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BC’s new NDP government sworn into office After a historic provincial election that took nearly two months to resolve, the B.C. NDP has officially taken power.

John Horgan has been sworn in as British Columbia’s 36th premier, along with his cabinet.

Horgan, 57, replaces Christy Clark as premier and ends 16 years of Liberal rule in B.C. ​Hundreds of family members and friends of the new NDP cabinet celebrated the change of power at Government House in Victoria this afternoon, as Horgan was sworn in alongside his new cabinet.

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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Vancouver big winner; Surrey and South Asians losers in Horgan’s cabinet Vancouver gained big time in the first NDP cabinet to be sworn in about 20 years and South Asians and Surrey appear to have lost big time.

There are only two South Asians in Premier John Horgan’s cabinet, Harry Bains, Minister for Labor, and Jinny Sims, Minister for Citizenship Services. Jagrup Brar, who is the one of the most experienced elected legislators among the

current crop of NDP MLAs, was inexplicably left out of any posting. Rookie surrey-Guildford MLA, Gerry Begg, was appointed the party whip.

Newcomer Ravi Kahlon (Delta North) was made a parliamentary secretary but is not a Minister and not in cabinet. Raj Chohan has been ignored as well as he is unlikely to be promoted to Speaker’s position but will remain deputy Speaker.

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Islamic group’s charity status revoked over possible funding of Kashmiri terrorists

Two Canadian women among ISIL fighters captured in Mosul

armed militancy. ISNA Islamic Services of Canada was stripped of its charitable status for “non-compliance,” according to records obtained by Global News.

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If two female ISIL fighters from Canada have been captured in the rubble of Mosul, as unconfirmed reports suggest, they would be part of a bizarre Canadian export to the terrorist organization.

As many as 20 women from here have joined the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and most have given birth since arriving in Iraq or Syria, says one of Canada’s leading experts on radicalization.

Media reports suggest that Iraqi forces cleaning up the remnants of ISIL defences captured 20 or more female fighters — including women from Germany, Russia, Turkey and Canada — in a secret tunnel under the city.

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More questions than answers in ‘suspicious’ death of Marrisa Shen Two days after 13-year-old Marrisa Shen’s body was found in Burnaby’s Central Park, police continue to appeal for

information while revealing little about the circumstances of her death.

“Her death is still deemed suspicious and we’re waiting for an autopsy to learn whether or not she is truly a victim of homicide,” said Cpl. Meghan Foster of the Integrated Homicide Investigations Team on Thursday morning. “Currently, we do not have any suspects.”

According to Foster, investigators have narrowed down the timeline around Shen’s activities leading up to the discovery of her body. She was last seen leaving her home in the Central Park area at 6 p.m. PT,

Tuesday evening.

“That’s the last time we know she was alive,” said Foster.

Shen’s body was found in brush in the southeast corner of Central Park seven hours later, around 1:10 a.m. Wednesday.

The investigation is trying to determine if she died in a different location before her body was moved to the park.

“We’re gathering the evidence to put that theory together and we’re relying on people who have information, or who may have seen Ms Shen, to contact us so we can fill in those blanks,” said Foster.

“We’ve received multiple tips and those will be reviewed and followed up on accordingly.”

Shen is known to have used her phone at 5 p.m. on July 18 but Foster declined to give any details of who she spoke with.

“The facts of who she spoke with right now are not something the public needs to be aware of,” said Foster. “ Police are asking the public to remain vigilant and continue to canvass the neighbourhood.

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Vancouver big winner; Surrey and South Asians losers Continued from Page 1...

Compare this to the NDP cabinet of former NDP Premier Glen Clark, who, in 1996, had three South Asians in key and powerful ministries. The Surrey-Delta area gave NDP seven seats this time, sweeping all seats west of Cloverdale and north of White Rock, out of which four were seats wrested from the BC Liberals. Horgan rewarded Surrey Delta area with three cabinet posts (Bains, Sims and Bruce Ralston as Minister for Jobs, Trade and Technology) and one parliamentary secretary (North Delta’s Kahlon).

Compare this to Vancouver where NDP candidates garnered eight of 11 seats, out of which seven NDPers were re-elected and only one was newly elected (George Chow, who defeated Liberal Minister Suzanne Anton). Horgan rewarded Vancouver with the largest representation in the cabinet, including some of the most important portfolios in government. Every single NDP MLA from Vancouver got an appointment. The Vancouver list of Ministers include David Eby (attorney general, and also minister responsible for liquor, gambling and the Insurance Corp. of B.C.), Adrian Dix (health), Shane Simpson (social development and poverty reduction), George Heyman (environment and climate change strategy), Melanie Mark (advanced education) and George Chow (minister of state for trade). Out of the remaining two NDP MLAs from Vancouver, Mable Elmore, the only member of the Filipino community in the Legislature, was made a parliamentary secretary and Spencer Chandra Herbert will be nominated to the important post of Speaker (according to sources ) with Burnaby’s Raj Chauhan asked to play second fiddle as his deputy (and believe me, Chauhan will not get a chance to sit in the Speaker’s chair as no MLA can afford to miss a Legislative sitting with the Speaker’s vote needed each time to break a tie). Vancouver has another important person in

the NDP government - former Vancouver city councillor Geoff Meggs as Premier Horgan’s chief of staff. Count him as as more influential than most cabinet ministers.

Vancouver gave NDP eight seats but only one was taken from the Liberals in the last election whereas SurreyDelta gave NDP seven seats, out of which four were seats that belonged to Liberals and were counted as traditional Liberal constituencies. Yet Vancouver gets six important cabinet positions, one important Speaker’s position and one parliamentary secretary. Surrey gets three cabinet positions, out of which only one can really be considered a big Ministry, and one parliamentary secretary. How is that fair, Mr Horgan? And despite all the campaign talk of how important South Asians are to NDP, only two South Asians in cabinet? How is that a reward for the huge South Asian vote during the election. Is the NDP taking a page out of the BC Liberal playbook by ignoring Surrey and the South Asian community? Leaving out Jagrup Brar was a mistake - and hopefully Premier Horgan will rectify this mistake as soon as possible.

Wouldn’t Jinny Sims, a former teacher and former teachers union president, have done better in the important education portfolio? Wouldn’t Harry Bains, who for years was the transportation critic and knows transportation issues like the back of his hand, have done better in the important post of transportation minister? Some of Horgan’s choices may seem surprising but remember, this is politics and internal NDP politics was at play when each MLA was picked for a Ministry. The true picture of the reasoning behind cabinet selection will only be known when Horgan’s cabinet selection advisors are unmasked.

In the meantime, Surrey residents in general, and, South Asians in particular, have reason to feel as if they are being ignored by the Premier - again.

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BC’s new NDP government sworn into office Continued from Page 1...

“Our government will offer families relief from high costs and fees, strengthen services like health care and education, and create good jobs and economic opportunity across B.C.,” said Horgan in a statement.

“We promised a new kind of government: a government that is caring, a government that listens, and a government that shares information in the interest of all British Columbians.” The official transition of power takes place after months of political uncertainty in B.C. Horgan was asked to govern by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon after the B.C. Liberals were defeated in a confidence vote. The gender-balanced cabinet includes a minister of mental health and addictions, fulfilling a key campaign commitment. The minister is Judy Darcy, former health critic and president of the Hospital Employees’ Union. In his speech after being sworn in, Horgan addressed the tens of thousands of people evacuated from B.C.’s Interior as wildfires rage throughout the region.

Horgan also spoke about planning to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the opioid crisis, reaching a softwood lumber deal, improving the province’s education system and improving equality in B.C. “I will work as hard as I’ve ever worked before to make sure I live up to our commitments made during the election campaign, to ensure … that this great economy works not just for the few, but for everyone. We don’t want to leave anyone behind,” he said.

“We have the team, we have the plan, we are committed to getting it done. You can count on that,” said Horgan, at the end of his remarks.

The full NDP cabinet John Horgan, premier.

Carole James, Finance and deputy premier.

Adrian Dix, Health.

Rob Fleming, Education.

David Eby, Attorney General.

Mike Farnworth, Public Safety and Solicitor General.

Harry Bains, Labour.

George Heyman, Environment.

Claire Trevena, Transportation and Infrastructure.

Lana Popham, Agriculture.

Katrine Conroy, Children & Family Development.

Judy Darcy, Mental Health and Addictions.

Melanie Mark, Advanced Education and Skills Training.

Selina Robinson, Municipal Affairs and Housing.

Michelle Mungall, Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources.

Doug Donaldson, Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.

Katrina Chen, minister of state for childcare.

Jinny Sims, Citizens’ Services.

Scott Fraser, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.

Bruce Ralston, Jobs, Trade and Technology.

George Chow, minister of state for trade.

Shane Simpson, Social Development and Poverty Reduction.

Lisa Beare, Tourism, Arts and Culture.

Six people were also named parliamentary secretaries: Jennifer Rice, Emergency Preparedness.

Mable Elmore, Poverty Reduction.

Anne Kang, Seniors.

Ravi Kahlon, Sport and Multiculturalism.

Rick Glumac, Technology.

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Central Association of Punjabi Writers of North America honored Professor Amarjit Parag (sitting middle next to Kal Rangi)of Punjab who is visiting Metro Vancouver.

Islamic group’s charity status revoked over possible funding of Kashmiri terrorists Continued from Page 1...

Authorities also revoked a related charity, the Canadian Islamic Trust Foundation.

Both are former affiliates of the Islamic Society of North America-Canada (ISNACanada), and shared its Mississauga, Ont. address. Politicians of all stripes have attended ISNA-Canada events, notably Justin Trudeau in 2013 and, in April, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

An image from a Facebook post regarding Justin Trudeau’s 2013 visit to ISNA-Canada, when he was Liberal leader.

An image from a Facebook post by ISNACanada on Justin Trudeau’s 2013 visit to the organization, when he was Liberal leader.

Among the findings that led to the latest two revocations was that ISNA Islamic Services tax receipts had been issued for collections by a Toronto mosque for the “charitable arm” of a Pakistani group whose armed wing was fighting Indian forces.

The money, raised by the Toronto-based Jami Mosque, was passed to the ISNA

Development Foundation “for remit” to the Relief Organization of Kashmiri Muslims (ROKM), the CRA Charities Directorate alleged in the newly-released records.

“Our research indicates that ROKM is the charitable arm of Jamaat-e-Islami, a political organization that actively contests the legitimacy of India’s governance over the state of Jammu and Kashmir, including reportedly through the activities of its armed wing Hizbul Mujahideen,” the CRA wrote.

Outlining the audit findings in a letter to ISNA Islamic Services, federal officials said Hizbul Mujahideen had been listed as a terrorist organization by the Council of the European Union and the government of India. “Given the identified commonalities in directorship between ROKM and Jamaate-Islami and the Hizbul Mujahideen executive committee, concerns exist that the funds collected and disbursed as part of this relief fund may have been used to support the political efforts of Jamaat-e-Islami and or its armed wing Hizbul Mujahideen.”

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Global Affairs Canada said Tuesday it was looking into the story but had not confirmed that any of this country’s citizens had been detained.

Amarnath Amarasingam, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, said his interviews with fighters and their families in Canada indicate that at least 15 to 20 women have joined ISIL in Iraq and Syria, and most now have children.

“With the fall of Mosul and as the fight in Raqqa (the de-facto ISIL capital in Syria) intensifies, we are definitely going to see some foreign fighters or women try to surrender,” he said in an email interview. “So, (the report) is not entirely surprising.”

Among those reportedly captured was a 16-year-old German girl, Linda Wenzel, who left her hometown of Pulsnitz, near Dresden, a year ago after a rapid conversion to Islam, London’s Daily Telegraph reports.

The soldiers initially thought she was an ethnic Yazidi girl who had been captured by ISIL because of her lack of Arabic, reports said. Iraqi troops said they found guns and suicide-bomb vests in the tunnels where the women were caught.

Jocelyn Sweet, a Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman, said only that the government is aware of the reports and looking into them.

“We are in contact with local authorities, and gathering additional information,” she said.

Amarasingam said there have already been cases of female ISIL members deciding to surrender rather than try to survive on their own after their husbands were killed.

“There are some Canadian women who travelled to Syria and Iraq together, so it might be that they tried to leave together as well,” he said.

That so many women from Western countries have joined Islamic State is as surprising as it appears, something that never happened with other Islamist movements, said Phil Gurski, a former Canadian Security Intelligence Service analyst and author of the book “Western Foreign Fighters.” The reason may lie with ISIL’s sophisticated use of online media, making its propaganda — and its male members’ boastful profiles — accessible on laptops, smart phones and tablets worldwide.

The women’s motives include ideological and religious fervor, but other factors, too, he said.

“Some of it is for the glory of caliphate, some of it ‘Because I was bored,’ some of it ‘Because these guys were kind of hunky,’ ” said Gurski.

“But … the one thing we have learned: we never saw females going to Somalia, we never saw females going to Afghanistan, we never saw females going to Bosnia in the ’90s. This is a real new phenomenon.”

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When the B.C. Liberals let our housing market get out of control it didn’t just hurt families, it hurt businesses. I’ve heard from countless business owners who told me that the lack of affordable housing was making it difficult to attract skilled workers to our cities.

Business owners also told me about the need to get people and goods moving with real investments in transit and transportation. Right now traffic congestion costs our economy a billion dollars a year in lost productivity and environmental costs.

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The B.C. Liberals didn’t just fail to make life affordable for families and to deliver the services people need, they also failed to build a strong, sustainable economy that works for everybody.

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The B.C. Liberals had two years to take action on Softwood Lumber before the deal expired and became a crisis for B.C. communities. They stood by and did nothing.

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Dave S. Hayer was honoured with his 3rd Paul Harris Fellow Award at the 2017 Rotary Club of Surrey’s officers and directors installation dinner held at the Guildford Golf Club. The Rotary International’s Paul Harris Fellow Award is given in “recognition of exceptional service to the community and to the world” and in recognition of one’s outstanding contributions, exemplifying the highest ideal in Rotary and in placing “Service above self ”. Hayer said “he was honoured to receive the Paul Harris Fellow Award and he would like to thank all Rotary members, directors, officers and Rotary International for the hard work they do locally, nationally and internationally.”

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Hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces members will support the police response to devastating wildfires in British Columbia, bringing some relief to scores of exhausted officers on the ground.

About 225 soldiers travelled on Thursday from CFB Edmonton to Williams Lake, where they will assist the RCMP with observation and reporting along access roads, help with evacuations of people in distress and assist in delivery of aid. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said he was grateful the federal government had responded to B.C.’s request to provide the military members in order to free up local police. “I’m pleased that they have acted as quickly as they have done in terms of recognizing the pressure that not only the people fighting the fires are under, but also the RCMP and policing forces,� he told reporters in Kamloops. “There are a lot of tired people out there who need a break.�

The members will join 150 personnel already in Williams Lake and the surrounding area, which was evacuated last week when a fast-moving wildfire approached the city’s outskirts.

The added personnel will bring with them 60 vehicles of various types, including 10 light armoured vehicles that are uniquely suited to difficult conditions, said Rear-Admiral Art McDonald.

He said they will not conduct law enforcement activities and will mostly be unarmed, apart from a few personnel who will carry arms intended to protect members from predatory animals.

“This group of men and women ... will work 95 shoulder to shoulder with some impressive federal, provincial and municipal partners, 75 100 including thousands of first responders, in uniform and out, who are working diligently 95 in service of citizens in need,� McDonald said.

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RCMP Assistant Commissioner Eric 0 Stubbs said 500 additional officers have25been sent to help in the fire zone from within B.C. 5 and across Canada.

More than 150 fires were burning in the 0 province on Thursday and about 43,000 people remained out of their homes. More than 3,500 square kilometres of land have been scorched by wildfires this year.

Farnworth, who was sworn in Tuesday as part of B.C.’s new NDP government, said he, Forests Minister Doug Donaldson, and Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Preparedness Jennifer Rice, will meet with federal ministers on the weekend.

On Wednesday, Premier John Horgan extended a provincewide state of emergency for another two weeks.

Evacuees are eligible for $600 from a $100-million provincial fund, and Horgan said that they will be able to access an additional $600 for every two weeks they are displaced. Former premier Christy Clark, now leader of the Opposition, established the $100-million fund less than two weeks ago and is now calling for the NDP to double it.

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Charges after crazy events in Maple Ridge, Surrey Ridge Meadows RCMP have said that charges have been laid in connection with a bizarre chain of incidents in Maple Ridge and Surrey last weekend.

Police were called to the 11000-block of 284th Street in east Maple Ridge last Friday, July 14, after a resident there was found badly beaten.

Two days later, on Sunday night at about 6:30 p.m., Surrey RCMP found the victim’s stolen pickup truck set ablaze near 176th Street and 32nd Avenue.

Police previously said that the truck was associated with several recent break and enters involving theft of firearms and said a man was seen pushing a wheelbarrow away from the burning truck.

Surrey RCMP then got calls about a man

trying to break into homes and steal a vehicle.

