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Friday, November 7, 2014 NewsLeader A1
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This Remembrance Day we mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, and the 75th anniversary of the start of World War II. See Page A10
Gas pipeline upgrades spark concerns Existing line nearing end of life: FortisBC Wanda Chow
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Mark David Smith gets into character as he prepares for the launch of his first novel for young adults that tells the story of Caravaggio, a swashbuckling painter in Renaissance Italy. Smith knows his audience well, as he’s an English teacher at Byrne Creek community secondary school.
All-candidates meeting heats up debate Wanda Chow
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About 100 people packed into a basement room of Gilmore Community School Tuesday evening to catch the first sparring match of the election campaign. Five candidates from each of the two main Burnaby parties, along with independents Helen Chang and Sylvia Gung, both running for mayor, and school board candidate Elias Ishak, took questions from the crowd in the oft-heated debate.
North Burnaby legion president Dave Taylor said he was “appalled” at the mess he says he saw on Burnaby Mountain, left by those protesting and trying to prevent Kinder Morgan’s study work for its proposed pipeline project. He asked why the city isn’t clearing out the protesters. “We were told to stay off the mountain, to stay out of the
activities of Kinder Morgan,” replied incumbent Mayor Derek Corrigan of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA), referring to decisions by the National Energy Board and BC Supreme Court. “I wanted to enforce our bylaws, I’m sorry we weren’t allowed to.” His Burnaby First Coalition (BFC) mayoral opponent, Daren
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Hancott, responded, “Basically, he chooses which bylaws to enforce.” Incumbent BCA Coun. Nick Volkow asked BFC council candidate Matthew Hartney how he thinks he can deliver city services on his promise of three years with no tax increase. Volkow noted that as director of finance in North Battleford, Sask., Hartney called for a 4.99 per cent tax increase in 2013.
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Brentwood residents are raising concerns about a new natural gas pipeline proposed for their neighbourhood. Highlawn Drive residents Frank Ong and Sean Rodrigues, accompanied by a large group of supporters, spoke to Burnaby council on Monday of their worries over the FortisBC line that’s proposed to be routed underneath their street. Ong said 54 homeowners in the 4600 to 4800-blocks of Highlawn have signed their petition opposing the project. “They want to install a high pressure gas line that’s 70 feet from my children’s pillow.” While Rodrigues said he understands the necessity of the line, he said, “This is not a distribution line, this is a transmission line that is 30 inches in diameter, it carries high pressure gas at 300 pounds per square inch.” Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan was sympathetic but quashed suggestions the project is akin to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion. see PROPOSED, A3