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Issue 15 Saturday, May 14, 2016
How can a student buy a $31.1 million mansion in Vancouver?
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he majority owner of a Point Grey mansion that was sold earlier this year by Canaccord founder Peter Brown for a record $31.1 million is a “student,” property records show. Land title documents list Tian Yu Zhou as having a 99-per-cent interest in
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the five-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 14,600 square-foot mansion on a 1.7-acre lot at 4833 Belmont Ave. Zhou’s occupation is listed as a “student.” The other owner of the property, which boasts sweeping views of the North Shore mountains and Vancouver, is listed as Continued on page 6
India bans unofficial maps & satellite photos
ndia is introducing legislation to ban maps or satellite images of the country unless they are approved by government. The new bill, which would affect digital maps from Google, Apple, and Uber, is facing stiff opposition from campaign groups. It is seen as an attempt to reign in Google
and Apple from publishing maps of India which are not approved by the Indian government and which many show disputed territories as not part of India. Google and Apple have already fallen in line, and use only gov’t approved maps. It also
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Local Sikhs help Fort McMurray fire victims
Members of the Metro Vancouver-area Sikh community help organize and load donations heading for Fort McMurray fire evacuees in Edmonton. See full story on page 11
72-year-old Sikh woman gave birth using an in-vitro fertilization treatment
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Sikh woman gave birth to her first child at the age of 72 after undergoing fertility treatment at a controversial IVF clinic. Daljinder Kaur gave birth to a healthy boy last month at the National Fertility Centre in Haryana state, which offers treatment to women decades past their menopause. Although her exact date of birth is unclear, Kaur told doctors she was about seven years younger than her husband Molinder Singh Gill, 79. If correct, that would make her the world’s
Mohinder Singh Gill, 79, and his wife Daljinder Kaur, 70, pose for a photograph as they hold their newborn baby boy Arman at their home in Amritsar on May 11, 2016.
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Surrey approves redevelopment for land near Green Timbers Urban Forest
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urrey city council has voted unanimously to rezone five hectares of land next to the Green Timbers Urban Forest — a 183 hectare park made up of wetlands, lakes, a fishing dock and grassland meadows. The city plans to develop the land to make room for a homeless shelter, transition housing, health care facilities and government offices. “I can understand the city needs these kind of facilities to help those who Cyclists, walkers, fishermen, joggers, naturists, are in most desperate need in our society. It’s just unfortuGreen Timbers urban forest nate that they’ve decided to use this particular land,” said Don Schuetze, president of the heritage forest, but many people consider it Green Timbers Heritage Society. “The forest- to be one and the same. “To my mind someed areas, the green spaces, the natural areas — thing like this is so obviously part of what you can’t get those areas back, they’re gone.” is historically considered Green Timbers,” Green Timbers heritage site The city’s il- Schuetze said. The provincially-owned lustration of the site overlaid on top of a property was sold to the city in 2014 and a The parcel of property isn’t technically in the
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