Police gave chase and saw a man riding a bicycle through berry fields trying to elude police. A canine team caught up with the suspect who police say then bit the police dog on the nose. The dog was OK. A 37-year-old man has been charged with aggravated assault, robbery, arson and four counts of possession of stolen property.

He appeared in Port Coquitlam provincial court Thursday and was remanded in custody.

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Woman sought in Calgary quadruple homicide believed to have ‘significant information’ Calgary police are asking the public for help in locating a woman they describe as a person of interest who has “significant information” about the slaying of four people just over a week ago.

Police said Thursday that Yu Chieh Liao, 24, who also goes by the name Diana Liao, is believed to have played “a significant role” in the events that led up to the deaths of three people whose bodies were discovered in a burned-out car in the northwest community of Sage Hill and the death of another man whose body was found in a ditch just outside the city.

3 victims in quadruple homicide in ‘wrong place at the wrong time,’ Calgary police believe Police released a photo of Liao on Thursday and described her as standing about 5-5” tall and weighing roughly 160 pounds, with long dark hair and brown eyes.

“She’s somebody we know has information in relation to this matter and we want to speak with her,” Acting Insp. Paul Wozney said.

“We would like to speak to her to find out exactly what she knows about this.”

Liao is believed to have ties to Calgary, Vancouver, Moose Jaw, Regina, and Toronto, and police said she may be travelling with an unidentified man they described as being “small in stature.” Wozney said Liao is known to live a “nomadic lifestyle” and regularly uses rental vehicles and stays in hotels.

She was last seen on July 12 in the Moose Jaw area.

Sisters Glynnis Fox, 36, and Tiffany Ear, 39, along with Cody Pfeiffer, 25, were found dead in a burned-out car in Sage Hill on July 10.

Hanock Afowerk, 26, was found dead in a ditch near Highway 22 and Highway 8 on July 12.

Police say all four deaths are connected and they are continuing to “explore the theory” that the three people in the car were caught up in a targeted attack against Afowerk.

Wozney said police “are aware of a relationship” between Liao and Afowerk.

Neighbourhood inquiries in Sage Hill led police to believe Liao and the unidentified man she’s likely travelling with were at the scene of the car fire. Images of Liao and the man were captured by commercial security cameras in Moose Jaw on July 12, Wozney said. “I guess you could say we were one step behind her,” he added.

Investigators believe multiple people may be involved in the homicides and are still in search of additional crime scenes.

Wozney said police want to stress “the brutality and ruthlessness of the murders” in their appeal to the public for information.

Investigators said they still can’t provide details publicly about the nature of the victims’ deaths but, in a news release, police said “all victims suffered significant traumatic injuries.”

Saturday, July 22, 2017

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John Horgan announces $100 increase to welfare rates Just a few days into the job, the NDP government is making good on a promise to raise income assistance and disability rates.

In a release, premier John Horgan said the $100 a month rate increase goes into effect on Sept. 20.

New monthly welfare rates will be $710, and $1,133 for those on disability assistance.

“Lifting families out of poverty starts

with raising income assistance rates and assistance for people with disabilities.

We’re raising the rates to support people and help them live in dignity,” said Horgan in the release. The news comes just days after Horgan announced a new ministry and parliamentary secretary tasked with reducing poverty.

While former premier Christy Clark raised disability rates by $50 earlier this year, welfare rates had been frozen for a decade.

“Raising the rates is only the beginning.

Our government is committed to bring forward a comprehensive poverty reduction plan to lift children and families out of poverty,” read part of the release.

According to the release, the raise will move B.C. from one of the lowest assistance rates to the third-highest in Canada.

Man arrested after brief lockdown at Vancouver’s Langara College An alleged robbery at Langara College Thursday night triggered a brief lockdown of the post-secondary institution in Vancouver.

Witnesses described seeing heavily armed police officers surrounding the campus.

Vancouver Police said the campus was put on lockdown for about half an hour at around 9 p.m. PT, after a student on campus reported they were the victim of a robbery and the suspect had a gun.

Vancouver Police Const. Jason Robillard said patrol officers were able to arrest the suspect. Robillard said officers believed the

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Father calls for prompt notification of school infections after son diagnosed with flesh-eating disease The father of a boy battling flesh-eating disease wants a review of parental notification procedures when there’s been an infection at their child’s school.

Sam Chen says his 11-year-old son, John, was diagnosed with invasive Group A streptococcus on Sunday, March 26.

Chen says he notified the school the next day and, later that afternoon, Vancouver Coastal Health sent a letter to parents telling them another student had also been infected.

The letter warns parents to watch for symptoms of the infection — fever, sore throat and feeling unwell — and asks them to take their child to a doctor immediately if any of the symptoms develop.

Chen says they should have been notified about the first infection.

“If we had [gotten] the letter [sooner] everything would be different. Because now, nothing can change my son’s situation,” Chen said.

John’s symptoms had developed a few days prior to his diagnosis. A first visit to a doctor had him sent home with Advil.

It wasn’t until his parents took him to B.C. Children’s Hospital that he was diagnosed, prompting 18 surgeries to save his life and

limbs. He has remained in the hospital ever since.

Dr. Althea Hayden, a medical health officer with the regional health authority, says the disease is extremely rare and those at most risk of transmission are close family members — but even that risk is very low.

Hayden said there haven’t been any documented cases of the infection being transmitted in a classroom setting.

“We follow evidence-based guidelines to inform patients and families of cases of infectious disease, including Group A strep,” Hayden said.

“We had no reason to believe that classmates would have been at elevated risk.”

Vancouver Coastal Health notified the entire classroom, she said, “because we wanted to take extra measures in what was a very unusual situation.”

The health authority emphasized that there is no confirmation Chen’s son contracted the disease in the classroom.

The case will be written up to add to the medical literature, Hayden added, but that won’t automatically change when, or if, parents are notified.

“Right now, I don’t think we have the evidence to say that expanding notification would help people,” she said.

Chen says the latest news on his son’s condition is that the infection may have spread to his left hip. Despite the constant medical care, he says John is in good spirits and is hoping to return to school in the fall — with the help of a wheelchair.

John Horgan appoints new chairs to BC’s Crown corporations A new provincial government means there are new executives for some B.C. Crown corporations.

Premier John Horgan has announced Kenneth G. Peterson as the new chair of BC Hydro’s board. The former CEO of Powerex will fill the role previously held by Christy Clark’s confidante Brad Bennett.

Former NDP cabinet minister and opposition leader Joy McPhail is the new chair of ICBC. McPhail was named vicechair of the Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council’s mobility pricing independent commission. TransLink CFO Cathy McLay has also been appointed to the ICBC board.

Former deputy minister at both the federal and provincial levels, Cassie J. Doyle, has been appointed the new Chair of BC Housing.

A former deputy minister and public

policy expert says this isn’t a bad thing nor is it a surprise.

“There is a lot of partisan appointments on the boards and a new government is not going to want to continue with partisans with the previous boards,” said Doug McArthur.

He said appointing a new Chair to BC Housing also makes sense given the BC NDP’s promise to tackle the housing crisis.

“Government has promised a major development in rental housing and that’s a completely new direction for the BC Housing corporation.”

He said it is the same situation with BC Hydro, especially as the NDP and the Greens work to get the Site C project halted.

This change in direction, McArthur says, will likely lead to many directors and possibly some senior staff being replaced as well.

Surrey-Guildford NDP MLA hints at more funding to fight city’s violence It appears that Surrey’s gun violence problem is on the NDP government’s radar.

Surrey-Guildford NDP MLA Garry Begg said he knows people are concerned about their safety, “as they should be.”

The former Surrey RCMP inspector and district commander in Newton said the NDP promised they would make life better for people, and that’s what they want to do for Surrey residents.

“That includes making sure they are safe, or feel safe, inside their homes.”

He said that fighting crime may require more funding.

“If that requires a greater expenditure in people or other resources including money, I’m sure we’ll make that a priority,” he said.

Begg said that educating young people about gangs is part of the solution.

“We have to pay a tremendous amount of attention to the root causes of this criminal activity and we’re committed to doing that,” said Begg “Once they get entrenched in the criminal lifestyle it’s very difficult to get them out of it.”

Begg said the latest shooting, in which an innocent victim was hit by a bullet, really shook him up.

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Vancouver police officers injured in crash Two Vancouver police officers have been injured while rushing to a crime scene late Wednesday afternoon.

Witnesses say a marked police cruiser had its lights and sirens activated when it collided with a vehicle at the intersection of Knight Street and East 41st Avenue. Police said a third vehicle was also struck.

Two officers were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Luck was on everyone’s side in townhouse fire There was a bit of a close call for two Surrey residents and firefighters in a townhouse blaze at 102-A Avenue and 133rd Street late Wednesday night.

“Flames [came] through the roof and proceeded to make the attack,” he says.

“They also encountered the two occupants who were out of the building at that time, seemingly uninjured, but they were checked for smoke inhalation and later cleared.”

Pegios says the two occupants were lucky.

“They did have smoke alarms but they were disconnected, however the occupant was awake, luckily at this time was able to get out at a timely fashion and warn his

neighbours as well.”

“We like to keep stressing the importance of having working smoke alarms in the house.” But Pegios says that wasn’t the only fortunate aspect to the situation.

“When they made their interior attack, we were informed by the owner, the occupant of that unit, that he had quite a few rounds of ammunition in the upstairs area,” he says. “He’s a gun collector. He warned us as 100 he was concerned for our crews, as we are95 as well. And we pulled our crews out and formulated a bit of a different plan to 75 extinguish the fire completely.”

Pegios says the fire started in the kitchen.

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A local daycare, just steps away from Central Park, could not believe the tragic news.

“It’s very popular, it’s located in the centre of Burnaby. I was surprised to hear this news and it’s kind of scary,” said Jenny Hsieh, administrative director of the CEFA Early Learning Centre.

She said young kids are often taken to the park on sunny days, but the daycare will be extra cautious from now on.

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Bungled bomb plot might be behind mysterious explosion outside Winnipeg 7-Eleven Police in Winnipeg are investigating whether a bungled bomb plot might have led to a mysterious explosion outside a 7-Eleven on Saturday night, which set a truck ablaze and injured all four passengers inside.

Police say that around 11 p.m., a man in his late 60s left his house, got into his truck and drove to the convenience store in the city’s west end, a few kilometres away.

After the man exited the store and returned to his truck, he saw the bag — which had an improvised explosive device hidden inside — dangling from the vehicle.

The man glanced inside the bag, police said, but didn’t rummage through it.

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“Someone has gone out of their way to obviously inflict harm,” he said.

The truly perplexing part, however, is that investigators don’t believe the truck’s owner was the bomber’s intended target.

“Perhaps he was targeted in a case of mistaken identity,” Carver said. “It’s certainly an element that investigators are pursuing.”

It’s not clear who the true target might have been. Police have yet to announce any suspects in the case.

Carver said that when the man spotted the bag in the store parking lot, he was puzzled.

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The man then went back into the store and asked around. Meanwhile, four young people, between the ages of 17 and 27, pulled up to buy cigarettes. They spotted the bag.

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Police tweeted missing person fliers WednesdayE-mail: asking for help finding the teens, puricarpet@gmail.com who had last been seen at the FIRST Global Challenge around the time of Tuesday’s final matches. The missing team members include two 17-year-old girls and four males ranging in age from 16 to 18.

The competition, designed to encourage youths to pursue careers in math and science, attracted teams of teenagers from more than 150 nations.

A squad of girls from Afghanistan drew the most attention after they were twice rejected for U.S. visas and President Donald Trump intervened.

Competition organizers learned Tuesday night that the team’s mentor couldn’t find the six students who participated in the competition and organization President FIRST Global President Joe Sestak made the initial call to the police, according to a FIRST Global Challenge statement. “Security of the students is of paramount importance to FIRST Global,” organizers said, noting that they ensure students get to their dormitories after the competition by providing safe transportation to students staying at Trinity Washington University. The students “are always to be under close supervision of their adult mentor and are advised not to leave the premises unaccompanied by the mentor.”

The mentor said the teens travelled from Burundi for the competition and have oneyear visas, according to police reports. The mentor said they disappeared after the competition, but he doesn’t know where they went. The reports say police tried to contact one missing teen’s uncle but got no response.

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4,000 litres of ecstasy precursor disguised as dishwashing liquid at border Border agents in Vancouver have seized 4,020 litres of a substance disguised as dishwashing soap that was actually MDP2-P, an illegal chemical used to make MDMA and ecstasy. The shipment came in a commercial container sent from Vietnam to the Vancouver Container Examination Facility in May 2017. The contents were declared as “dishwashing liquid,” according

to a release from Canada Border Services Agency but were sent for inspection based on intelligence. Officers noticed something strange about the thousands of jugs.

The liquid was inconsistent, so 2,800 jugs were tested and sent for chemical analysis — and 800 tested positive for MDP-2-P, a Class A precursor.

“The invaluable intelligence coupled with

the skills and dedication of our officers on the ground have resulted in this significant precursor seizure,” Joseph Chayeski, the director of the Metro Vancouver district for the CBSA, said in a news release.

That volume of liquid could be used to produce between 22 and 38 million doses of ecstasy, depending on the production method, according to the CBSA.

Stowaways found in shipping container at Port of Montreal Four men found in a shipping container at the Port of Montreal are believed to have spent as long as three weeks inside travelling to Canada. The men, aged between 30 and 40 years old, were transported to a local hospital to be treated for dehydration. Urgences Santé said two of the men were in serious condition, having trouble breathing. They are now said to be in stable condition.

Stephane Smith, a spokesman for the Urgences Sante ambulance service, said it is not clear exactly how long the men were inside the container.

“Many days, the exact number, I don’t know, but we’re talking many, many days,” Smith said in an interview.

The Hong Kong-registered OOCL Montreal left Hamburg, Germany 10 days ago, arriving in Montreal on Wednesday.

Border agents found the four men while searching containers at Montreal’s Cast Terminal. Authorities believe they entered the country illegally from Europe.

They will be handed over to border security officials and sent to a detention centre in Laval,

Que. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is investigating potential ties to terror groups. “As this is still under review by the CBSA, and for privacy reasons, we cannot give more information,” the CBSA said in a statement. The RCMP has intercepted about 3,500 asylum seekers coming into Canada to date, 2,500 of which are said to have entered through Quebec.

Refugee worker Rivka Augenfeld told CTV Montreal that marine stowaways are increasingly rare. She said shipping yards have heightened security, and carriers face increasingly steep sanctions for bringing undocumented people into Canada.

“The last time I heard, it was $7,000 a person. It could be more,” she said.

For Augenfeld, the incident Thursday harkens back to a time when more people risked their lives to travel to Canada inside marine cargo.

In 1996, Romanian stowaways were discovered on the container ship Maersk Dubai during a transatlantic trip to the Port of Halifax.

Metro Vancouver board proposes $1-per-household tax to fund housing projects Metro Vancouver households may be on the hook for $1 in additional tax each next year to help fund public housing projects in the region.

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The board will vote on the tax next Friday.

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“We thought on a per household basis [this] is probably the fairest way to implement a levy in the region,” said Metro Vancouver board chair Greg Moore.

“It’s not based on high assessed values of homes that would pay more or lower assessed homes.”

That $1 will translate to an annual fund of $1-million for the Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation, Moore said.

With the fund, Metro Vancouver will be able to show the provincial and federal governments that they’re doing what they can to pay for housing — and perhaps encourage them to make their own contributions as well.

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Canada 150 celebrations at Richmond Gurdwara

India Cultural Centre of Canada Gurdwara Nanak Niwas ,8600 #5 Road, Richmond celebrated Canada’s 150 th Birth Anniversary with a great deal of enthusiasm on July16,2017. A large number of people-young and old from very diverse communities and from different places in Metro Vancouverjoined us in this very special event. People started arriving at the Gurdwara early in the morning. By 10:30 AM this spacious place of worship was overflowing with people from all walks of life. The function started with a prayer by our Head Granthi Tarlochan Singh with assistance from Giani Rangeel Singh and Giani Shyam Singh in the beautiful park just outside the main entrance. The prayer was followed by singing of Canada’s National Anthem led by Simran. She was accompanied by a number of children. The huge congregation then moved inside the lobby for cake cutting. India Cultural Centre of Canada Gurdwara Nanak Niwas Chairman Asa Singh Johal, Mrs. Kashmir Kaur Johal and President Sohan Singh Bas were joined by members of the Executive Committee and invited guests to cut the Canada 150 Birthday Cake. From the lobby, the attendees moved upstairs to the Diwan Hall for the formal part of the program.

General Secretary Mohan Singh Sandhu welcomed the congregation on behalf of Chairman Asa Singh Johal, Mrs. Kashmir Kaur Johal, President Sohan Singh Basi and the Executive. He then invited me to introduce the invited guests. After a brief introduction of Canadian Confederation, it was my honour to invite the speakers -one at a time- to share their views with the congregation. The speakers included Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Canada’s Minister of National Defence, Harjit Singh Sajjan, Richmond -Steveston M.P. Joe Peschisolido, Richmond –Queeensborough MLA Jas Johal, Richmond Centre- North MLA Teresa Wat, Surrey-Newton MLA Harry Bains and Richmond Police Chief Will

Ng. All of the speakers spoke very highly of Canada. They stated that this is a matter of great pride that we live in a country that is not only multicultural, inclusive and welcoming but also very generous and compassionate.

