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City loses millions in property asssessment appeals

The impact of costs associated with property assessment appeals has prompted Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley to write to B.C. Minister of Finance Selina Robinson looking for an “urgent review” of the system.

The letter comes after the city was dinged in 2020 more than $6 million in costs associated with property assessment appeals, said a City of Burnaby staff report.

B.C. is currently undertaking a strategic review of

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“We would ask that this review not be limited to just commercial (class 5 and 6) properties, but also consider what is driving the appeal numbers and how the number of appeals can be re-

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duced across all property classes,” Hurley wrote on Jan. 5. “A key overwhelming consideration to local government is the impact that appeal costs pose on local government finances.

While some municipalities are able to absorb appeal

costs, for others, this poses a real financial challenge.”

As of Jan. 10, the city was looking at more than $1.4 million in property assessment appeal costs for 2021.The deadline for appeals was Jan. 31.

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Parents raise alarm about school ‘chaos’ Cornelia Naylor

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After a flurry of enforcement activity by police and bylaw officers, the traffic situation around Burnaby’s Sperling Elementary School is back to being just as bad as it ever was, according to a parent who took her concerns to the city more than two months ago.

Parents JennyYamagata and Andreja Kovacevic-Cikes told the city’s traffic safety committee in November that pickup and drop-off at the school are “chaos,” and they warned of “big, immediate safety concerns.”

“I cannot tell you the number of people, including city workers, bus drivers, truckers and parents who recklessly speed through the neighbourhood, use neighbours’ driveways and teachers’ parking lots to do turnarounds or brazenly pull illegal U-turns right in front of the ‘no U-turns’ sign,” Yamagata told the committee.

“It gives me great anxiety thinking that my, or any child for that matter, might be struck by an impatient motorist.”

DESIGN PROBLEM The two moms presented a slide show, including photos of kids darting from cars on crowded streets, ambiguous signage and families walking on the road because there are no sidewalks by the school on Hycrest Drive.

“There’s lots of vehicles, lots of traffic; there’s

Safety concerns: This photo of a child crossing a busy street was used in a presentation to the City of Burnaby’s traffic safety committee in November 2021. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

no curbs, no sidewalks.

There’s a lot of chaos every morning and every afternoon,” Kovacevic-Cikes said.

She noted Sperling is a French immersion school with more students coming from farther away, which means more vehicle traffic.

Yamagata and Kovacevic-Cikes recommended numerous measures to improve the situation, from putting up less-ambiguous street signs and painting the speed limit on the street, to bigger changes, like a raised crosswalk with flashing lights across Sperling at Hycrest, making Adair a one-way street or carving a one-way drop-off area out of a forested area on the school property.

When traffic committee member Lindy McQueen heard the descriptions of

some of the Sperling parents’ driving behaviour, she said those parents ought to be held responsible for the situation instead of “all the blame” being put on the city, RCMP and bylaw officers.

“Parents have to take some responsibility to look and be safe with their children,” she said. “I’d go out and take stickers and slam them on their cars or do something. Get their attention.”

“I’d be happy to get a paintball gun out if you think that would work,” Yamagata said.

“I’ll be there,” McQueen said.

But Moreno Zanotto, with cycling advocacy group HUB Cycling, said the issues are a design problem.

“We get behaviour that matches the design of the

streets around the school, and, until we address that design problem, we’re not going to get a change in behaviour,” he said.

By the end of the committee meeting, the whole Sperling Elementary traffic issue had been referred to staff for a report.

But that hasn’t led to a lot of improvement so far, according toYamagata.

‘COMPREHENSIVE’ REVIEW In a recent interview, she said there was a flurry of RCMP and bylaw enforcement activity after the meeting, which improved the situation for a time before the Christmas break.

The city has also made some “very minor” changes to signage around the school, according to Yamagata.

Since school started

up again after the winter break, however, she says she’s still seeing illegal U-turns, speeding and people parking where they shouldn’t.

Yamagata said “not enough” has been done to address the bigger design problems around the school.

“Until we do see those changes, you won’t see the change in the behaviour,” she said.

But solutions may be on the horizon, according to the city.

The NOW has learned the city is in the process of hiring a consultant and hopes to complete a “comprehensive traffic and safety review” for every elementary school in the city by the end of the year.

