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In a press release, the province said funding from the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund will help communities implement extreme heat projects and strategies, such as extreme heat risk mapping, risk assessments, extreme heat response plans and climate adaptation planning.
family ran with came from Parm’s daughter, young ten-year-old Daya.
December this year.
Parm Singh Dhaliwal, the dad, was talking with his family about how Canada has given them
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In 2017 Canada turned 150, and a young girl gave her dad an idea on how to ‘give back’ to Canada, the country they migrated to for a better future for them.
Parm Dhaliwal & family initiate neighbourhood cleanup drive
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Hindu temple in Toronto defaced with anti-India graffiti by ‘Canadian Khalistani Extremists’
An MP in Canada has blamed ‘Canadian Khalistani extremists’ for a Hindu temple in Toronto being defaced with anti-India graffiti. Inaugurated in 2007, the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir is run by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha. The sanstha is a “spiritual, volunteer-driven faith” that believes in bettering society by advocating Hindu ideals of “faith, unity, and selfless service,” as per PTI.
BC announces $1.9M in extreme heat funding for 36 communities across province
India will host the G-20 leaders’ summit in New Delhi on September 9 and 10 in 2023 under its Presidency, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced Tuesday.
40 Punjabi youths who block police officer’s car in Surrey to be charged and deported
India will assume the Presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1, 2022, to November 30, 2023, and is expected to host over 200 meetings across the country, beginning in
The province awarded $1.9 million on Wednesday to 36 communities across B.C. that are preparing for future extreme heat emergencies.
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India, as G20 Presidency, will be inviting Bangladesh, Egypt, Netherlands,Mauritius,Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, Spain and UAE as Guest countries, said the MEA. While India’s G20 priorities are in the process of being firmed up, the MEA statement said: “Ongoing conversations…
Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives are among the biggest debtors of China. Pakistan owes USD 77.3 billion of external debt to China, according to Forbes. Maldives’ debt to 31 per cent of its Gross National Income (GNI). Maldives’ total debt amounts to MVR 86 billion by the end of 2020, MVR 44 billion of which is external debt, reported The Island Online. Forbes, collecting data from The World Bank report as of 2020, said that 97 countries across the globe are under Chinese debt.
Forty Punjabi youths face a serious case of obstruction of justice and deportation after they surrounded and blocked a police officer’s duty, car and exit path in Surrey on Wednesday. Constable Sarbjit Sangha of Canadian Police in a media interaction said the group indulged in lawlessness when a police officer stopped and issued a traffic notice to a car driver who was roaming around Strawberry Hill Plaza 72nd Avenue playing loud music for three hours. Notice was to remove the loudspeakers from the car.
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Parm’s father, Hakim Singh Dhaliwal, contributes by taking a litter pick-up stick and a plastic bag on his daily walks, driving to different neighborhoods to pick up garbage from the streets.
He also shared how driving along 96 Avenue he saw a guy in a pick-up truck with an old mattress stop by the side of the road. “I felt right away this Sardar was going to dump the old mattress in his pick-up. So, I slowed down and looked back to see what was happening. When the man started to remove the mattress, I immediately made a U-turn and confronted the man. My wife was with me and cautioned me to not confront the pick-up driver alone but I told her we have to. I stopped the man, of course he shouted at me, saying why I care. I asked him would he like people to dump their garbage at his property? I said to him that he was not in India anymore and reminded him why he came to Canada in the first place”, shares Parm.
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Street. Six years later they are still going strong and vigilant in case they come upon someone trying to dump their garbage on to the streets.
The man drove off with Parm following him for the next tenfifteen minutes till the man gave up trying to dump the mattress.
The idea that the Dhaliwal family ran with came from Parm’s daughter, young ten-yearold Daya. She suggested they clean up the streets in their predominantly South Asian neighbourhood, where they lived, of posters, big item garbage like mattresses and broken nick-nacks that people were dumping on the streets, in front of parks and other open areas.
“Now it’s mostly the guys who go around cleaning the streets,” interjected Parm adding his daughter joins in sometimes. “It’s the adults, guys and some ladies, who go out to clean the streets. Having a female in the group tends to keep the abuse from the people who pollute the streets down,” explained Parm. When confronted by angry people, Parm says this to them – “you spend money to landscape your property, install a nice fence, now will you put up posters on your fence? No, right? I say to them think of this city as your home and look after it like you would your own house.”
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Important note for those nailing posters on hydro poles; BC Hydro says the vibration from the nailing on these wooden poles can electrocute the person doing the nailing. It is very dangerous and carries a fine of $2000.00 and higher because of the danger associated with the act of nailing. Unfortunately, nothing will be done to stop this behaviour until someone gets hurt.
Parm has started a Facebook page, Keep Canada Clean, where he posts about their clean-ups and what they are doing. Parm shares how he once posted on FB that the Newton area was starting to look like Ludhiana in Punjab, India. Dirty with rubbish on the roadsides. He got a message from someone who was upset that Parm was giving Ludhiana a bad name. Parm responded that he compares because Newton was starting to look like Ludhiana. This prompted the original poster to start he’s own campaign to clean up Ludhiana!
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Daya, now fourteen, shared what they did those first days in cleaning up the streets in predominantly South Asian neighborhoods, “I remember going out every evening picking up signs and stuff. It was kind of fun as I had my cousins with me. We would tear down the posters and see how clean it looked afterwards.” She also shares how after awhile, like any ten-year-old, she preferred to be playing outside instead of cleaning the streets, “but I kept doing it anyway.”
Parm Dhaliwal & family initiate neighbourhood cleanup drive
“Daya suggested we remove promotional posters that were plastered on city land and on hydro poles since many of these events the posters promoted were already over and were just slowly disintegrating in the environment while being an eyesore, making the area look dirty and unkempt,” shares Parm.
So began the Keep Canada Clean volunteer
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In response, Prime Minister Trudeau and his colleagues dismissed the idea out of hand, on the erroneous pretext that the extension of Western Canadian gas pipelines to the East Coast is not profitable and would take too long. Instead, he suggested ‘green hydrogen,’ an expensive and unproven business and technology.
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This was a superficial and manifestly untrue portrait of the real situation. Such LNG development is actually quite feasible and likely very lucrative.
These impediments include opposition from the Trudeau government and the Quebec provincial government’s moratorium on any further oil and gas development and its opposition to any construction of new or expanded pipelines in the province.
Trudeau is wrong. LNG development is feasible
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s recent visit to Atlantic Canada was an opportunity for a serious long-term strategy to address several different aims: European Union (EU) energy security, East Coast economic development, Canadian energy industry growth (and higher federal tax revenue), and the likely-alarmist crusade to lower carbon dioxide emissions.
The result of his visit, unfortunately, was abject failure.
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The Canadian Gas Association says that, even were the current dramatically high natural gas prices in the EU to fall to more sustainable but still-robust levels, LNG liquefaction terminals on the East Coast and LNG regasification terminals in the EU would be commercially viable, and, with the vast abundance of Canadian, and, also, American natural gas, there would be lavish amounts of gas to send across the Atlantic. However, wholly artificial obstacles remain.
The current federal government has stated that it will not provide any financial or legal support to pipeline construction, extension or expansion, nor any permitting or construction of LNG terminals.
An opinion piece by Ian Madsen from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Lesser impediments include local or community opposition, climate activist legal action and disruptive blockade protests or sabotage.
Scholz sought assurances that Canada would become a long-term, reliable and responsible supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU, including Germany, which is highly dependent on a hostile and highly unreliable gas exporter, Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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However, it is neither crucial nor essential that such support is offered nor that the Quebec government accede to pipeline right-of-way construction or other activities. There are already gas pipelines that cross Quebec all the way to the East Coast.
“The help we’re announcing today will make a big difference for the people who get it in a targeted way that will not stoke inflation.”
“They are helping to address the supply issue, you know far too well,” he said.
B.C.’s minister of municipal affairs announced funding for several new initiatives at the 2022 Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Convention, including $62 million for Fraser Valley communities affected by last year’s flooding.
The project — with an overall budget clocking in at $84.4 million — will see the
According to the BC Centre for Disease Control, between Sept. 4 and 10, another 142 patients in hospitals had tested positive for the virus — down from 180 in the previous reporting period.
After gathering no small measure of applause from UBCM delegates, Cullen also highlighted past announcements like the $76 million CleanBC Local Government Climate Action Program first announced in May 2022, and a provincial commitment of $7 billion toward creating 114,000 new homes over 10 years. About 35,000 are constructed or underway.
Traffic on Hastings Street has been blocked between Beta and Gamma avenues. According to police, shots were fired Tuesday night, just after 11 p.m., in the 4700 block of Hastings Street.
Police are not saying if the two incidents
PM Trudeau announces inflation relief measures for low-income Canadians
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installation of new wells, construction of a water-treatment plant and a pump station tying into the existing regional system.
Around 20 minutes later, officers were alerted that a vehicle was on fire in the 8200 block of Burnlake Drive.
Climate funding announced at UBCM
As of Thursday, there were 314 COVIDpositive patients in hospitals across the province. It’s a decrease from the 324 recorded on Sept. 8.