On such occasions, Canadians of diverse backgrounds come to-gether to celebrate these values. They expressed sincere appreciation for this Gurdwara’s service to the community and the unifying role that this place of worship on Richmond’s Highway to Heaven has been playing. As part of this celebration, a bright four page brochure containing a brief history of Canada was made available to the attendees. Vancity‘s Praveen Sidhu and her team did an excellent job in handing out goodies, doing face painting and a number of other activities. It made the celebration for children and youth very enjoyable. The volunteers –both children/youth and adults – were kept busy helping people around. As some of the people had never been to a Sikh place of worship before, they appreciated the orientation and help by the volunteers.

While planning this celebration the organizers had a number of objectives in mind.

These included creating more awareness about Canada, engage the youth in this process and reach out to not only the South Asian community but also to the community at-large. The presence of a large number of people from diverse backgrounds, active role played by the youth and very positive feedback by attendees was a clear reflection of this celebration’s success. On behalf of the Gurdwara Management Committee I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone who contributed to the success of a very fitting tribute to Canada.

Finally, I would like to thank the IndoCanadian media –both electronic and print –for its continued support.

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Surrey Mayor cuts her head open during tour of Pattullo Bridge Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner said she “took one for the team” after falling and cutting her head open during a tour of the aging Pattullo Bridge on Friday.

“I was walking on the sidewalk and I fell into the handrail which was lucky because had I fallen the other direction it would’ve been in traffic,” she said after walking off the 80-yearold crossing.

The goal of the tour was to show “why it’s critical funding is secured this year in order to replace the 80-yearold bridge by 2023,” according to a TransLink release.

“There could not be a better message that I took one for the team to show that this bridge needs to be replaced,” said Hepner of her tumble.

The media tour Friday aimed to highlight the deterioration of the 80-year-old Pattullo Bridge ahead of this weekend’s closure, which will see it closed from from 9 p.m. on Friday to 5 a.m. on Monday to allow for

crews to repair the deck on the south end of the bridge.

Hepner said in her first conversation with Premier-Designate John Horgan she will

bring up the bridge. ”I know they know the urgency,” she added. “I’m hoping we can have a plan of action very soon.”

Moore also pointed to a hole in the sidewalk near a post, which will be repaired this weekend.

Average Canadian house worth $504,458 in June, down 10% since April Home sales fell in June by their largest amount in seven years, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday, as nearly three-quarters of all markets slowed down during what is normally the most popular time of the year for real estate.

CREA said home sales fell by 6.7 per cent last month compared to May — the sharpest monthly decline since 2010 and the third straight monthly contraction.

More than 70 per cent of all markets saw fewer homes sold in June than they did in May. But Ontario makes up a large percentage of Canada’s housing market, and new rules

aimed at slowing the housing market in and around Toronto starting in April appear to be impacting the national numbers.

“Changes to Ontario housing policy made in late April have clearly prompted many home buyers in the Greater Golden Horseshoe region to take a step back and assess how the housing market absorbs the changes,” said CREA’s chief economist, Gregory Klump.

“The recent increase in interest rates could reinforce a lack of urgency to purchase or, alternatively, move some buyers off the sidelines before their pre-approved mortgage rate expires.”

While sales have dropped, prices on average are flat on an annual basis. The average price of a Canadian home sold in June was $504,458, a 0.4 per cent increase in the past year. But that figure has dropped by nearly 10 per cent from the $559,317 average price in April.

“The Canadian housing market is now in its third month of what is expected to be a soft landing,”

One man in custody after vehicle fire sparks major police response Surrey RCMP say a 37-year-old man is in custody facing several charges after a truck fire Sunday. Officers were called to 176th Street near 32nd Avenue at 6:30 p.m., where a man was seen pushing a wheelbarrow full of things taken from the burning vehicle.

Police say when officers arrived they realized the burning truck had been stolen from Maple Ridge days earlier, and had previously eluded officers.

It had been involved in several burglaries where firearms had been taken.

A police dog team and several RCMP officers started tracking the man north on 176th. Mounties say residents later began calling about a person matching the suspect’s description trying to either steal a vehicle or get into homes. They say he then took a bicycle and tried to ride through berry fields to escape, and was later taken into custody. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday.

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Egyptian who was Osama bin Laden’s farm manager loses legal fight over terrorist branding An Egyptian man branded as a threat to Canada’s national security has failed in what could prove to be his final attempt at lifting the terrorist designation that has hung over him for the past 15 years.

In a decision that upholds in glowing terms earlier court rulings, the Federal Court of Appeal rejected a concerted challenge from Mohamed Mahjoub to the government’s case against him.

The unanimous decision leaves Mahjoub, 56, of Toronto, who has always denied terrorism ties or associating with known terrorists after coming to Canada, with little chance of now escaping a designation that has haunted him since 2000.

“Terrorist organizations do not issue membership cards or keep membership

lists,” the Federal Court of Appeal said in a lengthy decision that runs to 356 paragraphs.

“(But) there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Mahjoub was a member of two terrorist organizations and that, by maintaining contact in Canada with other

terrorists, he was a danger to the security of Canada.”

Among other things, the Appeal Court noted the father of three once held a senior position at a farm in Sudan owned by alQaida mastermind Osama bin Laden. Part of the farm, according to security sources, was used for terrorist training in weapons and explosives. Mahjoub lied about his associates after coming to Canada, the court said. Mahjoub came to this country in December 1995 and claimed refugee status, which was granted within a year. However, in 2000, he was slapped with a national security certificate on the grounds that he had been a senior member of two Egyptian terror groups and was arrested pending deportation. Part of the intelligence against

him was kept secret.

Because he faces a risk of torture if returned to Egypt, he has remained in Canada, essentially in a state of limbo. He was released from detention in 2009 under strict conditions, eased substantially since then, and which were upheld earlier this month.

Mahjoub’s appeal consolidated challenges to three Federal Court judgments: that the security-threat designation was reasonable, the process he faced had been fair, and violations of his solicitor-client privilege did not warrant throwing out the case against him. On all three issues, the Appeal Court sided with earlier rulings, going out of its way to praise how the lower court had imposed order on the “legal chaos” of a difficult case.

PM Trudeau defends his choice for governor general amid revelations about her past Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending his pick for governor general after it was revealed she struck and killed a pedestrian while driving and was once the subject of a criminal probe for assault.

Trudeau said Thursday his team did a thorough vet of Julie Payette, a former astronaut who will assume the largely ceremonial post in the fall, and there is nothing in her past that disqualifies her for the job.

“I assure everyone that there are no issues that arose in the course of that vetting process that would be any reason to expect Mme. Payette to be anything other than the extraordinary governor general that she will be,” he said, calling her among Canada’s “very best.”

Two issues have emerged since the prime minister announced her appointment last week. First, Payette was charged with second-degree assault when she lived in Maryland in 2011, but it was later dismissed by prosecutors and the case was “expunged” from her record. Payette has dismissed the assault allegations.

“For family and personal reasons, I will not comment on these unfounded charges, of which I was immediately and completely cleared many years ago, and I hope that people will respect my private life,” Payette said in an statement.

Second, Payette was involved in a fatal car accident in which she was not found at fault.

The Toronto Star reported the car accident Wednesday and spoke to the family of the late Theresa Potts, a recovering alcoholic who was on her way to an AA meeting at the time of the incident.

Payette divorced her former husband, Billie Flynn, a test pilot with Lockheed Martin in the Washington, D.C., area, shortly after the 2011 car collision.

“Obviously, our hearts go out to the family affected by this tragic accident — it’s a terrible and tragic thing,” Trudeau said.

Trudeau said the vetting process “raised absolutely no issues,” and his talks with the future vice-regal didn’t focus on her past.

“The conversations I had with Mme. Payette centred around the extraordinary service, her vision for the country, her vision of the role that she would fulfill as governor general and demonstrated to me her extraordinary strength in being one of our great governor generals.”

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Federal fund to help cover veterans’ funeral costs missing some families: audit The families of some recently deceased veterans may not be getting the help paying for funerals that they deserve, an internal government audit has found, prompting a renewed commitment to outreach by the federal government.

The Veterans Affairs audit was looking at a program that helps pay the costs of burying veterans who died because of their military service or whose survivors can’t afford a proper funeral. Since 2013, the government has helped pay for around 1,200 such funerals each year at a cost of around $7 million.

But the audit said many more veterans may have been eligible, as the estates of only a fraction of the roughly 21,000 veterans who die each year were assessed to determine whether they qualified.

“Although the overall intake to the program has remained relatively consistent over the past four years,” the audit report said, “there is a risk that the program is not fully reaching veterans.” One specific area of concern was the 3,000 veterans receiving disability benefits

who died each year, but whose families were never contacted about whether they were eligible for financial help with the funeral.

The audit also raised concerns that veterans who were homeless or poor were more at risk of being overlooked than others, despite the fact the survivors of such people were more likely to need assistance.

Officials were also less likely to look at the files of veterans who were single or widowed when they died, which meant, among other things, “that the estates of female veterans are negatively impacted.”

The number of cases assessed, meanwhile, has steadily decreased from more than 3,100 in 2011-12 to 2,200 to 2015-16, though the audit did not cite a reason. In response to the audit, Veterans Affairs, which has long struggled with complaints from veterans about difficulties obtaining support and services, said it is following up with vets to ensure nobody is missed.

Department spokesman Nick Wells said in an email that the measures include a monthly report on veterans who have been identified as homeless or at risk of homelessness, or receive financial assistance.

“Any veteran or veterans’ family who is eligible for funeral and burial services will be provided them,” he said. “We continue to work hard to ensure more veterans receive a dignified funeral and burial.”

The funeral and burial benefit is administered on behalf of Veterans Affairs by the non-profit Last Post Fund, which was founded in 1909 and currently covers up to $7,376 for a veterans’ funeral.

Federal government looks to shore up seniors benefits program to prevent fraud, mistakes Federal officials are working to eliminate any fraud or mistakes from the government’s largest seniors benefits program through a massive review of payments and testing a new way to catch problems before they get into the system.

Government officials are in the midst of a large-scale, national review of existing old age security recipients with investigators contacting seniors to go over details like marital status, unreported departures from Canada or unreported deaths.

And in May, the government started testing a new, simplified application form for Old Age Security benefits to prevent any misunderstandings about eligibility — specifically the questions about residency where concerns have been raised about potential fraud.

The findings from the review and the application pilot project will feed into a larger strategy to modernize the old age security program and improve payment accuracy.

The department overseeing the program, Employment and Social Development Canada, says payments are accurate almost 99 per cent of the time.

But mistakes even one per cent of the time can mean hundreds of millions in mistaken payments: Old Age Security benefits are expected to cost the federal treasury about $51.1 billion this fiscal year, almost the combined total of payments this

Vancouver police have announced charges against a 73-year-old man following a double homicide in a West End apartment last week.

Leonard Landrick, 73, was arrested Monday and subsequently charged with two counts of second degree murder.

He was a resident of 1835 Morton Ave, the same apartment building where Sandra McInnes, 57, and Neil Croker, 51, were

found dead on July 10.

“There were several subjects of interest in this investigation,” said Sgt. Jason Robillard, and two people were originally arrested by police. However, Robillard said Landrick is currently the only suspect.

“It was a very challenging case.”

Landrick made his first appearance in court Tuesday, with his next appearance scheduled for August 1.

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This means more than a physical presence in Canada: A person may have properties in multiple countries, but only one of them is considered home, so the department evaluates how attached an applicant is to Canada. Last October, a former Service Canada employee detailed in a lengthy document — a cross between a report and presentation, complete with tables, illustrations and photos — his belief that the OAS application was flawed, specifically the question about residency.

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Tory MP Cheryl Gallant slams media for ‘fake news’ around Omar Khadr Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant is accusing media outlets, including seemingly the Citizen, of putting out “fake news” in regards to their coverage of the federal government’s $10.5-million settlement with Omar Khadr.

“Whether it’s the Toronto Star, CBC, Globe and Mail, CTV or even the National Post, editorialists and columnists have been tripping over themselves in a rush to justify Justin’s payout to Khadr,” Gallant said, in a video posted to her Facebook page last week, against a backdrop that included media signs including the Ottawa Citizen logo. Gallant, the MP for Renfrew–

Nipissing–Pembroke, made the statement in a 10-minute news-style segment called “Gallant Night News” or GNN. She introduced her video by talking about her previous episode in which she had interviewed a veteran who was injured in Afghanistan. She also talked about Julie Payette becoming the next Governor General, about the Bank of Canada raising interest rates and about her thoughts on how some media outlets have covered the $10.5-million payout to Khadr. The money was part of a settlement of Khadr’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit against

the federal government for violating his charter rights during interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. “(The media) has been working overtime to ‘media-splain’ why you should zip it and just accept the payout,” Gallant said.

“They brought out fake news story after fake news story claiming that it was all somehow Harper’s fault. That Trudeau had no choice.”

Gallant said that apart from letters to editor

and “a few rebels” it was hard to find media who oppose the payout. “They have so thoroughly cocooned themselves into their tiny media bubble that no amount of basic common sense can be penetrating,” Gallant said.

Gallant refers to the recent poll released by the Angus Reid Institute that said 71 per cent of Canadians believe that the government made the wrong decision by settling with the Khadr.

Canada becomes second-most popular country for rich Chinese emigrants Chinese millionaires are flocking to Canada for its attractive lifestyle and property investment opportunities, according to a new survey. The survey results show Canada has surpassed the United Kingdom as the second-most popular foreign country to live in for Chinese individuals worth between 10 million to 200 million yuan ($1.8 million - $37.3 million Canadian).

Vancouver and Toronto were also among the most popular cities for investing, with Vancouver moving up to fifth spot and Toronto surging into eighth place in the annual survey rankings.

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Top Australian senator forced to resign because she was born in Canada Larissa Waters was a popular senator in Australia, earmarked as a future contender for the leadership of the Green party. But, on Tuesday, she resigned. In a tearful, televised apology, she revealed she had committed a career-ending sin.

She was a Canadian.

“It is with great shock and sadness,” she said in a statement on Tuesday, “that I have discovered that I hold dual citizenship of Australia and Canada.”

Waters is a 40-year-old champion for women’s rights who garnered international attention in May by becoming the first to breastfeed on the floor of Australian parliament. She was born in Winnipeg to Australian parents who lived there briefly to study and work. Until recently, Waters said, she was under the impression that she had to actively seek Canadian citizenship before turning 21. She didn’t seek it. She hasn’t even been back since she left, with her parents, as an 11-month-old.

“I have lived my life thinking that as a baby I was naturalized to be Australian and only Australian,” she said.

She was wrong. She was, in fact, a dual citizen of Australia and Canada serving as an Australian senator — a violation of a 116-yearold section of the country’s constitution designed to stop foreign influence from creeping into parliament. Section 44(i) bans anyone who “is a subject or a citizen … of a foreign power” from sitting as a senator or member of the house of representatives.

Waters had been a senator since 2011.

She started looking into the question of her citizenship after a similar scandal forced her New Zealand-born colleague, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, to resign last week. Ludlam was a 10-year veteran in parliament, and only realized he held New Zealand citizenship when a “very interested” citizen did “some digging,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

“After Scott’s shock discovery,” Waters said, “I immediately sought legal advice.”

“Canadian law changed a week after I was born and required me to have actively renounced Canadian citizenship.”

It appears her confusion stems from changes to the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1977. In the previous incarnation, from 1947, the Citizenship Act didn’t recognize dual citizenship. If a Canadian became a citizen of another country through “any voluntary and formal act,” they would cease being Canadian. The 1977 act recognized dual citizenship, meaning becoming a citizen of another country didn’t automatically cancel out Canadian citizenship.

Canadian citizenship experts suggested that the changes in the act, a week after her birth, might not have actually been Waters’ undoing. Even under the previous act, Waters’ Australian citizenship might not have been enough to automatically cancel her Canadian citizenship, said Donald Galloway, a professor emeritus at the University of Victoria.

Ottawa moves to end tax loophole favoured by rich professionals Finance Minister Bill Morneau is proposing tax changes that would close loopholes often used by doctors and lawyers to reduce their tax burden, part of the Canadian government’s pledge to level the playing field for middleincome earners.

In an Ottawa press conference Tuesday morning, Morneau detailed the proposals reported by Bloomberg Monday that were billed as ensuring “fairness for the middle class.” The government plans to crack down

on “sprinkling” income to spouses and adult children and other practice the government described as legal but unfair.

“Many of the richest Canadians are unfairly exploiting the tax rules designed to help businesses thrive,” Morneau said in a written statement. The government wants to make sure rules don’t “give unfair tax advantages to certain — often high-income — individuals.”

