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BC man at centre of Indian police probe denies conspiracy involving Rihanna & Greta Thunberg A B.C. man is defending his reputation after being hurled into the headlines of every major national news network in India on allegations that he says are absurd. Mo Dhaliwal is accused of being involved in an alleged international conspiracy to divide India with the help of celebrities like pop singer Rihanna and climate activist Greta Thunberg, both of whom tweeted in support of farmers protesting the country’s new agriculture laws. “I’m told by my relatives in India that I’m on every channel and it’s just been constant,” Dhaliwal told Global News. “There are TV debates and entire panel conversations trying to uncover this really convoluted conspiracy that we are behind the Republic Day protests in India. It’s pretty incredible.” Dhaliwal co-founded the Poetic Justice Foundation last March. The nonprofit created a website called AskIndiaWhy. com to draw attention to the farmers’ protest movement. He and the organization are now the subjects of an investigation by Delhi police who say they are the centerpieces in a driving division in India. “They’re drawing incredibly huge conspiracy theories right down to accusing us of personally paying Rihanna $2.5 million for a tweet, which is ridiculous and not even worthy of any sort of rebuttal,” Dhaliwal said. The attention may also stem from his speech outside the Indian consulate in downtown

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BC marks one-year anniversary of first confirmed case of COVID-19 Thursday marks one year since B.C.’s first confirmed case of COVID-19. A man in his 40s tested positive on Jan. 28, 2020, after returning from Wuhan, China — the original epicentre of the virus that led to more than 100 million cases around the world and more than 2.1 million

deaths. More than 65,000 people in B.C. have been infected in that year, with 1,172 people dying from complications related to the disease. This week, Premier John Horgan called on British Columbians to give a little bit more to stop the spread.

Indian PM Modi promises Prime Minister Justin Trudeau supply Covid-19 vaccine sought by Canada Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he received a call from his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau where the two leaders spoke about vaccine for coronavirus disease and other important issues. “Was happy

to receive a call from my friend @JustinTrudeau. Assured him that India would do its best to facilitate supplies of COVID vaccines sought by Canada. We also agreed to continue collaborating on other important Continued on page 7

PM Modi & President Biden phone call emphasises on Climate, Democratic values in first talk President Joe Biden signaled he would seek to deepen the close US relationship with India in his first talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he added climate change and “democratic” values to the agenda. Biden’s telephone call marked a continuation of the upbeat tone of his predecessor Donald Trump,

who paid a state visit to India a year ago on his last foreign trip as his administration saw a partner in its tough stance on China. But Biden also raised climate change, which the new US leader has elevated to a top priority amid the planet’s rapidly warming temperatures. Continued on page 6

Here’s why COVID-19 numbers have dropped among South Asian population in BC Community organizers in British Columbia are being credited with helping to bring down the spread of COVID-19 within the South Asian community. “There’s been a huge amount of commitment from our partners ranging

from Gurdwaras, schools, community agencies, businesses [and] media outlets to really support and come together to ensure there’s culturally appropriate messaging and culturally appropriate advice,”

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Between 2016 and 2019, an almost unprecedented chorus of business leaders warned about Canada’s lagging competitiveness and declining attractiveness to entrepreneurs, business owners and investors. For instance, in 2018, David McKay, CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada, said Canada has a

“critical competitiveness challenge” that should be addressed with “tremendous urgency,” adding that capital was leaving the country in “real time.” Brian Porter, CEO of Scotiabank, the country’s most internationally-oriented bank, warned both that Canada was losing its “competitive advantage” and that Kinder Morgan’s decision to sell the Trans Mountain pipeline could have a “broad chilling effect” on foreign investment. David

Dodge, former governor of the Bank of Canada, said Canada was “shooting itself in the foot” in terms of competitiveness. And finally, Steve Williams, thenCEO of Suncor, one of the world’s largest energy companies, indicated his company was reducing investment in Canada because of our regulatory system and general lack of competitiveness. Unfortunately, at every turn the Trudeau government’s response has been that everything is fine. When questioned about the high cost of doing business in Canada and growing concerns about the country’s ability to attract investment, Morneau declared that “for an investor sitting outside of this country they can see that this is a place to do business” and he repeatedly stated that: “Our plan is working. We’ve seen real improvements.” But, as we note in a new study, the data on business investment tell a different story. On the broadest measure of investment, which includes residential and non-residential (i.e., business) construction, machinery, equipment and intellectual property, the Trudeau government presided over an average annual decline of 0.2 per cent in the four years (2016-19) leading up to the 2020 recession. By comparison, in similar four-year periods leading up to recessions we find that the Harper government (2011-14) averaged 5.1 per cent annual growth in business investment and the Chrétien government (1997-2000) enjoyed average annual growth of 7.5 per cent. This is not just an energy-sector problem: an analysis in 2019 of business investment in Canada between 2014 and 2017 found that 10 of Canada’s 15 main industries experienced declines in business investment. Of course, like many industrialized countries, Canada has experienced a boom in residential construction. If you remove business investment in residential construction and focus more specifically on investment in plant, factories, machinery and equipment, the results are even worse. On average, this narrower measure of business investment declined by 1.5 per cent annually during the Trudeau era (2016-19). The equivalent period under Stephen Harper, 201114, saw average annual growth of 7.9 per cent, while under Jean Chrétien business investment averaged 9.3 per cent year growth from 1997-2000. The Trudeau government has experienced the lowest average rates of growth of business investment — in fact, growth has been negative — of the past five prime ministers going back to Brian Mulroney. What’s even more worrying is that there

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Man ordered to pay $7 million for brutal beating of teenager A Kamloops man has been ordered to pay nearly $7 million to cover the health-care costs and lost opportunities of a teenager he nearly beat to death with a baseball bat for trespassing into his yard. Jessie Simpson was 18 years old and weighed about 135 pounds when he wandered into Kristopher Teichreib’s yard on June 19, 2016, after celebrating his high school graduation with a group of friends. Teichrieb, who was 39 and weighed 220 pounds, had been concerned with a rash of thefts in the neighbourhood. According to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment, the bigger man punched and kicked Simpson before beating him with a bat badly enough to cause injuries an RCMP officer described as “the worst he had ever seen, including cases where the victim was beaten to death.” ‘You still see your little boy in there’: Jessie Simpson’s mother finding reasons for hope after bat attack “[Jessie] will likely require 24-hour care for the rest of his life,” wrote Justice Sukhdev Dley, the same judge who sent Teichrieb to prison for seven years in 2018 for aggravated assault. “Jessie can feed himself, provided his food is cut into small bites. He has some capacity to communicate, but is unable to focus or attend to most tasks unless supervised. He cannot walk and is restricted to a wheelchair. He is unable to control his bowel or bladder. Jessie requires two people to assist with getting out of bed and to attend on any physical movements. He needs to be turned every two hours while in bed in order to avoid pressure sores. Jessie does have some understanding that he is disabled.” ‘Robbed of the ability to lead a normal life’ The award includes $3 million for Simpson’s future care and nearly $1.4 million to cover the loss of his future earnings.

