duties: • Load and unload construction material and taking them to job site, • Move tools, equipment from storage to job site; • Assist framer with forming and framing related work; • Help put up, level, and install building framework • Remove rubble and clean work areas, machines and equipment to maintain a clean and safe jobsites • Perform other related job duties as required Job requirements: Some experience as a labourer will be an asset but not mandatory. Training provided on site.

Work conditions: • Physically demanding, handling heavy

NOW HIRING Bus Driver Gobind Sarvar School, located at 8820 – 168 Street, Surrey, B.C. is looking for a school bus driver living in Abbotsford area.

If you are licensed to drive a school bus, please email your resume and driver’s abstract to: info@gobindsarvar.ca or call Jaspreet at 604-930-2122 for further details.

loads, combination of sitting, standing and walking • Able to work long hours, weekends and outdoor in various weather conditions Contact: If you meet the requirements, please send your resume at mnframing@ hotmail.com.

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------------ Mar 09-2017 Vacancies for Framer-Carpenter MN Framing Ltd. located at 6281 Knight Street, Vancouver BC V5P2V9 has immediate vacancies for Framer-Carpenter.

Job Title: Framer-Carpenter Number of Vacancies: 2 Location of work: Job requires on-site at various job sites within the lower mainland.

Job Type: Full time, permanent position with 30-40 hours per week. Overtime at the rate of 1.5 times after 40 hours per week.

Compensation: $26 per hour Benefits: WCB Coverage with 4% vacation pay Key duties: • Read & Interpret blueprints, drawings & sketches to determine specification; • Estimate height, width, length & other

proportions; • Measure, cut, shape & assemble the major structural elements of a woodframed buildings using woodworking machines, power tools and hand tools; • Build house foundations, Construct building framework including wall, beams, partitions, floor, doorframes, ceilings; • Inspect and replace damaged framework or other structures and fixtures; • Be able to understand building materials and building codes; Job requirements: • Completion of High School • 2-3 years of experience in trade or completion of 3-4 year apprenticeship program Work conditions: • Physically demanding, handling heavy loads, combination of sitting, standing and walking • Able to work long hours, weekends and outdoor in various weather conditions Contact: If you meet the requirements, please send your resume at mnframing@ hotmail.com Only those who our basic expectations will be contacted for an interview.

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LOOKING FOR CLASS 1 TRUCK DRIVER A trucking company, Planet Pride Logistics, located at 11411 Shell Road, Richmond BC V7A3W7 has immediate vacancies for 5 Long Haul Truck Drivers.

Term of employment: Full time, Permanent Position Shifts: Weekdays, Weekends, Evenings Salary: $23.50 per hour for 50 hours per week, overtime after 60 hours of the rate of 1.5 times with Vacation pay of 4%.

Requirement: Class 1 driving license with Air brake endorsement

Duties: Drive and operate company’s long haul trucks within all over Canada, receive and relay information to central dispatcher, maintain log book, bill of landing. Do pre-trip, en-route, posttrip inspection for any mechanical or body defect, reports incidents to the manager immediately and accurately.

Please send your resume at planetpride.logistics@ gmail.com or fax at 778-297-4402 Gill to Furmaan Kaur Gill

Saturday, April 22, 2017 All devotees are cordially invited at Hindu Cultural Society and Community Centre of B.C. (3885 Albert St., Burnaby) to participate in Sai Japa/ Bhajans on Saturday May 6th 2017 at 5 p. m..

Program: 5.15 to 6.15 Bhajans/Kirtan 6.30 to 7.15 Sai Japa 7.30 Priti Bhojan Contact: Rajubhai Parekh 604-327-8259 Kantibhai Patel 604 522-7989 Mandir 604-2995922 -----------------------------------------South Asian Seniors - Anxiety Disorder & Mental Health, Dr. Jogi Harrad - April 9th 2017 from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm.

