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South Asian journalist beaten up for posting unfavourable video of politician Calgary police say they are investigating an alleged attack on a journalist outside a music event. Calgary Forest Lawn MP Deepak Obhrai held a news conference Monday about the incident, which police say

occurred Aug. 19 during an outdoor Punjabi concert. Obhrai alleges the attack was linked to a social media post that was critical of an aspiring candidate in a UCP nomination race.

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Stepping through the front doors, the first thing visitors notice is the bright wide-open space. Principal Sheila Hammond says she feels light can have a calming effect. “When

[students] come in, they just calm right down‌ because of the natural light,â€? said Hammond. She adds there will only be two school bells a day because bells can create anxiety. “We’ll have a welcome bell in the morning and a lunch bell and that’s it.â€? There is also a rooftop deck where yoga classes will

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India faces lynch mob crisis as angry youth attack minorities The two young men at the leadership camp were soft-spoken yet assured, from well-off families, wearing aviator sunglasses and flipflops. The right-wing activists say they have beaten men they suspected of violating core Hindu beliefs and threatened interfaith couples because they fear Muslims are stealing their women. They say they’re ready to kill for their faith if necessary. “Even if a life is lost, we don’t care,� said Ram Kumar, 23. It’s been a summer of rage in India.

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21-yrs jail for South Asian man who murdered Abbotsford mom in staged hit and run An Abbotsford man has been handed a 21 year prison sentence for his role in an elaborate and violent murder-for-hire plot after he admitted to driving a pickup truck into Kulwinder Kaur Gill (pictured) on Townshipline Road in Abbotsford in April, 2009. Gurpreet Singh Atwal, 32, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in May of 2018.

On Monday the judge ruled five years and two months will be taken off his sentence as credit for the time he has already spent in custody. Atwal hit the 42 year old mother of two so hard with the vehicle that she was sent flying about 30 metres into a ditch. Atwal’s hands trembled and his voice shook as he read a brief apology Continued on page 7

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India replaced its currency to wipe out illegal money stashes. Now the central bank says it didn’t work When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the replacement of 80 percent of India’s cash in 2016, he sparked a currency crisis that led to huge job losses and stalled growth as it hit India’s vast informal sector.

For months, people lined up at banks and ATMs — sometimes for more than eight hours — to withdraw limited amounts of cash to pay bills or buy daily groceries.

Their troubles were a sacrifice for the nation, Modi said at the time. Old notes would be handed back to the banks, and the vast reserves of untaxed “black money” being used for dodgy deals among fat-cat businessmen, dirty politicians and Pakistani terrorists would be invalidated in one fell swoop.

Now, newly released data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows that 99.3 percent

of high-value notes in circulation — worth about $216 billion — came back to the banks.

That means that those illicit hoards that the government was hoping to flush out of the system were not in the form of cash and are still out there. And the long lines for cash, not to mention the losses in jobs and growth? Not necessary.

“The RBI has in effect said that the prime minister’s premises and claims were dubious, and, in as much words, he didn’t know what he was talking about or getting into,” said Mohan Guruswamy, founder of the Center for Policy Alternatives and a former adviser to the finance minister. India’s economy runs mostly on cash,

so Modi’s demonetization thoroughly shook the country. The New Delhi-based Center for Monitoring the Indian Economy estimated that the shock move caused the loss of 1.5 million jobs, though other economists have put the number lower. In the weeks and months after Modi’s bombshell announcement, smallbusiness owners said their customers stopped coming because they had no cash. Marriages were delayed because cash stacked up to pay for venues and caterers was now worthless.

Millionaires joked about borrowing cash from their maids to buy cups of chai.

Some found clever ways to avoid the long lines, such as bribing bank managers or paying people to stand in their place. But many who stood in lines said they supported Modi and his efforts to clean up India’s economy at the time.

Guruswamy said the new data suggests that the entire policy was never thought out properly. “All reports on [black money] categorically stated that the undeclared incomes were mostly invested in properties and assets in India and abroad and in gold and jewelry. The cash with people was cash in stock and deployed for everyday business and living,” he said. At a news conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, reporters pelted Subhash Chandra Garg, secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs, with questions about whether the problem of the black money had been solved.

“I think demonetization achieved a substantial number of its objectives,” he said, pointing out that the new notes had “new security features” to make counterfeiting more difficult and that digital payments in India are increasing — both points that were disputed by journalists.

India’s economy is now showing signs of recovery after the disruptions of demonetization, the RBI report said. Growth rates, which slowed to a four-year low, in part because of

the “lingering impact of demonetization,” have now bounced back. But as elections approach,

the debacle could dent Modi’s reputation as an economic magician with the answers to all of India’s problems.

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Canada needs to become more densely populated

Former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King once quipped, “If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.”

This has always been evidenced in Canada’s low national population density, estimated at about four people per square kilometre.

Nevertheless, we’re still a highly urbanized country with more than 80 per cent of our population living in cities and towns. Despite our vast geography, we’ve created more density, and the benefits that flow from it, in our major urban centres.

But do we have the right kind of population density?

Population density is important because it creates nodes of economic activity and opportunity that foster economic innovation, productivity and growth, as well as diverse cultural and artistic opportunities. Dense urban centres allow for economies of scale in spreading the cost of infrastructure such as

transit across more people, creating efficiencies.

Studies have found greater urban population densities associated with economic productivity gains, especially in knowledge and creative industries. And a recent Fraser Institute study comparing population density in cities across Canada and other high-income countries found that Canada’s major cities have relatively low population densities compared to other international cities.

For example, Toronto, Canada’s biggest city at 2.7 million people, seems crowded at 4,457 inhabitants per square kilometre. But compare it to Barcelona, which has 1.6 million inhabitants in a smaller area, leading to a population density of 15,873 people per square kilometre. The coastal hubs of San Francisco and Barcelona are 1.31 and 2.89 times as dense as Vancouver, which at 5,493 people per square kilometre is Canada’s densest major city. Chicago, New York and London are 1.03, 2.45 and 2.48 times as dense as Toronto. Paris is 4.29 times as dense as Montreal.

This tells us that Canadian cities have room to become denser relative to other major cities.

And not only do we need Canadian cities to become more densely populated, we need more large cities.

While Canada is an urban country, it needs more large and dense cities to provide a larger internal market that would create economies of scale and further economic productivity growth.

This means increasing Canada’s population.

Take Canadian and U.S. per capita gross domestic product (GDP). For much of its history, Canada’s per capita GDP has been at about 80 per cent of U.S. per capita GDP. This productivity gap occasionally narrows particularly during a natural resource boom but then tends back towards the average. It has remained a constant. What’s also interesting between Canada and the United States is the difference in population concentration that has accompanied this productivity gap.

Canada is a long linear country with much of its small population clustered along the U.S. border with a few larger nodes. The U.S. has a population 10 times the size of Canada but spread out across the country in a hub-and-spoke network linked by an extensive transportation system. The U.S. has a larger population and market size and denser population. But compared to Canada, it’s also less concentrated in a few large cities.

In 1950, about 15 per cent of the U.S. population lived in its largest 10 cities compared to 23 per cent in Canada. While America’s population has grown and become denser, the proportion of its population living in its top 10 cities has actually shrunk, from 15 per cent in 1950 to about eight per cent in 2016. Over the same period, Canada’s population in its top 10 cities grew from 23 per cent to 31 per cent.

While we need cities the size of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to become denser, we also need more cities the size of Winnipeg spread out across the country.

Livio Di Matteo is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and professor of economics at Lakehead

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Kumar Sharma told reporters he has been covering UCP nominations in the riding of CalgaryFalconridge for his weekly radio show. “On Saturday, Aug. 18, I received a screenshot of a Facebook post by someone with reference to one of the UCP nomination candidates,” Sharma said.

The post was critical of the candidate, Hardyal Singh (Happy) Mann, Sharma said. The next day, while he was attending an outdoor concert, Sharma was approached by two people he said are supporters of Mann.

“They threatened me with dire consequences, referring to that Facebook post,” he said. He deleted the shared Facebook post “on the spot,” he said. A few hours later, Sharma left the concert with friends. A few metres away from his vehicle, he alleges he was “viciously attacked from behind by a group of men” whom he did not recognize.

Dozens have been killed by lynch mobs, and extremist Hindus continue to assault and kill others, many of them Muslims. In the latest viral video, religious pilgrims angered over a minor traffic incident used sticks to demolish a car as police looked on. Much blame has been cast on India’s governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with critics charging that they have encouraged violence by Hindu extremists. But India’s problem of male rage has roots beyond the strident Hindu nationalism embraced by the current government.

India has more than 600 million people under age 25, and they have greater access to technology and education than ever before. Yet millions have little hope of finding decent jobs, and a “bachelor bomb” of more than 37 million surplus men — a legacy of generations of a preference for sons and aborting female fetuses — threatens social stability for decades. \“People are frustrated that they are not being able to get jobs,” a leader from Modi’s party, Vasundhara Raje, told the channel CNN-News18. “There is angst which is spreading across communities and people …

It’s a reaction to their circumstances.” More than one million job seekers enter the labour market each month, many with poor English and inadequate job skills, but the country generated only 1.8 million additional jobs last year, according to the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, a research firm. Modi says the number of new jobs last year was closer to seven million. Without solid prospects, many young men are gravitating to India’s growing right-wing nationalist organizations, where they find a sense of purpose. Over time, a stereotype of a right-wing troll has emerged: keyboard jockeys with too much time on their hands, sitting in their childhood bedrooms furiously tweeting about every perceived slight to Hinduism and Modi.

Hindu activists do military marching drills at a leadership camp in Govardhan, India, in June. Washington Post photo by Annie Gowen This summer, Kumar attended a leadership camp sponsored by the Hindu nationalist World Hindu Council, where he learned to protect cows, which Hindus regard as sacred, protect women’s modesty and prevent outsiders from converting Hindus to other faiths.

Sharma was treated by paramedics in the parking lot of the concert grounds.

Mann said he strongly condemns any violence against anyone.

“I wish Mr. Sharma a full and fast recovery, however, I am very shocked and surprised to see Mr. Sharma and his team to falsely accuse me of being involved in this incident,” he said in a statement.

The UCP also said in a statement Monday that it strongly condemns the incident. The party added it is aware of allegations linking the event to an aspiring nomination contestant, who they note has not yet been approved by the party to run.

“While the criminal investigation is obviously paramount, the UCP also asks that individuals with relevant information bring it to our attention as a review is underway,” the party said.

“Any individuals using violence such as this are not welcome in our party.”

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21-yrs jail for South Asian man who murdered Abbotsford mom in staged hit and run to the victim’s family at his sentencing hearing Monday.

“Every time I look in the mirror, I

am reminded of my mistakes,” he said.

“My actions were reckless and irresponsible.”

Murder Conspiracy Kulwinder Gill’s husband, Iqbal, was facing a number of expensive civil suits and his blueberry farm was facing foreclosure in 2009, according to an agreed statement of facts.

That’s around the time Iqbal and Kulwinder Gill each took out a $3 million life insurance policy.

Atwal knew Iqbal Gill through the local Sikh temple and called him ‘uncle’ out of respect.

Gill made Atwal an offer — if he killed his wife, Atwal would be paid $50,000 after the life insurance money was collected.

BC’s newest high school opens in Surrey From page 1 be offered. Yoga classes will be held on this rooftop.

“Learning doesn’t happen in just four walls, it can happen everywhere and anywhere,” Hammond said.

The school is open concept and classrooms have walls that close and open.

How to help girls cope with back to school stress Desktops are made of white-board material so students can actually write on them. On the walls are 90-inch computer TVs. The French Immersion program is moving to Salish and along with the core curriculum, a new “robotics” course will be

offered. “It’s a different way of thinking about learning,” said Hammond.

Angry youth attack minorities From page 6 The youths did military drills in the baking heat, slept in the spartan concrete dorm rooms, and ate lentils and rice. Kumar, a college graduate who runs a tent rental company, and Gaurav Sharma, 22, a law student, grew up in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, which they see not as an ethereal white monument but as a reminder of the Mughal invaders who subjugated India’s Hindus. Kumar said that as a boy he was shy, but after joining the Hindu nationalist movement, “I have a strange sense of confidence now. The group has taught us what is right, what we need to do for society.”

Before long, he said, he was out on the streets chasing down and threatening interfaith couples, conducting the moral policing he feels is necessary because Muslim men allegedly seduce girls “as young as 14.” The Hindu activists call it “love jihad.”

Kumar said he also prowls the streets at night, searching for cattle traders who might be illegally smuggling cows for slaughter.

Atwal accepted the deal and the pair hatched a plan to kill Kulwinder Gill in a staged a hit and run crash.

On April 28, 2009, Iqbal and Kulwinder Gill drove from their home to their blueberry farm where they went for a walk.

Kulwinder was about 30 metres behind

her husband when Atwal drove up from behind and crashed into her.

Atwal drove off, ditched the truck and met up with two friends, Sukhpal Singh Johal and Jaspreet Singh Sohi, who picked him up in a rented car.

Iqbal called 911 and led police to the ditch where Kulwinder was lying unresponsive.

In 2015 Sohi pleaded guilty to a charge Police identified Iqbal as a suspect in his of being an accessory to murder and wife’s homicide and launched a lengthy was sentenced to time served after being undercover investigation. credited for 1,386 days.

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timeframe has been laid out and the clock is ticking. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing on the occasion of Independence Day this year that an Indian astronaut, be it a man or a woman, will go on a space odyssey by 2022 on board the ‘Gaganyaan’, all eyes are on how the country is going to achieve this within a span of four years.

The preparations imperative for such a manned mission – way more complex than unmanned missions that India has already successfully carried out (Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan) – not just relate to designing and building the spacecraft, but also the gruelling training that the selected astronauts have to undergo. However, the candidate selection

process hasn’t started till now, and there is also no permanent astronaut training facility in the country.

So in this context, we ask two experts in the field on what it would take to be the second Indian to travel into space and how long could the training process tentatively take.

Calling the training process for an astronaut

a long one, retired NASA astronaut Steve Swanson – who has to his credit almost 200 days in space and over 26 hours worth of spacewalks – tells The Quint that two basic requirements for the job are a “background in engineering or science”, along with some amount of “experience in an operational environment”, like being a pilot or a scientist in

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a remote environment. …once they are selected as an astronaut, the specific training on how the spacecraft [operates] begins, along with training on how to perform rendezvous (flying one vehicle to another and docking while in orbit), and how to do spacewalks. This usually lasts about two years, but can depend upon the complexity of the spacecraft and what other tasks are required.

Following this, the training for the specific flight in question starts, which Swanson says can take another one to two years depending on what exactly the mission is. Understanding the exact profiles of the mission, working with people on the ground at the flight control centre, and training for many off-nominal situations including emergencies, are all part of this stage of the preparations.

