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Trudeau’s reward for courting Trump is a trade war on lumber and trouble for BC Justin Trudeau has always played nice with Donald Trump. The refugee-hugging liberal bit his tongue, flooded Washington with envoys, feted Ivanka Trump on Broadway and relentlessly talked up Canada-U.S. ties.

It hasn’t worked.

On Monday, Trump teed off a fresh trade war by slapping tariffs of up to 24 percent on Canadian softwood lumber as battles brew over the North American Free Trade Agreement and the dairy industry. After winning praise for his Trump strategy, with Angela Merkel and others pressing the Canadian prime minister for advice, Trudeau finds himself a target -- or an example.

“Think of this as the violin Trump

gets to play and set the mood of the place,” said Eric Miller, a former Canadian diplomat who is now a Washington-based trade consultant

with the Rideau Potomac Strategy Group. “It’s a great way to underline America First to the Europeans, Japanese and others, if you actually take a hard line with Canada.”

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SRK’s TED message: Love is the future “I truly believe that humanity is a lot like me,” Shah Rukh Khan told the crowd assembled for his highly anticipated talk at TED 2017 in Vancouver. “[Humanity] is an aging movie star.”

Indian-origin couples living in Canada, mostly from Punjabi and Hindi-speaking communities, may be practising sex selective abortions due to their preference for sons, a new research has claimed.

The research published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada has found that among all Indian immigrant women with two previous daughters, male to female ratios were higher than expected, particularly among those whose mother tongue was Punjabi and Hindi.

The research also found that the ratios did not diminish with duration of stay in Canada.

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At the centre of those attacks, woven throughout the debate, was the question established in past weeks around the temper of self-described “mercurial Irishman” B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan.

“Are you going to lose your temper on me now Mr. Horgan, because you did last week,” said B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver, apparently referring to Horgan’s response to when Christy Clark touched his arm during another debate.

B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark also made a passing remark on the issue.

Clark emphasized the need for a leader who can control their temper, particularly

when dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump and his protectionist policies on issues like softwood lumber.

“What B.C. is going to need is a leader who is tough, but who is calm and is considered,” Clark said during the debate.

When moderator Jennifer Burke specifically asked Horgan if he had anger management issues, he defended his passion for the matters at stake during the election.

“I’m an Irish descendant, I’m passionate,” he said.

“When I see a government that ignores children in care to the point that they take their own lives, I get angry.” The B.C. Liberals have been criticized over the highprofile deaths of some children in care.

But Horgan wasn’t the only leader subject to personal attacks. As the leader of the governing Liberals, Christy Clark also took

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“How should anyone believe you now?”

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Horgan also called Clark out for prioritizing homeowners over renters, claiming she treats the latter as “second-class

citizens” and calling her attitude towards them “patronizing.”

But Horgan’s harshest criticism of Clark came during the section on education, when he criticized her record on the matter.

“You can’t apologize for anything, can you? You will never take responsibility,” he said.

Weaver wasn’t subject to much in the way of personal attacks, but Horgan did take a jab at Weaver’s apparent attempts to set himself apart from the political establishment.

“You don’t look like a different politician to me Andrew, you look like all the rest of the politicians,” Horgan said.

Former Liberal strategist Alise Mills said Clark’s approach seemed to involve standing aside as Weaver and Horgan duked it out over much of the debate.

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“The thing about home ownership is, for people who already own a home, you have a lot of equity in that home,” said Liberal Leader Christy Clark.

“It was really important that we did all of our homework before we moved with a tax on foreign buyers,” she said.

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Why did you wait so long? Was it because your rich developers were making a bundle?”

Clark and Horgan also battled over the B.C. Liberals’ home ownership grant and the NDP’s $400 rental subsidy proposal.

The U.S. government’s announcement of planned softwood lumber duties has dominated the B.C. campaign for the last two days. And Clark has raised the issue of the United Steelworkers paying the salaries of top NDP staffers, tying this to Horgan.

“He didn’t raise softwood lumber even once in three years in question period,” Clark said.

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The jury is still out on whether such soulsearching will occur but it appears unlikely.

Instead, the Conservatives toyed with taking a moon-shot with the outrageous Kevin O’Leary, a kind of Trump-lite. Now that he showed the good sense to withdraw from the leadership race, party faithful seem poised to pick Maxime Bernier, a career politician who is: from Quebec, looks good, bilingual and promises to add a little spark to a rather drab party.

Sound familiar?

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For the Liberals, the gamble paid off - as long as you think your existential purpose is to gain power.

As we are gradually seeing post-Trudeau honeymoon, however, the Liberals aren’t the new party of “sunny ways” that their leader promised. Rather, they’re the same old pig with some fresh lipstick. As the Grits grow more comfortable with their grip on power, does anyone doubt that their old arrogance and indifference to voters will re-emerge?

Conservatives, on the other hand, should not feel smug. The opportunity to reflect and reposition the party is still real, but it will quickly fade if the party becomes convinced it has found a leader who can win. Only a sincere period of introspection will spare them from a fate like the one the ruling party appears to be steamrolling towards.

Parties, in case we forget, don’t exist to win elections. It’s the disease of our age that such thinking dominates the discourse. As upstarts like the Greens show, parties exist to present a vision of a better country and formulate policies that will help us get there. Sadly, any party that gets close to power seems to allow rhetoric to overpower principles, and charisma to overtake substance.

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It’s the number-one buyer of U.S. goods with a largely balanced trade relationship (totaling $635 billion in 2016, according to U.S. census data), a peaceful next-door neighbor and among the closest U.S. allies.

Trudeau moderated his message, re-calibrated his domestic agenda to court Trump and even helped him dial back G-20 commitments on trade. Trump himself pledged only a “tweaking” of ties before turning on Canada this month.

Though Canada wasn’t an early Trump target and a softwood battle has long been expected, Trudeau’s government took nothing for granted. Trudeau appointed a new foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, as his Trump lieutenant and set up a swat team in his office to manage ties. The core tenets of Trudeau’s strategy -- revealed in multiple conversations with Canadian government officials -- are

simple enough: come to Trump’s doorstep, flatter him, court his top aides and find backchannel intermediaries.

Those brokers included Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. Chairman Prem Watsa, Power Corp. Chief Executive Officer Paul Desmarais Jr., former newspaper magnate Conrad Black and former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, according to the officials. “I said that Mr. Trump had nothing but goodwill toward Canada, and wished only slight changes to U.S.-Canada free trade, and that the two personalities would be entirely compatible,” Black said by email last month. But it was early days.

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WSO releases report on bullying of Sikh students The World Sikh Organization of Canada released a report today on issues faced by Sikh students in Ontario’s Peel District School Board (PDSB). The report, titled “The Experience of Sikh Students in Peel�, is based on survey results of over 300 young people between the ages of 5 and 17 who identify as Sikhs. The report aims to bring a better understanding of the challenges faced by Sikh students in Peel, a region that has one of the highest proportions of Sikhs in Canada.

The report finds that 27% of Sikh students surveyed reported being bullied for their Sikh identity. This figure is down from 2011, when in a similar survey conducted by WSO found over 40% of Sikh students reported being bullied.

In July 2016 the World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) conducted surveys amongst Sikh young people attending summer camps in Peel region (Ontario, Canada). The objective of the survey was to measure the prevalence of bullying targeted towards the Sikh identity to better inform remediation and prevention options available to schools, parents, and caregivers.

The report examines the following areas: • Frequency and nature of bullying experienced • Factors motivating the bullying behaviour • Level of parent and teacher engagement when bullied The key finding of the report is that 27% of Sikh students reported being bullied because of their Sikh identity. The largest percentages of students bullied were among those who wore visible articles of faith such as the uncut hair, turban and kara (Sikh bracelet). Thirty-

four percent of students who kept at least one visible article of faith said they had100 been bullied. Students who did not wear any article of faith reported an 11% bullying rate. 95 One student reported that due to bullying, 75 she “avoided class by pretending to be100sick so that I wouldn’t go back to school the95next day�. The WSO hopes to use this report to 25 inform and engage with educators on possible 75 remediation actions to further reduce the 5 impact of bullying.

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He told a gathering of security experts in New Delhi on April 18 that “on my first deployment to Kandahar in 2006, I was the architect of Operation Medusa where we removed 1,500 Taliban fighters off the battlefield … and I was proudly on the main assault.” The description was denounced as “a bald-faced lie” by a retired Canadian officer familiar with the planning done for Operation Medusa in the late summer and fall of 2006.

Other officers who served in Afghanistan expressed similar anger and disappointment in Sajjan’s speech.

“What I should have said was that our military successes are the result of the leadership, service and sacrifice of the many dedicated women and men in the Canadian Forces,” Sajjan said in a statement on Thursday.

“I regret that I didn’t say this then, but I want to do so now.”

“Every military operation our Forces undertook in Afghanistan, including Operation Medusa, relied on the courage and dedication of many individuals across the Canadian Forces. My comments were in no way intended to diminish the role that my fellow soldiers and my superiors played in Op Medusa.” Sajjan’s office provided a web link to the speech to the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation; the security think-tank put a video link to it online.

Op Medusa was Canada’s biggest combat operation since the Korean War, and it is still widely regarded as the biggest set battle of NATO’s long war in Afghanistan. At the time Sajjan was a reservist major serving as a liaison officer with Task Force Kandahar. It would be highly unusual for majors from the reserves to

be the architects of large combat operations.

Such duties in Afghanistan were the responsibility of generals and colonels in staff positions at headquarters in Kandahar, Kabul and Ottawa and of battalion commanders in the field.

“Making a statement like that is completely contrary to our military ethos,” said the former soldier who had called Sajjan’s remarks “a baldfaced lie.”

Other retired officers who spoke similar sentiments said they did so on condition that their names not be used because they are still involved in various military projects.

The Afghan vets who were part of Op Medusa said they liked “Harj” personally and described him as an effective intelligence officer. But they said they were flabbergasted he would claim to be at the centre of Canadian decision-making in Afghanistan in 2006. They described his remarks in India as “really quite outrageous.”

They said there was no single architect of Operation Medusa, describing it as a highly collaborative effort. Many Canadians with Task Force Kandahar and at higher headquarters were involved in the planning before and during the battle, which stretched over several months in the late summer and fall of 2006.

During his first of three tours in Afghanistan, Sajjan, whose civilian job at the time was as a police officer in Vancouver, gathered intelligence about the enemy, and was not part of the command’s decision-making process, the former officers said. He was elected to as the Liberal MP for Vancouver South in October 2015 and named minister of defence a few weeks later by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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‘Epic’ Bollywood film premieres in Saskatchewan Movie lovers in both Regina and Saskatoon were in for a treat Thursday night when part two of India’s highest-grossing film premiered in both cities.

Satish Kumar Ramakrishna and Praveen Chandrasekaran of Conch Cinemas Inc. were adamant about bringing Baahubali to the province.

In 2015, when Ramakrishna’s company got the rights to the first film and showed them in Saskatchewan, the feedback from audiences was overwhelming.

“No one ever expected it to break all the box office records for the Indian community here,” he said.

With a budget of nearly $100 million and seven years of production, you have to at least be curious about how ‘epic’ the film must be. Ramakrishna said it’s one of the

biggest motion pictures ever produced in India, throughout the past 100 years of the film industry.

The movie will be shown in over 18 languages worldwide.

According to Ramakrishna, between 15,000 and 18,000 people in Saskatchewan share Indian ethnicity.

“Even though they watch lots of Hollywood movies, their heart beats for Indian movies,” he said. “This movie connects to all audiences — from five-yearold kids to 50-year-olds.”

Many Canadians also worked on the project, especially on computer graphics.

“It’s a massive, massive project and there were 60,000 to 80,000 people who literally worked on it.”

The Indian film industry is the second largest in the world, but Ramakrishna said their movies are usually romance, action or drama. This epic focuses on the real story of a king in south India, and Ramakrishna said it will transport audiences back 400 to 500 years ago. He said viewing the film at Rainbow Cinemas adds even more to the experience because of the vintage vibes.

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95,000 sponsors vie for 10,000 spots in lottery to bring parents and grandparents to Canada More than 95,000 people took part in the first immigration lottery, hoping to win a spot to bring their parents or grandparents to Canada.

With only 10,000 spots available, that put the odds at roughly one in 10.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada brought in the new lottery process this year to replace the former first-come, first-served system.

The change aimed to make the system more fair and transparent after complaints the process was skewed by geography and an applicant’s ability to pay a lawyer or other representative to get to the head of the queue.

Between Jan. 3 and Feb. 2, sponsors could fill out a web-based form to take part in the lottery, and the Immigration Department says the number who participated reflects the “popularity” of the parent and grandparent program.

“This is the first year this new process will be in place, so we will monitor results to see if adjustments are needed for next year,” said spokesperson Carl Beauchamp.

Of those who filled out the online form, Immigration randomly selected 10,000 sponsors and sent an email inviting them to submit an application. The department also contacted those who weren’t picked to let them know about the results.

The family reunification program has been plagued with massive backlogs in past, as the number of applicants far exceeded the limited number of spots. The logjam peaked in 2011 with a backlog of 167,007 applications, which

had decreased to 40,511 by the end of 2016.

Immigration lawyer Mathew Jeffrey said the lottery system is fraught with problems, including confusion over who is eligible to sponsor whom. One woman called his office to say both she and her husband completed the form, and that he was picked in the lottery but wanted to sponsor her parents.

“My sense is that it was a very poorly thought out system,” Jeffrey said.

“What this example tells me is that there will be a lot of unqualified people taking up the spots that should have gone to qualified applicants. There was absolutely no vetting to see if the person enrolling for the lottery was qualified to actually sponsor.”

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The chief of the Peel Regional Police Service described an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal 100 ruling that an officer was denied a promotion because of his race as “very concerning� — 95 and said the force has since adopted different advancement criteria.

75 The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found not only that Staff Sgt. Baljiwan Sandhu had been denied a promotion to inspector 25 based on his race and cultural background — but that Peel Regional Police didn’t consider 5 the portion of the 28-year veteran’s work in diversity relations. “It’s important to note 0 that since 2013, Peel Regional Police have introduced changes to our promotional process,� the chief said in the video. “The enhancements ensure all officers are recognized for the area they work in, be they front line or support services.�

While Sandhu’s lawyer said his client was harassed since he was a cadet in 1989 —

including an alleged incident in which fellow officers asked whether anyone ordered a cab when they saw Sandhu — it was the fact that his superiors didn’t value the work they’d assigned him that prompted the complaint in 2013, Barry Swadron said. Sandhu emigrated to Canada from India in 1981; he speaks fluent English, Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi. The tribunal found that the officer’s cultural and linguistic background resulted in his superiors routinely seconding him for assignments involving the South Asian community.

