Tori Stafford Dept: At 3:30 p.m. on April 8, 2009, a dark-coloured car with dark tires and dark rims is spotted northbound on Fyfe Ave. near Oliver Stephens Public School in Woodstock. It appears to be pulling into the parking of a retirement home, a few metres from the school, according to The Star. At 3:33 p.m., a dark-coloured car with dark tires and dark rims is seen fleetingly, northbound again on Fyfe and lONDON, ONT. Tori Stafford was gone in a flash. At 3:32 p.m., Tori is seen walking northbound with a woman in a puffy white jacket; the two appear to be going to the nursing home s parking lot. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Baby Names Dept: Eight Princes. Six Princesses. And one Princewill, according to The Star. Vital statistics for 2011 show the royal visit by William and his bride Kate inspired a lot of baby names in the province and eDMONTON There will be no shortage of royalty in Alberta playschools a few years from now. Also a Queen, a Lady, a Duke and a Lord. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Gandhi Dept: With early returns showing Congress coming in fourth place in the Uttar Pradesh polls, party icon Rahul Gandhi admitted defeat. Gandhi, seen as his party s likely next prime ministerial candidate, had put his reputation on the line by campaigning relentlessly across India s most populous state, according to The Star. Mayawati, the bottom-caste dalit leader who is the state s incumbent chief minister, also suffered a crushing defeat as the socialist Samajwadi Party s victory appeared strong enough to allow it to form a government on its own and lUCKNOW, INDIA India s governing Congress party was badly beaten in a key state election Tuesday, a sharp rebuke that could cripple the already embattled national government over the final two years of its term. I led this campaign and I was the person in front. The responsibility is mine, Gandhi said, adding that his party had poor organization in the state. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Cots Dept: So it takes a while to realize there are nearly 100 people in the square of dirt on the edge of the cotton-sellers district in the Indian capital. All are asleep in handmade wooden cots jammed one against the other. Dozens more people sleep around a battered empty fountain nearby, according to The Star. PHOTOS: Inside Meena Bazaar Park No. 2 parking lot NEW DELHI There is almost no movement in the pre-dawn cold, when the winter fog sits low over the old city and the only light comes from distant street lamps. The parking lot is silent, except for the occasional hacking cough. In a few hours, workers will haul away the cots and Meena Bazaar Park No. 2 will fill with cars. By 9 a.m. the overnight community will have disappeared. Its residents will carry their meagre possessions in plastic shopping bags until nightfall, when the lot once again will turn into a makeshift outdoor motel. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mitt Romney Dept: U.S. election coverage, according to The Star. Romney, who turned back Santorum in a close contest in Michigan last week, hoped to continue his winning trend, having won four consecutive contests including Saturday's Washington state caucuses and wASHINGTON The outcome of Republican primary and caucus votes in 10 states Tuesday offers Mitt Romney yet another chance to become the party's inevitable nominee to face President Barack Obama in November. That will depend largely on the vote in the bellwether state of Ohio, where polls show the former Massachusetts governor and Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, in a virtual tie. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Dept: Raguruban Yogarajah is charged with fraud over $5,000, attempted fraud and public mischief, according to The Star. He declined to comment further on his lawyer s advice and the Ajax man at the centre of an Internet storm caused by a fender bender caught on a dashboard camera has been charged by police in the collision. I know I m innocent, he said Tuesday. I guess we ll have to wait and go through all this to prove it . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Benghazi Dept: Thousands of representatives of major tribes, militia commanders and politicians made the declaration in the main eastern city of Benghazi, insisting it was not intended to divide the country. They said they want their region to remain part of a united Libya, but needed to do this to stop decades of discrimination against the east, according to The Star. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the Tripoli-based interim central government known as the National Transitional Council, warned the declaration leads to danger of eventually breaking up the country. But he also said it was to be expected, because the east played a pivotal role in ending Gadhafi s rule and bENGHAZI, LIBYA Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semi-autonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a dangerous conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. The conference declared that the eastern state, known as Barqa, would have its own parliament, police force, courts and capital Benghazi to run its affairs. Foreign policy, the national army and oil resources would be left to the central government in Tripoli in the west. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Wrecking Ball Dept: The album has been growing on me with each play; it starts out heavy-handed, but by the end it moves from duty to pleasure. Springsteen definitely picked the right title song. Wrecking Ball, written from the first-person point of view of the old Giants Stadium, turns a conceit into a homily into a hoot, according to The Chronicle Herald and jON PARELES: Jon, if good intentions were all that mattered, Bruce Springsteen s Wrecking Ball would be a shoo-in for album of the year which is, not coincidentally, an election year. Wrecking Ball is Springsteen s latest manifesto in support of the workingman. It s sincere, ambitious and angry, which can lead to mixed outcomes. It also which may be a surprise on an album billed as a broadside holds some of Springsteen s most elaborate studio concoctions since Born to Run. But he was less strategic making We Take Care of Our Own, the first single. In my imagination he was watching that Republican debate when someone in the audience cheered the idea of letting the uninsured die, and his sense of duty kicked in; he thought he should write a song that insists compassion is patriotic. It s a trademark E Street Band sound, from the chord changes to the glockenspiel to the backup vocals, and it feels awkward and hectoring. I don t think, as you wrote after the Grammys, that it s jingoistic, only that it tries to associate flag-waving nationalism with shared responsibility. But there s much better stuff on the album. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Postmedia News Dept: Baird will be the first Canadian foreign minister to visit the southeast Asian nation. The trip will likely be officially announced Tuesday, according to Vancouver Sun. "We are visiting at a time when we're cautiously optimistic about recent changes," a source told Postmedia News. "While we're not at a point of lifting sanctions, we want to make sure advances made are not reversible." Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird will make a rare visit to Burma, one of Asia's most repressive and dictatorial regimes, amid signs the ruling military junta will allow more democratic freedoms in the country. In response to widespread human-rights abuses and military crackdowns against protesters, Canada imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions against Burma in 1988. These sanctions ban military exports to the country, hinder trade, and deny visas to senior members of the regime. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Stephen Harper Dept: The leaders of Canada s two most populous provinces say they fear more responsibilities will be downloaded to the provinces in the federal budget later this month, according to The Chronicle Herald. "When you download responsibilities or costs from one level of government to the next, taxpayers simply pay the same costs to a different government," he said. "In the end, no one wins." TORONTO Prime Minister Stephen Harper s cash-strapped government will try to balance its books on the back of the provinces, the premiers of Ontario and Quebec said Monday. The same thing happened in the 1990s under former prime minister Jean Chretien s Liberal government, but it s "nothing but a shell game," said Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.