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South Asian man shot dead in front of his kids as they left a party in Langley A Surrey man’s children were inside his car when he was shot and killed Friday following a family party at Langley’s Chuck E. Cheese, IHIT has confirmed. Ravinder Singh Sandhu, a 42-year-old Surrey man, died recently after being taken to hospital in critical condition Friday following the shooting, said Sgt. Frank Jang, spokesperson for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). Sandhu was shot inside his vehicle at about 9:30 p.m. with his two children, both under the age of 10, in the car with him. Neither child
was injured, said Jang, and there were no other adults in the car. “We believe somebody intended to end his life that night, and they did.” Sandhu and his children had been attending a party at Chuck E. Cheese near 64th Avenue and 200th Street. Other family and friends of Sandhu’s had been at the event, Jang said. The family has been offered resources through Victim Services for the children. The shooting was targeted, and Continued on page 7
Surrey tentmaker accused of discrimination A former employee of a Surrey tent-making company has lodged a human rights complaint against Ideal Canopy and Structure Ltd. alleging discrimination based on race, gender and pregnancy while she worked there. Yesol Park claims that in 2018 she was denied a promotion because of her gender and race and that she was marginalized
in the workplace because she doesn’t speak Punjabi. Park lodged her complaint with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal against the company, which operates out of Newton. The respondents deny discriminating and applied to have the complaint Continued on page 9
India offers to import US dairy, chicken legs to seal elusive trade deal with Trump India has offered to partially open up its poultry and dairy markets to win a limited trade deal during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the country this month, people familiar with the protracted talks say. India, the world’s largest milk-producing nation, has traditionally restricted dairy imports to
protect the livelihoods of 80 million rural households involved in the industry. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to pull all the stops for the U.S. president’s Feb. 24-25 visit, aimed at rebuilding bonds between the world’s largest democracies. In 2019, Trump suspended
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PM Trudeau says ending pipeline protests won’t be easy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are no easy answers to the dispute over a British Columbia pipeline project that has sparked Indigenous protests at vital rail links across Canada. In his most extensive public comments since anti-pipeline protests began affecting freight and passenger rail traffic
across Canada last week, Trudeau said Friday that the path forward is “fraught with challenges and obstacles to overcome.” “You need to know we have failed our Indigenous peoples over generations, over centuries. And there is no quick fix to it,”
Trudeau said, adding that all parties must move towards reconciliation. “We also are, obviously, a country of laws. And making sure that those laws are enforced, even as there is, of course, freedom to demonstrate free and to protest,” he said.
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Four people with Coronavirus in BC getting better, health officer All four people infected with the coronavirus are recovering, according to B.C. health officials. They said Tuesday that there were no new cases of COVID-19, as the new virus has been named, in the province since three were confirmed last week, in addition to the one case previoulsy confirmed. “Their condition is stable and all of them are in isolation recovering at home,” said Dr.
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Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer. The individuals will be cleared by health officials only after testing negative on two tests, 24 hours apart. “I also want to say that the small number of close contacts for each of our cases has been identified and are being actively followed every day with Vancouver Coastal Health and they all remain well and asymptomatic.” As of Friday,
371 samples from B.C. had been tested for coronavirus, said Henry. The vast majority of them do not have the virus but Henry said the threshold for deciding to do the test is intentionally kept low. Henry said the test results that did return a positive result are for other viruses common at this time of year, such as influenza.
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