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Vancouver real estate marketer to vacate historic Chinatown building, make way for Chinese Canadian Museum

Vancouver real estate marketer and art collector Bob Rennie will be vacating his office in the oldest building in Chinatown to make way for a new Chinese Canadian museum.  The Chinese Canadian Museum, scheduled to open next summer, will be located in the Wing Sang Building on 51 East Pender St. — currently home to …

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Negotiator behind deal with Freedom Convoy says Ottawa was too quick to use emergency powers

The man who negotiated on the City of Ottawa’s behalf with Tamara Lich and other organizers of the Freedom Convoy says an agreement for truckers to leave the city’s residential streets wasn’t given enough time to play out before the federal government used its emergency powers to quell the weeks-long occupation. …

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Canada needs to ‘do better’ when recruiting foreign workers, federal minister says

This is the last in a three-part series about a group of temporary foreign workers with a Prince Edward Island farm company.  Stories of trouble at a farming company on P.E.I. are an indication Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program has been needing change, says federal Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean …

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ਸਪਾਈਸ ਜੈੱਟ ਤੇ ਸਵਿਸ ਕੰਪਨੀ ਨੇ ਵਿੱਤੀ ਵਿਵਾਦ ਸੁਲਝਾਏ

ਨਵੀਂ ਦਿੱਲੀ, 18 ਅਗਸਤ ਸਪਾਈਸ ਜੈੱਟ ਤੇ ਸਵਿਸ ਕੰਪਨੀ ਕਰੈਡਿਟ ਸੂਸੇ ਏਜੀ ਨੇ ਅੱਜ ਸੁਪਰੀਮ ਕੋਰਟ ਨੂੰ ਸੂਚਿਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਕਿ ਦੋਹਾਂ ਕੰਪਨੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਵਿੱਤੀ ਵਿਵਾਦ ਸੁਲਝਾ ਲਏ ਹਨ ਜਿਸ ਮਗਰੋਂ ਸਪਾਈਸ ਜੈੱਟ ਏਅਰਲਾਈਨਜ਼ ਨੇ ਮਦਰਾਸ ਹਾਈ ਕੋਰਟ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਫੈਸਲੇ ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਅਪੀਲ ਵਾਪਸ ਲੈ ਲਈ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਕੇਸ …

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ਫ਼ਾਜ਼ਿਲਕਾ: ਪੀਐੱਸਯੂ ਨੇ ਕਾਲਜ ਫੀਸਾਂ ’ਚ ਵਾਧੇ ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ ਪ੍ਰਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਕੀਤਾ

ਪਰਮਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਫਾਜ਼ਿਲਕਾ, 18 ਅਗਸਤ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਸਟੂਡੈਂਟਸ ਯੂਨੀਅਨ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਐੱਸਸੀ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਲਈਆਂ ਜਾ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਫੀਸਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਵਧਾਈਆਂ 10 ਪ੍ਰਤੀਸ਼ਤ ਫੀਸਾਂ ਦੇ ਵਿਰੋਧ ‘ਚ ਅੱਜ ਐੱਮਆਰ ਸਰਕਾਰੀ ਕਾਲਜ ਫਾਜ਼ਿਲਕਾ ਦੇ ਗੇਟ ਦੇ ਸਾਹਮਣੇ ਵਿਧਾਇਕ ਅਤੇ ਕਾਲਜ ਮੈਨੇਜਮੈਂਟ ਦਾ ਪੁਤਲਾ ਫੂਕਿਆ ਗਿਆ। ਯੂਨੀਅਨ ਦੇ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਧੀਰਜ ਕੁਮਾਰ, …

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China drought leads to factory closures, rolling blackouts

Factories in China’s southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ran low amid a worsening drought, adding to economic strains at a time when President Xi Jinping is trying to extend his hold on power. Companies in Sichuan province, including makers of …

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Ontario man left ‘powerless’ after ‘ISIS’ licence plates made him a target

An Ontario man who fled Afghanistan amid the threat of a militant takeover says his life was endangered multiple times because of a licence plate resembling the word ISIS that he never asked for and that the province refused to change until he was nearly killed.  Nouman, 26, came to Canada as a refugee …

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These TikTokers are inspiring youth from Vancouver and Toronto to move to Calgary

When Umar and Atefah Khan moved to Calgary from Toronto in May, they created the Tiktok account @toronto2calgary to document their journey. It all started when they began posting about their three-day cross-country road trip to update friends and family back home. The Khans say they didn’t know where their …

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More people living in RVs on Vernon, B.C., streets because they can’t find a home, housing advocates say

Robert Brown never thought he’d be living like this — all of his possessions crammed into an old, 30-foot motorhome, moving from place to place in search of some place to rent or park his RV. Brown and his partner Mathie Franchuck moved to Vernon, B.C., one month ago on a promise …

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High-ranking Mountie insists Lucki pressed him about releasing gun details after N.S. shooting

The high-ranking Nova Scotia RCMP officer at the centre of a controversy over possible political interference by RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki following the 2020 mass shooting is doubling down on his allegations. RCMP Chief Supt. Darren Campbell told a House of Commons committee Tuesday that he recalls Lucki saying during an April 28, 2020 …

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