Teichreib, who didn’t respond to the issue of liability, is also required to pay nearly $1.5 million to cover the B.C. Ministry of Health’s costs for Simpson’s care, and more than $432,000 to the provincial Crime Victim Assistance program.The judgment also included an award of nearly $400,000 to reflect the general damages Teichreib’s actions have caused. “Jessie was 18 years old at the time of his injuries. He has been robbed of the ability to lead a normal life and is now unable to enjoy the amenities of life that he would reasonably have expected,” Dley wrote. “He was a young man about to embark on the post-graduation challenges and experiences of life. Those are forever gone. Instead, he is now forever dependent on others to perform the basic necessities of life.” Teichreib was initially charged with attempted murder but pleaded guilty to aggravated assault. According to evidence from his sentencing, Teichrieb was angered by escalating property crime and violence in his neighbourhood in the weeks and months before the attack. He called 911 on several occasions about suspicious activity. In one of the calls, he told police he caught someone attempting to break into his van and “chased him down and gave him a couple of smacks.” When officers arrived to the scene of Simpson’s beating, Teichrieb was standing above him and told officers, “I got him.” Simpson’s mother, Susanna Simpson, has been at her son’s side constantly. She took a leave from her job as elders co-ordinator for the Skeetchestn Indian Band in order to care for him. She was fired when she could not commit to a firm return date, according to the judgment. The award includes $75,000 to cover the income she has foregone.

Man and dog were killed in Coquihalla Highway chain-reaction crash: RCMP RCMP say the deadly chain-reaction crash on the Coquihalla Highway Wednesday started with a single semi truck that stopped in the northbound lane outside of Hope, B.C. According to Cpl. Mike Halskov of the B.C. RCMP Traffic Service, a south Okanagan man in his 40s and dog died when their pickup truck crashed into the rear of the semi. “The road conditions in the area of the collision were treacherous and caught many unaware which resulted in a cascading, chain-reaction collision involving at least two dozen vehicles, including passenger vehicles, semi trucks, and a bus,” said Halskov.

It’s estimated 50 people were caught in the massive pileup. Two were flown to hospital while three others were taken by ambulance. However, as of Thursday, only one remains in hospital with broken bones and is expected to recover. An officer attending the crash was injured after his vehicle slid and hit a concrete barrier, and then was hit from behind by a jackknifed semi that also couldn’t stop. Other rescue vehicles, including tow trucks and a B.C. ambulance, were also involved in minor crashes as they arrived to render assistance. John Behrens, manager of Hope Towing, watched some of the crashes from a safe distance.

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norms around the world and noted that a shared commitment to democratic values is the bedrock for the US-India relationship.” India enjoys broad support in the United States but has come under growing criticism from some lawmakers in Biden’s Democratic Party as Modi pursues his Hindu nationalist agenda, including revoking the statehood of Muslim-majority Kashmir. India in recent days has drawn additional scrutiny from prominent figures including pop superstar Rihanna and climate activist Greta Thunberg over internet blackouts around New Delhi, where protesting farmers have been camped out for more than two months. The White House said Biden also spoke to Modi about how the “rule of law and the democratic process must be upheld in Burma,” where the military retook power a week ago.

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Covid-19 hospitalizations down 40% so far in BC The steady decline in people fighting serious COVID-19 infections in B.C. hospitals continued February 11, with six fewer such patients than a day ago. There are now more than 40% fewer people in hospital with COVID-19 infections in B.C. (224) than there were at the end of 2020 (374). Hospitalizations are a key metric to watch in the fight against the global pandemic because a high priority is keeping a sufficient supply of hospital beds in case there is a sudden spike in serious infections. The number of hospitalizations serious enough for patients to be in intensive care units (ICU) has also been on the decline. The 63 ICU patients in B.C. hospitals is the lowest count since November 25, more than 11 weeks ago, when there were 61 such patients. The current total of 224 COVID-19 patients in B.C. hospitals is the lowest tally since November 19. Unfortunately, British Columbians continue to lose their lives to complications from COVID-19. There were nine more deaths overnight, for a total of 1,278 people since the first death was reported in B.C., and Canada, on March 9, 2020. The vast majority of people infected in the province have recovered: 66,603 out of 72,305, or more than 92%. Health officials are monitoring another 6,869 people for symptoms because they have had known exposure to identified cases. There are 4,317 people now known to be infected in B.C., including 449 people whose infections were detected in the past 24 hours. Here is the breakdown of where those new cases are MPDBUFE t QFPQMF JO 7BODPVWFS $PBTUBM )FBMUI t QFPQMF JO 'SBTFS )FBMUI t JO *TMBOE )FBMUI t JO *OUFSJPS )FBMUI BOE t JO /PSUIFSO )FBMUI New vaccinations continue to be scarce thanks to little new supply. There were 2,090 new doses given in the past day, with 1,368 of them being the recipients’ required second doses.

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Saturday, February 13, 2021 Trudeau’s criticism of Trump cited at US impeachment trial Prime Minister Trudeau’s critical comments about Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have been entered into the record at the former U.S. president’s impeachment trial. Democrats, urging the U.S. Senate to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection and bar him from ever again seeking office, argued Thursday that the Capitol attack damaged the reputation of American democracy around the world. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a lawmaker from Texas who is one of the impeachment managers prosecuting the case against Trump, argued that the circumstances surrounding the Jan. 6 riot could have devastating effects on democracy around the world. New video, Trump’s own words used in trial to argue he incited Capitol attack — and failed to stop it He said the U.S. risks losing the ability to promote free government outside its borders. Castro cited comments from China, Russia

and Iran mocking the U.S. and suggesting it might henceforth mind its own business. He quoted one senior Russian lawmaker who said: “The celebration of democracy is over.… America is no longer charting the course, and therefore, has lost all rights to set it.” Texas Democrat Joaquin Castro is one of the members of the House of Representatives currently acting as a prosecutor in the Senate impeachment trial. He cited the words of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Thursday as part of the Democrats’ case against former U.S. president Donald Trump, who is charged with incitement of insurrection. (U.S. Senate via Reuters) Then Castro acknowledged that officials in those adversary countries might be inclined in normal times to criticize American governance; so he turned the subject to America’s friends.

