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HEALTH

Burnaby school trips cancelled Cornelia Naylor

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The Burnaby school district has cancelled all international school trips this year and is keeping an eye on domestic field trips and other school events because of growing coronavirus concerns.

In a letter to parents, superintendent Gina Niccoli-Moen announced three trips to NewYork City, three trips to Washington State and one trip to Germany, Italy and Switzerland would not be going ahead because of the “rapidly evolving situation” surrounding the spread of the deadly virus in countries around the world.

The cancellations will affect students at Burnaby South, Burnaby North, Burnaby Mountain, Cariboo Hill and the B.C. School for the Deaf.

“We know that a great deal of planning goes into these trips and many students, staff and families will be disappointed,” Niccoli-Moen said. “We certainly share that disappointment.

However, our top priority remains the safety of our community, and, as the list of countries and regions impacted by COVID-19 continues to grow every day, we believe it is prudent to act with an abundance of caution.”

Anyone with questions about the cancellations was asked to contact their school directly.

Along with cancelling all international trips this year, the district is monitoring domestic trips and advising the board not to approve any more that involve air travel, according to assistant superintendent Roberto Bombelli.

He told the board Tuesday that the district is also keeping an eye on school events that aren’t trips but fall under the “social gatherings” public health officials have started cautioning people to avoid.

“With principals, we are monitoring those events and will continue to do so, as things may change over time,” Bombelli said.

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Anyone who “The man then might be able to drove off in a darkidentify the suspect coloured fourin the sketch or door sedan,” said might have inforRCMP released this mation about this RCMP. composite sketch.

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Empty transit bus rolls away, hits pole

Chris Campbell

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Nobody was hurt in an incident Saturday in which a rolling transit bus took out a power pole in Burnaby.

The incident happened at Gilmore Avenue and Kitchener Street before 10 a.m.

A Coast Mountain bus had broken down and was stopped at a bus stop with no one on board.

A repair crew showed up and decided the bus needed to be towed. A towing company arrived, and, during the process of hooking up the bus, the bus rolled downhill about 75 feet, sheared a BC Hydro pole and came to rest partly in the front yard of a home and the roadway.

No injuries were reported, but the road was closed for several hours to allow BC Hydro to repair the damage and for crews to remove the bus.

There was also a power outage in the area.

Expanded role: NOW publisher Lara Graham. PHOTO NOW FILES

NOW publisher has a new role

Bus crash: A Coast Mountain bus was wrapped up in power wires after rolling away on Saturday. PHOTO SHANE MACKICHAN

Stop the presses – the Burnaby NOW has some news to share about our esteemed publisher.

Lara Graham has recently been appointed publisher of Glacier Media sister publication, The Tri-City News, which covers Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody.

Graham is also publisher of the NewWestminster Record, and she will continue in that role, as well as continuing as publisher of the NOW.

SAFETY

Union sounds alarm as ambulance station set to close Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

The union that represents ambulance workers is warning the planned closure of the lone ambulance station in North Burnaby will mean slower response times for patients.

B.C. Emergency Health Services told crews at the end of February they were being moved from Station 258 on Douglas Road near Boundary Road to a new station, Station 240, built last year at 5901 Delesalle St. in the Royal Oak area.

The news caught the paramedics union completely off guard, according to Ambulance Paramedics & Emergency Dispatchers of B.C. president Troy Clifford.

Clifford shot BCEHS a letter on Feb. 28 after hearing the news from members.

“First and foremost, we are concerned for the citizens and patients who will be adversely affected by the decreased service level and/ or response times,” Clifford said in the letter.

He went on to ask what consultation had been done with stakeholders or the public about the closure.

He also asked why the

station was being closed and what evidence BCEHS had used to make the decision.

Clifford then requested plans to close the station be put on hold until proper consultation and analysis can be done.

But BCEHS spokesperson Shannon Miller told the NOW the Douglas Road station isn’t closing – all the paramedic crews and unit chiefs are just being moved to the Delesalle Station on the other side of the city.

Modelled on an ambulance station hub in Victoria, the purpose-built, 46,700-square-foot Delesalle facility will “improve ambulance response times for the local community in Burnaby,” according to Miller.

“There has been no change in resources to the community,” she said. “Indeed, Delesalle with its multi-station approach offers more potential resources to respond to medical emergencies in Burnaby.”

Crews from two other area stations have already moved into Delesalle along with BCEHS’s logistics and maintenance operations, according to Miller.

She said she didn’t know how the paramedics union

could have been taken off guard.

“Delesalle has been open for a year, and everybody knew this was happening,” she said.

But city councillors who approved rezoning and the sale of city land for the Delesalle station a few years ago knew of no such plan until this week, according to Coun. Colleen Jordan.

Jordan was on the city’s planning and development committee, which received a report about the Delesalle plan in October 2015.

It said the proposed facility would relocate and consolidate two former ambulance stations in Vancouver and New Westminster, as well as a special operations/ emergency management operations facility in North Delta.

“It is noted that the North Burnaby area will continue to be served by the BC Ambulance Centre facility located at 925 Douglas Rd.,” stated the report.

“There was never the thought that the north one would disappear,” Jordan told the NOW. Jordan said there had been no consultation with the city about the closure of the Douglas Road sta-

New station: BC Ambulance Station 240 at 5901 Delesalle St. in Burnaby PHOTO BCEHS

tion, and she echoed Clifford’s concerns about slower response times in North Burnaby.

“Going across Burnaby north and south is not easy, especially SFU,” she said.

“I think that’s a concern.

Even with lights and sirens I would think it’s considerably longer.”

Jordan acknowledged, however, that ambulanc-

es – unlike fire trucks – are often on the road already when responding to calls, so the location of the stations doesn’t always correlate with response times.

BCEHS made the same point.

“In busy metro communities, the ambulance station location has very little impact on response time,” Miller said. “Most all avail-

able paramedics are out of the station during shifts, particularly during the day when call volume is high and they can go from patient response to hospital to another patient response.”

Clifford, however, maintained that closing the Douglas Road station will impact response time and that paramedics not having any breaks speaks more to the service being under-resourced.

“Hopefully we’d have enough resources that they would have some sort of reasonable down time between calls to look after their mental health and wellness and eat and do their paperwork,” Clifford said.

Staff at the Douglas Road station were notified of the move on Feb. 25, according to BCEHS.They will get a 60-day notice shortly with the specific move date, Miller said. She said BCEHS’s lease for the Douglas station property was renewed last fall and expires in April 2025.

“BCEHS is currently reviewing plans for the future use of the station, including potentially a rest-and-ready facility, a station annex or another use,” Miller said.

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Smudging tenant wins case Cornelia Naylor

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A woman who “endured repeated comments over months based on stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples” from her Burnaby landlord has been awarded more than $23,000 by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

Crystal Smith, a member of the Tsimshian and Haisla Nations, filed a discrimination complaint with the tribunal after her landlord, Parminder Mohan, tried to evict her from a basement suite in 2017.

He had accused her of smoking marijuana and covering it up with burning sage, according to tribunal

documents.

But Smith, a teacher and single mother of two, said she didn’t smoke pot and what she was doing in the apartment was smudging as part of her spiritual and cultural practices.

Smith also alleged Mohan had made comments before and during her tenancy that she found offensive and that she said were discriminatory harassment based on stereotypes about Indigenous people.

Mohan said comments he made to Smith were “not discrimination but instead efforts at intercultural dialogue,” according to a tribunal ruling last month.

But Smith said she found his comments and jokes

about her Indigenous identity and spiritual practices “exhausting and burdensome.”

“It was not one comment,” stated tribunal member Pamela Murray in a Feb. 28 ruling in favour of Smith. “It was a pattern of comments and invasive questions over a number of months based at least in part on Ms. Smith’s protected characteristics and in some cases on stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples.”