And yet while those skills were considered an asset for those portfolios, his superiors said he needed more “traditional� front line policing experience to become an inspector, according to evidence submitted to the tribunal. “To think that the brass of the Peel Regional Police Service take the position that diversity or officers who are not white are to be undervalued, it was too much to swallow.�

2 border services officers among 5 arrested in RCMP drug probe Two Canada Border Services Agency 100 officers are among five people arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for breach of 95 and drug importation offences. trust The RCMP alleges that between January 75 2016 and April 2017 the border officers were importing cocaine through Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

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The other Brampton man is facing one charge: conspiracy to import a controlled substance.

The 1½-year joint investigation between RCMP and the CBSA led to seizures of cocaine shipped from Colombia and Jamaica that were destined for Toronto.

The RCMP alleges this group was responsible for importing 30 kilograms of cocaine during that time.

The two border officers, a 37-year-old man from Toronto and a 41-year-old man from Barrie, Ont., each face three charges.

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Satbir Cheema honored by Khalsa Diwan Society

New CEO of PICS Satbir Cheema was awarded a plaque by the Executive Committee of Khalsa Diwan Society, Ross Street. Present in the picture from left to right are Sohan Singh Deo, Past President; Harsimran Singh Aujla, Secretary; Kashmir Singh Dhaliwal, Malkit Singh Dhami, President; Satbir Cheema and Jarnail Singh Bhandal, General Secretary.

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Political debates have made the leap from the living room TV to laptops and smart phones, creating an opportunity for the supporters of political parties to influence potential voters directly through social media.

The broadcast was accompanied by a comment section rife with opinions, attacks, emotions — and a number of posts containing rhetoric that was curiously similar to the official platforms of the political parties.

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Victoria, it’s likely political parties are 75 leveraging these keyboard warriors to sway voters. “[Those commentors] are either people 25 who are willing volunteers or paid to repeat or5 iterate a message given to them by the 0 party, ” he said. “Or as we also know, they can be bots.”

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Richmond shuts down seniors’ small-stakes poker circle Buying into the Texas Hold’em poker circle at Richmond’s Minoru Place Seniors’ Centre will cost you 10 cents a chip.

But the group of about 40 seniors, ranging in age from 55 to 95, had their afternoon card games shut down recently because they were playing for cash.

Officials at the seniors’ centre, which is operated jointly by the City of Richmond and the Minoru Seniors Society, told the group members they could no longer play as long as money was involved because it violates provincial gambling regulations.

“If anybody is playing poker, it’s more fun if you play for a little bit of money and it makes it more interesting,” player Marilyn Berger told On the Coast host Stephen Quinn. ​“We’re not playing for large amounts of money, it’s not about gambling, we’re playing

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for fun.”

But Ted Townsend, director of communications for the City of Richmond, said the card games violate provincial gambling regulations. Card games that involve the exchange of money are considered gaming activities and are therefore unlawful.

In addition, the seniors’ centre doesn’t permit card games that involve money.

“We are quite happy to have poker and other card games happening at the centre… They’re very popular and we want to support that, but we have to uphold the law.” he said.

Card player Serena Lambert said the games were a chance for seniors to socialize.

“It’s no fun at all, you might as well just stay home and play solitaire,” Lambert said.

Another player, Charles McLaughlin, said he played cards to get out of the house and be with people whose company he enjoys. They can laugh about their moments of memory loss and be themselves, McLaughlin said.

“It has very little to do with poker... I’ve been by myself for a while, and I was spending too much time sitting at home so I wanted to get out,” he said.

Pure fentanyl and heroin seized in major Lower Mainland drug bust New Westminster police say they have seized $300,000 worth of heroin laced with a lethal amount of fentanyl as well as pure fentanyl in a large drug bust.

Search warrants executed in Ne w Westminster and Surrey also led to a significant seizure of weapons, replica guns, a large amount of cash and multiple vehicles.

Sergeant Jeff Scott said a number of people

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The New Democrats are promising to build a new hospital in Burnaby, with a price tag in the range of $1.2 billion.

NDP Leader John Horgan made the announcement Tuesday standing outside Burnaby Hospital.

Horgan said the money would come from a five-year, $10-billion capital investment plan that is part of the party’s platform in the May 9 election campaign.

A new hospital would include a family urgent care centre, which Horgan said would reduce pressure on the hospital’s emergency room.

He said if the NDP is elected, work would start immediately to find a site for a new hospital by working with the city and the regional health authority, Fraser Health.

Earlier this month, the Health Ministry announced it will spend $8.8 million toward building a new emergency mental-health

and substance-use zone and consolidating outpatient clinics currently scattered around Burnaby Hospital. The Burnaby Hospital Foundation would kick in another $5 million for a total of $13.8 million to pay for the so-

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Work on that project was scheduled to be complete by 2020.

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Two Canadians added to US terrorist list The U.S. Department of State has added two Canadians to its most-wanted global terrorist list.

Farah Mohamed Shirdon and Tarek Sakr were named as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” according to a release from the State Department.

YouTube star Lilly Singh on how to hustle like a ‘bawse’

The designation “imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed, or pose a serious risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.” Former Calgary resident Shirdon left Canada to fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. He was a student at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology until at least 2012 and was said to be radicalized at a now-closed mosque in downtown Calgary.

In 2014, the Toronto-born Shirdon was captured on video burning his Canadian passport and threatening Canada, the U.S. and “all oppressors.”

You may be one of Lilly Singh’s 11 million YouTube followers. And if you’re not, your kid probably is. Since 2010, the Torontobased comedienne’s videos — which poke fun at her fictional parents and satirize everyday complaints — have made her one of the biggest stars on the video-sharing site.

Singh, a.k.a. “||Superwoman||”, has won a People’s Choice Award, collaborated with the likes of Michelle Obama and now has a new book at the top of bestseller lists: How to be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life.

In the book, you talk about taking being a “bawse” to the next level.

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you think of workplace. A “bawse,” though, is so much more epic. You have to change the spelling because it applies to all facets of your life: your personal life, professional life, your relationships, your communication — everything about you.

How do you maintain the constant need for content, being a social media star?

I always say I didn’t want a nine-to-five job, but now I have a 24/7 job. I make two pieces of scripted comedy a week, which is a lot. In addition to that, I daily vlog [video blog], which is a lot. It’s a lot of me paying attention, to be honest.

I’m very observational — I pay attention to what’s happening around me. I’m basically eavesdropping on everyone.

You write about “the need to hustle and then hustle harder.” Do you think that’s what’s necessary for young people today when it comes to finding sustainable work?

Yes, especially in this day and age.

Millennials are entrepreneurial. And when they do something, there’s probably 100 people trying to do the same thing, if not more.

Now kids are like, “I want to be a YoutTuber, that’s what I want to do for a career.” There’s some crazy stat about the number of minutes uploaded to YouTube each day. You’re going to have to hustle harder in everything you do today.

What do you tell them?

I like to be honest. [I say,] ‘That’s great, but know that YouTube, like everything else, is not for everyone.’ You still have to have a point of view and a message. It’s easy to think ‘I’ll just make a YouTube video and be rich and famous because I’ll be loud and eat weird things,’ but you still need to have a point of view.

So what makes you stand out?

I’m a South Asian woman and I think I’m one of the first to do comedy on YouTube.

I started YouTube at the perfect time where people were thinking, “There’s a brown girl on the internet talking about things! This is so intriguing!” But since then, I think I’ve just maintained my level of relatability. I talk about fighting with your parents. I mean, who doesn’t fight with their parents? I talk about relationship issues and school issues and all these things people experience but maybe don’t talk about.

Twitter battle erupts between Manitoba, Vancouver police vying for recruits Police forces in Vancouver and Manitoba are having a tongue-in-cheek battle on Twitter for recruits. It started with the Vancouver Police Department posting photos of officers on horses on a beach, aerial images of a lush green landscape and boats docked in a marina, and the police marine unit in patrol boats. Under the photos, the VPD tweeted their condolences to snow-covered Manitoba, adding “P.S. Did anyone mention we’re hiring?” The Winnipeg Police Service fired back with a jab at Vancouver’s notoriously rainy weather.

“Seems @VancouverPD knows where the best & brightest are located — and we’re not just referring to the 2300+ hours of sunshine we get.” Not to be outdone, the Manitoba RCMP threw on their tactical gear and sent out a message about housing prices.

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House arrest for former small claims Ottawa judge who stole $250,000 from Catholic church A former small claims court judge who pocketed a quarter of a million dollars from the cemetery funds of his Catholic church will spend the next year under house arrest.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny said it was only Ronald Houlahan’s decades of good deeds as a respected lawyer, judge, volunteer and family man that spared him from time behind bars for the theft of $250,000 from the St. Patrick’s Fallowfield parish, where he was chair of the cemetery committee for eight years.

Houlahan’s work within the church and in Ottawa’s legal community “placed you in a position of grace. You were trusted to do the right thing and be scrupulously careful. You were not,” said Ratushny before sentencing Houlahan Friday.

“For the majority of your life, Mr. Houlahan, you have been a good person, a dedicated family man, a hard worker, a generous volunteer who allowed himself to forget that the cemetery funds were not his to handle as he wished,” Ratushny told the 76-year-old. “It’s undeniable that you should have known better.”

Houlahan’s lawyer Patrick McCann said his client and his wife didn’t lead a lavish lifestyle with the money Houlahan took; it instead was “frittered away” propping up his struggling legal practice, McCann said.

Court previously heard that Houlahan spent the money to pay off his own expenses, such as bills for his law office phone, secretarial services, insurance, cellular phone, cable TV and personal credit cards.

McCann said – and the judge accepted – that Houlahan always intended to straighten

out the bank accounts and pay the money back, although it never happened. According to McCann, his client simply became

overwhelmed by all his obligations.

McCann said Houlahan has already provided him with $70,000; there is a restitution order for another $103,695, representing the amount that would have been collected for the maintenance of the purchased cemetery plots.

Assistant Crown attorney John Semenoff said a breach of trust such as Houlahan’s usually demands jail time.

Semenoff suggested a jail sentence of 12 to 15 months would be appropriate, but acknowledged Houlahan’s lifetime of good work could be recognized as the extraordinary circumstances necessary to justify a conditional sentence that could be served in the community.

Edmonton toddler, found dead near church, lived life of abuse

Police say a 19-month-old boy found dead outside a church last week was covered in bruises and was horribly abused before he was killed by a blow to the head.

A passerby found the lifeless body of Anthony Joseph Raine outside the Good Shepherd Anglican church in Edmonton on Friday. The boy was covered with a blanket.

Police believe he had been dumped three days earlier.

The toddler’s father, Joey Crier, 26, and Crier’s girlfriend Tasha Mack, 25, are charged with second-degree murder, criminal negligence causing death, failure to provide the necessaries of life and assault. Crier is also charged with assault causing bodily harm.

Brandi Raine wrote on a Go Fund Me page that her nephew Anthony Joseph Raine “was the sweetest little boy you can meet.”

“He suffered a lot of trauma,” homicide Staff Sgt. Duane Hunter said Monday.

“He was living a terrible life full of violence and one that is incredibly sad that you don’t even want to speak about. Bruises all over his body and I will leave it at that.”

Edmonton Police Services have released footage of two persons of interest in connection to a toddler’s death last week.

Edmonton Police Services have released footage of two persons of interest in connection to a toddler’s death last week.

Anthony was dressed in a light-blue snowsuit and was wearing new shoes — clothing that helped officers identify him thanks to tips from the public.

Two suspects were identified on surveillance video from a nearby grocery store that police released on the weekend.

Hunter said Crier and Mack were arrested on a city bus not long after.

They appeared in court Monday via closedcircuit television and remain in custody until their next court date set for May 8.

Hunter was asked if the family had been involved with social services or police before.

Family, friends and strangers poured out their grief on a Facebook group titled R.I.P. Anthony Joseph Raine.

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Softwood deal was close under Obama, but Liberals wanted to wait for Trump for better deal A former U.S. trade representative says the Obama administration was on the verge of signing a new softwood lumber deal with Canada but the pact fell through when someone on the Canadian side felt a better deal could be reached with the incoming Trump administration.

Michael Froman made the remarks in an

interview on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics one day after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Canada is dumping softwood lumber south of the border. “We worked very hard, particularly over the course of the last year, at Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau’s request to try and find a solution to that, find an agreement,” Froman said.

“I think we could have gotten one, but a judgment was made late in the year that since President [Donald] Trump was... from the building industry, he might be more receptive to the interests of builders and the Canadian government preferred to take their chances

with him and we’ll see how that plays out,” Froman told Power & Politics host Rosemary Barton.

Froman said the negotiations petered out after the election, when “some on the Canadian side, whether it was the government or whether it was the industry,” preferred to take their chances with Trump.

Alex Lawrence, a spokesman for Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, said: “This notion is completely false. The proposals were never anything that would be acceptable to Canada.”

On Tuesday, Ross held a news conference to announce the Commerce Department’s decision to levy countervailing duties of between three and 24 per cent on Canadian imports of softwood lumber.

The full extent of the potential damage to Canada’s industry won’t be known until a parallel anti-dumping investigation is complete. More duties are expected when that report comes back in June, and then a combined duty rate will be determined in the fall.

The range of these preliminary countervailing duties — three to 24 per cent for five major importers, with all other companies facing duties of 19.88 per cent — is not wildly off the 19.31 countervailing duties imposed in the last round of this dispute in 2001. The eventual combined duty rate in that round was about 27 per cent.

It’s too early to conclude that it will be higher this time, although some fear it will be.

Froman said that there are some “serious problems” in the trade relationship between Canada and the U.S. including, but not limited to, dairy and lumber.

“I think there are some other issues that they are focusing on that may have an effect on Canada such as steel or aluminum to the degree that those issues are now being reviewed, or might be reviewed, from a national security perspective.”

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Froman said the U.S. does not import a significant amount of steel from China or other countries that could raise security concerns, but it does import a lot of steel from Canada.

The former trade representative said that Canada should be proactive in trying to find “good pragmatic solutions” to the dairy and lumber issues that have continued to be trade irritants between the two countries.

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Number of highest-earning Canadians paying no income tax is growing

By Monday, most Canadians will get their annual taste of tax theory at work: the more you earn, the more tax you pay.

A review of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) data shows that, between 2011 and 2014, a growing number of Canadians earning a six-figure income or more didn’t pay a cent in income tax.

The analysis compiled all individual income tax and benefit returns filed with the CRA and focused on the top three income brackets: $100,000 to $149,999, $150,000 to $249,999 and $250,000 and over. During those four fiscal years, the number of Canadians who legally avoided paying income tax rose about 50 per cent from 4,050 to 6,110. The number of filers who made more than $250,000 a year and completely avoided taxes doubled.

Every year, one out of three income tax returns filed in Canada is considered nontaxable, meaning the tax payable amounts to less than $2. Almost all of them are filed by low-income residents earning less than $15,000 a year.

