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The International News Weekly Canada August 02, 2019 | Toronto 02 Friends, co-workers mourn 4 members of same family found dead in Markham, Ont. The Canadian Press Markham, Ont. : The four people found dead in a Markham, Ont., home over the weekend came from three generations of what appeared to be a happy family, friends said Tuesday, as they mourned the victims of what police called a quadruple homicide. The dead were identified by friends as Malesa Zaman, her father Moniruz Zaman, mother Momtaz Zaman, and grandmother. Police haven’t named the victims, nor have they said what relationship exists between them or Menhaz Zaman, a 23-yearold who has been charged with four counts of firstdegree murder. Robin Islam, who called himself a long-time friend of the Zamans, said the young man who has been charged was the son of Moniruz and Momtaz Zaman. Islam said the family was a social one and enjoyed spending time with friends. “They were always very happy, nice and decent family,” the 45-yearold said. “We’d sit in the same corner and we’d talk, we’d go to family barbecues.” Islam said the older Zamans moved to Canada from Bangladesh in the 80s, hoping for a better life. Moniruz Zaman and Momtaz Zaman were “very much” in love, he said, and recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with almost 200 friends and family last month. Menhaz Zaman made a slide show for the party and “said nice things about his parents,” Islam said. The family friend described Momtaz Zaman as a “charming woman” who was constantly smiling, who loved to cook and take pictures. Islam said Moniruz Zaman was a “very quiet, soft-speaking, polite gentleman.” Islam said they would often sit and discuss politics. News of the deaths had come as a complete shock, Islam said. “I’m just dead,” he said. “I can’t believe it. I cannot sleep, I cannot eat, I cannot walk. I feel like they’re still right beside me, they’re talking to me. It’s so scary.” A woman who created an online fundraiser to raise money for the funeral costs also described what happened as “tragic.”Afnan Alibaccas, who created the gofundme account, said she was a close friend of Malesa Zaman and had known her for more than 12 years. “We first met in the third grade and I’ve grown with her ever since. She’s been my go-to for as long as I can remember,” Alibaccas wrote on the site. “She had the sweetest heart and was always willing to listen and care for everyone she knew.” Emmera Riaz, a former basement tenant in the Zaman home, also said she had fond memories of the family and described them as very involved with the Bangladeshi community. “It was just a wonderful family,” she said. Meanwhile, Beck Taxi said it was “devastated” by the death of Moniruz Zaman, who had been an employee with the cab company since 2011. York Regional Police have said they were called to the Markham home shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday after receiving a 911 call reporting possible injuries.They said Menhaz Zaman opened the door to investigators and was taken into custody shortly afterwards. — with files from Lidia Abraha. Manitoba manhunt shows lack of resources for missing Indigenous women: advocates Women’s K4 500-metre team wins Canada’s first gold of Lima Pan American Games The Canadian Press WINNIPEG : Helicopters and a specialized military aircraft scoured from the air while armed police took to the ground over northern Manitoba in a hunt for two suspects of murders in British Columbia. Some advocates say it’s a stark contrast to resources applied to searches for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. “It is a little bit eyebrow raising because of the different response,” says Sheila North, a former grand chief and advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women. “The effort that they are going through to try and find them … could trigger a lot of things for people who do their own searches.” The massive manhunt has gripped the country since Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, were named last week as suspects in three killings. University professor Leonard Dyck and Australian Lucas Fowler and his American girlfriend Chynna Deese were found dead last month in northern B.C. North said it’s important the suspects are caught because they could pose a serious risk to the public. But she wonders where the same sense of urgency is when an Indigenous woman or girl can’t be found.North recalls the case of Jennifer Catcheway in 2008. She was last seen in Portage la Prairie, Man. on the night of her 18th birthday. When Wilfred and Bernice Catcheway notified police their daughter was missing, they were told she was probably out partying, North said. For more than a decade, the Catcheways have conducted their own search of rivers, lakes, forests and nearby First Nations. North says she’s also reminded of 51-year-old grandmother, Mildred Flett, who was last seen in Winnipeg in 2010. Her ex-husband has said it was difficult to get police to pay attention to her case. Flett was from the Testaskweyak Cree Nation in Split Lake, Man., where missing person posters of her remain. Schmegelsky and McLeod were spotted in the same community before a vehicle they were travelling in was found in nearby Gillam, leading police to focus their search in that area. North said there are more than 1,200 relatives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls watching as Mounties do everything they can to find the two murder suspects. They may also be wondering why they couldn’t have received more help, she adds. “Families that do their own searches are feeling a little bit let down and not respected in the same way as these other families are,” she said. Darlene Okemaysim- Sicotte has seen many families struggle to organize searches as the co-chair of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik (Women Walking Together), a grassroots group that supports families of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Saskatchewan.Her cousin, Shelley Napope, 16, was murdered by serial killer John Martin Crawford in 1992.Okemaysim-Sicotte says she supports efforts to find Schmegelsky and McLeod and that no life is worth more than another. But the manhunt for them has made it clear that there is the means, money and public support to conduct a large-scale search when needed, she says. Okemaysim-Sicotte hopes people will remember that the next time an Indigenous woman or girl is missing. “The world is watching it, she says. The Canadian Press LIMA, Peru : Canada’s women’s K4 500-metre canoeing team brought home the country’s first gold medal of the Pan American Games on Sunday. The team of Alanna Braylougheed, Alexa Kaien Irvin, Andreanne Langlois and Anna Negulic finished in one minute 34.316 seconds. Langlois says that typically, her team debriefs after a race and points out areas for improvement. This time, she says, there’s nothing to critique — it was perfect. Mexico took silver 0.33 seconds behind the Canadians and Argentina was third 1.29 seconds back of the winners. The Canadian men finished just off the podium in the same event, 1.765 seconds back of the gold medallists from Argentina. Cuba was second and Mexico took bronze, just 0.765 second ahead of Canada’s Dominik Crete, Eric Ellery, Marshall Hughes and Jarret Kenke.