“Through this proactive approach, we will be looking at all schools to en-

sure the measures we implement are consistent across the city,” said Amy Choh, Burnaby’s assistant director of engineering for transportation.

Choh said the city gets a lot of inquiries from parents who, like Yamagata and Kovacevic-Cikes, are concerned about traffic safety at schools.

“This study is about being proactive and consistent,” Choh said in an emailed statement.

The city didn’t provide a lot of details about the plan beyond the fact staff hope to have the review complete by the end of the year.

For Sperling parents specifically, however, the city is already taking steps that will address some of the problems highlighted inYamagata and Kovacevic-Cikes’s presentation, according to communications manager Chris Bryan.

He said a sidewalk for Hycrest will be designed and go out for consultation this year and should be installed in 2023.

And preliminary recommendations from the city’s Sperling-Duthie traffic calming study, launched in October, also include measures engineers think will improve the situation around the school, including a raised crosswalk with curb extensions on Sperling Avenue at Adair Street, speed reader boards on Sperling Avenue and a marked crosswalk on Sperling Avenue at Hycrest Drive.

House sales slowing down but prices in city remain high

House sales have seen a small slowdown in the past month, according to the latest stats from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, but prices in Burnaby remain high.

The REBGV numbers show that the average price for a single-detached house jumped nearly 20% in the area of Burnaby South, which is the city’s priciest area for buying a house.

The average detached house price across the entire city went from $1,574,000 to $2,062,000 in one year.

Across the region, the REBGV reports that residential home sales totalled

2,285 in January 2022, a 4.4% decrease from the 2,389 sales recorded in January 2021, and a 15% decrease from the 2,688 homes sold in December 2021.

Last month’s sales were

25.3% above the 10year January sales average.There were 4,170 detached, attached and apartment properties newly listed for sale on the Multiple Listing Service in Metro Vancouver in Janu-

ary 2022.

This represents a 6.9% decrease compared to the 4,480 homes listed in January 2021 and a 114.4% increase compared to December 2021, when 1,945 homes were listed.

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Burnaby City Council hereby gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendment to “Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965”.

ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT 1) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 1, 2022 - Bylaw No. 14424 Rez. #21-03 8305 - 11th Avenue From: R3 Residential District To: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM2 and RM2r Multiple Family Residential Districts and Newcombe Community Plan as guidelines), and in accordance with the development guidelines provided in Appendix A Purpose: to establish development guidelines for the subject site to facilitate development of non-market rental housing Applicant: City of Burnaby All persons who believe they are affected by a proposed bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard:

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Citynow Burnaby RCMP still waiting for mental health car Cornelia Naylor

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A third Metro Vancouver city now has a mobile crisis response unit to help police handle calls involving people in mental health crisis – but it isn’t Burnaby.

Last week, North Vancouver RCMP announced “Car 22,” a pilot program involving North Van RCMP,Vancouver Coastal Health and the West Vancouver Police Department.

Staffed with a police officer and a VCH mental health professional, Car 22 will operate six days a week, responding to requests from patrol officers and other medical professionals for mental health assistance.

Burnaby RCMP pitched a similar pilot program to

Fraser Health in November 2020 to help deal with skyrocketing mental health calls to police in this city.

The detachment said it was prepared to allocate a full-time officer to the program as well as a vehicle and other equipment, but Fraser Health rejected the proposal.

The health authority provided no explanation for why it supports a mental health car program in Surrey – Car 67 – but rejected Burnaby’s proposal.

“The Car 67 program is a highly specialized program that is unique to the Surrey community,” media spokesperson Alycia Coulter told the NOW in an emailed statement in April 2021.

The NOW renewed its request for an explanation this week after the

North Shore pilot was announced, but Fraser Health spokesperson Dixon Tam said only that the information sent in response to the earlier request “remains the case.”

“We have no further information to share at this time,”Tam said in an emailed statement.

Mental health calls to police in Burnaby jumped 21% in 2020 (from 2,811 in 2019 to 3,410 in 2020), according to Burnaby RCMP, and the number of mental health apprehensions in the city rose 14% (from 968 in 2019 to 1,102 in 2020).

Data for 2021 was not available, according to the detachment.