One issue we have is that there is no good way to train how to work and live in the microgravity environment (floating). So, we try to always have a flown crew member fly with a rookie crew member to help them adjust quickly and efficiently to this new environment. Although this is not necessary, it is very highly desired. Concurring with Swanson, retired Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra – who served as the backup cosmonaut for Rakesh Sharma, the only Indian to travel in space – points out the need for astronauts to rigorously undergo both theoretical and practical training, alongside having a thorough familiarity with systems on board the spacecraft.

During our training, we were imparted zero gravity training in an aircraft specifically modified for the purpose. By doing an overthe top manoeuvre, a period of zero gravity was achieved for about 35 seconds.

While the training of astronauts for the 2022 ‘ G a g a n y a a n’ mission is yet to take off, the Indian Space R e s e a rc h O r g a n i s at i o n (ISRO) has been developing and testing several technologies r e q u i r e d specifically for the manned space mission, as this Indian Express article points out.

In fact, such a mission has been under discussion since 2004. In December 2014, ISRO successfully tested an experimental flight of the GSLV Mk-III (or LVM-3), the launch vehicle suited for a manned mission, along with an experimental crew model. This was followed by the LVM-3’s first ‘development flight’ in June 2017, and later by the successful testing of the crew escape system in July 2018.

However, many more tests will need to follow and many more technologies will still need to be developed before the mission could be flagged off. Underlining the difficulties involved in the whole process, Steve Swanson narrates the effort it took for SpaceX to shift from an unmanned to a manned mission: … SpaceX developed a cargo vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS) and it flew its first mission in 2012. Very soon after, they started work on a human-rated version of that vehicle and rocket to take astronauts to the ISS. We are hoping this will happen next year, which is seven years later.

And as for getting an Indian astronaut ready to be in space by 2022, Ravish Malhotra points out “it certainly would be a very tight schedule in case the astronauts need to be trained at our own facility.”

“The facility needs to be set up, training procedures need to be finalised and last but not the least, candidate selection requires to be done,” he says.

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Premier’s statement on Labour Day Premier John Horgan has issued the following statement in honour of Labour Day, on Monday Sept. 3, 2018: “On Labour Day, we celebrate and honour the working people who have fought, and continue to fight, for workers’ rights and better lives for everyone, in every workplace.

“The rights and workplace standards we often take for granted are the direct result of the labour movement.

Without the collective action of unions and workers, we would not have minimum wages, humane working hours, vacation and overtime pay, parental leave, employment insurance, protection from discrimination and harassment, job security and workplace safety standards.

“As inequality grows in Canada and around the globe, it is more important than ever to stand up for fairness and a more equal economy that works for everyone. This is at the heart of our government, and drives the work we do every day to make life better for people

in B.C. “We still have a long way to go to make B.C. jobs work better for people. But we’re making important progress.

“That includes launching the Fair Wages Commission, to get B.C. to a $15-an-hour minimum wage, taking action to improve access to trades training, increasing opportunities for apprenticeships on public-sector construction projects. And we’re making sure communities, families and workers benefit when government spends public money on major projects, like bridges, roads and hospitals.

“We’re supporting worker health and safety, modernizing labour legislation to support all workers in our province, and preventing the exploitation of vulnerable workers.

“We’re also working across the board to improve the services workers rely on like affordable child care, health care and education.

“We’re going to keep working to make life better for workers and their families.

We can build a better future for everyone in B.C., together.

“Happy Labour Day!”

BC Ferries cancels 4 sailings between Vancouver and Victoria after safety-drill accident Just ahead of the long weekend, BC Ferries has been forced to cancel four sailings on its busiest route between Vancouver and Victoria.

The sailings were cancelled after two workers fell into the water during a safety drill on the Spirit of Vancouver Island at the Swartz Bay terminal.

The BC Ferries employees were lowering a rescue boat into the water when something went wrong with the cable brake.

They fell about 15 metres to the water, and were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The affected sailings include: 7 a.m. departing Swartz Bay - 9 a.m. departing Tsawwassen- 11 a.m. departing Swartz Bay - 1 p.m. departing Tsawwassen.

Anyone with a reservation on the cancelled sailings will get an automatic refund and will be accommodated on the next available

sailing, according to BC Ferries spokesperson Deborah Marshall.

As of 8:30 a.m. there was a two-sailing wait departing Tsawwassen for Swartz Bay, and a one-sailing wait from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen.

There were twosailing waits in both directions for BC Ferries busiest route on Friday morning, after an accident during a safety drill took the Spirit of Vancouver Island out of service for four sailings.

This is the second time this summer that crew members have been injured during safety drills involving a rescue boat.

In April, two deckhands from the Queen of Cumberland fell into the water when a davit — the small crane that lowers rescue boats — failed. That ship was taken out of service for about a month while the davit was replaced.

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Proudly Surrey party announces fourth school board candidate The “left-leaning” Proudly Surrey party has announced its fourth school board candidate.

Businessman Kapil Goyal is running for trustee under the party’s banner, joining other Proudly Surrey school board candidates Diana Ng, Dean McGee and Rina Diaz. “It might be surprising to see a successful businessperson like myself choosing Proudly Surrey out of the parties standing in this election,” said Goyal, who immigrated to Surrey in 2006 and owns Newton-based Golden Ears Insurance. “But the business sense that Proudly Surrey brings to school board politics, their ideas to combine the capital spending power of school board and council, to make labour negotiations more

accountable and closer to home; these are the most fiscally responsible and dynamic ideas in this election.” Goyal said a school trustee “needs to be determined and have the will to fight for the all-round development of our school system. It requires close monitoring and the courage to make reforms when required. I have the determination, I have the will, and I have the courage.” Goyal is a father of two and an active member of the Vedic Hindu Cultural Society. The team’s campaign manager, Tom Ewasiuk, said Proudly Surrey “has rescinded a key founding article of the party and has chosen to run a majority slate of School Trustee candidates.”

People First Surrey announces mayoral candidate, third council hopeful The “non-traditional” People First Surrey slate has announced it has a mayoral candidate, and has revealed a third council contender for the upcoming Oct. 20 election.

Rajesh Jayaprakash, a technologist with Telus, is seeking the mayor’s chair and Paul Rusan is joining the team as a council candidate.

“I think somebody has to roll up their sleeves and do it,” said Jayaprakash when Paul Rusan asked what made him jump into the mayoral race. “I’m pretty comfortable.

We spent quite a lot of time thinking about

it, researching it, we’re pretty comfortable. If you look at our policies we’re bringing to the table, it’s a pretty bold, practical approach. It’s not just some talking points.”

The slate’s 16-point platform is outlined on its website, peoplefirstsurrey. ca, but as Jayaprakash explains, it’s evolving.

“We’re going to give people an opportunity to add more things, refine things,” he said, Rajesh Jayaprakash which will be done by way of the live videos on the group’s Facebook page from 8 to 8:30 p.m. every night in September.

Brenda Locke, Mandeep Nagra join McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition

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Brenda Locke and Mandeep Nagra have joined Doug McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition as candidates for city council. Locke, who ran for council as an independent in 2014, said in a press release that her political experience would serve her well on council. ”I want to fix city hall so that it responds to everyone in Surrey in a fair, open and transparent way – and I have the background and experience from my previous roles as executive director and as cabinet minister and MLA to achieve that.” Locke served one term as MLA in Surrey-Green Timbers from 2001-2005, during which time she served as minister of state for mental health and addiction services.

She ran unsuccessfully for the federal Liberals in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections in Fleetwood-Port Kells and most recently lost in a bid to sit as MLA in Surrey-Green Timbers in 2017, losing to the NDP’s Rachna Singh.

“Growth in Surrey has been exponential, uncontrolled, and poorly managed leaving too many people behind, feeling marginalized and ignored,” she said. “Community, sport, service and faith groups, who contribute so much to the fabric of our city, are challenged and, sometime even discouraged, from fully participating in the community. “Successive councils have forgotten their role is to protect the public trust and they have forgotten to listen to all of the residents of Surrey, not just their friends.” For his part, Nagra comes from a business background, building his family’s growing chain of Fraserview Meat stores. He said wants to run for council because he is worried about the direction Surrey is taking.

“I am not satisfied with the current government policies,” he said. “I think they have failed to keep this city safe, and violence free.

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ThecityofVancouverhas 98 new modular homes near Queen Elizabeth Park approved by the City of Vancouver including life-skills training, volunteerapproved the development The housing society will also provide work opportunities, and of 98 new temporary modular homes that will population are of First Nation descent. round-the-clock support for the residents, connections to community programs.

The Lu’ma Native Housing Society give homeless Indigenous people first priority.

In a news release, the city says the focus was chosen by the city as the not-forFinance Minister Carole James says province boosted on Indigenous homelessness is needed profit operator of the two proposed spending on government programs by almost $3B after it’s annual homeless count revealed buildings, which will be built starting that 40 per cent of Vancouver’s homeless near Queen Elizabeth Park in September.

The 2017-18 public accounts released maintaining reasonable surpluses throughout Tuesday by Finance Minister Carole James our fiscal plan, despite the challenges that we showed an operating surplus of $301 million have been left with.’’ Premier John Horgan Trudeau orders new minister to focus on for the year, which is $55 million higher than arrives with MLA Carole James to speak to the surplus forecast in the budget update last media on Aug. 22. After assuming power from ending money laundering in BC fall. She said the government reduced its the B.C. Liberals last summer, the minority In his findings, German recommended Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has debt and achieved a balanced budget, despite New Democrat government promised to help tasked newly appointed minister Bill that the B.C. Lottery Corporation stand historic losses at the Insurance Corporation families and improve services while building down on some of its anti-laundering Blair with curbing money laundering in of British Columbia.

“Our surplus is a long-term sustainable economy. “Unlike efforts and that the province create a brand British Columbia and other provinces modest but also higher than anticipated in the previous government, we’re not going to new regulator with its own police force as part of the federal government’s fight our last quarterly report,’’ she said. “We are pretend that financial challenges don’t exist,’’ against organized crime. “As Minister of to combat what has been deemed the “Vancouver model” of money laundering.

Border Security and Organized Crime “We know that the same people who Reduction, your goals are to ensure that our borders remain secure and to arranged for money to be laundered in lead cross-government efforts to reduce casinos were buying real estate. We know organized crime,” the prime minister that the real estate was being used for large wrote in a mandate letter that was made illegal gaming houses,” German said when public Tuesday. The document outlined the report, entitled “Dirty Money” was eight specific priorities Blair is expected made public in June. Eby was in Ottawa to to focus on, including “cutting off money discuss money laundering in late March. It’s laundering which, as we have seen unclear how much communication about recently in British Columbia, supports our the issue there has been between the two efforts to counter guns, gangs and opioid levels of government since or how that distribution.” In March, B.C. Attorney might have helped shape Blair’s mandate.

According to Trudeau’s letter, the new General David Eby asked Ottawa to help prevent money laundering in the province minister is also to lead the government’s based on the troubling findings of a report strategy on what the prime minister called by former RCMP deputy commissioner “irregular migration” into Canada, working Peter German. The report made it clear with the provinces and territories on the that proceeds of crime had been laundered issue of cannabis legalization and helping reduce the smuggling of opioids across the through B.C. casinos for years. border.

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BC casinos claim revenue down because of new anti-money laundering rules BC’s new anti-money laundering rules have negatively affected revenues at the River Rock and Parq casinos.

According to financial results released in August, Great Canadian Gaming Corporation saw a fall in B.C. revenues in the first six months of 2018 due in part to declines in money earned at gaming tables at the River Rock Casino in Richmond. The company said that was primarily attributable to a new requirement requiring casinos to complete disclosures on the source of cash deposits or bearer bonds of more than $10,000.

The Parq casino in Vancouver, through its major shareholder Toronto-based Dundee Corp., also cited the new anti-money laundering rules in saying they resulted in regulatory costs and business “impacts” that affected their bottom line in the first six months of 2018.

The rules were implemented in late December 2017 in response to interim recommendations from an independent review by Peter German, a former RCMP deputy commissioner.

The B.C. government launched the review over concerns about Chinese high-roller VIPs purchasing gambling chips with massive wads of cash that could be “proceeds of crime.”

Those concerns were outlined in a confidential report commissioned by the B.C. Lotteries Corp. from auditor MNP LLP that found $13.5 million in $20 bills had being accepted in the River Rock Casino in July 2015.

In releasing his final report at the end of June, German concluded that for many years certain Lower Mainland casinos unwittingly served as “laundromats” for the proceeds of organized crime and that laundered money was linked to drug trafficking and real estate transactions in the Lower Mainland’s heated housing market.

In response to questions on Wednesday, B.C. Attorney General David Eby made no apologies for implementing the new antimoney laundering requirements.

He noted that suspicious transactions flowing through B.C.’s casinos had dropped to $200,000 in March of this year from a high of $20 million in July 2015.

“Certainly, we recognized at the very beginning that taking action on this would result in some financial reductions,” said Eby. “And we expect all of our service providers to understand that in the name of cracking down on crime, and in the name of cracking down on money laundering, they should be prepared to see decreases in those high-stakes tables because this is an action we have to take.”

Eby said the province is encouraging casinos to focus on lower-stakes tables and stay away from high-stakes tables that will be the most affected by the anti-money laundering initiatives.

Neither Great Canadian Gaming nor the Parq would provide details on losses attributable directly to the new money-laundering rules.

BC’s new rules around hiring for taxpayer-funded construction projects challenged in court The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to strike down the provincial government’s new hiring model for taxpayer-funded construction projects.

The association filed a petition Monday with the court alongside several other building and trade organizations, as well as the B.C. Chamber of Commerce and two unions it says are not affiliated with the building trades: the Christian Labour Association of Canada and Canada West Construction Union.

Association president Chris Gardner said the policy means only members of building trade unions will be hired for public construction jobs and that’s not fair to the 85 per cent of construction workers who don’t belong to the unions.

“The new model is discriminatory and unfair,’’ he said. “What the government has done is create a monopoly for the building trade unions.’’

While any construction company can bid on a project, Gardner said the framework requires workers to join or belong to one of 19 unions.

Gardner said it also means those unions will

determine who works each part of the project, meaning companies may not have access to their usual employees, which he said could create safety, efficiency and productivity problems.

When the new framework was announced last month, Premier John Horgan said it would allow anyone to bid on the projects, but it would make hiring local workers a priority and provide good wages for people building roads, bridges, transit and hospitals.

The B.C. government said projects worth billions of dollars will now be built under a so-called community benefits agreement that sets out job training, who can work on the projects and the wages to be paid.

B.C. Premier John Horgan, second from left, said at an announcement last month the new labour agreement model will ensure British Columbia projects benefit B.C. workers, families and communities.

It said the agreement is aimed at boosting apprenticeship opportunities and hiring more women, Indigenous people & other under-represented workers.

In financial results released in August, Dundee Corp. reported the Parq casino lost $80 million in the first six months of 2018, which also included effects from training and marketing to ramp-up the casino to full operation.

