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Vol 15 - Issue 35 Saturday, October 01, 2016
Turban exemptions for Sikhs rejected The Port of Montreal requires hard hats for all workers on comes to protective headgear. In 2006, an attempt by two B.C. dock workers to its property. Three Sikh truck drivers who perform regular pickups at the port have a religious conviction obtain helmet exemptions for Sikh longshoremen that forbids putting anything on their head except a failed on arbitration; turban-wearing Sikhs were simply reassigned to areas where hard hats weren’t five-to-six metre length of wrapped cotton. And last week, in a court decision that was soon mandatory. “It is clear and obvious that workers publicized throughout India, the Quebec Superior can bump their heads, and thereby sustain head Court sided with the port. Turban-wearing Sikhs can injuries,” read the decision. still enter the port, but if they don’t put on a hard hat There was a similar outcome in 2008, when two B.C. mill workers objecting to a mandatory hard hat they have to stay in the cabs of their truck. “We’re living in a world of moral panic about danger,” said policy were simply reassigned to a less dangerous Julius Grey, lawyer for the three Sikh appellants. part of the mill. That same year, an Ontario court rejected the While thze last 30 years have seen Canadian Sikhs Balpreet Singh achieve religious accommodation for the Sikh turban case of a turban-wearing Sikh man who claimed religious infringement for being ticketed while (dastaar) in the Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP, on passport photos and in B.C. traffic law, the Quebec Superior riding his motorcycle without a helmet. Court becomes only the latest body to draw the line when it Continued on Page 6...
Chinese immigrants with no income buy expensive homes NDP housing critic David Eby is once again calling for changes to the tax system after compiling new data on land titles in Vancouver. “I don’t believe Revenue Canada is treating this seriously. I don’t think the province is treating this seriously,” said Eby at a news conference where he unveiled more data, compiled by the NDP, on who owns property on Vancouver’s expensive West Side. The data looks at 250 properties in Mackenzie Heights, traditionally a middle-income neighbourhood located between Dunbar, Kerrisdale and Shuahgnessy. Continued on Page 9...
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Rashida released on bail shortly after being sentenced to 6 years in jail for fraud A former Vancouver notary who was convicted of running a $110-million Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to six years in prison. In his decision Wednesday, Provincial Court Judge Gregory Rideout also ordered Rashida Samji, 63, to pay more than $10 million in restitution to her victims. Samji, who was convicted of 28 counts of fraud and theft, faced sentencing on the fraud charges after the judge ordered a stay of proceedings on the theft counts. Continued on Page 7...
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Indian troops cross into Pak to hit terrorists Mounting a swift counter-terror operation across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army today announced it had neutralised terrorists waiting to infiltrate. The brave military manoeuvre was hailed across the country. The ‘surgical strikes’ was a resolute action by India 11 days after 18 soldiers were killed in the Uri sector in an attack by Jaish terrorists from across the border. Continued on Page 6...
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