CMHC to give Ottawa a special $4 billion dividend, has too much capital on its books Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have long pledged to tighten rules that allow high earners to incorporate in order to reduce their tax rate. The tactic is often used by

doctors, lawyers and other professionals, and Morneau hinted in May that a crackdown was coming. The Liberals pledged in the 2015 election that corporate tax rules, particularly the small business rate, shouldn’t be “used to reduce personal income tax obligations for high-income earners rather than supporting small businesses.”

The Liberal platform cited an estimate

by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson that the government would collect $500 million more annually by restricting the ability of incorporated professionals to split income and lower tax bills by paying spouses and adult children, as many currently do. The figure refers to both federal and provincial tax revenue and hinges largely on how governments could measure, or enforce, work done by a spouse or adult child, Wolfson said.

Trudeau’s government has targeted highincome earners since taking power late in 2015. One of its earliest moves was the creation of a new, higher tax rate for incomes above $200,000, which was accompanied by a cut in the rate for middle-income earners. It also canceled personal income-splitting, and overhauled child benefit payments to direct more funding to low-income families and exclude high-income ones.

Morneau’s 2016 budget lamented “the ability of high-net-worth individuals to use private corporations to inappropriately reduce or defer tax.” The 2017 budget renewed the pledge, saying “the government will continue to study, identify and address tax loopholes and tax planning schemes,” while ensuring that corporations continue to benefit from competitive tax rates.

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Pakistan providing ‘safe havens’ to terrorists The US on Wednesday listed Pakistan among the nations and regions providing “safe havens” to terrorists+ , saying terror groups like the LeT and JeM continued to operate, train, organise and fundraise inside

the country in 2016.

Official sources here quickly reacted to the report and said the segments on South and Central Asia in the US state department’s

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‘Country Report on Terrorism 2016’ vindicated India’s long-standing position on the menace of cross-border terrorism in the region.

In its annual ‘Country Report on Terrorism’, as mandated by the Congress, the State Department said that Pakistani military and security forces undertook operations against groups that conducted attacks within Pakistan such as Tehrike-Taliban Pakistan.

“Pakistan did not take substantial action against the Afghan Taliban or Haqqani, or substantially limit their ability to threaten US interests in Afghanistan, although Pakistan supported efforts to bring both groups into an Afghan-led peace process,” the State Department said.

US committee votes for tougher conditions for aid to Pak A key congressional panel has voted to impose tougher conditions on Pakistan to receive US assistance and authorised the secretary of state to suspend aid if Islamabad fails to take effective actions against terrorist groups.

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved by voice vote the 2018 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill, which seeks certification from Rex Tillerson for disbursement of US aid to Pakistan, making it conditional for Islamabad to take action against terrorist groups.

The bill now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration.

It provides USD 47 billion in regular discretionary and Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding. This is USD 10 billion fewer than the amount earmarked for fiscal year 2017, when counting additional funds provided last year in the Security Assistance Appropriations Act. Within this amount, OCO funding totals USD 12 billion, which supports operations and assistance in areas of conflict, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

The bill says that none of the funds appropriated by this Act under the ‘Economic

Support Fund’, the ‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’, and the ‘Foreign Military Financing Programme’ for Pakistan may be made available unless the secretary of state certifies to the committees that Islamabad is taking action against terrorist groups. Under the bill, the secretary of state is asked to certify that Pakistan is cooperating with the US in counter- terrorism efforts against the Haqqani network, the Quetta Shura Taliban, Lashkar-e-Tayba, Jaish-eMohammed, al-Qaeda, and others, including taking effective steps to prevent such terrorist groups from basing and operating in Pakistan and carrying out cross-border attacks into neighbouring countries. The secretary of state is also required to certify that Pakistan is not supporting terrorist activities against the US or coalition forces in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies are not intervening extra-judicially into political and judicial processes in Pakistan.

The certification needs to include that Pakistan is “not financing or supporting schools” linked to the Taliban or any designated terrorist group and that Islamabad is preventing the proliferation of nuclearrelated material and expertise.

Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan killed The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group’s headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday.

P e n t a g o n spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement that other members of the Islamic State group were also killed in the strike on Tuesday.

US defense secretary Jim Mattis told reporters, “The significance is you kill a leader of one of these groups and it sets them back ... it is obviously a victory on our side in terms of setting them back, it is the right direction.”

Sayed is the third Islamic State leader in Afghanistan to be killed since July 2016.

Former leader Abdul Hasib was killed in a joint US and Afghan operation on April 27 in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Hasib’s predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan died in a US drone strike in 2016.

Afghan troops, backed by US warplanes

and special forces, have been battling militants linked to Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan for years.

The local affiliate of Islamic State, sometimes known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) after an old name for the region that includes Afghanistan, has been active since 2015, fighting the Taliban and Afghan and US forces.

General John Nicholson, the top US commander in Afghanistan, has vowed to defeat Islamic State there this year.

Pakistan man thanks India for son’s successful cardiac surgery Lahore-bound 34-year-old Kamal Siddiqui is getting home but with good memories, floored by the generosity and kindness of the Indian people. His infant son Rohaan underwent a complex heart surgery in India, thanks to external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, who heard his plea and granted a visa to the Pakistan family to visit India for treatment.

“My experience in India has been very nice. The reception we got was more warm than expected,” Kamal Siddiqui told TOI. “Rohaan is fine,” he said after the infant got operated upon at a hospital at Noida.

In May this year, Kamal Siddiqui had made a fervent plea to the minister to grant his family a visa so that his son Rohaan could be brought for medical treatment to India.

Sushma responded to Siddiqui and a visa was granted to the family.

On July 21, Rohaan underwent a successful cardiac surgery. “Today Rohan underwent a complex but successful cardiac surgery.

Thankful to Jaypee Hospital and people of India for their support and care,” Kamal had said.

“Had a great day today. Rohaan was discharged from hospital,” Siddiqui said on Tuesday thanking Sushma Swaraj, Dr Rajesh and Jaypee. “Thank you India. God bless all,” he added.

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Punjab legal aid team to help out 1981 hijackers Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has directed the state’s legal aid team to extend help to the two Sikhs facing with possibilities of ‘double jeopardy’ in the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore 36 years ago.

“While the hijacking was condemnable, any attempt to prosecute the two, who had already served life terms in Pakistan for the same crime, would amount to a serious travesty of justice,” said the chief minister in a statement, adding that this could tantamount to double jeopardy. He said that he has directed the Legal Aid team of the Home Department to extend legal help to the two, in case required.

CM meets Jaitley, seeks debt recast

Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today met Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, seeking central assistance to the state, including onetime settlement of Rs 6,000 crore bank loans of farmers and settlement of cash credit limit (CCL)-related debt.

In the meeting that lasted for about 40 minutes, Amarinder sought conversion of the Rs 6,000-crore loan into term loan. If the Centre obliges, more than four lakh farmers will benefit.

A Punjab government functionary said Jaitley directed the ministry’s officials to give a positive consideration to the issues raised by the CM. Amarinder said of the total debt of small and marginal farmers waived by the state, Rs 3,600 crore was cooperatives’ loan, with the remaining Rs 6,000 crore pertaining to commercial banks (both national and private).

He alleged that these banks lent “unethical loans” to the distressed farmers, driving them into a vicious cycle of debt.

Besides, he urged for settlement of Rs 31,000-crore CCL-related debt. He pointed out that Rs 18,500 crore interest on Rs 12,500-crore CCL legacy gap was exorbitant as it would mean that the state would end up paying Rs 270 crore every month for the next 20 years. This would incapacitate the state with regard its welfare schemes.

Besides, he urged for the reconsideration of state’s proposal to the Centre for pre-payment of the high interest bearing NSSF loan of Rs 22,100 crore and market loan of Rs 33,938 crore to swap them with low-interest bearing loans. This would save interest burden of over Rs 3,363 crore.

The CM also sought waiver of GST on langar purchases and parshad given at places of worships of all religions.

Amarinder also met Road Tansport Minster Nitin Gadkari. Haryana CM ML Khattar and Jammu and Kashmir Deputy CM Nirmal Singh were also present. The proposed DelhiAmritsar-Katra expressway and pending Punjab roads were discussed.

While he did not want to go into the merits of the case since it was sub-judice, the Chief Minister pointed out that 36 years was a long time, especially considering that their life term would not have been more than 14 years.

The Srinagar-bound Indian Airlines plane with 107 passengers and six crew members was hijacked and taken to Lahore in 1981.

The main hijackers namely Gajender Singh, Karan Singh, Satnam Singh, Jasbir Singh and Tejinder Pal Singh were arrested in Lahore, Pakistan on September 3, 1981, and were convicted and sentenced to life by the special court there.

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After Sajjan rebuff, Amarinder to meet Canadian MP Canadian MP Rameshwar Singh Sangha, a native of Jandu Singha village near here, will meet CM Capt Amarinder Singh on his first visit here since he won two years ago.

Chairman of the CanadaIndia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Sangha has been meeting various dignitaries of the state and the Centre to foster business and cultural ties between the two countries.

On his 11-day tour, the MP from Brampton Centre will meet Amarinder tomorrow. Though the CM had refused to meet Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan calling him a Khalistani sympathiser, he perhaps has no such issues with the MP who has remained aligned with the Congress in the past.

Meanwhile, Sangha was in Delhi today where he met Union Minister of Steel Birender Singh. “There are some meetings with other union ministers lined up for tomorrow. I will be touring Haryana and Himachal Pradesh too and I am holding discussions regarding possible tie-ups in education, trade, science and technology and youth empowerment”, said the 72-year-old leader of the Liberal Party.

Born in Pakistan, Sangha studied in Government Janta High School at Jandu Singha, after which was admitted in Lyallpur Khalsa College. “I could study for a year only as I was inducted in the Indian Air Force.

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UK’s first Sikh woman MP in key panel The first Sikh woman MP in Britain, Preet Kaur Gill, has been selected as a member of an influential parliamentary select committee that scrutinises the work of the home office.

The Labour MP will be one of 11 MPs on the cross-party home affairs committee, which investigates the spending, policy and administration of the ministerial department.

“I am interested in child sex exploitation.

There has been a big increase in hate crime in the UK often targeted at Sikhs. The hate crime action plan has been focused on the Abrahamic faith and has ignored Sikhs. I want to make sure the government addresses this,” said Gill, whose family is from Jalandhar.

Officers to get skill upgrade every two years State DGP Suresh Arora today said officers at DSP and above ranks, who were posted in the field, would get mandatory coolingoff period at battalion and commando training centres to brush up their skills in use of weapons and strategy making besides undergoing physical training.

Speaking to The Tribune, the top cop said officers posted in districts should be sent for mandatory training every two years so that they were able to lead the force in a better way.

“This will not only help us use the entire pool of officers available in the force but will also ensure that the training of young officers is never compromised,” he said, adding that they were to start this practice in 2016, but could not as the Assembly elections were approaching.

“We are in the process of doing it by December this year when we get the services of the last-recruited batch which is under training,” he said.

Arora visited the Commando Training Centre in Bahadurgarh and watched new commandos, including women, practise.

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and Commandos, Rakesh Chandra himself fired shots and hit the bull’s eye.

The DGP said they were contemplating steps to monitor fake posts and news on social media that could create law and order problem. “There are three major challenges before the Punjab Police — drug

menace, gangsters and radical-sponsored terrorism. However, the use of social media for wrong reasons by unlawful elements is a big problem. We are now in the process of identifying and registering cases against such persons,” he said.

Later, DGP Suresh Arora held a meeting with the district cops at the Police Lines here and gave them directions for better policing.

I-T case against Captain put off The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Jaapinder Singh today adjourned the case filed by the Income Tax Department against Chief Minister Capt Amrinder Singh till September 18.

The summons sent to the CM could not be served. Now the court has again ordered the issuance of summons. Amarinder has been accused of allegedly making willful omission to provide required information to the department and obstructing the I-T officials in performing their duty.

It was pleaded in the complaint that several notices were sent seeking queries but received back with evasive replies.

The complaint says Amarinder tried to obstruct the functioning of public servant by non-cooperation on one hand and levying baseless and false allegations of malice, arbitrariness and non-application of mind on their officer, which was covered in the purview of section 186 of IPC The complaint relates back to the transactions related to period in 2005-06.

Sukhpal Khaira is the new leader of Oppostion Bholath MLA Sukhpal Khaira was chosen as the Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly today, with majority of the 19 other Aam Aadmi Party MLAs recommending his name in a one-on-one meeting with national party convener Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi.

HS Phoolka, who had resigned as the Leader of Opposition to focus on fighting cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims, also backed Khaira.

Khaira got preference over other contenders after about 15 MLAs met in Chandigarh on July 17 where they agreed to support him on the ground that he was the only experienced legislator. One of the main contenders, Nazar Singh Mansahia, withdrew his name in Khaira’s favour in the meeting itself.

Three MLAs, it is learnt, expressed strong reservation against Khaira’s name today, arguing that he would nurture his personal agenda more than toeing the party’s line and ideals. However, when Kejriwal and MP Bhagwant Mann announced that majority of the MLAs were in favour of Khaira, all MLAs gave their consent. The Leader of Opposition

gets a Cabinet Minister rank and status.

Talwandi Sabo MLA Baljinder Kaur was another contender for the post.

Party sources said the Delhi leadership felt that the party may get divided if Khaira was not given a chance. Khaira, at present the Chief Whip of the party, had openly protested against the selection of Bhagwant Mann as state party president.

Khaira faces a daunting task as he has to keep the party flag high in the Assembly, besides ensuring discipline. His first challenge would be to find a way out of privilege action against him by the Speaker.

Khaira had during the Budget Session last month gone live on Facebook from the Assembly, against the rules. He was suspended for the session. A privilege committee will hear the allegation against him. Meanwhile, commenting on his election, Khaira said it was a moral victory of hard work and truth against sycophancy and money power. Khaira had remained a Congress MLA from 2007 to 2012. His father Sukhjinder Singh was an Akali leader who remained Education Minister twice.

INDIA

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Congress supports Tejashwi despite corruption allegations As the Nitish Kumar-Lalu Prasad partnership in Bihar negotiates choppy waters, Congress has come out in open support of Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, the RJD chief ‘s son and the state’s deputy CM, who is accused of owning benami properties by the CBI. Both RJD and Nitish’s party JD(U) have been trading barbs over corruption charges against Lalu and his family members, and Congress, which had been trying not to take a position, has been forced into a corner with the ‘mahagathbandhan’ war hotting up over the continuance of Tejashwi as deputy CM. JD(U) has asked Tejashwi to explain the land graft charges in connection with which the CBI named him in an FIR lodged on July 5. Congress MLC Dilip Choudhary ridiculed JD(U) spokespersons for seeking an explanation from Tejashwi. “Do spokespersons make or remove ministers? They should clarify whether or not Nitish was satisfied with the explanation given by Tejashwi when he called on the CM on Tuesday,” Choudhary said. RJD, JD (U) and Congress are partners with 80, 71 and

Railways serving food unfit for humans, says CAG report A Comptroller and Auditor General audit report on the catering services in the Indian Railways, to be tabled in Parliament on Friday, has observed that food articles unsuitable for human consumption, contaminated foodstuff, recycled foodstuff, packaged and bottled items past their shelf life and unauthorised brands of water bottles were offered for sale at stations.

The audit has found fault with frequent changes in catering policy of the railways that have created a state of uncertainty in management of catering services provided to the passengers. An inspection has revealed cleanliness and hygiene are not being maintained, bills are not being given for the food items served in mobile units in trains, besides several deficiencies in food quality.

During the joint inspection of the CAG team and the railways at selected 74 stations and 80 trains, the audit noticed that cleanliness and hygiene were not being maintained at catering units at stations and in trains.

“Unpurified water straight from tap was used in preparation of beverages, waste bins were not found covered, not emptied regularly and not washed, food stuff were not covered to protect them from flies, insects and dust, rats and cockroaches were found in trains etc,” the audit observed. Neither were bills provided to passengers for food items served in trains, nor printed menu cards with tariff for the list of items sold in the mobile units were available with waiters and catering managers in any of the trains inspected.

“Food stuff served was less than the prescribed quantity, unapproved packaged drinking water was sold,” the report has said and pointed out that prices of food articles sold in railway premises was significantly higher than the open market.

“Articles unsuitable for human consumption, contaminated foodstuff, recycled foodstuff, shelf life expired packaged and bottled items, unauthorised brands of water bottles, etc., were offered for sale on stations,” CAG noted.

The report says the mess has been created due to frequent policy changes and the failure of the Indian Railways to take effective steps to bridge the gap to provide necessary infrastructure in terms of base kitchens, static catering units, and automatic vending machines etc.

27 MLAs in the 243-strong Bihar House. Tejashwi is believed to have told the CM that his family was falsely implicated by the CBI out of political vendetta and he would contest the charges legally.

Nitish has not said whether he is satisfied with Tejashwi’s explanation, and JD(U) has refused to accept it.

Party spokesperson Neeraj Kumar said RJD should give an explanation to JD(U).

