Burnaby Now November 18 2016

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HANDCRAFTED TREASURES

Ryan Moon takes a picture of high-fire porcelain by Gloria Stephens at the Burnaby Potters’ Guild winter show and sale at the Capitol Hill Community Hall on Saturday. The show, which is one of two main annul events for the Burnabybased ceramic artists’ group, was held Nov. 12 and 13. It featured the work of guild members in a range of styles and techniques, and it gave local folks a chance to start some early Christmas shopping. For more on the guild, check out their website at www. burnabypottersguild. yolasite.com, and see more photos at www. burnabynow.com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

PIPELINE PROTESTER SENTENCED TO PROBATION

Judge calls him ‘immature and arrogant’ By Jeremy Deutsch

jdeutsch@burnabynow.com

Sitting in a Downtown Eastside coffee shop, Jakub Markiewicz remains defiant. Defiant of a court system that only a few minutes earlier slapped him with a criminal record he’ll carry around as he enters his 20s and beyond. “Literally rapists don’t even get

charged, police don’t even respond to calls from crisis workers in the Downtown Eastside, and then protesting results in this,” Markiewicz told the NOW, in response to the end result of his legal battles for protesting Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. On Wednesday, provincial court judge Laura Bakan sentenced the 20-year-old to 15 months’ proba-

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tion for two assaults on Burnaby Mountain back in March 2015. Markiewicz will also have to abide by a number of conditions, including staying 100 metres away from any Kinder Morgan drill sites or survey work on Burnaby Mountain. The case began on March 16, 2015, when the then 18-year-old tried to disrupt work along the pipeline on Burnaby Mountain.

Court heard Markiewicz was videotaping contractors at the site, when he grabbed a log and approached a worker. Eventually the two started to tussle, with the log in Markiewicz’s hand, before it was dropped. Eight days later, the teen was back on the mountain. He began filming a Metro Vancouver crew carrying out road survey work, which was not related to the pipe-

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line. At one point, Markiewicz kicked a surveyor in the leg and the two began throwing punches at each other. He was found guilty of one charge of assault with a weapon and one of assault in August. Crown was seeking a jail sentence of 10 days for each assault conviction and two years’ probation, while the defence was Continued on page 8

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