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Trial begins for Surrey woman charged in crash that killed young athlete The last time Sara Selje spoke with her younger brother Travis, he asked her to help him with his math homework for the first time. “He was a smart kid, he never needed help with homework, much less math,” she recalled of the straight-A student. “It felt nice that he needed me.” She remembered how the 17-year-old called out when he left the house for soccer practice that day, and said “I love you” as he left. “He was a child when he was taken away,” she said. “I just want him back.” A trial got underway Monday in New Westminster court for a Surrey woman charged in connection with a crash that fatally injured the beloved brother, son, and skilled young athlete who was a member of the Whitecaps residency program. Rituraj Kaur Grewal stood in court and pleaded not guilty to three charges, including criminal negligence in the operation of a motor vehicle causing death. Prosecutor Kelly Johnston said Travis Selje’s car was stopped at an intersection at 64th Avenue and 176th Street in Surrey at about 9 p.m. on May 3, 2017, as he drove back from practice with a friend. Johnston said Selje’s silver 2001 Honda Prelude was struck from

behind by a black 2013 Cadillac ATS. “The force of the impact pushed the Prelude forward, causing it to collide with a white Kia SUV,” Johnston said. “The Prelude then came to a rest into a tree on the south sidewalk of 64th Avenue.” Johnston said the Cadillac ended up in a head-on collision with another vehicle after continuing onto the centre median and then into oncoming traffic. Johnston said firefighters worked to free the teen from the badly damaged car for about 45 minutes, and had to remove the roof, doors and windshield. He said Selje was taken to hospital with multiple injuries, but never regained consciousness, and was taken off life support two days later. Johnston told the court blood samples taken from Grewal and analyzed by the RCMP National Forensic Laboratory revealed the presence of oxycodone. “Due to insufficient sample size, a quantitative analysis was not able to be performed,” he said. “How recently oxycodone was used could not be determined.” The first two witnesses called by the Crown testified about seeing a black Cadillac on 64th Avenue before the fatal crash.

Ottawa announces breaks for CERB and other Covid-19 benefit recipients Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says people who received COVID-19 benefits like the Canada Emergency Benefit (CERB), or mistook gross and net income when applying, are getting a break. “We’re providing one year without interest on certain 2020 tax debt, giving people more flexibility repaying amounts owing from last year,” he said during a news conference. “If you received federal emergency benefits like the CERB, and you made up to $75,000 in taxable income, you will not have to pay interest on 2020 tax debt until April of next year.” The other reprieve is for those who mixed up gross and net income, and were subsequently told they would have to return money to the government. “People who accessed CERB based on their gross income instead of their net income, as long as you meet the other eligibility criteria, you will not have to return those CERB payments.”

The federal government says anyone in that situation who already repaid money owing will be reimbursed. It also says it doesn’t have an estimate of how much today’s measures will cost. With tax filing season around the corner, the Prime Minister also urged everyone to file their taxes. “It’s important to file your taxes so you get things like the Canada Child Benefit, the work from home deduction, and the climate action incentive,” he said. “These benefits and credits can really help, especially after such a tough year.” He also reminded Canadians about the other benefits still available including the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) and enhanced EI, the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB), the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSC), the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), and business loans.

Pfizer to ramp up vaccine deliveries but questions remain about Trudeau’s targets Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military commander leading Canada’s vaccine logistics, said today that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will significantly ramp up its deliveries of doses next month. Fortin said 444,000 Pfizer doses will be delivered each week for the first two weeks of March. While those delivery figures are significantly higher than the amounts Canada has been receiving in recent weeks — only 70,000 Pfizer doses were delivered this week, for example — they raise questions about the government’s ability to hit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promised target of six million doses delivered by the end of March. As of this week, the federal government has delivered 1.4 million doses of both the Moderna and Pfizer products. Next week will see the delivery of 403,000 more Pfizer shots, with 475,000 more coming at month’s end. Pfizer will then settle into a more regular delivery pattern, with 444,000 shots

arriving the week of March 1 and again during the week of March 8. Millions of rapid COVID tests gather dust as some provinces use a fraction of their supply Indian PM Modi promises to help Canada’s vaccination efforts in conversation with Trudeau Fortin said 168,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine will ship the week of Feb. 22 — significantly fewer than originally promised owing to manufacturing issues at the company’s plants in Europe. All told, the government expects delivery of 3,334,000 shots by March 15. That means the two manufacturers will then have to deliver 2,666,000 shots combined — or roughly 888,666 a week — in the subsequent three weeks of March to hit Trudeau’s target. Pfizer had promised a total of four million shots in the first three months of 2021, while Moderna committed to delivering 2 million shots in the same time period — delivery targets the companies and the prime minister have long said will be met, despite recent delivery hiccups.

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Kenney calls for inter-provincial taskforce on domestic Covid-19 vaccines Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is hoping other provincial leaders will join forces to establish an inter-provincial vaccine taskforce to see domestic COVID-19 vaccines become a steady source of immunizations for Canadians. Canada has approved two vaccines from American pharmaceutical companies so far: one from Pfizer-BioNTech and another from Moderna. Three other vaccines are under review; the federal government has bought two more, but neither of those are expected to be considered for approval until the fall. Only one of the seven options are Canadian — Medicago — and its vaccine is still in development. On Thursday, Kenney was asked about Alberta acquiring its own source of vaccine doses after Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announced a contract with a Calgarybased company for the first 200,000 doses of its vaccine, once it’s approved. Providence Therapeutics believes its mRNA vaccine for the novel coronavirus — called PTX-COVID19-B — could be ready

for commercialization by the end of this year or in early 2022. It’s the first made-inCanada vaccine to reach human clinical trials, which are currently underway. Kenney said he’s heard from Providence that it wouldn’t produce doses locally unless it could secure a commitment for the distribution of 50 million doses — which Alberta and Manitoba can’t order on their own. “It would be so important for us to have a domestic pharmaceutical industry here and we are very keen on doing whatever we can to make that happen,” Kenney said. “It’s obvious that we can’t count on international vaccine supply during COVID-19, given the vaccine nationalism and the failure of the federal government to get strong enough contracts to access supply.” Kenney said it’s likely domestic vaccine producers won’t be able to start manufacturing doses before supply from international companies is consistent in Alberta.

Over a dozen flights from USA brought Covid-Infected passengers to Canada in a single week Anyone secondguessing the wisdom of the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC)’s decision last month to issue Covid-19 testing requirements for international travelers entering the U.S. need only to consider what’s happening in Canada. In late January, Canada announced a new set of enhanced travel restrictions to help fight the spread of Covid-19 that included suspending all flights to and from Mexico and Caribbean countries until April 30, 2021. International flights arriving in Canada from other countries now land at one of four airports: Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary or Montreal. Passengers must take a mandatory PCR Covid-19 test at the airport and are then required to quarantine in a hotel. The protocol is remarkably tough, and has real teeth. “Travelers will then have to wait for up to three days at an approved hotel for their test results, at their own expense, which is expected to be more than $2,000,” said

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the time of the announcement. Violating quarantine “could lead to serious penalties, including six months in prison and/or $750,000 in fines,” according to a Canadian government s t a t e m e n t . C a n a d i a n public health officials have been checking 6,500 international travelers per day to verify their compliance with the mandatory 14-day isolation order. When a traveler tests positive for Covid-19, the flight information is logged into a public database, noting the date, flight number, departure and arrival airports and even the rows on the aircraft near where the infected person was seated. There is nothing comparable in the United States that provides this level of transparency. The Canadian database reveals a somewhat alarming number of international flights bringing passengers to Canada who subsequently test positive for Covid-19.