Murray ordered Mohan to pay Smith $20,000 for “injury to her dignity, feelings and self-respect,” $1,500 for lost wages and $1,800 in expenses related to the case.

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CRIME

Cops warn about spike in break-ins Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

Burnaby RCMP is warning people who live in lower-level apartments about a spike in break-and-enters in the city.

Since Jan. 1, there have been 15 break-ins at lowerlevel apartments in Burnaby, mostly in the area

around Kingsway, Rumble Street, Royal Oak Avenue and Gilley Avenue and the area south of the Edmonds SkyTrain station, near Taylor Park, according police.

The burglars have struck between 4 and 9 p.m. on all days of the week, targeting small portable items, such as computers, electronic devices, jewelry and handbags,

police said.

“Being a victim of property crime can be frightening and frustrating,” Cpl. Mike Kalanj said in a press release. “We are asking that members of our community take a look at the advice we’re providing to lower the chances of becoming a victim and to increase the safety of your home.”

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Opinionnow OUR VIEW

When it comes to COVID-19, listen to the experts

When it comes to COVID-19, be careful where you get your information from.

Stick to the advice of experts, such as these tips from HealthLinkBC, instead of “what my friend heard on Facebook.”

HOW IS THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, OR COVID-19, SPREAD? • Droplets spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

• Close personal contact such as touching or shaking hands.

• Touching an object with the virus on it, then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes before washing your hands.

HOW CAN YOU PREVENT IT? • Wash your hands regularly with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.

• If a sink is not available, use alcohol-based handrubs to clean your hands as long as they are not visibly soiled. If they are visibly soiled, use a wipe and then a rub.

• Don’t touch your eyes, nose or mouth.

• If you sneeze or cough, cover your mouth and nose with a disposable tissue or the crease of your elbow.

• Regularly clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces • Do not share food, drinks, utensils, etc.

SHOULD I WEAR A MASK? • If you are sick, wearing a mask helps prevent you from passing on illnesses to other people.

• If you are not sick, it

may be less effective to wear a mask in the community.

COMMON SYMPTOMS: • Fever, cough, difficulty breathing.

• The available information suggests the incubation period is up to 14 days — the time from when a person is first exposed until symptoms appear.

IF YOU START EXPERIENCING SYMPTOMS: • Isolate yourself from others immediately.

• Call a health care professional, a local public health authority or 811.

• Describe your symptoms and travel history.You will receive advice on what to do.

• If you plan to visit a health-care provider, call ahead so that they can arrange to have you assessed.

• Wear a mask to protect others.

• Travellers returning from the affected areas listed should self-monitor by taking their temperature in the morning and at night-

time, using a digital thermometer by mouth (oral).

Do not take acetaminophen (e.g.Tylenol) or ibuprofen (e.g. Advil) during the 14day self-isolation period unless your health-care provider advises otherwise.

If you have concerns or questions about your health, contact HealthLinkBC at 811 or speak with your health care provider.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Go to healthlinkbc.ca/ health-feature/coronaviruscovid-19

MY VIEW CHRIS CAMPBELL

Learning to adjust with COVID-19

Protocols to deal with COVID-19 are changing with everything from travel to your local lab.

Don’t just assume your elderly parent can simply adjust to this new era without support from you.

That’s the message I received from a Burnaby woman who just wanted to be known as Phyllis L. She said her mother had a “traumatic experience” at a lab in Burnaby last week and she wanted to share some lessons she learned from it so others don’t have to suffer.

“Thankfully, it was resolved; however, I recommend that all seniors should be aware of it,” said Phyllis, who detailed how her Chinese mother struggled with new questions asked at the lab during blood testing requested by her family doctor.

With the COVID-19 spreading on a scary scale, procedures at labs have changed.

This lab asked these questions: 1. Are you sick at the moment?

2. Have you travelled to the countries on this list (updated countries with COVOID 19 cases)?

3. Have you had any contacts with anyone who is a probable case of COVID 19?

“Normally, my mother has no trouble answering to simple questions like her name or birthdate or whether she had had breakfast that morning,” Phyllis said.

“Unfortunately, my mother was not able to understand those questions and answer them in English. She

was skipped and possibly bumped to the end of the queue. Later, she was given something to read in Chinese, but by then she felt anxious and embarrassed as she could not reply in English.”

Phyllis said her goal is not to criticize the lab in question, but to remind seniors and family members, especially those where English is a second language, that things have changed and people need to be prepared.

“I believed the staff were trying to wait for a patient or a staff who might come in later that could translate, but my mother was traumatized not understanding why she was not assisted,” said Phyllis.

This is an important message as we all try and adjust to COVID-19.

“Last but not least, I just want to say, immigrants like my Chinese mom have tried their very best to submerge into a new culture and to learn the language,” she said.

“My mother is 84 – she now manages to run her life independently. So, being able to go to a lab to do a regular blood test is quite an achievement for her.Though this experience was far from pleasant for my mother, I must say, I benefited from learning about the new procedures – many seniors do these tests a few times a month plus there are quite a large population of Asian immigrants in Burnaby. I truly hope others would not experience like what my mom did.”

This is solid advice.

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Guard robbed with own weapon

A lone Brinks armoured car guard was robbed of a bag of money with his own weapon in a daring morning attack at the Revy garden centre by Edmonds Street and Kingsway in April.The attacker entered the store and pretended to be a customer until he got close enough to the guard. He then grabbed the Brinks employee’s 38-calibre SmithWesson, knocked him over the head with it and took off with a money bag in a getaway vehicle driven by a second man.

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Don’t warn HOV cheats Editor: For years I have been frustrated with radio stations announcing where the police are set up to catch cheaters in HOV lanes.

All this does is to allow “regular” cheaters to avoid being caught for that day. It is my opinion that this warning is wrong.

Let these drivers get caught. Perhaps the fine they receive is the warning they deserve.

I do not accept that the radio warning creates a greater public awareness. These cheaters are clearly not interested in public awareness. They are already aware they are cheaters. And, if they show this disrespectful action in HOV lanes, where else are they demonstrating this to the general public? Speeding?

Let these people get caught.

Brian Macnair

Burnaby is good at planting new trees Editor: Re: Burnaby does a poor job of replacing and protecting trees, NOW Letters, Feb. 26 I’d like to correct some of the claims made by the letter writer.

City of Burnaby arborists take special care to ensure the vast majority of the hundreds of trees we plant each year grow into mature, healthy trees.

Every time a new tree goes into the ground, our planting crews follow specific guidelines to ensure that mulch rings do not trap excess moisture

around a tree’s base. Even the mulch is designed to promote air and moisture circulation, as it is made from coarse wood chips, recycled from the city’s own pruning activities.

We know that Burnaby residents are passionate about our urban forest. Every year, our forestry department plants thousands of new trees and ensures the health of mature trees through regular checkups and inspections.

Last fall, our crews planted 478 trees along Southridge Drive, representing only a fraction of the total number of trees planted last season.

We wouldn’t be able to complete projects of this scope without the expertise of our forestry department.

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Robbed of sleep Editor: I went to sleep, as usual, as per the old B.C. standard time, anxious of daylight robbery of an hour. However, I could not warn my old bones of the robbery or loss of one hour.

Sure enough, the next morning the real time on my electronic gadget, with auto reset time app, showed that we had been robbed of an hour of our necessary sleep to rejuvenate our bodies, especially that of the old folks.

I can only speculate as to who robbed us. I could be wrong. I suspect the influential business and the knee-jerk political governing bodies of the jurisdictions influence the arbitrary decision to change time clocks twice a year, oblivious to natural rhythm of body clocks.

