1 Vol 2, Issue 02 www.syncmag.ca | 01st Feb - 28th Feb 2015 2 Vol 2, Issue 02 www.syncmag.ca | 01st Feb - 28th Feb 2015 20. Cap’s Exchange For Change Facilitates Visit Of Indian Students To Pakistan Cover Credits: MONTREAL PREMIER SHAADI SHOW 3 In Sync: 06 Parties Vow To Resist Change In Pak-China Corridor Route Modi Vows To End India Status As Top Defence Importer Sync Health: 28 Ageing And The Body Sync Paparazzi Canada: 12 Valerie Assonline Sync Feature : 22 Quebec Judge Wouldn’t Hear Case Of Woman Wearing Hijab International Women’s Day Dairy Of The Month: 43 HSY Brings The World To Pakistan’ Collection And Limited Edition‘cricket World Cup Kurtas’ The Polo Lounge Launches Live Barbecue Kiran Fine Jewellery Launched A Popup Bespoke Boutique Sync Tainments: 46 Stardust Awards 2014 36. Best Dressed Couples 27. Elan Collection Reel Review: BADLAPUR At Oscars 2015 Editor’s Letter Dear Readers, February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. It is the beginning of Springtime, Valentine gifts and kisses, Hot coffee to fend off the evening chill, with a ROLL up the rim cup form Tim Hortons which takes Canadians by storm every winter to blow away the winter blues. The month of love….No wonder the shortest one in the calendar!!!!! This issue takes us on a ride back to 2014 with glimpses from Montreal Shaadi Show Edition 2. Have a glimpse of Beat the Orange Event organized by the Conservative association of Pierrefonds-Dollard to meet & greet Valérie Assouline, the conservative candidate in Pierrefonds-Dollard for the 2015 Federal Elections. The heat was on at the Oscars with celebrity fashion at the Oscars. We give you the A-listed best dressed couples. Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world, so did we pay humble tribute to the creature without which the world would have been barren. Have a hot cup of coffee while getting mesmerized by the colorful world of SYNC and get rid of the winter blues.... Happy reading! Syncmag Team Contents 42. 18. EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief: Naseer Mehdi Khan 41. Managing Editor: Sadia Sajid Creative Editor: Habiba Zamun PHOTOGRAPHERS Paul Aswathi MediaVision Sanish Cherian Alfaaz Photography Showbiz Editor - Special to SyncMag Sanjay Patel Celebrity & Fashion Editor Nirav Patel SYNCMAG www.syncmag.ca [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/syncmag.ca http://www.twitter.com/syncmagazine 6 In-Sync Vol 2, Issue 02 Tete A Tete B.C. Budget 2015: 10 highlights Judge Delays Obama Immigration Order Modi Vows To End India Status As Top WASHINGTON: A judge in Texas has blocked US President Barack Defence Importer Obama’s executive order providing millions of undocumented BANGALORE: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi foreigners with protection from deportation. The White House quickly vowed Wednesday to end India’s status as the world’s called the decision wrong, number one defence importer, saying he wanted 70 per saying the president had cent of hardware to be manufactured domestically by acted within his legal the turn of the decade. authority and that the Speaking at the start adminstration will appeal. of a major aviation The order came from industry conference, Judge Andrew Hanen of Modi told hundreds the Federal District Court in Brownsville, Texas in response to a of foreign and local suit presented by that state and 25 other Republican governors businessmen that his and attorneys general, the Washington Post and New York Times government would reported Tuesday. The Post said the order seeks to postpone favour domestic implementation of the order issued in November until a trial on its firms when awarding legality can be held. The president’s plan would offer protection defence contracts as part of a larger push to boost from deportation and work permits to as many as five million India’s manufacturing sector. “We have the reputation as undocumented immigrants. The first of those initiatives was to the largest importer of defence equipment in the world,” have started receiving applications on Wednesday. Hanen said the the prime minister said at the biennial Aero India show Obama administration had not complied with basic administrative in the southern city of Bangalore. “That may be music procedures for putting such a broad program into effect, the Times to the ears of some of you here. But this is one area said. The Obama administration says the president has acted within where we would not like to be number one,” he added. federal authority for a president to enforce immigration laws. “We are reforming our defence procurement policies and there will be a clear preference for the equipment B.C. Budget 2015: 10 highlights manufactured in India.” India, which has long been the world’s largest buyer