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Teacher’s actions not misconduct Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

The B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch has cleared a Burnaby teacher-librarian of any wrongdoing, more than two years after an incident at a public forum.

Sharon Gail Freeman was the subject of a complaint filed with the branch, following a tense all candidates’ meeting for school board hopefuls leading up to the 2011 civic election.

As previously reported in the NOW, the incident occurred on Nov. 1, 2011, at the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, while the candidates were fielding questions from the audience.

The son of Jade Tomelden, an independent school board candidate, told the candidates he had seen a teacher duct tape a student’s mouth shut, and asked what the appropriate disciplinary action should be. (The alleged incident took place in a Vancouver school, and Tomelden transferred her son and ran for school board because of it.)

Freeman, a teacher-librarian at Stride Avenue Elementary, was sitting in the audience during the meeting. She then stood to her feet and scolded the child, stating that it was an “inappropriate question” and that the student had a responsibility to go to his teacher and principal immediately. The boy left the room and later returned in tears.

Freeman also spoke to the crowd, identifying herself as a teacher and apologizing, stating she didn’t mean to criticize the boy.

“I just think that as a teacher, we would want that dealt with immediately,” she said, “and I would hope that the principal of the school would have been notified immediately, and I Teacher Page 3

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like in Burnaby. She sat down to talk t’s a rocky world out there for the to folks from two different local thearts. Government grant programs atre groups – the established Footlight have shrunk. Businesses are finding it Theatre Company, which has been operharder to spare money for sponsorship. ating in Burnaby under People are choosing to various names since 1965, stay home instead of go and the newcomer Align out and spend on “frills” Entertainment, which like theatre. staged its first producSo what’s a local thetion, Shrek the Musical, at atre company to do? Ride Michael J. Fox Theatre it out and hope for the just this month. best? Shut their doors?

A SPECIAL REPORT In some ways, the Or find new ways to groups couldn’t be more thrive? different. Footlight has struggled to Knowing what a challenging market attract the kind of audiences it wants to it has been for theatre groups for the past its annual fall productions at the Michael several years, reporter Julie MacLellan J. Fox Theatre. In fact, in 2013, its board thought she’d find out what things are

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opted to cancel the major musical in favour of a benefit fundraiser, with an eye to coming back strong in 2014.

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It’s still not clear which route in the north of the city Kinder Morgan would prefer for its pipeline expansion, but the public will eventually be informed, according to the company’s president.

Meanwhile, the deadline to apply as a participant in the hearing has passed, although the National Energy Board may consider an extension.

Kinder Morgan has put forward a proposed pipeline route and an alternate option for the Westridge area, which overlooks the marine terminal, where tankers fill up with crude. The square-shaped neighbourhood is boxed in by the two pipeline options, while the existing line runs down the middle. The company’s “preferred” western route comes down the west side of Cliff Avenue, by the Drummond’s Walk urban trail and the Burrard Inlet Conservation Area. The alternate eastern option comes down behind Ridgeview Drive and Pandora Drive on the western edge of Burnaby Mountain. Both routing options meet in the middle at the Westridge Marine Terminal.

The neighbourhood was also the site of the 2007 pipeline rupture, which sprayed oil in the air, coating local homes with crude.

The NOW contacted several residents on the western and eastern edges of the area, inquiring whether Kinder Morgan had informed them of where the pipeline would go.

While many seemed confused or unaware, some residents on the western side seemed to have been contacted, while those on the east (on Pandora and Ridgeview) said they received no notification about the pipeline. The NOW asked the

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Kinder surprise: Kinder Morgan’s president says the public will eventually be informed as to where the proposed pipeline’s route will go.

Trans Mountain media team, three times, which route in the north the company now prefers, but we did not receive a specific answer.

Art Hilstad lives on Northcliffe Crescent, close to the Burrard Inlet, and he has concerns the western route would come across his property.

“That’s the way it looks on any map that I’ve seen. It goes right across our backyard,” he said. However, the company has not entered into any kind of land agreement to use his property.

The NOW also talked to another Northcliffe resident (who wanted to remain anonymous because he’s trying to sell his home) who said some neighbours are consid-

ering a class action suit.

As previously reported in the NOW, Kinder Morgan now prefers the alternate route in the south, which runs along the CN rail line, instead of the route proposed in the company’s application to the National Energy Board, which comes down Lougheed Highway.

The NOW also learned that company representatives recently walked along the CN railway route, with members from the Stoney Creek Environment Committee and the Sapperton Fish and Game Club, as well as representative from Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

In a Feb. 11 letter to the editor, Kinder Morgan Canada president

Ian Anderson said people will know where the pipeline is going to go.

“But it is a process that takes time and one that must take into consideration the interests of people, safety and the environment,” he wrote. “If you have not been contacted by us, you are not in either corridor. If that changes, you will hear directly from us.”

Anderson also indicated that there are four Burnaby homes that are in the selected study corridor, and those landowners have been notified.

The homes are somewhere between the tank farm on Burnaby Mountain and the Westridge Marine Terminal.

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know that from my past experience as a member of the BTA (Burnaby Teachers’ Association) and as an officer of the BTA, that there’s no teacher in Burnaby that would accept that kind of behaviour from any of their colleagues.”

After the meeting, according to the hearing decision documents, Freeman tried to apologize to the

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student, but Tomelden said the boy didn’t want to talk to her.

According to the branch, Freeman didn’t know the boy was Tomelden’s son or that the alleged duct-tape incident happened in Vancouver.

The whole event was caught on tape, and Burnaby Parents’ Voice, an ad hoc party of opponents to the school district’s anti-homophobia policy, posted the clip online.

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The NOW, the Vancouver Sun and CTV also reported on the issue.

The Teacher Regulation Branch panel members decided that Freeman was not guilty of professional misconduct, since she was “acting in her private capacity,” nor was she guilty of conduct unbecoming of a teacher, which generally applies to off-duty behaviour.