Between Aug. 28 and Sept. 3, the number of new critical care admissions due to COVID-19 was 26. Another 31 were detected between Sept. 4 and Sept. 10, the BC CDC reports.
New weekly hospital admissions with COVID-19 have decreased since the beginning of September, but the number of new critical care admissions has seen a slight uptick.
are connected, however investigators are asking for dashcam footage from the area of Burnlake Drive and Government Road between 11 p.m. and 11:45 p.m.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday that the government will introduce legislation to temporarily double GST payments for six months for lowincome earners. It will also provide lowincome renters with a one-time $500 top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit.
Ottawa says it will begin the program with children under the age of 12 and provide up to $650 per child for families making less than $90,000 without dental coverage. The government estimates that the dental care program for children under 12 would benefit 500,000 Canadians.
The federal government says it will provide inflation relief for low-income Canadians by temporarily hiking GST credits and providing payments for those struggling to pay rent, but economists warn it will likely add pressure to core inflation.
Police said the investigation will span for several hours Wednesday morning and traffic will be affected.
A portion of Hastings Street in Burnaby, B.C., has been shut down by police due to a fatal shooting.
The government also says it is moving forward on developing a national dental care program, a key part of its supplyand-confidence agreement with the NDP.
Cullen also announced plans for a $10 million 2023 program to help municipalities with climate change planning.
Canadians with low and modest incomes that qualify for the GST tax credit will see payments double for six months. The current benefit is up to $467 a year for a single individual without children with a maximum income of just over $49,000, $612 for married or common-law couples and single parents, and another $161 for children under 19 years old.
B.C. RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken conduct of the investigation.
The total cost of these measures is approximately $4.6 billion. Legislation will have to be passed before the programs can be implemented.
But Nathan Cullen also acknowledged that more could be done to address housing among other issues.
Responding officers found one man dead at the scene.
TransLink said some bus routes were being diverted due to a police incident that started around midnight.
Hospitalization down, while weekly critical care admissions on rise
One dead after shooting on Hastings Street in Burnaby
“These measures all put people at the centre of our plan to grow the economy. They are targeted to the middle class and people working hard to join it, while we continue to be responsible with public finances,” Trudeau said.
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The most significant news came about 30 minutes into a speech delivered in Whistler today when Cullen announced funding for Abbotsford to build a water system that would also serve Mission and the Matsqui First Nation.
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BC Brothers Keepers gangster shot dead in Ontario
Before the referendum, a five-kilometerlong car rally was held in Toronto on Sunday, which saw the participation of over 2,000 vehicles, reports Pakistan Observer.
An Indian official told Hindustan Times pro-Khalistani slogans on the statue may have been sprayed to create disharmony between Hindus and Sikhs in Canada.
debt to China are Pakistan USD 77.3 billion, Angola at 36.3 billion, Ethiopia at USD 7.9 billion, Kenya at USD 7.4 billion and Sri Lanka at USD 6.8 billion.
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Dan McLaughlin, who speaks for the B.C. Prosecution Service, said Tuesday that the seven firearms counts laid against Sameh Mohammed in April 2021 were stayed “after Crown Counsel with conduct of the file received further information about the case.”
Brampton South MP Sonia Sidhu also expressed dismay.
Member of Parliament Chandra Arya said Hindu Canadians are “legitimately concerned” after several incidents of vandalism of their temples.
“Vandalism of Toronto BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir by Canadian Khalistani extremists should be condemned by all. This is not just an isolated event. Canadian Hindu temples have been targeted in the recent past by these kinds of hate crimes. Hindu Canadians are legitimately concerned,” Arya wrote in a tweet.
“We live in a multicultural and multi-faith community where everyone deserves to feel
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On Monday, the 28-year-old Brothers Keeper gangster was shot to death at about 5:30 a.m. as he sat in a car in a driveway in Brampton, Ontario. In the intervening years, Mohammed faced a number of firearms charges that were dropped last May. And he watched his younger brother Naseem “Little Man” Mohammed — also in the Brothers Keepers gang — go to prison in Washington State.
Let’s take a look at how attacks or vandalism incidents by pro-Khalistani elements have increased recently and if Canada has become a safe haven for Khalistan supporters:
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi located at the Vishnu Mandir in Richmond Hill in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) was vandalised in July.
PM Trudeau announces inflation relief measures for low-income Canadians
Countries heavily in debt to China are mostly located in Africa, but can also be found in Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
China is reaching most of the countries under the One Belt and Road scheme. The world’s low-income countries owe 37 per cent of their debt to China in 2022, compared to just 24 per cent in bilateral debts to the rest of the world.
Ottawa estimates that 11 million individuals and families would benefit from the doubling of the GST tax credit.
Those with the highest external
The campsite is located about 10 kilometres west of Keremeos off Highway 3 at the edge of the Similkameen River and only about 50 metres from the road.
Mounties also called in a bomb squad “due to potential dangers at the location” and closed Highway 3 for several hours. Police said the matter has now been turned over to B.C.’s IIO so “no further information will be released by police.” It remains unclear what charges led to the warrants being issued, what type of weapon the man allegedly produced and the identities of the two people shot, and the RCMP didn’t respond Wednesday to a request for that information.
Seven years ago, Surrey resident Sameh Ali Mohammed was identified by police as one of several young men involved in a series of shootings who refused to cooperate even when wounded themselves.
A Khalistan referendum is being organised by US-based Sikh for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistani group, in Toronto’s Brampton, on 18 September.
Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives stand neck-deep in Chinese debt: Forbes
The one-time rent relief top-up of $500 through the Canada Housing Benefit program will be available to renters with adjusted net incomes below $35,000 for families, or $20,000 for individuals. The government says there are approximately
“Sameh had a ton of enemies dating back to his childhood days,” the source said.
The Indian mission in Canada and many Indian-origin lawmakers have condemned the vandalism of BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir and demanded an inquiry.
Mounties shoot two near Keremeos campsite while enforcing arrest warrants
Hindu temple in Toronto defaced with anti-India graffiti by ‘Canadian Khalistani Extremists’
Peel Regional Police said the shooting was targeted and that they are looking for a suspect. They said the victim was found inside the vehicle near Veterans Drive and Wanless Drive — an area of newer condos on the outskirts of the city.
Police are saying little about an incident Tuesday that saw officers shoot two people – one of them fatally – at an unsanctioned campsite west of Keremeos. Mounties say members of the heavily armed Southeast District Emergency Response Team descended upon the campsite around 7:45 a.m. to arrest a man and woman on outstanding warrants. “While attempting to enforce the warrants, the man allegedly produced a weapon and was shot by police. The incident continued and the woman was also shot as a result. The man died at the scene and the woman was transported to hospital in serious condition,” said a press release issued Tuesday afternoon by the RCMP.
The countries with the biggest debt burdens in relative terms were Djibouti and Angola, where debt to China exceeded 40 per cent of gross national income, an indicator similar to GDP but also including income from overseas sources.
“After reviewing this information and the rest of the available evidence the Crown concluded the charge assessment standard was no longer met. Accordingly a stay of proceedings was directed,” he said. The elder Mohammed moved to Ontario last month for security reasons, sources said Tuesday, after some of his gangland enemies figured out where his rented Richmond condo was located. He ran into a number of Lower Mainland gangsters over the weekend when he attended the Rolling Loud concert at Toronto’s Ontario Place, one source said.
Maldives newspaper reported that according to statistics released by the Finance Ministry, Maldives’ debt rose to MVR 99 billion by the end of Q1 2022. It made up 113 per cent of GDP.
As per Pakistan Observer, voting on the Khalistan referendum has earlier been organised in the UK, Switzerland and Italy.
safe. Those responsible should be located to face the consequences of their actions,” she tweeted.
The Chinese global project to finance the construction of the port, rail and land infrastructure across the globe, had been a significant source of debt to China for participating countries, reported The Island Online.
1.8 million low-income residents, including students, that would be eligible for this program. In order to qualify, applicants for the program will have to attest that they are paying at least 30 per cent of their income on shelter, that they are paying rent for their own primary residence and allow the Canada Revenue Agency to verify this information.
“We strongly condemn defacing of BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir Toronto with antiIndia graffiti. Have requested Canadian authorities to investigate the incident and take prompt action on perpetrators,” the Indian High Commission tweeted on Wednesday.
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“Extreme heat is a life-and-death emergency for some of the most vulnerable members of our communities and can impact the lives of all residents,” said Mark Pendergraft, board chair of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen. “The Community Emergency Preparedness Funding is critical to match the growing frequency and intensity of extreme heat emergencies in our region. As a regional district working with neighbouring partners, smart, strategic and wellplanned management of these events is important for our long-term climate security, safety and well-being.” To see a list of all the communities, First Nations and local governments that were awarded funding grants, visit the province’s website.
Trudeau said the queen embraced her role as queen of Canada and said “her sudden absence has struck us all palpably and profoundly.” “Her Majesty was everywhere. Her face on our coins. Her portrait hanging in Parliament and post offices. Her televised Christmas address a cozy ritual in homes from coast to coast to coast,” Trudeau said.