of defence equipment, is in the The B.C. government tabled a surplus budget on Tuesday that contained midst of revamping its ageing military hardware and a few small tax breaks for families, along with some modest increases for recently lifted a cap on foreign investment in defence. health care and education. But while his right-wing government has pledged to push 1. Budget surplus for 2014-15 to hit $879 million, nearly double earlier forward with planned military purchases which stalled forecasts. under the previous centre-left Congress administration, 2. People on income or disability assistance will be able to keep all of their child support payments. Modi is also determined that the ramp-up in firepower 3. Children born since Jan 1. 2007, now eligible is not at the expense of the domestic defence industry. for one-time training and education savings grant Modi said he wanted domestically made equipment of $1,200. to account for 70 per cent of the procurement budget 4. Early childhood tax benefit of $660 per year for within five years, up from the current 40 per cent, in children under six starts April 1. what he said would be a major boon to the economy. 5. Families eligible for a new PST tax credit on “A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be up to $250 worth of children’s sports equipment, more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits,” worth $12.65 per child. said Modi. “Nearly 60 per cent of our defence equipment 6. $564 million extra funding for education over three years, to meet continues to be imported and, we are spending tens terms of collective agreement with B.C. Teachers’ Federation. of billions of dollars on acquisitions from abroad,” he 7. Temporary personal income tax rate of 16.8 per cent on individuals added. “There are studies that show that even a 20 to earning over $150,000 eliminated, as scheduled on Jan 1. 2016. 25 per cent reduction in imports could directly create 8. $3 billion funding increase for health care over three years. an additional 100,000 to 120,000 highly skilled jobs in 9. Medical Services Plan premiums will continue to rise by four per cent, India.” The five-day air show, which is held at an air to $75 per month for individuals, $136 for a family of two, and $150 for base on the northern outskirts of the city, attracts the families of three or more. bosses of hundreds of aviation and defence firms, 10. No changes to BC Ferries funding, minimum wages or social including Boeing and the French firm Dassault. assistance rates. www.syncmag.ca | 01st Feb - 28th Feb 2015 In-Sync 7 Vol 2, Issue 02 Parties Vow To Resist Change In Pak-China Vaccine Promotion Spending Has Been Corridor Route Cut, Justin Trudeau Charges ISLAMABAD: The participants of a multi-party conference (MPC) The Conservative government has cut funding to a organised by the Awami National Party (ANP) on Tuesday vowed federal program that promotes immunization, Liberal to resist the government’s alleged plan to change the route of the Leader Justin Trudeau says. There has been a 23 per Pakistan-China Economic Corridor. The speakers, mainly from the cent reduction in funding since 2006, Trudeau said nationalist parties of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, warned during question period in the House of Commons that the federation could face “serious consequences” if the PML-N government insisted on excluding the backward areas of the two smaller provinces from the economic route. The event was attended by representatives of almost all the political parties, including those in the coalition governments with the PML-N. However, no one from the ruling PML-N attended the conference to respond to the criticism. Speaking on the occasion, ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan said the changes in the economic corridor would increase the sense of deprivation among the people of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and smaller provinces. The ANP chief said Pakistan was the Tuesday. The Liberals say the government budgeted only country where leaders had not learnt from the past mistakes. $10 million for the Public Health Agency of Canada’s He said all the parties had supported Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif immunization program in the 2006-07 fiscal year, when he was facing a political crisis, but now all of them were being compared to $7.7 million for the year ending March pushed away. He said Mr Sharif was the only prime minister who 31, 2015. “There are five new measles cases in created crises for his own government. Mr Khan regretted that the Ontario. The prime minister has run no ads promoting PML-N leaders had not even consulted their coalition partners while the life-saving benefits of vaccinations,” Trudeau said.