Great Canadian saw gaming revenues at B.C. casinos fall five per cent, or $6.6 million, in the first six months of 2018 compared to the same period in 2017.

In a conference call with analysts, Great Canadian’s president and CEO Rod Baker noted revenues were also down because of a

strike at the Hard Rock casino in Coquitlam.

Gateway Casinos spokeswoman Tanya Gabara said the company had seen little to no effect from the new anti-money laundering rules.

As a private company, Gateway does not release its financial results publicly.

“Over four years ago, Gateway introduced strategies to be less reliant on high-limit table players and therefore the recent changes have had no impact on our business performance,” said Gabara.

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Vancouver Coastal Health cancels contract surgeries, opens up more public operating space The regional health authority had been contracting out some surgeries such as hernia operations to private clinics such as the False Creek Healthcare.

Staff at the private clinic told CBC News 47 such surgeries had been recently cancelled but will be rescheduled to public hospital operating rooms.

Health Minister Adrian Dix confirmed the surgeries were cancelled after new operating room space was opened up at a local hospital.

“Earlier this year, I challenged all health authorities to increase their use of existing operating rooms and diagnostic equipment,” said a statement released by Dix’s office.

“To that end, Vancouver Coastal Health is taking action to reopen operating rooms that stand unused. The first of which will open at Vancouver General Hospital and the second at St. Paul’s.”

Further space will also be opened up at Richmond and Lions Gate hospitals. The move was enabled by the recent graduation of 43 new operating room nurses, Dix said.

Despite the changes, Dix said there will

continue to be a significant role for private surgical clinics, including False Creek Healthcare, to perform publicly funded surgeries within the health-care system.

“Each regional health authority — including Vancouver Coastal Health — continues to have surgical contracts with private facilities. I do not expect this to change,” the minister said.

The change comes as legislation prepares to take effect Oct. 1 targeting extra fees charged for private surgeries and other services offered by many of the same clinics.

Dix announced in April that the legislation will make it an offence to charge extra fees for publicly insured services. It includes fines of up to $10,000 for a first offence and $20,000 for a second offence for anyone convicted.

The issue of billing for private health-care services is also the subject of a long-running legal battle between the B.C. government and Dr. Brian Day, the owner of Vancouver’s privately run Cambie Surgery Centre.

Introduction of polymer bills reduces counterfeiting crimes, Police say A group of five people facing dozens of counts related to the use of bogus cash around the Lower Mainland in the past two years allegedly spent their funny money on pizza, booze and gambling — among other vices.

One of the charges involves a purchase at a bong shop. Yet another allegedly happened at a pet store. And that’s to say nothing of money allegedly spent on greeting cards and pretzels.

“They would go to various businesses, whether it be a restaurant, a corner store, a liquor store or a drug store. They would make a purchase and then they would receive [real] cash” as change, said Vancouver police Const. Jason Doucette.

“And sometimes this has a ripple effect, because either the merchant doesn’t realize that they’ve accepted a counterfeit $50, and they use that to give somebody change in a future transaction and now the money is moving around. Or they notice at the end of the day, when it’s too late.”

Vancouver police were among several departments involved in investigations that have led to 34 charges against the five individuals accused of using counterfeit money in Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond,

Burnaby and New Westminster.

Aleena Marie Birgen, Michael Ho Shen, Paul Hochi Shen, Saro Mouses Vanayan and Farrokh Samadi are accused of using counterfeit money on various dates from 2016 to 2018.

Birgen, Vanayan and both Shens are also charged with making or beginning to make counterfeit money, as well as possessing a device “adapted and intended for use in making counterfeit.”

In addition to money spent at a series of gas stations and liquor stores, the accused also allegedly used counterfeit at both the River Rock and Edgewater casinos.

Battery World owner Richard Granholm says he still remembers the day one of the accused allegedly bought an electric bike battery in his store in March 2017.

Battery World owner Richard Granholm posted this picture of one of the people who allegedly used counterfeit money in his store. “They actually gave me the money. I believe there were four $100 bills,” he said. “The sale was about $320, so I gave them back about $80.”

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Judge refuses to stop BC’s referendum on proportional representation voting system judge has refused to put a halt to a B.C. referendum this fall on whether to change the current voting system to proportional representation.

The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association (ICBA) and another organization filed a court petition opposing the referendum on the grounds it has been rushed and involves confusing and complex questions for the voters.

They sought a stay or suspension of a cabinet order-in-council on the referendum pending a determination of the issues raised by the petition and an order prohibiting the counting of referendum ballots until the issues are dealt with by the court.

But in a ruling handed down Tuesday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper declined to grant an injunction in the case.

In reaching her decision, the judge noted that there were three aspects to a legal test to determine whether an injunction should be approved.

Regarding the issue of whether there was a serious issue to be tried, the

judge said there was a low threshold to determine that question and accepted that the ICBA had met that threshold.

But on the final two questions — whether there would irreparable harm to the ICBA if the injunction was not granted and where the balance of convenience lay — the judge ruled in favour of the B.C. government.

The ICBA chafed at a $200,000 restriction on third-party advertising during the referendum campaign, claiming it violated the Charter, but the judge found that the petitioners were not being silenced by the process and that there was no irreparable harm.

In concluding that the balance of convenience favoured the government, the judge found that the petitioner’s allegations engaged “rhetoric,” “conjecture” and “exaggeration.”

The referendum involves a two-part question asking voters whether they favour the long-standing first-past-the-post system of voting or whether they want a new system of proportional representation.

Richmond man who possessed 220,000 images of child porn loses sentence appeal A Richmond man who was convicted of possessing tens of thousands of images of child pornography has lost his appeal of a one-year jail term.

Alan Kenneth Watson, 72, was arrested after Microsoft advised investigators that child porn had been uploaded to a Microsoft storage service by a user associated with an address in Richmond.

In January 2015, police executed a search warrant at Watson’s home and seized 49 exhibits from a computer room used by him, including CDs, DVDs and USBs. An expert retained to analyze a small portion of the items seized located more than 220,000 images of child porn and a number of child porn videos.

The images included nude photos of children, sex acts committed between children and sex acts between children and adults, including intercourse.

After he was taken into custody, Watson, a retired aircraft mechanic with no prior criminal record, told police he was the owner and only user of the computer that had been seized, that he knew the images he had collected were illegal but that he couldn’t stop himself from looking at them.

Watson, who had organized and labelled the extensive collection of child porn, also agreed with a police officer that the only reason to keep such a collection was for sexual gratification.

BC gov’t sues opioid manufacturers The provincial government has filed a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers.

In a joint announcement at the Supreme Court in Vancouver, Attorney General David Eby and Mental Health and Addictions Minister Judy Darcy announced their plans to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for the opioid addiction and overdose crisis.

In 2016, there were 2,861 opioid-related deaths in Canada. As of last June, another 1,460 deaths had been attributed to the drugs and the total number for 2017 was predicted to reach about 4,000, fuelled by a combination

of over-prescribing by doctors and an influx of synthetic opioids, such as illicitly manufactured fentanyl and carfentanil.

RCMP seize large supply of drugs in dial-a-dope bust Surrey RCMP’s drug unit is celebrating the success of an seven-month investigation into a dial-a-dope ring that resulted in the seizure of large supply of illicit drugs.

Dial-a-dope lines are the drug dealing equivalent to pizza delivery.

Users place their order via a designated drug number and then the dealer will dispatch a runner to deliver the dope.

On Aug. 23, following months of investigation, police executed a warrant at a residence in the 1100 block of Cecile Drive in Port Moody.

Inside the home, police seized 35 suspected Xanax pills, 140 doses of suspected powdered

cocaine, a bottle containing 90 doses of suspected GHB, 400 doses of suspected methamphetamine, approximately $600 in Canadian currency, along with scales, packaging material, and drug paraphernalia associated with drug trafficking.

The Surrey RCMP Drug Unit seized illicit drugs linked to a dial-a-dope line following an investigation which began in February of 2018.

Police say a further 140 doses of suspected methamphetamine, 940 doses of suspected cocaine, and a 2013 Volkswagen Golf sedan were later seized.

One man was arrested at the residence and later released. Charges have not yet been laid.

Suspected overdose death leads police to find drug lab A suspected drug overdose in East Vancouver over the weekend led police to a possible drug lab.

Officers were called to an apartment on Rhodes Street near East 41st Avenue at about 2 a.m. PT Saturday, Vancouver police said in a news release.

2 men sentenced after bust of ‘massive’ Burnaby fentanyl lab A 35-year-old man who lived in the apartment was found dead and there were signs of drug production in the home.

The death is not considered suspicious.

Overdose death in East Vancouver is being investigated.

The Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services Hazmat Team examined the apartment and found there was no imminent risk to the building’s residents.

No arrests have been made so far, police say.

Saudi Arabia allows medical trainees to stay in Canada More than 1,000 Saudi Arabian medical graduates will be allowed to stay in Canada to complete their training, a muchneeded reprieve for teaching hospitals that were unsure how they would handle the sudden and significant loss of staff.

Thousands of other Saudi students studying at Canadian universities will, however, still have to leave the country.

The 1,053 Saudi medical residents and fellows in Canada received an e-mail late Monday afternoon from the Saudi Ministry of Education “indicating that they may continue in their positions until an alternative assignment is arranged,” said Andrew Padmos, chief executive of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

The kingdom initially told the medical trainees to leave Canada by Aug. 31 because of a diplomatic dispute that erupted after Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland publicly called on Saudi Arabia to release jailed human-rights activists. Last week, the deadline was extended to Sept. 22.

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South Asian man accused of raping & killing Ontario woman faces extradition from US Ontario woman who his mother’s phone was raped & killed in her alerted him it was bedroom earlier this summer time for his evening was confronted in their shower, he couldn’t apartment on the night of the rouse her. He used crime by possible murderer, the phone to text his US court documents say. father that “mommy According to chilling won’t wake up.” details revealed in extradition The father drove documents for a South Asian to the apartment, man Jitesh “Jay” Bhogal, who is found his son Homicide victim Autumn Taggart, charged with first-degree murder, and the body, and aka Maya Madolyn’s one of aggravated sexual assault, and called police. the images she used in social media. break & enter — the nine-yrs The court old boy told Windsor police that a tall, dark-haired, bearded man he had never seen before entered his bedroom.

The documents say the stranger told the boy to stay in bed and go to sleep, then he went elsewhere in the apartment. The boy later heard a female screaming. He was too scared to get out of bed to investigate, say the documents.

The next morning, the boy awoke to see his mother was still in the bed, so he spent the day The apartments building at 1382 University Avenue West in eating cookies and watching videos. Windsor, Ontario where Autumn Taggart, 31 was raped and killed on Sunday, June 10, 2018.

Hours passed. When an alarm on

Jitesh Bhogal was arrested form this suburban neighbourhood of Kent, Washington, USA.

documents state that the victim had close relationship with the boy’s father, her exboyfriend. They spent the evening before her death shopping with their child, and exchanged text messages late into the night.

The documents only identify the boy and his mother by their initials, but according to Windsor police press releases Bhogal’s charges relate to the death of Autumn Taggart, 31, whose body was found in her apartment on the third floor of 1382 University Ave. West, Windsor the night of June 10.

Humans responsible for more than 400 forest fires in BC As blazes rage across the province, the BC Wildfire Service says many of them have been avoidable Campfires, cigarettes, flares and car accidents are some of the ways humans have likely started more than 400 wildfires in British Columbia this season.

As wildfires blaze across the province, the B.C. Wildfire Service says many of them have

Transit Police find credit card skimmers on Compass machines Transit Police have released photos of a man wanted in connection with the installation of credit card skimmers at three Compass Card vending machines along the Canada Line.

Metro Vancouver Transit Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect (pictured) in the placement of credit/debit card skimmers on three Compass Vending Machines on the Canada Line.

Metro Vancouver Transit Police Three identical devices were found July 11 on two Compass m a c h i n e s at Vancouver International Airport and another at Vancouver City Centre station.

Along with a card reader that collected credit card data, the skimmers were also equipped with a camera that was used to record people entering their PIN codes.

Forensic analysis determined the skimmers were comprised of two parts; the camera portion, which is used to film people entering their cards security PIN and the card reader portion, which collects data from the card.

been avoidable. Despite efforts to spread the word about fire bans and other restrictions, fire information officer Ryan Turcot says many people still aren’t getting the message.

“It’s important to note that every time we run into a human-caused wildfire, that’s a wildfire that didn’t have to happen,” Turcot said.

“These human-caused wildfires during

Windsor homicide victim Autumn Taggart, who also went by Maya Madolyn, in one of the images she used in her social media profiles.

As of Tuesday, Bhogal remained in the hands of US federal authorities in Washington State, more than 3,000 kilometres away from the crime scene.

According to the US court documents,

Jitesh ‘Jay’ Bhogal is 28-year-old Canadian citizen who worked in the Detroit area.

He was arrested at his parent’s home in Kent, Washington, USA on August 17.

The US Attorney’s office in Seattle said Jitesh ‘Jay’ Bhogal is scheduled for a detention and status hearing on Friday.

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Punjabi journalist Swaran Singh Tehna visited India Cultural Centre of Canada Gurdwara Nanak Niwas in Richmond on Wednesday, August 21. He was welcomed by President Balbir Singh Jawanda, General Secretary Chain Singh Batth and Secretary Balwant Singh Sanghera.

Periodic work will East 1st Avenue from Rupert to Nanaimo until early September East First Avenue from Nanaimo Street to Clark Drive has been fully reopened after nearly two months of partial lane closures due to a gas line installation.

The closures on the busy thoroughfare caused major traffic disruptions and headaches for local residents and businesses.

While construction was underway, motorists, like this delivery driver, described the traffic on East First Avenue as “chaos.” (CBC) “We recognize that the full closure has been an inconvenience for residents and commuters.

It’s work that FortisBC had to get done,” Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering services, said in a statement.

“We’re very appreciative to their team for an early opening, as well as to all residents, businesses and commuters for their patience and understanding during this work.”

A section of East First Avenue from Rupert to Nanaimo streets reopened Aug. 26. Crews will continue periodic work on that segment until early September.

Ongoing lane closures near the Highway 1 overpass are expected to wrap up in the early fall.

The city and FortisBC are also keeping some temporary traffic-calming measures they had put in place throughout the Hastings-Sunrise and Granville-Woodlands neighbourhoods.

Police seek public’s help in finding South Asian man Surrey RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a missing 44-yearold male, Miter SINGH. Miter SINGH was last seen at approximately noon on August 5th, 2018, in the 7000 block of 120th St., in Surrey, B.C. near the Guru NANAK Temple. He has not been seen or heard from since.

Miter SINGH is described as a 44-year-old South Asian male, 5’08” tall, medium build, with

black hair and brown eyes.

(Please see attached photo).