BC announces $1.9M in extreme heat funding for 36 communities across province
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“This new funding will be critical in supporting communities to develop their own heat plans and to help protect people, the local environment and local economy from the risks posed by extreme heat.” Most grants were around $30,000, but the largest was $300,000, and that went to the South Okanagan and Similkameen region (Keremeos, Lower Similkameen Indian Band, Oliver, Osoyoos, Osoyoos Indian Band, Penticton Indian Band, Princeton, Summerland, Upper Similkameen Indian Band and RDOS).
Vancouver police are looking for a suspect in a hit-and-run that sent one man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The victim, who police say is a middle-aged man, was crossing Clark Drive at Grant Street from west to east around 9 p.m. on Sept. 14. Police said he was hit in the middle of the road by the driver of a black 2011 to 2015 Kia Optima, which then fled on Clark before police arrived. The victim was taken to the hospital where he remains in the Intensive Care Unit.
A man has been seriously hurt after a shooting in Surrey’s Cloverdale neighbourhood. The RCMP says officers were called to the area of Angus Drive and W 41st Avenue around 5:30 a.m. Thursday for reports that a man was hurt. When first responders arrived, a 35-year-old was found shot. The man was taken to the hospital with what have been described as serious but not life-threatening injuries. No motive has been identified in this shooting. Investigators are looking for dashcam or CCTV footage from the area. No suspects or vehicles related to this incident have been identified.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to London with four former Canadian prime ministers as well as indigenous leaders for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, his office announced Thursday, hours after Trudeau and Canada’s opposition leaders paid tribute to her during a special session of Parliament. Trudeau said Canadians will continue to benefit from the stability the monarchy provides in his speech in the House of Commons in Ottawa. The late queen was head of state for 45% of Canada’s existence and visited the country 22 times as monarch.
as well as Simon and two-ex governor generals will be a part of Canada’s delegation for the funeral on Monday. They will be joined by Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Natan Obed, and President of the Métis National Council Cassidy Caron.
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien
PM Trudeau to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral with 4 former Canadian PMs
“Given the ongoing effects of climate change in B.C. and around the world, we need to ensure that we’re prepared to respond to extreme heat events now and in the future,” said Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth.
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several youths obstructed the officer and misbehaved with him, blocking his path, she said. Sangha said Punjabis had contributed a lot to Canadian economy and development but some elements were causing trouble.
“The video recording shows about 40 youths, mostly students and visitors, who are being investigated into and can face deportation,” she said.
risk reduction and resilience; developmental cooperation; fight against economic crime; and multilateral reforms.” “During our Presidency, India, Indonesia and Brazil would form the troika. This would be the first time when the troika would consist of three developing countries and emerging economies, providing them a greater voice,” said the MEA in a statement. Since 2011, the G20 summit has been held annually, under a rotating presidency. Initially, the G20 focused on broad macroeconomic policy, but has since expanded its ambit to include trade, climate change, sustainable development, energy, environment, climate change, anti-corruption etc.
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Austin Peepeetch from Regina is charged with: Possession of a firearm contrary to prohibition, s. 117.01(1) CC; Possession of a ammunition contrary to prohibition, s. 117.01(1) CC; Breach of probation, s. 733.1(1) CC; Pointing a firearm, s. 87 CC;Possession of a weapon for a purpose dangerous to public peace, s. 88 CC;Assault with a weapon, s. 267(a) CC; and Carrying a concealed weapon, s. 90 CC. Peepeetch made his first appearance in Provincial Court on these charges at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Singh took credit for the plan, saying that if left to upsincetheirowndevices,theLiberalswouldn’thaveacted.“WefoughthardandhavebeendemandingthespringthattheLiberalgovernmentstepandgivepeoplesomerespect,thedignitytobeabletoaffordtheirowngroceries.Andwehavewon,”Singhsaid.“Wehaveforcedthisgovernmenttodeliverthreethings.Eachoftheseitemswouldnothavehappenedbutforthefactthatweforcedthegovernmenttodeliveronthisrespectforpeople…We’reputtingmoneybackinpeople’spockets.”Newly-electedConservativeLeaderPierrePoilievrealsoreactedtotheannouncementonTuesday,sayingthatinhisviewthepre-promisedand,inpart,pre-budgetedcommitmentsaimedatlower-incomeCanadiansare“moreinflationaryspending.”“TheproblemwithspendingmoremoneyasasolutiontoinflationisthatitsimplypoursmoregasolineontheinflationaryfireandthatisexactlywhatJustinTrudeaucontinuestodo,”Poilievresaid.
On Tuesday in New Brunswick amid a Liberal caucus retreat, the prime minister released the details of a three-pronged plan aimed at low-to-modest income families, after the announcement was postponed last week due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Trudeau released further information Tuesday about the promised first phase of a national dental care plan, focused on coverage for kids under the age of 12 with a family income of less than $90,000.
Twenty-nine-year-old Mercieca remains in custody. The charges he is facing include: flight from police, possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose, possessing a fake ID and driving while prohibited.
The suspect, since identified as Justin Mercieca, was tracked down with the help of a police dog.
Liberals unveil dental care details, boosts to rent benefit and GST rebate in NDP-backed affordability package
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Unveiling how the Liberals plan to act on affordability issues, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to table legislation to implement the first phase of a national dental care plan, a top up to a housing benefit for renters, and a doubling of the federal GST rebate, at the start of the fall sitting of Parliament.
The detachment is touting the case as an example of how “proactive patrols” by the gang squads are successful at “targeting dangerous offenders and those involved in criminal activity like Justin Mercieca, who put the safety of other’s at risk in our community.”
On Sept. 3 around 9 p.m., the Surrey RCMP Gang Enforcement Team and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit’s Uniform Gang Enforcement Team were patrolling near 64 Avenue and 121 Street when they tried to pull someone over.
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Instead of being ready to roll out a comprehensive national dental care program, the Liberals are moving ahead with what essentially amounts to a stop-gap measure to meet their commitment of ensuring
A 20-year old male is facing numerous weapons charges after an incident involving an improvised firearm, also known as a slam gun.
calibre ammunition, and other evidence to support several charges.
“The vehicle sped off at a high rate of speed. Officers were able to deploy a spike belt to quickly stop the vehicle,” authorities said in a statement Wednesday.
The male was arrested for a firearms offence and further investigation led to discovery of a slam gun (a homemade firearm), some rounds of .22
Following through on these commitments satisfy planks of the government’s confidenceand-supply agreement with the New Democrats that were due by the end of the year, and provides the government -- under pressure to respond to Canadians’ affordability concerns -- something to point to heading into the fall political season. Trudeau touted the measures as being targeted at “the middle class and people working hard to join it, while we continue to be responsible with public finances.”
On Tuesday afternoon, NDP Leader Jagmeet
Several police units responded and located a male matching the suspect description in an alley in the 1100 block of Rae Street.
“These will be the very first pieces of legislation that we introduce when the House returns.”
“A search of the male and vehicle revealed two replica handguns and bear spray. Police also discovered modifications to the vehicle that appeared to mimic police vehicle emergency lights,” the statement continued.
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A man described as a “prolific offender” who allegedly fled from police in Surrey during a traffic stop is facing a slew of new charges, according to Mounties.
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“We are retaining fiscal firepower and at the same time ensuring that those who need support don’t get left behind. The help we’re announcing today will make a big difference for the people who get it in a targeted way that will not stoke inflation,” Trudeau told reporters.
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20-year-old charged after Regina police find him with home made rifle
On Tuesday, Sept. 13 just after 2 p.m., Regina police received a call with reports of one male pointing a firearm at another male behind a home in the 900 block of Robinson Street.
The City of Abbotsford is getting funding help from the B.C. government to bolster its drinking water system against floods, wildfires and other climate-related disasters. Municipal Affairs Minister Nathan Cullen said Wednesday the $62 million in government funds will support a new well and watertreatment system to serve more than 165,000 people in Abbotsford, Mission and the Matsqui First Nation. The vulnerability of the system was made clear in November 2021, when flooding from torrential rainfall forced 85 per cent of the water supply system off-line, he said.
RCMP Sgt. Chris Manseau says investigators believe it could have been the same person who severed the cable both times, sending the gondola’s cabins crashing to the ground, but different people may also be involved.
in reporting it in an unbiased way.”
that was known to spread through the air.
The gondola’s cable was deliberately severed on separate occasions in 2019 and 2020.
Investigators gave the updates at a news conference at RCMP headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Wednesday, the second anniversary of the 2020 incident in which the attraction’s main cable was cut, sending most of the gondola cabins crashing to the ground.
Federal Conservative leader tells followers to ‘go around’ the media
“We can’t count on the media to communicate our messages to Canadians. We have to go around them and their biased coverage. We need to do it directly with ads, mail, phone calls and knocking on millions of doors. And to do all that we need your help.”
The politician closes the email by encouraging supporters to donate to “go around the biased media.”
She says the findings of the study, which has not been peer-reviewed and was published online last week, are similar to those in other jurisdictions where schools were closed for much longer than in B.C.
Poilievre followed by stating the Conservatives are not fighting against just the Liberals, but against the media as well.
RCMP have released a profile and a thermal image of the person suspected of cutting the cable of the Sea to Sky Gondola twice in the past three years.
The individual is believed to be “extremely fit,” know the area around the gondola well and have extensive knowledge of the tools needed to cause damage to the cable while allowing them to get away safely.