The International News Weekly Canada August 02, 2019 | Toronto 03 Statistics Canada takes second look at ethnicity question on census The Canadian Press OTTAWA : Statistics Canada officials estimate the number of people identifying as Jewish in the 2016 census could have been double what it was if not for a small change on the questionnaire. The number of people identifying themselves as ethnically Jewish on the census has been on a decline since 2001, but the drop between 2011 and 2016 far outpaced the declines between previous census cycles. A newly released review by Statistics Canada says the census could have identified between 270,000 and 298,000 Jews in Canada in 2016 if response patterns remained steady, instead of the almost 144,000 captured in the population count. The review says the decline is most likely linked to the removal of Jewish from a list of examples that goes along with the question about ethnic and cultural origins. But the reviewers also note that dropping the examples entirely could cause additional problems, such as respondents not understanding the question or affecting the results in different ways. The national statistics agency is now testing a new way to ask people about their ethnic origins, trying to wrangle a complex issue into a simple-to-understand question in time for the 2021 population counts. Mr. Rajinder Saini CEO, Parvasi Media Group meet with Mr. Michael Coteau, MPP, Don Valley East and former Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport at Parvasi TV studio. He has recently announced to contest for Ontario Liberal Party leadership. Man planned to kill ex, not her uncle, appeal court says in changing conviction TORONTO: Ontario’s top court says a Toronto man who planned to kill his estranged wife but ended up killing her uncle instead should not be convicted of first-degree murder because the uncle was not the plot’s intended target. In a decision released this week, the Court of Appeal for Ontario says that while jurors found Willy Ching intended to kill his ex’s uncle in the moment, there was no planning and deliberation involved in that slaying. Meanwhile, the person he did plan to kill — his former spouse — was unharmed, which means the death of her uncle cannot be considered to have occurred as part of that plan, the court said. As a result, the court says Ching’s conviction for first-degree murder should be quashed and replaced with one for second-degree murder, which does not involve advance planning. Court heard Ching bought a hatchet and knife and was trying to get into the home where his estranged wife, Maria Ching, was staying, but her uncle intervened and was fatally wounded in the struggle. The appeal court says the trial judge erred in telling jurors they could find Willy Ching guilty of first-degree murder if they found he planned to kill his former spouse and killed her uncle, Ernesto Agsaulio, in the process of carrying out that plan. His plan was, in fact, not carried out, it said. The court said the trial judge misapplied of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in a case involving a man who accidentally killed his children while trying to kill his spouse. “The jury found that the appellant intended to kill Mr. Agsaulio … The planning and deliberation, however, was in respect of a different intended killing, the killing of Ms. Ching,” the appeal court wrote in its decision, noting jurors were not asked to consider whether the uncle’s murder was planned and deliberate. “The plan to kill Ms. Ching never reached the point where the appellant executed the killing. Ms. Ching remained on the second floor of the house well beyond the reach of the appellant. One will never know whether, had the appellant been allowed into the house, he would have carried out his plan,” it said. “There is a sound policy reason for concluding that an accused who intentionally kills person B when in the course of carrying out the planned and deliberate murder of person A will be guilty of second-degree murder, whereas an accused who accidentally or mistakenly kills person B when person A was the target will be convicted of first-degree murder,” it said. “This result reflects the fact that in the first case the actual killing may well have been impulsive while in the second, it was the result of a planned and deliberate act.” However, the court rejected arguments that the trial judge had also erred in his instructions to jurors regarding Ching’s attempt to jump over a staircase railing upon learning Agsaulio had died, and those regarding Ching’s conflicting statements in his testimony and police interviews. Court heard the couple’s marriage fell apart in 2009 and that September, Maria Ching moved out of their shared home to go live with Agsaulio and his family in nearby Mississauga, Ont. Willy Ching did not accept that the marriage was ending and repeatedly tried to speak to his former spouse, the decision said. In October, Ching became upset after unsuccessfully trying to access his ex’s email account, and bought a knife and hatchet, the document said. The next day, he drove to Agsaulio’s house in an effort to see his exwife, the document said. The couple’s daughters alerted their mother, who then called Ching and told him to go home, the ruling said. He asked her to come outside to talk, but she refused and warned her uncle that Ching was on his way to the house, it said. When Ching rang the doorbell, it was Agsaulio who answered and refused to let him in, the document said. They talked for a few minutes, then Ching began “hacking and slashing” at Agsaulio before he could be restrained, it said. Agsaulio was still alive when Ching was arrested and charged with assault, it said. He gave a statement to police, saying he had only wanted to talk to his wife and had not tried to kill anyone, it said. By the end of the interview, however, police informed Ching that Agsaulio had died and the charge would be upgraded to first-degree murder, the decision said. Ching then asked to use the bathroom, ran towards the stairwell and tried to “fling himself headfirst over the railing,” but officers held him back, it said. He gave a second statement to police the next day, repeating that he had gone to the house to speak to his ex and had not intended to hurt anyone, the document said. Ching said he had brought the knife and hatchet because he wanted to threaten to hurt himself if his ex didn’t take him back, it said. Second-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 to 25 years.
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