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Saturday, February 13, 2021 Here’s how much you’d have to earn to buy a house or condo in Vancouver, according to a study A recently released report confirms homeownership remains a distant dream for many living in one of Canada’s priciest markets. The latest Housing Affordability Monitor, a report issued by the National Bank of Canada, estimated just how much a perspective homebuyer would need to earn to be able to afford the typical home currently on the market in the Metro Vancouver area. The report looks to benchmarks, a metric different than averages, as an indicator for how much a would-be buyer can expect to pay. The bank estimates the price of the representative condo in the Vancouver area – meaning a condo that is typical of what’s been available recently – at $633,030. When it comes to other types of residential properties, a category the report simply calls “non-condo,” homeowners could expect to pay $1,342,184, according to the NBC report. Unsurprisingly to most, Vancouver’s housing supply is the most expensive in the report, followed by the Greater Toronto Area. In addition to the price itself, the report points out, buyers are expected to provide a higher down payment.

“At a national level, there has never been a worse time to accumulate the minimum down payment,” Kyle Dahms and Camille Baillargeon wrote in the report. To get a better idea of affordability with this initial payment in mind, the report’s authors assume the house hunter is able to save 10 per cent of their pre-tax total household income. Based on the median income, on a national level, it will take 60 months, or five years, for a buyer to save enough to put six per cent down on the representative home. Down payments and mortgages In Vancouver – a city where the report’s authors say things have actually improved a bit, thanks to a higher median annual income and low interest rates – the monthly mortgage payment as a percentage of household income was the highest in Canada. The NBC report estimated an earner of the area’s median household income of $78,849, according to Statistics Canada, would have to save for 58 months to be able to put enough down on a condo, if they were able to save 10 per cent for the purchase. That’s nearly five years.

Man arrested in Vancouver after police receive reports of person being held against their will A man was arrested in Vancouver Monday night after police received reports that a person was being held against their will in a rooming house. Heavily armed Vancouver police officers were seen outside a rooming house on Powell Street Monday

as crews responded to the reports. Police said, the Emergency Response Team went to the scene as there were also reports of a gun. A suspect was taken into custody and an investigation is ongoing.

$6,000 in fines & host ordered to appear in court after Surrey RCMP bust after-hours illegal nightclub RCMP say they busted an illegal after-hours nightclub in Surrey over the weekend, leading to almost $6,000 in COVID-related fines and a notice to appear in court for the host. After being called to the location of the club a few times before, Surrey RCMP’s Compliance and Enforcement Team said officers obtained a warrant for the location in the 10600-block of King George Boulevard and searched the premises this weekend. Police said they issued 26 tickets to 22 people inside the club for attending the event, failing to wear a face covering and belligerent behaviour.

The fines totalled just under $6,000, police said. The host of the event was not issued a $2,300 fine but was issued a notice to appear in court for hosting a non-compliant event, police confirmed. This was not the only event RCMP attended over the weekend. On Saturday, officers issued a $1,150 fine under the Quarantine Act to a man who was not quarantining after entering Canada. That same day, officers were called to a restaurant in the 7000-block of 138 Street and found a wedding with 20 people in attendance. The owner of the restaurant was given a $2,300 ticket for hosting a non-compliant event.

LOCAL / NATIONAL 2 BC Liberal MLAs call on Premier Horgan to ask USA to shut down Peace Arch Park

After South Surrey residents counted more than 75 tents pitched in Peace Arch Park last weekend, and with even more expected this Sunday – Valentine’s Day – South Surrey and White Rock MLAs are calling on the premier to work with the governor of Washington State to close the American side of the park. The Canadian side of the park has been closed as a safety measure to prevent large gatherings in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic declaration in March. But the State Park, on the U.S. side, has remained open through the summer, fall and winter, providing a daily site for wedding parties, family reunions and celebrations of all kinds. The U.S. State Park closes in the evening. While the park is one of the only places in the country where Canadians can freely mingle with Americans without technically crossing the border, the American park has been a point

of frustration for South Surrey neighbours for months. Visiting the park as a Canadian is considered by many to be a loophole. Surrey South MLA Stephanie Cadieux and SurreyWhite Rock MLA Trevor Halford, both members of the BC Liberals, jointly signed a letter to BC Premier John Horgan asking him to “call on” Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee to close the American side of Peace Arch Park until it is deemed safe for non-essential cross border travel. “Countless constituents who live close to the border have contacted our offices commenting that they feel unsafe. They are concerned with the increase of Canadian visitors to the park who are returning to our province without being force to quarantine,” the MLAs wrote to the premier. “Currently, Washington State officials have not shown any willingness to close the American side of the park to help limit the number of people who gather.”

Police bust illegal nightclub again, dole out nearly $6,000 in fines An

illegal nightclub operating B.C. has been busted again. Police in Surrey say 22 people were caught at the club shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday morning (Feb. 7), Located in Surrey’s Whalley neighbourhood, it is not the first time the club has been caught defying public health orders. Police say people associated to the club were issued COVID-19-related fines on three prior occasions. On Sunday morning, the Surrey RCMP COVID-19 Compliance and Enforcement Team (CCET) executed a search warrant and issued nearly $6,000 in COVID-19-related fines. RCMP say 26 tickets were issued with fines of $230 for in

attending the non-compliant event, failure to wear a face covering and belligerent behavior. The host of the event was not issued a $2,300 fine but was issued a notice to appear in court for hosting a non-compliant event contrary Section 4(1) of the Emergency Program Act, police say. “The Surrey COVID-19 Compliance and Enforcement Team (CCET) will continue to pursue individuals and hosts who contravene the current public health orders,”said Sergeant Tyler Wickware, of the Surrey RCMP Community Response Unit. “Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is a shared responsibility; we will conduct enforcement against those whose actions are contrary to the safety of our community.”

Woman died of ‘Extreme Cold’ exposure in Dawson Creek Dawson Creek RCMP issued a warning after an exposure-related death occurred in the midst of BC’s weather dropping to extreme lows. A woman in her late 60s was found on the morning of Sunday, February 7 after visiting her nextdoor neighbour the night before, says the police report. Her friend reportedly found her in the morning and called the police. According to reports, temperatures fell to -42.2 C on Sunday when the woman was trying to get home from her neighbour’s house. The RCMP is using this tragedy as

an opportunity to remind the public that temperatures like this are very dangerous and can be “a threat to life only minutes after exposure.” ‘If required to travel, always pack a bag of clothes or wear layers and avoid travelling alone,” they urge. If you must travel alone, they suggest a buddy system where someone knows your plan and can check up on you if you don’t arrive when planned. Police are still investigating the death, though at present they have deemed it to be “the result of exposure to extreme cold.”