The CRA says: “It is possible for individuals classified in the upper income ranges to reduce their tax liability to zero by using deductions such as business or farm losses of previous

years and allowable business investment losses, or significant contributions to RRSPs. “Tax filers can also use non-refundable tax credits such as charitable donations, or dividend and foreign tax credits.” ​Since April 30, the usual tax deadline, is a Sunday this year, the CRA says, it considers a tax return to be filed on time “if we receive it on or it is postmarked on or before May 1, 2017.”

In the 2014 tax year, half of the 6,000 highincome non-taxable returns were filed by Quebec and British Columbia residents. Hundreds more came from Ontario and Alberta. More than 450 returns were submitted by citizens working out of country.

According to the most recent CRA data available, the majority of Canadians who qualify as earning these high incomes would usually be paying between $24,100 and $157,000 in federal and provincial taxes.

But two of them hinted at a larger picture, one in which rich and fiscally savvy taxpayers — most of them owners of corporations — claim most of their earnings as business and investment income in order to benefit from a combination of credits and lower their tax rates.

Retailers pushed for disclosure on supply as Bangladesh garment factory disaster anniversary nears Canadian clothing companies are making some progress in offering more disclosure about where their products are made, but more work is needed, a major report says.

Toronto-based labour rights group Maquila Solidarity Network was one of many authors of a report Thursday that looked at 72 major retailers from around their world, to see what improvements they have made in both improving their supply chains and disclosing as much as they can about it.

The report, Follow The Thread, found that 17 major clothiers had agreed to sign the group’s “transparency pledge” to disclose information identifying the factories that produce their goods, along with other information such as the number of workers and list of products. And many more have made improvements in recent years, even if they fell short of formally signing the pledge.

The pledge makes it easier for watchdogs to follow up and monitor conditions on the ground in places like Dhaka, Bangladesh, the site of the Rana Plaza factory that collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 workers.

Garments bound for Canada were being

made in that factory, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many and for who since companies were lax about reporting their supply chains at the time. Details only emerged when aid workers scrambled over the wreckage and

found labels for Canadian name brands, Maquila policy analyst Bob Jeffcott told CBC News in an interview Wednesday.

“There is a growing trend since then,” he said.

“There’s momentum towards transparency in the garment industry.”

Among many others around the world, the report looked at four Canadian garment makers — Mountain Equipment Co-op, Hudson’s Bay Company, Loblaw, and Canadian Tire — and found a mixed bag in terms of transparency.

Trudeau says his father used connections to help brother Michel avoid criminal record after pot charge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his younger brother, Michel, was able to avoid a criminal record after he was caught with marijuana because of his father’s connections.

Trudeau revealed the littleknown fact about his brother, who died in a B.C. avalanche about 20 years ago, during a broadcast interview with Vice Media on Monday night about the government’s plan to legalize marijuana.

He said six months before Michel’s death, he was charged with possession of marijuana after he was involved in a collision on the highway while he was driving home to Montreal from the West Coast. Police had found a Sucrets box with a couple of joints inside when they were helping him collect his belongings that were

scattered across the highway.

Trudeau said his father contacted his friends in the legal community to get Michel a good lawyer.

“He was very confident that we were able to make those charges go away,” Trudeau said of his father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. “We were able to do that because we had resources, my dad had a couple connections and we were confident that my little brother wasn’t going to be saddled with a criminal record for life.”

Trudeau used the anecdote to highlight how minorities and people with little means often don’t have the option to clear their name in the justice system — something he said legalizing the drug will help fix.

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Handful of Syrian refugees paid sponsors to come to Canada, evaluation reveals A handful of Syrian refugees paid their sponsors to come to Canada, a government study published Friday reveals.

The Immigration Department evaluation of the Liberals’ landmark refugee program surveyed 581 of the 8,918 privately sponsored Syrian refugees who arrived between November 2015 and March 2016. Just over 26,000 Syrians were resettled in Canada during that time.

Of those surveyed, 23 said they paid someone to complete their sponsorship application, or to provide for their own support while in Canada, with some suggesting they were asked to pay.

While the report doesn’t say how much the refugees paid, private sponsorship groups aren’t supposed to accept or require any funds from a refugee for submitting a sponsorship.

“If instances of sponsors asking refugees to pay for their own sponsorship come to our attention, we will investigate, however, we will not comment on any investigations which

may be underway,” immigration spokesman Remi Lariviere said in an email.

The report revealed it’s not just Syrians who have paid their sponsors. Of 451 privately sponsored refugees from elsewhere surveyed for a previous study, about 19 said they’d paid too.

The slight difference is one of several between the Syrian cohort and other refugee populations.

The evaluation of the first wave of Syrians — there are now more than 40,000 in Canada — documented that compared with other refugee groups, some are less educated and have less knowledge of an official language.

Syrians also have bigger families and a lower level of understanding of Canadian rights and freedoms than refugees from other groups, the evaluation said.

Those factors have all contributed to challenges during the settlement process, but the evaluation revealed another one — the way refugees use social media.

“Unlike any other refugee populations, social media and mobile applications are very commonly used by the Syrian refugees and the population who are actively connected to each other via mobile devices, specifically WhatsApp,” the report said. “. . . Refugees were comparing what Syrian friends received in terms of services in other cities and provinces and requested equivalent services and support,” the report found.

Panel told B.C. Liberal donor dropped politicians’ names to woo investors to alleged scam A B.C. Securities Commission panel has heard allegations that Paul Oei claimed a number of politicians were supporting a Metro Vancouver recycling plant project, allegedly the centre of an immigrationinvestment scam.

Oei, a prominent B.C. Liberal donor, is accused of an extensive fraud on Chinese investors, whom he allegedly impressed by “rubbing elbows” with B.C. politicians.

Investor Sui Zhang on Friday added Richmond Conservative MP Alice Wong’s name to the list of B.C. politicians the panel has heard Oei mentioned to investors, a list that includes Premier Christy Clark.

Lawyers for the commission have alleged Oei raised money from Chinese investors for recycling plant company Cascade, but diverted $6.9 million of $13.3 million for his own uses, including donations and luxury car rentals.

Oei denies wrongdoing. Outside the hearing Friday, Oei told Postmedia he does not want to comment during the hearing process.

Zhang told the panel that she and three others, including her sister, invested $100,000 in total with Oei for the Cascade project, because they believed the project was good for the environment. Zhang said she met Oei through her work as an insurance agent.

Zhang said Chinese investors were told if they invested over $500,000 with Cascade, they could immigrate to Canada. She said that she and others were told they could be confident their investment was safe because it was placed in the legal trust fund of Peschisolido and Co., a firm directed then by lawyer Joe Peschisolido, who is now a Richmond Liberal MP. Like other investors who have testified this

week, Zhang said that Oei showed investors a Chinese news article that touted Chinese investment in a B.C. environmental project that purportedly created “dozens of jobs.”

The article showed a picture of Christy Clark with Chinese investors. Oei allegedly told investors one of the men pictured with Clark also planned to invest in Cascade.

“When we heard this news, everyone felt exciting,” Zhang said.

The panel was shown investment promotional material from Oei that included the name of Wong. Zhang said that Oei claimed to investors that Wong “was very impressed” with Cascade’s immigrationinvestment project.

Zhang said she received about $30,000 in commissions to introduce investors to Cascade, and she earned a commission for introducing a woman who invested $500,000 with Oei in order to get her daughter immigration status in Canada.

“Did Paul tell you the commissions were coming from your own investment?” lawyer Mila Pivnenko asked Zhang. “Did Paul tell you (Zhang’s investment) would be used on lease payments for his personal car?”

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Student designs vending machine to offer pills In a first, a vending machine designed by a student of Indian origin, that dispenses the morning after pill, has been installed in a university campus in the US. The machine called “Wellness To Go” was installed in early April in a study room at the University of California, Davis in the US. In addition to morning after pill or Plan B, the machine - which took two years to build - offers pregnancy tests, tampons, Advil and condoms. “The more sceptical and negativity I got from other people like ‘oh it’s not gonna happen,’ kind of pushed me more,” said former UC Davis student Parteek Singh.

The vending machine has received both

praise and criticism, CNN affiliate ‘KTXL’ reported. While some students said that the machine promoted unsafe sex as it made getting the morning after pill cheaper and more convenient than buying condoms from a drug store, others felt it is “a great thing for women”. “This project will make Plan B and other health resources more accessible and affordable impacting 35,000 undergraduate and graduate students at UC Davis,” Singh said.

“Since there is only one pharmacy that is open 24/7, students don’t have the best access to emergency contraception and other over the counter medicine,” he said.

An India-born doctor and his wife were arrested and charged on Saturday for allegedly helping another Indianorigin doctor perform genital mutilations, a procedure that is criminalised in the United States, on minor girls.

Fakhruddin Attar, 53, and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, both of Michigan state were charged with conspiring to perform female genital mutilations (FGM) on minor girls out of his medical clinic in Livonia.

The charges come a week after Indianorigin doctor Jumana Nagarwala, 44, of Michigan, was charged with performing FGM on minor girls.

Nagarwala, Fakhruddin and Farida are believed to be the first people charged under federal US law, which criminalises FGM. According to an online physician directory, Fakhruddin graduated from the Baroda Medical College in Gujarat, India in 1988.

The charges say that Nagarwala used to

perform the medical procedure on minor girls at Burhani Medical Clinic (BMC) in Michigan that was owned and operated by Fakhruddin.

Fakhruddin’s wife was employed at BMC as an officer manager.

The complaint against the Attars said that the couple arranged and assisted in the female genital mutilation of minor females performed by Nagarwala. While they allowed their clinic to be used by Nagarwala to perform the procedures, Farida assisted Nagarwala during the female genital mutilation procedures.

Fakhruddin told federal agents this month that he has known Nagarwala and she occasionally saw patients at his clinic even though she was not employed there. He said Nagarwala only saw the patients at BMC when the clinic was closed and that Farida used to be present in the examining room while Nagarwala treated the minor girls.

Surgeon General asked to step down by Trump

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Vivek Murthy, the first Indian-American appointed by the Obama regime as the Surgeon General, has been dismissed by the Trump administration to bring new leadership to the vital public health sector.

Murthy, 39, has been replaced by his deputy, Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, one of the first nurses to serve as surgeon general.

“Murthy, the leader of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, was asked to resign from his duties as Surgeon General after assisting in a smooth transition into the new Trump administration,” the US

Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement yesterday. “Murthy has been relieved of his duties as Surgeon General and will continue to serve as a member of the Commissioned Corps,” the statement said.

It was not immediately clear why Murthy was relieved from duty, the New York Times said while noting that employees at the Department of Health and Human Services privately expressed surprise at his sudden departure. Murthy, the 19th Surgeon General and the first Indian American to hold this post said in a Facebook Post.

No money, bodies of 2 Indians lying in Riyadh The bodies of two Indian workers who died in Riyadh are lying in a Saudi mortuary for weeks as their former employers are not ready to bear the cost of transporting them to India.

Jaswinder Singh (56), from Kapurthala district in Punjab, died on February 21.

Ponnam Satyanarayana (48), from Jagtial district in Telangana, passed away on March 11. Since then, their mortal remains are in Riyadh, the Saudi Gazette reported

on Tuesday. Both used to work for a nowdefunct construction company. Sending back a body by making exit papers and bearing the cost is the responsibility of the employer.

The deceased were in Saudi Arabia for over 20 years but had no job for some time as their employer had abandoned them along with scores of other workers, according to the report. Both Indians were waiting to receive their end of service benefits and planning to leave for good, it said.

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Tearful farewell to Vinod Khanna, son Sakshi lights funeral pyre A large number of Bollywood personalities attended the last rites of veteran actor-turned-BJP politician Vinod Khanna at the Worli Hindu Crematorium here on Thursday evening.

His son, Sakshi lit the funeral pyre a short while after his flower-bedecked body was brought from their Malabar Hill residence where it was kept for people to pay homage.

Khanna, 70, passed away after battling bladder cancer around 11.30 am today plunging the country’s entertainment industry into grief.

A large number of tearyeyed actors, producers, directors and a few actresses, his colleagues in the Bharatiya Janata Party, fans and admirers also turned up to pay their final respects both at his home and the crematorium.

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Among the prominent ones seen at the funeral rites were Amitabh Bachchan, his son Abhishek, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and son Ranvir Kapoor, Kabir Bedi, Danny Denzongpa, Arjun Rampal, Jackie Shroff, Jeetendra, Dia Mirza, Puneet Issar, writer-poet Gulzar, directors Ramesh Sippy, Ramesh Taurani, Subhash Ghai, NCP leader Praful Patel, and BJP MP Kirit Somaiya among many more.

A large number of fans and admirers of the late actor waited on both sides of the streets to catch a last glimpse of their favourite actor as the funeral procession wended its way from Malabar Hill to the crematorium.

Khanna, a former union minister, passed away this morning at the Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital where he was under treatment since nearly a month.

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Bride finds another man after original groom upset with no meat dishes Guests at a wedding in Uttar Pradesh saw that first hand when a groom refused to solemnise his marriage after seeing that only vegetarian dishes were being served at the wedding feast on Thursday.

With the ceremony on the verge of a breakdown, a guest came to the rescue and proposed marriage to the bride, who readily accepted, panchayat officials said.

The new groom apparently had no objection to the meatless cuisine. The panchayat — in Kulhedi village in Muzzafarnagar district — gave its blessings to the match. They did not name the bride or the two grooms.

The officials said the original wedding party was upset on seeing that meat was missing from the menu, and refused to accept the explanation that this was due to shortage of meat in the market.

A panchayat was called to resolve the matter but by then the bride had had enough and decided to call it quits. Following the ban on illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh, the price of buffalo meat has shot up from around Rs 150 per kg to Rs 400 per kg. Mutton prices have gone up to Rs 600 from Rs 350 per kg.

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A day after Delhi civic election results were out, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday met the newly-elected Aam Aadmi Party councillors and administered them a “pledge of honesty”, urging them “not to betray the party”.

The BJP swept the civic elections last Sunday by bagging 181 of the 270 wards of Delhi’s three municipal corporations, while the AAP won just 48 wards and the Congress 30.

Addressing the AAP councillors at his residence here, Kejriwal administered them a “pledge of honesty” and cautioned them not to let themselves be lured or involved in corruption as, he claimed, the three municipal corporations in Delhi were “most corrupt”.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the AAP leader claimed, will try its level best to wean them away but they will have to remain united. “Always keep your recording devices (in mobile phones) on so that we can know if any such effort is made.”

He urged the AAP councillors to ensure a check on corruption in the civic bodies by raising their voice against it.

“This party has emerged from an anticorruption movement; so, please work with full honesty,” Kejriwal said.

“Maintain honesty and have the courage to raise voice against corruption in the MCDs. They (BJP) might send you to jail or try to suppress your voice, but do not fear,” the Chief Minister said.

