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Solving this problem takes cold cash Cornelia Naylor staff reporter
Burnaby teen Pasindu Muthukuda is grappling with some big problems. As one of the top five high school physics students in the country and the only Western Canadian to qualify for the 45th International Physics Olympiad in Kazakhstan this summer, he will spend the next two months practising problems designed to shed light on the very nature of the universe – space, time, matter, motion, energy and force. He will also be trying to figure out how to pay for his plane ticket. Muthukuda, a 16-year-old who graduates from Burnaby Central this month, qualified for the International Physics Olympiad July 13 to 21 with a top-five score on the Canadian Association of Physicists exam in April. In the past, that would have earned him a free trip to the Canadian Physics Olympiad, a weeklong physics camp and competition for the country’s top 15 young physicists – five of whom would have been chosen and funded to represent Canada at the prestigious international competition. But after decades of bringing together the country’s best and brightest young physicists, the national event was cancelled this year because of a lack of funds. Canada will still have a team in Kazakhstan Physics Page 12
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Physics whiz: Burnaby Central Grade 12 student Pasindu Muthukuda takes a study break at the Tommy Douglas
library in Burnaby. The 16-year-old is headed to Kazakhstan for the 45th International Physics Olympiad next month after earning a top-five score on the Canadian Association of Physicists exam in April.
City woman fights for mandatory defibrillator law Cornelia Naylor staff reporter
A Burnaby woman who has worked for six years to make defibrillators as common in public as fire extinguishers doesn’t think new provincial funding announced recently goes far enough. She wants a law. Denise Giammaria’s husband – a fit, 43year-old father of three – died of a sudden cardiac arrest during a hockey game six
years ago. Since then, the Gianfranco Giammaria Memorial Society has placed 64 life-saving Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in public places in Burnaby, Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver and Pitt Meadows. In February 2013, the Heart and Stoke Foundation launched a parallel B.C. program and also began placing AEDs – matching $1 million in funding from the provincial government.
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That funding was increased by another $1 million last month and will allow Heart and Stroke to place a total of 750 defibrillators in communities around the province over the next three years. But for a province as big as B.C. that’s not enough for Giammaria, who has seen how ubiquitous the life-saving machines are in places with laws mandating their availability. “We were in the States, and my kids counted 25 steps between one AED and Expiry date: June 30, 2014
another,” she said. “Then I found out it’s a law in the States.” B.C. is late to the game when it comes to AEDs, according to Mark Collison, director of advocacy for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. He said Ontario has already placed about 5,000 AEDs, spent more than $10 million and passed legislation protecting people from liability if they help someone Mandatory Page 9
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