He was last seen wearing a white Indian Suit and a Blue Turban. Miter SINGH speak very limited English.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of this person is asked to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502, or Crime Stoppers, if they wish to remain anonymous, at 1-800-222-8477 or www.solvecrime.ca

Tenant sub-renting at $1000 per month in Vancouver

Former RCMP officer charged in Creep Catchers case pleads guilty to breach of trust Dario Devic entered the plea Thursday morning in Surrey Provincial Court, according to his lawyer. Rishi Gill said Crown will drop a charge against his client of luring a person under the age of 16.

“He’s always stated that he never believed that the person was under the age of consent,” Gill said, adding the plea takes Devic “out of the realm of being a sex offender.”

Devic was charged in September 2016 following the release of a video by vigilante group Surrey Creep Catchers.

The group claimed to have caught an RCMP officer after luring him online with a woman posing as an underage girl.

A bus trip was organized for 56 seniors of Vedic Seniors Parivar Center in Surrey to visit Burnaby Village Museum & Golden Ears Provincial Park on Saturday, August 25.

A week later police confirmed they had arrested and charged a Surrey RCMP officer in the case.

Gill claimed, however, that photos sent to Devic prior to the encounter were “clearly” those of an adult woman in her mid-20s or early 30s, and his client never believed she was under the age of consent.

RCMP spokesperson said on Thursday Devic was discharged from the force earlier this year.

“The allegations were egregious and not in keeping with what we expect from our employees,” Staff Sgt. Annie Linteau said in an email.

There’s a new development at the Marpole rental house that is allegedly home to as many as 21 tenants, each paying $1,000 per month to live there.

Renters are now learning that the woman they believed was the home’s property manager is herself a tenant and has been subletting the property to others.

“I just found out she’s not even a tenant … she said she’s a landlord, but she’s not. She’s lying,” said Christina Monaco.

Monaco, one of the many renters currently occupying the home on West 65th Avenue in Vancouver, told Global News last week that she was paying $1,000 in rent to live in a tent in the backyard.

She had originally rented a room but moved outside due to what Monaco said were dirty, noisy conditions and

common space packed with roommates.

Zhiying Zhou, the woman who rented the 13-bedroom home to Monaco and the other tenants, said she believes she’s well within her rights.

“Nothing is illegal, I don’t think anything is wrong. I didn’t do anything wrong,” said.

Zhou said she rents to students and foreign workers and that her residence was in compliance with regulations. She also disputes the number of tenants, saying 14 or 15 people live there rather than the 21 Monaco claims.

The City of Vancouver said it’s aware of the home and is looking into potential bylaw violations.

As for the other renters, some say they’re already looking for somewhere else to live.

Matt Brodie said he pays $500 a month to split a one-bedroom room with another tenant.

“She’s a little old lady. (I) didn’t expect to get swindled. That’s the way it works,” he said.

The property is one of several owned by the Buffalo Group and slated for redevelopment in the next year and a half.

“My client, the Buffalo Group, discovered this situation through your newscast, and they came to see me right away. The situation is they have a lease agreement with a particular individual. They were unaware that she was renting out to this many people. They’ve taken steps to try and remedy that,” he said.

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Coquitlam drive-by shooting left neighbourhood shaken A Coquitlam neighbourhood is on the edge after a home in the area was riddled with bullets in what police believe was a “targeted” drive-by shooting.

On early Friday morning, police were called to a home in the southern portion of the city following several emergency calls. No one was injured in the incident, but witnesses recalled hearing as many as six shots.

“It was really scary, because I didn’t know what happened,” Alisha, who did not give her last name, said. “I thought it was someone banging on the side of the house.”

Several people were home when someone opened fire on a Thomas Avenue home early Friday morning.

On Friday, bullets holes could

seen in several windows.

“My husband heard pounding at our window and it was police and they said that shots had been fired at the house,” said Annmarie, who lives in the basement unit of the home. “We thought it was fireworks.”

“I’ve never been in a situation like this.

I hear it always on the news but never happening right at your front door.”

RCMP believe one person living in the house may have been the target of the shooting and are looking for any video of the incident.

“One of the things were looking at as we go further in this investigation is how much, or if at all, this is related to ongoing gang conflicts throughout the lower mainland,” said Coquitlam RCMP

Thousands attend Ahmadiyya Muslim convention in Calgary

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Calgary: Thousands attended the largest annual Ahmadiyya Muslim convention in Western Canada on Saturday.

Everyone was welcome at the Ahmadiyya

Muslim Jama’at convention in Calgary, featuring Indigenous leaders in prayer and the international Pathway to Peace campaign.

People of all backgrounds gathered at the Genesis Centre to pray, listen to presentations and take part in workshops to get to know each other.

“It’s an opportunity for Ahmadiyya Muslims to gather and to rejuvenate their faith and understand the purpose for which we are here: to live in harmony with one another and how we can better our lives,” said Akbar Ali, spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

This is one of many similar events happening around the globe — a chance to spread knowledge and break down negative connotations that people often associate with the religion.

Elderly man accused of shooting wife appears in court Appearing at times confused, 73-yearold Terrance Finn appeared in court on Tuesday afternoon as his family looked on.

Finn is charged with the murder of his wife, 70-year-old Sandra Finn. She was shot Wednesday morning in car parked in the Home Depot parking lot.

The shocking incident happened just after 8 a.m., as customers walked in and out of the Lansdowne Street store.

During Tuesday’s court appearance, Finn stated several times that he wanted to enter in a plea and get the process moving.

Finn does not have a lawyer. During previous court appearances, he’s been helped by duty counsel, a lawyer who works for Legal Aid and helps those without representation during their court appearances. A duty counsel lawyer is not paid by an accused and does not spend more than a few moments examining an individual’s case.

The judge, duty counsel and the Crown were reluctant to let that happen, Justice Lisa Cameron stressing to Finn that he was facing a serious charge, with very serious consequences if convicted.

Finn said his phone had been taken away from him at the Central East Correctional Centre and he had difficulty making a phone call. He said he had called a lawyer but no one had arrived.

‘I’d like to come in for a plea’: Man accused of shooting wife in Home Depot parking lot makes court appearance Finn also stated that he didn’t have a whole lot of money to pay for a lawyer or jurors, at which point the judge indicated that he doesn’t have to pay for the legal process, only his legal representation.

Finn also asked if members of his family could join him so he could be sure he understood what was happening, and asked if the same bus that brought him to the courthouse would be the same bus that would take him back to the Lindsay super jail.

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Canada-wide warrant issued for suspect in apparent Richmond Hill abduction A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for the suspect in the apparent abduction of a woman — who has since been found safe — in Richmond Hill just north of Toronto last Thursday.

Police issued the warrant for Jonathan McLennan, 27, on Monday afternoon.

“Mr. McLennan is urged to seek legal counsel and turn himself in to police immediately,” York Regional Police said in a news release.

McLennan is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone who sees him should not approach, but rather call 911 immediately.

‘I think I’m going to die’ The incident unfolded early last Thursday, when a woman rang the doorbell of a home

in the area of Highway 7 and Highway 404, close to the intersection of High Tech Road and Silver Linden Drive, around 2:50 a.m.

ET. The entire incident was captured by the home’s security camera, which was on the doorbell.

In surveillance footage released later Thursday by police, a man steps out of a nearby sport utility vehicle, carrying what appears to be a handgun. The man steps up to the porch where the woman is standing and threatens to kill her repeatedly while telling her to get in the car.

The woman responds: “I think I’m going to die.” The man then appears to drag the woman by her hair to the vehicle.

Woman charged after fatal hit-and-run accident in Edmonton A female motorist is facing charges after a 78-year-old pedestrian died from injuries he sustained during a hit-and-run.

Edmonton Police Service charged Pritshma Singh, 23, with failing to remain at a collision causing death and careless driving.

The charges stem from an Aug. 4 collision on Fort Road just south of 129 Avenue in the city’s northeast,

police said in a Saturday news release.

Singh was allegedly driving a white 2014 Mazda that struck the man around 12:30 a.m., police said. She was pulled over during a traffic stop by northeast division police officers shortly after the incident.

Paramedics transported the man to hospital with life-threatening injuries. He died three days later.

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Preparing for post-secondary life For young adults, summer is typically spent preparing for college or university in the fall. If you are a parent or a student, lots of questions may be running through your mind about academics, campus life and what to expect in those first few months of school. It is an exciting time, but can also be filled with concern about the unexpected. Being prepared can help with the transition.

The transition can be even tougher for international students as they need to settle into life in a new country as well.

Taking the first steps to set yourself up for success is a great way to feel at home faster.

Four things a student should keep in mind: 1. Get involved in campus life. Whether you are commuting from home or have moved to Canada for your studies, getting involved in social activities on campus can help you adjust. Joining social activities, interest clubs or sports teams are a few examples of getting involved outside the classroom. Check your school’s online website portal to learn more.

2. Keep active and take time for yourself.

Adjusting to a new routine will take some time. Between managing classes, assignments and a social life, scheduling some much-needed “me time” can help maintain a healthy balance while staying focused. Eating balanced meals, having a regular exercise routine that works

for your schedule and getting enough sleep each night, will help keep your mental and physical wellness on track.

3. Use resources available to you.

Universities and colleges are filled with incredible resources, many of which are free to you. Resources range from guidance counselors offering help with academic questions, to an international student office that helps students navigate life on campus in Canada. These services are offered for students to use, so remember to take advantage of them while you are a student.

4. Build a budget. Keeping finances on track is another part of transitioning to post-secondary life. For many students, this may be the first time you will need to manage your own finances. If you are an international student, you may have many questions about banking in Canada. A great first step is speaking with a financial advisor about tips on keeping your finances in order throughout the year.

Find more information for international students at www.rbc.com/newcomers.

Woman says dispute with Hydro-Québec over smart meter not just about her A Montreal woman whose dispute with Hydro-Québec may lead to her having her power cut off says bigger issues are at play.

Hydro-Québec told Denise Babin that it would cut off her power on Aug. 27 if she doesn’t let the utility replace her hydro meter.

As of late Monday afternoon, her power was still on, but it could be cut without further notice.

Babin has an old analog hydro meter in her home that must be replaced before Dec. 31. Hydro-Québec wants to replace it now.

Babin doesn’t want a “smart,” or connected, meter, which reports usage directly to Hydro-Québec.

She says that’s out of a “precautionary principle.” “I think I should be able to say, because it’s going into my house, give me a chance to check it out, give me a chance to not have it yet so we can see,” she said. “I wouldn’t take a medication if I didn’t have some sort of certification and Hydro.

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Canada stunned and worried about Trump trade threats It started with Donald Trump’s attacks on dairy farmers in Canada. Then Washington slapped tariffs on Canadian steel, citing national security. There was that disastrous G-7 summit in Quebec. Now it’s a new North American free trade agreement that excludes America’s northern neighbor.

Canadians are stunned by the repeated broadsides from what has long been their closest ally and some have even begun boycotts.

“Everybody is afraid,” said Margot Lajeunesse, who helps run a family-owned bistro in Quebec. “We depend a lot on the U.S.” About 75 percent of Canada’s exports go to the U.S. so the tariff threat looms large after Trump snubbed Canada and reached a preliminary deal with Mexico.

LaLa Bistro, owned by the Lajeunesse family, is

among Canadian businesses that are boycotting California wines, American ketchup and other U.S. products in protest. Some Canadians have cancelled U.S. vacations, particularly after Trump assailed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G-7 meeting in June, calling him a “weak” and “dishonest” back-stabber.

“It’s not the way you treat a friend,” Lajeunesse said. “It’s revolting, agreed Raymonde Kennedy, who has ceased buying American products like mustard and clothing.

“We won’t be insulted like that, by a man with no brain.” Luc Routhier, co-owner of Bar Le P’tit Canot in Quebec, also banned American wine from his eatery after Trump announced tariffs on Canadian aluminum and threatened Quebec’s dairy industry.

Trans Mountain pipeline construction underway with feds footing the bill After a summer hiatus, construction work is set to resume on the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline. For now, Kinder Morgan Canada still owns the project, but the federal government has a deal in place to purchase the entity and is already paying the bill for construction.

Kinder Morgan had begun preliminary work on the project, such as surveying and tree clearing along the route, but the company put a halt to those efforts in April over concerns about the project’s financial viability amid court challenges and political pushback from the B.C. government.

The federal government agreed to purchase the pipeline, along with other assets, for $4.5 billion in late May. The deal is expected to close in the fall and the federal government has

agreed to pay for costs related to the project in the interim. The guarantee to cover expenses is part of a federal government recourse credit facility until the transaction closes.

A Kinder Morgan Canada shareholder vote on the sale on Aug. 30 is expected to pass, since the Houstonbased parent company, Kinder Morgan, owns about 70 per cent of the shares in Kinder Morgan Canada.

The pipeline still faces some regulatory and court challenges. The project may require U.S. approval because the sale includes the Puget Sound pipeline. Kinder Morgan has not lost a single court challenge yet, including last week when the Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal from the City of Burnaby, B.C. It was an appeal of a lower court ruling involving the city’s bylaws.

Homeowners in Vancouver & Toronto want housing prices to fall A survey of residents in two of Canada’s hottest housing markets suggest that even some homeowners in Toronto and Vancouver think housing has become too unaffordable and prices should drop.

The Angus Reid Institute’s “Pain Index” scores people’s answers to questions about housing and transportation.

While responses in each city differ somewhat, the majority of respondents in both saw housing as the paramount concern residents are facing.

In Toronto, housing affordability stole the top spot from transportation and traffic concerns, which dominated when Angus Reid last gathered responses on the same topic in 2015.

“So it is a progression of pain for both regions, where Vancouver really seems to be settling in,

resigned to living with this chronic pain,” said Angus Reid executive director Shachi Kurl.

“The people of Greater Toronto are certainly more alive to it than they were three years ago.”

The survey notes that housing prices in both cities have climbed sharply in recent years.

T s u r Somerville, senior fellow at the University of British C o l u m b i a’s C e n t r e for Urban Economics and Real Estate, says he was surprised by how many homeowners thought a drop in real estate prices would be beneficial.

In Toronto, 56 per cent of homeowners said current housing prices were hurting the Greater Toronto Area — 13 per cent said they would like to see prices drop by 30 per cent or more, and 22 per cent said by 10 per cent or more.

Federal minister cautions Alberta against withdrawal from national climate plan Alberta’s decision to pull out out of the national climate change plan in protest of a federal court ruling that suspends the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will only serve to further endanger the pipeline’s regulatory future, says the federal resources minister.

Edmonton MP Amarjeet Sohi said the courts have made it clear — an effective climate strategy is critical for the approval of major natural resources projects under federal jurisdiction.

Alberta’s withdrawal from the national climate change strategy may hurt the pipeline in the long-run, Sohi said.

“In order to build a large project such as a pipeline, you need to have a very effective climate action plan, and you need to be mindful of your obligations to consult Indigenous peoples,” Sohi said in an interview Friday with CBC Radio’s Edmonton AM. We’re not prepared to go any further on this until the federal government figures out how to get this ridiculousness fixed.Premier Rachel Notley Premier Rachel Notley has called on the federal government to immediately appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada,

and for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call an emergency session of Parliament to fix the process so the pipeline can be built.