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and found that Freeman spoke in a normal tone and volume, and while she spoke sharply to the student, she didn’t abuse, ridicule or debase him in any way.

The panel also considered Freeman’s “excellent” reputation as a teacher and her unblemished record that dates back to 1981. ◆ For more on this story, go to Jennifer Moreau’s blog at www.burn abynow.com.

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CITY HALL

Should city take down payday loan businesses?

Stefania Seccia staff reporter

For many years, Burnaby resident Steven McMurtrie found himself in a vicious financial cycle he had trouble escaping.

He owed money to payday loan sites in Burnaby after the first time he took a short-term loan in 2006. McMurtrie has been living on income assistance since 1999, where he receives $906 a month, but $744 of it goes to his rent each month. He was in a position where he needed more money to pay all of his bills.

“When I paid the $300 on payday, I was $300 short, so I had to get another payday loan to pay that off,” McMurtrie said. “It’s what happens to a lot of people.

It’s a cycle that people, especially those with lower incomes, can’t get out of. Through the years, I found it hard to get out of this cycle.”

McMurtrie is also a member of Acorn’s Burnaby chapter, a local social justice group tackling

issues low-income people face.

At Monday night’s council meeting, McMurtrie was joined

by Monica McGovern, the Burnaby Acorn chapter chair, to talk about payday loan sites. The two were there to ask council to limit payday loaning businesses operating in the city.

“The problem is these companies continue to target the low-income neighbourhoods in Burnaby,” McGovern said. “An ideal outcome would be if the city council would consider a moratorium on issuing more licences to these … companies. Typically, in B.C., they charge 600 per cent annual interest on their loans.”

McMurtrie said there are five payday lending stores on Kingsway between Metrotown and Edmonds alone.

Since November 2009, the payday loans regulation has been in effect, and all payday loan businesses must be licensed with Consumer Protection B.C. In 2013, British Columbians borrowed about $351 million

through payday loans, about allow them to conduct this kind 800,000 loans were taken out, of usurious business in our comand each loan was around $450 munity.”

Volkow had harsh words or less, according to Consumer Protection B.C. Payday lenders about payday loan businesses.

“It would be my preference are prohibited from charging more than 23 per cent interest a not to have any of these folks in our town. It would month. be my preference not to This past January, have this business operCBC reported that The ating anywhere in the Cash Store was ordered country because basiby Consumer Protection cally it’s loan sharking, B.C. to repay more legalized loan sharking than $1 million to B.C. is what it is,” he said. consumers who were Coun. Dan Johnston charged hefty intersaid it’s an issue the city est rates on their payneeds to address, but it’s day loans. Cash Store a provincial and federal Financial Group was Nick Volkow government issue too. found over-charging councillor “I remember when customers. the federal government Although most Burnaby councillors said they changed the bank act 15, maybe supported Acorn’s request, there 20, years ago and reduced the bank’s ability to make short-term is not much the city can do.

“We can do something,” said loans,” he said.

Coun. Colleen Jordan said they Coun. Nick Volkow. “We can’t, as a city, regulate the interest can look into how many there are rates or anything else, but as Ms. in Burnaby and proceed with a McGovern says we can try to not resolution that would get sent to

MLA calls for better fire safety Corrigan says sprinklers should be mandatory in all care facilities Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Burnaby MLA Kathy Corrigan is calling for older care facilities to be retrofitted with sprinklers, following a Quebec fire that left more than 28 seniors dead.

Corrigan, the MLA for Burnaby-Deer Lake, raised the issue in the Legislature on Feb. 18, along with her NDP colleague Katrine Conroy.

“There are currently almost a dozen care homes that don’t have adequate sprinkler systems. There are at least another eight that have no sprinkler systems whatsoever, and that represents hundreds, if not thou-

sands, of seniors who are soon to address this issue,” vulnerable,” Corrigan said, he said.

According to Corrigan, addressing Justice Minister Suzanne Anton. “Rather the NDP brought in the law than waiting to do an inven- requiring sprinklers in care tory and rather than wait- facilities for seniors or peoing to have another disaster ple with disabilities, but it like we had in Quebec, will only applied to new buildthis minister take immedi- ings, so there are still some older facilities with ate action to ensure no sprinklers. that care facilities “The regulain this province tion needs to be are retrofitted with changed in order sprinklers?” to force the retHealth Minister rofitting of sprinTerry Lake klers in care faciliresponded by ties,” she told the pointing out that NOW. the building code Burnaby’s New changed in 1996, Vista care home requiring new care is the only one facilities be built Kathy Corrigan in Burnaby that with sprinklers, MLA she knows of that and that he asked for an inventory of the facil- lacks sprinklers.

On Jan. 23, a fire raged ities in B.C. that don’t have through a Quebec seniors’ full sprinkler systems.

“We’ll be meeting with home that was not outfithealth authorities and the ted with sprinklers, killing B.C. care providers very at least 28 seniors, while

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other organizations, such as the Union of B.C. Municipalities.

“It’s pretty clear that something needs to be done on different levels of government,” she said. “Maybe we can’t do all that much ourselves, but I’m sure willing to look into it.”

Mayor Derek Corrigan said the city might be able to restrict locations, but not much else.

“It is something that we only have very blunt instruments (for),” he said. “We can try through our … zoning power to restrict the number of these kind of businesses that there are, but we’re not permitted to prohibit a business that’s legal in B.C.” Council referred the issue to the community development committee, which could lead to a staff report with recommendations on how the city can proceed.

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Pet store cats must be sterilized, city says But animal advocate says change doesn’t go far enough to protect cat population

“What it doesn’t do is it doesn’t address the acquisition of these cats – our argument was twofold,” she told the Burnaby NOW. “It was cats sold in pet stores increasing the homeless population, but also these cats are coming from inhumane Stefania Seccia conditions, as well. They’re coming from staff reporter breeding mills, irresponsible backyard Burnaby council is adding cats to the breeders, so requiring sterilization before list of animals that must be sterilized sale doesn’t address that at all.” before they’re sold in city pet stores.