Kejriwal also told the newly-elected councillors not to leave movement against corruption even if someone lured them to join other parties by offering huge money.

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FIR against Shilpa Shetty, Kundra in cheating case Maharashtra Police booked Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her businessman husband Raj Kundra for allegedly duping a textile firm owner of Rs 24 lakh on Thursday.

“FIR has been registered in Bhiwandi police station against Shetty and Kundra under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of IPC,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Manoj Patil said.

The case was filed on a complaint of a textile unit owner in Bhiwandi who alleged that the couple collected the amount on his behalf but did not pay him, another police official said.

“Big Deals, a company in which Shetty and Kundra are directors, collected money from customers for sale of bedsheets on

behalf of Malotia Textiles through TV ads, but did not (allegedly) pay Malotia Textiles the proceeds,” the official said.

Non-payment of Rs 1,500 cr will land Sahara chief in jail The Supreme Court on Thursday extended till June 19 the parole of Sahara chief Subrata Roy with a warning that failure to meet the deadline of June 15 for the payment of Rs 1,500 crore would land him in prison once again.

Roy, who in compliance with the last order appeared before the court, was told by the apex court that he has to frequently make the payment according to the roadmap approved by the court or face further imprisonment.

The Sahara chief gave an undertaking to a Bench headed

by Justice Dipak Misra that he would deposit Rs 1,500 crore by June 15 and another payment of Rs 552.22 crore by July 15 in the SEBI-Sahara account and filed an affidavit. The court warned Roy that he may be sent to jail again if amount is not paid.

The Bench, which also comprised Justices Ranjan Gogoi and AK Sikri, also ordered the

arrest of Chennai-based Prakash Swamy, who failed to deposit Rs 10 crore as per the last order. He will serve one monthjail for contempt of court.

Swamy had filed an affidavit on behalf a foreign firm expressing his intent to buy Sahara’s New York-based hotel.

He had failed to comply with the apex court’s direction to show his bonafide by depositing the amount in court to establish his intention to buy the property.

The Bench allowed the Sahara group to make electronic payment through RTGS in the Sebi-Sahara account on or before June 15. The apex court also asked Roy to remain personally present on June 19, the next date of hearing.

It asked the Official Liquidator of Bombay High Court to prepare terms and conditions for auctioning the Aamby Valley property for its approval on June 19.

500-yr-old idol worth Rs 45 cr seized in Siliguri The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has seized a 500-year-old rare metal sculpture of Lord Vishnu.

The idol, estimated worth Rs45 crore in the antiques market, was on Wednesday seized by the Troopers of the 41st Battalion SSB in a joint operation with Preventive and

Intelligence customs.

SSB Delhi IG AK Singh said a trap was laid at the NH-31 near Bagdogra after receiving a tip-off. During preliminary interrogation, Rishi said he stole the idol with the help of one Shiv Shankar Mehta, also from Purnia, around two months ago.

India is now world’s fifth largest defence spender India, after having made a push in its spending, is now the world’s fifth largest defence spender for the year 2016.

India moved from 7th to 5th place after its largest annual military spending increase since 2009. China is second on the list, while Pakistan does not figure in the top 15 spenders. The rankings were released on Monday morning (IST) by Swedish think-tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Titled ‘Trends in world Military Expenditure, 2016’, the report said India spent $55.9 billion on defence in 2016, which was 2.5 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP). India also spent 3.3 per cent of global spending, which stood at $1,686 billion in 2016 or is estimated at $227 per person globally.

“After 13 consecutive years of increases (from 1998 to 2011), world military spending has continued to plateau—with only minor decreases between 2011 and 2014”, the SIPRI report said. The US is the top most spender at $611 billion, followed by China at $215 billion, Russia at $69.2 billion and Saudi

Arabia $63.7 billion Notably, five of the top fifteen global spenders in 2016 are in Asia and Oceania: China, India, Japan, South Korea and

Australia. “China had by far the highest military spending in the region: an estimated $215 billion, or 48 per cent of regional spending. This amount is almost four times that of India’s total, which is the second largest in the region at $55.9 billion,” the report said.

Between the 2007 and 2016, China has seen the biggest growth in military spending, with an increase of 118 per cent, followed by Russia (87 per cent) and India (54 per cent).

7-year jail to gangster Chhota Rajan The 55-year-old gangster was deported to India after his arrest in Bali in October 2015On the run for 27 years, he was once a close aide of fugitive terrorist Dawood IbrahimHe is facing trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling in Delhi and Mumbai A special court today awarded seven-year jail term to gangster Chhota Rajan and three retired public servants in a fake passport case.

Special Judge Virender Kumar Goyal awarded the sentence to Rajan and others for offences including forgery of valuable security under the IPC, which entail a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.

The other persons who have been convicted are retired government servants Jayashree Dattatray Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and

Lalitha Lakshmanan.

Rajan is lodged in Tihar Jail here. The other three persons, who were out on bail, were taken into custody yesterday after the verdict was announced. The court had on March 28 reserved its judgement in the case in which Rajan allegedly procured a fake passport in the name of Mohan Kumar with the help of the three government officials. Lakshmanan had approached the high court to transfer to Bengaluru her trial in the case but the petition was rejected on January 9 on the grounds that a district court here could also hear the matter.

During pendency of the plea, the high court had ordered a stay on pronouncement of verdict in the case by trial court. However, the high court later rejected the plea.

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Student kills self after being stopped from writing exam Harpreet Singh, a Khalsa College student and a resident of Bathinda, committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling fan of his hostel room here this evening.

Agitated over the incident, a large number of students of Khalsa College staged a dharna and blocked the main GT road leading to traffic chaos before the police diverted the traffic. Harpreet Singh was a student of BSc (agriculture) final year. He was detained from appearing in the examination by the college authorities, as his lectures were short of the mandatory 75 per cent in the semester.

The incident came to light when his fellow students knocked at the door of his room. As they received no response, they broke open the door only to find him hanging from the

Debt relief, not waiver, the way forward: Banks The Congress’ pre-poll promise of waiving agricultural loans, when translated into a figure, comes out to be Rs 62,931 crore. The way ahead for the state government could be a debt relief rather than a debt waiver.

As a three-member expert group headed by Dr T Haque gets ready to meet here tomorrow (Friday), the state government and the StateLevel Bankers’ Committee are ready with the monumental figures regarding the extent of farm loan.

The agricultural debt in Punjab is Rs 77,684 crore, out of which Rs 14,753 crore is the term loan. This means the working capital loan (taken from the public sector, and private, regional rural and cooperative banks) is Rs 62,931 crore, availed by 30.23 lakh farmers.

The loan extended through Kisan Credit Cards is Rs 54,521 crore. The amount of loan availed from arhtiyas is still unknown.

The RBI has started a debt swap scheme, wherein farmers can swap up to Rs 1 lakh of debt raised from an arhtiya by availing a loan from a bank. Every year, 3 per cent of the agricultural credit is to be earmarked for the scheme.

In Punjab, the scheme has not cut much ice.

Only 47 per cent of the target (Rs 718.75 crore of debt was swapped) could be achieved till December 2016.

Official sources say bankers have indicated that the only way forward for the state government is to take over the entire debt and clear dues of the banks. But the precarious health of the Punjab’s economy does not allow the state to take over such a huge debt burden — with the state’s outstanding public debt already more than Rs 1.78 lakh crore.

Sources say Punjab could adopt a pattern of debt relief similar to the one announced by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — though the limit of debt relief would be much higher than in Uttar Pradesh.

Dr Haque said during tomorrow’s meeting, experts would come up with ideas of how to go about the task entrusted on them. “We will also discuss the matter with some officers,” he added.

UK NRIs win ‘Pride of Punjab’ awards

ceiling fan. They immediately sounded the college authorities besides calling the police.

Jagnandan Singh, a fellow student who accompanied him to the principal and the registrar of Khalsa College, said he was pleading with the authorities to issue him the roll number. He said Harpreet also submitted an application along with a medical certificate. He said his lectures fell short as he had suffered from chikungunya. Also, his father had an eye surgery due to which he could not attend the classes. However, he added that the authorities did not pay any heed to his pleas and he was forced to take the extreme step of ending his life. He added that Harpreet was a brilliant student and was a topper. He was also preparing for the ICAR exams. With the college authorities denying him the roll number, he became ineligible for appearing in the ICAR exams.

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NRIs Virendra Sharma, Labour MP from Ealing and Southall, and Surinder Arora, founder-chairman of the Arora Hotels, have won the ‘Pride of Punjab’ Awards-2017 for their outstanding contribution to the communities in the UK. Britain’s Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid MP presented the awards at the annual dinner of the Punjabi society of the British Isles on Thursday night.

Sharma’s citation lauded his outstanding services to the communities as MP for EalingSouthall for the past decade and prior to that as the local councillor in the London Borough of Ealing from 1982 to 2010. Born in India in 1947 and educated at the London School

of Economics on a trade union scholarship, Sharma started his career as a bus conductor before working as a day services manager for people with learning disabilities in Hillingdon.

He was the Race Equalities Officer to the Labour Party.

“I am proud to receive the Pride of Punjab Award and will carry on serving not only the Punjabi community but also the entire British community globally,” Sharma said. Arora’s citation spoke about his outstanding contribution to society and his philanthropic work. “Surinder Arora came to Britain in 1972 and began his career working as a waiter in a hotel he subsequently bought.

Today, he is the chairman of the Arora Group which he founded in 1979.”

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Khanna’s death means Gurdaspur by-election The death of four-time MP and Bollywood star Vinod Khanna has necessitated a byelection from the Gurdaspur parliamentary seat.

Ever since a photo of a frail Khanna went viral recently, some senior BJP leaders had started visiting the party office in New Delhi in their haste to seek the ticket — shocking the actor’s family.

Khanna had stormed the Congress bastion on his electoral debut in 1998, defeating five-time MP Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder. He won the seat in 1999 and 2004 as well, but lost to Congress candidate Partap Singh

Bajwa in 2009. In the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, his candidature was initially opposed by a section of senior BJP leaders.

His main rival, Mumbai-based industrialist Swaran Salaria, was being supported by a powerful lobby, including yoga guru Ramdev.

Salaria was tipped to be nominated, but party patriarch LK Advani put his foot down and backed Khanna. The latter got the ticket at the eleventh hour and went on to beat Bajwa by a huge margin of more than 1.38 lakh votes.

Being the ruling party in the state, the Congress is keen to wrest the seat. A party leader who served as a minister in the Manmohan Singh Cabinet is among the contenders. Dera Baba Nanak MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, a former president of the Gurdaspur district Congress committee, is said to be in contention.

In the BJP camp, Sujanpur MLA Dinesh Singh Babbu is in the fray, besides former state BJP chief and ex-MLA from Pathankot Ashwani Sharma. Insiders said the saffron party also had the option of fielding the film legend’s wife, Kavita Khanna, who is close to the Advani family and had nurtured her husband’s constituency during his prolonged absence.

18 injured as school bus overturns near Sangrur Fourteen students of a local private school and four teachers suffered injuries when the bus they were travelling in overturned near their school on the Thalesa road in this afternoon. They were going home at the time of the incident. All students were discharged after treatment while two teachers are still under treatment. As per information, driver Karnail Singh lost control over the

bus at a short distance from the school and it overturned. Some passerbys informed the school authorities and all injured were admitted to Singla Surgical Hospital.

“All are out of danger. We have discharged 16 persons, including 14 students. Two teachers are still under treatment but they would be discharged in the evening,” said Dr KG Singla, owner of the hospital.

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Monopoly of private transporters to go To end monopoly in the transport sector, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has mooted an open-door policy for bus permits, except on national highway routes.

He has directed the Transport Department to allocate certain bus routes to youth to facilitate employment generation.

An official spokesperson said the CM today suggested rationalisation of the interstate routes to make them more competitive. This, he said, would also ensure better service and more cost-effectiveness for the consumers.

Chairing a preliminary meeting of the Transport Department to draft the transport policy, the CM directed the officials

concerned to explore the modalities for interstate route rationalisation.

It was decided to go for e-tendering on

lucrative routes to make the business more viable and profitable, while providing a level-playing field to all players.

The draft policy will be put before the Cabinet for approval soon. To eliminate the transport mafia, the CM suggested that permits should have registration numbers of buses mentioned thereon.

AAP alleges police ‘excesses’ A district-level delegation of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and the district police against alleged police excesses being committed on party workers.

The party has threatened to stage a dharna in front of the District Administration Complex on May 5 in case the authorities fail to provide justice to the victims.

Kartar Singh Philwan, Bhupinder Singh Bittu and Ranjit Singh Cheema, who were the party candidates from Tarn Taran, Khadoor Sahib and Patti constituencies, respectively, in the Assembly elections, were among those who led the delegation.

The AAP leaders alleged that there was a clash between two groups over a local issue at Chaudhry Wala village on April 5.

Members of both sides were injured. The latter were admitted to the Civil Hospital, Kairon, where the doctors issued medicolegal reports (MLRs).

The memorandum said the Sarhali police registered a case under Section 326 and other sections of the IPC against members of Nirmal Singh’s group because the complaint and the MLR submitted by the group were not entertained by the police. AAP alleged that an MLA from the ruling party was playing a dubious role in the case.

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I want marijuana planting and marketing to be legalized in Fiji - Nawaikula SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula has today confirmed to Fijivillage that he wants marijuana planting and marketing to be legalized in the country.

Nawaikula says it would encourage the commercial farming of marijuana in Fiji and help those living in rural communities who have no source of income.

Nawaikula confirms that he will push for this in the next elections and if he makes it into government next year.

The SODELPA MP had earlier asked in Parliament whether any thought will be given to legalize the commercial planting of marijuana.

Defence Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola says he will never recommend to the

government to legalize marijuana in the country.

When questioned by Fijivillage on whether the opposition supports the legalization of marijuana, Opposition Leader Ro Teimumu Kepa made it clear that Nawaikula’s view is not the opposition’s stand.

Meanwhile Kubuabola also confirms that hard drugs like heroin and cocaine are available on the streets in Fiji and Police are doing their best to arrest the sellers and distributors.

When contacted on Nawaikula’s comments, Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho said that he will not comment on statements made by politicians.

Distribution of medicine in Fiji being handled by outdated computer system The purchasing, storage and distribution of essential medicines throughout Fiji are being handled by a computer system which was installed in 2003 and has never been upgraded.

Health Minister Rosy Akbar made this revelation in Parliament today adding that the company that supplied the system has not supported it for the past nine years.

She says the computer system is so old that it is no longer fit for purpose and staff are forced to adopt manual approaches for many key tasks.

Akbar says to counter the persistent problem of shortages and stock-out of medicines, the Ministry of Health and Medical Services recently obtained support from the Australian Government to appoint an expert

in health supply chain management to review the current system and provide a plan for its improvement.

The Health Minister says she received this plan last week and it provides a clear basis on which they can begin to build a better system.