The province will remain outside of the federal climate plan until that happens, Notley said.

Premier Rachel Notley pulls Alberta out of federal climate plan over Trans Mountain ruling Don’t dig Trans Mountain’s grave just yet Notley made the stunning announcement in a Thursday evening press conference, hours after a Federal Court of Appeal ruling effectively suspended the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The appeal ruling cited lack of consultation with Indigenous nations and that the regulator, the National Energy Board, failed to address the impact on marine traffic.

Notley said she and Albertans are angry that the province has been let down after doing everything right.

‘Albertans are angry’: Read Rachel Notley’s full address She said her NDP government remains committed to environmental stewardship but won’t sign on to a national strategy if they aren’t able to get the pipeline built and get a “fair value for our resources.”

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Former Ontario PC candidate launches dirty politics lawq suit against Horwath, NDP A former Ontario PC candidate who says he was falsely accused of sending a threatening email just days before the provincial election has launched a $2.45 million libel and defamation lawsuit against Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, his former employer Toronto Police Services and others, according to his statement of claim. Roshan Nallaratnam’s bombshell lawsuit accuses Horwath, the NDP and others of engaging in a dirty tricks, “politicallymotivated hit job” to turn voters against him in the hotly-contested ScarboroughGuildwood riding. Just three days before the June 7 vote, the NDP issued a release accusing

Nallaratnam, who was then a police officer, of sending an “ominous” email threat in response to “concerns from a voter about why he was avoiding debates.”

The email, made public by the New Democrats, stated “don’t do nasty campaign against me. I will teach the lesson after election” and despite Nallaratnam’s immediate denunciation of it as a fake, the allegation was widely publicized in media and on social media.

“Will Doug Ford denounce this unacceptable behaviour from his candidate, and demand Nallaratnam apologize for his abusive language and threat?” the NDP release asked.

Federal Liberals approve saliva screening test for marijuana drivers Federal Justice Minister Jody WilsonRaybould is giving the green light to a new roadside test to check for drugs.

On Monday, WilsonRaybould approved the Drager DrugTest 5000 as the first saliva screening equipment to be used by law enforcement to test for THC, the main psychoactive agent in cannabis.

The equipment will now be made available to police forces across the country, but the government says it will still be up to police forces to decide what testing equipment they want to use.

Manufacturers have told the government that they could meet demand for roadside saliva testing equipment within four to six weeks.

Legislation that passed Parliament in June allows for the use of roadside saliva tests to detect the presence of drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.

The Liberals have pledged $161 million in funding for police training and drug-testing equipment over the next five years, as well as a public awareness campaign about the perils of driving while high.

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police said last month that it is unlikely to reach its goal of having 2,000 officers trained to spot drug-impaired drivers when marijuana becomes legal later this year.

Federal gov’t debating on banning handguns and assault weapons Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has assigned sweeping responsibilities to Bill Blair, the new minister in charge of border security and organized crime, tasking him with leading the file on irregular migration and examining whether Canada should ban handguns and assault weapons.

In a freshly minted mandate letter made public Tuesday, the prime minister asks Blair to lead conversations with the United States on the Safe Third Country Agreement, working closely with Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen.

Bill Blair, federal minister of border security and organized crime reduction, attends a press conference in Toronto on Friday, August 3. Bill Blair, the new minister responsible for border security and organized crime reduction, is officially tasked with leading the charge on irregular migration. A mandate letter from

the prime minister says Blair’s work will be supported by the departments of Public Safety, Immigration and Foreign Affairs.

Bill Blair, federal minister of border security and organized crime reduction, attends a press conference in Toronto on Friday, August 3. Bill Blair, the new minister responsible for border security and organized crime reduction, is officially tasked with leading the charge on irregular migration. The agreement stipulates that asylum seekers are required to make their refugee claims in the first “safe” country in which they arrive — meaning those who come into Canada at an official land border crossing are sent back to make their claim in the U.S. The agreement does not cover irregular asylum seekers — those entering Canada at unofficial points, most notably in Quebec.

Blair’s work will be supported by the departments of Public Safety, Immigration and Foreign Affairs, the letter says.

New information commissioner fined for failing to disclose information The woman whose job it is to safeguard Canada’s freedom of information laws has been dinged for failing to disclose information to the ethics watchdog. In a notice posted Monday, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion reported that his office has fined Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard $250 for failing to disclose “a material change relating to assets” within 30 days.

Under the Conflict of Interest Act, reporting public office holders are required to submit a confidential report describing their assets, liabilities and income. If that changes, “reporting public office holders have 30 days in which to file a report,” said spokesperson

Alison Zinni in an email.

Maynard said she takes her “responsibilities as a reporting public office holder very seriously” and explained the details behind her fine. “Specifically, this related to the purchase of RRSPs in the amount of approximately $5,000,” she said. “When this was brought to my attention, I acknowledged the mistake and addressed the matter immediately. I have also taken steps with my financial advisor to ensure this does not happen again.”

Maynard, a member of the Québec bar, took over the job in March 2018. Before that she was a government lawyer for more than 20 years.

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India & Pak troops let their hair down at Russia gala Unusual scenes were witnessed in Russia last night —Indian and Pakistani soldiers dancing together on popular Punjabi music.

The event was a cultural evening hosted by the Indian Army to mark the end of

Pakistan, China and host Russia, were welcomed with a traditional red ‘tilak’ on their forehead and traditional red-coloured Rajasthani ‘pagris’. The Indian Army’s Rajput regiment is the lead contingent, hence the Rajasthani gear. A well-laid-

the eight-nation joint military exercise at Chebarkul, Russia. Pakistan and China were among other participants.

However, it does not mean the two nuclear-armed countries, which have fought four wars against each other and have a running dispute in Jammu and Kashmir, have turned “friends”.

Yesterday was India’s turn of hosting the other nations over an evening to showcase its culture. Military commanders leading each of the countries, including those of

out meal and some music followed, which led to impromptu dancing by the troops of all countries and some unusual images have emerged of the armies of India and Pakistan for whom this was the first-ever joint military exercise.

Indian and Pakistan soldiers have operated together in the past on UN missions. The exercise, ‘Peace Mission 2018’, was under the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and it culminated last night.

Three astronauts will spend 5-7 days in space as Gaganyaan Mission goes on The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be ready to send the country’s first astronauts to space in forty months time; the launch will take 16 minutes and three astronauts will spend 5-7 days in space before re-entry.

Detailing the space agency’s plans after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Gaganyaan Mission on August 15, ISRO Chairman K Sivan Tuesday said that he was confident of meeting the Prime Minister’s target of sending humans to space.

Sivan also said that ISRO is in constant touch with Air Force pilot Rakesh Sharma, who is the only Indian citizen who has travelled to space, as part of the Soviet Union’s ‘Intercosmos’ programme in 1984. “We are constantly in touch with Rakesh Sharma.

We are calling and getting his advice and experience and it is very useful,” Sivan said.

According to ISRO, the agency has prioritised selecting astronauts. “Right now is the time

to select astronauts. For the first mission, the preference will be for pilots but the selection and training process will be done jointly by the Indian Air Force and ISRO,” he said.

“The astronauts will remain in space for a week and will do microgravity experiments.”

Sivan also said that two unmanned Gaganyaan missions will be undertaken prior to sending humans (in 30 months time, and then 36 months), and the entire cost of the mission will be less than Rs 10,000 crore.

“The estimated cost is less than Rs10,000 crore, and totally indigenous, very costeffective even by Indian standards. From international standards, it is unbelievable,” said Minister of State in-charge of Department of Science, Jitendra Singh.

Sivan explained that the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) MkIII, which has the necessary payload capability for this mission will be used to

Goa Chief Minister Parrikar to fly to USA for treatment Manohar Parrikar, currently admitted to a private hospital in Mumbai, would fly to the US for further medical treatment as he has developed “some complications”, state Assembly Speaker Pramod Sawant said.

“Some complications have developed due to which Parrikar, 62, is going to the US for treatment. His condition is stable and we need not worry,” Sawant told reporters in Panaji. He said the Chief Minister was expected to be back in Goa within a week.

The CM underwent treatment in the US for three months earlier this year for a pancreatic ailment and returned in June.

He went there again for a follow-up earlier this month. He was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai for a review health checkup on August 23, a day after he returned from the US, and was scheduled to return to Goa today. A senior official in the CMO said Parrikar would leave for the US from Mumbai in a flight later.

Rs730-cr grant for Narmada project The Centre has sanctioned a grant of Rs730 crore and soft loan of Rs1,484 crore at six per cent interest for the Sardar Sarovar dam project on the Narmada river in Gujarat.

Deputy CM Nitin Patel, who described the aid as “Janmasthami gift”, said the funds had brightened the prospects of the state’s aim to

entirely complete the canal network by the end of next year. He said the soft loan carry a moratorium of two years and repayable in 15 years.

Till March, 21,000 km of canals remained to be constructed out of the 71,000-odd total canal network.

Man commits suicide after killing wife and 2 daughters In a bizarre incident, a man from Lakhnaur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mau district allegedly killed his wife and two daughters and later informed police about the same before he is believed to have committed suicide.

Following a domestic dispute, the man, named Lakshmi Shankar Maurya, strangled his wife, Dimple, and killed his two daughters by drowning them in a tub, the police said.

“At 3:38 pm on Wednesday, Lakshmi called police and informed that he has killed his wife Dimple and their two daughters. Lakshmi added that he is going to commit suicide.

When a police team reached the crime scene, they found the three dead bodies. Their neighbours informed that Lakshmi has left the house,” said Assistant Superintendent of Police Shailendra Kumar Srivastava.

“Following that, the cyber cell traced his phone in Turtipar. When the police visited the site, they were informed by an eyewitness that a man came, left his motorcycle and phone, and jumped in the Ghaghara river. Till now, we have not found his dead body and the search operation is on,” Srivastava added.

99.3% of demonetised money returns to RBI: report Almost all of the demonetised currency notes have been counted and accounted for by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the central bank said in its annual report for the year 2017-18 on Wednesday.

According to the report, Rs 15.31 lakh crore worth currency notes have now been returned, since November 8, 2016. This represents about 99.3 percent of the total currency notes which went out of circulation on a single day. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominated currency notes, the total value of these high value currency

notes in circulation was Rs 15.45 lakh crore.

At the time of demonetisation, it was felt that a significant amount of the demonetised currency would not return to the system.

This would, in effect, imply that some part of the stock of unaccounted for money (black money) would be extinguished. Contrary to that expectation, most of the demonetised currency returned to the system.

The RBI had first put out this data in its annual report last year. However, at the time it had put in a caveat to say that the currency returned still needed to go through a final round of checks.

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Sunil Jakhar ‘indicts’ Sukhbir Badal A day after the ruling party targeted the Akali Dal in Vidhan Sabha over their alleged complicity in sacrilege cases, the PPCC came out with a “chargesheet” against SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal over his alleged acts of omission, commission and collusion in the sacrilege incidents that preceded police firing in Behbal Kalan in 2015. Leading the charge, PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar accompanied by Cabinet Ministers Sukhjinder Randhawa and Tript Rajinder Bajwa and MLAs Kushaldeep Dhillon, Parminder Pinki, Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Kulbir Zira and Barinderjit Singh Pahra dared the Akali Dal chief to prove that he did not collude with the Dera The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has constituted a nodal agency to deal with the complaints of women deserted by NRI spouses, said acting president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) Harmeet Singh Kalka. This was disclosed by

2 pro-Khalistani charged with attack in USA Two pro-Khalistan campaigners, Sukhwinder Singh & Gurdeep Singh, have been charged by California’s Sutter County Sherriff ’s office with attack on DSGMC chief Manjit Singh GK during his visit to a gurdwara at Yuba City in California on August 25.

The Sikhs For Justice, in a statement, said the charges were not justified and accused Puneet Chandhok of instigating the attacks.

SFJ legal attorney Pannun said they would defend these two campaigners charged with offence of battery in court of law.

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Manjit Singh GK was attacked in California allegedly by pro-Khalistan individuals, during which one of his associates was injured.

Singh, who had travelled to California following a visit to New York, said the purpose of his visit was to hold discussions among Sikhs about the 550th birthday anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, to be commemorated next year.

This is the second attack on the SAD leader.

He was earlier attacked in New York.

Singh was visiting the main gurdwara in Yuba City, California, he said, adding that a group of 30-35 people supporting the ‘Khalistan 2020 referendum’ attacked him.

He said one of his associates was hospitalised.

Auto-rikshaw driver charged with raping tourist Auto driver charged by the court.

Baldev Singh, in a three-year-old rape case of a tourist from USA. The charges have been framed under Sections 328, 342, 366, 376, 392 and 34 of the IPC. The prosecution had moved an application almost six months ago to allow the victim to record her statement and conduct the test identification parade via videoconferencing.

In January 2015, the victim came to India on a tourist visa. In March, she reached Chandigarh in a bus from Rishikesh. She reached Chandigarh at night and had planned to take a bus to Delhi the next day to board her flight to France. However, rikshawa driver, who had promised to find her a good hotel room, took her to a friend’s room in Kharar, where she was allegedly raped. The second accused in the case, Jaswinder Singh aka Lucky, is yet to be arrested.

Sacha Sauda for vote politics. Jakhar said: “The people of Punjab want to know the name of the person who directed the DGP to open fire at peaceful protesters in Behbal Kalan or the DGP did it on his own.” Referring to the findings of the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission, Jakhar said being the Home Minister it was the duty of Sukhbir to maintain law and order in the state. He rather allowed the law and order situation to deteriorate.

Claiming that the Akali Dal was following in the footsteps of his alliance partner BJP, which was “indulging in polarisation of votes”, he said on the demand of people, the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission report would be translated into Punjabi.

Protests against Badals, SGPC day after probe report tabled As a fallout of the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission’s report pointing out the involvement of the SAD in sacrilege cases and firing at Behbal Kalan claiming two lives, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal had to skip her proposed Tarn Taran visit at the eleventh hour to avoid the wrath of the protesting Sikh organisations on Wednesday.

In Amritsar, SAD (Amritsar) activists burnt the effigies with photos of former CM Parkash Singh Badal, SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal and former jathedar Giani Gurmukh Singh at the Bhandari Bridge in Amritsar in the evening. Harsimrat and her

Centre forms panel to deal with NRI wife-deserters the MEA in a written communication to the DSGMC that had appealed to the government in March for formation of a committee or special investigation team for the deportation of NRI husbands who abandoned their wives,

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he said. The DSGMC had also appealed to the government for the issuance of lookout circulars and revoking of passports of such husbands, Kalka said.

