A Notre Dame de Grace couple are feeling vulnerable and angry after enduring what they are calling an incident of racial profiling by city police. (John Kenney/The Gazette)

Racial profiling, or proper protocol? Montreal black couple fight police over fines
By René Bruemmer, The Gazette April 16, 2012

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MONTREAL – A black Montreal couple are fighting more than $1,000 in fines, charges of obstruction of justice and the closing of their Notre Dame de Grâce daycare after an altercation with police in early April.

Abiner Lema, who was injured in the incident, and his nine-month-pregnant wife say they’re the victims of racial profiling that degenerated into excessive use of force against both of them.

Police, however, say the couple created the problem by staging “a sit-in” in their car and resisting arrest.

Retarded vandals broke into and defaced about 15 of 50 Jewish-owned summer homes in Val David. In one home, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue. Photograph by: Pinkas Feferkorn

Vandals paint swastikas on Jewish-owned summer cottages in Quebec
By Andy Riga, Postmedia News April 16, 2012

Vandals broke into and defaced about 15 of 50 Jewish-owned summer homes in Val David. In one home, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue.
Photograph by: Pinkas Feferkorn

MONTREAL — Vandals broke into several Jewish-owned summer cottages in Quebec in recent days, defacing at least two of them with anti-Jewish hate messages and swastikas.

The Quebec provincial police is investigating the break-ins in Val Morin, 90 kilometres northwest of Montreal in the Laurentians, but could not confirm Sunday that anti-Jewish graffiti was present.

No one was in the homes during the incidents.

Some break-ins occurred Thursday and others were reported Sunday, said Surete du Quebec spokesperson Ingrid Asselin. The vandals broke into about 15 of the 50 Jewish-owned homes in the area, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue.

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Furniture was damaged, clothes and toys were thrown out windows and in one house, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, Feferkorn said.

Swastikas were spray-painted on the outside of one house. In another, swastikas were painted all over the interior, along with at least one phrase: “F–k Juif.”

Descending into the life of a reoffender

Dikila M’Bosso, leaving a courtroom at the Montreal courthouse with his lawyer Mary Hélène Giroulx and an unidentified woman on April 10, 2012, is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery. He is also charged with possessing ammunition for at least three types of prohibited firearms, and in a separate case for leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. Photograph by: Phil Carpenter , Montreal Gazette

The four youngsters who assaulted a 64-year-old Montrealer seven years ago have become career criminals
By Paul Cherry, The Gazette April 16, 2012

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MONTREAL – On Jan. 3, 2005, Martha Taylor Gregory, a 64-year-old grandmother, was stabbed and beaten by four teenagers who were out joyriding in a stolen minivan and decided to steal her car on a whim. It was a senseless crime that captured the attention of Montrealers. The teens were all between 13 and 17. All four were quickly arrested and convicted in youth court. They served between 12 and 16 months in youth detention facilities. A look back at the crime has revealed that all four have since reoffended and three have serious adult criminal records. One is an alleged street gang member facing deportation, another is serving an 11-year sentence for a sexual assault.

Sporting a track suit and using an overly familiar tone when addressing the judge before him, Dikila M’Bosso, 21, waived his right to a preliminary inquiry on Friday in a case where the alleged street gang member is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery.

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M’Bosso has kept the provincial courts busy this month. On April 4, he also had a court date in Laval for allegedly leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. He failed to show up for that hearing.

Each court date serves as a reminder M’Bosso has been a man in limbo since March 14, 2011, when the Federal Court of Canada confirmed a previous decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board ordering his removal. The immigration department’s position is that M’Bosso is inadmissible in Canada on two grounds – because he is part of a criminal organization and has a criminal record that already involves several convictions. During his immigration hearing, the Montreal police alleged M’Bosso has, since the age of 16, been part of two street gangs controlled by the Bo-Gars, a gang based in northern Montreal.

“The Indian culture no doubt has a preference for male children, it has been a long-standing issue in India, so it's not a surprise to me that trend is showing up here among immigrant women."

Indian immigrants’ 3rd child more likely to be a boy
Ratio of 136 boys to 100 girls raises issue of selective abortion
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A study released today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal confirms previous research showing that the male-to-female ratio for third-born children to women born in India and living in Ontario is higher than the natural rate.

“The findings are highly unlikely to be due to chance,” says Dr. Joel Ray, the lead researcher, who is a clinician scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Joel Ray of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto says it would be ‘unfair to speculate’ why boys are over-represented among third children from Indian immigrant families, but that it is ‘unlikely to be due to chance.’ (Courtesy of St. Michael’s Hospital)

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Alison Redford rubbing elbows with her constituency

Redford is scheduled to campaign in Calgary all day Sunday.

She will be starting her day off with a photo op for Sri Lankan Sinhalese New Year at the Marlborough Park Community Association Auditorium at 9 a.m.

She will then visit a Sikh Temple with Calgary-Greenway candidate Manmeet Bhullar at 11 a.m. before heading to the Bangladesh Community Association for a photo op at 1 p.m.

Redford then travels to the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in Calgary’s southeast for a 1:45 p.m. photo op.