Meanwhile, Akbar has stressed that people must realize that Fiji is a small remote island nation and it takes months for deliveries of medicines to reach our shores. She says at times the manufacturers and wholesalers’ stocks are low and they may give priority to orders placed by larger and wealthier countries. The Health Minister has also highlighted that they cannot go and buy medicine from just any manufacturer.

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PM upsets Methodist Church THE Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma is “very disappointed” by the comments made

by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama in Parliament yesterday that the religious body was a campaign mouthpiece for the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA).

In an interview last night, church general secretary Reverend Epineri Vakadewavosa said the church leaders would see the Prime Minister and “sort things” out over comments he had made.

Mr Vakadewavosa said the church was neutral and not a mouthpiece for SODELPA. “The Methodist Church is a neutral organisation, biggest religious organisation in the country, and we were very sad with what had transpired with the program (Parliament sitting),” he said.

He said the church was not for any political party.

“Many members of the Methodist Church are members of the FijiFirst party, National Federation Party, Fiji Labour Party and SODELPA so it’s a neutral organisation.”

Mr Vakadewavosa said a group representing the church made submissions to the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs on the village bylaws and he was not aware of any other issues that were

Sugar tribunal announces crush dates FIJI’S Sugar Industry Tribunal has announced the start of crush dates for the 2017 season. Registrar Tim Brown made the announcement after receiving a submission from the Fiji sugar Corporation and consulting with the Sugar Cane Growers Council CEO Sundresh Chetty. Mr Brown said the 2017 harvest and crush season would begin in Labasa on June 1, Lautoka on June 6 and Rarawai, Ba, on June 7.

He said the SIT would announce the expected termination of crush dates in

Seven hundred and eighty-eight expired land leases have been renewed by the Lands Ministry so far, Lands Minister Faiyaz Koya told Parliament in a ministerial statement yesterday. He confirmed that these leases did not have any complications in terms of estate administration issues.

Mr Koya said a bulk of these expired leases had not been renewed on time because of two major reasons. “Lessees have still yet to indicate in writing that they would like

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discussed. Opposition Leader Ro Teimumu Kepa called on the PM to acquaint himself with the United Nations Charter on Human Rights Article 18 and 20, which guaranteed the freedom of religion and the freedom of political affiliation.

“The PM, who frequently goes to New York should grab a copy of the charter and acquaint himself with the important information on the charter, then he won’t come up with remarks like that,” she said.

Ro Teimumu said it was unfortunate for the PM to strike a low blow against those who had no representatives in Parliament, like the Methodist Church.

“It’s unfortunate for the PM to make such remarks when he has no proof,” she said.

Mr Bainimarama told Parliament that the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma was a campaign mouth for SODELPA while responding to a question by SODELPA deputy whip, Mosese Bulitavu for the Parliament to review the 2013 Constitution.

The PM made reference to the submission made by the church last week, talking about the elimination of racial discrimination.

Mr Bainimarama said the church, together with the Opposition, were spreading lies.

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Mr Koya said the ministry was vigorously working towards renewing all expired leases by the end of the next financial year.

Meanwhile, 238 approval notices have so far been issued to all the four divisions in Fiji.

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Pakistan sheltering Qaida’s al-Zawahari Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri is being sheltered by Pakistan’s ISI, possibly in Karachi, and the Islamic terrorist’s “desperate last wish” is a last, big, blowout attack on the US “before folding his eyes”, multiple sources told Newsweek.

As for Hamza bin Laden, alZawahiri’s dead protege’s son, he, too, is in Pakistan, also being sheltered by the ISI, a former top Pakistani official said to Newsweek.

The Pakistani intelligence agency been protecting alZawahiri since US forces evicted Al-Qaida from Afghanistan in late 2001, according to several sources that Newsweek terms “authoritative”.

And the US was likely in the know about his whereabouts, because last year in January, the Barack Obama administration went after him with a drone and almost got him.

“The drone hit next to the room where Dr. Zawahiri was staying,” a “senior” militant

from region told Newsweek. “The shared wall collapsed, and debris from the explosion showered on him and broke his glasses, but luckily he was safe,” the militant added.

In fact, al-Zawahiri, has survived “several” drone attacks since 2001, an Afghan Taliban leader told Newsweek. He added that the Al-Qaida leader was “no longer welcome” in areas controlled by his group because it’s engaged in peace negotiations with the Afghan government and doesn’t want to be seen as “a threat to world peace.”

That’s why the ISI - which the Afghan Taliban refers to as “the black leg” - moved al-Zawahiri to Karachi.

The Pakistani port city “makes sense” as a sanctuary, the former Pakistani official told Newsweek. That’s because the city has widespread sympathies for militant Islam, has congested 19th-century streets and a large Pakistani military presence.

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Zardari looting Pakistan for years, will expose his graft: Imran Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan today alleged that Asif Ali Zardari had been “looting” the nation’s wealth for years and asserted that he would expose the former President’s corrupt practices.

Addressing a big rally of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Zardari’s political bastion Sindh, 64-year-old Imran said while his war on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would continue he would also target Zardari.

“Zardari, I am coming after you in Sindh.

I will no longer let the people be fooled by reconciliation between the PPP and PML-N,” he said at the rally in Dadu.

Imran has been on a war path with Sharif and has demanded his the resignation after the Panamagate verdict by aa Supreme Court bench which declared there was “insufficient evidence” to remove the prime minister from office on graft charges.

Imran said he would gather thousands of people in Islamabad on Friday to pressurise Sharif to step down as prime minister till the judicial enquiry is completed against him.

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“Both Sharif and Zardari are the same, they have been looting the nation’s wealth for years now and have same goal,” he said.

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Lankan PM arrives, visit to help clear strain in ties Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe arrived here today for a visit that takes place in the background of growing Chinese investments in the island nation.

The visit also assumes significance since it comes just a few weeks before Wickremsinghe’s trip to Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Summit.

Beijing and Colombo’s growing cooperation is one of the strains in the bilateral ties that India will try and sort out during this visit.

The fishermen issue is another irritant in the relationship and despite several rounds of negotiations between the two sides, Indian fishermen continue to be arrested and harassed when fishing in the Palk Straits.

Wickremsinghe will hold talks with PM Narendra Modi tomorrow. The

two sides are expected to give finishing touches to an MoU to develop Trincomalee port through operating a major oil-storage facility. The MoU is likely to be signed when Modi travels to Colombo next month. The MoU is important for India to somehow balance out China, which has already been given the go ahead to develop the Hambantota and Colombo port development projects.

Time to dismantle terror safe havens: India on Afghan attack India on Friday strongly condemned the terror attack on an army base in northern Afghanistan, saying it is a stark reminder of the need to immediately dismantle safe havens sustaining terrorism from outside that country’s borders.

The external affairs ministry, in a statement, said India remained steadfast in its support to Afghanistan in fighting all forms of terrorism.

More than 100 Afghan soldiers were killed and wounded in a coordinated Taliban attack on the army base near the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday.

“The terrorist attack is a stark reminder of the need to immediately dismantle the safe havens and sanctuaries that support and sustain terrorism in Afghanistan from outside its borders,” the MEA said, in an apparent reference to the terror infrastructure in Pakistan.

It said the government and the people of India extend their deepest condolences

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and stand with the government and people of Afghanistan at this difficult moment.

“India remains steadfast in its support to Afghanistan in fighting all forms of terrorism and bringing perpetrators of terrorist violence to justice, wherever they maybe,” the statement said.

‘Bangladesh relies on BIMSTEC after SAARC failure’ Bangladesh is hopeful of forging regional cooperation through BIMSTEC after the failure of SAARC, a top aide of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday.

“In this context coming together in BIMSTEC is truly important. We already saw earlier SAARC with all our high hopes has not done much, and for the moment it is doubtful whether or not the next summit meeting will happen,” International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi said at the opening of the BIMSTEC Network of Policy Think Tanks (BNPTT) meeting here at the Bay of Bengal grouping’s headquarters.

He said Bangladesh hopes to make up through subregional cooperation including BIMSTEC after the failure of SAARC, bdnews24.com reported.

“We have seen NAFTA may or may not survive. We see European Union under challenge. In Bangladesh we see much of the future in the sub-region. It is the sub-region we are focused on. We have BBIN, BCIM and BIMSTEC... this is where we see our future,” Rizvi said, giving examples of the state of the regional groupings in the world.

The seven countries’ grouping BIMSTEC connecting South Asia with the Southeast Asia received much attention after the last year’s SAARC summit in Islamabad was postponed following tensions between India and Pakistan over terror attacks, the report said.

Some think tanks consider BIMSTEC as an alternative to SAARC as Pakistan is not part of this grouping, it said.

India’s Research and Information System for Developing Countries, Bangladesh’s Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bhutan’s Royal Institute for Governance and Strategic Studies, Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Nepal’s Centre for Economic Development and Administration, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka and Thailand’s Indian Studies Centre of Chulalongkorn University are the members of the BNPTT which was formed at the second summit in November 2008.

The grouping is promoting 14 priority sectors of development and common concerns including trade and investment, transport and communication, tourism and people- to-people contact.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted BIMSTEC leaders in Goa last year during the BRICS summit. Hasina had attended the meeting.

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Sirisena govt has taken more loans than Rajapkse, says former Sri Lanka foreign minister It was Mahinda Rajapakse who allowed China to build a strategic port in Hambantota, for which he left behind a massive $8 billion debt and the impression that Sri Lanka had fallen into the Chinese embrace. When he lost the election in 2015, he made India the villain of the piece, accusing New Delhi of bringing the opposition together against him.

However, it was significant the prime minister Narendra Modi took time out for a separate meeting with Rajapakse when he visited Colombo in 2015. In 2016, Rajapakse led protests against the Sirisena government for what he said was a sale of Sri Lanka’s strategic interests to China, after it transpired that theChinese companies would be allowed to take 15000 hectares of land.In 2017, he has set up his own party with a symbol (lotus) by the Election Commission.

The current chief of the party, G.L. Peiris, former foreign minister spoke to TOI about the problems with the Sirisena-China arrangement.

If the deal had been done the way Rajapakse had intended, Peiris said, Hambantota would have been a sustainable entity. “What was proposed at the time is different from what is being done today. There is certainly no agreement to hand over 15000 hectares to a Chinese company. That was not contemplated at all. The agreement as structured at the time did not involve the wholesale leasing of the port. It was only leasing a terminal of the port.”

Answering questions on the huge debt that Rajapakse left behind, Peiris said, “Loans taken by this government is far in excess of

what President Rajapakse had taken. There was something to show then - today there is nothing. The government has admitted that the money to be paid by China for the port ($1.4 billion) is not to be used for retiring this debt. So the government argument of doing this (giving the land) to pay off the debt doesn’t stand. It will stay in an account in the central bank and it is to be used for things other than repayment of the debt. The debt remains.”

Peiris said the payment scheme as set out by the Sirisena government is unsustatinable.

“We are still committed to paying it back.

In the proposed agreement, the Chinese company will not pay any money for the next 15 years, which means the Sri Lanka Ports Authority will receive no income. At the end of 15 years, Sri Lanka Ports Authority will get money from the Chinese company only if a dividend is declared.”

Therefore, he said, for a decade and a half there will be no income accruing to Sri Lanka from the Chinese company in Hambantota Port, but Sri Lanka will be obliged to continue to service the Chinese debt. “That means people of SL will have to be taxed more.”

Rajapakse’s deal, he said, was different.

“By 2020, Hambantota port would be a viable commercial concern - we would have ensured all services at the port be paid for — investors were required to pay a minimum of $50000 for lease/rent per hectare.

Then investors were required to bring in $1.1billion for the development of the port.” This, he said, would ensure continuing income for the period.

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Five Indians jailed, fined in Singapore for fraud GST claims Five Indians, who were part of a syndicate, were jailed and fined in Singapore on Monday for making fraudulent goods and services tax (GST) refund claims amounting to over $120,000.

They were jailed for making fraudulent GST refund claims amounting to Singaporean dollars 167,253 between January 2015 and May last year.

Kothandaraman Gnanam, 29, Karunanidhi Rajesh, 32, Ramaiyan Karthikeyan, 44, and Waithiyalingam Karunanidhi, 61, were jailed for three years and three months.

Their accomplice, Karunanithi Saravanan, 37, was jailed for three years and two months, the Strait Times reported.

They were also fined between 14,000 Singaporean dollars ($10,052) and 70,000 Singaporean dollars ($50,262).

Each man also had to fork out 51,952 Singaporean dollars ($37,303) as a penalty.

However, only 5,434 Singaporean dollars worth of tax refunds made to the five men have been recovered.

The court heard that the men loitered in and around jewellery shops in ‘Little India’ area to obtain invoices and jewellery tags from customers, who were Singapore permanent residents and work pass holders, not entitled to GST refunds.

They would buy the invoices from the customers but no mention was made on the amount they paid for each invoice.

Tourists visiting Singapore can claim GST refunds on goods they have bought when

they leave the country. They receive a receipt for goods purchased and an Electronic Tourist Refund Scheme (eTRS) ticket when they buy items from a GST-registered retailer.

They can then use the eTRS ticket to make GST refund claims at ports of departure such as the Changi Airport.

They can also make similar transactions using the credit cards which they had used to buy their goods.

The five men used their passports and white embarkation cards to obtain eTRS tickets from the respective shops using the receipts they had obtained.

They then matched the invoices, jewellery tags and eTRS tickets with the jewellery they already had at hand.

Saravanan also provided jewellery from his own wholesale purchases to his accomplices to help them make false claims.

The men would then claim eTRS GST cash refunds at the airport before flying off.

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Shah Rukh Khan in Vancouver to deliver first TED Talk, says ‘I hope I remember my speech’

Vanity Van Is The New Meeting Adda For This Controversial Bollywood Couple

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will join a galaxy of speakers from around the world at TED2017 this week.

The actor left for Vancouver to deliver his maiden TED Talk and wrote on Twitter, “Off to Vancouver. Last long stint there was during the Pardes shoot…now for

In earlier days, vanity vans were infamous for Bollywood actors’ rendezvous. The meaty gossip in tabloids and Bollywood magazines wrote secretly about the stars and their personal meetings inside their vanity vans.

But with time, maybe the culture faded away...ah, did it?

We has got to know about one such secret meeting which took place between a Bollywood actress and her boyfriend (who is also an actor) in the heroine’s vanity van. This actress, who has made

TEDtalks.” TED Talks is an international platform for exchanging novel ideas and views. TED Talks Curator Juliet Blake earlier tweeted the news saying, “Very excited to introduce @iamsrk on the TED stage this week.” The actor confirmed his presence at TED talks when he retweeted Juliet’s post and wrote, “Looking forward to it and I hope I remember my speech.” SRK is in august company as serial tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and athelete Serena Williams are just a few names from the illustrious line-up.

