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Paralympic Transit Changes Roll Out Friday
VANOC officials say extra transit and some road closures will be returning during the Paralympic Games, but not to the same extent as during the 2010 Winter Olympics last month. The limited closures...

College Humor: Vancouver's Gloo Studios Sticks With Shorts, For Now
Three of the four Gloo Studios partners (l-R): Jason Jujber - Creative Director, Paul Lowey - President/Producer, and Mike Ritchie - Director of Visual FX in their office in Burnaby on Wednesday,...
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Paralympics will build on the success of the Winter Olympic Games and show why the two events do not need to be combined for them to succeed, the head of the International Paralympic Committee said...
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International
Talks with Taliban bolstered by Pakistan supportTalks with Taliban bolstered by Pakistan support
Afghanistan has praised Pakistan's offer to help mediate with the...

Christian and Muslim sites being ignored by Israel, says U.S. State DepartmentChristian and Muslim sites being ignored by Israel, says U.S. State Department
The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy...
CIA allegedly engaged in LSD experiment in FranceCIA allegedly engaged in LSD experiment in France
The UK newspaper The Telegraph has revealed allegations contained in a new book that the CIA engaged in a mind control experiment in a village in...
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U.S. stocks recover in late tradingU.S. stocks recover in late trading
A surge in bank shares returned the major indices to the black Thursday, after rough sailing earlier in the...

Banks in Australia profiteering says regulatorBanks in Australia profiteering says regulator
Australia's biggest banks are gouging its customers, the Reserve Bank of Australia...
Sri Lanka doing massive deals with ChinaSri Lanka doing massive deals with China
Sri Lanka will soon build a second international airport on the south of the island, with much of the money coming from...
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bullet Perjury trials in Air India 'Kanishla' bombing case halted corner

The perjury trial of Inderjit Singh Reyat in the Air India bombing case, the bloodiest unsolved crime in Canadian history, has been stalled.

Reyat was the only person jailed in the killing of 331 passengers in the Air India bombing and released last year.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed the jury in the perjury trial of Reyat before jurors had a chance to hear any evidence.

Reyat faces charges of perjury for allegedly lying at the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, Globe and Mail reports.

Malik and Bagri were acquitted of all charges connected with the 1985 bombing of the Air India plane and another explosion at a Tokyo airport that took the lives of 331 people, mostly Canadians.

Reyat was called as a Crown witness at the trial, but the indictment for his perjury charge lists 27 instances in which he is alleged to have lied under oath, mostly dealing with his insistence that he didn't remember details of the bombing plot or the name of one of the men involved.

Reyat, an electrician from Duncan, B.C., was charged with perjury in February 2006, nearly a year after the acquittals.

His trial has been delayed several times as lawyers prepared for the case, but jury selection last week set the stage for hearings to begin in a Vancouver courtroom on Monday. (ANI)


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