Vedic Seniors Parivar Center of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey invites South Asian Adults, Senior members and nonmembers also for a very important Presentation- Anxiety Disorder & Mental Health by Dr. Jogi Harrad a known Psychiatrist in the community on April 9th 2017 (Sunday) from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm at Shanti Niketan hall of Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple 8321 - 140th street Surrey BC. Dr. Jogi Harrad will answer all your questions about Mental Health. Tea and light snacks will be served to all participants after the presentation. 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.

-----------------------------------------Abbotsford, B.C: Community Safety Meeting for Parents and Youth followed by Questions and Answers Session.

When: 4:30pm Doors Open and 5:00pm Start time, March 18th, 2017 Location: W.J Mouat Secondary School, 32355 Mouat Dr, Abbotsford Gurdwara Sahib Kalgidhar Darbar will be hosting a Community Safety Meeting to raise awareness on gang related issues and to also discuss positive programs for South Asian youth in Abbotsford. Community Leaders, Parents and youth are invited to bring their suggestions.

Gurdwara Sahib Kalgidhar Darbar has started a Community Awareness Team which includes Community Partners, Parents and youth who will bring important issues arising in front of the community and have open talk and solutions for these issues. They understand that the issues are not a quick fix, but as a team they would like to actively and meaningfully learn from and share information with different segments of

the community to enhance knowledge and skills.

Community and Policing Partners for this event are Abbotsford Community Services and Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit-BC -----------------------------------------South Asian Seniors - Filing Income Tax Returns Free From February 26th 2017 to May 2nd 2017.

Vedic Seniors Parivar Centre of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey informs South Asian Seniors that during the Tax filing period we can help you to file your Income Tax Returns for the year 2016 free of cost, through the community volunteer program of Canada Revenue Agency, from February 26th 2017 to May 2nd 2017. If you are living in Surrey / Delta. The eligibility Criteria are as follows 1.Single individual with annual income limit up to $ 30,000. 2. Couples with annual income up to $ 40,000. 3. Adult with one child annual income up to $ 35,000, add the income limit by $ 2,500 for each dependent child. Interest income not over $ 1,000.00 and this income will be included as total eligibility. With no investment income, no rental income , no business or partnership income and no capital gain or loss. Sin# card and photo identity will be required to prove the documents.

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

If you are eligible then please contact Surendra Handa Coordinator Tel. 604 - 507 - 9945 for further information.

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VACANCIES FOR LONG HAUL TRUCK DRIVERS A trucking company, New Moon Express Ltd., has immediate vacancies for 10 long haul truck drivers.

Job Position: Long Haul Truck Driver Number of Vacancies: 10 Term of employment: Full time, Permanent with 50 hours per week.

Location of work: Travel across Canada and USA with base at 12403 Old Yale Road, Surrey BC V3V 3X9 Shifts: Weekdays, Weekends, Night, Evenings Salary: $23.50 per hour for 50 hours per week, overtime after 60 hours per week at the rate of 1.5 times.

Benefits: 4% vacation pay Credentials: Class 1 or A driver’s license with air brake endorsement.

Experience: On the job training will be provided Additional Skills: • Basic English is required to understand road signs and fill log book.

• Be able to work in individually or in a team • Clean driving abstract Types of trucking and equipment: Flatbed, Van, Refrigerated Type of Travel: Long Haul, Regional, Provincial/

Territorial, National and International.

Duties: • Drive and operate company’s long haul trucks to transport goods and material • Receive and Relay information to central dispatcher • Perform pre- trip, en-route and post- trip inspection for any mechanical or body defect • Ensure cargo is secured properly in accordance with safety requirements and follow safety procedures for transporting goods • Record cargo information, hours of service, distance travelled and fuel consumption • Administer bills of lading and manually or electronically maintain log books • Communicate with dispatcher, other drivers and customers using communication devices and on-board computers • Report incidents to the manager immediately and accurately.

How to apply: Please send resume at newmoonexpressltd@gmail.com Only those who meet our basic expectations will be contacted for interview. We thank you for your interest in our company!