Ranbir and Katrina pose for their first selfie ever post break-up Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif are back and how! Calm down, they aren’t back together as a couple but as friends! So finally Ranbir and Katrina seem to have let go of all the differences and have decided to become friends. Why we say so? Simply because they posed for a selfie together! Now that’s unbelievable considering the kind of strained equation that they seem to have shared in the last one year. But it’s true!

We came across this pic of the ex-couple on the sets of Jagga Jasoos with co-star Sayani Gupta. Ranbir and Kat look so happy together! I bet their fans would be more than happy to see them together in one frame after so long. Clearly, they have let the bygones be bygones…

Recently there have been a lot of rumours about Katrina being

uncomfortable promoting the film with Ranbir, given their history.

However, the actress shunned all such reports in an interview recently.

“At least a hundred stories about Jagga Jasoos must have come out, but probably 99 per cent of them aren’t true.

a decent headway in her career, was shooting for a film recently in Mumbai.

Just like any other day, the crew of the film was present on the sets doing their bit, when the actress walked in, leaving the crew surprised. Why, you ask?

Well, wouldn’t you be if we tell you that an actress landed up on her film’s set the day her shift was not scheduled? That’s right! The actress was not required on that particular day as her scenes were not lined up, which is why everyone started asking why was she there.

Sunil Grover to host Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega on Sony?

Even as speculations are rife about Sunil Grover being offered new shows by various channels, we hear that he has been approached to host the upcoming season of Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega. Sources say the reality show that was last aired in 2014 will be back this year with its sixth season. “Anu Malik and Farah Khan are likely to continue as judges, though the makers are looking at bringing in some more people. After the Kapil Sharma-Sunil fight, the channel has promised Sunil that they will offer him any upcoming show. So, there are chances of him hosting this show, which is slated to air post IPL in June,” informs a source.

The last season was hosted by Krushna Abhishek and Mona Singh.

Sources say that Preeti Simoes, who parted ways with Kapil Sharma’s production house, is planning to produce a 26-episode series. “The show will have Sunil Grover, Ali Asgar and Chandan Prabhakar who quit Kapil’s show. The only problem right now, is all of them are individually busy with their other commitments. Ali will be travelling, Sunil is intermittently

performing shows and Chandan is busy with a Punjabi film. Once they get the time, they will sit together and decide on it. Preeti and the actors are being approached individually and together by various channels.”

While Kapil continues to shoot for the show and make money, it’s the others who are losing out `80 lakhs to a crore, only because they took a united stand against what happened with Sunil on the flight. “When Kapil celebrated 100 episodes of the show he should have ensured that the entire team participated in the celebrations. Kapil has fall back on, but the others currently don’t have a regular income flowing in, so they need to take up a show soon.”

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Guess what stopped Ranveer from dancing?

Nothing can stop Ranveer Singh’s infectious enthusiasm, except perhaps a tight-fitted suit. On Wednesday, the actor flew to Dubai for a jewellery store launch. As expected, fans went berserk seeing him. Playing to the gallery, Ranveer mingled with them and posed for selfies too. He even got grooving at their request, but after a point stopped, saying his outfit was making him uncomfortable. Given his struggle with a skin-tight suit. the actor opted for a QnA session instead. A note to his designers: when crafting outfits for this young actor, always keep his insanely high energy levels in mind. Okay?

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Beginning of the end?

Speculation is rife that Sony TV might pull the plug on Kapil Sharma’s comedy show. Plagued by controversy ever since Kapil picked up a fight with mainstay act Sunil Grover, all attempts for reconciliation have failed.

Sources say he has found himself struggling to hold the show on his own.

Kapil had thought they’d put their differences aside and reunite, but Sunil, along with Ali Asgar and Chandan Prabhakar, refuses to budge. Now, this is no laughing matter.

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Shraddha Kapoor has teamed up with B-Town designer Anaita Shroff Adajania for the first time in Mohit Suri’s Half Girlfriend. Shraddha’s hot avatar in the promos has been giving major style goals to fashionistas. The actress is known for her cool girl-next-door inspired styles, but in the upcoming film, she was keen to adopt a new look that screams fierce and strong. A welcome change, we say.

Memories that linger

Kiss me not

Sanjeeda Sheikh has a no-kissing clause in her contract. She is not comfortable locking lips and doing intimate scenes, even if the co-star happens to be hubby Aamir Ali. The actress is part of upcoming show, Love Ka Hai Intezaar. She apparently has intimate scenes with Keith Sequeria, but she prefers to say, touch me not.

Bring it on

Yesterday, Katrina Kaif joined Instagram. She posted a snapshot from a beachside shoot and wrote, “New beginnings .. coming from my happy place (sic).”

Among the first to welcome her was ex-beau Salman Khan. He posted, “Please instantly welcome on Insta.

The Tigress Zinda Hai (sic).”

Kat had joined Facebook on her birthday (July 16) last year.

Is Twitter next on her list?

Arjun Kapoor has grown up living, breathing and loving cinema. He not only understands the business of cinema, but is also a Bollywood trivia buff.

Arjun has an amazing ability to remember box office figures as well as the release dates of films.

Arjun’s numbers memory goes beyond just his own movies. Anyone willing to know anything about the industry, just call up Arjun.

“Be it releases, box office collections or general information, knowing about films is a matter of habit for me,” confesses the 2 States actor.

Yesterday, Sushant Singh Rajput posted an emotional message in memory of his mother, who passed away in 2002. He wrote, “As long as you were, I was. Now in just your memories, I come alive.

Like a shadow, just a flicker. Time doesn’t move here. It’s beautiful. It's forever.” Last December, SSR had got himself inked with a symbol that represented the motherson bond.

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Style file If her recent outings are an indication, Tanishaa Mukerji is keen to up her style game. Kajol’s younger sister is often spotted at society soirees in designer threads.

Bollywood, however, still remains elusive. She was last seen in Anna (2016) and earlier in reality shows like Bigg Boss.

Tanishaa, we hear, plans to turn full-time producer. She was co-producer of brother-in-law Ajay Devgn’s Son of Sardaar (2012).

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The Picture Perfect break from tinsel town only proved to be a sabbatical of five years. His second innings did include significant films like Dayavan, Lekin and Chandni, but was not as rocking.

Last seen in Shah Rukh Khan’s Dilwale, he never though lost that impactful winsome smile. A swashbuckling hero who knew how to wear his hats, glasses and carried off-beat colours with aplomb, he remained a darling of audiences.

If the tryst with Osho cost him a split from first wife, he did find love again One of the handsomest actors to have walked down the Bollywood hall of fame is no more. If Vinod Khanna’s last photograph — showing his emaciated condition — was any indication, he did appear to be battling a life-threatening disease. It was advanced bladder carcinoma that consumed the man who knew no fear.

His passion for life manifested in many ways. From the material to the spiritual world, he experienced it all. A sanyasi, politician, style icon and a fine actor; the world knew him differently at different points. What bound his different avatars was the charisma that he exuded not just on screen, but in person too. Born in Peshawar on October 6, 1946, the Adonis-looking man was introduced by Sunil Dutt in Man Ka Meet. Though starting on a “villainous” footing, he made a mark in his very first break (a flop though), that was followed by 15 more assignments.

Marriage to college sweetheart Gitanjali, two sons (Akshaye and Rahul grew up to be good-looking actors in their own right) and a career going great guns — his heydays saw him star in superhits such as Qurbani, The Burning Train and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki. Vinod Khanna was often tipped to dislodge matinee idol Amitabh Bachchan with whom he starred in Amar Akbar Anthony and Muqadar Ka Sikander.

But just when he seemed to skyrocket to heights of success, he announced his retirement and moved to be with his guru Rajneesh (Osho) in the US. Some dubbed Khanna the monk who sold his Ferrari though his first car was a Beetle.

But, once an actor, always an actor, and the

Rishi FURIOUS With Bollywood’s Younger Generation For Not Attending Vinod Khanna’s Funeral

Rishi Kapoor is sad and he is full of anger. His good friend and Bollywood’s most handsome man, Vinod Khanna passed away yesterday, leaving the fraternity extremely saddened.

Rishi Kapoor was at the funeral of the veteran actor and while he was grieving his death, what made him extremely angry was the absence of this generation’s superstars and young actorsto everyone’s surprise most of them were not present at the funeral.

He said, “Shameful. Not ONE actor of this generation attended Vinod Khanna’s funeral.

And that too he has worked with them. Must learn to respect.”

and married Kavita, from whom he has two children, a son and daughter.

In 1997, the actor had metamorphosed into a politician. By his own admission when asked to contest from Gurdaspur, he did not know where it was. A four-time MP, he visited his constituency often enough and those close to him swear by his humility and innate goodness.His countless admirers can take comfort in his words, “Everything around us, whether good or bad, is a manifestation of God.” The man who embraced spirituality

knew very well, “You come alone, you leave alone. You have to travel your own path.” It’s been a fairly glorious one.

Actors Abhishek Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor and brother Randhir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Jackie Shroff, Kabir Bedi, Danny, Gulzar, Subhash Ghai and Ramesh Sippy were among those who attended the funeral. Khanna’s fans thronged the streets outside the Worli crematorium to catch last glimpse of the actor who died of cancer at a hospital in Mumbai on Thursday morning at the age of 70.

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Bollywood Horoscope Aries

Libra

March 21 - April 20

Sept. 24 - Oct 22

You may want to get a little extra rest.

You are prone to infections and fevers. Try to compromise rather than having an all out battle. Money can be made if you use your ingenuity. Get involved in philosophic groups that will enlighten you.

Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

You can enhance your reputation if you treat family and friends with respect and dignity. Opportunities for new and exciting relationships will be yours if you get out and join groups. You may be sensitive to a point of absurdity. Organizations may cost you more than you can afford.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Taurus

Scorpio

April 21 - May 20

Oct 23 - Nov 22

Don’t get talked into get rich quick schemes. You will expand your circle of friends if you join groups. Be prepared to counteract the damage that adversaries are about to create. Don’t push your opinions on others this week or you may find yourself in the doghouse.

Your lucky day this week will be Wednesday.

Things are looking good for you, so open your eyes and get to it. Someone you live with could be frustrated and upset. You might find group functions tiring. Money problems will get worse if your partner hasn’t been playing by the rules.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Gemini

Sagitarius

May 20 - June 21

Nov 23 - Dec 22

Financial limitations are likely if you take risks. Mingle with those who can further your goals. Take time to help children with projects that may be too hard for them to do on their own. You’ll find it easy to charm members of the opposite sex this week.

Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

Cancer

Emotionally you won’t see things accurately. You might not accomplish all that you want to at home this week. You could have a tendency to spend too much on your home or entertainment. Don’t be too confident that coworkers are on your side.

Your lucky day this week will be Friday.

Capricorn

June 22 - July 23

Dec 23 - Jan 20

Luck is with you, regardless of the financial venture. Make changes regarding your friendships. Unexpected events may be upsetting. You will be quite excitable this week.

Your lucky day this week will be Sunday.

Leo

You are best to put in some overtime rather than get involved in family gatherings. You need to look into some private matters before you can proceed with your plans. Try to be understanding.

You will attract potential lovers, but be sure that they’re unattached.

Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

Aquarius

June 24 - August 23

Jan 21 - Feb 19

Family trips or projects should be on your mind. Spend time with friends or family. Reevaluate your position and make decisions about your future goals. Sudden disruptions will cause upset and a change of routine in your home environment.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Virgo

It might be best not to spend your money on luxuries this week. Changes in your residence will be favorable in the long haul.

You have the stamina and determination to succeed. Friends may not be completely honest with you.

Your lucky day this week will be Friday.

Pisces

August 24 - Sept 24

Feb 20 - March 20

You will enjoy interacting with those who come from different backgrounds.

Partnerships will be favorable and contracts can be signed. You are best to do something energetic with friends instead. Don’t forget that your budget is limited right now.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Unpredictable events will disrupt your routine. Double check your work and be sure that your boss is in a good mood before you do your presentation. Plan to get out and do a bit of travel. Travel will initiate new friendships or love connections.

Your lucky day this week will be Friday.

WhatsApp group admins can be jailed over offensive posts in India Think twice before becoming administrator of a group on WhatsApp or Facebook as one is liable for prosecution if any rumour or fake news is circulated on it.

Social media platforms allow a person to create a group on which members can share views, photographs or videos.

Concerns have been raised about social media misuse as fake news, morphed photographs and disturbing videos with fabricated local narratives can easily be circulated that can trigger tension and even communal rift in an area.

In a joint order issued by District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra and Senior Superintendent of Police Nitin Tiwari, it has been made clear that any factually incorrect, rumour or misleading information on a social media group could result in an FIR against the group administrator.

“There are several groups on social media which are named on news groups and also groups with other names which are propagating news and information which is not authentic. These are being forwarded without cross checking,” it said.

Considering this issue, directives are being issued to social media groups, WhatsApp and Facebook group administrators and members, the order said.

It directed that social media group administrators should be ready to bear the responsibility and ownership of the groups.

The administrator must include only those

members who are personally known to him or her.

If any statement is made by a group member which is fake, can cause religious disharmony, or rumour, the group admin must deny it on the group and remove the member from the group, the order said.

“In the event of inaction from the group admin, he or she will be considered guilty and action will be taken against the group admin,” it said.

Such a post must also be reported to the nearest police station so that action can be taken against the member under the law, it said.

The order, issued yesterday, says while freedom of expression on social media is important, it also comes with a responsibility.

Varanasi is the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The administration has directed that no statement or post which can hurt religious sentiments should be forwarded to any other group or person else legal action will be taken.

It also directs that case under cyber crime law, Information Technology Act and IPC will be filed in case of violation of these guidelines.

The order also makes it clear that orders of the Supreme Court and various high courts will be considered while initiating action.

It needs to be seen how Varanasi police which is facing severe staff crunch implements such an order as WhatsApp and social media are not limited to the boundaries of the district.

Not Hrithik Roshan, but Shah Rukh Khan will be in Kabir Khan’s next Kabir Khan managed a casting coup in Tubelight when he got Shah Rukh Khan to do a cameo in the film. We don’t know yet if the actor will share screen space with Salman Khan or not but the fact that he is in the same film as his Khan buddy was enough for us. But not for Kabir it seems. Now the director will helm a short film which will have SRK in the lead. It’s for Dubai tourism.

Kabir will shoot the video in May with SRK. Leading casting director Mukesh Chabra is looking to hire actors for the same and has put up posts on his Facebook page. You all might remember that Shah Rukh Khan, who is the brand ambassador of Dubai Tourism,

shot a video for them where he can be seen shocking tourists with his presence. There were also scenes where he is seen serving the guests of a restaurant stunning them.