The Mounties’ major crimes special projects section also says security video from the second instance the cable was cut in September 2020 shows how a security guard narrowly avoided being killed by the falling cable cars.
Police release thermal image of suspect who cut Sea to Sky Gondola cable
After being heckled by a Global News journalist, Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre penned an email claiming media “cannot be counted on to communicate” politicians’ messaging.
“Eighty-five per cent of Abbotsford’s water system relies on one single supply. During that flooding, that source was compromised,” Cullen told reporters after speaking at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, an annual meeting of municipal leaders, in Whistler, B.C.
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During a press conference on Sept. 13, to address inflation, Poilievre stepped up to the microphone just as Global reporter David Akin started yelling from the crowd and interrupting the politician’s opening remarks.
“It’s the media, who are no longer interested in even pretending to be unbiased. They want us to lose.”
“We know there are people out there with information that could assist police with this investigation,” said Manseau on Wednesday.
They say measures like masking for all students and air filtration upgrades in schools could have been taken earlier to protect children in classrooms from a virus
However, Henry says some youth were becoming infected when they were not eligible for a vaccine, and illness among those under 19 was comparable with transmission of the virus in the community.
$84.4M-water system in Abbotsford aims for climate resilience
“For several weeks, the city worked hard to manage secondary water sources to minimize the risks to a cancer clinic, senior care homes, farms, schools and family homes.” The project includes the installation of about 12 new wells, the construction of a water treatment plant and a pump station to tie into the existing regional system to bring the new water source to the community, the B.C. government said in a news release.
The study lists Henry among 13 experts who say a series of surveillance reports of infections from the start of the pandemic until August this year show at least 70 to 80 per cent of youth in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser
The water will be sourced just south of the Fraser River and supply the equivalent of 10 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water each day, Cullen said.
British Columbia’s provincial health officer says the findings of a study she co-authored showing children and youth have had the highest rates of COVID-19 in parts of the province should not be interpreted to suggest those infections occurred mostly in schools.
The total budget for the project is $84.4 million and the remainder of the funds will come from the Abbotsford Mission Water Sewer Commission, which operates the system.
Dr. Bonnie Henry has been criticized by some parents, advocacy groups and health-care professionals who say a major jump in infections occurred during the school year among children under age 10.
Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said a
Don’t blame schools for high COVID-19 rates among BC youth: Top doctor
Akin has since taken to Twitter to apologize for the behaviour. Poilievre wrote in an email to followers that Akin “wasn’t interested in hearing what I had to say, and he certainly wasn’t interested
Air Canada to buy 30 electric planes
Charest ended up placing a distant second in Saturday’s leadership vote.
characters and either Chinese or Persian.
He said it was hard to speculate on why no other candidates put their names forward this time, but he was “incredibly proud” of what his city had accomplished.
Poilievre didn’t hold back when asked about Rayes’s departure during a brief news conference in which the new Conservative leader accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of not doing enough to help Canadians struggling with record inflation rates.
Fifty-three per cent of the 663 leadership ballots cast by Conservative members in Richmond-Arthabaska were for Poilievre, according to the party’s official results,
Nomination information collated by nonprofit group CivicInfo BC shows 37 B.C. forhaveandrepresentasfullheWest,HurleynominationmayoralcandidatesautomaticallywonaftertheperiodclosedonSept.9at4p.m.AmongthemwereBurnabyMayorMikeandPortCoquitlamMayorBradbothofwhomgotsecondterms.Westsaidhisunopposedvictorywasn’twhatexpected,andhehadbeenpreparedforacampaignaheadofelectiondayonOct.15.“Itwasreallyhumbling…I’veworkedhardasIcanoverthelastfouryearstothemtothebestofmyability,I’mtrulyhonouredandhumbledtothatopportunitytocontinuetoworkthemforthenextfouryears,”saidWest.
The CTA agreed, stating in its decision that Air Canada failed to provide evidence “establishing that the crew shortage was unavoidable despite proper planning,” so Crawford and her son must be compensated.
Describing himself as a “proud Progressive Conservative,” RichmondArthabaska MP Alain Rayes said he respected the choice made by Conservative party members on Saturday in which Poilievre scored a resounding first-ballot victory to become leader.
But the moves sparked a backlash from Chinese airlines, mirroring differences between Beijing and the West over environmental policy weeks ahead of new global talks in Glasgow.
Harding said in an interview his Chinese name wasn’t something “plucked out of a hat.”
Air Canada ordered to pay passengers $2,000 for flight cancellation caused by crew shortage
Vancouver election chief challenges use of Chinese and Persian names on ballots
It is not uncommon for mayors to win by acclamation, and CivicInfo BC’s executive director Todd Pugh said that in 2018, 36 B.C. mayors were elected without contest.
decades. It also accelerates a 12-year-old pledge to halve emissions from 2005 levels by 2050 and involves tackling an extra 300 million tonnes of carbon through measures such as bio-based sustainable aviation fuels or hybrid-electric technology.
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Quebec MP leaves Tories after Poilievre eleted new leader
“However, some of my political ideals, values and convictions are not compatible with the new path undertaken by our political formation,” Rayes said in a statement posted to social media.
Ten are from the NPA, two from Vision Vancouver, and one each from Forward Together and COPE.
He said he has had a Chinese name for many years because half of his family on his wife’s side are Chinese.
cancellation was caused by a crew shortage linked to COVID-19, and was safety-related — so she wasn’t eligible for compensation.
“I am humbled and honoured to be acclaimed as mayor for four more years. It takes a lot of teamwork and collaboration to get things done. I encourage all residents to vote on October 15th for council members that will keep Burnaby moving forward,” the former Burnaby firefighter wrote in a Facebook post.
“We are working to fight the inflationary deficits and taxes imposed by Justin Trudeau. The citizens in Mr. Rayes’s riding agree: They voted for me in the leadership race. And I believe that all Conservatives that remain in the caucus agree.”
The announcement came shortly after Poilievre unveiled his leadership team inside and outside the House of Commons as he continued to shape the party to his liking ahead of next week’s return of Parliament.
“He’s decided not to fight Justin Trudeau’s inflation,” Poilievre said in French.
Rayes stepped down from the role in February to help former Quebec premier Jean Charest’s leadership campaign, during
Later that evening, Poilievre tried reaching Rayes by phone but he was not available to answer, according to a spokesperson from Rayes’s office.
Vancouver’s chief election officer has filed a court application seeking to declare that 15 candidates in upcoming municipal votes are not entitled to have their names on the ballot papers using Chinese, Persian or other non-Latin characters.
The matter is set to be heard by the provincial court in Robson Square on Thursday morning.
The airline’s response prompted Crawford to take her case to the CTA, a quasi-judicial tribunal.
A recent ruling by Canada’s transport regulator in favour of two Air Canada passengers whose flight was delayed is the latest development in the ongoing battle over whether airlines must compensate passengers for flight disruptions caused by crew shortages.
Global airlines are stepping up plans to tackle climate change as they face mounting pressure from regulators and environmental groups over the impact of billions of extra passengers expected to take to the skies in coming
Hagiwara argued that none of the respondents who have previously stood for municipal elections used non-Latin versions of their names in the earlier nomination papers.
Pierre Poilievre faced one of his first tests as federal Conservative leader on Tuesday as a prominent member of Parliament from Quebec announced he was leaving the Tories to sit as an Independent because he disagreed with the party’s new direction.
In a decision published on Aug. 25, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ordered Air Canada to compensate passenger Lisa Crawford and her son $1,000 each following a flight cancellation that delayed their August 2021 trip from their home city of Fort St. John, B.C., to Halifax by almost 16 hours.
In Burnaby, incumbent Hurley took to social media to celebrate his win.
The application said all of the respondents submitted their “usual name” to be used on the Oct. 15 ballot papers in both Latin
“So telling me that this is not my usual name, you can understand this is like,
Burnaby & Poco among 37 cities to elect mayors unopposed
Air Canada (AC.TO) on Thursday said it would buy electric planes for the first time with the acquisition of 30 battery-powered regional aircraft from Heart Aerospace, as more airlines turn to new technologies to lower emissions and fuel costs.
which Rayes publicly criticized Poilievre, saying he was sowing division within the party and among Canadians writ large.
Municipal elections are still more than a month away, but mayors for dozens of communities across B.C. have already won by acclamation after standing unopposed.
According to the CTA, Air Canada initially told Crawford the flight
The new, nine-member team includes Pierre Paul-Hus as the Conservatives’ new lieutenant in Quebec — a role previously filled by Rayes on two separate occasions, including in the lead-up to this year’s leadership race.
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“Staffing and other aspects of operations are the employer’s responsibility to manage,” said Crawford in an email to CBC News.
Rosemary Hagiwara filed the application to provincial court on Tuesday, naming respondents who include the NonPartisan Association’s mayoral candidate Fred Harding, incumbent NPA councillor Melissa De Genova, and veteran Vision Vancouver school board trustee Allan Wong.
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Poilievre on Monday met with the party’s Quebec MPs, the majority of whom had backed Charest, before attending his first national caucus meeting. Rayes was not in attendance.
