www.WeeklyVoice.com FRONT PAGE Friday, May 29, 2020 | A-1 Canada’s Leading South Asian Newspaper - Tel: 905-795-0639 Friday, MayJune 29, 2, 20172020 www.WeeklyVoice.com VolVol 26, 23, No. No. 22 22 PM: 40025701 Two New Judges Of South Asian Descent, page 4 COVID-19 Kills; So Do Criminals, page 6 Tee Times In Demand As Golf Courses Open, page 9 PM At Global Event On COVID-19 Impact Trudeau Takes Lead To Convene Talks; Focus On Socio-Economic Recovery & Financing Needs NEW YORK: United Nations Secre- mands that we take immediate action to tary-General António Guterres, the Prime address its impacts on the economies of all Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, and countries, in every region of the world and the Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew at every stage of development.” He added Holness, convened world leaders and in- that he welcomes the six thematic areas of ternational organizations today in a joint focus, including the “necessity to address initiative to sharpen and accelerate our the urgent need for increased liquidity, global response to the significant econom- particularly for low- and middle-income ic and human impacts of COVID-19, and countries.” advance concrete solutions to the develop- Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ment emergency. said that “all countries are being tested by This pandemic requires a large-scale, the COVID-19 pandemic, and it threatens coordinated, comprehensive multilateral to undermine our hard-won development response to support countries in need, Trudeau addresses leaders of the United Nations. Pic: UN Web TV. gains. We know the best way to help all enabling them to recover better for more our people and economies rebound is to prosperous, resilient and inclusive econo- must continue to coordinate these efforts “The pandemic has demonstrated our work together as a global community. We mies and societies. to avoid a devastating impact on people’s fragility,” said UN Secretary-General An- want to support collective and individual With more than 50 Heads of State and lives and livelihoods,” Trudeau said. tonio Guterres. “We are in an unprecedent- actions to enable a recovery that leads to Government participating, the High-Level We all face economic strain in respond- ed human crisis, because of a microscopic more inclusive, sustainable and resilient Event on Financing for Development in ing to this pandemic, particularly low- and virus. We need to respond with unity and economies, where no one is left behind.” the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond is the middle-income countries, many of which solidarity, and a key aspect of solidarity is The High-Level Event looked at six ur- most inclusive gathering of countries to are seeing their efforts to achieve the Sus- financial support.” gent areas of action to mobilize the financ- focus on the socio-economic recovery and tainable Development Goals (SDGs) set Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Hol- ing needed for the response and recovery. financing needs from the pandemic. “We back. ness said, “the COVID-19 pandemic de- Continued on page 2 India, China In Tense Face-Off Ford Vows To Fix Broken In Ladakh Long Term Care System NEW DELHI: There has been a troop build up on both sides of the India China border, along the Line of Control. Indian army sources said there are at least three places where there has been an eyeball- to-eyeball situation since May 5. 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Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay submitted in response to a recent Announcing the news, Premier call for proposals for the On- Doug Ford, along with Christine no, Minister of Colleges and Uni- this deadly virus. We have some tario COVID-19 Rapid Research Elliott, Deputy Premier and Min- versities, said: “Ontario is leading of the most incredible researchers Fund. Announced only four ister of Health, and Ross Roma- the nation in the battle to defeat and innovators anywhere in the Continued on page 2 A-2 | Friday, May 29, 2020 NationaL www.WeeklyVoice.com THE WEEKLY VOICE India-China EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Fear Of Extreme Global Poverty Bala Menon Continued from page 1 Border Issue CONTRIBUTING WRITERS These include expanding li- Continued from page 1 Amb. Praveen Verma (Retd.) quidity across the global econo- Prime Minister Narendra Mod Dr. Nivedita Das Kundu my; addressing debt vulnerabili- Harj Chaggar held a meeting with the country’s ties; stemming illicit financial Amitabh Saxena top defence and foreign affairs flows; increasing external finance officials and the National Secu- Graphic Design for inclusive growth and job cre- rity Advisor (NSA) over the pre- Tamarind Tree ation; and strategies for countries vailing situation to recover better, achieve the Indian Army chief General ACCOUNT MANAGERS SDGs, address climate change Manoj Mukund Naravane visited Manu Ramachandran and restore the balance between Leh, the headquarters of 14 Corps G Prasaad the economy and nature. in Ladakh, and reviewed security Rohit Malhotra World Health Organization deployment of forces Maha (WHO) figures show that the Chinese Ambassador to India, COVID-19 pandemic has already ONLINE MARKETING Sun Weidong said: “China and MANAGER claimed more than 340,000 lives, India should never let their dif- Amitabh Saxena with more than 5.4 million cases ferences shadow the overall bilat- globally.