Powelson noted it also doesn’t address But a local animal advocate says the what happens to the cat after it’s sold. change is still not enough to address the “It’s better than nothing, but it’s very real issue. disappointing,” she added.

At the Feb. 17 meeting, council Powelson said it may not be economiapproved another change to the cally viable for a pet store to sell animal control bylaw since it was the cat if it has to pay more for overhauled last fall, and that is each cat. to include the sterilization of cats “They’re either going to have prior to sale, or a voucher systo raise the price or they’re going tem to cover the cost. The bylaw to have to take that loss,” she said, already requires the mandatory noting it could mean no more cats sterilization of rabbits sold in pet for sale in stores. “Maybe there’s stores. a silver lining, but that remains “Business owners would be to be seen.” responsible for funding the proA city staff report states the gram and the voucher provided to Derek Corrigan legal department acquired an the consumer would be required mayor outside opinion on the matter of to cover 100 per cent of the procerequiring only B.C. animals be dure costs,” said Denise Jorgenson, direc- sold at local stores, but it advised that a tor of finance. “Enforcement would be limitation on animal sales in pet stores accomplished by random inspections con- requiring them to be born and raised in ducted by the B.C. SPCA.” B.C. would contravene international trade Any pet store failing to meet the new agreements. bylaw amendment would be subject to a Mayor Derek Corrigan said it’s anoth$500 fine. er example of trade agreements affecting Burnaby resident Kathy Powelson, local government. executive director of Paws for Hope “You read through this report and realAnimal Foundation, says the change could ize here we wanted to be able to put in a potentially address the feral cat problem provision, in fact pet stores could only sell in the city. animals raised here in B.C., that was the

City prepares for trip to the polls Stefania Seccia staff reporter

The city is preparing for the upcoming civic election by doing away with its 35 voting divisions and adding a third advanced polling date.

The Local Government Act stipulates council to adopt election bylaws and agreements for the upcoming municipal election on Nov. 15, including pay rates for election officials.

The 2014 election is expected to cost the city $188,844 for salary and staff alone.

One of the big changes will be the end of the city’s 35 voting divisions within which an elector had to vote.

“This will enable the vote ‘at large’ concept allowing electors to vote where they live, work, play or learn,” said Lynne Axford, chief election officer, in her report to council.

“This action on the part of council has numerous benefits that will improve the overarching voting experiences for electors and is in line with the city’s commitment to leadership in social, economic and envi-

ronmental sustainability.

In 2011, the city was divided into the 35 divisions establishing the boundaries. Then in 2012, council approved the electronic voter strike-off system for the entire election process and authorized the vote-at-large concept for future elections.

The Burnaby school district and the city are expected to enter into a cost-sharing agreement that would see the district pay a portion of the costs related to school trustee elections.

There will be 35 voting locations, 16 special voting opportunities and now three advance voting opportunities at Brentwood Town Centre, Lougheed Town Centre, Metropolis at Metrotown, Edmonds Community Centre and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The three advance voting dates will be Nov. 1, 5 and 8.

Also, a new special voting opportunity will be established at Burnaby Hospital on Nov. 15 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

For more details about the election, visit www. burnaby.ca.

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For the animals: Animal advocate Kathy Powelson, seen here with canine companion Max, says another change to the city’s animal control bylaw doesn’t go far enough to protect cats. effort made in order to stop the puppy mills that exist particularly in the U.S.,” Corrigan said. “We know the conditions here, we can control the conditions in which those pets are raised.

“This is the kind of chilling effect it has on local governments day to day to day.”

However, Powelson says requiring B.C.-bred animals would not have been a better alternative.

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“Even if it’s B.C. bred, it’s not coming from humane conditions either because no reputable breeder would sell a pet through a pet store,” she said. “In order for a B.C. breeder to be registered with the kennel club, there’s a stipulation in their bylaws … that says registered breeders with the Canadian Kennel Club cannot sell puppies through pet stores.”

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Speak up! The Burnaby NOW welcomes letters to the editor and opinion pieces. Email your letter to: editorial@burnabynow.com or go to our website at www.burnabynow.com, click on the opinion tab and use the ‘send us a letter’ form

Medical pot factories are a step forward If someone had told us a decade ago plans and make it all work. that municipalities would be trying to As of April 1, the old federal marifigure out where and how to fit medijuana medical access regulations under cal marijuana companies into their Health Canada are changing. Currently, planning manuals today – well, we private citizens are allowed to produce would have told them they medical pot for personal use must be smoking something. on a limited scale. The new Burnaby NOW But, as reported recently in rules move the production out this paper, companies like of backyards and residential Vancouver MediCann are trying to areas and into large-scale manufacfigure out exactly where and how they turing facilities. This is mostly good. can fit into municipal boundaries and Burnaby, as other municipalities are, is

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working out the kinks in the system.

It is putting together new bylaw provisions that would require an applicant to obtain council approval through the rezoning process, with a required public hearing.

This is also good.

The arguments over the worth of medical marijuana are largely over, and its value is now recognized. Does that mean that we won’t hear about users who may abuse the new system

and service? No, we’re sure there’ll be instances and stories about folks misusing the service. There were in the current system. As in most things, there will be people who try to take advantage of loopholes and profit on other people’s needs.

But this is a much-needed step forward.

For now many of the new companies are local start-ups with local owners.

Let’s hope it stays that way.

Balanced budget drives Liberals IN MY OPINION

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hile the B.C. Liberal government has been accused of putting all of its proverbial eggs in the liquefied natural gas basket, consider this: the provincial budget is forecast to be in surplus for at least the next three years without a cent of LNG revenue even showing up on the books.