Neeraj said JD(U) disapproved of RJD’s stand that Tejashwi would give an explanation on corruption charges at the party’s rally to be held in Patna on August 27. “The alliance was formed with a common minimum programme, which includes zero tolerance on corruption,” Neeraj told. JD(U) MLC Sanjay Singh, on the other hand, said though his party was smaller than RJD in terms of number of assembly seats, its stature was taller than the senior alliance partner’s. “Questions are being raised on the image of JD(U). Hence, an explanation is must or else it may impact the alliance,” Sanjay said. RJD again ruled out Tejashwi’s resignation.

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The ED will also seek cooperation from countries like France, Singapore, Mauritius, Ireland, US and UAE to probe certain transactions and the shell companies involved.

Nine accused have been named in the charge-sheet filed by the ED. The list includes Mallya, Kingfisher Airlines (KFA), United Breweries (Holding) Limited and senior employees and executives of the now-defunct airline and the IDBI (Industrial Development Bank of India) bank.

The agency has called Mallya “prime mover of the entire plot” in the charge-sheet and described how funds obtained from the bank loan were allegedly routed illegally, including “substantial payments” being diverted to the Formula-1 car racing event abroad.

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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Kovind first President from Sangh, cross-voting boosts margin Former Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind will become India’s 14th President and the first RSS man to hold the post, winning a contest marked by cross-voting in his favour in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa as well as among Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha members. Kovind, who will be sworn in as President on July 25, defeated the opposition candidate, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, in a one-sided contest by garnering close to 66% of the vote. BJP managers estimated that Kovind received around 115 additional MLA votes beyond the NDA kitty in states. BJP succeeded in pulling in votes from the opposition camp in four states as well as in Parliament. BJP managers said they had gained 10 excess votes in Bengal even as the Trinamool Congress and the Congress traded claims of cross-voting from each other’s camps.

In Parliament, there were 21 invalid votes.

It was not possible to exactly ascertain which side contributed more to this tally.

The opposition could have hoped to get the votes of around 240 MPs, but got the support of 225 MPs. Kovind got the backing of 522 MPs.

The final tally of votes, which were counted at Parliament House on Thursday, shows that Kovind got 2,930 votes (MPs and MLAs) with a value of 7,02,044 (65.65%) as compared to 1,844 votes with a value of 3,67,314 (34.35%) received by Meira Kumar, defeating her with a margin of over 3.30 lakh vote value.

Pakistan targeting kids & villagers near LoC India on Thursday accused Pakistan of “deliberately targeting” villages and school children in ceasefire violations across the Line of Control, which remains volatile with the two armies exchanging heavy fire on a daily basis in Jammu & Kashmir.

Indian director general of military operations Lt-General A K Bhatt told his Pakistani counterpart Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza over the hotline to exercise “strict control” over his troops

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and instruct them to refrain from any “nefarious activities”. During the telephonic conversation at about 3.30pm on Thursday, Lt-Gen Bhatt said Pakistan army troops had deliberately targeted villages and also fired at school children in the Nowshera sector of Rajouri district when they were being evacuated from the area on Tuesday.

“The Pak army DGMO was told such activities did not behove any professional army.

A lot have been written and said about former India captain and world-class allrounder Kapil Dev’s maverick knock of 175 off just 138 during a league game of the 1983 Prudential World Cup. Coming in to bat at 17 for five, Kapil Dev played an incredible knock what is regarded as one of the best knocks in in Wold Cup. Unfortunately, that knock was not televised and there is no video footage of that fantastic innings.

However, on Thursday night, Indian women cricket team vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur with a whirlwind knock off 171 off 115 balls that included 20 fours and seven sixes not only reminded cricket fans about that Kapil

knock, but manage to produced one of the greatest ever ODI knocks in women’s cricket helping India stormed into the ICC World Cup final, beating a strong Australian side by 36 runs in the semi-final.

What worked to Harmanpreet’s advantage was her experience of playing the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) for Sydney Thunders due to which her familiarity with the current Aussie attack was much more than any other player.

Her footwork against the spinners was exemplary as she would repeatedly come down the track to loft them in the arc between long-on and deep mid-wicket.

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Jagannath Sami is appointed as the new General Secretary for NFP Former CEO of the Sugar Cane Growers Council, Jagannath Sami is the new General Secretary of the National Federation Party.

While making the announcement today, NFP Leader Professor Biman Prasad said that Sami replaces Bala Dass who has resigned to concentrate fully on his role as the General

Secretary of the Fiji Cane Growers Association.

Professor Prasad says the AGM authorised the NFP management board to appoint a full time General Secretary so that the person can play an integral role in the preparation and the implementation of strategies and ensuring compliance of electoral laws in the lead up to the 2018 general elections.

Sami was removed as CEO of the Sugar Cane Growers Council after the December 2006 coup.

He was the founder President of the NFP Youth Movement in 1984 as well as the General Secretary of Fiji Sugar Cane Growers Association two years after its formation in 1992.

Sami says he is confident NFP will form the next government after the 2018 election and he wants to be part of that history.

45 new cases of cancer detected in children under 15 years of age every year in Fiji - Akbar There is an estimated 45 new cases of cancer detected in children under 15 years of age every year in Fiji but only 50 percent are present in the health care system. This was highlighted by the Health Minister Rosy Akbar at the Child Cancer Month and National Paediatric Oncology Policy launch. Akbar says cancer continues to be the third most common cause of death in Fiji.

She says in the last five years the survival of common childhood cancers in Fiji has more than doubled.

The Minister says the family unit of the Ministry of Health in partnership with WOWS Kids Fiji, Fiji Cancer Society and the National Paediatric Oncology Committee is proud to launch the Childhood Cancer Awareness month and have dedicated the month of August as the means to intensify awareness. Akbar says the launching of the National Paediatric Oncology Policy is a milestone achievement and a national plan for the care and support for children with cancer.

Man who killed brother over a bowl of ‘Dal’ jailed for 3 years and 9 months 38‑year‑old Aisake Vana Junior has been sentenced to 3 years and 9 months imprisonment after Suva High Court Judge Justice Vinsent Perera found him guilty of manslaughter.

Vana Junior killed his younger brother Suliasi Veisere on April 5th at their Kalabu home after an argument over a bowl of dhal last year.

He will be eligible for parole afer 1 year and 9 months.

Justice Perera said that Vana Junior has killed his own brother using a kitchen knife and causing a death over a dispute cannot be taken lightly.

Justice Perera said that leniency will not send a correct message to the community.

50-year-old man charged for rape of 46-year-old wife A 50-year-old man charged with raping his 46-year-old wife at a resort on Koro Island took the stand in the Suva High Court today.

The man is charged with two counts of rape.

The alleged incidents took place on the 2nd and 3rd of July last year.

The woman who was the Manager of the resort is alleging that her husband, who is a casual employee of the resort had threatened her that he will cut her breast if she did not have sex with him.

However, the 50-year-old man told the court today that his wife arrived at 10pm on both the days and asked him to massage her body.

Mother and 3 children dead after Narere house fire A mother and her three children are dead after a house fire in River Road, Narere earlier this afternoon.

Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro says the crime officers have confirmed that the mother and her three children were inside the house when the fire started.

The circumstances surrounding the incident are not clear at this stage.

Naisoro says the father is admitted in hospital after he attempted to commit suicide

Two men from Nadi have claimed that their belongings that were seized by police in 2007 have not been returned to them. In December 2007, Dalip and Kishore Kumar were charged by police for allegedly receiving stolen items, knowing it had been stolen.

The trial went on for 3 years and in August 2011 the charges against them were dismissed with a court order that all items seized be

The trial of the 47‑year‑old taxi driver who allegedly stabbed his 42‑year‑old ex‑wife and a 43‑year‑old man outside a supermarket in Nakasi started in the Suva High Court today.

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He told the assessors that after the massage finished on the 2nd of July, 2016, his wife asked him why he was staring at her.

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PAKISTAN

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Pakistan SC warns Sharif’s children of 7-yr jail if papers found forged

Pakistan treats US as a ‘limitless ATM’: Davis Pakistan treats America like a “limitless ATM” and most of the US aid to the country goes to the military’s kitty, a private US defence contractor who was responsible for one the worst bilateral tensions, has said.

“For Pakistan, no amount of money ever seemed to be enough. The economic aid it received from the United States became a drug it alternately loathed and could not live without,” Raymond Davis said in his book “The Contractor”.

Davis, 42, was arrested in Lahore in 2011 on charges of killing two Pakistani citizens and thus kicked off a huge diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

Having a first-hand experience of how the system works in Pakistan, the CIA contractor wrote that most of the US aid ended up with the Pakistan military and not with the civilians.

“As dysfunctional as the relationship between the United States and Pakistan was, it was made worse by the fact that most of the aid typically ended up in the hands of the Pakistani military, while much of its population continued to languish in poverty,” Davis said.

In his book, Davis writes that the real power in Pakistan lies with the military.

“While Pakistan is said to be a parliamentary federal republic with a president who serves as head of state and a Prime minister who runs the government, everyone knows that the real power in that country lies with the military,” he wrote.

“For more than half of the sixty-four years that had passed since its birth as a nation,

Pakistan had been under military rule. It devoted nearly a quarter of its budget to defence spending. As recently as 2007, Pakistan had been under martial law. That same year, President Pervez Musharraf, a former fourstar general, suspended the constitution, had the leader of the opposition party arrested, and dismissed the Supreme Courts chief justice,” Davis said.

“In short, you did not want to cross the military in Pakistan,” he said.

Between 1954 and 1959, the US gave Pakistan $1.28 billion.

“By 2011, the total amount of aid doled out by the United States had ballooned to $67 billion,” he wrote in his book.

“After 9/11, the US, using Coalition Support Funds, also reimbursed Pakistan for any money it spent combating terrorism, a policy that was somewhat flawed because, while it was supposed to encourage the Pakistani military to fight local militants, it provided little incentive for it to do the job well,” Davis rued.

“After all, if all the terrorists disappeared, so too would the seemingly limitless ATM that was the United States,” he said in the book which gives graphic details of his arrest in Lahore and his subsequent release.

“Having grown dependent upon these annual disbursements of aid from the US and with fewer than two million of its 182 million citizens paying income tax, Pakistan had become the very definition of a “rentier state,” a country that receives a disproportionate amount of its revenues from external sources, kind of like the ne’er-do-well child of fabulously wealthy parents,” Davis said.

The children of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could face up to seven years in jail if it was proved that they had submitted fake documents to the Panama panel probing the money laundering allegations against the family, the Supreme Court warned today.

The apex court heard the Panamagate scandal case for the fourth consecutive day since the hearing began on Monday, following submission of a report by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on July 10, which was tasked by the court to probe allegation of corruption against Sharif and his family.

“The punishment for submitting forged documents in the court is seven years in jail,” warned the three-member panel of judges.

The JIT among other things has observed that some of the documents submitted by the children of Sharif, 67, were tampered with.

A trust deed provided by the prime minister’s daughter Maryam Nawaz and executed in 2006 was written in Calibri font which was not commercially available till 2007. It was also notarised from an office in London on Saturday which is officially an off day, raising concern about the authenticity of the document. Similarly, Government of Dubai has revealed that the documents of Gulf Steel Mills provided by the prime minister’s son Hussian Nawaz were forged as there was no record of those documents.

Justice Ejaz Afzal is heading the probe panel comprising Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan.

They also warned Salman Akram Raja, the lawyer of Sharif ’s children, against a media trial in the case after some of the documents presented by him were leaked to media and were discussed in talk shows yesterday.

“You have been conducting a trial in the media and the documents (submitted to the court) have already been discussed in the media,” said Justice Saeed.

“There is a media dais outside, you should give your arguments there as well,” he told Raja, who assured the court that he had not released any documents to media.

Meanwhile, Raja presented his arguments in details. The arguments were still going on when the court adjourned the proceedings till tomorrow.

The judges today again asked the Sharif family to provide the money trail of its various businesses in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UK. “The main question is where did the money for these businesses came,” asked the panel.

Later, Fawad Chaudhry, member of a legal team representing Imran Khan of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), told media outside the court after the hearing that the hearing might be completed by tomorrow.

“For us the case is over. Sharif would have to go home and then jail for corruption. His children would also land in jail for forgery,” he said. Minister of State for Information Marriyam Aurangzeb said that the prime minister has been vindicated as there is no proof of any corruption against him.

“The prime minister was accused of money laundering and corruption but none of the allegations have been proved,” she said.

The scandal surfaced when the Panama Papers leaks last year revealed that Sharif ’s sons -- Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz -and his daughter Maryam -- owned offshore companies which managed their family’s properties.

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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Indian-American doctor sentenced for $ US 49 million fraud An Indian-American doctor, known for promoting classical Indian dances in the US, has been sentenced to nearly 10 years of imprisonment for defrauding his former company’s shareholders worth US$ 49 million.

Sreedhar Potarazu, an ophthalmic surgeon licensed in Maryland and Virginia, provided materially false and misleading information to VitalSpring’s shareholders to induce more than US$ 49 million in capital investments in the company.

Potarazu, 51, represented on numerous occasions that VitalSpring was a financially successful company and that the sale of VitalSpring was imminent, which would have resulted in profits for shareholders, the Department of Justice alleged.

The Indian-American doctor also admitted that he concealed from shareholders that VitalSpring failed to account for and pay over more than US$ 7.5 million in employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.

For example, in 2014, Potarazu provided shareholders with a written summary of operating results that reflected VitalSpring’s 2013 revenues to be approximately US$ 12.9

million when, in fact, the 2013 revenue was less than US$ 1 million, federal prosecutors alleged.

Potarazu was highly popular among the Indian-American community for hosting annual UTSAV festival of classical Indian music and dance at the prestigious Kennedy Center.

In 2015, it was kicked off of by Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, joined by his sons Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan.

A major fund raiser for the Democratic party and its leaders Hillary Clinton and the former US President Barack Obama, Potarazu was also instrumental in special screening of “Jai Ho” a documentary on the work of A R Rahman at the White House in 2015.

The legendary music director was personally present at the White House event.

“Like a director employing actors and props on a stage, Sreedhar Potarazu arranged for an imposter to pose as a buyer, provided a link to a bogus website and supplied fraudulent balance sheets, phony bank statements and false tax returns to convince VitalSpring investors and potential buyers that the company was financially healthy and up-to-date on its taxes,” said Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Goldberg.

“As a result of his actions, shareholders are out more than US$ 49.5 million and over US$ 7.5 million in employment taxes due to the US Treasury were diverted and never paid.

“With Potarazu’s conviction and the sentencing hearings in this case, his fraud has been revealed, and today’s imposition of a 119 month sentence holds him fully accountable for his actions,” Goldberg said.

H-1B visa applicants being diverted to O visa A top American Senator on Wednesday alleged that potential H-1B applicants are being advised to apply for an O visa instead of the numerically capped H-1B visas intended for highly-skilled workers to bypass legal restrictions on employment visas.

While H-1B visa is for foreign guest workers with high skilled capabilities, O visa programme, is intended for use by those who have extraordinary abilities or a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement.

Unlike most other visa categories, the O visa program has no numeric cap.

Citing the Indian media reports, Senator

Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said claimed the number of O visas issued has tripled in the last decade. The rise in numbers alongside these reports raise concerns about the future integrity of both visa programs, he said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. “Visas intended for exceptional individuals are not a substitute for H-1B visas. Any attempt to flout the extraordinary requirements of the O visa program because an applicant can’t acquire an H-1B potentially constitutes visa fraud and ultimately damages both visa programs,” Grassley said.

Indians among top investors in residential property in US The pall of gloom owing to protectionist policies has not kept Indians residing in the US from investing in real estate. By purchasing residential property worth $7.8 billion during the 12-month period ending March 2017, Indians emerged as the fifth largest investors in real estate in the US. Backed by mortgage finance, these properties were largely acquired for use as primary residence or for use by a child studying in the US. Chinese nationals were the biggest buyers, purchasing residential property worth $31.7 billion in the same period. They were followed by the Canadians, British, Mexicans and, lastly, Indians. Between April 2015 and March 2016, Indians had invested $6.1 billion and occupied third place on the list of biggest buyers. However, a surge of investments from other nationalities resulted in Indians slipping to fifth position in 201617. The bulk of buyers from China, India, and

Mexico were working and residing in the US, while most buyers from Canada and the UK were non-resident buyers, adds the report, “2017- Profile of international activity in US residential real estate” released recently by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

More than a third of the Chinese buyers purchased residential property in California.

Compared to the other major foreign buyers, Indians were not as concentrated in any state in the US and the location of their jobs largely determined their purchase. While California, New Jersey, Texas, Massachusetts, and Kentucky were top destinations, more than two in five Indian buyers purchased in another state. While a stronger dollar makes it more expensive to purchase US property, fears of a further weakening of a local currency against the dollar prompts some foreign buyers to accelerate their purchase.

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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Mukesh Ambani Buys Stakes Worth Rs 413.28 Crore In Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) will acquire a 24.92 per cent stake in Balaji Telefilms for Rs 413.28 crore.