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Canadian Navigable Waters Act The Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District (Metro Vancouver) hereby gives notice that an application has been made to the Minister of Transport, pursuant to the Canadian Navigable Waters Act for approval of the work described below and its site and plans.

Pursuant to paragraph 7(2) of the Act, Metro Vancouver has submitted to the Minister of Transport, on the on-line Navigable Waters Registry (http://cps.canada.ca/) and under Navigation Protection Program File Number 1997-500321, a description of the following work, its site and plans: Metro Vancouver proposes to conduct in-water and on-land geotechnical investigations to support the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrade in the City of Richmond. The geotechnical investigations program is expected to start in March 2022 and the in-water investigations are expected to begin in mid-July 2022. The timing for the in-water investigations will take into consideration the surrounding environmental constraints and marine user groups and works will be undertaken outside of the fisheries window.

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Comments regarding the effect of this work on marine navigation can be sent through the Common Project Search site noted above under the Comment section (search by the above referenced number) or, by sending your comments directly to the Navigation Protection Program Pacific, Suite 820 – 800 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 2J8 if you do not have access to the internet.

However, comments will be considered only if they are in writing (electronic means preferable: NPPPAC-PPNPAC@tc.gc.ca) and are received not later than 30 days after the publication of this notice.

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Opinion now MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

B.C. politics turns into a dull affair

For BC Liberal leader Kevin Falcon, now comes the heavy lifting.

Falcon was chosen party leader this past weekend, and as expected it was not even close. He received 47% of the “points” on the first ballot, besting his nearest competitor (Skeena MLA Ellis Ross) by more than 20 percentage points.

He eventually won on the fifth ballot, under the preferential ballot system (in which voters rank the candidates and make second, third etc. choices).

In his victory speech, Falcon acknowledged his party faces a monumental challenge when it comes to offering more diversified group of candidates to the voters come the next election. He said the party needs a “root-to-branch rebuild.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to the party, or indeed to most non-government political parties anywhere.

Traditional politics and many bread-and-butter issues have been elbowed off the agenda as the public grapples with an ongoing public health crisis that has cost so many people their jobs, their health or even their life. But while the BC Liberals and their new leader are staring at a rough road ahead, they have every reason to think the next few years will be much better for them than the last two have been.

While we are still in a pandemic and may be for a while, various COVID-19 health restrictions are easing or are being lifted. Perhaps, as we try to return to “normal,” politics in their traditional form also return to their usual place in the public consciousness.

After almost two years of looking to government as almost a saviour, in terms of managing both economic responses and public health mea-

sures, I think the public is slowly shifting to a different mindset. One in which the government no longer automatically gets the benefit of the doubt on almost anything.

The legislature resumed sitting this week, and it will be interesting to see if its proceedings – a new budget, daily question period, and new legislation – will receive more media coverage than we have seen in any legislature session held during the pandemic.

The BC Liberals will certainly need the channel changed away from a near-constant focus on COVID-19 and the pandemic and onto more traditional issues.They need the voting public to once again pay attention to what they have to say about things.

Of course, Falcon will have to move fast to mend the messy internal divisions that were on public display during the lengthy leadership race.The three MLAs who were also candidates – Renee Merrifield, Michael Lee and Ellis Ross – were harshly critical of Falcon, labelling him as yesterday’s man who had accumulated too much political baggage from his previous stint in government.

Look for the NDP to exploit that “baggage” at every opportunity. In fact, no sooner had Falcon taken the stage to deliver his victory speech on Saturday night, than the NDP caucus merrily issued a news release talking about just that kind of thing.

But the baggage issue can work both ways.The longer the NDP stays in power, the more baggage it accumulates as well.

In any event, Falcon’s ascension to the leadership is the start of a new chapter in B.C. politics. Let the heavy lifting begin.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Opinionnow Editor: In the past few days, during demonstrations on Parliament Hill, Canadians witnessed the vile display the hateful genocidal symbols of Nazi swastikas, and the flying of Confederate flags – symbols of racist slavery – at the very centre of Canadian democracy.

It was appalling that the Nazi flag was being waved steps away from the Hall of Honour where we commemorate 45,000 Canadiansincluding my uncle Patrick- who gave their lives fighting Nazism.

