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Time of India
15-07-2025
- Time of India
Suspicion of extra-marital affair leads to 32-year-od's murder
Rajkot: In a crime allegedly driven by an extramarital affair, a 32-year-old man was stabbed to death by his wife's lover in Jasdan town of Rajkot. The Jasdan police arrested the assailant, Bhavesh Kukadiya, who stabbed Jeram Sadadiya to death while Jeram and his wife were asleep inside their house. Jeram was married to Surti for eight years, and the couple had a son and a daughter. Two years into the marriage, Surti started working in a catering service, and Bhavesh was her co-worker. Police said that Jeram began suspecting an affair between the two. He warned both to cut ties, which led to frequent altercations between the couple. Surti would often leave for her maternal home after disputes and most recently returned on the eve of June 27. On the night of July 14, Bhavesh reportedly came to Jeram's house and asked about his whereabouts. He left after Jeram's sister, Daya, told him not to enter. Later, Jeram's daughter, Payal, informed the family that Bhavesh had been talking in the village about stabbing her father. The family rushed to the farmland residence and asked Jeram to return home, but he refused, the FIR lodged by the deceased's mother, Hansa, stated. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Seniors Are Ditching Finger Pricks with This Breakthrough Monitor Thelifeh Undo Later that night, a relative informed Hansa that Jeram was attacked. The family rushed him, covered in blood, to the govt hospital in Jasdan in a car, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Surti confirmed during police questioning that she and Jeram were asleep when Bhavesh entered their room with a knife. He allegedly stabbed Jeram twice. During the scuffle, he fled the scene. Jasdan police said Bhavesh has prior charges under the Prohibition Act.
Vancouver Sun
28-05-2025
- Politics
- Vancouver Sun
How voting patterns shifted in Metro Vancouver during the 2024 provincial election
How people vote in Metro Vancouver seems driven by where they live, according to detailed voting results from the last provincial election. Results from B.C.'s 2024 provincial election show a significant geographic consolidation of NDP and Conservative voters — particularly in Metro Vancouver — compared to 2020, according to a Postmedia analysis. Support for the B.C. NDP solidified in Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver and the Tri-Cities. The B.C. Conservative Party consolidated support in Richmond, made big inroads in Surrey and swept nearly everything east of Langley. The analysis was based on voting area data released by Elections B.C. Voting areas are designed to contain 400 to 700 registered voters, which provides significantly more detail on voting patterns than riding-level results. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Here's what we found: In 2020, the B.C. Liberals won scores of voting areas across North Vancouver, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities. In 2024, the B.C. NDP swept virtually all of those cities, with the exception of a few small pockets in Coquitlam. Conservative support in Vancouver — where the B.C. Liberals, which later rebranded as B.C. United, traditionally dominated a number of downtown neighbourhoods and much of the west side — shrunk to little more than a few narrow pockets in Yaletown, the West End, Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy. At least some of that polarization can be attributed to the rightward leaning of the Conservative party, relative to B.C. United, which dropped out of the race. Sanjay Jeram, a political-science professor at SFU, said the rightward shift may have 'scared off' some voters who would have traditionally voted for the B.C. Liberals. 'The cost of moving to the right is that you're going to essentially alienate certain voters,' Jeram said. 'So now you see a little more polarization.' In Richmond, the Conservatives led most voting areas outside of Steveston — a significant change from 2020 when the NDP won in neighbourhoods across the city. In Surrey, which leaned heavily to the NDP in 2020, Conservatives took large swaths of the northwest, Fleetwood and Cloverdale, and other neighbourhoods. Both Jeram and Stewart Prest, a political-science professor at UBC, suggested that public safety, an issue the Conservatives prioritized, may have played a role, given that communities south of the Fraser often lean conservative on social issues. 'If you're asking for a simple answer as to what explains the conservative growth (in Surrey), I would say it's the way they own that issue,' Jeram said. Despite the consolidation of votes around the two main parties, the margin of victory was often much smaller in 2024 than 2020, especially in Metro Vancouver. In Vancouver's Shaughnessy neighbourhood, where the 2020 margin of victory for the B.C. Liberals often approached 80 percentage points, the largest margin was 39 percentage points. In parts of Pitt Meadows where the NDP won by close to 50 points in 2020, the margin of victory in 2024 was often 10 percentage points or less. Both Jeram and Prest said the long-standing idea of a rural/urban political divide is starting to shift. They suggested other markers, like ethnicity and housing density, could be more relevant. 