The collaboration will reportedly

help Ekta’s digital venture ALTBalaji and Reliance’s Jio Network. So all the Balaji Telefilms shows will now also be a Reliance Company product.

RIL will get 2.52 crore shares through preferential allotment at Rs 164 apiece aggregating to Rs 413.28 crore.

The proceeds from the transaction would be used to further build up

content development initiatives. On one hand, RIL is building up its base for Jio Network among the masses and on the other hand Ekta will be strengthening her digital venture ALT Balaji to create more content.

Thus Ekta would now be able to scale up her production capacity for digital content and web series. Thus it will help ALT Balaji with a strong ability to compete with other OTT service providers - both global and Indian.

This transaction is a landmark event for the Indian web content industry. It is expected to further accelerate the growing trend of media consumption ‘on-the-go’. The board of both the companies approved the transaction at their respective meetings held today.

Anil Kapoor: I Have Dated 20-25 Girls From The Film Industry Anil Kapoor is not only popular for his infectious energy but his one-liners and punch lines can increase the entertainment quotient of an event by leaps and bounds.That’s exactly what happened at a promotional event of his forthcoming film, Mubarakan.

After an entire round of dance, masti and dhamaal, it was time for media interaction and that’s when Anil Kapoor candidly spoke about his past. When the media asked him about his girlfriends, Anil Kapoor replied, “I have had 20 to 25 girlfriends from the film industry.”

Sunny Leone Adopts Baby Girl From Latur, Names Her Nisha Kaur Weber In an interview to Hindustan Times, Sunny has revealed that she and husband Daniel Weber are proud parents to a 21-month-old baby girl.

The baby girl from Latur, Maharashtra, has been adopted by them, and Sunny said it was “love at first sight.”

They have named her Nisha Kaur Weber.

Speaking of her decision to adopt, Sunny said: “Right now, it’s all so brand new because it has just been a few days.

The moment we got the picture (of Nisha); I was so excited, happy, emotional and [experienced] so many different feelings. We literally had three weeks to finalise everything. Usually, people get

nine months to prepare (laughs).”

Daniel added: “Our life is always so crazy. There are no nine months for us. For

me, it has just been lots of paperwork for two years and then one day, that’s it. You get an email that you have been matched with a child. It’s so crazy.”

Shraddha Kapoor as Manish Malhotra muse looks nothing less than elegant As much as the western outfits excite us, the charm of ethnic Indan wear is quite surreal, especially if it’s a Manish Malhotra ensemble. Manish Malhotra as a brand name is synonymous with opulent, contemporary Indian couture. Turning muse for one of his splendid creations, the demure girl-next-door of Bollywood, Shraddha Kapoor channeled the minimal yet ethereal vibe for an award function recently.

Following a string of successful movies like Ok Jaanu and Half Girlfriend this year, Shraddha successfully added a few stylish chapters in her promotional book of style.

Shraddha Kapoor looks terrifically at ease with the style choices she makes and instantly strikes a chord with us mere mortals.

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As reported in hitlist yesterday, Kangana Ranaut sustained an injury while shooting a sword fight sequence on the set of Manikarnika — The Queen of Jhansi. Kangs is now on the road to recovery

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The battle continues

Shah Rukh Khan has gifted Pritam a guitar. This is King Khan’s way of thanking him for the music of Jab Harry Met Sejal. With the film’s tracks like Radha, Beech Beech Mein, Safar and Butterfly, climbing the charts, SRK has a reason to cheer.

King Khan is known to gift luxury cars, but for Pritam, he preferred a musical instrument to create many more melodious songs.

Kangana Ranaut and writer Apurva Asrani had sparred over the writing credits for Hansal Mehta’s Simran.

Yesterday, things got uglier when Kangana’s sister Rangoli Chandel, slammed Apurva in a series of tweets. Asrani recently tweeted, “I hired my brother as addnl writer on my new film. Kangana hired her sister as manager and now promotes her brother.

All guilty of nepotism? (sic)” Rangoli retorted, “I am her sister and I am with her in that capacity, my brother is a pilot and don’t you dare to bring him in to this.”

She also accused Asrani of using Kangana’s name for publicity.

SHOT IN THE DARK

TV stars’ wild night out Not without the scarf After undergoing horse riding training sessions, Salman Khan has begun shooting for Ali Abbas Zafar’s Tiger Zinda Hai in Morocco. Photos shared by the star’s fan clubs reveal that his Ek Tha Tiger (2012) scarf features prominently in the sequel as well. Looks like it will become a fashion statement yet again.

With Indonesia proving to be a hotspot for Indian small screen stars, can scandals be far behind?

News reaching Indian shores is about the happenings at a party in Jakarta. This petite TV actress (her hubby began with TV and has done a few Bollywood films) tried to get too close for comfort with a male colleague. She plonked herself on his lap. What followed was even more scandalous. The said actor led her to another actor and made her touch him inappropriately. She was shocked and all those on her speed dial immediately knew what had happened. The actress, who is now back in the bay, is on tenterhooks and has a lot of answering to do to her hubby. There is also talk of another petite TV actress getting cosy with a male actor at the said bash, who lifted her in his arms.

Cringe-worthy

Wait gets longer The release of Kajol’s Tamil outing, Velai Illa Pattadhari 2 (VIP 2) has been postponed. The film was slated to release on July 28 as a birthday gift for co-star Dhanush. Yesterday, director Soundarya Rajinikanth tweeted, “I extend my regrets to inform Dhanush fans and cinema lovers that VIP2’s release is being pushed to the first half of August due to inevitable reasons. Will announce the confirmed release date soon (sic).” Dhanush was tied up with his Hollywood film, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir. He wrapped up the shoot on Wednesday in Paris. Buzz is that the film’s edit needs a recheck.

Actor-anchor Karan Wahi, is soaking in New York, after attending a film awards event. His recent Facebook post, however, has been a cause of ire, among telly folk. Wahi has expressed his concern regarding the new show, Pehredaar Piya Ki (bottom left), which has a 10-year-old boy getting hitched to a 20-something woman. He wrote, “Dear producer and channel, don’t sell me stupidity in the name of content for TRPs (sic).” Yesterday, Wahi found himself being trolled on Twitter for his comments as he is also a part of the industry. He replied, “It feels great actually to be trolled... good or bad at least I know my opinion matters.”

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Hear me out Plabita Borthakur, who plays the character of Rehana in Lipstick Under My Burkha, is a singer too. It was her constant humming on the set that landed her an opportunity to sing in the film. Director Alankrita Shrivastava was aware that she was part of a band. “I asked her if I could include my original songs in the film and she readily agreed. I used As It Rained for one of the scenes and composed In Your Arms Baby for another,” says Borthakur.

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Rakul Preet Singh is shooting for Neeraj Pandey’s Aiyaary in London with Sidharth Malhotra and Manoj Bajpayee. The Yaariyan (2014) actress, who moved South, is glad to be back in Bollywood. When not shooting, she’s hitting the streets of London and soaking in the sights.

Saturday, July 22, 2017

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Varun Dhawan, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt

Are they in the industry because of nepotism?

‘Nepotism’ and ‘racism’ have become two words that Bollywood is currently obsessed with. While both are prevalent in our industry, for now let’s keep ‘racism’ at the back burner and talk about ‘nepotism’. Before I start, first let us understand the meaning of nepotism. According to wikipedia, “nepotism is based on favoritism granted to relatives in various fields, including business, politics, entertainment, sports, religion and other activities.” Another definition on the internet reads, “the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.”

Varun Dhawan Son of: David Dhawan (Filmmaker ) Made his debut in: Student Of The Year (Karan Johar) Critically acclaimed for: Badlapur (Sriram Raghavan) There have been quite a few instances where there were complaints that star kids don’t have to go through auditions and they get the film because they are star kids. For those unaware, Varun Dhawan actually had to give audition for Aamir Khan’s Dhobi Ghat.

Alia Bhatt Daughter of: Mahesh Bhatt (Filmmaker) Made her debut in: Student Of The Year (Karan Johar) Critically acclaimed for: Highway (Imtiaz Ali), Udta Punjab (Abhishek Chaubey) One of the best actresses of Bollywood in today’s time, Alia Bhatt is a product of nepotism.

Sonam Kapoor Daughter of: Anil Kapoor (Actor) Made her debut in: Saawariya (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Critically acclaimed for: Neerja (Ram Madhvani) She made her debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Saawariya. In the last 10 years, there’s only one film that her father (or sister to be precise) has produced till date, which was Aisha and it was not a success.

Arjun Kapoor Son of: Boney Kapoor (producer) Made his debut in: Ishaqzaade (YRF) Critically acclaimed for: Ishaqzaade (YRF), Aurangzeb (YRF) Despite being the son of a successful producer and coming from an influential family, Arjun made his debut with YRF’s Ishaqzaade.

Ranbir Kapoor Son of: Rishi Kapoor (Actor) Made his debut in: Saawariya (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Critically acclaimed for: Wake Up Sid (Ayan Mukerji), Rocket Singh-Salesman Of The Year (Shimit Amin) etc Again one of the best actors of our times, Ranbir, is yet to do a film under the RK banner. He has proved time and again with his talent as to why he, despite delivering flops, is one of the most sought after actors of Bollywood. If not for him, give some credit to Rajkumar Hirani, he won’t cast Ranbir in his dream project, the Sanjay Dutt biopic, just because he comes from Kapoor lineage

and is not a talented force to reckon with.

Tiger Shroff Son of: Jackie Shroff (Actor) Made his debut in: Heropanti (Sajid Nadiadwala) Acclaimed for: For his martial arts and dancing skills His first film, Heropanti was produced

by Sajid Nadiadwala and it was an instant

success, followed by his second film, Baaghi, which was an even bigger success. Jackie Shroff didn’t make a single film for him and is not planning to in future as well. Despite his films receiving unfavourable reviews by critics, he is still safe bet at the box office thanks to his talent and fan following. Now there have been many star kids who despite their lineage, couldn’t survive in Bollywood,

be it Jackky Bhagnani, Uday Chopra, Esha Deol, Shiv Darshan, Armaan Jain etc.

I am not denying the fact that nepotism exists in Bollywood but Bollywood is not the only place where it does. It exists everywhere.

But looking at every ‘star kid’ and ‘privileged’ actor with the glasses of nepotism is not fair.

You are not only demotivating them but also trivialising their talent.

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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Bollywood Horoscope Aries

Libra

March 21 - April 20

Sept. 24 - Oct 22

New romantic partners may attend a function that puts you in the limelight.

Opportunities to get involved in self improvement projects will be rewarding.

You will back yourself into a corner if you are baited and your stubbornness will only make matters worse. Try not to argue about trivial matters. Your lucky day this week will be Wednesday.

Opportunities for romance will develop through activities with large groups.

You have to believe in yourself and your talents. You may be emotional if you allow your lover to take advantage of your good nature. Your interest in helping others may take you back to school.

Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

Taurus

Scorpio

April 21 - May 20

Oct 23 - Nov 22

Stick to doing things that will make you a better person both physically and mentally.

Take time to help children with projects that may be too hard for them to do on their own. Be up front if you don’t want to be embarrassed. Your personal life will be disrupted if you have been too busy with business.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Children may be less than honest with you. People trying to entice you to join in will be less than trustworthy. Help children with important projects. Losses are likely if you have left your financial affairs in other people’s hands.

Your lucky day this week will be Thursday.

Gemini

Sagitarius

May 20 - June 21

Nov 23 - Dec 22

Take care of any paperwork concerning institutional or governmental agencies.

You could receive recognition for a job well done. Someone you care about may let you down or criticize your methods. Your lack of attention may have been a factor.

Your lucky day this week will be Monday.

Cancer

You may find yourself changing crowds.

Don’t sign up for too many extra activities or you’ll have trouble fulfilling your obligations. Drastic changes regarding your personal attitude are evident. Sign up for seminars that will expand your business awareness.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Capricorn

June 22 - July 23

Dec 23 - Jan 20

Expect to experience a sudden reversal of fortune. Joint ventures might prove to be unfavorable. Don’t let an incident at work play on your mind. Changes will not be easy for the youngsters involved.

Your lucky day this week will be Monday.

Leo

If they want help that’s great, but if they try to take credit for your work, you will have to set them straight. Love can be heightened if you sit down and discuss your future plans. Plan a day of enjoyment with them. You may as well work on projects that will allow you to make progress.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Aquarius

June 24 - August 23

Akshay Kumar reacts to reports of Salman Khan opting out of Battle of Saragarhi The film we have all been waiting for where three Bollywood biggies, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Karan Johar come together may not take off yet as Khan has backed out.

We had laid out the reason and it has a lot to do with the fact that the superstar recently had a fallout with his manager, Reshma Shetty. In case you folks didn’t know, currently she is handling Akshay!

That’s right. So could it be that this caused a rift between the two actors? When the actor was quizzed about this

by Mumbai Mirror, he reacted, “I have not heard from Salman or anyone else about this.”

According to a source close to this development, we were told EXCLUSIVELY that one of the reasons for the fallout had more to do with Reshma Shetty’s involvement with the project and not with her signing Akshay as a client. The deal that was struck between Dharma Productions and Salman’s SKF was all thanks to Reshma’s coordination. Despite not being the superstar’s manager, she is very much a part of the project. Therefore, Salman decided to opt out.

The ambitious war film was supposed to go on floors in 2018. We hear that this isn’t the only reason but that Ajay Devgn’s displeasure also has a lot to do with Salman stepping out of this movie. Before KJo, Devgn already planned on making a movie

on the Battle of Saragarhi. The news of Johar making the film that too with Salman obviously bothered him and he spoke to the superstar on the same.

While Salman hasn’t made any statements on the same yet, we wonder if we should be excited for the project with all the trouble that’s brewing in the producer’s bay. It does baffle us that Akshay is not familiar with this news but he’s mostly travelling to places, shooting on various projects so probably e didn’t a chance to check the story out. In his interview with Mirror, he further spoke about how Reshma became his manager. He said, “Reshma and I are both workaholics. I have always admired her for being such a hard worker.

She is someone I always wanted to work with but things didn’t fall in place earlier.

This time, we found common ground, hence the decision to begin a new association.”

Jan 21 - Feb 19

Listen to the complaints of others. You have two choices; Get out on your own, or bend to your mate’s whims. You can visit clients and make a big impression just by giving them some hands-on help. You can make alterations to your appearance that everyone will admire.

Your lucky day this week will be Monday.

Virgo

Secret affairs can only lead to devastating circumstances. Make money using your ingenuity and creative talent. Your mate will enjoy helping out. Extravagance and overindulgence are not a cure if you’re feeling sorry for yourself.

Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

Pisces

August 24 - Sept 24

Feb 20 - March 20

Help children complete projects they’re having difficulty with. The battle continues.

You will need to work diligently in order to accomplish even the smallest amount.

Put your efforts into making constructive improvements to your environment and to your state of mind.

Your lucky day this week will be Monday.

Sudden changes could result in estrangement’s. You should consider getting your whole family involved in a project at home. The only thing you’ll accomplish is a bad reputation. There’ll be difficulties if you spend too much.

Your lucky day this week will be Sunday.

Arjun slams reports of Kapil Sharma keeping Mubarakan team waiting There were reports that owing to Kapil Sharma‘s health, the team of Mubarakan were left waiting for long before the shoot. The comedian had to be rushed to the hospital.

But now Arjun Kapoor has clarified on Twitter that this was not the case. He writes, “He didn’t keep us waiting he unfortunately fell sick…the #Mubarakan team wishes @ KapilSharmaK9 gets well soon & keeps making us smile…” That’s really sweet of him to clarify. There have been only speculations and finally, Arjun has put an end to it.

Quoting a source, Indian Express had reported,”Everyone from the team

Mubarakan had come on time right from Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Ileana D’Cruz and Athiya Shetty. The shoot was scheduled to begin around 5.30pm earlier today. But as Kapil had not come till then, we made some calls and it was then we were told that he is not keeping well but will try to come in for the shoot as soon as possible. As Kapil’s health was involved, the team decided to wait for him for some more time and finish the shoot. But till 10pm when he did not turn up, everyone decided that they shall leave after waiting for over four hours.” Clearly, there is no truth to this tale as Arjun said.

Bollywood personalities’ birthdays

himesh reshammiya July 23

Mugdha Godse JuLY 26

Jugal Hansraj JuLY 26

rahul bose juLY 27

Saturday, July 22, 2017

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Channa Mereya

It’s a fairly good remake of ‘Sairat’ The roaring success of Sairat (2016) was not the result of a novel storyline, but the collective outcome of an exceptionally likeable lead pair and fresh execution. So, Channa Mereya had a slim chance of being able to repeat the success of its Marathi original. Fortunately, director Pankaj Batra churns out a fairly good remake, proving himself yet again post Bambukaat (2016).

Despite not offering anything new in the initial hour, the film holds your attention due to its strong performances and dialogues. Ninja, who makes his debut as the male lead, puts a fairly entertaining show. Both Yograj Singh and Amrit are impactful as the villains.

