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Canada orders 12 submarines from Germany Canada has chosen a German defence company to build its navy's new submarine fleet, in the largest military procurement deal in Canadian history. Prime Minister Carney announced on Monday that the government had chosen the company TKMS as the preferred supplier for the multi-billion dollar, 12-vessel contract. Continued on Page 10...
India breaks into China's shipping container monopoly
For decades, India has quietly relied on a product that is so basic to global trade that most people rarely notice it. The steel shipping container powers trade of everything from engineering goods to electronics, yet almost every steel box used by Indian trade comes from China. India has just taken a symbolic but significant step towards changing that reality with the rollout of its first export-import shipping container manufactured for global deployment. The move marks the beginning of an ambitious effort to enter an industry where China's dominance has remained
Extortion, drugs, assassination and transnational Indian crime syndicates: 'Operation Hard Ball' Canadian and U.S. authorities laid out sweeping allegations of racketeering, extortion and murder against a trio of Indian-linked crime syndicates this week. One of the groups — run from a jail cell in India by gangster Lawrence Bishnoi — is charged in incidents linked to the extortion crisis plaguing communities in Ontario and British Columbia as well as the assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., in 2023. FBI Los Angeles assistant director Patrick Grandy took a victory lap alongside RCMP
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virtually unchallenged for decades. Few manufacturing sectors are as concentrated as container production. China accounts for close to 90-97 per cent of global container manufacturing capacity, depending on the segment and year. Continued on Page 14...
B.C. nurses go on Strike
Commissioner Mike Duheme, declaring "Operation Hard Ball" a strike "at the heart of three brutal transnational organizations that have terrorized families, exploited communities and stolen lives." Continued on Page 10...
India aspires to be one of world's top three economies driven by 'Grow more, achieve more' motto: PM Modi India's aspiration to become one of the world's top three economies at the earliest is driven by the motto of "Grow more, achieve more," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday while addressing the Indian community in Melbourne as part of his three-day official visit to Australia. Addressing the Indian diaspora at the "Melbourne Meets Modi" event, the Prime Minister said that India of the 21st century is progressing with the vision of becoming a developed nation, with every achievement inspiring the country to set even higher goals. He further noted that every milestone that India attains inspires it to pursue even greater ambitions, adding that the aspirations of its 1.4 billion people drive the nation's progress. Continued on Page 7...
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B.C.’s nurses announced on Thursday that job action will expand to additional hospitals and care centres across the province. This union says this follows the breakdown of negotiations and the declaration of an impasse again at the bargaining table. In a release, the union said that starting this weekend, picket lines will be up at major health-care facilities across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. On Thursday, picket lines were set up at Surrey Memorial Hospital and the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre. “We have reached a critical point in this dispute,” B.C. Nurses’ Union president Adriane Gear said in a release. “Nurses have bargained in good faith, and we’ve taken measured job action while maintaining essential services to protect patient safety. Continued on Page 10...
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