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LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
We’re ‘With Her’ in Burnaby vote
AVietnam vet from San Francisco dropped by to cast a vote for Trump By Jeremy Deutsch
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You could just give Hillary Clinton the presidency, well, if Burnaby residents could actually take part in the U.S. election. After nearly two months, and with just days left before the real thing, a poll in front of Jennifer April’s Burnaby home shows this part of Canada is clearly With Her. The unscientific poll has Clinton ahead of Republican nominee Donald Trump by about a five-tothree margin, with more than 300 votes cast, which likely isn’t a November surprise to many. “People are still voting,” April told the NOW. “Daytime, nighttime, I think a lot of people come at nighttime because they don’t want their ballot to be seen, who they’re voting for.” April, who is American, was on a trip to her native Delaware with her Canadian husband in late August when they got the idea for the mock ballot and picked up some election signs along the way. CLINTON FOR THE WIN: Burnaby residents Jennifer April, who is American, and her Canadian husband Michael Matich have been collecting mock votes in front The NOW featured the couple’s of their house for the U.S. election. With just days left before the big day, Democrat Hillary Clinton is well ahead of Republican Donald Trump. FILE PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR Continued on page 4
ON TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE
Experts want independent health impact report By Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
The federal government must conduct an independent review of the health impacts of the proposed
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline before it makes a decision in December, according to a group of Canadian experts who recently released a report, outlining the short term and
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long-term health risks of the $6.8-billion project. If the proposed expansion is approved by the Liberal cabinet, pipeline capacity would increase from 300,000 barrels of oil per
day to 890,000, while tanker traffic in the Salish Sea would grow from five tankers a month to 35.The report outlines concerns should there be a spill in the Burrard Inlet or a fire at the
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Burnaby Mountain tank farm. One issue is increased exposure to carcinogens like benzene. “What is required to make the bitumen move through a pipeline is es-
sentially gasoline, so a spill would have large-scale emissions of these carcinogens, many of which are associated with childhood leukemia and other cancers. Continued on page 8
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