In a letter to DSGMC president Manjit Singh (GK), the MEA informed, “An expert

maternal family members regularly attend the religious programme scheduled for Wednesday at Musse village in Tarn Taran conducted by Sant Gopal Singh of Gilwali village (Amritsar). Holding cow dung filled in polythene bags, black flags and antiSAD placards, activists of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee and various other organisations under the tutelage of Manjit Singh Chabal and Tarlochan Singh Sohal assembled at the Chabal-Khem Karan road to intercept the minister’s cavalcade. “A series of sacrilege incidents occurred during the SAD regime. committee was set up to examine the NRI marital issues and legal challenges. As recommended by the expert committee, an integrated nodal agency has been constituted to provide a single-window timely solution to the problems of aggrieved women deserted by NRI spouses.”

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India set to stress on RCEP in Singapore on Thursday after PMO nod India is set to stress its commitment to the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) pact at a crucial trade ministers meet beginning Thursday in Singapore, though a final call on the issue will be taken by the Prime Minister’s Office.

Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu, who skipped the last such meeting, will attend the August 30-31 event. “While he is set to assuage the concerns of other nations on India’s commitment to the pact, we will stick to our position on differential tariff cuts that single out China,” a senior commerce department official said.

The future of the mega trade bloc, under planning since 2012, has been thrown into confusion since July when a large number of ministries in India opposed the talks in

the face of growing opposition to the deal from domestic industry. Disagreement among ministries had led to the government reportedly setting up a four-member group of ministers headed by Prabhu to advise the Prime Minister on whether to continue with or withdraw from the 16-member RCEP negotiations. No date has been set for the next meeting of ministers but the government hopes to clear the confusion on RCEP by November, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Singapore for the Asean summit, a senior official said. Despite other ministries and stakeholders voicing concern on the RCEP, the commerce ministry will continue to bat for it, citing the advanced stage of negotiations and the expected benefits for India’s services exports, sources said.

Indian Water Commission arrives in Pakistan to hold talks on Indus Waters Treaty India and Pakistan will hold crucial talks over various aspects of the Indus Waters Treaty in Lahore. A nine-member delegation of the Indian Water Commission arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday This will be the first engagement between the two nations since Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan took office on August 18. Muhammad Zafarullah Khan said “The fact that water commissioners are meeting was long overdue. There’s a growing water crisis, it isn’t just a Pakistan-India specific issue, it’s a regional issue. We’re in a semi-arid zone & in days to come we’ll all get affected.”

Pakistan Water Commissioner Syed Mehr Ali Shah and additional commissioner Sheraz Jamil received the nine-member Indian delegation led by Water Commissioner PK Saxena on its arrival via the Wagah border.

Last meeting of the Pakistan-India Permanent Indus Commission was held in New Delhi in March during which both the sides had shared details of the water flow and the quantum of water being used under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. India and Pakistan signed the treaty in 1960 after nine years of negotiations, with the World Bank being a signatory. The treaty sets out a mechanism for cooperation and information exchange between the two countries regarding their use of the rivers.

However, there have been disagreements and differences between India and Pakistan over the treaty. Pakistan has raised objections on 1000MW Pakal Dul and 48MW Lower Kalnai hydroelectric projects on River Chenab and a detailed discussion will be held during the talks.

Indian farmers angry over stray cows raiding their crops Herds of cows abandoned by dairy farmers because of anti-slaughter laws are causing chaos in the Uttar Pradesh countryside By day, Munidev Tyagi is a farmer, growing rice, maize, lentils and sorghum.

By night, he turns watchman, guarding his fields in Sahibpur village in Uttar Pradesh against the stray cows that trample and maraud on his fields, eating his precious crops.

He is not a happy man. “I don’t get more than a couple of hours sleep. The last few crops were badly damaged. It’s a huge problem. I ward them off with my son’s cricket bat but they keep coming back,” said Tyagi.

The stray cows, numbering hundreds, belong to dairy farmers in the area. Once they cease to give milk, farmers can’t afford to keep feeding them. Previously, they used to sell unproductive cows to the local abattoir for a small sum of money. But now, with the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh aggressively enforcing anti-cow slaughter laws, the situation is very different.

The BJP has closed down the small butcher’s shops (mainly Muslimowned) that used to dot the countryside.

In addition, it has mobilised its supporters: bands of right-wing Hindu “gau rakshaks” or cow vigilantes who patrol the countryside like private militias, ready to rain violence on anyone selling or buying a cow for slaughter.

On patrol with the vigilantes who keep India’s cows sacred.

Having stoked Hindu passions over the cow to come to power, the Narendra Modi government effectively legitimised cow vigilantes who have lynched Muslims and Dalits, who they believe are slaughtering cows.

Human Rights Watch reported that in the two years up to April 2017 at least 10 Muslims, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed during mob attacks related to the campaign against beef consumption.

Maharashtra’s revised farm loan waiver norms to cost additional Rs 500 crore The Maharashtra government’s revised farm loan waiver norms, which will increase the number of beneficiaries, will cost the state an additional Rs 500 crore, an official said today.

The state government expanded the scope of the loan waiver scheme last month by extending its benefits to every member of the farmer’s family in case of them having separate loan accounts.

The state government has already spent Rs 15,882 crore for the implementation of its ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Shetkari Sanman Yojana’, designed for crop loan waiver, which was announced in June last year.

The government had then pegged the total loan waiver amount at around Rs 34,000 crore.

Around 58 lakh farmers are currently covered under the scheme, the state government said

during the Maharashtra Assembly’s monsoon session held last month.

Earlier, the state government had considered the farmer’s family as one unit, eligible to claim waiver of Rs 1.50 lakh agricultural debt.

However, it had left those families dissatisfied where there were multiple people having outstanding loans, a state government official said. “We want to address this unrest among farmers, so norms for loan waiver implementation have been changed. But going by our assessment, the additional burden would not be more than Rs 500 crore,” the official said.

“After the revised norms, the total number of farmers who would benefit from the loan waiver scheme would not be more than 65 lakh,” he added.

Form JPC, let the truth be out: Rahul Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took to Twitter to revert to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s defence of the Rafale deal and reiterated the party’s demand to set up a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to probe the matter.

In a crisp message, Gandhi said: “Mr Jaitley, thanks for bringing the nation’s attention back to the GREAT #RAFALE ROBBERY!

How about a Joint Parliamentary Committee to sort it out? Problem is, your Supreme Leader is protecting his friend, so this may be inconvenient. Do check & revert in 24 hrs.

We’re waiting.” Earlier, the Congress officially attacked the BJP for deliberately fielding Jaitley on the Rafale matter to deflect nation’s attention from the “demonetisation failure” of the government.

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Myanmar terms UN report on Rohingya genocide as ‘false allegations’ Myanmar flately rejects a UN report on Rohingya genocide that calls for top Myanmar army generals to be prosecuted for the genocide, saying the international community was making “false allegations”.

The UN report marked the first time the organization has explicitly called for Myanmar officials to face genocide charges over a brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims last year.

“Our stance is clear and I want to say sharply that we don’t accept any resolutions conducted by the Human Rights Council,” the main government spokesman, Zaw Htay, said in an interview published in state media.

The fact-finding mission on Myanmar was established in March 2017 by the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Myanmar did not allow U.N investigators to enter the country, Zaw Htay said, adding: “That’s why we don’t agree and accept any resolutions

made by the Human Rights Council”.

He said the country has “zero tolerance to any human rights violation” and had set up a Commission of Enquiry to respond to “false allegations” made by the U.N. and “other international communities”.

The government earlier this year set up a panel comprised of two Myanmar and two international members – Filipino diplomat Rosario Manalo and Kenzo Oshima, Japan’s former ambassador to the U.N. - to investigate human rights abuses.

Myanmar has denied most of the allegations, saying the military responded to a legitimate threat from Rohingya militants, who attacked police posts across the western Rakhine state.

“If there is any case against human rights, just give us strong evidence, record and date so that we can take legal action against those who break the rules and regulations,” Zaw Htay said.

Sri Lanka’s unity govt should resign after defeat of delimitation report: Rajapaksa Sri Lanka’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa today said President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should part their ways after some members of the ruling alliance joined the opposition to defeat a report on the delimitation of electorates in provincial councils.

The Delimitation Commission Report on Provincial Councils was defeated in Parliament last week after some members of Sirisena’s Freedom Party joined Rajapaksa’s joint opposition.

Sirisena’s Freedom Party and Wickremesinghe’s United National Party

(UNP) are in the unity government.

The UNP, SLFP-Maithri Faction, Joint Opposition and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) voted against the report rejecting the holding of provincial council elections under the mixed electoral system.

Either the president must leave the government or the prime minister must leave the government. I think it is the prime minister’s responsibility because he was the one who engineered the defeat of the report presented by the president,” Rajapaksa said.

The passage of the report was required to hold

Woman journalist hacked to death in Bangladesh A woman journalist of a television channel in Bangladesh has been hacked to death with a sharp-edged weapon by some unidentified assailants at her home, media reports said on Wednesday.

Subarna Nodi, 32, was a correspondent of private news channel Ananda TV and also worked for the Daily Jagroto Bangla newspaper, bdnews24.com reported.

She lived in Radhanagar area of Pabna district, some 150 kms from here.

Suborna, who is survived by a nine-

year-old daughter, was awaiting divorce from her husband, the report said.

The assailants, said to be around 10 to 12, came riding motorcycles and rang the doorbell of her house at around 10:45 PM yesterday, it said.

When she answered the door, they indiscriminately hacked her and fled the spot, Pabna additional superintendent of police Ibne Mizan said.

The assailants used a sharp-edged weapon to attack her, police said.

US strike kills Islamic State commander in Afghanistan A US strike over the weekend killed a senior Islamic State commander in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan and US officials said on Monday.

The strike in Nangarhar province killed Abu Sayeed Orakzai, a senior leader in the extremist group, according to Shah Hussain Martazawi, deputy spokesman for the Afghan presidency.

He said the operation showed the government’s “determination to fight terrorism.”

Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, said American forces launched a counter-terrorism strike in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday that targeted a “senior

leader of a designated terrorist organization.”

He did not provide further details.

“These efforts target the real enemies of Afghanistan, the same enemies who threaten America,” he said.

Orakzai, who also known as Abu Saad Erhabi, was the head of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters. Erhabi was killed alongside nine other members of the terrorist group in the attack, the official said.

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A deadly plane crash at Nepal’s international airport was the fault of the pilot, who had been “extremely upset” and chainsmoked and wept in the cockpit during the flight, an investigation report said.

The US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka to the Nepali capital in March crashed on landing in Kathmandu and caught fire, killing 51 of the 71 people on board, in the Himalayan nation’s worst aviation disaster for 26 years.

Parts of a draft report by a Nepali

government-appointed panel, seen by Reuters on Monday, said the captain, Abid Sultan, had been “extremely upset and hurt” by a female colleague who raised questions about his reputation as an instructor in the airline.

“He was very much under stress due to this particular issue,” the report said.

“This mistrust and stress led him to continuously smoke in the cockpit and also suffer an emotional breakdown several times during the flight,” it said.

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Staff Sergeant pleads not guilty to 32 counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception The General Court Martial of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces will hear the case against one of its staff sergeants, who is charged with obtaining financial advantage by deception.

Staff Sergeant Iowane Naivalurua Tulele, yesterday appeared before the president of the Court Martial, Commander Netani Sukanaivalu, Judge Advocate LieutenantColonel Jiten Singh, and panel members Lieutenant-Commander Enele Ma’afu, Lieutenant-Commander Jeke Vakararawa, Major Valu Raumakita and Lieutenant-Colonel Jone Tavainavesi. He pleaded not guilty to

32 counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception and is represented by private lawyer Filimoni Vosarogo. It is alleged that between October 8, 2015 and February 11, 2016 at Berkley Crescent in Suva by a deception of making deductions from 32 RFMF personnel the accused dishonestly obtained a financial advantage of $58,230 from the RFMF. Initially the accused was charged with 38 counts, however after discussions six of those charges were withdrawn by RFMF prosecutor Captain Aisea Paka.

Canadian teen wins swimming championship in Fiji Noah Cumby kept going faster in Fiji and eventually all that speed got him to the podium. The 18-year-old from St. John’s delivered a blistering freestyle anchor leg to help Canada claim a bronze medal men’s 4x100 medley relay, the final event at the 2018 Pan Pacific Junior swimming championships In Suva, Fiji.

A member of Swim Canada’s national team identification squad, Cumby swam a personal best and Newfoundland and Labrador provincial record of 50.71 seconds in his 100-metre freestyle leg. It represented continued improvement for the Holy Heart graduate and St. John’s Legends product, who had put in a time of 50.78 as part of the Canadian 4x100 freestyle relay team that had ended up short he had delivered a time of 51.47 in the preliminary heat for men’s 100 free. The latter was good enough to earn Cumby his first international second swim.

He had a 51.74 in the 100 free B final, finishing 16th overall. Cumby swam in three other events at the Fiji meet, which

featured competitors from countries in, or bordering on, the Pacific Ocean, which meant swimming powerhouses such as the United States, Australia, China and Japan were well represented.

He was 17th in the 200 freestyle with a time of one minute and 54.94 seconds.

C u m b y improved on that as part of one of the Canadian entries in the 4x200 freestyle relay competition, posting a bestever time of 1:53.61.

In the 50-metre freestyle, he was 20th overall with a clocking of 23.87 seconds.

It all represented a solid start to an international career for Cumby, who is part of the development program designed to produce Canadian relay teams for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

It’s also a fine springboard into his endeavours as a varsity collegiate athlete; Cumby now heads in Fort Worth and Texas Christian University, where he will operate on an NCAA athletic scholarship.

No reason to investigate Grace Road Grace Road Group of Companies will not be investigated — at this stage — because none of its employees have violated Fiji’s laws.

Permanent secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office Yogesh Karan said Government had also not heard from the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), therefore there was no reason for the company or its workers to be investigated. “We have not received any directive from Interpol

regarding any of the Grace Road workers, none of them are on any international watch list, nor have they broken any of our laws,” he said in response to questions from this newspaper. “There have been allegations made, but we have done our checks and there is no reason for them to be investigated as such. “In fact, 95 per cent of them came to Fiji between 2013 and 2015 and there have been no issues.”

4.8 magnitude earthquake felt in parts of the Fiji region There was an earthquake in the Fiji region soon after 1pm today.

The Mineral Resources Department has confirmed that there is no threat of a tsunami.

It says that the 4.8 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 50.7km

occurred 11km from Yadua Island which is West of Nabouwalu.

Fijivillage received calls from Labasa, Lautoka and Suva City about buildings shaking.

However no damage has been reported.

We will be there with our candidate for president but we do not agree with the process - Ro Teimumu The Leader of Opposition Ro Teimumu Kepa has now confirmed that the SODELPA Parliamentary Caucus has been having consultations and will be in parliament with their candidate for the country’s President tomorrow.

However Ro Teimumu says the opposition expresses its gross disappointment and deep concern on fast tracking of the process to appoint the next President of Fiji when Fiji has time until October of this year to do that.