Saturday, February 13, 2021 Surrey RCMP hand out more than $11,000 in Covid-19 fines over the weekend An illegal nightclub and a wedding are among the latest gatherings in Surrey to earn fines from RCMP. Police said they had already made three previous visits to an illegal nightclub in the 10600 block of King George Boulevard for defying public health orders. But at 1 a.m. on Feb. 7, they returned with a search warrant and issued 26 tickets totalling nearly $6,000. There were 22 people inside the club when police arrived, and a bevy of $230 fines were handed out for infractions including attending a non-compliant event, failure to wear a face covering and belligerent behaviour. The party host was not issued a $2,300 fine but instead given a notice to appear in court for hosting a noncompliant event contrary Section 4(1) of the Emergency Program Act. “The Surrey COVID-19 compliance and enforcement team will continue to pursue individuals and hosts who contravene the current public health orders,” said Sgt. Tyler Wickware of the Surrey RCMP community response unit. “Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is a shared responsibility, we will conduct enforcement against those whose actions are contrary to the safety of our community.” The previous day, Surrey RCMP went to a restaurant in the 7000 block of 138 Street

following a report of a public-health order violation and found a wedding being held in a private room at the restaurant with at least 20 people attending. The restaurant owner was fined $2,300 for hosting a non-compliant event. Two more COVID-19 violations occurred in Surrey on the weekend. On Saturday, a man who failed to abide by the conditions of his entry into Canada was fined $1,150 fine under the federal Quarantine Act. On Sunday, Surrey RCMP went to a residence in the 14800 block of 61 Avenue for a report of a gathering, with the property representative h a n d e d a $2,300 ticket for hosting a non-compliant event. There is currently a provincewide ban with social gatherings of any size outside of one’s household. People may only dine out with members of their household. There is a ban on non-essential travel and quarantine for those returning from outside Canada, as well as a public mask mandate. Those who want to report a violation of a public health order can contact the City of Surrey bylaws call centre at 604-591-4370, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week, or the Surrey RCMP non-emergency line at 604-599-0502.

John Horgan must work with Governor Inslee to stop gatherings at Peace Arch Park Press release After numerous reports of people gathering at Peace Arch Park and disregarding COVID-19 health guidelines, Surrey BC Liberal MLAs Trevor Halford and Stephanie Cadieux are asking Premier John Horgan to call on Washington State Governor Jay Inslee to close public access to the park on the U.S. side until it is deemed safe for non-essential cross border travel. “At a time when COVID-19 variants could spread quickly, it’s more critical than ever to take action to protect our communities,” said Trevor Halford, MLA for Surrey-White Rock. “Countless constituents have been reaching out to us, concerned for their safety, as Canadians and Americans continue to take advantage of an unwritten loophole that allows for face-to-face contact at Peace Arch Park, only to return home without being subject to Canadian quarantine laws and

Provincial Health Orders. While John Horgan asks British Columbians to ‘do more’ to help stop the spread of COVID-19, it’s also time for him to do more and help close this loophole.” This past weekend, local residents reported seeing busy streets and more than 75 tents pitched with people gathering from either side of the border, many without masks. So far, Washington State officials have not shown any willingness to close the American side of the park to help limit the number of people who gather. “Residents shouldn’t feel afraid to walk out their front door because others are exploiting a loophole,” said Stephanie Cadieux, MLA for Surrey South. “It’s time for John Horgan to call on his friend, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, to close public access to Peace Arch Park to the U.S. side while non-essential cross border travel is being discouraged.”

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Pierre Poilievre out as Conservative finance critic as O’Toole shuffles shadow cabinet Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has freshened up his front benches, shuffling veteran Ontario MP Pierre Poilievre out as the party’s finance critic at a time of unprecedented government spending due to the COVID-19 pandemic. O’Toole has moved Poilievre to become the Tory critic for jobs and industry, one of several changes to his shadow cabinet unveiled Wednesday. The Conservative leader has tapped veteran British Columbia MP Ed Fast to take over as the party’s point person on federal finances, arguably the most coveted and highprofile critic role for the Official Opposition. The shuffle comes on the heels of two longtime MPs announcing they will not run again in the next election: B.C.’s Cathy McLeod, who was the critic for CrownIndigenous relations, and Ontario’s Peter Kent,

the party’s former critic for employment, workforce development, and disability. In a media release, O’Toole said the changes reflect how his team of critics — which he refers to as “shadow ministers” — is “relentlessly focused” on jobs and rounding the corner on the pandemic. “Canadians are worried about their economic future,” O’Toole said. “Canadians have seen what happened when the Liberal government was in charge of getting vaccines, can we trust them with our economic recovery? Canada’s Conservatives are here to secure jobs, secure our economy, and secure our future.” Poilievre, a polarizing figure who is popular in Conservative circles because of his pull-nopunches communications skills in both English and French, served as Stephen Harper’s last minister of employment and social development in 2015. The MP for the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton was first elected in 2004 at the age of 25.

Feds to require negative COVID-19 test for those entering Canada at land borders P r i m e Minister Justin Trudeau says starting next week, anyone arriving in Canada by land will also need to show a recent negative COVID-19 test. Trudeau says the new measure will kick in Feb. 15, the latest movetokeepCOVID-19fromspreadingwithin Canada from people who travelled outside it. That is particularly relevant with multiple,

more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus now circling, many of them already within Canada. The government began requiring all people arriving in Canada by air to show a negative PCR-based COVID-19 test in early January. But more people are coming into the country in a vehicle than on an airplane.

CERB repayments scrapped for many Canadians here’s what you need to know In an announcement on Tuesday, February 9, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed that Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) repayments will be scrapped for thousands of Canadians who incorrectly applied for the benefit. For several months, members of the public and leading politicians have been calling on the government to backtrack on repayments, particularly because the benefit’s eligibility criteria were considered to be unclear and confusing. Now that hundreds of thousands of people may be off the hook when it comes to returning the money, here’s everything you need to know: Why do so many people owe CERB repayments? When the CERB was launched back in March 2020, it was automatically given to everybody who applied to ensure that Canadians who needed support got it ASAP. While there were strict eligibility criteria for the $2,000-per-month benefit, the government committed to checking eligibility at a later date. By December, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) had discovered that a significant number of self-employed Canadians had misunderstood the qualifying criteria when it came to gross and net income. The application form stated that self-employed individuals could get the support if they made over $5,000 in 2019 or in the 12 months before applying. However, the CRA later clarified that the income in this instance referred to net income, rather than gross income — a detail that some people later said was unclear and confusing. This meant that a large number of people were eligible based on their gross income, but not their net income. Those individuals