VACANCIES FOR LONG HAUL TRUCK DRIVERS A trucking company, SB Trucking Ltd. has immediate vacancies for 10 long haul truck drivers.

Job Position: Long Haul Truck Driver Number of Vacancies: 10 Location of Work: Travel across Canada and USA with base at 12403 Old Yale Road, Surrey BC V3V3X9 Term of employment: Full time, Permanent with 50 hours per week.

Shifts: Weekdays, Weekends, Evenings Salary: $23.50 per hour for 50 hours per week, overtime after 60 hours per week at the rate of 1.5 times.

Benefits: 4% vacation pay Credentials: Class 1 or A driver’s license with air brake endorsement.

Experience: On the job training will be provided Additional Skills: • Basic English is required to understand road signs and fill log book • Be able to work in individuals or in a team • Clean driving abstract Types of trucking and equipment: Flatbed, Van, Refrigerated Type of Travel: Long Haul, Regional, provincial/

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How to apply: Please send resume at sbtrucking@hotmail.com Only those who meet our basic expectations will be contacted for interview. We thank you for your interest in our company!

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GAYLE JUST LIKE LLOYD Former India all-rounder Salim Durani, who used to hit sixes on public demand, says RCB opener’s hard-hitting ways remind him of fellow WI southpaw

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Clive Lloyd. Then, I enjoyed watching Lloyd, now, I enjoy watching Gayle,” said SPORT, they say, is a great Durani, who played 29 Tests healer, and that’s so true in for India between 1960 and 1973. Gayle’s 38-ball 77 for the case of Salim Durani.

The former India all- RCB against Gujarat Lions, rounder was relaxing at his incidentally in Durani’s home in Jamnagar last home state on Tuesday evening when night, saw the West Indian mid-day called reach 10,000 runs in the him to dis- shortest format. He has hit a cuss Chris jaw-dropping 743 sixes.

Durani, who hit 15 in his Gayle becoming the Test career, recalled how first player to the crowd demanded and score 10,000 he delivered back in the day.

“The crowd would yell, runs in T20 ‘we want sixer’ and I would cricket.

Durani, who hit it. But to be honest, I didwas adept at n’t do it on demand. I was hitting sixes lit- going for my shots and erally on demand more often than not, it was in his heyday, al- a sheer coincidence that the most forgot about the ball fell in the exact spot acute pain in his right from where I could hit it for leg due to a knee cap a six,” said the 82-year-old.

Durani said the art of sixproblem that leaves him struggling to walk, as he hitting was something he spoke about Gayle’s stupen- picked up in his junior dous feat. “Gayle is the cricket days. “To hit a six, hardest hitter of the ball in you either get onto the front modern-day cricket. I knew foot to get under the ball or another West Indian too, you stay on the back foot who used to hit the ball very and hit it on the rise. Fortuhard back in my time — nately, I played my early cricket in Jamnagar and then Mumbai. Now, in Jamnagar, we played mostly on matting wickets, so the ball rose and I would hit on the back foot while in Mumbai, there were turf wickets, so I learnt how to get onto the front foot.”

Bats are an important aspect of six-hitting too, said Durani. “Modern bats are big and thick and it gives batsmen at least a 25 per cent edge over the kind of bats we used back then. I don’t remember the exact weight of my bats, but I assure you they were not at all thick and heavy like the willows nowadays,” he said.

Thampi will soon play for India: Bravo

Gujarat Lions’ pacer Basil Thampi

KOLKATA: West Indies’ all- would say he will get the oprounder Dwayne Bravo is im- portunity to play for India in a pressed with Kerala speedster year or so. He has the talent, obviously, but he also Basil Thampi, saying has a lot of heart, he could soon reprepace and the skill. sent India. Both He’s always willing to Bravo and Thampi learn,” Bravo said. are turning out for During Gujarat Lions’ Gujarat Lions in the match against Mumongoing Indian Prebai Indians, the pacer mier League. “Basil impressed everyone Thampi is a very, very by bowling yorkers. talented youngster. I Dwayne Bravo

On Tuesday, when RCB took the Gujarat Lions attack to the cleaners, Thampi returned economical figures of 1-31 and bowled the maximum (11) dot balls. Thampi’s maiden IPL wicket came in the form of Chris Gayle, after the opener had smashed a 38-ball 77. The bowler set it up with a yorker and trapped him next ball with another full-length delivery.

