The Asian Star DIWALI Special November 14 2020 by The Asian Star Newspaper

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‘There are 5 Bidens in Mumbai’: When US President-elect spoke of distant kin in India When US President-elect Joe Biden was in India’s financial capital in 2013, he had told an audience that his distant relatives live in Mumbai. Biden reiterated his claim two years later at an event in Washington, saying there are five Bidens living in Mumbai. With the 77-year-old Democrat set to take oath as the 46th US President in just over two months, nobody in Mumbai has so far turned up to claim that he is Biden’s relative. Decades after he received a letter from someone by the last name of Biden from Mumbai, soon after becoming a senator, Biden learned that his “great, great, great, great, great grandfather” had worked in the East India Company. “There are five Bidens in Mumbai, India,” Continued on page 6

BC feared money-laundering crackdown would hurt provincial revenue, Cullen Commission hears The former commander of an RCMP gambling unit says British Columbia’s solicitor-general told him in 2009 the provincial Liberal government of the day did not want to crack down on organized crime in casinos because it would dampen a massive source of provincial revenue. Retired RCMP officer Fred Pinnock described a 2009 conversation with then-solicitor-general Kash Heed The former commander of an RCMP gambling unit says British Columbia’s solicitor-general told him in 2009 the provincial Liberal government of the day did not want to crack down on organized crime in casinos because it would dampen a massive source of provincial revenue.

BC’s stellar COVID-19 performance diminishing with surge in new cases Through the spring and into late summer, British Columbia’s coronavirus case numbers were the envy of the country. But beginning in earnest in September, B.C.’s COVID-19 test positive case numbers started increasing.

By mid-October they were up significantly, and by November, the province’s sevenday moving average of new daily cases per one million population surpassed Ontario, according to data compiled by the B.C.

Centre for Disease Control. B.C.’s stellar COVID-19 performance diminishing with increase in cases Ontario, along with Quebec, has been a hot spot for COVID cases and deaths in Canada.

Shoppers shrug off pandemic & pollution ahead of India’s biggest festival, Diwali Crowds packed New Delhi markets on Thursday ahead of India’s biggest holiday of the year, shrugging off record coronavirus cases and toxic smog in the capital. Shoppers looking for food and last-minute gifts before the Diwali festival of lights said they were fed up with being cooped up, no matter the deadly threats around them. New Delhi recorded 8,600 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest number since the pandemic started and 85 deaths, and experts said the teeming markets could easily become “super-spreaders”.

BC on track to see 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day if changes not made: Modelling numbers British Columbia could be seeing more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day over the next two weeks if people don’t cut down on contacts now. In the latest modelling numbers, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the cases of COVID-19 are set to double over the next 13 days without significant changes in people’s behaviour. Continued on page 6

India has reported nearly 8.7 million infections, the world’s second-highest caseload behind the United States, and there are fears that a Diwali surge could hit major cities across the country of 1.3 billion. Nearly a week of “hazardous”

level air pollution has only added to health fears. Loudspeaker warnings to wear masks and maintain social distancing serenaded bargain hunters who packed the narrow lanes of Lajpat Nagar market, one of the busiest in the city of 20 million people. Some winced in pain from swabs put up their nose as they took a Covid-19 test at an open-air centre set up in one street. Health experts have warned that crowded markets during Diwali this year could become super-spreaders But university student Harsimran Singh said it was almost like a normal chaotic Diwali.

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OPINION By Jason Clemens and Milagros Palacios The Fraser Institute

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Canada moving towards U.S.-style ‘spend now, pay later’ government

Pulitzer Prize-winning author George Will has repeatedly argued that, contrary to conventional wisdom, there is enormous consensus in Washington, D.C. – borrow today to finance spending and tax cuts but leave the costs (i.e. taxes) to the next generation. There are

increasing signs that Canadians are gravitating to this D.C. consensus, which resulted in the U.S. national debt (held by the public) increasing from $3.4 trillion in 2000 to $16.8 trillion in 2019, pre-recession. Up to 2015 and extending back to at least the mid-1990s, Canadians had a very different consensus – balanced budgets and paying down debt, prioritizing government