Unfortunately, leading lady Payal Rajput is the weakest link — and that is the love story’s biggest undoing. Love stories often fall prey to clichés and Channa Mereya is no exception.

While the beginning of the second half may have you

glancing around the dark theatre owing to the been-thereseen-that value, it soon picks up pace. With a crisp edit, honest performances and witty dialogues, it keeps you engaged before the upsetting final blow. And it’s here, watching the brutal climax that one feels as if everything is happening all of a sudden, making the impact less than desired.

While the film adeptly highlights the caste and class system prevalent in the society, where it fails is in the presentation of the lead pair. The wide-eyed innocent teenagers in Sairat had an appeal of their own — something that seems missing in the six-pack-abs-flaunting hero and an uninspiring leading lady.

However, what the film loses in the main cast, it makes up with its supporting cast, cinematography and background music. Of course, the emotionally shocking climax is not for the faint-hearted. If accepted with open arms, it will be telling of the evolution of Punjabi cinema viewers.

“Soora So Pehchaniye”

Angry Karan Wahi SLAMS Pehredaar Piya Ki for content Pehredaar Piya Ki is one show that had garnered a lot of attention and not in a good way.

Looks like after the show went on air last night the daily soap has become even more widely discussed. And seems like the show’s content, which was highly debated upon has angered one of their own.

TV actor and host Karan Wahi is pretty upset with this show. The actor openly bashed this show and shared his frustration and shock over the regressive content that was being telecast.

Karan took to his Facebook page and expressed his anger over the show’s content.

It is always an arduous job for a playwright to write a play on the Sikh history especially on the life events of Sikh Gurus or their families and equally tough for a director to direct such a play. This is just like to walk on a double edge weapon.

Nevertheless, it was hearting to see the performance of Soora So Pehchaniyae, a play written by an eminent Punjabi playwright Ravinder Singh Sodhi and directed by a budding director Barinderjit Singh Bunny.

This play is regarding the martyrdom of four Shabizadas of the tenth Sikh master, Guru Gobind Singh. It goes to the credit of the writer that he innovated a noble idea to depict the historical events of Chamlkaur Sahib and Sirhind through two lands (Chamkaur di Dharti and Sirhind di Dharti). Similarly, the writer introduced a character of a mad woman (Pagal Aurat) to highlight the sacrifice of four Shaibzada’s and through her touchy dialogues motivated the young generation of Sikhs to follow the footpath of Sahibzada’s.

This play was staged at Punjab Kala Bhawan Chandigarh by the artists of Impact Arts on 3 July 2017. Though most of the artists of the play were amateur, their performance was commendable with some artists acting like professionals. Kamaldeep Kaur as Chamlkaur di Dharti and Tamana Bhasin as Sirhind di Dharti impressed the audience. Their body language was as per the demand of the characters. Face expressions of Neha Dhiman ( Pagal aurat ) were up to the mark. She fully justified the faith of the director for selecting her for such a powerful role. Nikhil Mehta

(Wazir Khan), Balwinder Singh (Nahar Khan), Hitesh Kumar (Kazi), Akhil Singh (Sucha Nand), Ravitej Singh (Nawab), Manish Kumar (Gangu) etc. also did full justice to their respective roles. The scene where Sucha Nand very cunningly motivates Wazir Khan to take action against the younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh and then Wazir Khan peruses the Kazi to pronounce a strict judgment against the younger Sahibzada’s came out outstandingly well. In the same scene when Wazir Khan tells the Nawab of Malerkotla that he should come forward to take revenge for the death of his brother and Nawab refuses to oblige Wazir Khan was quite phenomenal. Besides the acting, light effects, background music and costumes also kept the audience spell bound. The director of the play Baninderjit Singh Bunny deserves full appreciation for such a magnificent production.

Two eminent personalities of theater, Jagjeet Sareen, and Bharat Bhushan Verma, who were the chief guests of the day, appreciated the efforts of all the artists, background workers and the director for such a splendid show. They shared their fond memories with the audience about the writer of the play. Jagjeet Sareen while talking to the media said that Impact Arts is doing their best for the promotion of theater while Bharat Bhushan Verma advocated that some religious and social organizations must come forward to sponsor this play. Such meaningful plays which are promoting the Sikh values amongst the younger generation deserve patronage at international level as well.

The actor wrote, “Dear producer and channel .. i understand we cant make shows like how i met ur mother and friends, and honestly i dont expect us to also ,but for the love of god and for the reason we all got in this industry plz dont sell me stupidity in the name of content which gives trp because honestly no one is watching this . Leave aside other people i think the fraternity only dsnt .

I wish and pray well fr everyone whose a part of this show also but it wud be great if we started enjoying our work and not just working because we dont have an option…

Not to sound arrogant but we can be better than this.”

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KJo shows his musical side Filmmaker helps composers Sachin-Jigar create party number at Sidharth Malhotra’s behest

Angad Bedi; (below right) British boxer Amir Khan

Amir Khan passes on Mumbai boxing team to Angad Bedi THOUGH cricket is Angad Bedi’s first love, the actor is now investing in a boxing league. He will own a team that is currently endorsed by British boxer Amir Khan.

Bedi tells mid-day, “I’ve been in Delhi for a few days to support Amir’s team, Mumbai Assassins, in the Super Boxing League.�

The actor admits that his decision to invest in a boxing team stemmed from a business proposition that appeared lucrative. “Considering how big the sport is today, this investment may be fruitful. Currently, we are finalising the details and should be ready to play in the next season.�

The ongoing league, which kickedoff on July 5 and concludes on August 12, is seeing the participation of eight teams, few among which will be owned by actors, including Sunny Leone, Sushant Singh Rajput, Rana Daggubati and Suniel Shetty.

Priyanka Chopra will reportedly take over the North East team, but a final decision is yet to be taken.

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The source adds that besides Johar, directors Krishna DK and Raj WHILE working on the soundtrack Nidimoru, and the lead of Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline cast were also present at Fernandez’s next, A Gentleman, the session. “Karan was music directors Sachin-Jigar had instrumental in defining filmmaker Karan Johar for company. the concept of the song.

A source says, “Karan dropped by Raj, DK and the star cast on Sidharth’s request. He brain- fell in love with the tune stormed with Sachin and Jigar on the instantly,� says the possibilities of including an eclectic source, adding that disco number with electro-funk ele- singers Benny Dayal and ments. The song, Disco Disco, was Shirley Sethia recorded the number later. created in 15 minutes.�

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Men with stripes on That damn Airport Look chest to star on screen T SWARA BHASKAR, actress

JP Dutta ropes in Indian Army officials for pivotal roles in Paltan SOON after collaborating with the Indian Army to provide physical training to the actors of his upcoming war film, Paltan, filmmaker JP Dutta is now set to rope in the Army’s serving officers to feature in the film. Cast member Siddhanth Kapoor, who plays a soldier in the movie based on the India-Sino War of 1962, tells mid-day, “Dutta sir has decided to rope in only a handful of junior artistes, and appoint real-life soldiers to feature as officers in the film. It is because of these decisions that he can make a war film look so convincing.”

Dutta tells mid-day that his film’s star cast, comprising Abhishek Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Pulkit Samrat, Suniel Shetty, Jimmy Sheirgill, Luv Sinha and Jackie Shroff, have already kicked off training with the officials.

“They need to keep themselves extremely fit because it is a war film, and a lot of action is involved in it,” Dutta says. The unit will kick off shooting in September in Ladakh, where they will get three days to adjust to the environment. “We won’t film for the first three days, since it has been advised that the crew be given time to acclimatise. Getting used to the high altitude and the biting

JP Dutta with the officials on the location; (below) Abhishek Bachchan; (inset) Dutta cold will be a challenge for them,” he says, adding that the enthusiasm of his actors has also given him new vigour.

With the Central Government offering its support to Dutta, the filmmaker has procured permissions to shoot in the volatile zones near the Indo-China border. Dutta believes that China is a potent threat to India’s safety, which is why the subject of his film is pertinent. Dutta adds that the involvement of the Indian Army in the filmmaking process will ensure the team’s safety while filming in dangerous locations.

Carefully constructed look for the awaiting paparazzi

wood, there’s no comparison,” I whined. The stylist gave me an admonishing look.

“I’m going to miss my flight” I wailed. “Doesn’t matter! You have to get good pictures,” she shot back.

My make-up and hair team began to yank at my hair and eyelashes, while the stylist doled out outfit options. An hour-and-a-half n my way back from an later, and in terribly uncomfortawards function at an inter- able heels, I left for the airport.

My PR manager was travelling national destination a few years ago, I encountered the with me. She warned me that the paparazzi at the airport and had press will be at the airport.

“At 7am???” I asked wearily. the ignominy of not being recog“Yes.” nised by them. I complained about “Why?” this to my stylist, who bluntly said, “Because I told them to be “You have to look like a celebrity, to be recognised as one! Have you there!” seen how you go to the airport?

You look like an assistant direchat day, I learnt another pretor!” In stylist-speak, this is possicious life lesson — that heels bly the most derogatory thing you limit speed, and hinder pushcan say to anyone. ing and rushing abilities. We That’s it, I thought, I’m going to encountered the awaiting embrace ‘the airport look’. paparazzi, who recognised me this The next week, I had an 8 time. I had designedly candid am flight to Varanasi. My stylist images clicked and… missed my and I agreed upon a trendy jacket flight in the process, obviously! with jeans and sneakers for my “Good na, we’ll get great coverairport look. age,” quipped my PR manager.

At 5 am on the date of travel, my “Sure,” I growled, whipping out stylist, and my hair and make-up my credit card to pay for two team were at my doorstep. tickets on the next available flight; “Trials!” my stylist barked. realising I will never be a true-blue “WTF!!! I thought we had celebrity because the Airport Look decided the look last night.” had defeated me.

“Yes.” She said seriously, “but I saw what PeeCee was wearing at the airport last night, and it’s ditto!

We cannot seem like we are The views expressed in this column are the individual’s and copying her.”

“She’s Priyanka Chopra for don’t represent those of the paper Christ’s sake! She’s ruling Holly-

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‘We won’t film for the first three days [in Ladakh] since it has been advised that the crew be given time to acclimatise’

‘Tabu really is the backbone of my film’

Rohit Shetty on the reclusive actor’s comeback in his comic caper, Golmaal Again

DESPITE having essayed powerpacked performances in several comic capers, only infrequently has Tabu been the one to tickle funny bones. But Rohit Shetty promises that the actor’s character in his next, Golmaal Again, will have the audience in splits. He tells mid-day, “Tabu is a surprise casting. When you watch the film, you will realise that she was the best actor that could have been cast for this role.

She is the backbone

here are many precious lessons life has taught me.

Perhaps the most important of these lessons is, ‘You are what you seem.’ Bollywood starmakers i.e. PR managers and stylists swear by this mantra. And this is the philosophy that led to my head-on collision with that thing called The Airport Look!

It is a consciously strategised, carefully put-together look — clothes, accessories, bags, hair, make-up, shoes (yes, shoes are critical) that celebrities sport while going to and coming out of airports. The Airport Look (captured by paparazzi hanging about airports) is such designed so as to send a simple message to the viewers — ‘This person is a jetsetter, s/he has no time really; yet, s/he just looks SO good. And s/he doesn’t spend time on it, else how would s/he make her/his flights?’

Now, I’m someone who holds the record of having missed eight flights in three months. Even on good days, I make it for my flights by the skin of my teeth. I’m often spotted running madly past people at airports — pushing, shoving, getting into arguments, flirtations, pleading with airline personnel, basically anything to get me on the flight. Also, I’m always running late. So, you can imagine that being at the check-in counter on time, after having bathed, dressed and packed, is a feat for me. I’ve never understood how female celebrities find the time to blow-dry their bloody hair before a flight.

the same actors over and over again. “I love working with good human beings,” he reasons, adding, “The actors who’ve appeared in my previous films, including Johnny Lever, Sanjay Mishra, Vrajesh Hirjee, Mukesh Tiwari and Ashwini Kalsekar, among others, will feature in this fourth instalment of Golmaal, since they’ve been working with me for The cast on the set; (inset) several years.” Yet, the diRohit Shetty; (left) Tabu rector chose to replace his leading lady, Kareena Kapoor and the anchor of our Khan with Parineeti Chopra. story. We wanted someone Shetty tells us at the screening of with her reputation and aura.”

Given that the filmmaker has al- his TV show, Khatron Ke Khiladi, ways been vocal about his admira- “There’s an element of suspense in tion for his team, it comes as no the film, which required me to cast surprise that he loves to work with Parineeti instead of Kareena.”

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A day after Varun Dhawan apologised for his ‘nepotism rocks’ comment at a recent awards gala in New York, Saif Ali Khan and Karan Johar expressed regret over their barbs against Kangana Ranaut. “It was just a joke,” Saif said, adding, “but, now I feel, had we given it more thought, we could’ve really finished this ongoing public discourse on nepotism more decisively.” After the trio was criticised on Twitter for poking fun at Kangy with their remarks, Karan too admitted to a news portal yesterday that he “regrets” his statements, also adding that he was the one who came up with the joke.

“What we said was meant to be a joke, which I think has been misplaced and misunderstood.

I think it went wrong. The idea of that joke was entirely mine, so I take onus of what we said.”

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Luv Ranjan has begun shooting for his next directorial venture, Sonu Ke Titu Saturday, Julytitle 22,implies, 2017 it is a comedy. Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Ki Sweety.

As the quirky Bharucha and Sunny Singh feature in the film, which is being shot in Dubai

Shah Rukh in LA

No cat claws Sonam Kapoor has winged her way to New York for the shoot of Rajkumar Hirani’s biopic, based on Sanjay Dutt. The actor and co-star Anushka Sharma get along like a house on fire, so, the two are quite a riot on the set. Sonam has been posting snapshots with Anushka on Instagram. Alongside one, she quoted poet Maya Angelou as she wrote: “If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.” Anushka, it is said, refers to Sonam as Ms Gorgeous. Looks like we’ve found B- Town’s latest BFFs?

Eat, delete Yami Gautam has been roped in to endorse a fast food chain. Given that she is a foodie, the actor was happy to indulge while shooting for the ad. Yami loves pizzas. Here, she got a chance to eat to her heart’s content, and get paid for it too.

Unfortunately, after the shoot, Yami had to directly hit the gym.

Shah Rukh Khan is taking a short break from the promotional work of his next, Jab Harry Met Sejal, and is vacationing in Los Angeles.

Yesterday, he posted this snapshot and wrote: “I refrained from smoking, even though the area sanctioned it. For a break in LA.” SRK’s son, Aryan, is studying filmmaking at the University of Southern California. It is believed that the star-kid, who recently injured his nose, will have to undergo a surgical procedure.

The big bite While in New York, where he is currently filming his upcoming biopic on Sanjay Dutt, Ranbir Kapoor was spotted biting into a burger.

The actor appeared terribly hungry as he chose to forego his suave demeanour and chomp on his food in an unrefined manner. Where do all those calories disappear?

Dangler alert

The shoulder duster earrings seem to have caught the fancy of B-Town girls. Yesterday, Shraddha Kapoor wore them at a film’s trailer launch. Over the weekend, Kareena Kapoor Khan flaunted them at a book launch.

A while ago, Deepika Padukone also wore them at an international awards show.

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Nakshatra Diamond Jewellery Dazzles at IIFA 2017 Huma Qureshi and Sonaakshi Raaj walk the ramp at Gitanjali IIFA Event adorning Nakshatra Diamond Jewellery

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Baahubali star Prabhas has had a makeover. The South star’s latest snapshot is going viral on social media. The actor has put fans in a frenzy with his new, lean look, which is said to be from the photoshoot of his next film, Saaho, an action-thriller.

The Times Square, New York had an Indian flavor evening on July 13, as it played host to IIFA Stomp, a high-energy event to kick off the 18th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards at New York with NAKSHATRA.world and Franchise India as associate partners.

Leading Bollywood stars were present at the IIFA Stomp Fashion event, where NAKSHATRA.world presented a grand Fashion Sequence which was one of the high points of the IIFA celebrations.

Gitanjali Group, one of the world's largest integrated branded jewellery

manufacturer-retailer has been a key partner of IIFA, associated for more than a decade. The association with IIFA has been a perfect blend of glitter and glamour.

In New York, NAKSHATRA.world presented a sensational sequence featuring models in couture from Sonaakshi Raaj, whose ensembles are synonymous with opulence, and sparkling in the latest collections of Nakshatra diamond Jewellery which has always been associated with Bollywood Divas. Nakshatra diamond jewellery draws its inspiration from the heavenly constellation of stars evoking

an imagery of mysterious brilliance and is believed to bring divine luck to its wearer. The stunning new Nakshatra diamond jewellery collections are crafted around contemporary, stylized interpretations of the traditional seven-petalled diamond flower motif which is a must have at every Indian wedding.

In a stunning climax to the Gitanjali show, Bollywood star Huma Qureshi with Nakshatra diamond jewellery designer Sara Kazimi walked the ramp.