Charnjit Singh Bal, Burnaby

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CITY-INITIATED LOCAL AREA SERVICE

CITY-INITIATED LOCAL AREA SERVICE

The City of Burnaby intends to construct local improvement (installation of street lights) on the street described below. Annual Local Area Service charges against individual properties concerned may continue for 10 years. Property owners will have the option to make one lump sum payment the first year billed by the property tax due date, an annual payment for 10 years at an interest rate of 3.16%, or payment of the remaining balance in any subsequent year.

The City of Burnaby intends to construct local improvement (street upgrade including road paving, curb and gutter, sidewalks, boulevard and street trees) on the street described below.

Annual Local Area Service charges against individual properties concerned may continue for 15 years. Property owners will have the option to make one lump sum payment the first year billed by the property tax due date, an annual payment for 15 years at an interest rate of 3.16%, or payment of the remaining balance in any subsequent year.

Project Number Location of Work

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20-401

$95,000.00

$90,962.50 (95.75%)

$4,037.50 (4.25%)

Phillips Avenue, from Winston Street to south of 4027 Phillips Avenue

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Total Estimated Costs

Phillips Avenue, from $2,321,000.00 Winston Street south to end of cul-de-sac

City’s Share of Total Cost

Owner’s Share of Total Cost

$2,265,063.90 (97.59%)

$55,936.10 (2.41%)

The City will deliver a local improvement petition, by Canada Post, to affected property owners.

Property owners who wish to submit a petition against the local improvement (street lights) have 30 days to do so. The 30 day period commences on March 12, 2020. All petitions must be submitted by April 15, 2020 as follows:

The City will deliver a local improvement petition, by Canada Post, to affected property owners.

Property owners who wish to submit a petition against the local improvement (street upgrade) have 30 days to do so. The 30 day period commences on March 12, 2020. All petitions must be submitted by April 15, 2020 as follows:

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Office of the City Clerk, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C. V5G 1M2; or clerks@burnaby.ca; or 604-294-7537; or Office of the City Clerk, Burnaby City Hall

City Council may proceed with the local improvement unless it receives sufficient petitions against the service by April 15, 2020.

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City Council may proceed with the local improvement unless it receives sufficient petitions against the service by April 15, 2020.

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The new public EV charging stations are located at the following locations:

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All city-owned stalls operate on a pay-per-charge basis ($2 per hour between 6am and 10pm, $1 per hour from 10pm to 6am), plus applicable parking meter rates. And it’s easy to check the availability of any of the stalls across the city by downloading the ChargePoint mobile app.

Burnaby’s emissions coming from transportation, making the switch to an electric vehicle is a move that will put money in your pocket and benefit your community at the same time.

Providing electric vehicle charging stations is part of our strategy to reduce carbon emissions in Burnaby. With 50 per cent of

Let’s work together to achieve our goal to become carbon neutral city by 2050!

The 14 EV charging stalls that are active today are the first wave of charging stations installed in our community, with more on the way this year.

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Copies of the proposed bylaws may be inspected at the Office of the City Clerk at 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C., V5G 1M2 from 8am to 4:45pm weekdays until 2020 March 24.

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The Director Planning and Building’s reports and related information respecting the zoning bylaw amendments are available for public examination at the offices of the Planning Department, 3rd floor, in Burnaby City Hall.

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The Council of the City of Burnaby hereby gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by a proposed bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard: » in person at the Public Hearing » in writing should you be unable to attend the Public Hearing: Email clerks@burnaby.ca Letter Office of the City Clerk 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby V5G 1M2 Fax 604-294-7537

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CITY OF BURNABY– ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENTS – PUBLIC HEARING

2) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment 1) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Bylaw No. 5, 2020 - Bylaw No. 14133 Amendment Bylaw No. 4, 2020 - Bylaw No. 14132 Rez. #19-12 Rez. #18-37 Portion of 5255 North Fraser Way 4279 Norland Avenue From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on M2 General Industrial District, and From: P5 Community Institutional District M5 Light Industrial District) To: CD Comprehensive Development District To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development (based on P5 Community Institutional District (based on M2 General Industrial District, District, RM3 Multiple Family Residential M5 Light Industrial District, M5r Light Industrial District and Central Administrative Area District, the Big Bend Development Plan, and Plan as guidelines and in accordance the Glenlyon Concept Plan guidelines and in with the development plan entitled accordance with the development plan entitled “Dania Seniors Affordable Housing” “5255 North Fraser Way, Burnaby BC” prepared prepared by NSDA Architects)

by Taylor Kurtz Architecture and Design Inc.) The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment amendment is to permit the redevelopment is to permit the construction of two 2-storey light of the site for a new seniors’ non-market industrial and office buildings with an accessory rental housing development. restaurant/café.

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City now HOUSING

Council passes rental policies Dustin Godfrey

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Mixed messages came from advocates and elected officials as two landmark rental policies were finalized in Burnaby City Hall.

Activists with ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) called the policies convoluted and confusing and expressed concern it could leave some renters without demoviction protections. By contrast, councillors hailed the policies, officially passed in Monday’s council meeting, as the “best in Canada.”

The rental-use zoning policy is intended to guarantee rentals in multi-family projects throughout most of the city, while the tenant assistance policy extends rights of tenants who are demovicted for new developments.

That includes an obligation for developers to ensure renters who are demovicted – evicted so developers can

tear down and build anew on that property – have a place to stay during the construction of the new place at the same rent as they were paying before. It also provides “right of first refusal” for a spot at the new location, again to be offered at the same rent they were paying before, plus inflation.

The final zoning policy, among other things, requires developers to set aside 20% of the units allowed on the property for “affordable” rentals at 20% below the median market rentals in the area recorded by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

In Monday’s council meeting, councillors praised the completion of the pair of policies.

“This is an important night.We are finalizing a rental-use zoning policy that will shape our city well into the future,” Mayor Mike Hurley said.

“This policy is the bedrock on which we will see new rental housing built in

neighbourhoods all across the city.”

Advocates, however, had mixed reviews of the policies, with ACORN’s Burnaby leader Murray Martin acknowledging it is likely the best in Canada – but that’s a low bar to clear, he added.

He said he had some concerns about the city abandoning vacancy control – limiting rent hikes in a unit between renters – in favour of tying rents to the CMHC median in the zoning policy.

“But that’s a minor concern compared to the immediate concern of people being thrown out of their homes and being homeless, if that makes sense,” he said, referring to the tenant assistance policy.

In particular, he pointed to part of the policy that addresses former tenants of units that are vacant at the time of the rezoning application, concerned it may leave loopholes for developers. He said three people who read the policy each

had different takes on what it meant for renters.

An added challenge, Martin noted, was the complicated nature of the policy, which he said ACORN didn’t have help to digest from lawyers or others familiar with policies.

In large part, Martin said the issue stems from a lack of consultation with ACORN on the finalized policy, which has left him scrambling to get a firm grasp on the policies. Martin, along with others connected to the city’s now-defunct housing task force, said he was told he would be able to get an advance copy of the finalized policy and to provide feedback.

Instead, Martin said, he got an email at 3 p.m. last Friday and had to use the weekend to try to go through the 26-page document, along with the 21page zoning policy, to try to understand it before forming an opinion on it.

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Deer Lake Gallery welcomes spring equinox Annual show of two- and three-dimensional works celebrating light returns to Burnaby March 21 Julie MacLellan

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For many artists and art lovers in Burnaby, it’s become a rite of spring.

It’s the night when Deer Lake Gallery throws open its doors, setting both indoors and outdoors ablaze with light and fire and colour and sound and inviting the world in to mark the night when light returns to the earth.

This is the opening night of Luminescence, an annual exhibition of two- and threedimensional works celebrating light, held each year to mark the spring equinox.

The Burnaby Arts Council is presenting the fifth edition of the show from March 21 to April 25. An opening night celebration – featuring DJ, fire performance, food and drinks along with indoor and outdoor art – is set for Saturday, March 21.