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Kishore Kumar was as born Abhas Kumar Ganguly on August 4, 1929 in Khandwa. He was one of the best playback singers and actor of Indian cimema. He is aslo regarded as one of the greatest and most dynamic singers in the history of Indian music.He was one of the most popular singers in the Indian film industry, notable for his yodeling and ability to sing songs in different voices.Kishore Kumar used to sing in different genres but some of his rare compositions which were considered classics were lost in time.’ According to his brother Ashok Kumar, Kumar’s success came because his voice hit the microphone straight at its most sensitive point.
It was only in the evening when Ranbir Kapoor and Ananya Panday were spotted together at a shoot location in the city. This created a lot of buzz on social media and fans were already jumping with joy to see them together on the screen. Well, now it’s time we tell you that the first pictures from their shoot have been shared by Liger actress Ananya Pandey herself. We are super sure fans are going to love it. Ananya Panday shares two monochrome pictures with Ranbir Kapoor. In the first picture, we can see Ananya and Ranbir flaunting their brightest smiles as the actress leans on RK. Both of them appear to be wearing ethnic attire. Ananya has her hair curled to perfection while Ranbir looks dapper in his beard and mustache look. In the next picture, we can see Ranbir winking as both the stars come closer to pose for a selfie. Sharing this picture, Ananya wrote, “new day, new shoot, new best friend
During the initial stage of his career, Kumar was deeply inspired by singer K. L. Saigal and imitated his style of singing in some of his early films but later evolved his own, unique style.He had a great respect for poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore who influenced him in many ways.
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#DostAstra.” Ananya Panday’s Work Front Ananya will next be seen in Arjun Varain Singh directorial Kho Gaye Hum Kahan with Siddhant Chaturvedi and Adarsh Gourav. In an exclusive interview with Pinkvilla, the actress mentioned that she is in talks for three projects, she can’t speak much about.
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One of the greatest singer of Indian cinema 4, 1929 - 13 October 1987
Apart from Hindi, he sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Odia, Urdu etc.[19] He also released a few non-film albums in multiple languages especially in Bengali which are noted as all-time classics.[20]
He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for winning the most Filmfare Awards in that category.
called the “Kishore Kumar Award” for contributions to Hindi cinema.
Ananya finds ‘new best friend’
Ranbir Kapoor is winning hearts after his spectacular performance in Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra. He has a lineup of exciting projects in his kitty. He will next be seen in Luv Ranjan’s next with Shraddha Kapoor and Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal alongside Rashmika Mandanna. Ananya Panday was born on October 30, 1998. Ananya who primarily works in Hindi films, she is daughter of actor Chunky Panday, she began her acting career in 2019 with roles in the teen film Student of the Year 2 and the comedy Pati Patni Aur Woh. These performances earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She has since starred in Khaali Peeli (2020),
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He was awarded the Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Madhya Pradesh government in 1985–86.
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Ananya Panday finds her ‘new best friend’ in Ranbir Kapoor, calls it ‘Dost Astra’ as she drops PICS from shoot
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After Ashok Kumar became a star of Hindi films, the Ganguly family visited Bombay (now Mumbai) regularly. Abhas Kumar changed his name to ‘Kishore Kumar’ and started his cinema career as a chorus singer at Bombay Talkies, where his brother worked. Music director Khemchand Prakash gave Kumar a chance to sing “Marne Ki Duayen Kyon Mangu” for the film Ziddi (1948). After this, Kumar was offered many other assignments, but he was not very serious about a film career. In 1949, he settled in Bombay.
In 1997, the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated an award
Yoga Instructor from 10.00 am to 11.15 am. Mr. Mahendra Kumar Juneja Yoga Expert will help to observe & guide the seniors to do correct yoga. Pure Vegetarian lunch will be served in the dining hall at 11.30 am to all the seniors who attend yoga class on Thursdays.
He was an ardent admirer of Hollywood actor-singer Danny Kaye. He hung the portraits of all these three personalities at his Gouri Kun residence and would bow respectfully before them everyday as a rule.
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Punjabi singer AP Dhillon on Tuesday night threw the official ceremonial first pitch for Canadian baseball team Toronto Blue Jays in their MLB match against the Tampa Bay Rays. Sharing pictures on Twitter, Toronto Blue Jays wrote, “!!Brown Munde!! Big thanks to the legend - AP Dhillon - for throwing tonight’s first pitch!”
In 2012 Kumar’s unreleased last song sold for Rs 1,560,000 at the Osian’s Cinefan Auction in New Delhi.
Sharing the picture on the social media, Sonakshi added to the caption, “Not a new
Kaushal & Katrina team up on-screen
Sweet and charming Sonakshi Sinha, spotted wearing platinum blonde hair wig in her Instagram post. The actress wore the wig along with a stunning Falguni Shane Peacock creation that featured intricate silver sequin work over beige fabric. Sonakshi flaunted her perfect manicure in the picture and wore golden and nude shades of eyeshadow to complement her look.
Speaking with Bollywood Life in December 2016, Sunny recounted, “The funniest thing was the first time I met Shah Rukh on the set. I was exiting the set, I saw him, we started talking. I
The couple is seen in a causal holiday attires and look so good together as always.While the commercial would be out soon, these pictures itself are a treat for the fans. The actors look
told him ‘Thank you so much for having me as part of the song. I am so excited’. Again a lot of thank yous, and he said ‘No! We are happy to
Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif got married, there’s been immense buzz around them and everyone has been curious to see them collaborate on-screen. A few days back, it was revealed that the duo is reportedly set to team up for a commercial and as it turns out to be true!
Vicky and Katrina have collaborated for a travel brand and fans are gasping for some break seeing these stills.
quite cool in this easy breezy holiday mode. At the moment, Vicky is in Kashmir shooting for Meghna Gulzar’s ‘Sam Bahadur’ which is a biopic on field marshall Sam Manekshaw. Katrina is working on ‘Merry Christmas’ and gearing up for the release of ‘Phone Bhoot’. Recently, when the actress was on ‘Koffee With Karan’ she revealed many things about Vicky. She said that the sweetest thing he had done for her was that on her birthday, he performed for 45-minutes continuously on all of Kat’s songs. With such bonding off-screen, fans surely going to cherish
Sunny Leone has come a long way from being a Bigg Boss contestant all those years ago. The actor has since worked in multiple films and recently headlined her own web series. One of the big turning points of her career was the dance number Laila she did in the Shah Rukh Khanstarrer Raees. Sunny herself has said that it made her more mainstream in Bollywood. However, the actor once recounted that after she signed the film, her first meeting with Shah Rukh was rather awkward. Sunny signed to perform on Laila O Laila in Raees, only a few months after her TV interview, where she was subjected to sexist line of questioning. In interviews while promoting Raees, Sunny had recounted how star-struck she had been on meeting Shah Rukh for the first time on set.
have you.’ Then I go back to my vanity and the lady who did my hair, she had put my hair in this big gigantic helmet curl thingy, and I said to myself ‘Really? That’s what you look like when meet Shah Rukh Khan?’. It’s not even possible for me to be cool for like half a second, and just say hello, meet properly. Instead, I just looked weird.”
look… but it’s a look. Special shout-out to my bomb hair-makeup-styling team for making sure our little experiments turn out top.”
Commenting on the post, actor Vijay Varma wrote, “I’m sad it’s not the Maldives.”
Actress Huma Qureshi commented on Sonakshi’s post and shared her reaction with the adjective, “Scary.” Artist Sushant Divgikr wrote, “This is my favourite look.” Fans of the Akira actress also shared their reaction, as some described the look as “impressive,”
When Sunny Leone embarrassed herself during first meeting with SRK
Sonakshi flaunts her blonde looks
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New database shows rental housing completions in BC varies by municipality
“Even though homebuyers put a lot of money down for the project, the real estate developer still has no money to finish the construction,” Chen said. Real estate firms had access to easy credit from the banks, and citizens had an insatiable demand for property. That’s because Chinese families’ investment options are limited, and owning a condo is essential for marriage and educational prospects.
That said, Canada’s hospitality sector will enjoy much better days than it did during the peak of the pandemic, due to demand crossing pre-pandemic levels.
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The Bank of Canada is in the midst of one of its most aggressive rate cycles in its history, raising mortgage costs for prospective homebuyers and chilling Canada’s once-scorching real estate market. The swiftly changing environment and the uncertainty it has spawned has also depressed transactions, with the number of sales down 25% from from a year earlier. The central bank has increased its policy rate to 3.25% from 0.25% since March, and traders and economists are betting it will
exercising their pent-up desire to eat out and travel after being unable to do so due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its restrictions.
Over the past seven years, Pitt Meadows and West Vancouver built the fewest rental units per capita of all municipalities in Metro Vancouver, while the City of North Vancouver added the most. This is the kind of information that can be pulled from a new website that lets voters compare what housing is needed with what has been approved and constructed in 160 municipalities across B.C. “The most striking thing is that not a single municipality has been able to experience completions that come close to the need and the demand that’s out there. For me, that’s the real story of the data,” said Thom Armstrong, CEO of the Coop Housing Federation of B.C., which joined the B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association and the Aboriginal Housing Management Association to create the website.