Bollywood personalities’ birthdays

Anushka Sharma May 1

Diana Hayden MAY 1

Aruna Irani MAY 3

Vishakha Singh MAY 5

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‘Baahubali 2

The Conclusion

‘Baahubali 2: The Conclusion’ U/A; Fantasy/Action/Drama Director: SS Rajamouli Cast: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj, Ramya Krishnan

majestic in the first part, as in the second), who enters the mythical kingdom of Mahishmati, to realise he has a history with the place, and practically everyone recognises him to be Mahendra, the lookalike son/heir of Amarendra Baahubali, chief claimant to

Over the past two years, the question dominating India’s popular culture has been, quite simply, ‘Kattappa ne Baahubali ko kyun maara,� so much so that I realised from an interview of the film’s phenomenal director SS Rajamouli, the query in itself is referred to in the abbreviation: “WKKB�—Why Kattappa Killed Baahubali (sic).

At least based on my own spot-poll among work-mates, what’s more significant is that people actually do not remember details of ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’ (2015), this film’s prequel. Which is fair. Incidentally it was about a young man Shivudu (Prabhas:

the crown, who was supposedly slain by his own loyal bodyguard Kattappa (Sathyaraj).

Mahishmati is currently ruled

by Bhalladev (Rana Daggubati), a tyrant who’s deviously risen to the top, and who believes in looting public money, to build a massive statue. If you can sense a modern analogy, well, sub-text lies in the eyes of the ticket-holder. This film is about the rise and fall of the father Amarendra Baahubali.

Did you really need to jog your memory though? No. Like a fine-dine restaurant

over a franchise, ‘Baahubali 2’ is, firstly, a stand-alone film. The Conclusion doesn’t preclude the audience that hasn’t caught The Beginning. It is in fact a much, much better movie, and one rarely says this about sequels.

What has drawn you into the theatre already is the action, special effects, and scale of production—all of which was a given, and there is no disappointment on that front at all.

For an Indian movie, you’re equally stunned into absolute disbelief.

But this film also actually ends up telling a more well rounded story, encompassing both

humour—mainly between Baahubali, and Kattappa—and romance, even if an unlikely one, between Baahubali, the designated king pretending to be serf, and Devasena (hardly

a ‘Helen of Troy’, sadly), the princess of a relatively smaller kingdom.

It is an epic all right (scripted by the skillful KV Vijayendra Prasad, who incidentally wrote Baahubali in the same year as Salman Khan’s ‘Bajrani Bhaijaan’). Like all epics— right from pre-historic mythologies (Greek, Indian, Roman)—there is the terrible villain, and an impossibly righteous hero.

The conflict at the centre of this battle for power concerns ‘jar and joru’, or wealth, and woman, weaving in basic human emotions like jealousy, envy, greed, lust, and pride, that connects with everyone, regardless of where you’re from.

And hence a film from Hyderabad that’s rightly captured the imagination of the entire country, with audiences, for once, sitting and looking up in sheer awe, clapping at the right moments, hooting excitedly. Frankly I can’t recall the last time I pre-booked an 8.10 am first row, first day, first show, in a completely packed hall.

Of late, Indian cinema has been more about films that should ideally be watched online, and if it’s a franchise, even better.

On a television series now on platforms like Netflix, you don’t even have to wait weeks or months to catch all the episodes.

What Baahubali does is show the future of Indian big-screen cinema, if it has to survive the onslaught of Hollywood, or move beyond Rajini, Khans, Kapoor, and Kumar, to begin with. The manager in my theatre says he plans to start Saturday shows, 6.30 am onwards. I can’t think of a better way to start your day. The excitement is totally worth it.

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PETA hails mess supervisor after not finding a single chicken piece in hostel chicken gravy PETA is quite encouraged by its recent study which found negligible traces of chicken in hostel chicken gravies across India.

“We do not want to address the students who were happily enjoying such gravies are non-veg eaters as the quantity of chicken in them is less than 10 PPM, which in real terms less than 10 milligrams per liters of gravy,” said PETA India CEO Purvi Joshi while speaking to us.

“During our investigation we found, for this most of the credit must go to the hostel supervisors, to some extent to hostel warden and Bahuballis among hostel students who corner a large portion of chicken pieces beforehand, thereby forcing majority to manage with ‘vegetarian’ gravy. We gave each supervisor who is doing such remarkable job, a memento and proudly displaying their names in our website as lifetime PETA volunteer,” said Ms. Purvi Joshi Ms. Joshi added, “When our engineering students are able to adjust to healthy vegetarian life, why government babus can’t turn so at least during official meetings. That’s why we have requested PM Modi to ban meat from menus at government meetings”.

We spoke to mess supervisor, Ramu, who was hiding behind the staff quarters. When we asked him, how do you feel as a PETA activist, he said, “Sir, I do not know why such studies are being done in the mess I am working.

There were chicken pieces, this PETA madam and her staff came late, by the time, the early birds to mess have finished the meat. If students come to know I am responsible for

turning them vegetarian, will be in hospital bed tomorrow.”

When we asked why are you hiding here, he said, “Forgot there is a beer party in the hostel arranged by outgoing final year college students later tonight. With no chickens now, woh to mujhe dho dalenge, that’s why hiding here.”

In the meantime, Ramu has suggested to warden, to stop this self-service buffet system.

After students show their Aadhaar card, we will mark & give them two pieces of chicken on the dining table.

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Deepika Padukone faints after she sees Ranveer Singh in normal clothes Deepika Padukone fainted in her apartment after she saw her boyfriend Ranveer Singh in normal clothes on Saturday.

She was immediately admitted to the ICU of Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai. Friends and family members of Deepika have gathered at the hospital and her fans have surrounded the hospital. She returned to consciousness after a few hours and the doctors confirmed that she was out of danger.

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Ranveer Singh, the lady gaga of India, is always seen in weird outfits. When Deepika saw him in absolutely normal clothes, she was obviously shocked. She spoke to Faking News after returning home earlier today. She said, “I came back to my apartment from the shoot and there he was standing – Ranveer Singh in formal clothes designed for men. A man who often wears my skirt or saree was wearing a Grey coloured Blazer with a White Shirt and a formal tie. I had never seen him like this in the last 3 years. So I felt a bit dizzy and I don’t remember what happened after that. But now I feel really happy that he wore regular clothes for once at least.” Ranveer later revealed that he was wearing formals on that day because he had planned to stay inside the apartment for the entire day. “Why wear a fancy dress when you are staying inside the house for the whole day”, Ranveer informed one of our reporters. “Formals are comfortable clothes, I like to wear them at home”, he added.

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KabirSaturday, Khan will launch production Aprilhis29, 2017 house, Kabir Khan Films, with a FLOATING project starring Amitabh Bachchan. It is said to be a political drama, which A BANNER Khan penned a while ago and felt only Big B could do justice to the role

What about the others?

Dippy’s 4 am friend Deepika Padukone and producer-turneddirector Dinesh Vijan share a close rapport.

The filmmaker considers Dippy his lucky charm while she refers to him as her 4 am friend. The duo collaborated on Cocktail (2012) and Love Aaj Kal (2009). So, when Dinesh turned director with Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon-starrer Raabta, Dippy had to be part of it. Dinesh requested her for a cameo, but she went on to do an item number. Like they say, that’s what friends are for.

The musicians versus Sonakshi Sinha battle refuses to die down.

After Kailash Kher, Armaan Malik and Sona Mohapatra expressed displeasure about Sona being the opening act of Justin Bieber’s May 10 Mumbai concert. Yesterday, Sona blocked Mohapatra. The Ambarsariya singer took a screenshot of it and uploaded it on Twitter and again took a dig at the actress. Mohapatra wrote, “Hahahaha! Not that I’d ever followed this bundle of talent,

Bravo, Bharti

grace and intelligence (sic).”

Armaan, on his part, wants actors to stick to acting and leave singing to the singers. But his mentor Salman Khan also sings in his films. Will Armaan ask Sallu to refrain from crooning? Priyanka Chopra, Parineeti Chopra, Alia Bhatt and Shraddha Kapoor sing too, but strangely they have been spared of Armaan’s missives against actors-turned-singers. We want to know what Sallu has to say about Armaan’s statement.

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Top story Bruna Abdullah posted a snap on Instagram wearing nothing, but stockings.

Yesterday, the image went viral putting the Grand Masti (2013) actress back in the spotlight. Seeking inspiration from American singer, Meredith Brooks’ lyrics, she wrote, “I’m a bitch, I’m a lover, I’m a child, I’m a mother, I’m a sinner, I’m a saint, I do not feel ashamed.” Bruna sure knows how to be the centre of attention.

Sasha’s adorable munchkin

Yesterday, Aayush Sharma was spotted visiting Karan Johar’s office in Andheri. There has been speculation about Salman Khan launching sister Arpita’s hubby in a home production.

Is there a change in plan? Time will tell. PIC/YOGEN SHAH

Yesterday, Shahid Kapoor posted this snap with daughter Misha soaking up the sun while in the pool. He wrote, “Pool time with missy.” See how she’s looking straight into the camera? An actor’s daughter, after all!

Rosogollas, anyone?

Sunny Leone takes off for Kolkata this weekend for a stage show. She can’t wait to tuck into platefuls of Bengal’s most famous sweetmeat — rosogolla.

Sunny has fond memories of her mother, a Punjabi, making the syrupy dessert at home. The wait for the warm rosogollas to cool down often proved to be a torture for Sunny, who couldn’t do with just one piece.

Who can?

Arjun Kapoor was blown away by Bharti Singh’s performance on Nach Baliye. The actor, who was on the dance reality show to promote his next film, Half Girlfriend, was so impressed by Bharti’s moves that he gave her a standing ovation. He then matched steps with Bharti and to everyone’s astonishment, even lifted her for a step. We totally understand the mutual admiration over weighty matters.

Reason to cheer Divya Dutta took to Twitter yesterday and wrote, “Dearies, new film, new journey, and a new role. Wish me luck today.

Am excited about this one (sic).” Turns out she has started shooting for Abhinay Deo’s dark comedy, Raita. Divya seems to be in a happy zone and claims to have signed eight films, working with talented actors like Irrfan in Raita and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Babumoshai Bandookbaaz.

Let the good times roll.

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Mahesh Bhatt: Amar will remain forever My earliest memory of Vinod is from the sets of Raj Khosla’s Mera Gaon Mera Desh (1971), where I was the third assistant, and he was making his debut as a villain - Jabbar Singh, not Gabbar Singh! At the very first shot of the film where Vinod dismounts a horse, kicks open a door, and draws his gun out, Raj Khosla said the prophetic words, “This guy will set this nation ablaze.”

As an assistant who was entrusted to attend to actor’s needs, we became very close right from the beginning - even while he was a rising star, and I was a struggling nobody.

When the opportunity came for me to direct a film, it was a foregone conclusion in my head that he would agree to star in it, although the movie, ironically titled Mukti, got shelved, for financial reasons.

The loss of Vinod’s mother, who he was extremely close to, had jolted him to seek answers to existential questions of life - who are we, where are we coming from, and where are we going. I introduced him to ‘Bhagwan Rajneesh’, so he could find solace in the Godman’s tips. I was already a sanyasi by then. Every weekend, Vinod and I would drive down to Osho’s ashram (in Pune) in his white Mercedes, meditate for hours, listen to the Godman’s discourse, read books on Sufism, Nanak, the Gita… Those were intoxicating days.

As an actor, Vinod immediately fit the demands of the times. He was extremely good-looking by the standards of the film

industry. Women would swoon over his physique, charm, and charisma. Men would look up to him for the obvious machismo.

He remained the only contender who could take on the might of Amitabh Bachchan, or perhaps even dethrone him in the ‘70s. This was the prevailing narrative. And this is why, if you notice, whenever Vinod did a film with Big B - Hera Pheri (1976), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Khoon Pasina (1977), Parvarish (1977), Muqaddar Ka Sikander (1978) - audiences instantly lapped it up.

They were a delight to watch together.

But much beyond his ambition or determination to succeed as an actor, Vinod had an adventurous spirit. What kind of person would gamble his stardom to seek enlightenment? He packed off at the peak of his career to become a gardener in Osho’s ashram in Oregon. It was considered a suicidal move by the industry. By the time he returned in the ‘90s, India and its movies had altogether changed. I did Jurm (1990) upon his return from the ‘circus’.

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The existential crisis both have created. In this new hyper-connected world, Khan said, it can be hard to know what is real, and how to be honest about oneself.

“Humanity, like me, was becoming an overexposed prima donna,” Khan said with charming self-deprecation — a tone that permeated much of his talk.

Khan addressed the TED 2017 theme of “the future you” head on, saying the most important thing humanity can do for its future is to use its capacity for love to the fullest.

“I truly believe the future you has to be a you that loves,” Khan said. “Otherwise, it will cease to flourish. It will perish in its own selfabsorbtion.”

Khan told he was nervous to be giving the talk in the presence of such luminaries as Elon Musk and Serena Williams, feeling somewhat out of place.

“I’m just an actor,” he said. “I’m nobody

more important than that.”

But it’s no coincidence Khan is speaking at the main TED 2017 event in Vancouver. Khan is set to host a new TV program, “TED Talks India: Nayi soch,” that will bring the TED format to Indian airwaves for the first time.

“Nayi soch,” Khan says, translates roughly as “new way to think.” He hopes the series will encourage Indians across the country to share their innovative ideas.

“There’s so many people in the interior of India, in smaller towns and villages who are ... innovating, experimenting and inventing stuff that doesn’t come to the fore,” Khan said. “[But] when you watch a great soccer player, you want to be a soccer player,” Khan continued. “You watch some singer and you say, I wish I could sing like this person. So I think when you hear of all the things that are presented and brought forth in a TED program, I think there will be more thinkers, more innovators, and I think our country needs it.”

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Saturday, April 29, 2017 South Asian Seniors - Isha Kriya Inner Engineering (Body, Mind & Emotions)

By Ganesh Narayan Swamy on 30th April 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, non members and everybody is welcome to attend the presentation on Isha Kriya Inner Engineering Program addressing stress free healthy living through an inter active session by Ganesh Narayan Swamy a teacher from Tennessee Isha Kriya Foundation USA on 30th April 2017 ( Sunday ) from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm at Shanti Niketan hall of Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple 8321 - 140th street Surrey BC. The fundamental life energy with in us will be explained and your questions about Isha Kriya Inner Engineering, will be answered by Ganesh Narayan Swamy. Tea and light snacks will be served after the presentation. The Project is 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 information.

-----------------------------------------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 604-299-5922 -----------------------------------------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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Million tickets sold already!

First day, first show of Bahubali in certain theatres in city costs R1500 a stub that it had already sold over a million tickets in just over 24 hours for the war drama, a 45 per cent hike from THE anticipation for Bahubali: The Dangal’s first day sales. What’s more, Conclusion has reached a crescendo. the bookings haven’t opened across And if one had to put it to sheer all cinemas, especially in the South.

Ashish Saksena, numbers, it would COO-Cinemas, Booktranslate to one milMyShow, said, lion tickets a day.