Since its first year in 2016, when the show went unexpectedly viral and an estimated thousand or more people lined up down Deer Lake Avenue to take in opening night, Luminescence has been building a reputation as one of the shows to watch for on the Lower Mainland arts calendar.

“It’s really cool that we’re getting put on the map as a cool light exhibition,” said JasmineWu, the Burnaby Arts Council’s gallery coordinator and interim executive director. “Word is spreading.”

LuminescenceV will feature works by some 20 artists, with work on display in every part of the gallery – including the front lawn, back yard, all the main-floor gallery spaces and even the basement.

“We’re trying to activate the whole space,”Wu said.

“This year especially we’re having much more interactive artwork.”

Instead of just looking at the art, visitors will in many cases be invited to touch it and interact with it – like Kotone Natasha Frankowski’s brain teaser involving lit blocks, and GrantWithers’ stereoscopic imagery that challenges viewers to reveal a hidden message.

A crowd-pleaser from last year, Ron Simmer’s Berzerkatroid Dragon, is also returning to the lawn (yes, you

LET THERE BE LIGHT: Luminescence V draws together two- and three-dimensional works from 20 artists. The annual art show at Deer Lake Gallery is held each year to mark the spring equinox. An opening celebration is set for Saturday, March 21. PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED

can “ride” the dragon, and, yes, it breathes real fire).

For the first time, the exhibition will feature works created by community members at a lantern-making workshop led by artist Andrew Tuline in the runup to the show.The lanterns will hang outdoors around the back porch, and their makers will be able to control their creations via cellphone, thanks to programmable LED lighting.

Withers, who’s based in North Burnaby, is looking forward to returning to the show once again. He was drawn to the first show in 2016 because of its focus on light – and, as a photographer, light is his tool.

Each year he’s taken part, he says, he’s been inspired by the ideas of the other artists in the show.

“I find so much inspiration in other art forms and other artists. I think, ‘How can I do that with my cam-

What you need to know What: Luminescence V, the Burnaby Arts Council’s annual show of two- and three-dimensional works celebrating light When: Saturday, March 21 to Saturday, April 25. Opening night festivities March 21, 7 to 9 p.m. Gallery open Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m.

Who: Featuring work by 20 Lower Mainland and

era?’” he said.

A big draw for him, he said, is the chance to talk to the other artists in the exhibition and “geek out” about the behind-the-scenes processes that went into the creation of the art in front of him.

“Sometimes we don’t want to know how it was done because we want to be immersed in that fantasy,”

Vancouver Island artists (see list at right). Opening night festivities include live entertainment by the Ember Arts Fire Society (with shows at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.) and music by DJ Ben Lee. Where: Deer Lake Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake Ave. More info: Admission by donation. For details, see www.burnabyartscouncil.org or call 604-298-7322.

he pointed out.

Other times, though, he’ll find another artist’s approaches and processes to be a “breeding ground” for future work of his own.

KathrynWadel agrees.

She was in the show for the first time last year, with an illuminated sculptural work, and she’s returning this year with a projection-based installation in the gallery base-

ment.

“I always love seeing how different artists interpret or utilize light in their practise, because it’s so different from person to person,” she said.

“It’s all about perspective and how we see the world.”

Wadel says her experience with last year’s show was inspiring.

“I can’t even describe it,” she said. “I didn’t know how many people to expect. It was very exciting and very inspiring to see so many people from the community turn out.”

One of the things she loves most about the show is that it’s open for all ages.

“It always brings me joy to see kids come to art exhibitions,” she said, noting it reminds her of attending shows in her own childhood and how much those shows inspired her on her artistic path.

Withers pointed out the show is a big part of the gal-

lery’s efforts to build connections to the community, connecting people to both art and to artists and their processes.

He notes the theme of light has universal appeal.

“It’s a very approachable theme, if you will, for both the artists and the art-loving public,” he said. “You’re going to have everything from playful eye candy to thoughtful, thought-provoking pieces, all in the same space.They’re going to find one, two, five things of the 20 or 30 that really speak to them. …

“There’s a chance to get a full range coming to a show like this.”

Add in the fact that opening night festivities include food, music and a fire performance, and you’ve got a recipe for a show that won’t soon be forgotten.

“They’ll be talking about the show after they leave,” Withers promised.

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Are you ready to meet the dragon?

Ron Simmer’s fire-breathing sculpture returns to Deer Lake

Abstracting reality: Kathryn Wadel’s Frequent-Sees, originally created as an outdoor installation for the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, will be installed in the basement at Deer Lake Gallery for Luminescence IV. The projection-based installation takes familiar British Columbia scenery and transforms it into an abstracted work using video editing software. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

Abstracted reality in the spotlight

KathrynWadel returns to LuminescenceV with Frequent-Sees Kathryn Wadel couldn’t be more thrilled about being sent to the basement.

The dark quarters in the lower confines of Deer Lake Gallery are the perfect place for Wadel to show her new installation, Frequent-Sees.

The work, originally created as an outdoor installation for the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, is “a piece about exploring light, landscape and our visual understanding of the world,” as Wadel puts it. It’s been adapted to project on two walls of the basement room.

“Because it’s a projection,

I can sort of manipulate it to operate in different spaces,” she said.

She began the piece by walking in the Still Creek area, capturing the landscape on video – the play of light through the trees, the ripples on the water; all the details that might be missed in a casual walk through the area.

She takes the familiar B.C. scenery – the forest, the rivers – and transforms it into an abstracted work using video editing software, playing with ideas of light and how we inter-

act with the physical space around us.

She enjoys leaving space for her audience to find their own ways to approach the work – whether that means standing back and watching, or walking in front of the projector to cast their own shadow into the image.

“I love leaving it open to how viewers want to interact with my work,” she said.

See more about her work at www.kathrynwadel.com.

– Julie MacLellan

Get ready for the return of the Berzerkatroid Dragon.

Ron Simmer’s firebreathing sculpture, which was a hit with visitors at last year’s show, returns for this year’s fifth edition.

The Burnaby sculptor’s installation – which checks in at about 16 feet long, nine feet high, seven feet wide and 450 pounds – will be back to entertain the crowds outside at Deer Lake Gallery.

Yes, the dragon breathes actual fire.The sculpture features a propane fire effect, fabricated by Daniel Stratten of Think Industrial, that viewers can set off with a lever when they climb aboard the dragon.

The dragon was created from mostly salvaged scrap metal; Simmer worked alongside metalworker Na-

Fierce flame: Berzerkatroid Dragon at Luminescence IV in 2019. PHOTO NOW FILES

thyn Sanche to scrounge large-diameter, curved stainless steel tubing for its body.

To see it in action, see www.xarax.ca – or turn out for opening night of Luminescence V.

Who’s in the show

Artist’s vision: Kathryn Wadel returns to Luminescence V with a projection-based installation.

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Andrew Tuline Ari Lazer Bill Thomson Claudine Gevry Daphne Woo Diane Blunt Grant Withers Helena Wadsley John Preissl Kathryn Wadel

Kotone Natasha Frankowski Paula Nishikawara Ron Simmer Russell Kramer Violet Finvers & Scott Alpen Steven Smethurst Valerie Durant

This artist is ‘breaking’ photography to play with the pieces As a photographer, Grant Withers is always looking for ways to push the boundaries of his medium.

If you remember his work in last year’s Luminescence V show, you may remember his Solar Flair – a sculpture created from a conventional photograph, cut and manipulated into a three-dimensional shape and then lit to create a play of light and shadow.

This year, he’s continuing to build on his fascination with all the components that make photography work.

“My latest motto is, I aim to break photography so I can play with the pieces,” he said with a smile.