“Some people say the developer squandered the money in Southeast Asia. That’s the rumor,” Chen said. The Qifu City property developer did not respond to Marketplace’s questions.
In October, she and her husband paid a premium for a presale condo in a Zhengzhou city development called Xitang because it was near good schools. Construction stopped two months later due to lack of funds.
Chinese folksinger and songwriter Chen Peng bought a presale condo in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou seven years ago. Today, his two-bedroom is still under construction. Chen’s condo is among the Qifu City development’s 6,000 units.
Recession, rise in unemployment in store for Canada as inflation peaks: RBC
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“A really significant focus of council’s time (in West Vancouver) has been looking at housing supply for workers, particularly renters, and what they’ve built in the last seven years is certainly not sufficient to tackle their workforce housing crisis,” said Jill Atkey, CEO of the B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association.
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Canadian home prices marched lower for the sixth straight month, showing the central bank’s rate increases are having the intended effect of cooling the nation’s overheated housing market.
The housing bubble was sustained because — collectively — property developers, Chinese banks and citizens had faith that home prices only went up.
“All the buildings have roofs except for two. But only the building frames are complete,” Chen said, adding that construction stopped in 2019.
The groups hope information from the database will spur candidates for the municipal elections in October to sign a five-point pledge to streamline the process to build non-profit, Indigenous and co-op housing by cutting red tape and prioritizing land-use decisions as well as protect the existing supply. The site allows users to search data from Statistics Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, as well as each municipality’s own housing needs assessment. Users can compare information such as the percentage of homeowners
hike again next month. That has lifted the interest rate on variable mortgages offered by major lenders including TorontoDominion Bank and Royal Bank of Canada to more than 5%. In response, home prices are falling as economists had expected, with steady declines in most areas and faster pullbacks in the markets that had the biggest run-ups during the Covid-19 pandemic’s ultra-low interest rate environment. That should hearten the Bank of Canada as it continues its tightening campaign, showing that rate increases so far are cooling the market without prompting the forced selling that could provoke a crisis, according to Robert Kavcic, a senior economist at Bank of Montreal.
The City of North Vancouver added 1,768 market-rental units, New Westminster 1,854 and Vancouver 12,750, placing them among the top three for total number of such units completed compared to the population. But these numbers still fall short of what’s needed, observers say.
RBC is warning that a “bumpy landing” may be in store for Canada, as it looks like inflation has peaked — now, a recession and a rise in unemployment are on the horizon. In a new macroeconomics report released Monday, RBC specialists noted that broadermarketswhereeconomylandingyear1.7%itratehistoricallystandsunemploymentwhileatalowrightnow,couldrisebyoverthenextandahalf.“Atruly‘soft’fortheisonelabourandeconomic
in order to cool down the market and lift inflation pressures. However, RBC predicts that this will continue to happen even while supply chain disruptions ease and housing markets correct.
Housing prices lower in Canada, aiding fight against inflation
Benchmark home prices fell 1.6% in August compared with July, to C$777,200 ($589,800), according to data released Thursday by the Canadian Real Estate Association. That brings the cumulative drop from February’s peak to 7.4%.
versus renters and the number of units delivered, from market to affordable.
settle to sustainable levels — without a contraction in GDP or unemployment rates rising above ‘full-employment’ levels,” states the report. “This scenario, while ideal, looks increasingly unlikely for the Canadian economy.” The Bank of Canada has raised interest rates repeatedly in the recent past
For instance, from 2015 to 2021, Pitt Meadows added 13 market-rental units, West Vancouver 68, and Richmond 1,008, putting them at the bottom of the list for total number of such units completed compared to the population.
On Vancouver Island, the need for affordable housing has also been a focus of council’s attention in Duncan, where there is a homelessness crisis. Currently, 45 per cent of the population rents, while 55 per cent owns. However, over the past seven years, only one unit of market rental housing has been built.
China’s real estate firms are in financial distress. According to a list on GitHub, there are some 340 unfinished housing projects across 113 Chinese cities as of this week. A lot of them are concentrated in Zhengzhou. Chen has petitioned local officials, protested and then was detained for three days, as Marketplace reported. He even released a song about the injustice homebuyers face, but it changed nothing except that his song is now censored online. Like many people in China, Chen bought the twobedroom condo before full construction
“A few years ago, when a new project came on the market, it would be sold out immediately. Homebuyers felt they had to buy right away because prices might keep going up,” said first-time homebuyer Daisy Wang.
“Obviously, they’re going to be mindful of how quickly the economy is slowing, how quickly housing is slowing they said.
started. On a 600,000 yuan (or $86,000) purchase price, he put down a massive 50% deposit. That money was meant for the construction, but the funds are gone.
Many Chinese homebuyers are paying mortgages on homes they may never live in
of higher lending rates.” Toronto and Vancouver — Canada’s least affordable markets — face the greatest risk due to their “excessively stretched” affordability and outsized price gains. The suburbs and exurbs around the two cities have seen the most significant price drops to date, he noted.
In Montreal, resales fell approximately 15% (seasonally adjusted) month-over-month in August and were down 20% on an annual basis.
“The sharp rise in interest rates and [a] partial return to offices are evidently causing buyers to more significantly reprice properties away from Vancouver’s urban core,” Hogue said. “We expect activity to stay quiet in the months ahead in the entire area as the market continues to adjust to the new realities. Higher interest rates are a big pill to swallow for buyers facing some of the steepest home prices in Canada.”
homes across the city of Vancouver over the next 10 years through 2032, including 140,000 units for market rents, subrents, public housing and co-ops; 40,000 new ground-based homes for purchase by the middle class; and 40,000 market condos or townhouses for ownership. The number of cooperatives on urban land will double.
“We see the downturn intensifying and spreading as buyers take a wait-and-see approach while ascertaining the impact
However, buyers in Toronto “haven’t given up,” Hogue said. Though still below pre-pandemic levels, home resales rose 11% (seasonally adjusted) between July and August.
“is in full swing,” but there are no signs that the market has reached bottom yet.
Four years ago, Stewart, then an independent candidate, made similar campaign pledges for his 2018 general election campaign, including building 85,000 new homes over 10 years — which includes 25,000 units of nonprofit affordable rents, 25,000 units of market rents, and 35,000 condos and townhouses. Under the City of Vancouver’s existing 10year Housing Vancouver plan between 2018 and 2027, the city government is targeting to catalyze 72,000 homes. By 2021, the plan’s fourth year, the city has approved 52% of its target, or over 37,000 homes. It has exceeded more than 50% of its 10-year sub-targets of 12,000 units of public housing, 30,000 units of condos and 4,000 units of townhomes, but is below the midpoint mark for its sub-targets of 20,000 units of rental units and 6,000 townhouses/ caravans. In 2021, the city council and city employees approved 8,800 apartments.
“The sharp downturn seen in other major markets may be spreading to Montreal after all,” Hogue said.
Canada’s housing market is being “weighed down” by high interest rates. With further hikes on the way, the market is in for a chilly fall. In a report published earlier this week, Robert Hogue, assistant chief economist at RBC, said that the cooling trends that emerged in housing markets this past spring are still “firmly” in place across the country, with resale activity and prices falling further in August.
As in Toronto, Vancouver’s suburbs have seen the biggest price declines. Over the last three months, prices in Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, and Port Coquitlam have
fallen more than 10%. In parts of the Fraser Valley, which saw “massive” appreciation in 2021, they’re down more than 15%.
The city’s price correction also intensified, with the median price of detached homes down 4.5% from July and 9.5% from the peak. The cumulative decline in median condo prices was less pronounced, at 6.1%.
Hogue expects suburban detached homes, which have seen the biggest declines, to
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Over the next 10 years, through 2033, the Squamish First Nation’s Senakw development will create 6,000 new homes – all rental homes – on the reservation at the south end of the Burrard Bridge.
Now imagine a housing plan that generates 37 times the housing supply of Senakw.
experience further corrections in the near term, while condo prices should maintain their resiliency as buyers focus their attention on affordable theinMeanwhile,options.Vancouver,downturn
“Rising interest rates are pushing many buyers to the sidelines and reducing the purchasing budget of others. Our expectations for the Bank of Canada to hike its policy rate to 3.5% by the fall will keep chilling markets in the months ahead,” Hogue said.
The majority of markets in Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec are now operating “well below” pre-pandemic levels, Hogue said, with price corrections further fuelled by easing demand-supply conditions and “souring” sentiments on behalf of buyers.
Forward Together Mayor Kennedy Stewart was released today announcing his party’s five-point housing platform, which aims to dramatically increase new supply and introduce new permitting efficiencies and protections.
He promises to catalyze 220,000 new
Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart promises to catalyze 220,000 new homes across the city over next 10 years
Canada’s housing market downturn will “intensify and spread”: RBC
The city’s composite MLS Home Price Index fell for the fifth month in a row — down 2.8% to $1,120,000 — and is now 16% below the spring peak. The continued price declines will provide additional opportunities for antsy buyers.
Resales and activity are continuing to fall — they were down an estimated 4% and 2.2%, respectively, month-overmonth in August. Since the peak, home resales are down a staggering 46%, while benchmark prices have tumbled 6.7%.