It was a signing off in style that marked the start of a weekend studded with glittering showbiz.

Tiger Shroff spills the beans on the chemistry he shares with alleged girlfriend Disha Patani Tiger Shroff is gearing up for his next, Baaghi 2. The actor is bulking up and getting in shape for the role, but unlike Baaghi, the sequel will not star Shraddha Kapoor in the lead. Baaghi 2 has a different story and hence, the makers wanted a fresh face for the franchise. They have selected Tiger’s alleged girlfriend, Disha Patani, for the movie and looks like the actor is quite excited to share screenspace with her ladylove. We have already seen the two set the screen on fire with their sizzling chemistry in Befikra and now again, they are all set to turn up the heat in Baaghi 2. While talking to us exclusively, Tiger opened up about the chemistry and comfort he shares with Disha.

Talking about the chemistry he shares with Disha, Tiger

revealed to us exclusively, “I am looking forward to working with her as I am really comfortable with her. We share an easy chemistry, so it will be fun working with her.”

When asked if he is bothered by the constant focus on his alleged relationship with Disha, the actor mentioned, “No, it’s not a problem.

It is a part and parcel of every actor, who is in the limelight. And everyone goes through it. People can say what they say, it really

doesn’t affect us.”

Apart from a new actress, Baaghi 2 will also have a new director. Ahmed Khan, who has worked with Tiger Shroff on T Series’ hit single, ‘Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon Main,’ will be helming the project.

Currently, Tiger is promoting his upcoming film, Munna Michael, post which he and Disha will start shooting for this action-packed thriller.

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ever has the compact market been so competitive than today. With more and more manufacturers getting into the game, there’s an option for

portrays. The front seats offer excellent support and what impressed me more were the rear seats – they were roomy and offered a good amount of leg and head room, something I didn’t expect at all! With the way the rear doors and handles

almost anyone looking at getting into a compact are designed, there’s less window space than I sport-ute. And for many people, small is the would like, but it doesn’t feel as claustrophobic new big, especially when you consider what’s as a couple of competitors. The one caveat included. The 2017 Honda HR-V is considered a that needs to be pointed at are the screens, newbie, with the first one making its appearance both infotainment and climate control – for in 2015 as a 2016 model. Now in its second me, they are just too digital. Now, I think that year, the model is a hot seller, following in the I’m pretty tech savvy and good at gadgets. But footsteps of siblings like the Civic and CR-V. these touchscreens fall short of what I expect For 2017, there aren’t any changes to the HR- from the brand. Bring back the knobs for basic V, which is based on the Fit platform, Honda’s functions like volume, tuning and temperature compact hatchback that has some pretty unique and fan control – it’s much easier when driving. cargo capabilities. While it doesn’t have the same I had the chance to drive the HR-V during flexibility of cargo space as the Fit, the extended, and unexpected, thanks to Honda’s Magic Seats, winter months in Vancouver, the HR-V does make for some where the all-wheel drive neat utility configurations. You system was definitely needed. can move large Rubbermaid bins, My test vehicle was the top-ofhockey gear, and even a surfboard! the-line AWD EX-L Navi, which Not bad for a compact SUV. carries a price tag of $30, 450, The HR-V’s style isn’t as edgy coming very close to an entry as Toyota’s new CH-R (yes, the level CR-V (pick your poison). names can get confusing), yet The other trim levels are the still has a modern, conservative LX and the EX, both of which look, with lines that are definitely can be had with either FWD Jag Dhatt Honda or Acura, depending on or AWD. I would definitely Jag Dhatt is an automotive, the angle. The pointy nose is choose either the EX or EX-L motorcycle and lifestyle journalist. He is an AJAC distinct but the headlights share variants because according to member and regular common characteristics with Honda, you get more standard contributor writer to many the CR-V. Overall, the style will features at reasonable prices. print and online media appease to a wide range of buyers, For example, add-ons include outlets. from university students to exclusive features like Lane retirees, and everyone in between.

Departure, Forward Collision, The small footprint of the HR-V makes it a great and LaneWatch, and leather heated seats. choice as well for those who live and/or work All three trims are powered by a 1.8L four in an urban environment, with parking being a cylinder that puts out 141 horsepower, enough breeze in any size of space. for everyday driving. The EX-L Navi can only Step inside the HR-V and it’s clearly Honda: be had with the CVT and in all honesty, it does fit and finish is great, material choice is excellent a good job. CVT’s have come a long way since and there is more room than what the cover they first made their presence almost 10 years

ago and Honda makes a darn good one, the elastic feel almost non-existent. And with this CVT, the HR-V gets top points for fuel efficiency in its class. For the week that I had this compact SUV, I found it very easy to drive. The transmission gives enough go when you step on the throttle, with the engine revving high for a decent feeling of acceleration. Also to note is that there isn’t very much engine or road noise; now, it’s not as quiet as the CR-V, but still very adequate for a vehicle of this size and class. Our family owned an older model CR-V and I can attest that the HR-V is way way quieter than that.

Although I was happy with the HRV’s power for most every day driving, it did disappoint when trying to pass at highway speeds. The engine revved high and made noise, but there was little in terms of performance when needed at these higher speeds. Even putting the vehicle in Sport Mode did little to help!

Honda wants to make sure that you stay as green as possible when driving their vehicles.

Thus, as in other models, there’s a ring around the speedometer that glows different colours, depending on your driving style. Drive nice and

easy and the ring glows green; drive it harder and it changes to white or blue – neat little feature I think.

The HR-V utilizes an electric power steering system (now becoming the norm) and it is nicely matched for this vehicle. It’s light yet gives very good feedback and road feel. I also liked the size of the steering wheel – just right for most drivers.

On the snow and ice-covered streets of BC’s Lower Mainland, Honda’s AWD system did a great job. Under normal circumstances, power is usually sent to the front wheels. If slippage is detected, the system instantly sends the appropriate amount of power to all wheels, providing great grip (yes, my test vehicle was fitted with snow tires).

I usually test most press vehicles like they are my daily driver and thus, my week included dad duties – school drop off and pick up, swimming, karate, and yes, even shopping at the mall. My kids had no trouble getting into and out of the vehicle and buckling seat belts was no issue.

Unlike a few other manufacturers, Honda makes sure that kids don’t have to fuss around when strapping themselves in.

Another plus for the HR-V was the height of the cargo area; my kids didn’t have to throw their bags up and over to get them in, something they’ve done in many other vehicles we’ve tested. The one complaint from my kids though – not enough cubby holes and storage places. I guess they are too used to our Odyssey!

While the 2017 Honda HR-V has a few minor quirks, it still has a lot going for it – good styling, excellent safety features, a solid engine and transmission, and a great AWD system that will make it a great choice for many people who are shopping in this class. With a starting price of $21, 150, I think it’s going to do quite well in the Canadian market.

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

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

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

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

immediate vacancy for Framer Helper.

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

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

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

Work conditions: • Physically demanding, handling heavy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requirement: Class 1 driving license with Air brake endorsement

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

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Saturday, July 22, 2017 Workplace Integration for Mature Individuals (WIMI 45+) PICS Society is providing an employment program called Workplace Integration for Mature Individuals (WIMI 45+), offering classes in the following: • Resume and cover letter building • Strengthen job search experience • Mentorship in pairing with local professional of your original profession • Job placement assistance and follow up support • Develop Work Action Plan and employer engagement This program partners with local community and business employers who provide one to one follow up support, up to date employment trends, and follow up assistance for up to 9 months.

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Call for more information at: PICS WIMI 45+ Program – Vancouver 8159 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5X 3L2 604-324-7733 Ext. 230 PICS WIMI 45+ Program – Surrey #205 – 12725, 80th Avenue, BC, V3W 3A6 604-596 7722 ext. 117 and 124 or via email: kcchau@pics.bc.ca ----------------------------------------BC Federation of Labour offers free English classes in Richmond, Vancouver to promote safer workplaces Vancouver - The BC Federation of Labour is offering free English as an Additional Language (EAL) courses to help new English language speakers in the workforce and promote improved workplace health and safety.

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The workshops are open to all workers or those seeking work throughout the Lower Mainland who want to improve their English language skills. At the same time, participants learn about workplace health and safety rules, their rights as workers, and employers’ obligations to provide a safe working environment.

Upon completion, participants in the program receive a certificate and are invited to a graduation dinner.

“This program is unique in Canada,” said Irene Lanzinger, president of the BCFED. “We’re trying to overcome any barriers that people have to accessing health and safety information to help make workplaces safer.”

The program—which has been offered since 2008—started in response to high profile tragedies that highlighted the need for increased awareness of health and safety rights and responsibilities for new Canadians with language or literacy barriers. In 2007, a van carrying farm workers was involved in a motor vehicle accident near Abbotsford. Three workers were killed, and 14 were seriously injured. In 2008, three immigrant workers were killed and two were left with permanent brain damage after inhaling toxic fumes at a Langley mushroom farm.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Location of work: Travel across Canada and USA with base at 12403 Old Yale Road, Surrey BC V3V 3X9 Shifts: Weekdays, Weekends, Night, Evenings Salary: $23.50 per hour for 50 hours per week, 100 overtime after 60 hours per week at the rate of 100 1.5 times.

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Chess is a great game to develop your cognitive skills: Tania

German tennis star Angelique Kerber’s nails are always manicured in bright colours. Saturday, The reason isJuly that her Jessica runs a cosmetic studio called 22,sister 2017 Schonsinn meaning beauty with purpose in Kiel, which Kerber often visits.

‘I’M NOT DATING AARON’

US skier Lindsey Vonn squashes dating rumours after online trolls link her with NFL star Rodgers

ON the occasion of International Chess Day yesterday, Indian champ Tania Sachdev had an important message for everyone. Sachdev, 30, the youngest and only Indian woman to hold the International Master and Woman Grandmaster titles, insists the game can help people hone their life skills.

“Whether you want to take it up professionally or just as a hobby, chess is a great game to develop your cognitive skills and is a total exercise of the mind. So, give a little time to chess regularly, learn the game and the skills it develops will help you in whatever you decide to do,” says the Arjuna awardee.

“Playing chess is great for the brain, feels Sachdev. One should spend some time everyday solving a couple of chess combinations. It keeps the brain working,” added Sachdev, who won a gold at the Commonwealth Chess in 2016 and bronze earlier this year.

Sachin asks youth to play to stay healthy CHENNAI: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar yesterday expressed his concern over the high prevalence of obesity among the population in the country and exhorted the youth to take to sporting activity to stay healthy.

“It is important for people to stay healthy and there is no better way than taking up some sporting activity,” he said at a function here to unveil the jersey of “Chennai Thalaivas” which is making its debut in Pro Kabaddi League this season. “By 2020 India is set to be the youngest nation by population. But in obesity we are number three. A young and unhealthy population is a perfect recipe for disaster.

What India needs is more participation in sporting activities,” he added.

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Vonn called Rodgers short on this Instagram picture of the ESPY’s red carpet he posted AMERICAN ski racer Lindsey Vonn is currently dating Kenan Smith, but some online haters have linked her to National Football League (NFL) star Aaron Rodgers after she commented on his Instagram pictures.

In the last few weeks, Vonn commented on many of his pictures. Like she wrote “Water is better,” on the picture he posted at the Gatorade National Players of the Year announcement and called Rodgers, who stands 6 feet 2 tall, short for the picture he posted of the ESPY’s red carpet and wrote: “Wow you are so short.”

The comments sparked rumours of her relationship with Rodgers. Recently, Vonn, 32, released a video where she clarified her relationship status. “It’s just hard sometimes being under the microscope. But I have a boyfriend, and I’m not dating Aaron.”

Pique is a good person, says his ex Nuria

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Brady wishes Gisele on her 37th birthday NEW England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady posted this picture on Instagram to wish his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen as she turned 37 yesterday.

He captioned the picture: “Happy Birthday @gisele this has been such a special year and we all love you more than you could ever know! I love this picture because you are in your element...loving life, nature, and your family! We love you.

Papai, Jack, Benny, and Vivi.”

IT has been more than seven years since Barcelona and Spanish star Gerard Pique ended his relationship with Nuria Tomas and started dating Colombian singer Shakira.

But the actress who recently opened up about her ex, said that she holds no grudge against him.

“Gerard is a good person, and you have to wish good people the best. The wound has been closed for years. And for years I have wished him well,” Tomas told Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

Tomas admitted she always preferred to be tight-lipped about her personal life even when she was dating Pique: “I have been called many times for interview requests, and I have always refused to speak. I cannot deny that I was with a person in the public eye, but I have never made my relationship public as that would go against my principles.” Asked if she had danced to a Shakira song, she said: “Of course!”

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He points to one house that was listed with an asking price of $4.2-million and recently sold for $3.6-million. All the time it was on the market, buyers were circling.

“Were there buyers out there who would have wanted it for $3.6-million?” He expects there were. But they didn’t come to the table. “Even if they like a house, they’re not confident in what to pay for it.”

In recent weeks, Mr. Grace has had a few listings that sold for less than the asking price.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“It seems like buyers are nervous to buy,” he says. “When they miss out on a house they’ve been watching for a while, they have a bit of non-buyer’s remorse.”

Mr. Grace coined the term on the fly because it’s been so long since anyone in the Greater Toronto Area has experienced anything approaching “non-buyer’s remorse.” It’s a big shift from the “fear of missing out” that drove the spring frenzy.

He says it’s hard to predict what will happen in the coming months, but he hopes the market is levelling off. Buyers and sellers need to learn how to navigate this strangely balanced market.

But he doesn’t rule out the much more grim scenario that could play out: Buyers remain paralyzed and sellers take their houses off the market, aiming to try again in the fall. Some agents are already pulling listings for the summer and he expects more will follow. Now sellers have to contemplate whether they should sell in a stagnant summer market or risk facing their own regrets later in the year. Mr. Grace warns that a potential swell of new listings in the fall could give buyers even more clout in negotiations. If that happens, sellers may hold out for their asking prices for months, but the most stubborn will see their houses languish on the market. As the fall market winds down, they may decide they have to sell, and that’s when prices compared with those of a year earlier turn red.

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Toronto’s softening housing market should continue to slow in the second half of the year, but is expected to finish 2017 with home prices still up 18 per cent over 2016, according to a new market forecast.

Funds Available A Royal LePage report on house prices in Canada predicts house prices nationally will rise 9.5 per cent this year, with Ontario driving most of the increase. Other markets outside of Ontario, including Vancouver, are expected to show much more modest growth.

Despite a drop in house sales and prices in May and June this year, the Greater Toronto Area is still expected to lead Canada in houseprice growth in 2017, climbing 18.5 per cent to an aggregate price of $862,264 by the end of the year compared with the end of 2016, the forecast predicts.

The 2017 growth, however, comes largely from gains in the first half of the year. The Toronto region experienced 24-per-cent price growth in the second quarter of 2017, according to the review, particularly thanks to record-high price levels hit in April, which means growth will be modest in the second

half of the year, Royal LePage chief executive officer Phil Soper said.

“We’re expecting home prices in Ontario to be relatively flat in the second half of the year, and it will gradually bring the whole year’s increase down to more moderate levels,” Mr. Soper said. “It’s hard to call 18-per-cent growth moderate, but we’re definitely going in the right direction.”

Mr. Soper said he called Toronto’s market the “least healthy” in Canada after the first quarter of the year, because prices were soaring by unsustainable levels, but he now feels the Toronto market is returning to “sanity” and showing a healthy balance. He said the market is not poised for a significant price correction.

The Ontario government introduced a 15-per-cent foreign-buyers tax in April as part of a package of reforms designed to cool the heated housing market, which helped push prices lower in May and June. Home sales fell 37 per cent in June in the Greater Toronto Area and prices were down almost 14 per cent in June from their peak in April.

Although Vancouver has seen price growth return this spring following a decline triggered by the introduction of a foreignbuyers tax last August, the survey predicts that Greater Vancouver will end 2017 with prices up a modest 0.5 per cent at an aggregate price of $1.21-million by the end of the year.

Mr. Soper said Vancouver had more of a correction than anticipated after the foreignbuyers tax was introduced, but said the region has had “a pretty good soft landing” this year.

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Well established .Baby Ultrasound Franchise, 3D/4D ultrasound (not diagnostic), Private clinic for pregnant moms. Full turn key operation this easy to run niche market business is perfect for individuals or couples with Medical/Health industry backgrounds. Beautifully set up office, low lease rate, excellent hours and easy to run with low overhead expenses. Professionals and New Immigrants with a healthcare background this is a perfect opportunity! Burnaby and Abbotsford locations available. Asking $125,000 each location

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95 Ave & 152 St., 940 sqft. of�ice space is available for Downtown 2 bed, bathspace for lease Within busy Triton Centre. Busy and growing area The core. perfect second floor2 office lease on 2nd including 3 small meeting room dream come true! This beautiful Café in the heart Unique and�loor established opportunity toof�ices, make your entrepreneurial 850 sq.ft home to use as a rental and reception. Also available 9400 sqft. space for lease. of White Rock is a small business owners dream!

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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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