Last week, I re-tabled a Private Member’s Bill to amend the Criminal Code (banning symbols of hate) to prevent anyone from selling and displaying symbols that promote hatred and violence against identifiable groups. It is a tool designed to address the growing violence and hatred that we see in Canada. Our own communities of New Westminster and Burnaby are not immune from this growing extremism.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh light on the deep socio-economic inequalities experienced by the most vulnerable populations in Canada. Tragically, we are witnessing a considerable increase in Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny in our society. We see rising rates of racism and violent crimes against Indigenous people, Black, Asian and other marginalized

communities and an increase in the number of hate groups in Canada. Yet symbols of hate are freely displayed and sold across our country.

Other countries have protected their citizens by banning these symbols of hate. It is time for Canada to do the same.

Canadians are tired of symbolic gestures.

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Artsnow Director brings BIPOC voice to Stratford Festival Burnaby resident lands a coveted spot in the festival’s Birmingham Conservatory

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Damon Bradley Jang had just about put his professional theatrical aspirations to the side and was on the path to becoming a high school drama teacher.

Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and upended the world around him.

Fast-forward to 2022, and the Burnaby resident has just begun a two-year stint as the first male BIPOC director in the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory.

The conservatory is a two-year intensive program that selects 10 emerging theatre professionals to become part of the renowned festival, giving them a paid opportunity to continue to hone their craft alongside some of the top names in the industry.

To have made the final cut from hundreds of hopefuls across Canada is an achievement Jang doesn’t underestimate.

It’s obviously a huge professional opportunity – but, more than that, it’s a chance to play an active role in the festival’s efforts to decolonize its work and tackle systemic racism in the theatre world.

“I don’t take it lightly,” he says, on the phone

from his new home in the southwestern Ontario community.

Jang notes that Stratford has done an “excellent job” navigating its work around diversity, inclusion and accessibility – a mission it has taken on with a major anti-racism effort over the past few years.

The festival’s 2022 season features casting that’s more representative of the real faces of Canada than the traditional whiter-than-white world of Shakespeare.

But what’s happening onstage is just part of changing the culture of theatre.

“Often times, people think diversity is just performative – literally,” Jang says. “When you have a white-centric company helming white productions, led by white-presenting directors, and then they put a bunch of diversity onstage, there’s still a lack of voice in power.

There’s an imbalance of power when there’s no one on the creative team that is a person of colour.”

Jang now has a chance to serve as assistant director for All’sWell That Ends Well, which will open in June at the festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre. He’ll be working alongside director ScottWentworth

OPENING DOORS: Damon Bradley Jang in the lobby at the Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ont. The Burnaby resident was chosen to take part in the festival’s two-year Birmingham Conservatory for emerging theatre professionals – the first BIPOC male director to do so.

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and associate director Julia Nish-Lapidus.

“Being on this side of the table, I can help shape and I can help curate and craft conversations in the room that deal directly with actors, just because a lot of these shows are still helmed by white directors,” Jang says. “It’s good that they have this inclusive voice on the team to be able to help facilitate the room … especially if there’s actors of colour and they feel like they don’t have agency.”

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“I didn’t feel like I had opportunities, so I had to find other things,” Jang says. “I didn’t feel like I belonged in those spaces.”

He thought he had found a real chance to change that when he made the shortlist for the master’s degree program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He was all set to move to the U.K. with the hopes that the degree would finally convince people to take him seriously.

When he didn’t make the final cut, he decided that was that, and he was ready to pursue a career as a high school drama teacher instead.

But the world changed, and Jang watched the ongoing shift in Canada’s

collective cultural consciousness around racism, diversity and inclusion – a change he says was accelerated, in some ways, by the pandemic.

“COVID hit; everything paused. A lot of people left the industry, a lot of people made changes, and that allowed for new voices to start to come into the room,” he says.

“I always knew, even a couple of years ago, that this was something I really wanted to push for in my body of work.

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Continued from page 11 kinds of practices define all the types of work that I do, whether it’s on a small scale or a large scale.

“I decided I really wanted to try work in bigger spaces, because I would have a greater impact being a professional in these spaces than I would if I had gone and been a high school drama teacher. … I just feel that, at this particular time, especially because the world is shifting in terms of being more inclusive and accessible, I needed to grab the momentum while it was happening.”