In fact, the government’s own documents suggest that magical LNG money (it will pay off the debt! was Premier Christy Clark’s excited promise during the last election) won’t have an impact on provincial finances in any meaningful way for perhaps six or seven years.

In the meantime, Finance Minister Mike de Jong has put together an old-fashioned threeyear fiscal plan that appears to be a tight-fisted restraint program, albeit one with a potential built-in escape hatch.

De Jong is turning off the spending taps in pretty well all government ministries save health, and even there he is continuing to dial back the spending increases that have occurred in that sector for years.

Within that fiscal plan, he has built some considerable flexibility with fairly high forecast allowances and contingency funds, so he may have elbow room to make saving “adjustments” in years 2 and 3 (in 2016, for example, de Jong projects a forecast “allowance” of $325 million, plus an unusually large contingency fund of $575 million). Something tells me those lofty unallocated dollars won’t hold and may well be used to pay for such things as public sector wage settlements (including possibly B.C.’s teachers).

Of course, I’d be wary in doubting many of de Jong’s forecasts, given the fact he is bringing home a balanced budget for the current fiscal year, which ends March 31. Skeptics (myself included) were everywhere when he first introduced that budget a year ago, and de Jong had to endure catcalls and boos about his outlandish claim that he was tabling a balanced budget.

Critics (again, myself included) zeroed in on one particular unrealistic goal of that budget: that health-care spending could somehow be contained within a three per cent increase, which seemed unheard of at the time.

Well, what do you know.

The B.C. health-care budget is coming in with a 2.7 per cent annual increase, largely because reduced laboratory costs,

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Demand action from MLAs Dear Editor:

On Monday, Feb. 17 at the B.C. legislature, a motion was presented to “recognize that climate change is one of the greatest issues facing B.C.” and calling on the legislature to “explore all means by which the government may halt the expansion of thermal coal exports in British Columbia.”

That motion was overwhelmingly defeated 73 to 1. Both the NDP and Liberals even found the motion amusing, and, yes, even New Westminster’s very own MLA Judy Darcy voted against the motion.

Put another way, our legislators have no intention of opposing the proposed Fraser Surrey coal dock even though it is within their power to do so.

It is accepted the world over that carbon dioxide

emissions (largely from coal burning) is the major factor behind climate change, and our elected politicians are doing nothing to combat this, in fact they find it amusing to consider otherwise.

If you don’t find this issue amusing and care for the future well-being of your families, contact your own MLA now and tell them to rethink their ideas.

It goes without saying that not only do we need new thinking in Victoria, we need a new attitude.

Gavin Wishart, New Westminster

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Climate change is critical continued from page 6

Burnaby NOW, Feb. 19.

Climate change is one of the biggest threats to our province and country’s prosperity. The B.C. New Democrat Official Opposition believes that the National Energy Board and all environmental assessment processes must take climate change and our international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions into account.

B.C. has already lost more than a billion dollars and thousands of jobs in forestry due to the pine beetle infestation, and our salmon are struggling as water temperatures rise due to climate change.

The record-breaking drought in California and the increasing number of powerful storms are further examples of how climate change doesn’t just threaten the environment, it threatens our economy.

If we want to ensure our children and our grandchildren will enjoy the same quality of life that we take for granted, our federal and provincial governments need a real plan to fight climate change.

British Columbians want to do their part, it’s time our governments do the

same.

Spencer Chandra Herbert, B.C. New Democrat official opposition critic for the environment

Budget not for taxpayers

Dear Editor:

There’s one thing you say about the latest budget of the Liberal government: It’s a heck of a lot kinder to business than to the ordinary taxpayer.

Finance Minister de Jong’s boast that B.C. is one of two provinces with a balanced budget rings a bit hollow when put alongside the fact that B.C. is also one of two provinces that levies a medical services premium on its citizens. As if that isn’t bad enough, de Jong is increasing that premium, the third such increase in as many years.

That seems a bit unbalanced to me.

However, “boring, balanced budget” or not, let’s not overlook the government’s predilection to add to the mountain of debt accumulated under their watch. It’s projected to reach $68.9 billion over the next three years, almost a third of which has been added since Christie Clark assumed the Liberal leadership in 2011.

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LNG, it is really the balanced budget concept that is driving the agenda. ! There’s another reason to pay some attention to veteran politician Mike de Jong this past week: he tabled his budget almost 20 years to the exact day of his historic byelection victory in the Fraser Valley riding of Matsqui.

I say “historic” because that’s exactly what it was, since the result may have changed the course of B.C. political history.

De Jong, an unknown lawyer at the time, beat Social Credit grand dame Grace McCarthy in the byelection.

If McCarthy had won, there was every reason to believe at the time that she could have resurrected the once-proud and powerful Social Credit dynasty.

She may very well have convinced another fellow who won a byelection

Bill Brassington, Burnaby

that night – a guy named Gordon Campbell – to cross to her party.

If so, the Socreds may have been able to eventually leapfrog the upstart B.C. Liberals, led by Gordon Wilson, whose leadership eventually crumbled (allowing Campbell to take over).

But de Jong’s victory put McCarthy out to political pasture, and the Socreds faded away and eventually died out as a political force.

Meanwhile, the B.C. Liberals eventually became the free-enterprise coalition that was the Socreds for so many years, and de Jong has been a mainstay of the government’s cabinet since 2001.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. Read more of his opinion columns online at www. burnabynow.com – follow the link under Opinion.

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Liberals: Twenty years since de Jong’s historic byelection win PharmaCare costs and money saved from shared service efficiencies took much of the pressure off the spending curve.

But the health-care budget will continue to be a challenge in the years ahead, as the federal government’s new funding model means fewer federal dollars flowing B.C.’s way.

Nevertheless, don’t expect de Jong to back away from delivering a balanced budget each and every year, no matter the spending pressures that will surely be felt in health and other areas.

Everything the B.C. Liberal government does starts from the premise that the budget must be balanced.

Work back from there, and you can start to understand the government’s core philosophy.

