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Saturday, August 24, 2019
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Province approves Surrey police force
he Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General has approved the City of Surrey’s municipal police force, according to a joint statement from Minister Mike Farnworth and Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum Thursday. It says the minister gave the approval required to establish Surrey’s municipal police department. Minister of Public Safety Mike Farnworth green lights city’s municipal police force. “To ensure all key issues are addressed and all complex details are in place to facilitate an orderly transition, a joint project team has been struck,” the statement says. “The joint transition committee, chaired by the Hon.
India’s lunar mission enters the Moon’s orbit ahead of landing attempt
India’s mission to the Moon, known as Chandrayaan-2, successfully entered lunar orbit on August 20th, ahead of the country’s first attempt to land a vehicle on the lunar surface. The maneuver was a critical move for the mission that could enable India to become the fourth country to put a spacecraft intact on the Moon.
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Indian entrepreneur invents plastic bottle substitute made entirely of bamboo One of the peskiest forms of pollution caused by consumers is single-use plastics; things like plastic bags and disposable plastic water bottles have been clogging up the oceans and doing irreparable harm to our ecosystem for decades. Companies have started to focus on ways to offer sustainable, eco-friendly solutions in the last handful of years. They’ve come out with stylish and convenient reusable water bottles and reusable shopping bags that
Wally Oppal, will work expeditiously to provide advice to the Director of Police Services through to the Solicitor General relating to the establishment of Surrey’s municipal police department. During a news conference, Farnworth said the transition is an “iterative process that requires substantial work that will proceed in phases.” “As this work progresses, and prior to any decision being made on any future phases of the process, public safety will remain a priority. Continued on page 7
Conservatives blast Liberal policy that will allow ‘Jihadi Jack’ to come to Canada after his birth country of UK strips citizenship The Conservatives on Sunday renewed their condemnation of the Liberal government’s position on citizenship rights for terrorists, following news that U.K. officials had stripped former ISIL member Jack Letts — known as “Jihadi Jack” — of his British citizenship. Conservative public safety critic Pierre Paul-Hus
did not commit to overturning a policy introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2015 that would prevent Canada from making a similar move, but said the Liberal government must fight to keep Letts out of the country. “The idea that anyone who signed up to fight with ISIS can be reformed is naïve and dangerous to Continued on page 7
Liberals shut down opposition bid to hear from ethics czar on SNC-Lavalin report Liberal members of the House of Commons Ethics Committee have shut down an opposition bid to hear from Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion following the release of his report into the SNC-Lavalin affair. The committee met Wednesday to discuss whether Dion would be invited to testify about his recently-released report, which found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had contravened the federal Conflict of Interest Act by seeking to influence Jody Wilson-Raybould in “many ways.” The commissioner found Trudeau acted improperly when he pushed WilsonRaybould to seek a remediation agreement in the corruption charges against Quebec engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, which would mean it would avoid criminal prosecution.
2 South Asians charged with bitcoin fraud in USA
Two Canadians of Indian descent have been charged in the US with bitcoin fraud using Twitter, according to the Justice Department. Karanjit Singh Khatkar, 23, and Jagroop Singh Khatkar, 24, of Surrey, British Columbia, allegedly stole 23.2 bitcoins valued at $233,220 Continued on page 7 from a woman in the north-western US state
of Oregon, according to charges filed in a federal court there, the department said on Thursday. Karanjit Khatkar was arrested when he flew into Las Vegas last month, while Jagroop Khatkar was still at large, likely in Canada, the Department Continued on page 7