When it comes to “bigger spaces,” it doesn’t get any bigger in Canada than the repertory theatre company at Stratford – and to find validation there goes a long way to helping Jang cope with his self-professed case of impostor syndrome.

Along with All’sWell That EndsWell, Jang will spend 2022 working and training alongside the other members of his cohort, mentored and supported by festival professionals.The festival is also lining up a six-week summer placement for him with a different company, on a project still to be determined.

Whether Jang’s twoyear term with the Birmingham Conservatory leads to future work with

Stratford, or whether it helps to open other doors to work elsewhere in the country, he is grateful for the chance to now be in a place where he can help other emerging professionals from marginalized communities.

He wants to follow the lead of his own mentor, Esther Jun, an artistic associate at the festival and director of its Langham Directors’Workshop, whom he credits for supporting him and being an advocate for change within the festival. Now, he knows, he will have the chance to provide that support for others.

“I fully realize that I am setting a precedent here in the conservatory this year so that other people, other people of colour, young directors of colour, can feel good or safe about applying for these programs,” he said.

Plus, he noted, there’s the trickle-down effect to members of the audience.

He’s hoping that theatregoers from diverse backgrounds will see Jang and other BIPOC professionals in the program and realize that, yes, the theatre world is open to them.

“Even if it only serves or affects one person, that’s all it takes,” Jang said. “Just to know that one audience member feels that they’re seen, or their voice is being heard.”

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On Jan. 18, officers pulled over a semi-truck travelling on Royal Oak Avenue, which is not a truck route because the hill is so steep.

The trucker was driving with only a learner’s licence and no supervisor, according to a Burnaby RCMP tweet.

The man hadn’t conducted a pre-trip inspection, police said, and he was also found violating hours-of-service rules designed to make sure truckers are getting enough rest to drive safely.

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All the witnesses agreed Burnaby resident Linda Drescher’s $5.2-million Deer Lake home is a “beautiful house” with high-end furniture and fixtures.

But not everybody agreed about whether it had been properly fixed up after an outdoor spigot connected to the home’s plumbing system failed and sent water spurting into the house, staining an unsealed bluestone fireplace and destroying the hardwood flooring and various fixtures.

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Every year, countless Burnaby residents volunteer their time and energy to benefit the community – and the time has come for residents to recognize one of these outstanding volunteers by nominating them for the Kushiro Cup. The storied trophy – a gift from Burnaby’s sister city of Kushiro, Japan – is awarded annually to a Burnaby resident for their extraordinary commitment of time and energy over many years to the community in cultural, recreational or other nonelected civic activities.

“Burnaby thrives because of the work of dedicated volunteers who give back to their community,” said Mayor Mike Hurley, in a statement. “No matter the circumstances, these are the people who were there to lend a hand to those who needed it most. Now more than ever, it is important to recognize their contributions to this community.”

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The 2022 Outstanding Citizen of theYear will join an impressive list of past honorees that includes Ruth Gautschi (2019), a 36-year volunteer with Citizen Support Services who assisted seniors with personal shopping and provided support for isolated seniors through the Phone Buddy program; and Douglas Corson (2017), a dedicated volunteer who has volunteered with the Burnaby Citizens’ Crime Watch Program for more than 20 years, patrolling the streets of Burnaby, reporting suspicious activity and recovering stolen autos.

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Community now RCMP arrest suspect who allegedly scammed senior out of $10,000 Cornelia Naylor

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The arrest of a suspect who allegedly scammed a Delta senior out of $10,000 earlier this month doesn’t mean seniors in Burnaby are safe, according to local police.

The Delta grandmother had gotten a series of calls on Jan. 13 from someone claiming to be with the RCMP and saying she urgently needed to provide bail money for her grandson, whose name the caller knew, according to a Delta police news release.

The senior handed over $10,000 to a person who collected the cash in person at her house.

When the suspect came back the next day to collect another $25,000 for “probation,” however, plainclothes officers were waiting and a 22-year-old woman was arrested, police said.

Since there was a similar incident reported in Burnaby after that time, however, it doesn’t appear the woman’s arrest has lessened the risk to seniors here, according to the Burnaby RCMP. On Jan. 19, a 71-yearold woman in Burnaby reported she had been called by a person she didn’t know, asking for $8,500 to get her nephew out of jail, according to police.

