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<strong>The</strong> International News Weekly REGIONAL<br />
October 06, 2017 | Toronto 04<br />
End of Sears Canada as it seeks<br />
court approval to liquidate all stores<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Canadian</strong> <strong>Parvasi</strong><br />
TORONTO: Sears Canada<br />
Inc. said Tuesday it is<br />
seeking court approval to<br />
liquidate its roughly 130<br />
remaining stores, leaving<br />
approximately 12,000 employees<br />
without a job.<br />
<strong>The</strong> embattled retailer<br />
has been operating under<br />
the Companies’ Creditors<br />
Arrangement Act since<br />
June. It said that it had<br />
failed to find a buyer that<br />
would allow it to continue.<br />
<strong>The</strong> court overseeing<br />
Sears Canada’s operations<br />
is expected to hear<br />
a motion Friday seeking<br />
approval for the liquidation<br />
and wind−down of<br />
the business. Sears last<br />
week received a revised<br />
bid from a group led by<br />
Agencies<br />
OTTAWA: A spokesman<br />
for Public Safety Minister<br />
Ralph Goodale says<br />
an RCMP questionnaire<br />
that singled out Muslim<br />
asylum seekers has been<br />
deemed inappropriate<br />
and taken out of circulation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> questionnaire<br />
was used at the Quebec<br />
border crossing that saw<br />
an influx of thousands of<br />
asylum seekers from the<br />
U.S. this summer.<br />
Among other things,<br />
the questionnaire asked<br />
opinions about freedom<br />
of religious practice,<br />
head coverings associated<br />
with Muslim women<br />
and terrorist groups<br />
with mainly Muslim<br />
members.<br />
A copy of the questionnaire<br />
was given to<br />
its executive chairman<br />
Brandon Stranzl to buy<br />
the business.<br />
A lawyer for Sears<br />
Canada’s court−appointed<br />
monitor told the court<br />
last week it would consider<br />
the bid, but the company<br />
was running out of<br />
money and time. On Tuesday,<br />
the retailer said in<br />
a statement that "following<br />
exhaustive efforts, no<br />
viable transaction" was<br />
made.<br />
<strong>The</strong> company plans to<br />
start liquidation sales no<br />
later than Oct. 19 and expects<br />
them to continue for<br />
10 to 14 weeks.<br />
Sears Canada currently<br />
has 74 full−line locations,<br />
eight Sears Home<br />
Stores, and roughly 49<br />
Sears Hometown stores,<br />
according to Sears Canada<br />
spokesman Joel Shaffer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> retailer has approximately<br />
12,000 employees,<br />
three−quarters<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Canadian</strong> Press by<br />
Toronto lawyer Clifford<br />
McCarten.<br />
Public Safety Spokesman<br />
Scott Bardsley says<br />
the department was im-<br />
of whom are part−time,<br />
Shaffer added. Of the<br />
roughly 800 employees<br />
in Sears Canada’s head<br />
office, the vast majority<br />
will exit next week, he<br />
said. That tally doesn’t include<br />
the 2,900 job reductions<br />
Sears Canada had<br />
announced in June, with<br />
wishes you<br />
the closure of 20 full−line<br />
locations, 15 Sears Home<br />
stores, 10 Sears Outlet<br />
and 14 Sears Hometown<br />
locations. Sears Canada<br />
said in the statement<br />
Tuesday it "deeply regrets<br />
this pending outcome and<br />
the resulting loss of jobs<br />
and store closures."<br />
Litigators for a group<br />
of lenders who have provided<br />
debtor−in−possession<br />
financing to Sears<br />
Canada to keep it afloat<br />
pushed to enter into a<br />
liquidation agreement by<br />
Oct. 7 at the latest. <strong>The</strong><br />
lenders pushed for approval<br />
no later than Oct.<br />
13, in order to liquidate<br />
before the crucial holiday<br />
season and maximize value.<br />
<strong>The</strong> retailer was spun<br />
off from Sears Holdings in<br />
2012.<br />
RCMP stops using 'inappropriate' screening of Muslims<br />
Toronto doctor had sex with teen<br />
girl in hospital office, say police<br />
mediately concerned<br />
when it learned of the<br />
document because some<br />
questions were inappropriate<br />
and not consistent<br />
with government policy.<br />
Bardsley says the RCMP<br />
has suspended use of the<br />
questionnaire.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Canadian</strong> Press<br />
TORONTO: Police say a doctor — who<br />
allegedly paid to have unprotected sex<br />
with a 15-year-old girl in his office at a<br />
Toronto hospital — is facing multiple<br />
charges.<br />
Toronto police say investigators<br />
looking into the alleged trafficking of<br />
the girl learned a man met the teen in<br />
December 20<strong>16</strong> after responding to an<br />
escort ad for sex on an online classifieds<br />
site. It's alleged he had unprotected sex<br />
with her and met with her at different<br />
hotels in the Toronto area over the next<br />
few months and paid to have unprotected<br />
sex with the girl. Investigators allege<br />
that after the encounters he would prescribe<br />
birth control and inject the girl<br />
with the medication.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y allege that on one occasion he<br />
had sex with her in his office at Toronto<br />
General Hospital.<br />
Ernest Chiu, 32, of Toronto, is<br />
charged with sexual interference, invitation<br />
to sexual touching, obtaining<br />
sexual services from a person under 18<br />
and sexual assault.<br />
Investigators say Chiu is a doctor of<br />
nephrology and is associated with St.<br />
Michael's Hospital, Toronto General<br />
Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital,<br />
Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto<br />
Rehab and Sinai Health System.<br />
190 CANAM CRESCENT BRAMPTON, ON L7A1A9<br />
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