“Though Bahubali 2 is The film has regisperceived to be loved tered the highest adby the South Indian vance ticket sales just audience, the retwo days ahead of response from Hindilease, shattering the speaking markets has record of Aamir been highly encouragKhan-starrer Dangal. ing. Once all South Popular online ticket cinemas fix their schebooking platform, dules, e-ticket sales BookMyShow, yeswill soar further.” terday announced

Given the Bahubali craze with fans impatient to find out why Kattappa killed Bahubali, ticket prices are at an all time high. For Dangal, an Xmas release, it was R800. But for a nonholiday IPL season release, the cost of first day first show is in the range of R1200-1500 at bigger multiplexes like Inox and PVR. Bahubali 2 is releasing across 6,500 screens in India.

Kamal Gianchandani, CEO PVR Pictures, refused to comment. Exhibitor-distributor Akshaye Rathi says, “The overhead cost for any multiplex is high and in the past few months, not many films have done great business. A hike of 10-15 per cent is justified because in case of grand films like Bahubali, people are willing to overpay.”

‘Still waiting to see if there’ll be season 3’

Priyanka hopes for turnaround as Quantico makers consider pulling the plug on show

ALTHOUGH she won the Miss World beauty pageant almost two decades ago, Priyanka Chopra tasted international fame in the true sense with her stint as FBI agent Alex Parrish on American crime drama Quantico. After season 1 ended on a high, the makers got a go-ahead to take the show forward. But all good things must come to an end — or so it seems.

Season 2 has reportedly failed to keep the audience engaged and with dipping TRPs, getting the show back

on TV might prove to be a challenge. In fact, Quantico writer Joshua Saffron recently admitted they are unsure of a third season.

Priyanka also admits, “After every season, the channel [ABC] goes back to the drawing board and take a consensus to see which shows should return for another season and which stand cancelled, apart from a review of their budgets. Right now, we are in that phase. After season 1, we didn’t know if season 2 would happen until May last year. So now, we are still waiting to see if there will be a season 3.”

Prabhas in Bahubali 2; (left) a screen grab of a Friday 8 am ticket cost at PVR Icon, Versova

Paris to visit Mumbai Michael Jackson’s daughter, headed to India in June, will collaborate on a Bollywood musical EARLIER this month, gossip mills had hinted at an international collaboration between Fukrey co-stars Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal, and pop icon Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, after pictures of their LA meeting went viral. Now, well placed sources inform us that the trio will get together for a musical a la Bollywood.

Says a source, “Paris is planning to come to India this June to take the discussion forward.

They want to make a Bollywood style musical.”

Sharing details of their meeting, Richa says, “Ali had a meeting scheduled with Paris and he asked me to accompany him. It was a casual meeting where we discussed films and her father. She has musical inclination, and I guess she wants to make a musical. We spoke about that apart from charity work in India. Let’s see.”

Ask her if she would like to feature in it, and she says, “Who wouldn’t? These days everyone is becoming a singer, so I don’t think there is anything wrong in it.”

Richa will host Paris during her upcoming India visit. “I am sure she will have a good time here. She is humble and has a charming personality, so she would be able to mingle with us.”

‘I guess she [Paris] wants to make a musical. We spoke about that apart from charity work in India’ Richa Chadha

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Even a huge shift 4 i Saturday, July 25, 2015down in the Greater Horseshoe (GGH) purchased ” with dedicated provincial employees new plans.

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Will it work? tax that will go into effect this year, it is still In most cases an agent acting on both sides “This is kind of uncharted territory for Vanthe capital markets team at Avison Young. couver,” said Mehdi Shokri, a principal with “It’s a step in the right direction, ” said unclear how such a levy will function in of the deal is legally working for the seller. couver, ” said Mehdi Shokri, a principal with “But I don’t see a big disaster occurring. ” the capital markets team at Avison Young.

Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist of Young. practice.

Some agents maintain this isn’t an issue when The Credit Suisse tower is only the most the capital markets team at Avison “But I don’t see a big disaster occurring.”

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“There are very few examples of such there is just one buyer — it comes down to visible furthest of estimate aasecond “But I along don’t see big disaster ” Theand Credit Suisse tower is only thewave most share foreign buyers in Suisse the GTA is notably taxes, ” said Beata Caranci, chief economist agreeing on a price. In a multiple offer auction, of newofoffice towers planned fortower VancouThe Credit is only the most visiblethan andinfurthest along of a second wave with Toronto-Dominion Bank, noting that lower Vancouver. ” the situation becomes more complex because ver and somevisible key suburbs.

A first cluster and planned furthest along of a second wave of new office towers for VancouThe problem is that if Vancouver is any Vancouver and Camden in the U.K. are the consumers are caught in bidding wars. of towers – some twooffice million square feet –for Vancouof new towers planned ver built and there some keybe suburbs.

A first cluster only two jurisdictions to implement them. example will athe short period during 14. Partnering with the Canada Revenue was downtown in past three years. ver andtwo some key suburbs.feet A first cluster ofAnother towers – 11 some million which domestic buyers sit onsquare the sidelines “Camden’s experience with an additional Agency to explore more comprehensive office will developments are – of towers in – somepast twothree million square feet – was built downtown years. before jumping right backthe six 50 per cent property tax in 2013 has led to reporting requirements so that correct federal proposed within blocks of months Credit later.

Suwas built downtown in the past three years.

Another 11 tower “If you are a office foreign buyer no approximately one-third of vacant properties and provincial taxes, including income and isse’s Exchange at developments Howe andwith Westare Another 11 office developments are connection to the region, haveSu-a being brought to the rental market,” she said. sales taxes, are paid on purchases and sales Pender streets, even whileyou the office-vaproposed within blocks of must Credit proposed within blocks of Credit“However, Sucancy the tower regionto to money inch pretty big in motivation move the tracking of vacant properties Building industry officials noted there was of real estate in Ontario isse’s rate Exchange atcontinues Howethat and West isse’s Exchange tower at Howe andcan West up as” aheresult of the firstwhile wave of building. here, said. be difficult and often subjective.” nothing in the announcement Thursday about Through the changes to the collection of Pender streets, even the office-vaPender streets, even while the office-vaBut commercial brokers saytotheallcity is 2. Expanding control private 6. Ensuring that property tax for new the Ontario Municipal Board, the provincial the land transfer tax, which go into effect cancy rate in therent region continues to inch cancy rate inincluding the region continues inch not to in beOntario, populated by ghost towers. rental that tomulti-residential apartment buildings is body that reviews planning issues. They say April 24, Ontario will require buyers to up about as units a result of the first wave ofthose building. up as a result of the first wave of building. were built after 1991 charged at a similar rate as other residential they are more concerned about changes to declare whether a unit is being used as But commercial brokers saybrokers the city is Buthad commercial say the city is The province been lobbied heavily properties the OMB and maintain delays in appeals are principal residence and therefore eligible for not about tonot be about populated ghost towers. to be by populated by was ghost towers. by the development community, which The province says the move, which applies costing time and money. a tax exemption. Ontario is also demanding hoping for a change that would have given across Ontario, will encourage developers to 10. Understanding and tackling practices to know if you are leasing and the CRA could those post-1991 buildings an annual increase build more new purpose-built rental housing, that may be contributing to tax avoidance be armed with information about your rental of 1.5 per cent plus the rate of inflation. but not all agree. and excessive speculation in the housing income.

Builders on Thursday were already “It’s just nowhere near enough money. market 15. Making elevators in Ontario buildings threatening to cancel projects because of the It’s an incredibly risky thing to build a $100 Assignment clauses were specifically more reliable by establishing timelines for limit on rental hikes and Tal says, from his million or $200 million property, deliver it mentioned by finance Charles Sousa in a elevator repair in consultation with the sector conversations with developers that they need vacant (as opposed to pre-selling units like in press conference. Generally, buyers are “paper It’s a constant complaint of some tenants an average of 3 per cent to 3.5 per cent rent a condominium) and then try to make money flipping” those properties before a deal even in downtown condominiums that they are inflation to make projects work. through all the future economic possibilities,” closes. always waiting for elevators.

“While it will be favourable for renters said Brad Lamb, a Toronto developer.

The province seems to want to make sure Upgrading the number of elevators after that get rent-controlled properties, such 7. Introducing a targeted $125-million, it is getting properly compensated under the the fact would prove to be very difficult if not action incents builders to shift away from five-year program to further encourage land transfer tax when such arrangements impossible, but hard rules on repair time lines constructing new rental projects,” said the construction of new rental apartment take place and will share the information with would at least provide some relief.

Craig Alexander, chief economist with the buildings by rebating a portion of the Canada Revenue Agency.

16. The province will work with Conference Board of Canada. development charges 11. Reviewing the rules for real estate municipalities to better reflect the needs of the 3. Developing a standard lease for all Jim Murphy, president of Federation of agents to ensure consumers are fairly growing Greater Golden Horseshoe through tenants across the province Rental Housing Providers of Ontario, said represented in real estate transactions an updated Growth Plan. New provisions The standard lease for all tenants is being that money is not even going to come close The province wants to get tough on reports will include requiring that municipalities pitched as protecting tenants and providing to dealing with the shortfall created by rent of phantom bids, whereby fake offers are used consider the appropriate range of unit sizes predictability for landlords. control. as a wedge to make people bid more. It also in higher density residential buildings to A key provision is tightening provisions “We did a survey of 15 builders, a small looking at double ending, whereby the same accommodate a diverse range of household for own-use evictions, and ensuring that sample, and it equated to $2.7 billion of agent can be representing the buyer and the sizes and incomes tenants are adequately compensated. In the planned new construction for rental, that’s a seller.

This could ultimately mean more density condominium market, individual investors small sample. That money is now at risk, so Phil Soper, chief executive of Royal LePage coming to a suburb near you and potentially have long used the tactic of moving into their $125 million is a very small amount.”

Real Estate Services Ltd., said doubling stall development in projects where the own unit to evict tenants. The tenant leaves, 8. Allowing municipalities greater taxing ending is legal in most provinces with some economics simply don’t work for the building the landlord temporarily moves in and then tools, including a vacant land tax restrictions in British Columbia, but his own industry. rents the unit again — this time at a higher With house prices rising quickly, there have firm has instituted rules against it.

“Higher provincial intensity targets for price. been complaints about developers holding “We require in multiple offer situations municipalities?” asks Mattamy’s Johnston.

4. The province will look at at its own onto land and even hoarding it as they wait that if an agent has their own buyer client “The municipalities favour low-rise over surplus land to see what can be used for for prices to raise. (in addition to representing the seller), that a high-rise. Generally, they don’t like high rises development purposes “It’s a step in the right direction,” said Tal. manager be involved to represent that client in their bedroom communities.”

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‘While the overall assessment for Canada has not changed from the previous quarter, the level of overvaluation has been downgraded to moderate,” CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan said. “Eastern markets show weak evidence of overvaluation while this factor is stronger in western centres and markets in southern Ontario where economic fundamentals have not kept pace with recent price growth.”

The CMHC examines four aspects of Canada’s various housing markets in coming up with its assessment, considering the level of overbuilding, overheating, overvaluation and price acceleration. It then grades each market on a colour coded green, yellow and red score based on if it sees the risk for that factor as being weak, moderate, or strong.

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While there’s a lot of green in most categories, the “overvaluation” factor shows a lot of yellow and red, which explains the red alert overall.

Despite the overall score of red, the agency says conditions have improved in a lot of local markets in a lot of ways. “Conditions have improved in Regina, Montréal and Québec relative to home prices,” the CMHC

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Overbuilding and overvaluation are now only detected in six markets across the county. In January, there were eight.

“In Moncton and St John’s,” the CMHC said, “the supply of homes is adjusting to the demand.”

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Today at D-Wave Systems, Premier Christy Clark outlined her plan to continue creating new connections and opportunities for BC companies in the world’s fastest-growing economies.

The future of our tech sector, just like our other industries, depends on our ability to compete around the world, said Premier Clark. We have a proven track record of success helping open the door for BC companies and ideas in new markets; and we’ve proven the world wants what BC has to offer.

Under Today’s BC Liberals, British Columbia has significantly increased exports to Asia. Since September 2011, there have been seven major Premier-led trade missions to Asia, and many other ministerled delegations. Increasing trade leads to growth here at home, and new jobs for British Columbians in industries from mining, to clean energy, to tech.

As the first quantum computing company, Burnaby-based D-Wave computers have been used by Lockheed Martin, Google, NASA and the University of Southern California.

D-Wave has worked closely with the provincial government overseas, co-hosting a summit on quantum computing in Tokyo during Premier Clark’s most recent trade mission to Asia in 2016. Since then, D-Wave has engaged with its first Japanese

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Today’s BC Liberals have a proven record on creating opportunity in Asia: • Exports have increased 10 per cent since 2011; • B.C. has the most diversified export market in Canada; • Increased market diversity, with

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• Protect B.C. jobs by strongly supporting NAFTA as the federal government renegotiates with the United States; • Support the federal government in pursuit of other international trade agreements that benefit B.C. workers and exporters; • Bring another 75 national and international companies to BC by 2020.

• Expand the Export Navigator Program to help small and mediumsized business enterprises enter new markets; • Establish a permanent office in Washington D.C. to promote and protect B.C. trade interests.

Compare that record with the BC NDP and BC Greens foes of free trade. The NDP opposed free trade with the United States, and opposed the Trans Pacific Partnership in sync with Donald Trump.

Under the NDP, B.C. experienced the weakest export growth of any province from 1992-1999. If given the chance, the BC NDP and BC Greens will hike taxes, kill thousands of good jobs, and push families to the brink.

Today’s BC Liberals’ full 2017 election platform is available at bcliberals.com/platform.

The provincial election will be held on May 9th, with advance polls open on April 29 and 30, and May 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Home Capital Group says another $290M pulled out of savings accounts Home Capital Group Inc. reported Friday that money continues to flow out of the company, with roughly $290 million pulled out of high-interest savings accounts on Thursday alone. The drawdown comes after another $472 million was withdrawn from the company’s savings accounts on the day before. The alternative mortgage lender said it expects to have $521 million left in its savings accounts as of the start of the business day on Friday. That’s down from about $1.4 billion as recently as Monday.

Savers are pulling money out of the company because of concerns about how long a financial lifeline that Home Capital secured this week will last. The company makes money by loaning out funds in its savings accounts to people who want mortgages or other debt. By law, the company has to have a certain amount of money on hand to offset the value of its mortgage book.

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After news of the HOOPP lifeline emerged on Thursday, the CEO of the pension fund announced he would step down from his job on Home Capital’s board of directors, citing the potential conflict of interest.

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Sutton Group - West Coast Realty PH:604-572-3005 FAX: 778-574-4174 #106 7565 132 St., Surrey. BC. PH:604-572-3005 FAX: 778-574-4174

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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.

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

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

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

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

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