This year’s work, he noted, is an experiment in stereoscopic imagery that

Art in pieces: Burnaby photographer Grant Withers returns for Luminescence V with a stereoscopic art piece.

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

draws on a longtime fascination with the sense of sight.

“I’ve always been fascinated by not only what we see, but how we see,” he

said, noting he’s drawn to both the physiological process and the mental exercise involved in the act of seeing.

This year’s work is based on the same principles that powered View-Masters, with a pair of side-by-side, notquite-identical images that, if viewed together, create a three-dimensional effect.

“The viewer is a necessary component to make it work,”Withers noted, adding he’s interested to see how different viewers are – or are not – able to see the hidden message his art creates.

Whatever they see,Withers hopes the people who view his art will be inspired to think about the act of sight – something the vast majority of us take for granted every day.

Playing with sight: Remember those View-Master toys?

Grant Withers does – and his latest entry for Luminescence V plays with the same concepts to create a threedimensional effect with twodimensional art.

You can put your own eyesight to the test at Luminescence V at Deer Lake Gallery.

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

“My piece is not political, it’s not existential, but I hope the viewer will think about how they see,” he

said. “I sure feel lucky to be able to enjoy the world visually.”

You can find more about

Withers at his website, www.grantwithers.com.

– Julie MacLellan

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Communitynow SFU students show solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Dustin Godfrey

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About a hundred SFU students filled a portion of the university’s Convocation Mall and blocked traffic at an intersection along Gaglardi Way in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs.

The demonstration was billed as a school walkout – one of 36 at universities and high schools across Canada, according to Baby Lee-Young, one of the organizers of the SFU demonstration.

“We are part of a nationwide organization just independently to stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en.

That is to say that with the chiefs and their people in particular, and how their demands are not being

met,” said Lee-Young, who identifies with they/them pronouns.

They said the demonstrations are calling on the RCMP to withdraw from the Wet’suwet’en territory and for permits to be revoked for the CGL pipeline.

Some of the demonstrations were intended to call out specific schools for their investments in fossil fuels companies, including TC Energy, the owner of the CGL pipeline. Lee-Young said they were not immediately aware whether SFU had investments in the pipeline.

The event included talks from a number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, including Kayah George of the Tulalip and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

George spoke to the

Show of support: Dozens of SFU students showed up at a demonstration in Convocation Mall in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people amid a crisis over the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. PHOTO DUSTIN GODFREY

Tsleil-Waututh’s experience fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, saying that community’s efforts have worked up to now.

“We say no. And since the time we started fighting that pipeline, in all the years we’ve been opposing it, not a single pipeline has been built in our Indigenous territory,” George said to applause from the crowd. “As long as we keep fighting … none ever will.”

The crowd also heard from Saskia of the Heiltsuk Nation; Edgard, who has Tahitian, Kaska and Nahua lineage; Giovanni Hosang, a Jamaican settler; and Terrence Bird, who is Cree.

Hosang and Lee-Young also led the crowd in chants and singing, while George, Bird and Isaiah Rose, of Squamish and Nisga’a nations, led the crowd in drumming and singing.

The demonstration ended by marching to Gaglardi Way, where they intended to block an intersection for about half an hour.

Lee-Young said the blockade wasn’t intended to shut down traffic as much as to send a message of solidarity.

“For being on top of a mountain, I’m so, so happy to see (the turnout),” they said. “We were pretty full, and just to see all the other students in solidarity – it’s amazing, really beautiful and just gives everyone a lot of courage, I think.”

Standing together: Dozens of SFU students hear from Terrence Bird (top), a Cree man who spoke at a demonstration in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people amid a crisis over the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. PHOTOS DUSTIN GODFREY

New buses coming to Burnaby Two new bus routes are coming to Burnaby next month, including an express route between Metrotown and the North Shore that would help connect north and south Burnaby.

The 222 Willingdon Express will provide an express service connecting the Phibbs Exchange in North Vancouver to Metrotown in Burnaby, travelling along Willingdon Avenue.

Demand for the route was established as part of TransLink’s Integrated North Shore Transportation Planning Project.

But with only six stops along the route, it would also provide a rapid route between south and north Burnaby, connecting Metrotown with BCIT, Brentwood Town Centre SkyTrain station and the Kootenay bus loop on its route to the Phibbs Exchange.

The issue of rapid northsouth transit was brought up in a recent Burnaby city council meeting in which elected officials heard from staff on progress toward a new transportation master plan. In those discussions, staff said the plan was to move away from cars and ensure the majority of commutes beginning in the city are taken by active transportation modes or public transit.

Councillors pressed staff on the issue of north-south transit, which has not been as strong or rapid as the east-west transit corridors driven by the Expo and Millennium lines. Staff said the city has been in communication with TransLink to push for stronger northsouth connections.

TransLink has also approved the creation of the 31 River District/Metrotown bus, which will

serve a growing commercial and residential route to the southwest of Burnaby and in southeast Vancouver. It will run from Metrotown to an area of Marine Drive just west of Boundary Road.

The routes were both approved through last year’s Transit Network Review, which included a consultation with transit users to help optimize the system.

Through that process, 12 routes were proposed and these two are the first to have their proposals implemented.

For these two routes, which will get rolling on April 6, 4,000 surveys were completed, according to TransLink. Just about 80% of respondents said they would likely use the Willingdon Express, and roughly two-thirds said they would likely use the River District bus.

– Dustin Godfrey

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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a wee bit early

CLIMB AROUND A BUILDING AT SFU AT NIGHT – in a totally nonsuspicious way! The SFU Climbing Wall is hosting its third annual Starry Night! Climb at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, lit only by headlamps, glowsticks and a backlight.We promise this is not part of a heist and you almost certainly won’t get the cops called on you.Tickets are $15 for members and $20

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LEARN THE ART OF TRADITIONAL SOURDOUGH at the Burnaby Village Museum’s Love Farmhouse Kitchen Classics event on Saturday. “A sourdough starter is a treasured part of many bakers’ kitchens,” reads a promotional post online. Here you can learn how to grow and feed

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a sourdough starter to bake with it. Registration required.Tickets are $40 for non-members or $36 for members.

Info at www.tinyurl.com/

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Shamrock ’n’ Race is being held Sunday at 9 a.m. Join walkers and runners in a scenic 21.1-kilometre halfmarathon, seven-mile or five-km run. Registration at the gate is $65 for the shorter races and $75 for the half. More information at tryevents.ca.

DRESS UP IN YOUR BEST GREEN GEAR and go for a long run around Burnaby Lake.This year’s

Send Top 5 suggestions to dgodfrey@burnabynow.com.

You can find full arts and events listings online at www. burnabynow.com.

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Communitynow

School board child-care plan gets $20M boost

Burnaby school district have been among the first to step up and work with the province to deliver hundreds of spaces at a time.

It’s this kind of critical mass we want to see more of for all communities.”

The school board spear-

headed the project in December 2018, when it directed staff to look into how more child care could be put in place at local schools.

After nine months of study and community consultation, the district unveiled a detailed, three-

phased plan in October 2019.

Modular units for the new child-care centres have already been ordered, and delivery is expected to begin in mid-May, according to a recent buildings and grounds committee report.

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B.C.’s NDP government may be taking flak from Liberal critics about the pace of its vaunted childcare plan, but the Burnaby school board isn’t complaining.

The province announced Monday it had agreed to partner with the board on an ambitious home-grown plan to add child-care spaces at local schools.

The district said the prov-

It’s this kind of critical mass we want to see more of …

trict sites, including Stride, Marlborough, Cascade Heights, Rosser,Westridge and Suncrest elementary schools, the new Burnaby North Secondary School and the Marian education center.

Many of the spaces will be housed in new designbuilt portables.

The centres will be run by non-profits providing “inclusive environments for children, including serving those with extra-support needs, as well as vulnerable populations, Indigenous communities and families who are new to Canada,” according to a government press release.