For all that talk about

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Information you need to know: The scope of the Burnaby Tree Bylaw has been expanded to the management of trees on all lands in the City.

There are new size specifications to define trees that would require a Tree Cutting Permit.

There is a revised permit and fee process for Tree Cutting Permit applications.

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Most teachers say kids don’t get needed attention Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

The Burnaby Teachers’ Association is raising the issue of class composition in the midst of legal wranglings between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the provincial government.

The association conducted a survey of hundreds of Burnaby teachers and found some “surprising” results on the numbers of special needs students in classrooms, according to president James Sanyshyn.

According to the results, 75 per cent of surveyed teachers felt their students

weren’t receiving appropriate individual attention according to their needs, and 81 per cent identified a wider range of needs than in past years. Sixty-six per cent have more special needs students in their classes than in past years.

“We’ve got more and more students with (special) needs. There are students that are more aggressive than in the past,” Sanyshyn told the NOW. “And the supports aren’t in place to keep up with the needs.”

Meanwhile, the Liberals are appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision that found the provincial government’s legislation limiting

teachers’ bargaining rights and removing limits on class sizes and the numbers of special needs students was unconstitutional.

The court decision called for 2002 contract language on class sizes and composition limits to be restored, but the province has asked for a stay application, which would keep things status quo until the appeal is heard. A hearing for the stay application is scheduled for tomorrow (Friday).

The Burnaby Teachers’ Association is opposed to the application for a stay and the appeal.

“By implementing the restored language in Burnaby, dozens more teacher librar-

ians, ESL teachers, counsellors and special needs educators would be working with the students of Burnaby each and every day,” Sanyshyn said. “Classes would be smaller and teachers would have the time to meet the needs of all learners. Special needs students are being shortchanged by this government. The budget is balanced in Victoria on their backs.”

Last November, Burnaby’s school board reported that there were 495 classes with four or more students designated as having special needs. The old limits were, in general, two special needs kids per class.

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Faster, farther, stronger: Run workshop set Cayley Dobie staff reporter

Looking to run like a pro, or even walk like one?

Fortius Sport and Health in Burnaby is hosting a daylong run and walk workshop, in partnership with FitFirst Footwear, for everyone and anyone hoping to improve their running or walking.

Run Burnaby Now, which takes place on March 8 at Fortius Sport and Health, is the first of its kind in Burnaby and offers participants advice from experts in the field of sports medicine on improving their fitness.

The event runs all day with workshops in the morning hosted by experts, including Dr. Jack Taunton, director of sport medicine for the Fortius Institute and a recent inductee into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, and two-time summer Olympian Lynn Kanuka.

After the workshops, participants will be taken on an informal training run through the trails at Burnaby Lake.

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Now is one part learning symposium for runners and walkers and one part fun run.

It’s a tremendous way for people to get a lot of what they need to make the most out of running and walking, all in one day, all under one roof.”

Other staff that will be facilitating the Run Burnaby Now include Dr. Christopher L. MacLean, director of applied biomechanics and The Lab at Fortius; Dr. Jason Crookham, sport and exercise medicine physician; Ashley Charlebois, registered dietitian at the Fortius Institute; David Cox, director of clinical training For a department of psychology at SFU; video, and Cody Low, strength and condiscan tioning coach at Fortius and former with varsity sprint coach at UBC. Layar “We’re pleased to be in a position to work with our partners at FitFirst Footwear to use the Run Burnaby Now event to help showcase the full range of athlete services and training opportunities available to runners and walkers at Fortius Sport and Health,” said Lynda Cannell, chief operating officer for Fortius Sport and Health, in a media release.

“It’s a great time for all runners and walkers, including those new to training programs, to kick-start their plans for the spring and summer ahead.”

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Run/Walk: Phil Moore, left, and Evan Moore, right, founders of FitFirst Footwear,

with Ryan Jang, centre, of Fortius Sport and Health are among the organizers of an upcoming run and walk symposium. Run Burnaby Now takes place March 8 at Fortius Sport and Health.

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Is Burnaby ready to embrace theatre?

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ON MY BEAT

Julie MacLellan

Happy talk, keep talking happy talk.

Talk about things you’d like to do.

You gotta have a dream If you don’t have a dream, How ya gonna have a dream come true?

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t was 65 years ago when the now-famous lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II burst onto the Broadway stage in the hit musical South Pacific.

But he might well have written them about the movers and shakers of the local musical theatre community in 2014. Because they’re all dreaming big. And they’re determined to make those dreams happen – even if the road ahead seems daunting.

But there’s one big caveat: They can’t do it alone. And they’re going to need support from Burnaby to make it happen.

Enter the players It was coming up on a halfcentury ago that a musical theatre company was born. Burnaby Civic Opera, as it was then called, staged its first show in 1966. In the 1970s, the group became Heritage Musical Theatre – and, in 1989, it changed again when Footlight Theatre Company staged its first show.

Footlight Theatre, as it’s now known, has since made a name for producing annual, splashy productions of Broadway favourites – The Wizard of Oz, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music, to name but a few – featuring large casts, with a focus on young community talent.

But Footlight ran up against a wall last year when its board was faced with some tough decisions: given the unexpected departure of some board members, and the financial climate of the times, could Footlight manage to stage its annual fall production?

In the end, the show was a no-go.

Jane Wace, a Footlight board member, talked to the NOW at the time and said the decision to not produce a fall show wasn’t taken lightly. She noted it comes on the heels of four big shows in the previous four years.

“They were fantastic shows, but the last couple were extremely expensive shows to do,” she said.

She noted that Footlight – like all other arts groups, amateur and professional – was facing a tough time filling the seats for all its

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Go, go, go Joseph: Footlight Theatre’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 2009 marked the company’s move

to the Michael J. Fox Theatre – and featured a huge cast, with 34 members plus a large children’s chorus. productions.