Ro Teimumu says the opposition sees no warranted reason to rush the process and

strongly believe there needs to be consensus building on the matter given the President is the head of the state symbolizing the unity of the nation and also the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

The Leader of Opposition further says that the opposition is also of the view that following the declaration made by the Fiji Court of Appeal in April, 2009 that the 1997 Constitution, is still the supreme law of Fiji and the Great Council of Chiefs must have the right to choose the Head of State.

Fire damages Vunimoli Mosque in Labasa Police and Fire Authority officers working to determine the cause of a fire that partially destroyed a mosque in Vunimoli, Labasa this evening. Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro

confirmed the joint operation. “The adjacent building to the mosque were also destroyed,” Ms Naisoro said. “We are working with NFA to determine the cause of fire.”

Stop Cutting Trees, Grace Road Ordered

Man collapses and dies in bus The body of a man was escorted to the CWM hospital morgue this morning by police officers from the Samabula Police Station.

Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro confirmed this saying the man who is in his 40s collapsed and died in a bus heading

towards Samabula in the last hour.

Ms Naisoro said attempts made to revive the man by other passengers were futile.

She said it was highly likely that the man is alleged to have suffered a heart attack and not foul play.

Grace Road Group has been ordered by the Ministry for Environment Permanent Secretary Joshua Wycliffe to stop cutting down the Baka trees which have long been a landmark feature of Navua. The incident was brought to Mr Wycliffe’s attention over the weekend whereby he immediately alerted rural health inspectors. “I woke up to that news on Saturday morning and immediately called our rural health inspectors,” Mr

Wycliffe said. Mr Wycliffe said they worked with the Ministry of Health and Police to ensure that any further cutting of the Baka tress was immediately stopped. He said a prohibition notice was issued to management staff of Grace Road Group on Monday by the Director of Environment who met with the group along with two officers of the Environment Impact Assessment Unit.

PAKISTAN

Saturday, September 1, 2018 Prime Minister Imran Prime Minister to skip UN general Khan will skip next month’s Shah Mehmood UN general assembly session to focus his Qureshi said on attention on the country’s economy, said Tuesday evening. foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will There was a debate who will be heading the delegation at 73rd in Pakistan whether UN General Assembly session set to open on the new prime September 18. minister would attend “No, the prime minister is not going. I will the UN session or stay lead Pakistani delegation,” foreign minister home as part of his

assembly session to focus on the economy austerity drive and focus on economic issues.

“The prime minister of Pakistan thinks that the present situation in country needs attention,” Qureshi

Islamists rally against anti-Islamic cartoons Tehreek-i-Labaik, a hard-line Islamist group that helped organized the protests. Thousands of Islamists launched a march towards Islamabad to protest a far-right Dutch lawmaker’s plans to hold Islamic cartoon contest later this year. Newly elected government has denounced the contest, calling it an attempt to defame Islam. Physical depictions of God or the prophet, even positive ones, are forbidden in Islam and considered offensive. The protest was organized by Islamist groups that made surprising gains in July elections. An estimated 10,000 protesters took part in the march, chanting “we will die to protect the honor of the prophet.” Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only countries in the world that have never stopped transmission of the wild poliovirus. Pakistan’s new prime minister faces

challenge to eradicate polio The protesters refused demands from authorities to confine their rally to the eastern city of Lahore, where it began. They are expected to reach Islamabad on Thursday.

The cartoon contest is being organized by Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch lawmaker with a history of incendiary remarks about Islam. The Dutch government has distanced itself from the event while saying it is committed to free speech.

Pakistan’s new prime minister, Imran Khan, has largely sided with the protesters, vowing to take the matter to the United Nations. His government has summoned the Dutch ambassador to lodge a formal protest, but has so far dismissed calls to expel the envoy.

Tehreek-i-Labaik, a hard-line Islamist group that helped organized the protests.

3 candidates come forward in presidential race In Presidential elections due to be hled on September 4, the oppositions parties are coming forward with their two different candidates against ruling party PTI’s candidate Dr Arif Alvi. Peoples Party’s Aitzaz Ahsan & JUI-F’s chief Maulana FazluRehman came forward as two opposite candidates, they will challenge Dr Arif Alvi in Presidential elections to be hled on September 4.

Election Commission of Pakistan announced the presidential election for September 4, five days earlirer than expiry term of President Mamnoon Hussain. The failure of the opposition

parties to forward with joint candidate virtually provide a walkover to the ruling party’s Arif Alvi for the president’s office, the report said.

While PPP’s Aitzaz Ahsan filed his papers for the presidential election hours before the 12noon deadline, a JUI-F spokesperson claimed that Maulana FazluRehman would be the single nominee of the opposition parties, with the exception of the PPP. JUI-F chief submits his nomination papers shortly as the joint candidate from PML-N, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), Awami National Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party & National Party.

told the media.

He said Khan wants to focus on his new government, sworn in earlier this month, and a looming currency crisis which threatens to derail the fast-growing economy.

Pakistan’s economy expanded at 5.8 percent in the last fiscal year, its quickest pace in 13 years, but the rupee currency has been devalued four times since December. Interest rates have been raised three times.

Suprem Court rejects affidavits submitted by Zardari & Musharraf, seeking their financial details Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the affidavits submitted by former presidents Asif Ali Zardari and Pervez Musharraf regarding their assets and ordered them to submit within three weeks the details of properties and bank accounts owned by them in the past 10 years.

A three-member bench hearing a petition regarding the 2007 National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), passed by Musharraf in 2007, also directed the two leaders to disclose the details of assets of their spouses and children both in Pakistan as well as abroad,

Dawn reported. The bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar ordered Zardari, Musharraf and former attorney general Malik Mohammad Qayyum to submit complete details of their assets and bank accounts held inside and outside the country in the past 10 years within three weeks, the paper said. Zardari, 63, served as the 11th President of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013 while Musharraf, 75, took power in 1999 by toppling the government of then prime minister Nawaz Sharif and ruled until 2008 when he was forced to step down.

Interpol reject arrest request for Pervaiz Musharraf Government of Pakistan today said that Interpol has rejected its request to arrest the former military dictator as it does not want to interfere in the cases of political nature.

The government’s reply came as the tribunal resumed hearing in the treason case against Dubai-based former president for suspending the Constitution in 2007 by imposing emergency.

Formern President Pervez Musharraf, 75, has repeatedly refused to return to Pakistan citing security threats.

Pakistan’s Interior Ministry in its reply on efforts to bring General Musharraf back to the country informed the court that a letter was written to Interpol to issue Red Warrant. But it

returned the letter by refusing to interfere in cases of political nature. On August 20, the special court in Islamabad had summoned the interior secretary over non-arrest of General Musharraf in the case despite issuance of non-bailable warrants against him.

“The government had approached Interpol to bring back Musharraf, however, they rejected the request,” the interior secretary said.

“Interpol officials had said that the high treason case does fall under their legal ambit,” he added.

Further, Justice Yawar Ali questioned if General Musharraf ’s statement in the case can be recorded via Skype. “Can the investigation move forward without the statement in the case?” he asked.

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The Trump administration on Thursday sided with Asian-American students suing Harvard University over the Ivy League school’s consideration of race in its admissions policy. The lawsuit, filed by Students For Fair Admission on behalf of the students, argues that Harvard discriminates against AsianAmerican applicants.

The justice department said in a court filing that the school has failed to demonstrate that it does not discriminate on the basis of race. Harvard didn’t respond to a request for comment, but the school has disputed the claims in previous filings.

The Supreme Court permits colleges and universities to consider race in admissions decisions, but says it must be done in a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity and should be limited in time. Universities also bear the burden of showing why their consideration of race is appropriate.

But in Harvard’s case, justice department officials said, the varsity hasn’t explained how it uses race in admissions and has not adopted meaningful criteria to limit the use of race. Attorney general Jeff Sessions said, “No American should be denied admission to school because of their race.”

9 distressed Indian construction workers rescued in Malaysia Nine construction workers from West Bengal have been rescued in Malaysia who were stuck there, Congress MP Mausam Noor said on Thursday.

The nine men had gone to the country between May and June with help of an agent but did not receive benefits as per the contract. Their passports were also taken, Noor, the Lok Sabha MP of Malda Uttar constituency said in a statement.

The Indian High Commission to Malaysia today informed Noor that the workers have been rescued, the statement said.

The high commission also informed Noor that it was arranging for sending the workers back home.

The incident came to light after the workers contacted their family members here, who sought help from Noor.

He informed the Indian High Commission to Malaysia about their condition on August 28 following which it started the rescue work, the statement said. In am email today, the high commission said they have been rescued and arrangements are being made to send them back to Malda, it said.

NRI wife-killer to be deported to Indian jail from UK A non-resident Indian (NRI) serving a jail term in a UK jail for killing his wife over eight years ago is to be deported to India to serve the remainder of his murder sentence in Punjab.

Harpreet Aulakh was sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in London in December 2010 for ordering the murder of his wife, Geeta Aulakh, after she asked for a divorce.

The 40-year-old will be deported under the India-UK Repatriation of Prisoners Act,

the BBC reported on Monday.

“All arrangements are in place. According to the plan, the UK authorities will bring him to Delhi from where a team of Punjab police officers will bring him to Amritsar,” IPS Sahota, a top prison official in Punjab, was quoted as saying. Inspector general of prisons Roop Kumar said Harpreet, who is from Punjab, had told the UK authorities that he wanted to serve his remaining term in India.

Angry woman gets boyfriend arrested for drunk driving An Indian-origin man in UK has been fined and banned from driving for 17 months after his angry girlfriend called police for drunk driving. A South Asian man Kamaljit Sagoo was out celebrating his 44th birthday with his ‘friend’ on June 18 when the couple got into a fight. He jumped into his car to drive to a nearby store to buy cigarette when she called the police and informed the police that he’s drunk while behind the wheel of his car. “Unusually, he has been reported by his partner for driving while drunk and he was later found by police in the driver’s seat of his car,” prosecutor Lorna Rimell told North

Tyneside Magistrates’ Court in north-east England. “He then failed a roadside breath test,” she said. According to local media reports, Sagoo blew 61 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath when the legal limit in the UK is 35 microgrammes.

He pleaded guilty to one count of drunk driving and also admitted to officers that he had been driving without any insurance.

His lawyer told the court: “It was his birthday and, as things go, it was a very bad birthday for him. He had been out with his partner and there had been an argument and he had gone to get Rizla (cigarette) papers.

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Hari Ravichandran, 42, former chief executive of web hosting company Endurance International Group Holdings and former chief financial officer Waruna Ellawala knowingly provided inflated subscriber figures for the Massachusettsbased online marketing company, the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC) said. Ravichandran, a resident of Boston, had founded Endurance in 1997 and served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer and as a

member of the Board of Directors. The SEC also filed a complaint in US District Court in Massachusetts alleging that former Constant Contact CFO Harpreet Grewal, 51, hid its slowing customer growth from investors and inflated its publicly reported subscriber numbers. Constant Contact became a subsidiary of Endurance after it was acquired by it in 2016. Constant Contact sold email marketing and other online marketing tools to customers primarily through subscription arrangements. SEC said Grewal defrauded Constant Contact’s investors concerning the number of paying customers for the company’s products and services, which was a key metric disclosed by Constant Contact to its investors.

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R.K. Studios for Sale: Rishi Kapoor reveals why they took the decision The entire Kapoor family and Bollywood is emotional about selling the iconic R.K. Studios in Chembur. Rishi Kapoor talks about why they had to take this decision.

The iconic R.K. Studios set in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai, Chembur is up for sale. The Studios was built by the late filmmaker-actor Raj Kapoor, the scion of the Kapoor family. Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, her father Randhir Kapoor and uncle Rishi Kapoor have spoken about this huge “emotional loss”. R.K. Studios was gutted in fire on September 16, 2017, which burnt the living memories of the late Raj Kapoor and films made under that banner.

Talking about the Studios’s sale, Rishi Kapoor spoke to Mumbai Mirror about the strength they had to gather before taking this descision of letting go of their memories. “For a while, we did juggle with the idea of renovating the place with state-of-the-art technology.

However, in reality it isn’t always possible for a phoenix to rise from the ashes. We Kapoors are very emotional lot but then...”

“The investment in rebuilding the Studios would just not have yielded sufficient revenue

to keep it going. Believe me, we had to take the larger picture into account and take a levelheaded decision. Even before the fire, for years R. K. Studios had become a huge white elephant, toting up losses. The few bookings we would get from films, TV serials and ad shoots would expect free paR.K.ing space, air-conditioning and discounts,” told Rishi Kapoor to the publication.

The report also states that the main reason behind selling the Studios is that it is located in Chembur and no longer favoured by the filmmakers, who mostly build their sets at Studios in Andheri and Goregaon’s Rishi Kapoor Film City.

“We brothers are strongly bonded. But who knows about our children and grand-children?

What if differences crop up in the next generation?

The Studios would only end up in litigation as so many industrial and textile estates have. There would be family differences and only lawyers would end up charging heavy sums of fee. Do you think my father would have liked to see his labour of love becoming the subject of courtroom proceedings?” elaborated Rishi Kapoor.

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HOROSCOPE Aries

March 21 - April 20 The focus continues on your sector of career and ambition, and there is good news this week because stirring Mars, your personal planet, turns direct in this zone. This, along with chatty Mercury in your creativity sector, hints that things could soon be a lot easier. In addition, with sobering Saturn turning direct in early

retrogrades is nearly over. You can soon begin to make the kind of progress you’ve been dreaming about for some time.

Taurus

April 21 - May 20 If your travel adventures seem to have been more troublesome than they’re worth over past weeks, things will soon begin to pick up. As Mars forges ahead till Monday, so any frustrations you’ve experienced so far in this regard can now begin to ease. The same goes for any problems with work or studies. And you might need to be more patient for longer to get more of a happiness, the fact that prudent Saturn will turn direct next week can bring you even closer to more positive experiences.

Gemini

May 20 - June 21 With lively Mercury now moving forward in your communication sector and feisty Mars turning direct on Monday in your zone of shared assets, things are gradually beginning to look livelier. While it could still take a few

more good news. Prudent Saturn turns direct next week, and this major player will certainly help you be more productive once it gets back into its stride.

Cancer

June 22 - July 23

If certain relationships seem to have been more of a pain than a pleasure over past weeks and months, things might be about to change. As courageous Mars moves forward in your relationship zone on Monday, you might be more inclined to make a stand. If you’re tired of people putting pressure on you, it won’t hurt to say no and mean it. And

do exactly that.

Leo

June 24 - August 23 It wouldn’t be surprising if you felt quite tired and even drained at times. This might be due to having sobering Saturn and powerful Pluto retrograde in your lifestyle and wellness sector. However, with feisty Mars in this same zone turning direct on Monday, a spark could be ignited this week. You might grow tired of handling so much responsibility by yourself and determine to delegate some of it to others, or at least cut down your workload.