Will Gujarat Lions bite back in revenge game against KKR? With four wins from five outings, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are perched on top of the league ladder while Gujarat Lions (GL), reeling under successive losses, languish on the lowest rung. Adding to the uneasiness before today’s face-off is memories of a 10-wicket defeat to KKR from a fortnight ago. If Suresh Raina and his men still believe that the clash at the Eden Gardens may well provide the turnaround they seek, blame it on the nature of the beast.

The appeal of T20 cricket is in its ability to instill dreams of defying odds, to whisper defiance into David’s ears. Their respective journeys in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) so far, a study in contrast, makes the clash between KKR

and the Lions akin to the one between David and Goliath, and the first weapon the visitors have to bring to the table is self-belief.

It’s something KKR have in plenty after three back-to-back victories. Despite the demoralising defeat to Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede a couple of weeks ago, KKR have managed to look the most convincing team so far, and are flush from Monday’s hard-fought victory over the Daredevils. The bowling unit, oozing variety and balance, is coming into its own, while the partnership in Delhi between Yusuf Pathan and Manish Pandey, which pulled the Knights out of a rut and set up victory, underlined depth and desire in batting.

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Williamson, Dhawan power SRH to 191-4 vs Daredevils HYDERABAD: Brilliant batting from Shikhar Dhawan (70) and Kane Williamson (89) helped Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) post a challenging 1914 against Delhi Daredevils (DD) in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here yesterday.

Williamson and Dhawan and forged a 136-run partnership for the second wicket in 14.2 overs before the former was sent packing in the 17th over by Morris. The Kiwi skipper blasted six boundaries and five sixes in his 51ball knock.

Moises Henriques (12) and Deepak Hooda (9) completed the proceedings for Hyderabad with both players adding 21 runs in 1.4 overs to give a challenging target.

For Delhi, pacer Chris Morris grabbing four wickets while giving away 26 runs.

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BRIEF SCORES Sunrisers Hyderabad 191 in 20 overs (K Williamson 89, S Dhawan 70; C Morris 4-26) vs Delhi Daredevils

Hopefully we can continue winning streak, says Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma

On a roll after registering their fifth win on the trot, Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma said Thursday's 8-wicket win against Kings XI Punjab, will give the team the kind of momentum they needed heading into the business end of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2017.

"So hopefully we can continue our winning streak.

The good thing we've done is focussing on one particular opposition and we are going to do that again," he said.

Chasing a mammoth 199, Mumbai rode on destructive half centuries from Englishman Jos Buttler and young Nitish Rana to thrash the hosts by eight wickets with more than four overs to spare at the Holkar Cricket Stadium here.

"Incredible game to be part of. Something which reminded me of 2014, when we chased 190 against Rajasthan Royals in 14 overs," Rohit said after the match.

"To be able to chase this target in 15.3 overs is fantastic.

The way Jos and Parthiv batted at the start was magnificent.

That's the kind of firepower we have. Parthiv is coming off a great domestic season and he's taken that confidence into IPL. That's the kind of start we required chasing 199."

Rohit also praised South African star Hashim Amla, who fired his maiden T20 hundred (104 not out of 60 balls) to set the tone for Kings XI Punjab's mammoth 198/4 in the first innings.

"Amla played one of the finest knocks we would ever see but we finished up really well. When we came back to the change room the talk was that the ground is small and we have the batters to do it. That was pretty evident in the first six overs," he said.

"Found really good touch in the tournament, been desperate to kick on, nice to put in a contribution. Striking the ball well, it's a small ground and a fantastic wicket," said Buttler, who was adjudged the man-of-the-match.