Former Burnaby school trustee Katrina Chen, now the minister of state for child care, praised the school board for the plan at a funding announcement at Westridge Elementary Monday.

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City now Down Syndrome Resource Foundation marks 25 years

Dustin Godfrey

dgodfrey@burnabynow.com

Burnaby’s Down Syndrome Resource Foundation says it will have a “major announcement” later this year as it celebrates 25 years since it first opened its doors.

March 13 marks a quarter-century since DSRF’s 1995 opening in a trailer on the grounds of Vancouver’s Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children.

DSRF was founded by Josephine Mills, an advocate for children with Down syndrome and their families, devoting over 30 years to the cause.

Although the organization spent its first 12 or so years in Vancouver, the last 13 years have been at its Sperling Avenue centre in Burnaby, after moving there in 2002.That centre, according to a news release, was designed primarily as a research facility, which was the focus of DSRF. In the last quarter-century, however, DSRF has

Let’s talk: Riley and Sami work on skills at Burnaby’s Down Syndrome Resource Foundation. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

pivoted to service delivery for people with Down syndrome and their families, where the organization had seen a need. It now serves over 400 students annually with educational programs and therapy services.

“We’ve had the privilege of seeing some of our students grow up from early childhood well into adulthood,” said CEO Wayne Leslie in a news release.

“We have adults with

Down syndrome who come back to DSRF and say, ‘I started here. I have a job, I’m independent, I have an amazing life and I reached my full potential, and I did it with the help of DSRF.’ That’s an incredible legacy.”

To mark 25 years, the organization said it would make a “major announcement” this year that will “set the stage for DSRF to grow its impact for another 25 years and beyond.”

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Communitynow App keeps an eye on COVID-19 Janaya Fuller-Evans

jfullerevans@burnabynow.com

Curtis Kim wants a job, but he also wants to help others.

To that end, the recent BCIT grad has developed a web application that has a wealth of information on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). It includes Canadian and global statistics, contact information for those who think they may have the virus, a map of worldwide cases, links to news stories, a list of symptoms and more.

“I want to keep people informed about the latest news,” he told the NOW. “That’s my goal, that people will be aware of what’s happening right now, and to help the community.”

The Port Coquitlam resident studied computer systems technology at the institute, and learned the skills he used to create the app at an internship, he said.

He spends most of his time applying for jobs but took a little more than two days to create the applica-

tion, which he continues to update and modify.

Kim decided to make the app after spending a lot of time on his own researching COVID-19 and reading numerous news stories, he said.

Some of the data was outdated and some was difficult to read, he added.

“It (is) a serious worldwide issue, considering the speed (of the spread of the virus),” he said. “I felt like I wasn’t the only one who felt this way.”

He decided to create the platform as a way to help the community stay informed while also demonstrating his skills, he said.

He sources his data from the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins, the Government of Canada website, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, and other websites.

Kim, who comes from South Korea and has relatives there, said he is keeping up on the news there, as South Korea has the second highest amount of COVID-19 cases after China.

Keeping watch: Curtis Kim, a BCIT alum, has created a web application with information on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). It includes statistics, a map, news stories and contact information for those who think they might have the virus. PHOTO JANAYA FULLEREVANS

“Honestly, I’m kind of scared about this,” he said regarding the virus.

To check out the web application, go to www.covid19canada.com.

Burnaby adds electric vehicle charging stalls The City of Burnaby has expanded its electric vehicle infrastructure with new charging stalls around town.

On Thursday, the city unveiled 14 electric vehicle charging stalls at six locations across the community, with “more to come.”

“Burnaby residents have told us they want more charging capacity in our city.This is a great start towards delivering on that goal,” said Mayor Mike Hurley, in a news release.

“We will continue to add more EV stalls as quickly as we can as we look to become a carbon-neutral city by 2050.”

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! Plus applicable parking meter rates ! Four-hour maximum, to encourage turnover “Staff will monitor the use of the city’s new charging stations for insights into the most effective ways to expand electric vehicle infrastructure through 2020,” said in a news release.

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Family history: Filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns, at right, is seen in his documentary One Big Hapa Family. A screening is set for March 14 at Nikkei National Museum.

The Caregiver Expo is an opportu tunity to meet and speak with 35 local businesses, serv rvice v providers and non-profit groups. There will also be 5 informative presentations, in the speakers hall, throughout the day.

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Film marks 10th anniversary How much has changed in the past decade for multiracial young people?

That’s one of the questions that will be explored at an upcoming film screening and panel discussion at the Nikkei National Museum.

On Saturday, March 14, the museum will host a screening of One Big Hapa Family in recognition of the film’s 10th anniversary.

In 2010, local filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns started out on a journey of self-discovery after a family reunion where he realized that everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family had mar-

ried interracially after his grandparents’ generation.

The resulting film has been described as the “quintessential documentary on mixed Japanese-Canadian identity” as it explores issues of interracial marriages and how the children of those families perceive their unique multi-racial identities.The film uses innovative animation to tell the stories of four generations of a Japanese-Canadian family.

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We’ve given up our dream trip Mommy’s GROUNDED Bianca Bujan

When I was in Grade 6, I began my three-year stint in late French immersion, and as I slowly learned the language, I made it my mission to one day use my new conversational French to interact with the locals in France.

This year, as a mom of three in my 40s, I was thrilled when my husband agreed to take our first family trip abroad to explore the south of France.

For months, I planned our spring break trip.We would fly into Paris, gaze at the twinkling lights of the Eiffel Tower, then train south, stopping in a few villages along the way, finishing with a stay in the beautiful coastal city of Nice.

Excited for our big adventure, my kids started a countdown on our wall calendar. Only 14 days until

France! 13 days! 12 days...

When the coronavirus first hit headlines, I felt uneasy, and committed to only reading the information shared by reliable resources. Each morning, I would check the updates on the World Health Organization (WHO) website, tracking the number of cases in each country. 18 cases in France and mostly in the Alps, we’ll still go. I’d tell myself. 100 cases, OK, that’s still low compared to other countries, we should be fine.

When I woke up one morning to learn that the Louvre had closed its doors due to a staff walkout, I knew the worst was yet to come.While the number of COVID-19 cases in France was still low in comparison to other European countries, Italy was seeing a rapid increase, and I knew France was next. In less than a week, I watched the number of cases in France rise from 20 to nearly 1,000 cases. Schools began to close,

all major events were being cancelled, and members of the National Assembly reported confirmed cases.

Five days before our scheduled departure date, I followed my gut and called it.

Getting sick was never my greatest concern.

With Italy closing its borders, and France enforcing a ban on events involving 1,000-plus people, I knew it would only be a matter of time before trains would be cancelled, attractions and restaurants would be closed, and maybe even hotels. I cancelled because I didn’t want to spend two weeks in a country that has seen a greater day-to-day increase than any other in Europe, second to Italy.

I didn’t want to get stranded in a foreign country, or put under quarantine so far from home – especially with my three young kids.

Even worse, I didn’t want to bring my family to a region so close in proximity to

those cities that had travel bans in place, and then return home and risk infecting others with the disease.

We still may travel over spring break and are exploring our options.

With over 100 countries reporting cases of COVID-19, we risk exposure almost everywhere, including right here at home.

If you, too, are considering cancelling your spring break plans, don’t do it because you read something startling on Facebook, or a friend told you it wouldn’t be safe. Do your research (the WHO and CDC are great online resources).

Check your travel medical coverage and booking cancellation policies – and for the love of humankind, wash your hands.

Bianca Bujan is a mom of three, Editor ofWestCoast Families magazine, and a freelance writer. Find her on Twitter @biancabujan and Instagram @bitsofbee.