“In the arts these days, it’s all the same. It’s tough to present something and get bums in seats,” she said. “People are not going to the theatre as much as they used to.”

She said the board felt it wise to be cautious and hold a fundraising benefit concert in November 2013 instead, to come back strong in 2014.

The Friends of Footlight benefit show featured a host of talented performers who have trod the boards with Footlight in the past.

Susan Reid, the board’s current president, said performers were eager to get involved – for the most part, those who said “no” to taking part only did so because they’ve gone on to professional performing careers and were otherwise engaged. In the end, she said, the show involved the talents of some 80 people, between performers and volunteers.

“That says a lot about us,” she said, during a sit-down with the NOW in January. “People were blown away by the talent we had.”

Footlight’s year ahead isn’t yet assured. The board hasn’t decided whether a full-scale musical is in the works for fall. But the foundation has been laid.

Even as Footlight was debating its future, another player appeared on the scene.

Chilliwack School of Performing Coquitlam-based Align Arts – which was also staging Entertainment is a newly formed Shrek– on some of the sets, props theatre company dedicated to and other requirements, in order producing family-oriented musito cut the up-front costs. cal theatre. Its first production, And, since the company has Shrek the Musical, just wrapped been set up as a business rather up its run at the Michael J. Fox than a non-profit group, it’s also Theatre in Burnaby. working to establish partnerships Its partners – Chad Matchette, with what Matchette describes as Melissa Assalone, Patti Volk “like-minded and Megan companies,” Simpson and it’s driven – come into the by a business venture with a plan. wealth of theAnd no, atre experience he admits among them. up front, he Matchette doesn’t expect has been A SPECIAL REPORT: Part 1 to make involved in money in the theatre since short term. his early teens, 30 years ago. He Profitability, he said, is a said it’s long been a dream to long-term goal – and even then, have his own theatre company – the aims are more artistic than a company that would be formed financial. by friends with the same goal.

“Long-term, we’re looking at “We decided we would like building a season of shows,” he to do our own thing, focus more said. “That’ll be great if there is on family-oriented stuff, more on some kind of profit involved, but newer works,” he said. that’s not the ultimate goal.”

Staging Shrek seemed like So, with two musical theatre the perfect first venture, he said, companies looking for an audibecause it combined the elements ence in Burnaby, that leaves that they were looking for: great the question: Can they fill those messages, great music and a seats? whole lot of fun.

And, yes, it posed more than a Enter the venue few challenges – like a huge cast and a need for extensive sets, cosEveryone can agree on this: A tumes and makeup. But the comgreat theatre may not guarantee a pany faced the challenges headgreat audience, but it sure makes on. It was able to partner with the life a whole lot easier.

State of the arts

Footlight Theatre, for much of its past, had used the James Cowan Theatre at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. But the theatre posed many challenges for the productions – its smaller size, the lack of an orchestra pit, and small backstage areas made it difficult to stage the kind of large shows that the company was aiming for.

“The whole style of the musicals had to change,” pointed out board member Elaine Lindbjerg, noting the configuration at the Shadbolt was such that for some shows the orchestra had to be off to the side, and for others at the back of the stage.

In 2009, the company made the decision to move to a bigger venue: the 600-seat Michael J. Fox Theatre at Burnaby South Secondary School.

“It was really a huge, wonderful move to move to Michael J. Fox,” Reid said. “It’s a great venue.”

Matchette agrees.

He’s familiar with the theatre through the performing arts school he runs – the Lindbjerg Academy of Performing Arts – and said he had no hesitation in choosing the venue.

“I have worked with the staff there for years, and they’re amazing,” he said, adding the theatre itself is a perfect size for a musical of the scale he wanted to produce. “It’s a wonderful space.”

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It’s a colourful life at Deer Lake Gallery March 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Sower and Keayes are artists “that exhibit a passionate joy for the practice, medium and potentials for painting,” a press release says.

Sower, who also works as a fashion illustrator, said she loves “whimsical combinations” of light and colour that inspire happiness and joy – and her flower images are one way to do just that.

“As an artist, I am drawn to the way in which light and colour marry to form shape, fire our imaginations and inspire our emotions,” she said in the release. “I believe that the

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t’s a colourful world – and nowhere more so than at the Burnaby Arts Council gallery.

The Deer Lake Gallery is hosting Life in Colour, an exhibition of the work of Claire Sower and Jim Keayes.

It’s on from March 1 to 22, with an opening reception set for Saturday,

act of looking at a piece of art should inspire.”

The release notes that Keayes, an engineering draftsman, is motivated by the infinite possibilities for shapes and colour inherent in different forms of abstraction.

It says he has experienced “renewed vigour” in his art practice as he has opened up to explore possibilities beyond realism to include abstraction and more open forms of representation.

You can meet the artists and see their work at the opening reception on March 1. The gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave.

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Author visits

The Burnaby Public Library’s McGill branch is hosting an evening with acclaimed author Cynthia Flood this week.

The library is hosting the visit on Thursday, Feb. 27 from 7 to 8 p.m.

Flood’s latest book, Red Girl Rat Boy, is her fourth short-story collection. Quill & Quire’s reviews editor picked it as one of five Books of the Year, and Lively City Page 13

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To life: Work by Jim Keayes is part of Life in Colour, opening this weekend at the Burnaby Arts Council’s Deer Lake Gallery.

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the National Post described Flood as a “highly accomplished stylist.”

Flood’s earlier collections are The English

Stories, My Father Took a Cake to France, and The Animals in their Elements.

Her work has won the Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award,

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From a performer’s point of view, there’s definitely a market for what Align Entertainment is doing.

“It’s a great opportunity,” said Ranae Miller, a musical theatre grad from Capilano University who stars as Princess Fiona. “As an actor, you’re always looking for a company that’s passionate and looking to put on a great show. It’s great to find a new company that has that attitude.”

And its focus on new musicals appealed to her.

“I never thought that anyone would put on Shrek,” she said.