spending to live within our means, and competitive taxes. Such consensus led not only to strong government balance sheets but also a comparatively robust economy. A shift occurred in the 2015 election when the Trudeau Liberals were elected on a promise to run deficits for three years to finance increased spending. Of course, that’s not where we’ve ended up. Between 2016-17 and 201920 (pre-recession), the Liberal government increased spending (excluding debt interest costs) by $118.0 billion compared to the baseline 2015 budget of their predecessors, well in excess of Liberal election promises. And even though the Liberals benefitted from $26.1 billion in cumulatively lower debt interest costs, the much higher levels of spending necessitated an additional $86.4 billion in borrowing, with no end in sight to deficits. Simply put, the governing Liberals spent a lot more than planned – and all of it was financed by borrowing. The results from a recent Angus Reid Institute poll on pharmacare underscore this new preference for receiving benefits today but imposing the costs on the next generation. The poll showed 88 per cent support for a national pharmacare program covering all Canadians. Critically, though, the expansive poll only included one question that attached any sense of “cost” to the new program. The poll asked for support if different taxes were increased to pay for the new program. Support for national pharmacare remained strong when the “cost” was attached to a new wealth tax on those earning more than $250,000 or a higher corporate income. For both of these taxes, average Canadians reasonably see someone else paying for the cost of this new program rather than themselves. However, when asked whether they supported national pharmacare if it meant a one percentage point increase in the middle-income tax rate (even though this would be insufficient to pay for such a program), support for national pharmacare plummets to 47 per cent. Our expectation is that support would be even lower if a question linked the real cost of national pharmacare to an increase in the GST.

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Saturday, November 14, 2020 ‘There are 5 Bidens in Mumbai’: When US President-elect spoke of distant kin in India From page 1 Biden, then Vice President, told a Washington audience in 2015 at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of India-US civil nuclear deal. In 2013, when Biden travelled to Mumbai on his maiden vice presidential trip to India, he spoke about this letter he received when he became the senator for the first time several decades ago. In his address to the Bombay Stock Exchange on July 24, 2013, Biden narrated his story of the ‘Biden from Mumbai’.”It’s an honour to be back in India and to be here in Mumbai. Off script for a second here, I was reminded I was elected to the United States Senate when I was a 29-year-old kid back in 1972, and one of the first letters I received and I regret I never followed up on it. “Maybe, some genealogist in audience can follow up for me, but I received a letter from a gentleman named Biden – Biden, my name – from Mumbai, asserting that we were related,” Biden had told the Mumbai audience seven years ago. In his 2015 speech in Washington, Biden had claimed that his “great, great, great, great, great grandfather” George Biden was a Captain in the East India Trading company and after retirement, decided to settle in India and married an Indian woman. Biden had also said someone provided him with the details including the phone numbers of the Bidens in Mumbai. He had informed the audience that he was yet to call his Mumbai kin but was planning to do so. It is not clear if Biden did manage to contact them as the five Bidens he spoke of have not ‘surfaced’ yet.

1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day The growth of the virus continues to be worst in Fraser Health, followed by Vancouver Coastal Health. The other health authorities continue to have moderate growth or the spread of the virus. The City of Surrey has been hardest hit by the virus with 3,993 cases of COVID-19 in the city since the start of the spread. There have been 3,435 cases of the virus in the City of Vancouver. There has been a recent surge in cases of people over the age of 80, according to the modelling numbers, who are at the highest risk of dying from the virus. There are now 35 out of 100,000 British Columbians in that age bracket with the virus. Just four weeks ago the rate was below 10 out of 100,000.

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Young Surrey mom missing with her 3-year-old daughter A Surrey B.C. woman and her three-yearold daughter are missing and their family is concerned about their well-being. Naomi Morrisseau was last seen on Nov. 6 in the 10400-block of 125A Street in Surrey, according to RCMP. They believe she is with her daughter Genesis Reign-Soldat but no one has heard from them since Nov. 7 at approximately 4 p.m. Morrisseau is described as a 26-year-old

Aboriginal woman, about five-feet-four-inches tall, 165 pounds with a medium build and long dark brown hair. Anyone with information about Morrisseau and her daughter 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, quoting file number 2020173993 / 2020-174941.