'Different dividing lines are starting to form,' Prest said. B.C.'s Green party is facing an existential crisis, according to the experts Postmedia spoke with. The party, which won just two seats in the last provincial election, struggled outside of the Saanich North and Sea to Sky ridings they won. Both Prest and Jeram said the party's struggle to define itself on issues other than the environment made voting Green a tough proposition in most of the province. 'It's hard to make the case for the continuing relevance of a party that has trouble carving out a distinct and consistent identity on most issues,' Prest said. 'The short answer is, everybody has made up their mind about the environment.' While the NDP suffered significant losses on Vancouver Island and along the northwest coast, they held support in some areas, including near Bella Bella, Hazelton, and near Prince Rupert. The Conservatives borrowed political rhetoric from the federal Conservative party that prioritized workers — an approach that spoke to disengaged voters, both Jeram and Prest said. 'The working class felt disconnected, disadvantaged and not listened to by the NDP,' Jeram said. 'Voters seemed quite willing to come along with John Rustad's version of conservatism,' Prest said. 'By using that federal stamp, I think it really helped build the case that this was a big tent conservative movement.' ngriffiths@
CBC
08-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Jagmeet Singh remains defiant despite NDP's slump in the polls
On a cold, wet Tuesday morning in Vancouver, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and a handful of NDP candidates stood behind a podium to make a policy announcement about building homes. But the focus quickly shifted to the party's viability as its support has taken a serious nosedive ahead of the 2025 federal election. The NDP won 25 seats in the 2021 election, more than half of which were in British Columbia, where the party can usually count on strong support. On April 8, 2025, the CBC Poll Tracker was projecting the NDP would win at most four seats — across the country — in the upcoming election. While that sounds dire, it's actually up from a projected single seat the week prior. A political party needs at least 12 elected members in the House of Commons to be a recognized party or have official party status. When asked by reporters whether he could win his own riding of Burnaby Central, where polls are showing a likely victory for Liberal candidate Wade Chang, Singh dodged the question, instead taking the opportunity to share regular campaign messaging around the importance of this election and the flaws in other parties. When asked a second time, the NDP leader said, "Absolutely." "I'm confident that I'll be able to serve the people of Burnaby Central." Support for the Liberals Singh himself has stopped saying he's running to become Canada's prime minister and instead is now focusing his campaign on asking Canadians to elect more MPs. Murray Rankin, former NDP MP and a B.C. NDP MLA, has voiced support for incumbent Liberal candidate Taleeb Noormohamed in Vancouver Granville. In an op-ed for BNN Bloomberg, former NDP leader Tom Mulcair acknowledged the 2025 election is a two-horse race, as Canadians vote for a government they hope can challenge U.S. President Donald Trump, his trade war and his threats on Canadian sovereignty. "When I was NDP leader, I used to bristle when I heard Liberals warn about not 'splitting the vote.' It seemed so entitled, as if 'the vote' belonged to them," Mulcair wrote. "But now I'm hearing even from diehard, lifelong 'Dippers' (as we jokingly called ourselves), that the risks to Canada are so great that in this election, they're going to be helping and voting for the Liberals." NDP downfall Simon Fraser University political scientist Sanjay Jeram said three factors have led to the near collapse of the NDP: tariffs, the public's desire for their votes to matter and the fact that Singh is the longest-serving leader of the three major parties. Singh has been the leader of the NDP since 2017, whereas Pierre Poilievre took over the Conservative Party in 2022, and Mark Carney became Liberal leader last month. In those seven-and-a-half years, Singh's NDP has yet to form government, and even though it has certainly influenced significant changes in the House of Commons, the party doesn't have its own record to run on, Jeram said. The tariffs, in particular, have sort of shut the NDP out, Jeram said. "Many people are voting simply as who they think will manage that issue best," he said — something it may be difficult for Singh to claim, given the strengths of the other parties. Vancouver voter Al Henry said he'd consider voting for the NDP if he thought it stood a chance of winning the election, but worries his vote wouldn't count for much. Instead he's voting strategically, he said. "I just hope Poilievre does not get in," he said. Jeram said this isn't an unusual concern.