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Christopher Auchter’s path in life began taking shape early, in the lush forests and along the rocky coastlines of his Haida Gwaii home.

His current life as an animator, illustrator and filmmaker is rooted in the Haida culture he grew up in.

“If I didn’t grow up there, I think I would be doing something else,” he says.

Auchter, now a Burnaby resident, recently saw his National Film Board documentary Now Is The Time picked up by the NewYork Times Op-Docs – a series of short documentaries by filmmakers from around the world that can be watched online at www.nytimes.com/ video/op-docs.The 16-minute documentary revisits a momentous occasion from 1969, when the Haida village of Masset raised its first totem pole in more than a century.

It was a time when Haida culture – the language, the song, the dance, the fashion, the art – was all but in-

visible.That moment on work of artists such as his Aug. 22, 1969 when the toown uncle, Michael Nicoll tem pole was raised became Yahgulanaas, known for the symbolic of a renaissance of development of the “Haiwhat had nearly been lost. da manga” style, and he has It was story Auchter seen his contemporaries didn’t know. By the time he build upon the works of the was born in 1980, Haida masters to create new styles. culture was already in a very “I see a kind of playfuldifferent place. ness starting to happen with “I grew up surrounded by our art form,” he says. “I our art form,” he said, notcan see us still building on ing his mom and top of each other his aunt made traas we go.” ditional Haida butIt was hard for ton blankets and him to believe ran a fashion busithere had been a ness inspired by time when all that Haida designs, had nearly been and signs of tralost. In fact, he additional culture mits, he didn’t fulwere all around ly realize the extent him. “You’d go to of the near-eradChristopher feasts and people Auchter filmmaker ication of Haida would be singing culture until he the songs.” started working on this docEven after he left Haiumentary. da Gwaii to pursue a career Auchter was already as an artist, studying media known to the NFB, having arts at Emily Carr Univerpreviously made the multisity and computer animaaward-winning animattion at Sheridan College in ed short The Mountain of Ontario, he found himself SGaana, inspired by an old working against the backHaida fable. He was ready drop of a burgeoning Haida to pitch another animated arts scene. project when the NFB apHe’s been inspired by the proached him with a differ-

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ent plan: a new documentary to revisit a 50-year-old story that had been covered by the NFB’s Indian Film Crew, as it was then known.

ThisWas The Time told the story of the totem pole carved by then-22-year-old Robert Davidson, but it was told from a non-Indigenous perspective (which Auchter politely describes as “patronizing”).

“It was definitely missing that perspective, that Haida perspective,” Auchter notes.

His film uses first-hand accounts from Davidson and his younger brother, Reg (whom Davidson paid to help with the carving), as well as Haida scholar Barbara Wilson, who had been a part of the NFB’s original film crew. Courtesy of a deep dive into both the National Film Board archives and the B.C. Archives, it also incorporates elders’ voices – including that of Joe Weir, who offers an explanation for why all the totem poles that had dominated the Masset landscape in the 1870s were nowhere to be seen by 1969.

The Haida people them-

Symbol of renewal: Haida director Christopher Auchter’s Now Is the Time takes us through history to revisit the day in August 1969 when three generations of Eagle and Raven clan gathered to raise the first totem pole on Haida Gwaii in over a hundred years.

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selves took them down,Weir says, because the minister told them traditional Haida culture wouldn’t lead them to heaven.

“It was so strongly pushed, ‘Don’t do that, it’s a harmful type of art form,’” Auchter says, noting the religious sentiment against traditional culture was just one more step in a series of events that had the cumulative effect of nearly erasing Haida culture.

First there was smallpox, which nearly wiped out the population.Then there was the consolidation of the Haida people living throughout Haida Gwaii into two communities, Skidegate and Masset.There was the residential school era.There was the federal anti-potlatch law that prohibited traditional potlatch ceremonies between 1884 and as late as 1951.

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Artsnow Enjoy music at the ’Bolt this month

Musicians from the Canadian Arctic, a classical harpist and a NewYork jazz singer are among the performers coming to the Shadbolt Centre stage in March.

On Friday, March 13, Burnaby audiences will be treated to a now-sold-out performance by The Jerry Cans, who’ve been winning fans around the world with their unique mix of traditional Inuit throat singing and roots-rock sung in Inuktitut.

The band is passionate about helping to preserve the Inuktitut language, and the musicians have taken their high-energy perfor-

mances to such far-flung locales as Australia, Scotland, Greenland, Cuba and Norway.

On Tuesday, March 17, it’s time for another performance in the Shadbolt’s Sound Bites series, in which audience members can purchase refreshments and enjoy music in the Studio Theatre.

Harpist Janelle Nadeau, who has performed with such diverse artists as Diana Krall, Kanye West and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, is this month’s featured performer. Nadeau will bring her diverse repertoire of classical, Celtic, contemporary and original

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Filmmaker explores his Haida heritage Continued from page 28 The more Auchter researched the time period, the more he came to see the raising of Davidson’s totem pole as a turning point for the community.

“It seemed like it was pointing to this pole-raising being a pivotal moment of it all,” he says. “It was the deliberate act that made it something people could turn to.”

Going into the filming, Auchter wasn’t sure what he would get from Davidson – how much of what he had to say would simply touch on surface events and how much would be from the heart.

What he found, Auchter

says, was the latter.

“Robert was so generous in the amount he shared,” he says warmly, noting how emotional the carver became talking about that event half a century before.

“This story touches him to this day.”

That Auchter himself hadn’t known the story of the totem pole before working on the documentary actually worked in his favour, he says.

“Because I was learning it for the first time, too, that actually helped,” he says.

“I could put that enthusiasm for what I was learning straight into it.”

The finished product seamlessly blends new foot-

age with what Auchter describes as “beautiful” archival footage from the NFB, together with some of Auchter’s signature animation.

It’s already achieved success on the film festival circuit as an official selection of the Toronto and Vancouver international festivals, among others, and most recently screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

“The response at Sundance was amazing,” he says, noting audiences seem to be responding to the film’s narrative arc.

“There’s a lot of sad things in the story, a lot of hard things to hear,” he

says. “It’s also an uplifting story too. … It shows how much can be changed in a community if everybody pulls in that direction.”

Having the documentary picked up by the NewYork Times, he notes, is “next-level stuff” when it comes to the audience the story can now reach.

“I’m really enjoying how it’s striking a chord and people are paying attention to the story,” he says.

“Doing Now is the Time was such a gift for me to be able to do it. It makes me feel more grounded and whole as a person, learning about my culture and being able to share that with others.”

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WE’RE NUMBER ONE: The Burnaby South Rebels completed a dream season on Saturday, capturing the B.C. 4-A senior boys basketball title in a victory over Kelowna at the Langley Events Centre. Above, the players, including six-foot-10 post Sasha Vujisic, celebrate at the final buzzer. Above, right, Grade 10 post Karan Aujla battles a Kelowna rival for a rebound during the final, while at right, assistant coach Rupi Dahia hugs Grade 12 guard Emir Krupic near centre court; below, Burnaby’s Jareb Pineda drives down court past a Kelowna defender during the final. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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The Rebels of Rumble Street have done it again.

Brashly claiming the paint as their own, the Burnaby South Rebels capped the 2019-20 high school basketball season Saturday by clipping the Kelowna Owls 7058 in the 4-A provincial championship final before a near-capacity and boisterous crowd at the Langley Events Centre.

With so many weapons at their disposal, Burnaby South demonstrated why they wore the proverbial bull’s eye on their back most of the year as the team to beat. In the end, no one could.