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As many as 75 Indian American organisations have come together to observe the historic milestone of India’s journey after 1947. Prominent among these organisations include US India Relationship Council, Sewa
The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the Medical students who returned from Ukraine and seeking Medical education in India for tomorrow, September 16. One of the petitioner, advocate Ashwarya Sinha had filed a petition on behalf of Medical students who have been evacuated from Ukraine and seeking permission to continue Medical
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“This is something to be proud of,” he said in his address to Indian Americans.
130 Indian-Americans appointed to key positions in Biden administration
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Security Council, read out a list of top Indian Americans in the US Government.
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“Stronger Together: US-India Partnership.” “I’m proud to be part of an administration that is committed to diversity and building a government with leaders who look like and represent America,” Panjabi said.
US President Joe Biden has appointed 130 Indian-Americans to key positions in his administration so far, a senior White House official has said, the best representation from the community that makes up around one per cent of the American population.
Central Government has told the Supreme Court that Ukraine returned medical students cannot be admitted in Indian universities as National Medical Commission Act doesn’t allow it.
Panjabi said that US President Biden has appointed 130 Indian Americans in his administration.
The theme for Wednesday’s celebration was
study in India. The counsel representing the Central Government informed that they have filed an affidavit on which the bench hearing this case adjourn it till tomorrow.
Representing the Biden administration at an event to celebrate ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava’ at the US Capitol, Raj Panjabi, who is currently serving as Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefence on the White House National
On Monday, the Union home ministry had recommended a CBI probe into the Tiktok star’s death in the coastal state. The MHA’s move came after Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah requesting a CBI probe
is one of the important drivers of regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific and has resulted in increased volumes of South-South trade, FDI flows and technology transfer. Kamboj was speaking at an event hosted by UN Political and Peacebuilding and UN Development Programme on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Peace and Development at the ‘Global South-South Development Expo’.
India says it will do best to promote ‘South-South’ ties at UN
Her family alleged that she was “murdered” and she did not pass away due to a “cardiac arrest”, which the initial police and medical reports had suggested. Phogat was declared dead at the St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa on August 23. The Goa Police had registered a murder case after the postmortem report suggested “blunt force injury” on her body. Police had also said that Phogat was “forcibly drugged by her two associates” - who have been arrested.
India will continue to do its best in furthering South-South cooperation which has become crucial at a time when developing nations were mostly left to fend for themselves during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s envoy to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, said.
into the case. Phogat’s family had also welcomed the Centre’s recommendation.
CBI takes over probe of BJP leader Sonali Phogat’s death
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took over probe of the death of Haryana BJP leader and social media influencer Sonali Phogat and re-registered an FIR of the Goa Police on a reference from the ministry of home affairs (MHA). The CBI teams along with CFSL experts will soon reach Goa to collect documents and interact with local police officers, and doctors who had examined Phogat, reported news agency PTI. The viscera samples will give a definitive clue about the cause of Phogat’s death, officials said.
So far, five people have been arrested in the case - Sonali Phogat’s personal assistant Sudhir Sangwan and his associate Sukhwinder Singh, Edwin Nunes, owner of Curlies where Phogat
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited the British High Commission in New Delhi on September 12 to convey condolences. India also observed a day of national mourning on September 11.
President Murmu among 500 world leaders to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral
Putin and Modi will attend the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) that will be held in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on September 15-16.
“A conversation on the international agenda with Modi will also take place, the sides will discuss issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific Region, and, of course, cooperation within major multilateral formats, such as the UN, the G20 and the SCO,” the official Russian news agency TASS quoted Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov as saying.
The President herself, Vice-President
PM Modi & Putin to meet on SCO sidelines
In the 70 years of reign of Queen Elizabeth II, India-UK ties have evolved, flourished and strengthened immensely. She played an important role in the welfare of millions of people around the world as Head of the Commonwealth, said the MEA statement.
President Droupadi Murmu will attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and offer condolences on behalf of the Government of India, a news release said. She will be among an estimated 500 world leaders and foreign dignitaries, including kings and queens and heads of state and government to attend the state funeral. Murmu will be in the UK from September 17 to19. Queen Elizabeth II, the former head of state of the UK and Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, had passed away on September 8.
However, the Ministry of External Affairs has not yet confirmed the meeting between Modi and Putin. But, it neither denied reports on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on sidelines of the SCO Summit in Uzbekistan this week and discuss issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific region and bilateral cooperation within the UN and G20, the Kremlin has announced.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have expressed condolences at her demise.
The G7 countries are seeking India’s support to enforce a price cap on Russian oil.
newspaper quoted a foreign ministry official as saying. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US constitute the G7. They are looking to choke Russia’s crude oil revenue streams used to fund the Ukraine war.
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit meeting which is expected to witness participation of all the heads of governments of the member countries of the SCO, including President Xi Jinping of China.
Russia’s share in India’s oil imports bucket rose from a mere 1% in February—
India on Wednesday “recognised” that the latest disengagement from the Patrolling Point (PP) 15 in the Gogra-Hot Springs area of eastern Ladakh amounted to “one problem less” along the India-China frontier. The comment from External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar came a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to travel to Samarkand in Uzbekistan for the Shanghai
Russia is now willing to provide petroleum to India at even lower rates than before, The Business Standard reported today.
Withdrawal from PP 15 one problem less on the border: Jaishankar
India conveyed its concern over the recent U.S. approval of a $450-million sustenance package for Pakistan’s F-16 fighter fleet. This was conveyed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during a telephonic conversation with the U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin. This is the first official response from India on this issue. “I conveyed India’s concern at the recent U.S. decision to provide sustenance package for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet,” Mr.
Russia willing to give more discount on petroleum price to India
Singh said on Twitter. “Had a warm and productive conversation with Mr. Austin and ... discussed growing convergence of strategic interests and enhanced defence and security cooperation.” Stating that they also discussed ways to strengthen technological and industrial collaboration and also explore cooperation in emerging and critical technologies, Mr. Singh added, “Look forward to continuing
But Moscow seems to be a step ahead.
“Only a few days ago, the Honourable FM said that inflation was not a ‘red-lettered priority’ for her,” Chidambaram said in a tweet questioning the rising inflation.(
During a break between the first and second phases of the third day of the Kerala leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacted with MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers and activists opposing K-Rail’s Silverline project.
The third day of the Kerala leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra went ahead amid intermittent rains and swelling public turnout, with Rahul Gandhi saying that even blisters will not stop their journey as he and scores of yatris marched along the streets without an umbrella when it rained.
Former Union Minister P Chidambaram lashes out at Finance Minister over rise of inflation
Former Union minister and veteran Congress leader P Chidambaram attacked Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman over the rise of the inflation rate to 7 per cent in August and said if she did not see this as a “threat”, she “does not represent the average family in India”.
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In June, Russia became India’s second-largest crude oil supplier after Iraq. India depends on imports to meet 85% of its petroleum needs.
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Inflation is determined by the consumer price index (CPI )measuring price change for a basket of goods and services over time. Food items make up half of this inflation basket and were at 7.62 per cent in August, raising concerns among economists as the trend breached the estimated rates and has kept above the Reserve Bank of India’s upper band of 6 per cent for eight consecutive months now.
“In principle, the ask in return is that India should not support the G7 proposal. A decision on this issue will be taken later following talks with all the partners,” the
Better options available for mass transport in Kerala - Rahul
“If the Honourable FM doesn’t see ‘red’ even now, we can only conclude that she does not represent the average family in India,” the former finance minister added.
Speaking to the media at a joint press meeting along with visiting French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said, “You
“During lunch break at Attingal, @ RahulGandhi listened to MGNREGA workers & activists opposing K-Rail. He articulated the need for a new paradigm for social welfare, and that K-Rail is unnecessary
FM said that inflation was not a ‘red-lettered priority’ for her. India’s retail inflation surged to 7 per cent yesterday. Food inflation is 7.62 per cent,” Chidambaram tweeted.
India share concerns with USA on $450 Million deal for Pakistan to upgrade F-16 jets
#BharatJodoYatra,” Jairam Ramesh, Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications, tweeted.
The data released by the statistics ministry on Monday showed that consumer pricesdriven by high food and fuel costs - rose to 7 per cent up from 6.71 per cent in July. The data marked a drift from the previous trend as inflation was on the decline for the last three months. “Only a few days ago, the Honourable
Cheema said the high court ordered the sentence be suspended in the matter.
children among them, the National Disaster Management Authority said, as it released its first country-wide total since September 9, a period that saw 90 more people die.
The single bench of Justice G S Gill suspended the sentence of Mehndi who was sentenced to two years in jail in the case.
Meth is turning Fiji from Tropical Paradise into a Narco’s playground
In Pakistan, he was sentenced to death for his alleged implication in a bomb blast case on a fake identity of Manjit Singh. The court had directed to hang Sarabjit Singh on April 1, 2008, but owing to international pressure, his
Mehndi’s counsel Arshdeep Singh
Ben’s father Semi Tubuna, told FBC News his son informed him about the role just hours after the Queen’s passing.