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Scorpio

Oct 23 - Nov 22 Fiery Mars, your co-ruler, turns direct on Monday, so you could begin to feel less restless and more focused. It forges ahead in your communication sector, where sobering Saturn and transformative Pluto continue retrograde. The good news is that cautious Saturn pushes forward next week, and this can really kick-start the positive changes you’ve been hoping to see. For now, though, motivational Mars encourages you to come to grips with any misunderstandings, sort out

Sagitarius Nov 23 - Dec 22

S a l m a n Khan is in Malta for the shoot of Ali Abbas Zafar directorial B h a r a t .

Going by all the updates coming in from the foreign land, it seems the 52-yearold actor is making the most out of his work trip. Apart from the film’s crew, the actor is accompanied by his family including his mother Salma Khan.

On Friday, Salman’s brother-in-law and Bharat’s producer Atul Agnihotri shared a candid click of the actor while he was engrossed in a conversation with his mother. The caption of the photo read, “Ma Ma ki aankhon ka tara @ beingsalmankhan @bharat_thefilm.�

Later, Salman too posted a photo of himself where he is seen enjoying a bath in the waters of Malta. Keeping the caption simple, he only wrote, “#Paani� along with the photo.

Earlier, the Bhaijaan of Bollywood shared videos with mother Salma as he went strolling in the picturesque locales of Malta. The caption of one his videos read, “Yeh bandhan toh .. pyaar ka bandhan hai #Bharat.� He also turned photographer for co-actor Sunil Grover.

Since inquisitive Mercury turned direct in your sector of business and shared assets last week, you might have noticed that those in positions of authority at the bank and elsewhere seem willing to give you more leeway. This positive process continues this week and next week. Proactive Mars turns direct in your personal money zone, and because it’s in the last few degrees of the sector a time to tie up any loose ends.

Capricorn Dec 23 - Jan 20

There is good news this week as dynamic Mars in the last few degrees of your sign turns direct on Monday. If it has seemed like you’ve been slogging through mud over past weeks and months, this phase is now coming to an end. Although it can take Mars a little while to get into its forward stride, you’ll soon feel more

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Jan 21 - Feb 19 With cautious Saturn in your psychological sector aligning with electric Uranus, you might get insights into the root cause of a current problem. Furthermore, with actionoriented Mars now turning direct in this same secluded zone, you could feel much more motivated to do something about it. The

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on sobering Saturn can help to break up complex situations that have been a sticking point for some time.

Pisces Virgo If aspects of your creative or romantic life have seemed stuck lately, things might be about to change for you. Courageous Mars turns direct in

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less and less of a problem.

In addition, with chatty Mercury, your personal planet now forging ahead in a subtler sector of your chart.

Feb 20 - March 20 The desire to get away from it all and forget about your responsibilities could be distracting this week. While there is no problem with taking a well-earned break and doing something exciting, someone might not appreciate you doing so. No matter how strong the yearning,

means that you’ll be able to enjoy yourself much more. On Monday, dynamic Mars turns direct in your social sector.

Bollywood Stars’ Birthdays

AKSHAY KUMAR SEPTEMBER 9

RISHI KAPOOR SEPTEMBER 4

NEHA DUPIA AUGUST 27

PREETI JHANGIANI AUGUST 18

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Dharam paa ji with Sunny, Bobby and Sonakshi

Tony Singh welcomes minister for Immigration in Surrey

Dharmendra appeared in tv show ‘Aap Ki Adalat’ during conversation with host Rajat Sharma, he spoke about his forthcoming film Yamla Pagla Deewana 3. For the third instalment of the series, the veteran actor has reunited with his former co-stars Rekha and Shatrughan Sinha for a rehashed version of Rafta Rafta Dekho Aankh Meri Ladi Hai. While talking about the reunion, Dharmendra said

Ever since the trailer of Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se dropped, movie buffs were excited to listen to the Rafta Rafta Medley from the movie. Now that the more than five-minute long video is out, we wish it was easy on the eyes as it was on the ears.

Teesri Manzil. The ever so graceful Rekha joins the rendition on her chartbuster “Salaam-E-Ishq” but we miss her e f f e r v e s c e nt c h a r m this time.

We get star struck as Dharmendra, Rekha, Sunny Deol, Salman, Bobby Deol and Sonakshi come in the same frame Dharmendra share a moment in tsong ‘Rafta Rafta’ on “Main Jat from Y’amla Pagla Deewana Phir Se’ Yamla Pagla Deewana”. With that they love him and can’t ignore him. The so much chaos on screen, it gets difficult actor also said that he is grateful to all of them to enjoy this rendition by Vishal Mishra. including Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha.

Minister for Immigration Refugees & Citizenship Ahmed Hussen (middle) and MP Randeep Sarai (left) had visit to Fruiticana offices in Surrey to express gratitude to Tony Singh (right) founder & president of Fruiticana for supporting the community.

Alia passionate about her film career was seen in the most challenging, sometimes deglamourised avatars.

What attracts her about such roles? “I want to keep pushing myself with every role that I play. To strike a balance between commercial and brave films has always been a priority. I make it a point to not let pressure influence my choice of roles.

An inhibition is always present in every actor’s mind when they take up a challenging role, but the focus is always to give it our best shot and that is what we always strive for,” said Alia, who has also done films like Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Kapoor & Sons and Badrinath Ki Dulhania.

Her kitty is currently full with films like Alia shares a moment with Kareena Kapoor Brahmastra opposite Ranbir, multi-starrer Kalank childhood. With time, I’ve pretty much got and Ranveer Singh-starrer Gully Boys. used to it and now it doesn’t really affect While Brahmastra is written and directed me as much. My only focus is to embody characters that can have a strong, positive by Ayan Mukerji and also stars Amitabh impact on the audience,” Alia told IANS. Bachchan, Abhishek Varman directorial The 25-year-old, who made her Bollywood Kalank stars Madhuri Dixit, Sonakshi debut with Karan Johar’s Student of The Sinha, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur Year, has proved her versatility in Bollywood and Sanjay Dutt in lead roles. Gully Boy with films like Raazi, Highway, Udta Punjab is directed by Zoya Akhtar and is based and Dear Zindagi — films in which she on the lives of rappers Vivian Fernandes aka Divine and Naved Shaikh aka Naezy.

Alia Bhatt, who is currently making news not just for her Bollywood projects but also for her link-up rumours with actor Ranbir Kapoor, says coming from a family of popular names, she has seen media attention right from childhood — and such attention doesn’t affect her anymore.

“I grew up in a family of popular talent who have always been in the news. I’ve seen recognition and media attention right from

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Film review

Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se

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ooking back at my thoughts on the second part of Yamla Pagla Deewana in 2013, it struck me that, besides changing a few names here and there, I could copy paste the analysis, sentiment and pain of that experience and it would be equally applicable to Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se. Here are few points to ask?: t Ä&#x2021; F OBNF PG the director: Navaniat Singh directs this third part? t Ä&#x2021; F SVOOJOH time: That one was 155 minutes and this one runs at 147 minutes? t Ä&#x2021; F OBNF PG UIF MFBEJOH MBEZ Kriti Kharbanda takes on the three Deol men in part three? t Ä&#x2021; F SFMBUJPOTIJQT Ä&#x2021; JT UJNF around, the setting is Amritsar. Sunny and Bobby Deol play brothers who run an Ayurvedic dispensary. Dharmendra is their tenant Parmar, who also happens to be a lawyer who enjoys visions of celestial beauties wandering close to him. ? Few good things remain the same: t *G :1% XBT iJODPNQSFIFOTJCMF nonsensical and unfunnyâ&#x20AC;?, five years in between have not lifted the dreariness of

a franchise that is well past its sell-by-date. t Ä&#x2021; FSF JT TUJMM B SFGFSFODF UP iEIBJ kilo ka haathâ&#x20AC;?, which seems mandatory whenever Sunny Deol appears in a film. t -JLF QSFWJPVT QBSUT IFSF UPP UIFSF is a collection of cameos by veteran actors including Asrani and Shatrughan Sinha.

The plot is that a big pharma, represented

by Mr. Marfatia (Mohan Kapoor) and his firm, will use any means â&#x20AC;&#x201C; fair and foul (including theft) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to acquire the secret formula to a cure-all miracle medicine. The formula for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Vajra kavachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; has been handed down to vaid Puran Singh (Sunny Deol).

Simpleton Kaala (Bobby Deol) is happy to

Salman, Akshay highest paid actors Akshay Kumar has emerged as the seventh highest-paid actor in the world by earning USD 40.5 million in 2018, according to Forbes magazine. The Gold actor is closely followed by his contemporary Salman Khan in the ninth place, raking in USD 38.5 million.

Kumar and Khan are the only two Bollywood actors to make it to the top 10 highest-paid actors list, compiled by the publication.

Kumar, who came in 10th last year, upped his game by USD 3 million. Khan stayed at his ninth rank, but with an increase of USD 1.5 million this year. Shah Rukh Khan, who was at the eighth spot on the 2017 list, did not find a place in 2018.

The list has been topped by Hollywood star George Clooney, who scored a career-high pretax paycheque of USD 239 million between June 1, 2017 and June 1, 2018. Clooney was followed by Dwayne Johnson, who banked USD 124 million pretax to rank.

Avengers: Infinity War star Robert Downey Jr, earned USD 81 million to book the third place.

His co-star, Chris Hemsworth came in at number four with USD 64.5 million earnings.

The combined earnings of worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10 highest-paid actors come at a total USD 748.5 million between June 1, 2017, and June 1, 2018, before fees and taxes USD. The figure overshadows the salaries of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highestpaid actresses, who earned a cumulative of USD 186 million in the same scoring period. Scarlett Johansson topped the list with USD 40.5 million - the exact amount pocketed by Kumar in the actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list.

International action star Jackie Chan came in fifth 45.5 million and Will Smith followed in at number six with USD 42 million. Adam Sandler and Infinity War star Chris Evans were in eighth and tenth positions with USD 39.5 million and USD 34 million respectively.

Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s numero uno, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Transformersâ&#x20AC;? actor Mark Wahlberg, did not make it to the list.

sell the formula and get-rich-quick.

But when Puran resists, Marfatia hatches a devious plan to bring him down.

Enter Chikoo (Kharbanda), an ENT doctor in Surat who is so partial to alcohol that one wonders if she is really capable of surgery. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trust her to stick a bandaid on a scratch, leave alone bring a scalpel anywhere close to me. Chikoo arrives in Amritsar to learn about the ancient practice of Ayurveda. Kaala falls in love with her instantly. They bond over a bottle, of course. She returns

home and Kaala is heartbroken.

But then a case court-case related to the patent for Vajra kavach brings the Singhs and their lawyer Parmar to Surat where, coincidence of coincidences, they rent a flat next to Chikoo.

The message â&#x20AC;&#x201D; yes story writer Dheeraj Rattan has built one in â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is that traditional medicines made in India are far superior to Allopathy.

Of the three main male actors, maximum screen time is devoted to Bobby Deol whose default option when attempting to â&#x20AC;&#x153;actâ&#x20AC;? is to â&#x20AC;&#x153;shoutâ&#x20AC;? every line and emotion.

Sunny Deolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Puran is unrealistically saintly, but he has that violent streak and strength with which he can stop a speeding truck, singlehandedly. If you delete the many superfluous scenes from YPD3, you would be left with a 90-minute film, and even that would be 90 minutes too long. In 2013, one wished we had seen the last of Yamla Pagla Deewana. Five years later, the wish remains the same â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just much more fervently.

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E-mail: ads@theasianstar.com government crackdown on money laundering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one step in the right direction and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proactive, instead of reactive. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also seen it implemented with pre-sales on new construction and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a positive measure as well.â&#x20AC;?

He feels investors started hiding behind numbered companies about two years ago when the 15 per cent foreign buyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tax was introduced to keep speculators from leaving homes vacant, so this legislation also gives the province more accurate information to better analyze the market. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Better measures to know who really owns the house when the house transfers to another partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be more of an accountability of a paper trail.â&#x20AC;?

The governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collecting feedback on draft legislation until August 19.

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s is searly to say if it will allow more people to enter the local housing market, but a new public registry identifying property owners has support from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Board President Phil Moore, who represents more than 14,000 realtors and brokers, says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to predict how this will impact sales, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason for investors to hide behind numbered companies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any time that the government places in measures that make people accountable to pay the taxes that are due, when 99 per cent of the citizens are paying their taxes, we certainly endorse those changes.â&#x20AC;? Moore adds the board spent two years consulting with the provincial government on this and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear if proposed changes will make prices come down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really going to be difficult to understand if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to really create more affordable housing. It really depends on how the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to structure this. We really support the government collecting the tax that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re owed.â&#x20AC;? Moore, who has been a realtor since 1989, is expecting the registry to make property transfers more transparent and help the provincial

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Average price of a Canadian home was $481,500 recently, a rise of one per cent in the past year.

July marked the first time this year that average house prices eked out an annual increase, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Wednesday, as the impact of tougher mortgage rules implemented earlier this year is starting to wane.

Stress tests, foreign buyers and higher rates likely to impact housing market in 2018 â&#x20AC;&#x153;This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new stress test on mortgage applicants continues to weigh on home sales, but its effect may be starting to fade slightly in Toronto and nearby markets,â&#x20AC;?

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Developers say Vancouvers housing density plan wont address the missing middle Overhauls to the City of Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bylaws covering laneway homes are part of the municipalityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall strategy to tackle housing affordability, and the changes were approved by Vancouver City Council meeting earlier today with only Green Party councillor

Adrianne Carr opposed. Policy changes will significantly cut down the process time for applications, with an outright process for lager two-storey laneway homes. The process is streamlined and no longer requires an extra conditional design review

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1.3 per cent. But after a big plunge at the start of the year, the monthly sales figure has now ticked up for three months in a row.

For economist Doug Porter with the Bank of Montreal, the housing market numbers released Wednesday paint a picture of what economists call a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goldilocksâ&#x20AC;? market. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main takeaway is that the housing market has ceased to be a major source of concern for policymakers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; neither too hot, nor too cold, at least for now,â&#x20AC;? Porter said. Average prices inched up on an annual basis for the first time since the start of the year.

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Community news South Asian Seniors - How Important is Pap Test, Screening Program for Prostate, Mammography & Colon for seniors to save their lives - By Dr. Gulzar Cheema on September 2nd 2018 (Sunday) from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm at Shanti Niketan Hall.

Vedic Seniors Parivar Center of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey invites South Asian Adults, Senior members and non members also to attend an important Presentation by Dr. Gulzar Cheema a well known Physician in the Community - How Important is Pap Test, Screening Program

for Prostate, Mammography & Colon for seniors to save their lives - on September 2nd 2018 (Sunday) from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm at Shanti Niketan hall of Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple 8321 - 140th street Surrey BC. Dr. Gulzar Cheema will answer questions regarding your health concerns after the presentation. Tea and light snacks will be served to all participants in the end.

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