Shoppers shrug off pandemic & pollution ahead of India’s festival From page 1

“I am not surprised to see the market full,” he said. “We are Indians, we are not afraid of anything.” “People just don’t care,” said Tanisha, a 19-year-old student. “People want to come out.” “I am so bored at home that I am not scared to shop,” she added. While the 128,000 recorded pandemic fatalities in India is among the world’s lowest death rates, experts worry that the number of cases -- currently about 47,000 a day -- will skyrocket in coming weeks. Some say India could see 200,000 new cases

a day during its short winter. “Even in summer, super-spreader events with crowds of people will always pose a big risk of transmission,” said K. Srinath Reddy, head of the Public Health Foundation of India. “But this gets greatly enhanced because of the cold weather as well as the pollution.” “For a variety of reasons, (in winter) the immunity goes down, the viral susceptibility goes up, the virus survival on outside surfaces increases and we now are in great danger of all of these factors joining together,” he added.

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Canada condemns removal of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators Canada’s top diplomat says China is flouting its international obligations with its latest move to quash dissent in Hong Kong. Earlier this week, China’s central government granted Hong Kong’s government special authority to remove members of its Legislative Council who are deemed insufficiently loyal to Beijing because of their support for Hong Kong independence or their refusal to recognize China’s sovereignty over the region. Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing government, led by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, promptly used the new powers to disqualify four prodemocracy legislators who had previously called for foreign governments to impose sanctions on Hong Kong and China.

In response to the removal of their colleagues, Hong Kong’s 15 remaining prodemocracy lawmakers said they would resign in protest, effectively giving pro-Beijing forces free reign in the city’s legislature. Foreign Affairs Minister FrançoisPhilippe Champagne said the removal of the four democratically elected legislators further erodes the autonomy promised to the former British colony when it was handed back to Beijing in 1997. “This decision further narrows Hong Kong’s autonomy and the space for freedom of expression and public participation in governance in Hong Kong,” Champagne said in a written statement on Wednesday.

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Saturday, November 14, 2020 BC NDP adds to majority, BC Greens first off-island seat heads to recount as tally ends It’s official. The BC NDP’s decision to call a snap election has paid off with the party winning 57 seats in the legislature, ushering in a decisive majority government. The final count of hundreds of thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots concluded Sunday, with John Horgan’s New Democrats gaining 16 seats. Elections BC’s official seat count shows the BC Liberals with 28, and the BC Greens with two. A judicial recount has been ordered in one riding, West Vancouver-Sea to Sky, where the incumbent BC Liberal leads by 41 votes. Races that were too close to call in districts that have been longtime BC Liberal strongholds have officially flipped to the NDP, including in Vernon-Monashee where Harwinder Sandhu ousted incumbent Eric Foster who has held that seat since 2009. “It was nail-biting and very exciting at the same time it felt like a rollercoaster. It feels like a historic moment for sure in our own little riding,” she says.

Sandhu won by 424 votes, securing the first victory there for a candidate who is not a BC Liberal since 1996. She says she’s looking forward to getting to work on the issues affecting her community: healthcare, seniors, care, housing affordability, and the economic affects of COVVID-19 on local farmers and industry. “We do have so many issues in our riding and it’s time to put the words and the promises, the policies I’ve shared into action,” she says. The BC Liberals held onto five seats in the Interior, but Sandhu is optimistic she can find common cause that crosses party lines. “I have no concerns or issues working collaboratively with anybody regardless of party. The bottom line is, issues unite us all and we’re all equally passionate to serve our constituents,” she says. While Sandhu was awaiting the results, she spoke with Premier John Horgan. “We spoke last week when he called me because the race was so close and he was calling me to tell me how proud he was. I did mention our key priorities and issues and he was very supportive,” she explains.

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Man convicted of trying to join ISIS granted overnight privileges to visit ski resort with girlfriend An Ottawa man convicted of trying to join ISIS has been granted overnight privileges after telling the Parole Board of Canada he wanted to visit a ski resort with his girlfriend. Carlos Larmond had been required to spend nights at a halfway house following his release from prison last year, but the Parole Board agreed to lift the requirement. In its decision, the Parole Board said Larmond had â&#x20AC;&#x153;developed a new relationship,â&#x20AC;? and was engaged to be married following several visits with the woman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have indicated a desire to spend more time with her on her next visit, and also to perhaps do

some skiing in the mountains this winter,â&#x20AC;? according to a copy of the decision obtained by Global News. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That would mean you would have to travel by bus, and therefore, spend overnight at the ski resort.â&#x20AC;? The Board approved the change to his release conditions. The decision did not explain why it was not possible for him to ski during the day and still return to his half-way house at night. The ski resort in question was not named in the document but the a public version of the decision was released on Tuesday by the Parole Board office in Edmonton.