later received a letter from the government asking them to repay the money, as they did not technically qualify for it. Why were CERB repayments scrapped? Despite calls from leading politicians, like NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party leader Annamie Paul, the Liberal government initially refused to consider scrapping CERB repayments. Speaking in December, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said the CRA had no plans to let people off but admitted they were “looking to find ways to minimize the impact.” Several online petitions were created in an attempt to stop calls for repayments and a class-action lawsuit was even filed against the federal government. However, on February 9 Justin Trudeau revealed that some people would in fact be let off returning their CERB payments. Who will be affected? While hundreds of thousands of people have been contacted by the CRA about CERB repayments for various reasons, it’s the self-employed people who were confused by gross and net income requirements that won’t have to repay. Announcing the change, Justin Trudeau confirmed “As long as you meet the other eligibility criteria, you will not have to return those CERB payments.” “The pandemic isn’t yet over, so neither is our support,” he added. This applies to all applicants, regardless of whether their benefit came from the CRA or Service Canada. Those who have already repaid their CERB will actually get money back, according to the government. Additional details about how to claim a refund will be available in the coming weeks.

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BC’s old-growth forest nearly eliminated, new provincewide mapping reveals

any people imagine British Columbia as a province carpeted in forests, with giant old-growth trees, but a new interactive map reveals that little remains of B.C.’s original and ancient forests, showing logging and other industrial human activity as a vast sea of red. The “Seeing Red” map, released Tuesday by the Prince George-based group Conservation North, took one year, 10 provincial and federal government datasets and $4,200 to pull together. “The cumulative impacts of industrial forestry have never really been put on display for analysis or review,” Conservation North director Michelle Connolly told The Narwhal. “And it became clear that if we wanted the truth, we would basically have to figure it out for ourselves.” Connolly said one of the most striking things about the map is how little primary forest remains in B.C.’s interior, especially in the rare inland temperate rainforest where skyscraper cedar trees can be more than 1,000 years old and endangered deep-snow mountain caribou live in the spring and early winter, surviving on lichen found only on old-growth trees. All B.C. old-growth forests are primary forests — also known as original, or primaeval forests — meaning they have never been logged. But not all B.C. primary forests are old-growth, as some have been affected over the centuries by natural disturbances such as wildfire. Scattered amidst an enormous blaze of red, the map clearly depicts the few oldgrowth conservation opportunities that are left in the province’s interior, Connolly said. “This part of B.C. has been ignored when it comes to discussions about old-growth forests.” She pointed to three splashes of green in the eastern interior, toward the Alberta border, in areas outside federal and provincial parks. The comparatively small green swaths — known as

striking things about the map is how little primary forest remains in B.C.’s interior, especially in the rare inland temperate rainforest where skyscraper cedar trees can be more than 1,000 years old and endangered deep-snow mountain caribou live in the spring and early winter, surviving on lichen found only on old-growth trees. All B.C. old-growth forests are primary forests — also known as original, or primaeval forests — meaning they have never been logged. But not all B.C. primary forests are old-growth, as some have been affected over the centuries by natural disturbances such as wildfire. Scattered amidst an enormous blaze of red, the map clearly depicts the few oldgrowth conservation opportunities that are left in the province’s interior, Connolly said. “This part of B.C. has been ignored when it comes to discussions about old-growth forests.” She pointed to three splashes of green in the eastern interior, toward the Alberta border, in areas outside federal and provincial parks. The comparatively small green swaths — known as

the Walker Wilderness, the Raush Valley and the Goat River watershed — represent some of the last relatively intact and unprotected areas of rare interior temperate rainforest. “These are really areas of focus for us because they still have values that people would like for nature,” Connolly said. “They’re home for wildlife, they have intact habitat, they’re diverse, they represent carbon assets, and they’re corridors that connect plant and animal populations.” Zoom in even further, and much smaller, scattered splotches of green emerge in the blotchy red interior landscape, disclosing unprotected pockets of old-growth and original forests that could soon be logged in the Okanagan and the Kootenays, including in the Argonaut Valley, where conservation groups recently sounded the alarm about impending clear-cutting in endangered caribou habitat. “Those are really important to protect because they function as lifeboats for biodiversity,” Connolly said. “We have landscapes here that are very fragmented.” Map will ‘shock the heck’ out of British Columbians Pacific Wild creative director Geoff Campbell said the high-resolution map, which allows people to zoom in anywhere in the province to view unlogged forests, will “shock the heck out of your average B.C. resident.” “People around the world and even British Columbians have an idea of what B.C. is — it’s pristine, it’s wild. The true reality is that essentially all of B.C.’s old-growth forest has been eliminated, and all you need to do is to look at this map to see that,” Campbell said. “The only places where you don’t really see habitat destruction happening is in the high, high mountains. Everything else is basically red.”

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What actually caused the disastrous avalanche in India On Sunday, a torrent of ice, water, mud, and debris surged through a steep river valley in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. At least 32 people are dead, with nearly 200 missing. The tragic event happened in a warming Himalayan region where glaciers are rapidly melting and retreating. Yet glacier experts say the flood likely wasn’t triggered by the collapse of or “burst” from (not a thing) a glacier itself, though the heating climate may have played a role in the greater episode. Earth scientists will learn more in the days and weeks ahead, but satellite evidence points to a high-elevation landslide causing an avalanche of rock, glacier ice, and snow.

“The disaster was triggered by a rockice-snow avalanche. This is what we know with quite good confidence,” explained Mohd Farooq Azam, an assistant professor in the Discipline of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Azam researches glaciers in the Indian Himalayas. This avalanche was an extreme event. On a steep ridge at some 5,600 meters (18,370 feet) in elevation, a collapsed mountain slope pulled down a glacier that was perched on the mountain, and the resulting rockice-snow mass hit the valley floor at some 3,500 meters. Then the mass all flowed downwards through the valley, said Azam. In such a rapidly moving avalanche, great friction instantly melts ice and snow, which is where some of the surging water seen in the videos came from, explained Joseph Shea, an assistant professor of environmental geomatics at the University of Northern British Columbia who has spent years visiting and researching Himalayan glaciers. The full source of the huge amount of water seen in the videos, however, is an ongoing investigation, said Azam, noting Indian scientists are at ground zero assessing the event. The avalanche could have picked up ample amounts of ice from the valley floor. In a region with rapidly melting ice, the natural question is how the relentlessly warming globe might have contributed to this chaotic event.