Matchette, for his part, said he was blown away by the attendance at auditions, when more than 200 performers turned out.

Shrek had a cast of 34 adults

The next year, Footlight followed up with a huge production of The Sound of Music. Among its highlights was a nun’s chorus with some 30 singers.

“The Sound of Music was a booming success,” Reid said.

Another huge cast took to the stage the following year for The Wizard of Oz – including a huge cast of kids playing the 40 or so munchkins.

It was, Reid said, the perfect show for Footlight, allowing them to showcase local children.

She said that, technically and artistically speaking, The Wizard of Oz was one of the most spectacular shows Footlight has ever staged – complete with flying witches and monkeys, and a cast of some 70-plus people.

“Technically it was by far our superior show,” she said.

What it lacked, sadly, was audience – Reid said turnout was lower than anticipated, and that was a blow for the company.

She said the Footlight environment is perfect for nurturing young talent.

“It’s like training camp,” she said. “We’ve noticed tremendous mentoring from the people who are well-seasoned in the company, to help the young kids.”

Lindbjerg said the chance for the youngsters to work side-byside with performers of all ages has been beneficial to them.

“A lot of the young people who have performed on our stage have gone on to be professionals,” Lindbjerg noted. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for them.”

All of the Footlight shows feature large casts – with anywhere from 40 to 80 performers taking to the stage in recent years.

Among the recent large-scale successes was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – its first in the Michael J. Fox Theatre, in 2009.

“The first show, Joseph, was fabulous,” Reid said.

and a 33-member kids’ choir – all the adults are experienced performers, and most of the kids have fine arts training of some kind.

“They’re just an amazing group of people,” he said.

Footlight Theatre, too, has always had success in drawing large numbers of people to its auditions.

Reid noted that one of the company’s big focuses is young talent – in particular, kids.

“Our mandate has been to be a family theatre, to help children and teens, to get families involved in theatre, “ Reid explained.

Typically, hundreds of kids will audition throughout the Lower Mainland.

Reid noted there are many, many performers in Burnaby alone – dance schools are full of children looking for a chance to appear onstage in capacities other than their school’s annual shows.

Its production of Grease the next year proved equally challenging – in part, Reid noted, because it didn’t have parts for kids, which was a Footlight tradition, and it was a less family-friendly show than others had been.

In part, Footlight was finding itself a victim of its own artistic success – from its smaller shows at the Shadbolt Centre, it had grown into lavish productions at the Michael J. Fox Theatre.

But the audience didn’t quite keep up.

“We mushroomed so fast,” Lindbjerg said.

Which brings us to the critical question: Can both theatre companies get those much-talkedabout bums in seats?

In the second part of our special report, Julie MacLellan takes a look at how Footlight and Align Entertainment are addressing the challenges of the theatre business – and what the future holds.

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THE WORLD IN BURNABY

Burnaby Welcomes The World The World in Burnaby Wants You to Welcome Newcomers to Our City

BURNABY - A PLACE THE WORLD CALLS HOME

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urnaby has changed a lot over the past couple of decades. In 2011, more than 50% of Burnaby’s population was born outside of Canada.Those immigrants, from a multitude of countries, speaking myriad languages and bringing multiple cultures with them, have chosen to make Burnaby home.

The rich cultural mix that Burnaby now fosters, makes it home to one of the largest immigrant populations in Canada. As much as Burnaby recognizes its new diverse society and as welcoming as residents have been and continue to be, there are still many challenges ahead. For newcomers, it’s often difficult to find work, to fit into their new community or to challenge stereotypes.

The Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table (BIPT) is a group made up of many different community organizations and committees, and its goal is to make Burnaby not only welcoming to newcomers, but to help the transition to a fully multi-cultural community for everyone.

The World in Burnaby project was created by BIPT to inform, educate and welcome – in fact, to make Burnaby the most welcoming city in the whole of Canada for newcomers.

Since early last summer, The World in Burnaby campaign has been taking the message to the street to let people know just how culturally rich Burnaby has become thanks to the arrival of new neighbours from all over the world. As well, The World in Burnaby has been encouraging people to find ways to welcome a newcomer, whether it be through a kind word to a new parent at school, learning to say hello in another language, or simply helping someone to find the library or a transit route, there have been hundreds of Ways to Welcome that many people have fulfilled.

The giant emblem of The World in Burnaby campaign, has been our massive 20 foot high inflatable globe – literally meant to signify the WORLD in Burnaby! This huge trademark, as high as a two-storey building and requiring its own street team to carry it, inflate it and pack it back up again, has been at many community events in Burnaby since last summer.

Seen from far away, families would flock to the globe to check it out, have their photo taken beside it and in the case of many small children, give it a hug or a poke!

This striking feature of the campaign was a star in its own right. It stood out, made people smile and

in many cases, had people walking around to find their country of birth and have their photo taken pointing at their OLD home, while standing in their NEW home, of Burnaby.

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THE WORLD IN BURNABY

Burnaby – A New Home for Our Family Marcela Escalona moved to BC from Mexico City in 2007 when she was three months pregnant with her second son. It was an emotional time for her, leaving her family behind while preparing for a new baby. She and her husband moved from Vancouver to Burnaby, where they now have a multi-level home near to parks and the lake.“I feel so safe here and my children will have many more opportunities than if we had stayed in Mexico,” says Marcela.

She wants her family to contribute to their community and make it a better and more diverse place to live.

Burnaby Offers Family Beautiful Scenery and Less Stress Danna Guo came to Canada from China nearly four years ago with her husband and son. Danna came here because she was worried about the pressures of life on her young son in her home country.“Children there have no real childhood.

Parents will send their children to various schools to learn many different things. Children are always tired and so are their parents,” says Guo. Danna loves the Canadian scenery and on a trip to Banff, was blown away by the colour of the water in Lake Louise as she had never seen anything like it before.