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PM Modi endorses Nitish Kumar as Bihar Chief Minister PM Narendra Modi today endorsed JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar as NDA’s leader in Bihar. Addressing party workers during the victory celebrations at the BJP office here, he said the NDA would work for the people of Bihar under his leadership. “Under the leadership of Nitish Kumar ji, we will leave no stone unturned to meet our commitment to the state’s development,” he said. Sources indicated that no major changes were expected n the power-

sharing arrangement between the two allies, despite the saffron party emerging the bigger player in Bihar. The government formation was expected to be initiated post Diwali, the sources said. The PM set the tone for the elections in West Bengal and Kerala, saying: “Those who cannot challenge us are targeting our cadre…. I want to tell them, don’t give me any ‘chetavni’ (warning).... In a democracy, bloodbath cannot

Citing personal liberty, Supreme Court grants bail to Arnab Goswami The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to Republic TV Editor-inChief Arnab Goswami in an abetment to suicide case, saying it would be a travesty of justice if personal liberty of a person was curtailed like this. “We are of the considered view that the High Court was in error in rejecting the applications for the grant of interim bail,” a vacation Bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Indira Banerjee said. Two-judge Supreme Court Bench

‘Bombay High Court erred’ If state govts target individuals, they must realise that there is apex court to protect the liberty of citizens. The Bombay HC was wrong in denying bail In its interim order, the court ordered the Maharashtra authorities to release the journalist forthwith. The Bench also granted interim bail to co-accused Feroz Mohammad Shaikh and Neetish Sarda, “subject to each of them

To ease tension in eastern Ladakh, a threestep disengagement plan has been suggested. India is considering a proposal by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) asking the Indian Army and its troops to pull back from critical spots along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). If an agreement is reached, India will vacate the 13 spots it occupies along the southern bank of Pangong Tso. In response, the PLA will pull back from the spots on the northern bank of

the same lake. However, the contentious 900 sq km Depsang plains in northern Ladakh, where both sides have claims and counter-claims, is not part of the proposal or the suggested pullback. “It is a proposal, and not an agreement to disengage, let it be fine-tuned and matters to mature,” said a senior Indian Army officer. The China Study Group (CSG), led by National

win elections.” Thanking women voters in Bihar, he said the “silent nari shakti” had contributed to the NDA’s poll success. Not naming any party, the PM attacked dynasty politics.” Internal democracy has to be maintained which is why I say Nadda ji aage bado, hum tumhare saath hain (Nadda ji, march ahead. We are with you).” Crediting BJP’s electoral success to “sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas”, he said the

results proved that “if you work with honesty, you will get the blessings of the people.The electorate is saying this again and again. Those who do not understand, you know what has happened to them…. they have lost their deposit.” The PM thanked JP Nadda, who received a standing ovation from top leaders for his first big wins as BJP president.

CBI probe likely into 8 MoD contracts in Kargil The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is all set to recommend a CBI probe against 13 persons, including Military Engineering Service (MES) and the Army personnel, for bungling in eight building contracts related to troop welfare projects in Kargil. It has been found that the contractor was overpaid for the work Eight contracts for separate works were allotted to a firm in 2012. A probe by the vigilance cell of the MoD — dealing with the MES and the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) — was launched in 2016

India, China consider 3-step proposal to ease LAC standoff Security Adviser Ajit Doval, will consider the proposal but is likely to seek iron cast guarantees that the perception of the LAC — an un-demarcated boundary — will be respected. Also, that the PLA troops will not reoccupy the heights India vacates south of Pangong Tso or those on the north bank or the points of disagreement at

after questions were raised in the matter. In October 2018, the progress in a series of cases was reviewed and the probe was intensified. It has now been found that the contractor was overpaid for the work he carried out. The quality of the work and material was of “very poor quality”. There are glaring gaps in accounting of stores and accounts books. Sources said the civil works related to troop welfare and habitat were of strategic nature. These were in poor condition and the officers at the brigade at Kargil expressed their concern over poor construction.

Galwan, or patrolling points 15 and 17. The CSG will be discussing that the issue of entire 826-km LAC in Ladakh should be part of the same disengagement and de-escalation process and must include the Depsang plains. It is here that the Chinese troops can threaten India’s access to the 255-km Darbuk-Shyok-DBO (DSDBO) road, which leads to Karakoram Pass and has an airfield next to it at an altitude of 16,800 feet.

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