Initially, there was hope for Pakistan, when on August 29, the Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the combined seventh and eighth reviews under the Extended Fund
at Beenleigh Magistrates Court last Friday
The political instability, deteriorating business environment and mismanagement of the economy have pushed the country into investment fatigue from the traditional
The singer had filed a revision petition before the high court against his conviction after the court of additional sessions judge in Patiala on July 14 had dismissed his
Images of Ben Tubuna, from the Rewa province, carrying the coffin draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland as it was taken from Balmoral to Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh on Sunday have spread across the world. Mr Tubana, who lives in Inverness, is part of the Royal Regiment in Edinburgh, the senior and only Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry, 1news reports.
Pakistans’ flood death toll nears 1,500
Over the last few weeks, authorities have thrown up barriers to keep the flood waters out of key structures such as power stations as well as homes, while farmers who stayed to try and save their cattle faced a new threat as fodder began to run out.
The tally of dead stands at 1,486, about 530
A young soldier from Fiji who was chosen to be one of Queen Elizabeth’s pallbearers has ‘done his family and his country proud’, his father says.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has presented a bleak picture of the country’s dwindling economy, regretting that even friendly countries had started looking at Pakistan as one that was always begging for money.
In June this year, Sarabjit’s sister, Dalbir Kaur, who had launched the ‘Save Sarabjit’
Sukhpreet Kaur, the wife of Sarabjit Singh who was killed at a Lahore jail in 2013, died in an accident on Monday.
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The floods brought by record monsoon rains and glacial melt in northern mountains have hit 33 million of a population of 220 million, sweeping away homes, transport, crops and livestock in damage estimated at $30 billion.
New South Wales Police Media Unit (Public Affairs Branch) acting senior media officer Katherine Boczynski said the man was arrested with the assistance of the Queensland Police in Brisbane, refused bail and appeared
‘I was so happy and excited to find out that he was chosen to be a pallbearer. I’m touched that he is not only doing his family proud but his country,’ he said.
There’s only one way in and out of the biggest meth slum in Fiji, and it’s an unsealed dirt road that ends in a culde-sac. The taxi cab jostled as it made the drive, slowly, entering the heart of one of the many informal settlements peppered throughout the nation’s capital of Suva, a cluster of corrugated iron shacks.
the past 75 years carrying a begging bowl”.
It was quiet. Though just five minutes from the city centre, the slum is at least 50 kilometres from the paradisal Fiji of postcards and in-flight magazines—one of luxury resorts, white sand beaches, and coral reefs. There’s only one reason why a tourist might come to this area.
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Pakistan’s unprecedented floods in recent history, have submerged huge swathes of South Asian nation, the floods have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed on Thursday, as authorities looked to step up relief efforts for millions affected by the disaster.
Despite support from Saudi Arabia and International Monetary Funds (IMF), Pakistan is on the verge of economic collapse due to lack of funds.
Eeconomy continues to sink despite international support
A day after BMW India denied that they had any plans to set up a manufacturing unit in Punjab, the Bhagwant Mann govt went on the defensive mode. “Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had met the officials of BMW at their head office in
He was one of the pallbearers chosen to carry the coffin, with a wreath of
According to the Prime Minister, the country’s economy was facing a “challenging situation” even before the floods, which had made it more “complicated”.
“Upon arrival in NSW that same day (Friday, September 9, 2022) he was charged with domestic violence-related offences and refused bail, appearing at Parramatta Local Court (in Sydney)
The soldier was then again seen helping to transport the coffin as it was carried outside the Palace of Holyroodhouse this afternoon and made the journey into St Giles’ Cathedral.
Queen’s Edinburgh pallbearers included soldier from Fiji
A 35-year-old Fiji citizen, believed to be the son of a prominent figure in Fiji, was arrested in Australia on alleged domestic violence charges last Thursday.
The cash-strapped nation has been struggling with the worst floods in the past 30 years, leaving more than 1,400 dead and 33 million people affected since early June.
BMW India denies plans to set up unit in Punjab
Fijian arrested in Australia believes to be PM’s son
flowers taken from the Balmoral estate on top, on the important journey to the Scottish capital for one final time.
Punjab Hight Court suspends two-year jail term of Daler Mehndi
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday suspended the jail term of Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi, who was convicted by a Patiala court in a 2003 human trafficking case.
Mehndi had moved the high court in July after the Patiala court upheld his two-year sentence, awarded in March 2018 by the trial court, in the human trafficking case.
PM Shehbaz says ‘we have been wandering for past 75 years carrying a begging bowl’
“Today, when we go to any friendly country or make a phone call, they think that we have come [to them] to beg for money,” Dawn news quoted the Prime Minister as saying in an address to a lawyers’ convention on Wednesday. Sharif said even small economies have surpassed Pakistan, “and we have been wandering for
Germany, who had shown interest in setting up a plant in Punjab, after an offer was given by the CM. The head office of a company and their office in a country are different,” said AAP chief spokesperson Malwinder Singh Kang.
According to police reports, Sukhpreet Kaur was travelling on a two-wheeler when she ‘accidentally’ fell from it at Fatehpur village near Amritsar. She was rushed to the hospital where she breathed her last. Sukhpreet’s last rites will be performed at her village Bhikhiwind on Tuesday.
Notably, Sarabjit Singh had crossed over to Pakistan in an inebriated condition in 1990. He was a resident of Bhikhiwind, a border village.
“NSW Police Force detectives applied for and were granted his extradition to NSW,” Ms Boczynski said.
campaign to free her brother from Pakistan jail, had died following a heart attack.
The government and the United Nations have blamed climate change for the surging waters, in the wake of record-breaking summer temperatures,
A third of the country is submerged in water and one in every seven persons is badly affected by the floods that have led to an estimated USD 12 billion in losses that have left about 78,000 square kilometres (21 million acres) of crops under water.
partners exposing the country to economic risks as well as political uncertainty, reported Asian Lite International.
Sukhpreet Kaur, wife of Sarabjit Singh, who died in Pak jail, killed in road mishap
The Western countries are gradually bringing down their energy purchases from Russia following its attack on Ukraine.
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India’s crude oil imports from Russia have jumped over 50 times since April and now it makes up for 10 per cent of all crude bought from overseas.
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Russian ambassador Denis Alipov said on Thursday that Russian crude supplies to India will continue. “India, being a consumer...is looking for the cheapest offers and Russia, being deprived of its traditional markets in Europe...is looking for new markets. So, this meeting between the best available options and the best available offers is driving the trade and our relationship in the energy sector. It is natural, we think, this trend will continue in a structured manner,” he told news agency ANI.
Modi is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). India’s procurement of discounted crude oil from Russia has seen a significant jump in the last few months notwithstanding an increasing disquiet over it by the Western countries.
takes, what shape it evolves into, something I think the countries that floated that idea perhaps can better answer to it,” he said.
India’s procurement of Russian crude oil is not under any government-to-government framework and Indian entities make the purchase from the market to respond to the country’s energy security requirement, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said on Thursday.
Putin, people familiar with the matter said. The US has said it is determined to enforce the G7 price cap, which was announced earlier this month by that grouping’s finance ministers to deny Russia revenues to fund its war in Ukraine. The G7 – which comprises Japan, the UK, the US, Canada, France, Germany and Italy – plans to prohibit the provision of services for maritime transportation of Russian oil unless it is purchased at or below a price level determined by countries implementing the price cap.
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the US and its allies pressured India not to accelerate purchases of discounted Russian commodities, including oil. India has maintained that its crude purchases will be decided solely by energy security needs..
Russian oil made up for just 0.2 per cent of all oil imported by India prior to the Ukraine war.
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“India is not a member of the G7, just for the record. Deeper discounts, market pricing – look, we have said this several times that when Indian entities go out and try to respond to India’s needs of energy security and procure oil, they essentially procure it from the market,” Kwatra said. “These are not government-togovernment purchases...On the price cap coalition, what form it takes, what shape it evolves into is something I think, which the countries that have floated that idea perhaps can better answer to that,” he added.
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Indian refiners, which rarely bought Russian crude before the Ukraine conflict, increased imports to 757,000 barrels a day during April-August, compared to 20,000 barrels a day a year earlier, according to data from industry sources cited by Reuters.
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Members of the SCO will discuss energy security as part of their talks on economic cooperation at the grouping’s meeting in Samarkand, he said.
said this several times that when the Indian entities go out and try to respond to India’s needs of the energy security and procure oil, they essentially procure it from the
The G7 comprised Japan, the UK, the US, Canada, France, Germany and Italy.
India dismisses G7 oil price cap, says energy security needs will guide crude purchases
Kwatra also chose not to comment on the proposed price cap on Russian oil, a move initiated by the G7 countries to choke Moscow’s oil revenue.
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The comments by Kwatra came at a media briefing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Uzbekistan to attend the SCO summit.
With energy security set to be a key part of deliberations at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, India on Thursday brushed aside the G7 price cap on Russian oil and said crude purchases are based on the country’s energy security needs. India’s purchases of Russian oil are not done under any government-togovernment mechanism and Indian entities buy oil from the market to fill the country’s energy security requirements, foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra told a news briefing ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s departure for the SCO Summit in Uzbekistan.
Modi is expected to discuss the Ukraine conflict and energy security both at the SCO Summit and in bilateral meetings with leaders such as Russian President Vladimir
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The G7 countries are reportedly seeking India’s support to enforce the price cap on Russian oil.
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