Dominating the inside game with a considerable size advantage, the Rebels essentially dared Kelowna to shoot from long distance all night. For but a brief flurry in the second quarter, where the No. 3-seeded Owls rattled in seven straight points to erase a 1712 deficit and grasp a two-point lead, the Burnaby squad was in

the driver’s seat. Forty seconds after Jayden Lalonde’s jump shot gave Kelowna the lead, the Rebels’ Emir Krupic banked in a rebound to tie the score, and was followed

by Grade 11 standout guard Justin Sunga’s jump shot to restore the lead.

The Rebels would proceed to outscore the Owls 14-5 during that stretch, giving the gold-andblack squad a seven-point lead entering the half.

When six-foot-10 post Sasha Vujisic stormed out for the third quarter with a statement-making jam, the game became a brief back-and-forth battle. Kelowna, which only shot 18 per cent from the three-point arc in the first half, found the range to start the third frame, hitting its first two attempts. But Vujisic, who was held off the scoreboard until the last minute of the first half, added the team’s next two buckets to make it 37-30.

The Owls cut it down to three points, thanks to a Ryland Ibbetson trey with under four min-

utes left in the quarter. But Sunga, and then Krupic – with a loping shot that squeezed in under the shot clock buzzer – put up backto-back three-pointers to begin a Burnaby South streak.

They’d enter the fourth quarter with a 12-point margin, and while a couple of buckets would whittle it down to eight, the Rebels matched everything Kelowna threw at them to collect the school’s fourth B.C. title – and their second one in three years.

“Any team we played we couldn’t play down to their level, we just had to play our game.

Same thing, every time. Kelowna’s a good team.We just had to take away that sideline.We know they can shoot, they’ll shoot in transition so we had to take that away and soak up the rebounds,” said Sunga, who was selected the tourney MVP. The Rebels won the board battle by a hefty 51-27 margin, owing a lot to a major size advantage as well as Kelowna’s reliance on the three-point attempt – of which

they went 12-for-47, or 25.5 per cent.

“We just told them to pound the ball down low. (Kelowna) are so undersized – great team though, well-coached and can shoot the hell out of the ball,” remarked head coach Mike Bell. “That ball just flies out of their hands.Today we played better.

“I’m not going to lie.We’ve

played them four times now; we played them through a zone.The one game we lost we didn’t have Matt (Pineda), we didn’t have (Krupic) and we didn’t have (Vujisic).We lost by one.To have all of them playing today, it was incredible.”

Krupic finished with a teamhigh 17 points and added nine Continued on page 34

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Sisters set tone in SFU showing

Simon Fraser University continues to make those falls count.

Led by three gold medallists, the SFU women’s wrestling team posted the second-best result at the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Coalition in Adrian, Michigan.

It was the inaugural WCWC national championship, and SFU entered as one of the top-ranked programs at the competition.

Delivering championship results were freshman Karla Godinez-Gonzalez in the 116-pounds division, and juniors Alex Hendrick, in the 123-lb division, and Ana Godinez-Gonzalez, in the 143-lb category.

Karla Godinez-Gonzalez captured the title with a 7-0 decision over McKendree University’s Felicity Taylor, after racking up three tech fall wins in her previous matches. Hendrick defeated King University’s Cheyenne Sisenstein in the final.

Hendrick, from Fair Oaks, California, ran up five straight victories, including two by tech falls, en route to

the national title.

The older sister of Karla, Ana Godinez-Gonzalez defeated McKendree’s Alara Boyd by tech fall in her divisional showdown, after besting SFU teammate and Burnaby native Sara Brinkac 7-0.

The Godinez-Gonzalez sisters, who transferred to Burnaby Mountain after launching their post-secondary studies at the University of the Fraser Valley, headlined a strong team performance which saw them finish second behind McKendree, by a 191-to178.5 point margin.

Bouncing back after disappointing semifinal losses to finish third overall in their weight classes were Burnaby’s Nicole Depa (in 130lbs), Lauren Mason (136), Alyvia Fiske (155), Emily Cue (170) and Serena Woldring (191).

Brinkac placed fourth, while Ciara McRae exited her 109-lbs division in sixth spot and Rebekah Trudel seventh in 170-lbs.

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Continued from page 33 rebounds, and was suitably proud to be part of the journey after last winter being ruled ineligible to play for the Rebels just as the playoffs began by Basketball B.C. Krupic had to serve nearly a full-year suspension after the provincial body decided he was ineligible because of games played with a Seattle prep school.

It meant he had to sit for the remainder of 2019 before he could get into a game for his hometown Rebels.

“This past year I went through a lot, not being able to play,” said the sixfoot-three Grade 12 guard.

“Honestly, all the hard work and this patience has paid off. I’m just happy to do it with this team – everyone on this team is my brother, and I wouldn’t want to do it with anybody else.

“It’s a blessing, it’s redemption. I can’t be anymore happier.”

To cap it off, Krupic noted that he completed a rare hat trick with his teammates, having won provincial titles in both Grade 8

and 9, alongside some of his basketball brothers, before heading south to Seattle for Grade 10 and part of Grade 11.

Counting 15 points apiece for Burnaby South were Sunga and Vujisic, with the Grade 12 post also racking up 20 rebounds.

Grade 10 forward Karan Aujla contributed 13 points

Bailey, who red-shirted a year ago after transferring in from Florida Atlantic, was Northern Arizona’s top three-point shooter this season. By converting 2.3 threes per game, she ranked third in the conference.

Bailey, a Burnaby native, finished with 67 treys, connecting on 36.6 per cent of her attempts.

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points and 6.6 rebounds per game.

Bailey finished as Big Sky’s third-leading scorer, including 14 points and a team-high eight rebounds in last week’s 68-63 loss to Portland State.

It was the team’s final game before this week’s BigSky Conference championships, where the Lumberjacks met the Montana Grizzlies in the opening game on Tuesday.

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Vujisic was named to the first all-star team, while Pineda, a Grade 11 guard, was selected to the second all-star squad.

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Burnaby Mountain alumna Jacey Bailey picked up an All-Big Sky honour this week, when she was named to the conference’s second all-star team.

The 20-year-old, in her second season with Northern Arizona, was one of four players from the squad to earn such an honour, including three to all-conference teams.

It’s the first time in 13 years the Lumberjacks had three receive such awards.

and seven rebounds.

Coming after Friday’s 69-52 win over Van College, where Sunga tallied 18 points and player of the game Jareb Pineda added 17, it was more proof that defence was the foundation to a sound victory.

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A new survey found that 86 per cent of older, urban, adult homeowners said they would like to live in their current family home as long as possible.

The Aging in Place report, from pollster Mustel Group and real estate brokerage Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, also found that this dream is not realistic for everybody. More than one third (36 per cent) of respondents said they are likely to sell their current home and move to a new residence within their lifetime.

Of those respondents planning to sell their home, 76 per cent expect they will reinvest in the real estate market by buying a replacement primary residence. More than half (54 per cent) of those with plans to move to a new primary home expect to choose a condo.

With so many homeowners hoping to stay in their homes as they age, the survey also asked them about their needs for aging in place.

It found that less than half of respondents (46 per cent) said they had considered their needs in terms of aging in place, when buying their current primary home. Of those who had, the report said, “45 per cent considered safety as a key priority in their chosen neighbourhood, while features

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Reverse mortgages on the rise Reverse mortgage debt in Canada has topped $4 billion for the first time, according to Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) filings analyzed by housing blog Better Dwelling.

A reverse mortgage is a mechanism for those who have paid off their mortgages to tap into their home’s equity, receiving a monthly or lump-sum payment. It is popular among retirees as it allows them to stay in their home while giving them an income. It is usually only payable upon sale of the home, or death, which means that it is paid off before the rest of the estate is passed to the beneficiaries.

The latest OSFI data show that there was $4.01 billion in reverse mortgage debt in December 2019, up 0.69 per cent from November 2019, according to Better Dwelling. This is a 13 per cent increase from one year previously and the first time in Canadian history that reverse mortgage debt has topped $4 billion.

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