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Nearly 1 in 4 homeowners would have to sell if interest rates rise more, survey finds

Sikh rally organizers say they were wrongly arrested Two organizers of a Sikh event planned on Parliament Hill Saturday say they were arrested and released after being wrongfully identified in connection to a bomb threat in the area.

Manveer Singh, an organizer of a remembrance rally for the 1984 massacre of Sikhs in India, says police arrested him and told him they had “credible information” that he was connected to a serious bomb threat on the Hill.

“I’m still in shock. I couldn’t sleep for a couple of nights after that. I’m still uncomfortable and lots of questions in my mind, like who wants to set me up? What was that credible

Nearly one in four homeowners say they will have to sell their home if interest rates go up further, according to a new debt survey from Manulife Bank of Canada.

The survey, conducted between April 14 and April 20, also found that 18 per cent of homeowners polled are already at a stage where they can’t afford their homes.

Over one in five Canadians expect rising interest rates to have a “significant negative impact” on

Continued on page 7 The gulf between Mayor Doug McCallum’s announced 2.9 per cent property tax and what a Surrey councillor says taxpayers are really having to fork out is wide and deep. Just like last year. Surrey’s property tax notices have been mailed and payment is due on July 4. McCallum said during his 2022 State of the City Address on June 1 that “for four straight years” council has held the residential property tax rate at 2.9 per cent, “which puts Surrey in the bottom third in all of Metro Vancouver.”

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Call for windfall tax on oil and gas companies, give that money back to struggling Canadians: Green party leaders to PM Trudeau

Pakistanis urged to cut down on tea drinking as country can’t afford it - minister People in Pakistan are venting their outrage after a government minister urged them to forgo their frequent cups of tea to help the economy. From chaiwallah street vendors to elaborate tea ceremonies, the normally milky andsweetcaffeinatedhotdrinkisareverednationalstaple.

“I appeal to the people to reduce their tea drinking by one or two cups a day,” Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal told reporters Tuesday. “Because we also borrow money for the tea, which is imported,” he added as the country battles growing financial woes.

Almost 70% of British Columbians are against new Royal BC Museum: poll The first extensive poll on the $789-million Royal BC Museum has found that 69 per cent of British Columbians are opposed to the project. New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds just 22 per cent of people support the project. B.C. Premier John Horgan has been under fire ever since announcing plans to replace the aging downtown Victoria building. The BC Liberals and BC Greens have pointed to various other capital projects no longer being funded as the province pushes forward with the museum set to be completed by 2030.

Political leaders in three Canadian provinces are calling for federal action as gas prices reach record highs across the country. B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau joined her counterparts in New Brunswick and P.E.I. in a call for a national tax on the profits of oil and gas companies.

In an open letter, she, David Coon and Peter Bevan-Baker, leaders of their respective provincial Green parties, say the prime minister should implement a windfall profits tax. In a news release, the Green caucuses say such a tax should be collected from fossil fuel companies and then distributed to Canadians across the country who are struggling to make ends meet.

High and hidden taxes driving up the gas pump price

By Franco Terrazzano

As far as Canadian politicians are concerned, the soaring cost of living is like winter slush, summer mosquitos and other unfortunate forces of nature.

They would love to help, but what can they do?

Here’s an idea: our politicians just need to follow the lead of other countries and cut the stack of hidden taxes they charge at the gas pumps.

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BC residents have least life satisfaction in Canada - S tatscan Statistics Canada map showing life satisfaction levels across Canada. For an interactive version, click here. There are more people in Newfoundland and Labrador who are highly satisfied with their lives than anywhere else in Canada, while British Columbians are the least likely to be so bullish, according to new data from Statistics Canada.

The report, released Thursday, found that 61.7 per cent of people in Newfoundland and Labrador considered themselves

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High and hidden taxes driving up the pump price

Canadian drivers pay six different taxes in some major cities. For example, Montreal drivers pay provincial and federal gas taxes, provincial and federal sales taxes, a transit tax and a carbon tax. Drivers in Vancouver, where taxes account for 38 per cent of the pump price, also pay six different taxes.

With taxes accounting for more than 55

cents per litre of gasoline on average, a family pays about $40 in taxes to fill their minivan.

That’s a lot of money that could help pay for groceries or baseball cleats for the kids.

The federal government and some provinces charge sales tax on top of other taxes. That means politicians tax the fuel you need to drive, then they tax those taxes. This tax-on-tax adds

more than four cents to the average pump price.

Provincial politicians can provide relief today by following Alberta’s example, which cut its 13 cent per litre fuel tax. “While the inflation rate nationally rose in April, the rate declined in Alberta,” said University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe. “Falling gasoline prices because of the tax holiday is the reason.”

The feds could immediately provide similar relief.Conservative Party leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre’s proposal to scrap the carbon tax and suspend the federal fuel and sales taxes on gasoline would save an Ontario family $20 every time they fill their minivan.

The big tax bill Canadians pay at the pumps is about to get worse.

The federal carbon tax has increased three times during the pandemic, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will keep cranking up the carbon tax until it reaches nearly 40 cents per litre in 2030.

While the Trudeau government claims that “families are going to be better off ” due to its carbon tax and rebate, the Parliamentary Budget Officer shows these politicians are using magic math. Even at the low end, including the rebate, the PBO’s analysis shows that Trudeau’s carbon tax will cost an average family $300 this year, rising to $1,145 in 2030.

The Trudeau government is also imposing a second carbon tax through fuel regulations that could add an extra 11 cents per litre of gas by 2030. But even that’s likely a low ball estimate of the actual cost. British Columbia has a second carbon tax that currently costs about 17 cents per litre of gas, helping to make B.C. one of the least affordable places on the planet. And no rebates are coming with the second carbon tax.

While Ottawa sticks Canadians with higher tax bills, there’s a laundry list of other countries doing the right thing.

The United Kingdom announced $8 billion of fuel tax relief. South Korea cut its gas tax by 30 per cent. Germany is cutting taxes on motor fuels. The Netherlands cut its gas tax by 21 per cent. Italy, Ireland, Israel, India, Peru, Poland, 25 Indian states and union territories, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Jersey and Florida are also cutting gas taxes.

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Saturday, June 18, 2022 Key ‘Freedom Convoy’ leader pleads guilty to mischief Tyson Billings has pleaded guilty to a charge of counselling to commit mischief related to his involvement in the protest that gridlocked Ottawa in February and is to be released from jail.

Nicknamed “Freedom George” by his fellow protesters, Billings was a key figure in the three-week demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions and the federal government.

Protesters in big-rigs and trucks blocked streets for weeks, forming encampments, forcing businesses’ to close and sparking a sense of what police and politicians described

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“lawlessness” in downtown Ottawa.

Billings was co-accused with prominent protest organizer Pat King, whose trial is expected to go ahead as planned.

Crown counsel Moiz Karimjee says Billings appeared in videos with King encouraging people to thwart police checkpoints to access Ottawa’s downtown.

Billings appeared in person at the Ottawa courthouse to deliver his plea where the courtroom was filled with supporters.

Extreme heat and poor air quality “very likely” to be felt in BC this summer As many BC residents lament the ongoing unseasonable weather, scientists, and experts are cautioning that extreme heat could still be on the way.

The BC Lung Foundation has put out a press release about how a large percentage of the population is drastically affected by extreme heat and the air pollution that results from it.

A conference is being held at the Sheraton Wall Centre on June 16 which will discuss ways to minimize the harmful impacts of the climate.

Following that event, on June 26, the BC Lung Foundation is going to release its State of the Air Report in regards to the effects of the summer of 2021, and what we might be able to expect for the near future. Most of BC has managed to stay away from the extreme record-breaking temperatures that impacted many parts of the

province last year.

Vancouver and surrounding areas have generally hovered around a high of 20˚C so far as we approach the summer. While this year’s weather may feel like a bummer so far, the BC Lung Foundation suggests that last year’s heat had a “profound effect on British Columbians’ health.”

The BC Coroners Office revealed that hundreds died as a result of the heat last year.

A BCAA survey revealed that many people aren’t prepared for extreme weather events.

“The predictions our speakers will make are based in pure science, and are alarming for all British Columbians, but especially the one in five who live with lung disease and compromised breathing,” the foundation claims in the release.