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CAA will be implemented after Covid-19 vaccination ends Home Minister Home Minister Amit Shah said the process of granting Indian citizenship to refugees under the CAA, including to the Matua community of West Bengal, would begin once the process of COVID vaccination has ended. Accusing the opposition parties of misleading the minorities about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, he said its implementation would not impact the citizenship status of Indian minorities. Shah said the Modi government had

in 2018 promised it would bring in a new citizenship law and kept it when the BJP was voted to power in 2019. He said, after the country was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, its implementation had to be kept in abeyance. “Mamata didi said we made a false promise. She started opposing the CAA and saying she will never allow it. The BJP always fulfils the promises it makes. We have brought this law and refugees will get citizenship.

India and the US must grab this chance to reset their relations Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden had their first phone call this week. They re-affirmed a commitment to a rulesbased international order, a theme which is likely to become a mainstay of the Biden administration. However, the new President inherits unprecedented uncertainty, fuelled by a global economic crisis, and an assertive China. India shares these concerns. This seems an opportune moment to strengthen USIndia bilateral ties, to define resilient globalization and a stable regional order. But, both countries must face some hard facts together at the outset. Economic crises create winners and losers. For instance, major developing markets bounced back quicker than their developed counterparts after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. Relatively low exposure to financial markets helped accelerate their recovery. Sadly, revival from the latest crisis exhibits a troubling inversion. Several large developing countries like India are witnessing some of their sharpest growth contractions in recorded history. This

attenuates already low state capacity to deal with the fallout of covid. It doesn’t help that China bucked the trend and continued to grow. Another implication of a multi-speed recovery is that support for globalization will wane in developing nations, as large and vulnerable segments of their population suffer a disproportionate impact. Workers in their 20s account for 80% of India’s total job losses so far this fiscal year, and women 52%, according to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy data. Reduced support for globalization as a result of inequitable development can translate to confusion in policy objectives. Young aspirational Indians may no longer hyphenate globalization with progress if they don’t gain from it. This threatens to encourage a politics of unreserved protectionism. The Biden administration would do well to remedy America’s tactical approach to economic ties with India, to ensure that their developmental trajectories don’t permanently diverge.

Biden admin urged not to issue H-1B to Indians till country cap on Green Card is removed An influential immigration advocacy group representing Indian-Americans on Thursday urged the Biden administration not to issue the most sought-after H-1B work visa to any individual born in India, till the time the discriminatory country-cap on green cards or permanent legal residency is removed. The current per-country cap on issuing of green cards in the US has resulted in Indian professionals, mostly from the IT sector, having to wait for decades for their legal permanent residency. Issuing new

H-1B visas to more Indians would add to this agonising painful wait for green cards, Immigration Voice said in a statement. The statement came in response to the Biden administration’s decision to allow employers of H-1B visa holders to begin registration online for the H1-B Visa lottery, starting March 9 this year, for the fiscal year 2022. Under the system, over 60,000 additional Indian nationals will unwittingly be lured to enter the United States this year (and every year) to “engage in a life of indentured servitude”

Delhi court sends actor-activist Deep Sidhu to seven-day police custody over farmers’ protest A Delhi court Tuesday sent actor-activist Deep Sidhu to seven-day police custody in connection with the Red Fort violence on the Republic Day during farmers’ tractor parade against the Centre’s three new agri laws. Metropolitan Magistrate Prigya Gupta sent Sidhu to police custody after the police alleged he was one of the main instigators of the violent incidents at the Red Fort. Sidhu’s counsel, however, claimed he had nothing to do with the violence and was at the wrong place at the wrong time. The police had announced a cash reward of Rs 1

lakh for information leading to Sidhu’s arrest. Tens of thousands of farmers broke barriers to storm the National Capital on 26 January as part of their tractor parade to highlight their demands. Thousands of protesting farmers who reached ITO from the Ghazipur border clashed with the police. Many of them driving tractors reached the Red Fort and entered the monument, where the religious flag was also hoisted. Over 500 police personnel were injured and one protester died. In the FIR registered in connection with the Red Fort violence, police said.

Budget’s strategy of fiscal consolidation, compressing expenditure, could prove to be a costly miscalculation This was not an ordinary year. Faced with managing the economic fallout of a oncein-a-century crisis, the expectations from the Union budget were of a completely different order of magnitude. The challenge before the finance minister was how to enhance public spending, without raising taxes, while adopting a credible path for fiscal consolidation. It appears as though expectations of a quicker recovery of the formal economy in 2021-22, and concerns over high debt levels, seem to have persuaded the government not to opt for aggressive

spending in the immediate term, but focus on consolidation. This could prove to be a costly miscalculation. The economic outlook isn’t as rosy once the base-effect-induced bounce in growth next year wears off. The roadmap laid out by the 15th Finance Commission indicates this possibility. Nominal GDP growth is expected to slow down from 13.5 per cent in 2021-22 to 9.5 per cent in 2022-23 — implying a real GDP growth of only around 5 per cent. By then, the second-round effects of job and income losses and weak balance sheets are likely to have worked their way through the system.

Rahul Gandhi accuses govt of ‘destroying ‘mandis’ and promoting hoarding to benefit corporate friends’ In a stinging attack against the Narendra Modi government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused it of “destroying ‘mandis’ and promoting hoarding to benefit a couple of corporate friends” all the while spinning around an old family planning slogan, “hum do hamare do”, to make his point. “The nation is being run by four people ‘hum do hamare do’,” Gandhi said.

He did not name anyone saying that everyone knows who he was talking about but his comments resulted in a virtual bedlam in the House with allegations flying against his (Gandhi) family and Union minister Anurag Thakur accusing him of “telling lies” and coming unprepared to speak on Union Budget. Participating in what was otherwise a discussion on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Gandhi said yesterday

Parlimentarian Ghulam Nabi Azad retires Veteran politician, Leader of Opposition in the parliament’s Rajya Sabha and Indian National Congress parliamentarian Ghulam Nabi Azad signed off from the upper house on Tuesday, February 9. While Ghulam Nabi Azad’s touching speech left Rajya Sabha members emotional, a teary-eyed Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Mr Azad’s replacement will have a tough time filling his shoes.

A Congress loyalist from the start since he was a block committee chairman at 24, Mr Azad has been a close confidante of the Gandhi’s, and in the recent days even a critic of the Congress’ lack of leadership. In the shadows of lingering leadership crisis, his exit from the Rajya Sabha signifies a big change for the Congress party.