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Ottawa. listing that went $575,000 over asking in needed from politicians and But commercial brokers saybrokers the city isthe city is But says commercial The 34-year-old it made sense tosay cash February. The sellers moved to the commuter residents alike, provided not about tonot be about populated ghost towers. to be by populated by ghost towers. out of a city that was draining their finances, cities such as Toronto with a preview of the build more of what’s called the “missing city of Burlington, Ont. energy and family time.

They’re joining buyers priced out of the future, although not yet a road map for the middle” housing.

“My husband and I saw an opportunity Toronto market who have gone looking for route there.

That’s housing intended for residents to take advantage of the recent gains in real cheaper housing in smaller communities But they all talked about the urgent need to who aren’t living in poverty but don’t have a estate and to move to a less expensive city to across the Golden Horseshoe, spurring find some kind of solution. million in equity accumulated – places that “If we can’t do this, that sends a bad signal are big enough for families, but don’t require live mortgage-free, support our savings for other sales spikes in the region — Hamiltonretirement and also to be closer to family,” Burlington homes jumped 22.6 per cent to the rest of the world,” said Kishone Roy, owning an acreage next to the house, such as says Blakely, whose new home has nearly during the first two months of 2017 chief executive of the BC Non-Profit Housing duplexes, row houses, stacked townhouses, Association. twice the square footage. infill, bungalow courts and multiplexes. compared to a year earlier.

Demographics analyst Andrew Ramlo And they may have taken action at just the The board beat some familiar drums, urging Remember that relatively inexpensive right time.

Nova Scotia mansion that dominated reminded the crowd of 350, brought together municipalities to streamline their processes Blakely’s real estate agent Josie Stern says Facebook last month? by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, that and to boldly rezone some of the region’s the market appears to be cooling, and doubts Real estate agent Wanda Graves of Eastern although the housing heat has now shifted to vast tracts of single-family housing for more Blakely could fetch that same jackpot sale Valley Real Estate says it’s sparked more Toronto, “They’re looking to us. We are being density. today.

But the board also endorsed ideas less often inquiries from Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta looked at with a microscope.”

Many buyers and sellers are waiting to and B.C. house hunters suddenly hip to The housing forum comes on a day when touted by the business community. see what will come of Tuesday’s scheduled Eastern Canada’s charms. meeting between Finance Minister Bill Nova Scotia sellers are taking notice, and Morneau, Ontario Finance Minister Charles are marketing to out-of-province buyers Sousa and Toronto Mayor John Tory, who are now considered increasingly likely to make expected to discuss ways to rein in Toronto’s an offer. hot housing market. Meanwhile, the Ontario “They know that there are buyers out there government is promising to announce and now it’s, ‘How do we reach them?”‘ says affordability measures soon.

Graves.

Stern says some buyers are delaying their Before selling for $455,000, the mansion purchase in anticipation of possible fixes. in Newport Landing, N.S., drew more than “Buyers have been in such a stressful one million views on her company’s website situation for so long that now they think and 36,000 shares on Facebook. somebody is going to save them and they’re It’s a story Vancouver real estate agent waiting,” says Stern. “They’ve dug their Melissa Wu knows well. heels in, they’re tired of competition and Years of record-setting sales saw then there’s those that are still proceeding, Vancouver homeowners cash out for smaller but there’s been quite a big pullback from markets with more space.

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Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau emerged from a meeting on Tuesday in Toronto with Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa and Toronto Mayor John Tory to offer few concrete details of new measures the trio will introduce to help cool Toronto’s overheated housing market.

They said they agreed to hold quarterly meetings to discuss housing issues in the Greater Toronto Area and will share more data on home-buyer trends.

Ottawa also said Canada Revenue Agency will dedicate more resources to ensuring people pay the full amount of capital-gains tax when they sell investment properties that are not their principal residence.

The three levels of government have also reached an agreement that none of them will introduce any new policies that would further fuel sales.

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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.

“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.