Retired Lt. General Trevor Cadieu charged with two counts of sexual assault A retired lieutenant general who is now in Ukraine has been charged with two counts of sexual assault related to an alleged incident at the Royal Military College in 1994.

Trevor Cadieu was facing allegations of sexual assault and was under investigation by military police when the Canadian military senior leadership approved his request to retire as of April 5. He travelled to Ukraine shortly after to volunteer for that country’s military which is battling a Russian invasion.

The Canadian Forces Provost Marshal’s office issued a statement Wednesday that Cadieu had been charged with two counts of sexual assault. He had been under investigation since September 2021.

Cadieu has been accused of raping an 18-yearold female student at the Royal Military College in 1994. He was a senior cadet at the time of the alleged incident. The young woman had just started her education at Royal Military College

Bar tab on PM’s airplane shows booze flowing freely in-flight The in-flight bar did brisk business during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2020 visit to Ethiopia, government records show.

Data revealing alcohol consumption on federal government VIP aircraft show that the 50-odd passengers aboard Can Force One who accompanied the PM on his February 2020 six-stop tour of Europe and Africa, consumed 95 bottles of wine and 93 cans of beer, racking up an in-flight bar tab of $1,414.81.

The size of the bottles and cans and the vintages

and brands of each were not included in the data.

Can Force one is a government-owned Airbus fitted out for VIP travel. The data were released from Global Affairs Canada to an April 27 order paper question from York– Simcoe Conservative MP Scot Davidson.

That trip included stops in Spain, Senegal, and Greece, as well as talks in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.

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Premier Horgan’s popularity slips as Liberals and NDP release attack ads British Columbia Premier John Horgan’s popularity continues to be on a downward swing.

According to a poll released by the Angus Reid Institute on Tuesday, just under half of British Columbians approve of Horgan, the lowest approval measured for the BC NDP leader since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

InMarch2020,Horganhitastaggering 71 per cent approval but has now slid to 48 per cent, down seven points from three months ago.

Even at 48 per cent, Horgan still only trails Nova Scotia premier Tim Houston and Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe in the bid to become Canada’s most popular first minister.

“In addition to a growing debacle surrounding the near $1-billion plan to demolish and

rebuild the Royal B.C. Museum, Horgan’s government was forced to defend a lack of funding for new school construction, a shortage of family doctors and overall being “out of touch” with regular British Columbians by opposition parties,” the report from the Angus Reid Institute reads.

“The problems – and more – keep piling up at the door of the premier’s office.”

The BC Liberals are trying to capitalize on the withering popularity by releasing an attack ad on Tuesday. The ad highlights the NDP’s record on affordability noting the province has the highest gas prices in North America, the highest rents in Canada, and the highest housing costs in North America.

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Saturday, June 18, 2022 Federal ‘failures’ on money laundering prompt BC inquiry to call for provincial watchdog The Cullen Commission‘s final report into money laundering in B.C. has faulted senior provincial government ministers, including former premier Christy Clark, for being warned about incredible growth in suspected laundering of criminal cash in the government’s casinos, but failing to “ensure such funds were not accepted.” While Commissioner Austin Cullen found that Clark and former B.C. Liberal gaming minister Rich Coleman were among the senior elected officials and the B.C. Lottery Corporation managers who failed to stem suspected criminal proceeds that were flooding into B.C. coffers — in some cases ignoring repeated and escalating warnings — Cullen said there was no evidence that politicians’ failures to act were motivated by corruption. The 1,800page document, released Wednesday, also included new data that detailed the stunning growth in cash transactions into B.C. casinos

that investigators first flagged in 2008, and how these transactions continued unabated until at least 2014, when casinos accepted $1.2 billion in cash transactions that were $10,000 or more.

Many of these transactions matched indicators for criminal cash, Cullen said, because they were delivered to casinos in bricks of cash and in duffel bags. “Sophisticated criminals have used B.C. as a clearing house to launder a vast amount of money,” Cullen said in media interviews after his report was released. “This is fundamentally destabilizing to the economy we want for our province.” Cullen also found that B.C.’s economy, including casinos, real estate dealings, banks and law offices face big moneylaundering risks, and that the failures of federal RCMP and Fintrac, Ottawa’s anti-moneylaundering agency, allowed money laundering to grow.

Construction safety issues in Surrey & Mission lead to $25K fine, 14 days incarceration The principal of a construction company has been sentenced to 14 days incarceration and his company was fined $25,000 for civil contempt concerning work safety issues related to framing, residential forming and roofing work at a residential construction site in Surrey and another in Mission.

The Workers’ Compensation Board launched a petition against G&D Construction Ltd. and Dalwinder Singh Kandola in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, seeking a contempt of court order. GDCL does framing on residential projects and Kandola, its principal, also works directly on its projects.

“I conclude that deterrence and denunciation are key here,” Justice Sheila Tucker said.

Tucker heard that on Jan. 5, 2021 the respondents were doing wood framing on a twostorey single family residence with a basement in Surrey when a WCB occupational safety

officer spotted Kandola and another employee working from roof trusses without ladders or work platforms in place. Moreover, a temporary stairway to the second floor lacked a mid-rail, several accessible second-floor areas had no guards or rails to prevent falls to lower areas and a worker operating a self-propelled elevating work platform without required formal training.

The court also heard that on Oct. 6, 2021 GDCL workers were framing a two-storey single family house in Mission when an inspector found temporary floors that didn’t meet safety regulations, a “job-built” wooden ladder that didn’t meet WCB requirements, two workers building a roof with unsecured fall harnesses with one worker exposed to a fall hazard of 21 feet and the other, 10 to 12 feet. While the two workers had undergone fall protection training, the supervisor for the roof work had neither that nor supervisory training.

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Annis says 2.9% Surrey property tax increase a ‘complete myth’

A particular bone of contention for many who were critical of last year’s budget, which was approved on a 5-4 vote by the Safe Surrey Coalition majority on council

in Dec. 2020, was a 200 per cent increase in the capital parcel tax increase – which sat at $100 per parcel before increasing to $300.

Nearly 1 in 4 homeowners would have to sell if interest rates rise more, survey finds overall mortgage, debt and financial situation, the survey found. The Bank of Canada remains on a rate-hike path as it tries to tame inflation, which is now at a 31-year high at 6.8 per cent. On June 1, the central bank increased its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 1.5 per cent.

The Manulife survey also found that two-

thirds of Canadians do not view home ownership as affordable in their local community.

Additionally, close to half of indebted Canadians say debt is impacting their mental health, and almost 50 per cent of Canadians say they would struggle to handle surprise expenses.

BC residents have least life satisfaction in Canada - S tatscan very satisfied with their lives, while 46.5 per cent who considered their lives very satisfying lived in British Columbia.

But don’t you pack your bags for the East Coast just yet. “It isn’t the geographic coordinates that matter, it’s what’s there,” said University of British Columbia happiness researcher Dr. John Helliwell.

Helliwell says the number one predictor of happiness is social connection, and the feeling that other people “have your back.” He describes it as “that sense in which when you are out in public, these are all people that would help you when you fell down and tripped.”

The recent Statistics Canada data identifies six factors that contribute to individual quality of life, half of which are directly about social connection: life satisfaction, sense of meaning and purpose, future outlook, loneliness, having someone to count on, and belonging to the local community.

Almost 70% of British Columbians are against new Royal BC Museum: poll “If there was ever a museum of political gaffes built in British Columbia, the rollout of the Royal BC Museum’s rebuild could occupy a gallery of its own,” the report from the Angus Reid Institute reads. “While the preservation of B.C.’s historical artifacts and displays resonates with some, the decision to proceed with the rebuild of the Royal BC Museum comes as many have criticized the lack of staffing in B.C. health-care, and the skyrocketing cost of living in the province.” But the museum concerns don’t seem to be having a major impact on the BC NDP. While Horgan’s approval has dropped seven points this quarter to 48 per cent the NDP still holds an 11-point advantage in vote intention. Based on voter intention, 42 per cent say they would vote NDP in the next election with 31 per cent intending to vote for the BC Liberals. The BC Green Party is currently supported by 15 per cent of would-be voters.

BC Liberal leader Kevin Falcon is viewed favourably by 23 per cent of British Columbians and unfavourably by 44 per cent, while a third of people remain uncertain.

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Save Old Growth trees protester injured after driver breaks ladder A Save Old Growth protester remains in hospital after the ladder he was sitting on fell over on a Vancouver Island highway.

