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Best Wishes from your local Members of Provincial Parliament Doug Ford Prabmeet Sarkaria MPP - Etobicoke North MPP - Brampton South www.fordmpp.ca www.prabmeetsarkariampp.ca Deepak Anand Amarjot Sandhu MPP - Mississauga-Malton MPP - Brampton West www.deepakanand.ca www.amarjotsandhu.com Nina Tangri Sheref Sabawy MPP Mississauga-Streetsville MPP - Mississauga-Erin Mills www.ninatangri.ca www.sabawy.ca Canada’s Leading South Asian Newspaper - Tel: 905-795-0639 Friday, June 28,2, 2017 2019 www.WeeklyVoice.com VolVol 25, 23, No. No. 26 22 PM: 40025701 Happy Canada Day Via Rail To Get Big Infrastructure Boost, page 8 Sunrise Ceremony For Indigenous Peoples Day, page 17 India Gets New Two-Year Term At UNSC Asia-Pacific Group Extends Full Backing To New Delhi For 7th Term On Council UNITED Nations: The assuring New Delhi of its election endorsed India’s candidature, In- was India’s Permanent Represen- Asia-Pacific Group at the UN by the General Assembly to suc- dia’s UN Permanent Representa- tative. He is now the Minister for has unanimously supported In- ceed Indonesia on the Council in tive Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: Industry, Commerce and Civil dia for a non-permanent seat on 2021 for a two-year term. “A unanimous step. Asia-Pacific Aviation portfolios in the Naren- the Security Council after India’s China and Pakistan were forced Group @UN unanimously en- dra Modi government. overwhelming influence forced to join the others in the group to dorses India’s candidature for a India is also pursuing a perma- China and Pakistan to join in the support India because there was non-permanent seat of the Secu- nent seat on the Council in the endorsement. no other country willing to con- rity Council for a 2-year term in effort to reform it. Pakistan and The 55-member group decided test the Asia seat against India 2021-22.” China oppose it. unanimously on Tuesday to en- given its influence, making the India has served seven times on The ten non-permanent seats dorse India in next year’s contest endorsement unanimous. the Council, most recently from are distributed regionally, with India’s Permanent Representative to for the non-permanent Asia seat, Thanking the countries which 2011 to 2012 when Hardeep Puri Continued on page 5 UN Syed Akbaruddin. PM At Saint-Jean Baptiste Fest Grand Vision For Toronto Waterfront Set Out By Sidewalk Urban Design & Tech To Change Lifestyles TORONTO: Sidewalk Labs laid out its ambitious vision of the future of cities with its plan for Toronto’s eastern waterfront, but has already received fresh criti- cism for its potential overreach. The plan sets out what Side- walk Labs, a subsidiary of Google parent-company Alphabet Inc., hopes will be a blueprint for urban development that will incorporate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets supporters during Saint-Jean-Baptiste day celebrations in the latest concepts in building de- Montreal, Monday, June 24, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes sign, mobility, sustainability and inclusivity. It hopes to achieve nothing less Toronto _ a partnership involving than to improve everything about the City of Toronto, Ontario and how people work and live, Side- the federal government to over- Japan Will Help Build walk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff see waterfront development _ that said at a media presentation Mon- is now reviewing the more than day. 1,500-page plan. “Our proposal aims to do some- Continued on page 4 thing extraordinary on Toronto’s ‘New India’ Says Modi eastern waterfront _ create a new model of inclusive growth, where cutting-edge technology and for- Trudeau, Trump, Other World Leaders Attending G20 Summit ward-thinking urban design com- bine to achieve an ambitious im- KOBE (Japan): Eyeing the tar- the first day of his Japan visit, the literacy in this area is grow- provement in every aspect of the get of $5 trillion economy for In- mainly to attend the G20 Summit. ing fast in India and transactions way we live.’’ dia in next five years, Prime Min- He spoke about the massive have jumped manifold. Sidewalk’s proposal sets out ister Narendra Modi said here on mandate received by the BJP in He said India is also planning detailed plans for a residential- Thursday that social sector would the recent Lok Sabha elections to explore the space and noted focused 4.8-hectare Quayside be a priority for his government and the plans of his government that the second mission to Moon, site, but also goes much farther along with development of infra- for the next five years. Chandrayan-II will be launched to envision the foundations of a structure and