Only 36% of Indian Americans think India is on the right track Indian Americans, who turned out in huge numbers at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rock star-like rallies in the United States, are divided over the direction India is headed, a new survey showed on Tuesday. Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has extolled the achievements of the Indian diaspora in the US and elsewhere, seeing them as a large support base to advance India’s interests in host countries. But only 36 percent of Indian Americans

believe India is on the right track, while 39 percent think it is not, according to the survey of Indian Americans released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. One-fifth of the respondents did not have any opinion. The survey was conducted between September 1 and September 20, 2020, in partnership with

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Punjab Kisan maha-panchayat held in Jagraon Complete unity among various farmer unions and their cadres was at display at the kisan mahapanchayat that got under way at Grain Market here on Thursday. Farmers sit on trucks at the kisan mahapanchayat at Grain Market in Jagraon. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan Senior leader of SKM and chief of BKU-Rajewal Balbir Singh Rajewal was the keynote speaker at the rally. He said even though the agitation had commenced from Punjab but now it was no longer confined to borders of this state. “Not only most of the states but the entire

global community is watching the farmers’ stir keenly and repressive action of Modi government against peacefully protesting farmers is also being debated across the world,” he said, adding that for the first time in history as many as 40 organisations of farmers had come on a single platform to fight for their rights. Rajewal said the grit and determination shown by farmers camping on Delhi borders had shaken the Modi government to the extent that it was now trying to find a face saving formula to wriggle out of the mess that it had created through enactment of three farm laws.

6 charged for raising Khalistani flag The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday filed a chargesheet against six people in connection with a case of hoisting the Khalistani flag by cadres of the outlawed Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) organisation on the eve of Independence Day in Punjab’s Moga, an official said.The US-based separatist group SFJ is banned by the government. On August 14, two miscreants hoisted a yellow-coloured flag with Khalistan written

on it on the terrace of a four-storey building of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office Complex in Moga, according to an NIA spokesperson. They also cut the rope of the Indian flag hoisted near the main gate and dragged it along with the rope, the official said. The crime was committed by the miscreants at the behest of SFJ militant Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, who had offered them cash rewards, the NIA official said.

Take steps to ensure free & fair elections, High Court tells SEC The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the State Election Commission to take appropriate measures to ensure free and fair conduct of elections in Fazilka. In all, 13 BJP candidates contesting the MC elections from different wards of Fazilka had filed a writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on February 8, stating that the election process was under threat and there was an imminent danger to their lives and liberty as they were contesting the municipal elections.

The petitioners apprehended that they could be attacked by the supporters of the ruling Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) during the ongoing farmers’ agitation which was evident from the fact that SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and state BJP president Ashwani Sharma were assaulted in Jalalabad and Jalandhar, respectively. The candidates also made representations at various government levels on February 6, seeking adequate security arrangements on the polling day.

Pakistan Govt approves 25% pay hike for its employees Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved an increase in the salaries of govt employees a day after the protests errupted. According to sources, a government negotiating team comprising Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak and Minister of State Ali Muhammad Khan called on the premier on Thursday. In the meeting, the officials of the Ministry

of Finance gave a briefing and detailed information about the burden on the national exchequer due to the increase in salaries. Sources said the Prime Minister, after briefing the officials of the Ministry of Finance and the negotiating committee, approved the increase in the salaries of government employees, but this approval will also be sought from the Cabinet.

Senate elections to be held on March 3 Pakistanon on Thursday announced Senate elections to be held on March 3, 2021 amidst a controversy about allowing open ballots in the polls to avoid and wrong doing and corruption. A total of 52 senators in 104-member upper house will retire on March 11 on completion of their six-year term. They will also include four of the eight senators from the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Since the areas have been merged with KPK (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa), they will not be

reelected and the Senate strength will shrink to 100. Therefore, polling will be held to elect 48 senators — 12 each from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, 11 each from Punjab and Sindh and two from Islamabad, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said in a notification. Polling will be held to elect seven members on general seats, two women and two technocrats in the four provinces. Besides, the election on one minority seat each in KP and Balochistan will also be conducted.

Health official suspended after former Governor’s family got Covid-19 vaccine without permission Sindh govt suspended Deputy District Health Officer over violation of SOPs during the administration of Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Karachi, according to media reports. According to the reports, former governor of Sindh and member of PML-N Mohammad Zubair’s daughter and son in law got Covid-19 vaccine in Karachi, the vaccine which was provided by govt for frontline healthcare workers.

As per details, the Sindh govt took action and suspended DDO District East, Karachi Dr. Annela Qureshi after reports circulated on social media that families of politicians being administered Covid vaccine jabs in Sindh. The govt has formed an inquiry committee under the supervision of Fayyaz Hussain Abbasi to probe the Covid vaccination matter and submit a report within three working days.

Anti terror tribunal handed death penality for 8 Bangladeshis for killing a publisher Dhaka: An anti terrorism tribunal sentenced to death eight Islamic militants, including a sacked military officer, for killing a publisher of books on secularism and atheism at his office in 2015. They hacked to death Faisal Arefin

Dipon, owner of Jagrity Publishers, at his office at central Dhaka’s Shahbagh area on November 31, 2015. Six of eight convicts, all belonging to outlawed Ansar Al Islam terrorist group, were present in the court.

7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake strikes South Pacific region A powerful 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake struck the South Pacific on Thursday, triggering tsunami warnings in the region that were later cancelled, with no immediate reports of damage. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the quake’s epicentre was 417 km (258 miles) east of Tadine.

Nandini Nancy Nair to represent Fiji in Mrs World 2021 34-year-old mother of one child who now resides in New Zealand, with her family first took part in a beauty pageant during a school carnival in Ba. Raised in Yalalevu and Vatulaulau, Ba, Nandini Nancy Nair always followed her heart’s desire and that was to one day represent Fiji on the international stage in a beauty pageant. The 34-year-old mother of one child who

now resides in North Shore, New Zealand, with her family first took part in a beauty pageant during a school carnival at A.D Patel College in Ba. That first appearance on the school stage confirmed her status of being in the pageantry where she participated in the Miss India New Zealand beauty pageant in 2006 and scooped the title of Miss Personality.

Pacific Islands Forum in crisis as one-third of member nations quit The Pacific Islands Forum – the Pacific’s most influential regional body – is in disarray after nearly one-third of its member countries quit en masse. The countries of the Micronesian subgrouping – Palau, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, and

Nauru – have all abandoned the forum over the selection of the new secretary-general for the forum, following the election of Polynesia’s candidate in defiance of a longstanding convention that dictated it was the Micronesia’s turn to provide the forum’s leader.

Concerns raised why tsunami sirens did not work People residing in the Suva and Lami areas are concerned why they could not hear the tsunami sirens early this morning after the Fiji Seismology Department stated there was a tsunami threat to Fiji from about 2am. The release was sent out after a 7.9 magnitude

earthquake occurred about 525km West North West from Noumea, New Caledonia after 1am. We received calls from areas including Laucala Beach, Vatuwaqa, Delainavesi, Qauia and Cunningham, and some calls came from Nadi and Lautoka.

Tabuya again questions why govt continues to justify curfew The issue regarding the nationwide curfew has been again brought up in parliament where SODELPA MP, Lynda Tabuya asked how the government is continuing to justify the nationwide curfew while Minister for Defence and National

Security, Inia Seruiratu says we should not rush into changing what we have in place. Tabuya says there is no scientific evidence to prove that keeping the curfew will prevent the spread of COVID-19 and neither it has been proven that it prevents crimes.

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