Trevor Mckelvie, who goes by Red, was perched atop a ladder on Patricia Bay

Highway on Monday as part of a protest to end logging of old-growth trees in BC. An impatient driver who was held up by the blockade approached the ladder and ripped a piece of supporting wood off of it.

Sea to Sky drivers to return to work, ending record-breaking B.C. transit strike BC Transit workers in the Sea-to-Sky region are heading back to work, ending what their union describes as the longest transit strike in the province’s history.

More than 80 members of Unifor

Local 114 have been picketing since Jan. 29, citing unfair wages.

On Tuesday, they ratified a new agreement with their employers — Whistler Transit Ltd. and Diversified Transit, which are part of PWTransit Canada.

“We were successful at closing an unacceptable wage inequality between transit workers in Vancouver and the Sea to Sky region,” said Gavin McGarrigle, Unifor western regional director, in a news release.

“Local 114 members are eager to return to serving the communities of Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton.”

The new five-year collective agreement, retroactive to April 2020, was reached with help from a mediator. It includes wage increases of 1.5, two, three, three and four per cent annually, for a total bump of 13.5 per cent by 2024.

It also includes a hiring bonus of two per cent for 2022, full benefits for part-time workers, and a new defined pension plan. The standout achievement, however, is a one-time cost-of-living adjustment, according to McGarrigle.

The lump sum will be paid in 2024 if the B.C. Monthly Consumer Price Index over three years exceeds the average annual wage increases established in the agreement.

“At the end of the day, I think this dispute has shown the importance of regional transit to the area, I think it’s shown that it’s underfunded,” McGarrigle told Global News.

Click to play video: ‘Talks resume between Whistler-area transit workers and employer’

Mounties arrest armed gas station robbery suspect after Williams Lake standoff RCMP say “several” people were arrested Wednesday, following an armed gas station robbery that culminated in a stand off at a home in Williams Lake, B.C. According to Williams Lake RCMP, the robbery took place at an Esso station in 150 Mile House shortly after 4 a.m.

Police say a man confronted the lone employee withagunbeforefleeingwithcashandmerchandise in a dark Chrysler 200 with Alberta licence plates.

Police later tracked the vehicle to a home on 9th Avenue in Williams Lake.

“I got woken up this morning to the police wanting everybody to come out of the house,” Wendy Bonazew, who lives in the building, told Global News Wednesday afternoon.

“It turns out that somebody that had just robbed a gas station in 150 Mile decided to stop at my house. I had no idea. And then the police called us all out and it took this long for the young man to finally come out.”

RCMP said there were no reports of injuries.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Williams Lake RCMP at 250 392-6211.

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Fake nurse worked for months at BC hospital despite several complaints: court filing An imposter nurse who is now behind bars was disciplined multiple times for “inappropriate behaviour” before she was fired from the B.C. Women’s Hospital, a new court filing has revealed.

Brigitte Cleroux was sometimes “insensitive to her surroundings” and “disrespectful” to patients and coworkers, according the Provincial Health Services Authority.

She was placed on administrative leave on Oct. 20, 2020, suspended without pay on Dec. 1, 2020, and placed on paid leave pending the results of an investigation on June 7, 2021.

Nevertheless, the Gatineau, Que.,

woman remained fraudulently employed until her termination on June 23, 2021.

The new details about Cleroux’s time at the hospital are contained in the health authority’s recently filed response to a proposed class-action lawsuit that was submitted last year on behalf of a former patient The class action alleges anyone who was treated by Cleroux at the women’s hospital between June 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, suffered battery, and holds the health authority responsible.

In its court filing, the agency denies all liability for her actions, arguing it didn’t “authorize” any of them, and because she defrauded them when applying for

Two Surrey schools get $21.4M in seismic upgrades Upgrades at George Greenaway and Holly elementary schools among 6 seismic upgrades in the Surrey School District since September 2017 .

Seismic upgrades have been completed at two Surrey elementary schools at the cost of $21.4 million.

The upgrades at George Greenaway and Holly elementary schools are among six seismic upgrades in the Surrey School District since September 2017.

Jennifer Whiteside, provincial minister for education and child care, said during a presser Monday at George Greenaway, at 17285 61A Ave., that it’s “particularly wonderful” to see students moving into “safer learning environments.

“At the heart of any great community is a wonderful school,” she said, “where kids feel safe and secure and inspired.”

Since 2017, she said, the government has invested $57 million for seismic upgrades at six schools in Surrey, “giving

19 police officers from 8 BC departments under investigation over misconduct allegations Due to the number of B.C. police departments whose officers are facing misconduct allegations stemming from a recent training course, the claims will be investigated by an out-of-province agency.

The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner announced the investigation Monday, saying it has been launched to look into the actions of 19 officers from eight departments.

“Due to the number of municipal agencies involved in this matter and the serious nature of the alleged misconduct, the OPCC has employed an infrequently used provision in the Police Act to seek the appointment of one or more Special Provincial Constables to complete this investigation independent of

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any B.C. police agencies,” a news release from the commissioner says, adding the Independent Investigations Unit of Manitoba will be leading the probe.

The allegations stem from a B.C. municipal undercover training course on May 2.

Later that month, CTV News learned that the course was shut down abruptly after some officers went to extreme lengths in a course scenario to prove they are not a cop. Those actions are alleged to include exposing genitalia, defecating on another officer, penetrating an officer using a vegetable and removing feminine hygiene products, multiple sources confirmed to CTV News.

“The actions of some municipal police

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And over the past five years, Whiteside added, the government invested $475 million for “new and improved” schools in Surrey and the 2022 budget includes $3.1 billion for school capital projects over the next three years. Since 2017, she said, “We’ve added just about 10,000 additional seats to Surrey.”

“It’s great to see that because of our investment this is the first year that Surrey, this is one of the first years that the Surrey school district didn’t purchase, have to purchase portables to meet new demands,” Whiteside said. “With 1,800 new seats planned to open for September 2022, the school district isn’t expecting to purchase any portables either for the upcoming year.”

Laurie Larson, chairwoman of the Surrey Board of Education, said while the threat of earthquakes isn’t something most people think about very often, “safety and peace of mind is something we all seek.”

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Surrey nurse suspended for N95 mask theft The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives has suspended a Surrey nurse for three months for the theft of a box of N95 masks from a hospital.

A college inquiry committee panel found the nurse had taken the box of masks, generally used in recent years for COVID-19 protection, in February 2020.

The June 14 decision said the nurse was also found to have over-reported practice hours to the regulator by 7,623 hours.

The college said the nurse has agreed to a suspension of their nursing registration for three months as well as a public reprimand.

The inquiry committee is satisfied that the terms will protect the public, the college said.

The college is one of 18 regulatory bodies empowered under the Health Professions Act to regulate health professions in B.C. It regulates the practice of four distinct professions: nursing, practical nursing, psychiatric nursing and midwifery.

South Asian Airbnb host arrested after alleged knife attack on two sisters at Vancouver rental A Vancouver man has been charged with aggravated assault after an alleged attack on two young women who’d rented his Airbnb suite.

A A A “I don’t know what happened with him and these specific two young ladies,” said witness and neighbour Saad Mustafa. “But he flipped on them in a very, very violent way.

“It (was) horrifying.

There was blood everywhere.”

Airbnb takes legal action against guest after 3 shot at unauthorized U.S. party It was a terrifying wake up call for Mustafa, who said he saw his nowformer neighbour allegedly turn on his

Airbnb guests. Global News has learned the guests are two sisters from Alberta.

Around three a.m. on May 27, he said he heard frantic female screams and a man yelling.

“He was pushing the girl against the wall, and I heard banging against the wall,” Mustafa recalled. “He was saying, ‘Why did you push my cat?’”

His gut instinct told him to get up and have a look. He said he opened his apartment door to a horrific scene in the hallway.

“One young lady, she appeared to have a stab wound in the neck or neck area.

Almost 70% of British Columbians are against new Royal BC Museum: poll The first extensive poll on the $789-million Royal BC Museum has found that 69 per cent of British Columbians are opposed to the project.

New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds just 22 per cent of people support the project.

B.C. Premier John Horgan has been under fire ever since announcing plans to replace the aging downtown Victoria building.

The BC Liberals and BC Greens have pointed to various other capital projects no longer being funded as the province pushes forward with the museum set to be completed by 2030.