digital sectors. “In the next five years, we have soon. By 2022, India will also 77-hectare eastern waterfront dis- He said Japan, which has been the target of making India a 5 tril- launch its first manned mission trict along similar design ideals. India’s partner in progress over lion dollar economy,” the Prime ‘Gaganyaan’, Modi said. “We are The expanded scope includes BROKER the last seven decades, will have Minister said, adding the govern- also exploring the possibility of its proposed development of a BROKER a major role to play in building of ment has to work to meet the ris- having our own space station,” nearly eight-hectare site called a “new India”. ing aspirations of the Indians. he said. Villiers West where it wants to REMAX REAL ESTATE CENTRE INC., BROKERAGE “It is said that the ‘sky is the “Social sector is our prior- Talking about relations with Ja- build a new Google Canada head- limit’. It was appropriate in a cer- ity. We also have to cater to in- pan, he said the country has had quarters along with attracting oth- tain era. But now, the sky is not frastructure development,” he a special role in India’s progress er office tenants. the limit,” Modi said while ad- added. over the last seven decades and The scope of the vision has been dressing the Indian diaspora on About the digital sector, he said Continued on page 4 raised as a concern by Waterfront Canada, US To Ease Movement Of People, Goods OTTAWA: A new agreement railway in British Columbia, between Canada and the United which extends into Washington States will soon allow travellers state. and cargo to pre-clear customs Preclearance operations will before they leave, allowing an be expanded to additional air- easier movement of people and ports, and will, for the first time, goods crossing the border. allow preclearances of cargo Canadian air travellers have travelling across the border. been able to clear customs before Prime Minister Jus- flying to the U.S. for decades at tin Trudeau and President Don- Canadian airports, letting them ald Trump announced Thursday skip line-ups when they land in that they intend to implement the the United States. Billy Bishop Airstrip in Toronto. Pic: CNW new preclearance agreement this The two countries have agreed in Quebec City. The new agree- are underway for preclearances summer as part of a deal that has to add U.S. preclearance opera- ment extends preclearance for for train passengers travelling been in the works for years. tions at Billy Bishop airport in travellers crossing by land, rail from Montreal into New York “Delays at the border can eas- Toronto and Jean Lesage airport and sea. Early stages of planning and on the Rocky Mountaineer Continued on page 5 A-4 | Friday, June 28, 2019 FRONT PAGE www.WeeklyVoice.com THE WEEKLY VOICE PM Wants Help EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cementing Ties At G20 Summit Bala Menon Continued from page 3 In Dealing ASSOCIATE EDITOR this role is going to be strength- Shazia Malik ened in the “new India”. “There is no place in India where Japan With China CONTRIBUTING WRITERS has not left its imprint. OTTAWA: Prime Minister Preeti Thandi “There was a time when we Justin Trudeau is on his way toth Harj Chaggar used to cooperate in making cars. eG20 summit in Japan, hoping to Amitabh Saxena Now we are cooperating in mak- make progress _ or at least find Graphic Design ing the bullet train,” the Prime allies _ in Canada’s multi-front Tamarind Tree Minister said. dispute with China. Modi alsosought the support of The G20 leaders’ summit in Classifieds his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Osaka comes at a critical moment HarSimrat Panfer Abe for a proposed initiative to for Trudeau, with a fall election be launched later this year re- in the offing and Canada having ACCOUNT MANAGERS garding formation of a coalition had no luck so far in its efforts to Manu Ramachandran of countries for post-disaster re- secure the release of two Canadi- G Prasaad Rohit Malhotra habilitation. ans in China’s custody _ Michael Maha The two leadersalso discussed Kovrig and Michael Spavor. the prospects of the two coun- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister China detained the pair, a for- Shinzo Abe after their bilateral meeting in Kobe. - IANS ONLINE MARKETING tries undertaking joint projects mer diplomat and an entrepre- MANAGER in third countries, like Bangla- forestry projects and road build- was going through change due neur, days after Canada arrested Amitabh Saxena desh, Myanmar and Kenya, while ing projects -- are already under- to globalization, with an increas- Chinese high-tech executive building their bilateral ties in way, the Foreign Secretary said.