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She also spoke with her nephew, who was safe.

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Community now HEALTH

Please don’t take your heart for granted Dr. Davidicus Wong

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The pandemic, with its impact on every aspect of our lives, has reminded us of what we value and what we take for granted.

We miss meeting with friends and family, seeing faces without masks and just connecting with others without worrying about infections.

What many have neglected is their health, including the regular checkups for the early detection of health conditions, including cancer, high blood pressure and heart disease.

Most of us take for granted our most important organ – the heart.

Now that our community pools and gyms are open with public health restrictions, many are returning to regular exercise.

A conversation with a young man at the local pool reminded me that the average person needs to know more about heart disease.

He came out of the sauna (not the safest place during the pandemic) and asked me, “Why does our blood get thicker when we get older?”

I told him it doesn’t and asked where he got that idea.

He responded, “All the older men are on blood thinners!”

Blood thinners are a

common term for anticoagulant medications, such as warfarin or apixaban.

They are frequently prescribed when patients have a particular irregular heart rhythm (arrythmia) called atrial fibrillation.

When the atrium (one of the chambers of the heart) is not contracting regularly, the blood can clot, travel to the brain and cause a stroke. Anticoagulants reduce this risk.

The risk for atrial fibrillation increases with age and with high blood pressure.

Arrythmias are just one form of heart disease.

Some will recognize palpitations – the feeling of a pause or an extra beat in their chest. Others might experience shortness of breath or even fainting.

But many individuals with irregular heart rhythms may have no symptoms at all.They can be even harder to detect if the irregular rhythm comes and goes – what we call a paroxysmal arrythmia.

Last week, a patient came to my office after being seen in the ER for symptoms of heart failure – another form of heart disease due to a decline in the pumping ability of the heart.This results in shortness of breath, swelling of the legs and fluid in the lungs.

My patient’s heart

rhythm was normal in the ER, but when I listened to his heart, I detected an irregularly irregular rhythm – the classic description of atrial fibrillation. My AppleWatch confirmed the diagnosis.

In addition to irregular rhythms and heart failure, two other forms of heart disease are problems with the valves that control the flow of blood through the four chambers of the heart (valvular heart disease) and ischemic heart disease (due to narrowing of the arteries that supply blood to the muscles of the heart itself).

Ischemic heart disease can cause the symptoms of angina (chest, throat or arm pain or pressure that worsens with physical activity or anxiety (both of which increase heart rates). Narrowed arteries cannot supply enough blood to the hardworking cardiac muscle tissue.

A heart attack (myocardial infarction) occurs when a coronary artery is completely blocked; there is no blood supply to the muscle downstream and that muscle tissue dies.

The classic symptoms of a heart attack are chest, throat or arm pain or pressure (often but not always described as squeezing), nausea, sweating and difficulty breathing. However, many individuals may have “silent” heart attacks with

atypical symptoms.This is more common with diabetes and for women, who may present with extreme fatigue for several days, anxiety, disturbed sleep, or back, arm, neck or jaw

pain.

February is Heart Health Month. As part of the Burnaby Division of Family Practice’s Empowering Patients public health education program,

I’ll be giving a free online talk on heart disease at 7 p.m. on Feb. 17, 2022.

To sign up, check divisionsbc.ca/burnaby.

Dr. DavidicusWong is a family physician.

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26 THURSDAY, February 10, 2022 • Burnaby Now

HAPPY VALENTINE’S! Prices Effective February 10 - 16, 2022.

100% BC OWNED AND OPERATED Organic Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

LOCAL from Fraser Valley

1499/lb

Choices’ Own Valentine’s Day Cupcakes & Cakes Assorted Sizes

549629

33.05/kg

Fresh Steelhead Fillets 37.46/kg

Long Stem Strawberries From Mexico

1699

1400

/lb

Vitale Italian Prosciutto or Salami

454g

subject to availabilty

Tre Stelle Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese

Organic Romaine Hearts From USA

549

899

398

/100g

100g package

pkg. of 3

SiSU Vitamins and Supplements

Canadian Heritage Organics 100% Pure Organic Maple Syrup

Nature’s Path Organic Eco Pac Cereal

25% off

2099

2/1498

Assorted sizes,Assorted Varieties Regular Retail 9.79-99.99

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