“If there was ever a museum of political gaffes built in British Columbia, the rollout of the Royal BC Museum’s rebuild could occupy a gallery of its own,” the report from the Angus Reid Institute reads.

Canada to drop COVID-19 vaccine mandates, allowing unvaccinated Canadians to board planes, trains Passengers will still be required to wear masks on board, and those travelling to Canada will continue to be subject of vaccination requirements for entry into country. The Canadian government on Tuesday withdrew the majority of its Covid-19 vaccine mandates after criticism that the restrictions were causing hours-long delays at airports and creating a group of second class citizens.

“The suspension of the vaccine mandate

was informed by key indicators, including the epidemiological situation and modelling vaccine science and high levels of vaccination against Covid-19 in Canada,” said Omar Alghabra, minister of transport, according to Global News.

Canada to end vaccine mandates for domestic travel, outbound flights The federal government is set to announce an end to vaccine mandates for domestic travel on planes and trains, as well as outbound

3-year jail for random stabbing of Mexican tourist at Vancouver Tim Hortons The man who randomly stabbed a Mexican tourist in a downtown Vancouver Tim Hortons has been sentenced to three years behind bars.

David Morin, 28, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on Tuesday, according to Vancouver police.

The stabbing, which was captured on

security video, took place on Jan. 22 at the fast food restaurant’s Harbour Centre location near Granville and Helmcken streets.

The 25-year-old victim was waiting in line when a man approached him from behind and “repeatedly stabbed him” in the back, Vancouver police said at the time.

Surrey RCMP seize drugs, cash, cigarettes and a loaded rifle at Whalley area home Nine people were arrested by Surrey RCMP following a lengthy investigation in the Whalley area.

On June 3, Surrey RCMP’s community response unit executed a search warrant on a home in the 13700 block of Grosvenor Road.

“Actions of officers resulted in weapons,

drugs, and contraband being removed from our streets, and a suspect facing multiple criminal charges in the future,” said Staff Sgt. Nigel Pronger.

“This is an example of the team working within our North Surrey neighbourhoods to improve safety for everyone in our community.”

Former BC child star had plans to kill Justin Trudeau after killing his mother: documents A former B.C. child star had plans to drive to Ottawa and kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he killed his mother in April 2020.

Details were revealed in court Monday during the first day of the sentencing hearing for 24-year-old former actor Ryan Grantham.

In March, Grantham pleaded

guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of his mother.

Barbara Waite was found dead in her Squamish home on April 1, 2020.

Police had attended the home on Government Road to perform a welfare check.

In court Monday, the Crown read out the agreed statement of facts that said

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A fraudster will have driver’s licence blocked after failing to pay securities sanctions A B.C. businessman who bilked investors out of millions will not be able to renew his B.C. driver’s licence after failing to pay a penalty of $7.6 million.

The B.C. Securities Commission is using exercising its power to request ICBC not to renew Paul Se Hui Oei’s driver’s licence and vehicle licence as he remains in default of an order to pay a $4.5-million administrative penalty and $3.1 million, representing the amount he obtained through an immigration investment fraud.

In October 2019, the Securities Act was amended to allow the Commission’s executive director to request Insurance Corp. of B.C. to block licence renewals for those who failed to pay penalties.

The amendment came into effect on March 2021, making B.C. the first province to leverage driving privileges as a way to collect sanctions.

When notified of the plan, Oei asked a Commission panel to review the executive director’s decision.

“Oei told the panel he needs to serve as an emergency driver for his father-in-law and daughter, and that taking away his driver’s licence would hamper his ability to get a better job, including one in car sales,” read a statement issued by the Commission.

Oei told the Commission he was unable to pay the penalty, after earning only $7,000 in 2020 and $12,400 in 2021, though he said he had plans to start working as a customer support representative with a communications company.

“He also said he has considered filing for bankruptcy, but doesn’t have enough money to start proceedings.”

Former BC Hells Angel loses appeal of extradition ruling A former Hells Angel has lost his appeal of a 2020 B.C. Supreme Court ruling that said he should be handed over to the Americans for prosecution in a drug trafficking case.

B.C.’s highest court released a statement this week saying that it had dismissed the appeal of David James Oliynyk, a one-time sergeant-atarms of the Hells Angels White Rock chapter.

The Appeal Court’s statement also said that “the full reasons for judgment and the record of proceedings in this court and in the Supreme Court of British Columbia are subject to sealing orders necessary to protect privileges and confidential information.”

A redacted ruling is expected to be released later.

Two years ago, the 71-year-old was ordered committed to the U.S. to face

trial as the alleged leader of a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into Canada.

The Americans began investigating Oliynyk after the arrest of an associate in the U.S. “for involvement in a conspiracy to move cocaine from California to Vancouver,” according to a 2019 bail ruling in the case.

That man agreed to be a confidential witness.

He told U.S. agents that he had been smuggling drugs on behalf of Oliynyk’s brother-in-law.

“The confidential witness said that shortly before his arrest, he met with Mr. Oliynyk at a gas station in Abbotsford and Mr. Oliynyk provided him with contact information for persons in the U.S.A. from whom the confidential witness was supposed to pick up drugs for transport into Canada,” the bail ruling said.

MEMORIAL FOR AIR INDIA BOMBING VICTIMS TO BE HELD in Vancouver on Thursday June 23, 2022 at 6:30pm in Stanley Park’s Ceperley Playground area.

Former Surrey-Tynehead MLA Dave S. Hayer reminds everyone that the 37th annual memorial for the 331 victims including 82 children of the terrorist bombings of the Air India flight from Canada will be held on Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 6:30 p.m., in Vancouver. “This 37th annual observance of the greatest air disaster in Canadian history, the bombing of Flight 182 from Vancouver in 1985 will be held at the Air India Memorial in Stanley Park’s Ceperley Playground on Thursday, June 23 2022 at 6:30pm,” said Hayer.

“This memorial will not only remember the 329 victims including 82 children of this terrible terrorist bombing, but all their family members and 2 baggage handlers in Narita, Japan who died almost at the same time as a second terrorist bomb bound for another Air India flight exploded prematurely. “These horrendous acts live on in the memories of all family members of the victims and these annual memorial ceremonies continue to remind us all, that terrorism has no place in a civilized world and that it must be stamped out at all costs,” explained Hayer.

During Hayer’s 12 years from 2001 – 2013 as an MLA, he spoke often in the BC Legislature about

the Air India bombing disaster, strengthening the rights of victims and against terrorism. Everyone is invited to attend the ceremony, which begins at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, 2022.

Members of the media are also invited to attend, but are asked to respect the solemnity of the occasion and the privacy of the families who will be there to grieve over the loss of their loved ones.

The annual memorials of this tragedy are organized by family members of the victims. For more information on the ceremony, please contact Mr. Major Sidhu at 604-719-7897.

Mr. Major Sidhu’s sister, nephew and niece were killed on Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985.

The Air India Memorial in Ceperley Park was unveiled in 2007 to commemorate the worst aviation tragedies in Canadian history, and to stand as a monument against terrorism.

Dave S. Hayer Cell: 604 - 833 – 4000 Email: DavesHayer@gmail.com Dave Hayer Served as MLA for Surrey for 12 years (2001-2013)

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Guns must not be used for self-defense, Prime Minister Trudeau Insists Guns are for hunting and target practice, but never for self defense, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week, continuing his crusade against firearms.

Trudeau, who is pushing a sweeping measure aimed at freezing the sale, purchase, or transfer of handguns in Canada, told the Pod Save America podcast his country takes a completely different view of firearms than its southern neighbor. No one in Canada has a right to defend themselves, their family or their property with a firearm, Trudeau declared.

“We have a culture where the difference is: Guns can be used for hunting or for sport shooting in Canada – and there are lots of gun owners, and they’re mostly lawrespecting and law-abiding – but you can’t

use a gun for self-protection in Canada,” Trudeau said. “That’s not a right that you have in the Constitution or anywhere else.”

The firearms freeze now being considered by lawmakers in Ottawa is Canada’s “most ambitious attempt yet to restrict access to firearms in this country,” the CBC reported.

Trudeau announced the measure last month shortly after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Although that attack was carried out by an 18-year-old loner with an AR-15 rifle, it sparked renewed calls for control of firearms, including handguns.

Trudeau insisted that the massacre in Texas was not what prompted his effort.

