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Swept away: Members of the Peace Arch Curling Club had a busy start to the new year, including hosting duties for the Curl BC’s men’s open zone playdowns last weekend. i see page 36
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Resource society hopes community will help make up shortfall
Homelessness funding takes a hit Nick Greenizan Staff Reporter
Government-funding cuts have put Sources Community Resource Centre’s homelessness programs in jeopardy and left the non-profit organization scrambling to make up the difference. On Friday, Sources announced that Employment and Social Development Canada would cease funding Sources’ Newton-
based homeless-prevention services, which since 2005 have helped more than 11,000 Sources clients throughout the region stay in their homes. The program assists with housing subsidies, income support, landlord mediation, loans for rent and utility payments and more. “We don’t know what will happen now if we aren’t able to continue these services,”
said Sources CEO David Young. “We help, on average, about 1,000 people every year. Now, without our (help), will some of these people end up without a place to live? I don’t know.” Young said the cuts have come as a result of the federal government initiating a new funding approach. Under the new system, Sources submitted a proposal for continued funding, but was rejected, he explained.
The loss of funding amounts to $200,000 per year, Young said. For the next three months, Sources will fund its homelessprevention services out of the society’s reserve funds, but sustainable funding – both through Sources’ fundraising efforts and, potentially, other grants – will need to be found in order for the service to operate long-term. i see page 4
Paris attack hits home
Price of freedom Kevin Diakiw Black Press
While still in bed at 6:30 a.m. last Wednesday, Dave Hayer reached for his Blackberry and scrolled through the news items. He froze when he read about the killing of 12 people at a magazine in Paris, France. It caused a chilling rush of déja vu for the former Liberal MLA for Surrey-Tynehead. The news accounts described how three attackers wearing black and wielding Kalashnikov automatic rifles stormed the offices of the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and shot and killed 10 journalists and two police officers. After one suspect turned himself in on ThursDave Hayer day, two other recalls attack men involved were killed by police the next day after taking a woman hostage in a printing plant north of Paris. A fourth man – who is believed to be connected to the gunmen – killed a police officer on Thursday and took five people hostage in a grocery store in southeast Paris. He was also killed by police.
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After he was shot and left paralyzed, Tara Singh Hayer continued to write editorials condemning the Air India bombings – until his assassination. As of Monday morning, officers continued to search for the hostage taker’s wife, 25-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, who was believed to have travelled to Syria last week. The motive in the magazine shooting is believed to be the satirical publication’s unflattering caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Terrible memories flooded back for Hayer, whose father, Tara Singh, was gunned down in Surrey for the pointed editorials he wrote in his newspaper – The IndoCanadian Times. The connection for Hayer was immediate. “Right away it brought memo-
Two bullets struck his arm, two hit him in the back, and one pierced his turban. He was paralyzed and left wheelchair-bound. His response? As soon as Tara Singh Hayer was able, he went back to the newspaper office and kept writing critical articles. i see page 4
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ries of the 1988 shooting (of my father),” he said in an interview Thursday. Tara Singh Hayer was publisher of The Times and was shot several times at his office in August 1988 for his sharp criticism of the people responsible for the Air India bombings, his son said.
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