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City mosque pitches in for refugees Jeremy Deutsch
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As Canadians prepare for the impending influx of thousands of Syrian refugees, a local Burnaby mosque is stepping up to help. The Masjid Al-Salaam and Education Centre has applied to sponsor a refugee family and has been calling on other mosques in the province to do the same. Daud Ismail, the chair of the mosque, explained the congregation has been raising funds to sponsor the family. He noted it costs about $30,000 to sponsor a family of four for the first year, and the mosque has surpassed the number already. “We’re very pleased, it’s moving in the right direction and hopefully we can help these people who are in desperate and dire need,” Ismail told the NOW. He said the centre has been working with other faith-based groups and intends to hold future fundraisers to raise more money for the family. The mosque doesn’t know which specific family it will be sponsoring yet and is awaiting for the application to be approved. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to keep his campaign promise Continued on page 9
HELPING REFUGEES Daud Ismail, the chair of the Masjid Al-Salaam and Education Centre in Burnaby, said the mosque has received an outpouring of support since the Paris terrorist attacks. PHOTO JEREMY DEUTSCH
How much did policing cost the city? Mayor says city taxpayers not stuck with full costs of pipeline protest policing, but RCMP mum on numbers Jennifer Moreau
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to avoid it. After all, their main purpose is to make money, so they don’t give it away,” Corrigan said. Last March, Staff Sgt. Major John Buis said the RCMP would not release the final costs of the operation and suggested the NOW file an access to information request. Under the Access to Information Act, the RCMP’s Ottawa office has 30 days to respond to a request, but in this case, staff took six months provide the documents. Some of the pages are titled “Kinder Morgan expense summary” and include
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It’s been one year since the mass antipipeline arrests on Burnaby Mountain, and there’s still no clear cost for the overall policing operation, but Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan says the city was not stuck with the entire bill. The NOW filed an access to informa-
tion request for documents showing the total cost of the Burnaby Mountain police presence and received what appears to be a partial report for local expenses only, but no one in the RCMP will comment on the data. The issue of who would pay was a contentious one, with Corrigan expressing concerns the city would be on the hook. But Corrigan said the city only paid for Burna-
by’s officers. “We paid for our RCMP and what our RCMP did,” he said. “We certainly haven’t put ourselves in the position of having to accept responsibility for those (other) costs, and there hasn’t been an approach made directly to council at this point in regard to that.” Kinder Morgan has not made any payments for the policing costs, according to Corrigan. “Kinder Morgan talks a big game, but when it comes time to pay the piper, Kinder Morgan is going to do everything they can
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