Hidden cash, passport, hard drive found in suspect’s cabin, Amanda Todd ‘sextortion’ trial hears A passport, €10,000 cash and a hard drive were among the items found in a vacation home searched by police who investigated the man accused of extorting B.C. teen Amanda Todd, his trial heard Tuesday.

Dutch citizen Aydin Coban, 43, has pleaded not guilty to five criminal charges, including possession of child pornography, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and criminal harassment in the high-profile Todd case.

Todd took her own life in 2012 a few days after posting an online video that eventually went viral, in which she silently holds up flashcards describing incidents of harassment and bullying. She was 15.

Taking the stand in person, Dutch National Police Lt. Erik Verstraten, who was then with the child abuse investigation

team, told the 12-member jury about two searches of the holiday home in the De Rosep bungalow park in Oisterwijk, about 100 kilometres south of Amsterdam.

Ten officers participated in the first, fourhour search late on the night of Jan. 13.

Verstraten told the court he and another officer returned the following afternoon to conduct a second, daylight search.

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GSBC organized a mesmerizing talk show by a very eminent speaker and writer Shri Jay Vasavada, accompanied by one of the best RJ of Gujarat, Devaki , on 12th June.

By VIBHOOTI VAISHNAV First time, Gujarati community of Vancouver got an opportunity to listen to such a fluent and exceptional delivery of life coaching speech in Gujarati. It was mainly attended by Gujarati youths and young families who are new in the country.

During these truly unforgettable moments, we all got to learn, enrich and clear some of the self doubts about challenges we face due to changes that happen in life, desirable or undesirable, expected or unexpected.

Jay Vasavada is a very popular writer and his positive energy overflows in every word. He has self published books that are printed on quality glossy paper with colourful cover, artistic pictures and designs on every page.

He encourages entire new generation to pick up a book and read instead of ebooks and for that reason he doesn’t have any of his books on kindle.

The topics he covers in his lectures are interesting and varies from science to spirituality, from literature to love, from movies to motivation, from friendship to relationships, from picturesque destinations to parenting.

He had unconventional primary school education, and has remarkable

knowledge of global literature.

His discourses are witty, resourceful, uplifting, informative, inspiring, enriching and motivating. Richness of language, enthusiasm in delivery and relatable examples makes it an exhilarating experience to listen to him.

Devaki is a multitalented actor and radio jockey and a revolutionary speaker who thinks outside the box and speaks her mind with conviction and composition. It was a treat to listen to this beauty with brains. She

stunned the audience with a dialogue delivery from one of her extremely popular stage play.

It was a humbling experience and a privilege for me to introduce them on stage.

Hoping to see more programs of this standard in future from GSBC.

Virat Kohli leads tributes to Lata Mangeshkar Former captain of the Indian cricket team Virat Kohli led the cricketing fraternity in paying rich tributes to the legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, who passed away after an illness.

Legendary singer and one of India’s biggest cultural icons, Lata Mangeshkar passed away on Sunday at the age of 92.

Mangeshkar was hospitalised on January 11 after she had tested positive for Covid-19.

Following the news of her passing, the Indian cricket fraternity expressed its

Priyanka shares glimpse of daughter in birthday post Priyanka Chopra posted a rare picture with her and Nick Jonas’ daughter, Malti, on Thursday while celebrating her mom’s birthday.

“Happiest birthday Mama,” the “Quantico” alum, 39, captioned the Instagram snap with her mother, Madhu, and 4-monthold daughter. “May you always smile that infectious smile of yours.

“You inspire me so much with your zest for life and experiences every single day!” the actress continued.

“Your solo Europe tour was the best birthday celebration I’ve seen in a while.

Love you to the moon and back Nani.”

The proud grandma held Malti in the family photo as Chopra gazed down at the little one. Only the back of Malti’s head could be seen.

The “White Tiger” star and Jonas, 29, similarly covered their daughter’s face when she made

sadness and grief through social media.

On his official Twitter profile, former India captain Virat Kohli offered his condolences to the family of Mangeshkar.

“Deeply saddened to hear about the demise of Lata ji. Her melodious songs touched millions of people around the world. Thank you for all the music and the memories. My deepest condolences to the family & the loved ones,” wrote Kohli.

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Dilip Kumar December 11, 1922 – July 7, 2021

One of the greatest actors of Indiam cinema

Dilip Kumar widely considered one of the greatest and most influential actors in history of Indian cinema, and cinema in general. Dilip Kumar, a pioneer of method acting, predating Hollywood method actors such as Marlon Brando. He inspired many Bollywood actors, including Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Balraj Sahni, Shah Rukh Khan , Aamir Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Irrfan Khan .

Dilip Kumar, who pioneered his own form of method acting without any acting school experience, was described as “the ultimate method actor” by noted filmmaker Satyajit Ray, despite not having worked with him.

Dilip Kumar was born as Mohammad Yusuf Khan on 11 December 1922, in Peshawar (north western province of Pakistan). His father’s name was Lala Ghulam Sarwar Khan and his mother, Ayesha Begum. His father was fruit merchant. He grew up in same neighbourhood in Peshawar as Raj Kapoor, his childhood friend, and later his colleague in the film industry. Yusuf Khan was schooled at Barnes School,

Deolali, Maharashtra. In 1940, he moved to Pune and set up a dry fruit supply shop and a canteen. Despite hailing from Peshawar, Khan’s family decided to remain in Bombay following the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

In his autobiography, Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow, he wrote that the name was a suggestion from Devika Rani, who was one of the producers on Jwar Bhata. Dilip Kumar was appointed Sheriff of Mumbai in 1980.

The Government of India honoured Dilip Kumar with Padma Bhushan in 1991. He received Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015.

The Government of Andhra honoured Kumar with NTR National Award in 1997.

He was honoured with CNNIBN’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. The Government of Madhya Pradesh honoured Dilip Kumar with Rashtriya Kishore Kumar Samman in 2015.

Steamy, Sunny Leone Sunny Leone turns 41.

Born in Canada, Sunny Leone made her first appearance in Bollywood with Mahesh Bhatt’s 2012 erotic thriller Jism 2.

Prior to that, the actress was a contestant on the Indian television reality show, Bigg Boss, where she was loved by audiences. Following her success in Jism 2, Leone has gone on to work in several films.

The actress is married to Daniel Weber and has three kids, two sons (Asher and Noah) and a daughter (Nisha). As the actress celebrates her 41st birthday today, here is a look at some of her adorable moments with her family members:

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Saturday, June 18, 2022 Housing market slowdown continues, with average selling price down 13% since February

Canada’s housing market continued to cool down from its red-hot pandemic pace in May, with the average price of a Canadian home that sold during the month going for $711,000, a decline of more than $100,000 in the past three months. While May is typically a strong month for home sales, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) said Wednesday that the volume of homes that sold fell precipitously during the month, down by 20 per cent compared with the same period a year ago.

The slowdown means that home sales are now finally back to the level they were at before the COVID-19 pandemic, the realtor group said. After cooling down in March and April 2020 as the pandemic was unfolding, Canada’s housing market has rebounded strongly, with

selling prices and sales volumes setting record high after record high for much of the past two years.

But that momentum has shifted noticeably in recent months, as lending rates that were slashed early in the pandemic start to rise, making mortgages more expensive and reducing buyers’ purchasing power.

CREA says the average price of a home that sold on its Multiple Listing Service last month went for $711,000. That’s down by more than 13 per cent from the all-time high of $816,720 set back in February 2022.

“Ultimately this has been expected and forecast for some time — a slowdown to more normal levels of sales activity and a flattening out of prices,” CREA’s chief economist,

Pay $1,200 monthly rent plus you work as housekeeper While there’s no shortage of ridiculous rentals in Vancouver, a listing in West Dunbar that’s searching for a housekeeper might take the top spot for absurdity. For $1,200 a month you get to live in a fully furnished 800 sq ft suite near UBC with a washer and dryer in the unit.

Sounds pretty good right? Well, here’s the catch; you’re expected to work for 15 hours a week as a housekeeper doing cleaning, laundry, dog walking, groceries and meal prep. The unit itself is quite nice and seems to be fairly spacious.

The listing suggests that the tenant who fulfills the housekeeping obligations would get a significant discount on rent, but Daily Hive has confirmed that $1,200 is the

full amount with the “discount” included.