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The Ontario government moved forward Thursday with initiatives to rein in the housing market in and around its largest city, announcing 16 new measures including a 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers and expanded rent control rules.

The rent control measures, which apply province-wide, were immediately met with threats from developers to cancel projects in the Greater Toronto Area, an outcome that could ultimately lead to an even tighter market for rental accommodation.

Ontario’s Fair Housing Plan introduces 16 measures that aim to help more people find affordable homes, increase supply, protect buyers and renters. Read them all “Our message is this is going to have a devastating effect on purpose-built rental supply,” said Jim Murphy, president of The Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario. “This is coming at a time when we have renewed interest in building rental (properties). We had a 50 per cent increase (in construction) last year.”

One of the changes from the province deals with buildings constructed after 1991, which were previously not covered by rent control rules, allowing landlords to demand any rent they wanted once a lease was up. Anecdotal reports suggested landlords were doubling rents in some cases.

Premier Kathleen Wynne said the Ontario’s Fair Housing Plan had been in the works for weeks after months of consultation.

“The skyrocketing cost of renting or buying in Ontario and the Greater Golden Horseshoe in particular is the unwanted consequence of

a strong economy with a promising future,” Wynne said at a press conference at which speculators and landlords were also blamed for rising housing prices and gouging renters.

“When young people can’t afford their own apartment or can’t even imagine owning their own home, we know we have a problem.”

The Toronto Real Estate Board said this month that March prices across the region were up 33 per cent from a year ago while condo research firm Urbanation Inc. said condominium rents rose 8.3 per cent in the first quarter from a year ago.

“Everything is stopping on the dime. I had nine apartment buildings in my pipeline,” said Lamb, describing projects in Toronto’s central core, its suburbs and Hamilton. I can tell you as of this announcement I will not do any of them.”

Wynne was undeterred by arguments from developers. Sources indicate that up until a day ago the province was set to a agree to a deal that would have allowed landlords with post-1991 buildings to pass on annual increases of inflation and up to 1.5 per cent.

“We have all heard the stories of rent gouging going on in today’s market. It’s wrong. And it is not at all fair. The argument that developers need to be able to increase rent by as much as 100 per cent or they won’t keep building rental units, just does not hold water,” the premier said.

The province is trying to appease developers with breaks on property taxes, development fees and promising a better process for cooperation to identify barriers to projects.

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he $240-million Credit Suisse/ Mr. Shokri and others say they expect SwissReal tower in the heart of many of the new towers to start signing tenant downtown Vancouver will be leases as they get closer to completion. That completed in less than a year, but so far, is partly because companies in Vancouver, only one tenant has signed up to move in. which do want to be in new, energy-efficient The tenant has committed for a 10th of buildings, tend to operate on short timelines. the 370,000 square feet – leaving a state of As well, he said, prices in the new emptiness that is unusual for an office sky- buildings will likely come 4 i Saturday, July 25, 2015down in the scraper 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.

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Investment Opportunity in Hope. 7200 Sq. ft large Lot Fully renovated home close to the Downtown core. 2 bed, 2 bath 850 sq.ft home to use as a rental property. Asking $349,000

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Excellent exposure, top floor office space within the busy Khalsa Business Center complex. Take advantage of tons of visual exposure from 128th st. High traffic complex great investment opportunity. $550,000

Just Listed.... 14841 Delwood Place Surrey Dear Valued Clients, Just Listed! 14841 Delwood Place Surrey. LUC 9095 SQ.FT. lot in quiet cul-de-sac Green Timber Neighborhood. Close to schools, shopping, transportation and rec centre. This updated spacious home offers a new roof, new windows, and new laminate floor with west facing backyard and is a great investment opportunity. List price $849,000.00 This updated spacious home offers a new roof, new windows and new laminate floor with a large west facing backyard, storage in the back and room for RV parking. Ideal investment to live in or build your dream home. If you have friends or family you think may be interested kindly share this email with them. Please contact me for the detailed informational brochure with more pictures on this property.

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