In-suite laundry where you’d potentially wash your landlord’s clothes. (Vancouver craigslist) There’s also no compensation for the successful applicant.

Where you will potentially meal prep for your landlord (Vancouver craigslist) Taking all of that into consideration, if the housekeeper was being compensated and working for the minimum wage in BC ($15.65), technically they’d be owed $939 a month. Instead, they get a phantom discount. The listing doesn’t indicate what the non-discounted rent is.

Based on a quick Google search, livein housekeeping services are typically in exchange for free room and board.

Mansion built into West Coast bluff for sale for $20M What may have been seen as a challenge for some builders became an opportunity for those involved in the construction of a mansion on a rocky property in West Vancouver.

A four-bedroom home for sale on Marine Drive appears almost as if it rose out of the cliff it was built on in 2014.

And the price tag seems to reflect the effort it must have taken. The 6,136-square-foot mansion is listed at just under $20 million.

Sotheby’s International Realty describes the oceanfront, south-facing home as “ultraluxury,” and “of highest quality construction.”

The home was renovated in 2020-21, and includes open-plan kitchen, living and dining areas, six bathrooms, several walk-in closets, a media room, a recreation room and more.

The future owner will have their own

temperaturecontrolled wine cellar, and can enjoy a glass while looking out at the ocean from their infinity pool and hot tub.

There are layers of decking built into the rock, and a hoist for a jet ski at the edge of the water.

It all sounds great, but most in Vancouver wouldn’t even be able to provide the property taxes.

At an estimated $54,472 a year, the taxes are comparable to entire salaries in the region.

The recently posted listing comes at a time when experts are monitoring the real estate market for the impact of rising mortgage rates.

In British Columbia, a monthly report released Monday showed a 35 per cent drop in sales in May, when compared to the same month in 2021.

Home prices will fall most in areas outside Toronto: Desjardins As home prices fall and sales stall, homeowners and prospective buyers alike have been left wondering what the postpandemic real estate market will look like.

A new report from Desjardins Economic Studies suggests that while the situation will differ from province to province, what goes up must come down. The parts of Canada that saw the biggest increase in home prices during the pandemic will also feel the largest losses.

Nationally, the average price of an existing home rose from roughly $530,000 at the end of 2019 to just over $790,000 during the peak in February 2022 — a 50% increase in two years.

In the months since, prices have fallen fast across Canada. In March, they slid by 2.6%

month-over-month, and were down by 3.8% in April. Existing home sales have dropped, too. In March, they declined by 5.9% and were down by a dramatic 12.6% in April.

“While two months of data don’t make a trend, we believe they do suggest that the Canadian housing market has reached an inflection point,” the report reads.

In Ontario, the national trend will play out on a local level.

In the two years before the pandemic, average home prices in Ontario rose by about 13%.

However, from December 2019 to February 2022, the average price jumped from $645,000 to $1,040,000 — an increase of over 60%.

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How to deal with a real estate market in flux After two years of ultra-low, pandemicinduced core lending rates, inflation in Canada is now the highest it has been in 30 years. To accommodate, the Bank of Canada is hiking those rates back up.

For mortgage seekers and current borrowers, payments could be on the rise. Add in record-high home prices and a constantly changing real estate market, and it can be a tough field to navigate.

There’s help for potential homeowners or those with existing mortgages

coming up for renewal, though. According to Vancouver author, radio show host and mortgage broker Angela Calla, the current climate is all the more reason to schedule an appointment with an independent mortgage broker.

“A licensed mortgage professional’s interest is to help you navigate the market without bias,” she says. “That’s incredibly important when taking into consideration all the changes that are constantly happening and how you can

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Vancouver lot where 2018 fire destroyed empty home returns to market asking $4,699,000 Per B.C. Assessment, 2250 Southwest Marine Drive was last sold on August 3, 2020 for $3,490,000.

The Vancouver property has sat empty since a July 2018 fire destroyed the vacant house there.

The residential lot has a 2022 assessment of $3,831,000.

That’s up from the previous year’s valuation of $3,459,000.

There’s a new listing for the property, and the asking price is $4,699,000. The property was on the market for $4,660,000 when a July

29, 2018 fire razed the unoccupied home there at the time.

Journalist Bob Mackin later reported on his The Breaker News site that the listing agent in 2018 wasn’t immediately aware about the incident.

“A fire? I didn’t know. That house is not liveable, nobody lives there,” the realtor said in Mackin’s report.

The agent was also quoted saying, “I didn’t know that happened. I don’t know.

BC home sales drop 35% as rising mortgage rates bite Higher borrowing costs are continuing to weigh on British Columbia’s housing market as sales and home values slid in May over the previous month.

While the province’s average home price climbed more than nine per cent yearover-year to just over $1 million according to data from the British Columbia Real

Estate Association, it was down six per cent from the $1.065 million recorded in April.

The association noted that sales slid as well, with 8,214 residential homes exchanging hands last month, down approximately 35 per cent from last May and eight per cent from April.

“Canadian mortgage rates continue to climb,” said BCREA chief economist Brendon

Ogmundson in a press release accompanying the data. “The average five-year fixed mortgage rate reached 4.49 per cent in June. That is the highest mortgage rates have been since 2009.”

B.C. is not alone in seeing a slowing housing market. Other provinces have seen activity cool as well, led by major cities such as Toronto (which saw home prices drop for the third

straight month in May), Montreal and Calgary.

Vancouver home sales slipped nearly 10 per cent from April to 2,918 units in May, also hitting a 32 per cent drop year-over-year in sales, according to data from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. The price of a home in B.C.’s most populous city remained relatively flat in May at $1.26 million.

Don’t fall for freebies while buying property in India, warns top developer NRIs looking to invest in the Indian property market should do so with caution, and not fall for the freebies, a top developer said at the Gulf News India Property Show on Sunday.

“Nothing in this world comes free, so whenever there is a freebie it means there is a catch,” said Usha S. Varanasi, AVP Middle East Sales and Operations, Prestige Group.

“These days not many developers or real estate companies are coming up with such freebies. By large, I think that is stopped.”

She added that developers have become very careful with incentives ever since the Reserve Bank of India barred the 20:80 scheme.

Developers are, however, more inclined to offer properties at an affordable and reasonable price over others.

Under these schemes, the buyer books an under-construction property by making a down payment of 20 per cent of the cost of the property, and takes a home loan for the rest of the amount.

In 2013, the RBI had advised banks to exercise caution while financing interest subvention schemes “in view of the higher risks associated with such lump-

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Toronto van attacker sentenced to life in prison, no possibility of parole for 25 years The man responsible for Toronto’s deadly van attack has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

Justice Anne Molloy handed down her sentence in Superior Court in Toronto

Monday in a room full of victims, family, friends and community members whose lives were forever changed on April 23, 2018.

Alek Minassian has also been sentenced to 20 years for 15 counts of attempted

The United States government, including President Joe Biden’s White House, has joined calls for Canada to participate in a probe of cross-border pollution coming from coal mines in southern British Columbia.

In a statement released last week, the U.S.

State Department said Biden supports a joint investigation of selenium coming from Teck Resource’s Elk Valley coal mines, which flows into rivers and lakes south of the border.

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murder, which are to be served concurrently.

He was found guilty last year of 10 counts of firstdegree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.

Eight women and two men died on April 23, 2018 when the 25-year-old man who was bent

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Feds spending $77M to help rebuild Lytton with fire-resistant buildings The federal government on Tuesday announced it will be spending $77 million to help rebuild Lytton, B.C., in a way that could better withstand future fires, nearly a year to the day after the village was destroyed by flames.

More than three quarters of the new funding — $64 million — will go toward new, fireresistant public buildings like community centres and libraries. The remaining $13 million is set aside for small- and mediumsized businesses and insured homeowners to rebuild houses that are fire resistant.

“These investments will position Lytton as a leader, showing that sustainable, resilient, net-zero building is not the way of the future, it is the way today,” said International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan, speaking to media Tuesday at a surviving gas station just up the hill from the village core.

The announcement comes ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disaster on June 30, 2021. The entire village, which lies around 150 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

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ED grills Rahul Gandhi for 8 hours, summons him for 4th time The Enforcement Directorate questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for the third straight day over money laundering allegations in the National Herald case even as the opposition Congress intensified its attack on the government “warning it against impeding

political activities of party workers by preventing their entry to the AICC headquarters”.

Rahul’s written statement is being recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. ED sources said today’s interrogation began at 12 noon with the entire process

Govt launches degree course for Agniveers To enhance future career prospects of Agniveers and equip them for various job roles in the civilian sector, the Education Ministry will launch a special three-year skill-based bachelor degree programme for serving defence personnel that will recognise the skill training received by them during their tenure in the

defence establishments. The programme offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will be recognised both in India and abroad for employment and education. The Army, Navy and the Air Force will sign an MoU with IGNOU for implementation of the scheme, ministry officials said. The degree programme

Govt reaches out for consensus candidate The ruling NDA on Wednesday began engagement with the Opposition to build a consensus on the presidential candidate even as opposition parties held its first meeting to discuss the potential contenders for the July 18 election.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, one of the

two authorised interlocutors of the BJP for the deliberations, spoke on the phone to TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, YSR Cong chief Jagan Mohan Reddy and BSP supremo Mayawati.

Sri Lankan official at centre of Adani controversy quits The Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board M.M.C. Ferdinando, who was at the centre of a controversy around the Adani group, has resigned, said Lanka’s Power Minister Kanchana Wijesekera. Ferdinando said he had mistakenly said Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa told him that PM Narendra Modi had insisted that a Wind Power Project be awarded to the Adani Group.

The official said he had made the observation after he became emotional due to allegations levelled at him at a meeting with the Committee on Public Enterprises session last Friday.

“I have withdrawn that statement,” he said.

Gotabaya has also denied the statement made

by Ferdinando with regard to awarding a Wind Power Project. “I categorically deny authorisation to award this project to any specific person or entity. I trust responsible communication in this regard will follow,” he had tweeted.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had criticised the development and had alleged that the BJP’s cronyism crossed the Palk Strait and moved into Sri Lanka. Last year, too, a controversy regarding the Adani group had cropped up after

Saturday, June 18, 2022 Alt News’ Mohammed Zubair deletes Facebook account after his Hinduphobic posts go viral On June 13, Mohammed Zubair, cofounder of propaganda website AltNews, deleted or deactivated his Facebook profile (AltNewsZubair) after his Hinduphobic posts went viral on several social media platforms. He removed the page from the platform allegedly after a Twitter user, the hawkeye, posted a thread about how Zubair had been posting blatantly Hinduphobic posts.

Interestingly, Zubair has been a frontrunner in fanning the controversy around alleged derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad by former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma.

However, his parody page ‘Unofficial: Subramanian Swamy’ is still active.

Zubair deleted / deactivated

Facebook after his Hinduphobic posts got viral. Source: Facebook OpIndia had reported on Sunday that Zubair had himself mocked Hindu Gods and beliefs while leading an online campaign accusing people of insulting Islamic beliefs.

In one of the tweets shared by The Hawk Eye, Zubair is seen mocking Shivling and comparing it with the top view of the Vatican City. He said the post comparing Shivling with the Vatican City inspired him to come up with a parody Facebook page, ‘Unofficial: Subramanian Swamy’ in 2014.

Apparently, one of the posts on the Facebook page ‘Unofficial Mohammed Zubair‘ mocks Arun Govil to take a swipe at Lord Ram, suggesting that ISRO must consult the actor because he would know more about the rocketry.

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Four men arrested from UP’s Kanpur area in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the mass killings during the anti-Sikh riots in 1984, arrested four men accused of setting a building to fire in which three persons were burnt to death, a senior official said on Thursday.

The arrests were made on Wednesday

by the SIT, headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Balendu Bhushan Singh, from the Ghatampur area of Kanpur.

The SIT, constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government on May 27, 2019, on the orders of the Supreme Court, has been probing the anti-Sikh riots’ cases

Protests turn violent; police vehicles set on fire in Palwal Thousands of young armed forces aspirants took to streets in south Haryana on day against the recently announced army recruitment scheme Agnipath. Thousands of young armed forces aspirants took to streets in south Haryana on day against the recently announced army recruitment scheme Agnipath. While it was a scattered protest

and blockage of roads in areas like Gurugram, Rewari, Hodal, Rohtak and Charkhi Dadri, the demonstration turned aggressive in Palwal.

The Palwal DC imposed Section 144 and issued temporary suspension of mobile internet services, all SMS services and all dongle services etc. provided on mobile networks except the voice calls.

Disney loses Indian cricket streaming rights to Paramount JV, retains TV rights Viacom18 — a joint venture of Paramount, India’s Reliance Industries and Bodhi Tree Systems — has beat out Disney, among others, to win the streaming rights to the Indian Premier League.

The group paid a whopping $2.6 billion for the 410 cricket matches on the Indian subcontinent between 2023 and 2027, sources told The Times of India.

Disney, the current owner of both the streaming and TV rights for the league, inherited those in a five-year, $2.5-billion deal when Disney bought Fox in 2019.

While it has lost the streaming rights, Disney has agreed to pay a hefty $3 billion for its Star

India network to keep exclusive television rights to the league’s games for the next five years, per the report. Ad sales for the television broadcasts have seen robust growth in recent years. Bidding is reportedly still underway on other Premier League packages, including TV and digital rights outside of India.

For Disney, the loss of the streaming rights to the world’s largest cricket league could mean missing its target of reaching 230 million subscribers for Disney+ by September 2024.

With more than 30 million subscribers, the Hotstar segment of Disney+ has been a major driver of Disney+’s growth to more than 100 million global subscribers as of March, just 16 months after its launch.

To take on IndiGo, the Tatas have no option but to merge Vistara with Air India Even combined, Air India, Air India Express and AirAsia India will be no match for IndiGo. But that changes the moment Vistara’s network is added to the Tata group airline mix. Both Vistara (flight cabin pictured) and Air India have publicly stated that a decision has not yet been taken on merging them but, at the

same time, the Tata group has made it clear that it wants to be a dominant force in this sector At 04.55 am, two aircraft pushed back simultaneously at Delhi Airport. One was an Air India Boeing 787 and another was an AirAsia India A320.

Both were bound for Kochi. Thirty-five minutes later, a Vistara aircraft pushed back

India holds some bandwidth for private networks in July’s 5G auction India said on Wednesday it would reserve part of its next-generation telecoms spectrum for private in-house networks, as the government announced a 5G auction to take place by the end of July.

Until now, India’s telecoms services have been run by specialist companies in a market dominated by Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Reliance Industries Ltd’s Jio, which are all part of the telecom group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).

All three firms are expected to participate in the new auction but, under the proposal approved on Wednesday, tech companies will also be able to bid for bandwidth for networks for their private use - a proposal that has split the industry.

India is the world’s second-biggest wireless market with over a billion subscribers.

The government aims to begin the rollout of 5G - which it says can provide data speeds about 10 times faster than 4G and is seen as

Gang war or political plot? cops grill Lawrence Bishnoi Members of the Anti-Gangster Task Force and a five-member Special Task Force (STF), probing the Sidhu Moosewala murder case, grilled gangster Lawrence Bishnoi throughout the day in Kharar on Wednesday to unravel the conspiracy behind the killing.

After he was brought from Delhi, Bishnoi

was produced before a court in Mansa, which remanded him in seven-day police custody.

Police sources said main focus of questioning was to seek Bishnoi’s confession and to identify the shooters. They said the investigators quizzed Bishnoi to know if the crime was the result of a gang war, extortion or political conspiracy.

New data shows India grew 6.8% per year on average under both UPA and pre-pandemic NDA govts India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at the same annual average rate during the terms of the United Progressive Alliance and National Democratic Alliance governments, at least until the coronavirus pandemic struck.

According to new data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India’s GDP grew at an annual average rate of 6.8 percent from 2004-05 to 2013-14—the 10 years

Manmohan Singh was the prime minister (PM).

In the first six years of Narendra Modi’s tenure as PM—before the pandemic struck and pushed India into a recession—India’s GDP again grew by 6.8 percent on an average from 2014-15 to 2019-20.

If the two pandemic-hit years of 2020-21 and 2021-22 are taken into account, the average GDP growth rate under Modi drops to 5.4 percent.

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Punjab Many senior Punjab Police officers in touch with gangsters: Partap Singh Bajwa Congress Legislative Party leader Partap Bajwa today alleged several senior police officers were in touch with gangsters, as he questioned the performance of the state’s AntiGangster Task Force. “What is the achievement of the anti-gangster squad formed by the AAP government? Senior cops of the Punjab Police are in touch with gangsters and know all about them. These are serious allegations, but I stand by my statement,” said Bajwa during a press meet at the house of ex-minister Vijay Inder Singla.

Punjab Congress president Amrinder

Singh Raja Warring, ex-minister Singla, MLA Vikramjit Chaudhary, former MLAs Ashwani Sekhri, Sunil Datti, Raman Bhalla and former Ludhiana Improvement Trust chairman Raman Subramanium were also present.

Taking a swipe at the AAP government’s unveiling of bus service to the Delhi airport from Jalandhar, Bajwa said: “Even for a small function, Kejriwal reaches here to show he is supreme. Can CM Bhagwant Mann on his own not even flag off buses now?”

Judge’s daughter identified in test parade held by CBI Kalyani Singh, arrested in the Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu, aka Sippy Sidhu, murder case, was identified in the Test Identification Parade (TIP) conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). She is an assistant professor at PostGraduate Government College, Sector 42.

CBI sources confirmed that Kalyani was identified during the TIP. However, they did not divulge information about the witnesses involved in the TIP. Three

witnesses are part of the prosecution theory, including Amreeta Singh, a resident of Sector 27, who is an eyewitness.

During the investigation, she had revealed that she was present on the first floor of her house when she heard gunshots followed by a girl’s scream around 9.30 pm on September 20. She went out towards the balcony facing the main gate where she saw a small white car parked under the street light near the main gate of her house.

4 shooters identified; fuel receipt from abandoned vehicle helps Punjab police uncover trail of attackers Punjab police on Thursday announced they have identified four shooters in singer Sidhu Moosewala’s killing case.

The culprits have been identified as Priyawarat of Sonepat, his associate Ankit, Manu Kusa of Moga and Jagroop Roopa of Amritsar.

However, the alleged assailants are yet to be arrested. Raids are going on at different places to nab them.

Renowned Punjabi Singer Shubhdeep Singh,

popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala, was killed by unidentified shooters in Jawaharke village of Mansa district on May 29. Sidhu was driving his Thar with Gurwinder Singh (neighbour) and Gurpreet Singh (cousin) beside him in the car.

“The Police teams have procured CCTV footage and managed to identify one of the persons, possibly a shooter, who was later identified as Priyawarat of Sonepat.

Pakistan Fnance minister warns of default if fuel subsidies not abolished Pakistan will default if the government does not abolish the subsidies on petroleum products, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said, warning that the cash-strapped country’s economy could be in a similar position as that of Sri Lanka if tough decisions were not taken.Ismail

claimed that the government was still giving Rs 19 subsidy on petrol and Rs 53 subsidy on diesel, adding that Sri Lanka also gave subsidies to its public and it, eventually, defaulted.

Minister said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has insisted on abolishing

Pakistan cannot afford a showdown with the West Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan continues to protest his loss of power, calling for a revolution against what he describes as Pakistan’s subservience to American interests.

Some of the protests have resulted in violence.

Pakistani authorities are hopeful that they will hold back Khan’s agitation, which is supported by some Islamists, his own cult-like followers and anti-American retired military officers.

But the damage Khan is causing to Pakistan’s relations with the United States and western

countries might be more difficult to contain.

Imran Khan, who once described Osama bin Laden as a “martyr,” claims that his removal from office through a parliamentary vote of no confidence was the result of a U.S.backed conspiracy. It seems difficult for him to understand that the U.S. has its hands full with other international issues and was just not interested in him or Pakistan enough to want to engineer regime change. There is a benign lack of interest in Pakistan among U.S.

How Facebook became Pakistan’s hottest matchmaking site In 2018, Alina, an 18-year-old resident of Lahore, downloaded Tinder. The dating app gave her a way to date away from the scrutiny of her family and the omnipresent “rishta aunties” — elderly women who charge a fee to find suitable matrimonial matches. Alina, who asked to be identified by a pseudonym because of the social stigma attached to dating in Pakistan, was discreet about using Tinder and feared repercussions

from her family. It was fun exercising her choice for a while, before the option was taken away.

In September 2020, the Pakistani government banned five dating apps — Tinder, Grindr, Tagged, Skout, and SayHi — for promulgating “immoral” content. By that point, Tinder had become the most popular dating app in Pakistan and had been downloaded more than 440,000 times in the 12 months preceding the ban, according

IMF still has concerns over Pakistan’s budget - Finance Minister Pakistan will slash fuel subsidies for a second time in a week in a bid to control the fiscal deficit and secure International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout money, the finance minister said on Thursday.

Pakistan and the IMF concluded negotiations last week on the resumption of the bailout

programme, following which the lender stressed the need to end unfunded subsidies which were costing the cash-strapped country billions per month.

Minister Miftah Ismail said petrol and diesel prices for consumers have been increased by 17% at the pumps starting on Friday, up 30 Pakistani rupees each per litre.

The new price for petrol will be 209.86

FIJI Fiji says climate change, not conflict, is Asia’s biggest security threat Fiji’s defense minister said on Sunday that climate change posed the biggest security threat in the Asia-Pacific region, a shift in tone at a defense summit that has been dominated by the war in Ukraine and disputes between China and the United States.

The low-lying Pacific islands, which include Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, are some of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the extreme weather events caused by climate change.

Fiji has been battered by a series of tropical cyclones in recent years, causing devastating flooding that has displaced thousands from their homes and hobbled the island’s economy.

“In our blue Pacific continent, machine guns, fighter jets, gray ships and green battalions are not our primary security concern,” Inia Seruiratu, Fiji’s minister for defense, said at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s top security meeting.

‘MP charged under wrong provision’ Suva lawyer Simione Valenitabua said Opposition MP Salote Radrodro was charged under the wrong provision of the Crimes Act 2009.

He said this while presenting submissions on the objections raised against the amended information filed by the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption in the Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court in Suva yesterday.

Ms Radrodro was charged with one count of giving false information to a public servant and

one count of obtaining a financial advantage.

FICAC amended the information in the charge relating to the time period and raised the total amount obtained by $1, from $37,920.13 to $37,921.13.

Mr Valenitabua said Ms Radrodro should have been charged under Section 180 in the first count which dealt specifically with false statements made in statutory declarations, and that she did not give false information to a public servant but made a declaration.

First all-female deck crew for Fiji A world first, history was created yesterday when eight ladies set out to sea as the first full female deck crew on board tuna long-line vessel SEAKA II for a two-week fishing expedition.

The initiative was made possible via a partnership between Fijian-owned company SeaQuest Fiji and the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).

FFA said the all-female deck crew was one step towards addressing gender

imbalance in the Pacific tuna industry.

Speaking at the launch at Walu Bay, Suva, yesterday, FFA director general Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen said the women were pioneers, taking a new direction for the Pacific and the world by challenging the status quo.

“It is fitting that a Pacific nation and it is fitting that Fiji be the setting for the world first, we are here to acknowledge today (yesterday),” she said.

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NDP statement on the announcement of a Special Interlocutor on Indian Residential Schools Unmarked Burial Sites NDP critic for Indigenous Services, residential schools and to prosecute those Lori Idlout, made the following statement: responsible. We cannot expect people to heal “New Democrats congratulate Kimberly from this harm when abusers continue to live Murray on her appointment as Special freely while First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Interlocutor on Indian Residential Schools communities deal with the trauma and legacy (IRS) Unmarked Burial Sites. This is an of the colonialism the perpetrators caused. important step to help shoulder the tremendous It is disappointing that the process of burden that is being felt by First Nations, Inuit appointing a Special Interlocutor has taken and Métis communities as they continue their this much time. A year ago, New Democrats search for children who never came home proposed creating an independent commission and begin the difficult process of healing. to provide oversight in ground searches and As the former executive director of the investigations in accordance with the wishes Truth and Reconciliation Commission, we of communities, as well as invite international know that Ms. Murray will bring the expertise experts including the International Commission needed to provide truth to survivors, families, on Missing Persons to work with First Nations, and their communities. Truth must be Inuit and Métis communities to bring their followed by justice. The Liberal government children home. This motion was blocked by has repeatedly ignored the NDP’s calls for the the Liberals, who then took an entire year to government to appoint a special prosecutor bring in a Special Interlocutor with a similar to investigate the crimes that took place at mandate, but no oversight or collaboration with independent international experts.

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