Danna has not forgotten how difficult it was to leave China and she has volunteered with SUCCESS which helps immigrants transition into their new lives.

She also works as a foreign exchange dealer.

“I love my job very much and am happy to help people reach their goals. I find the value of myself in my new home and I’m happy to make a contribution to the community. My heart is filled with gratitude.”

My Burnaby: Karl Dai came to Canada from China in 2011 with his wife and young son.

They settled in Burnaby after visiting Deer Lake Park and realizing you could live in a city and still be just a few steps away from lakes, mountains, parks and schools.

Karl and his family say Burnaby is now home. Karl has helped create a healthy eating program at his son’s school and even brought in sponsors to make sure the costs were covered.While the first couple of years were difficult, Karl says it’s the people who have made his transition from China to Canada easy and so worthwhile.

Burnaby Welcomes The World Taking It To The Top A

Burnaby Newcomers Have Stories To Tell

workshop on diversity attended by board members and senior managers has many of them reconsidering their views and approaches.

Once or twice most weeks this year Russell Garrett has been invited in to meet with senior managers and board members at some of the Lower Mainland’s biggest companies and civic organizations. A career consultant and management professional, Garrett has a simple message about diversity that many of the people he speaks to find surprising.

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aomi Steinberg is that rare young person who grew up without a TV in the house. Did it affect her? “I think it did,” she says. When, at 17, she happened to meet someone involved with the Vancouver Society of Storytelling, the connection was instantaneous. Transfixed by the idea of being able to tell stories rather than merely watch them, she became the youngest person at the society’s gatherings, and soon summoned the courage to craft a story herself. Now she not only heads the group but works as a storytelling trainer, a role that recently has had her working with immigrants to Canada.

That situation came about after members of the Welcoming Communities initiative of the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table came to the realization that, while there is no shortage of words on paper about the Canadian immigrant experience, the idea isn’t being brought to life through performance—it isn’t something that people can assign a face to. Some members had recently been to a storytellers’ event, and wondered if immigrant storytellers might be a solution. Enlisted and trained, they could enliven community events and touch people in a more direct way by sharing their personal and cultural stories.

And so it has proved to be. As project coordinator Jan Taylor explains, Steinberg’s grads have told their stories on many occasions, typically travelling in groups of three to community events of all types.

Steinberg’s first group of 12 included participants born in a half-dozen countries scattered all across the globe.

“In most cultures there is some sort of storytelling tradition,” she says.

Birth, death, the struggle to be a good person—themes tend to be as universal as the human condition. In many places storytelling becomes a calling; sharing

the news and knowledge is the domain of experts who take on the identities of sage, bard or shaman.

Even in cases where participants chose a traditional story, they found ways to work it back into their personal situation and the realities of being an immigrant.

For example, David Lee has a PhD in economics and worked for a bank in South Korea until it was folded during the economic crisis of the late 1990s. He moved to Vancouver to open the North American arm of a trading company, and is now a semi-retired consultant. A published poet in Korea, he chose a very traditional tale for his story, that of a poor family facing starvation during a drought.

The grandmother insists that she be taken to a mountain cave, where she will die, to conserve food for the others, and ultimately her son relents. Spoiler alert: The story has a happy ending. But if audience members find themselves tearing up a little during the telling, it might be partly due to its significance to Lee. In coming to Canada he had to leave behind his own mother, and she has since died.

Then there is Wendy Kao who arrived in Vancouver from Taiwan as a teenager.

Kao tells the simple story of a connection made with another immigrant, a customer who speaks no English.

Employing her backpacker skills, she helps the woman with a family problem, and comes away with an understanding of how fortunate women are in Canada compared to many other places. As

well, there’s a shared recognition that, as different as the two may be, both are women in a country that is new to them, and that’s a connection that shouldn’t be discounted.

There are storytellers of many other sorts in this Welcome BC-funded program. The drama teacher from Iran with a story in which fish are oppressed by a corrupt ruler. The young mother from Mexico out to get her driver’s license who discovers that the rules of the road are not precisely the same here. The published writer from China who demonstrates how different life is in Canada with a story about her son’s experiences in a Boy Scouts fundraising campaign.

Demographics are changing more rapidly than most people and organizations recognize, he tells the groups, which range up to several dozen people. Canada continues to welcome around 250,000 immigrants annually, with about 15% of them landing in B.C. Municipalities like Burnaby, where the organizations that Garrett speaks to are based, now count 50% or more of their residents as foreign-born, a head count that is increasing at the rate of about 2,000 a year, just in that city alone.

Large-scale immigration creates lots of complications, Garrett acknowledges, but there’s another complication that it’s helping to solve. The Canadian economy shed 400,000 jobs during the 2008 recession, but by 2010 it had gained 432,000 right back again. Projections are for another 550,000

Among the storytellers’ appearances was a performance at the Burnaby Village Museum, which was recorded and can now be heard on the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table’s website.

To hear those, or for more information on the storytelling project and other initiatives, visit the site at www.bipt.ca.

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On February 8, when the City of Burnaby proclaimed Embracing Cultural Diversity Day in recognition of the municipality’s status as one of the m most m multicultural in the world, some eople can be forgiven their surprise. peop ew up in Burnaby,” says Jeanne Fike, “I grew executivee director at Burnaby Family Life, a communityy organization which has been

providing social services since the 1970s.“It was a white, middle-class suburb of Vancouver.”

And then, as she explains,“the population just exploded.” In the 1970s and 1980s, as immigration to Canada, and especially Vancouver, shifted rapidly from European sources to pan-Asian and even global ones, Burnaby was at the centre of the action. It wasn’t the only Lower Mainland destination, obviously. Richmond became a favourite destination of Hong Kong and Chinese immigrants and Surrey of South Asian ones, but Burnaby, along with adjacent areas of East Vancouver and Coquitlam, attracted the most diverse population. Between 2001 and 2011, 13% of immigrants to Metro Vancouver settled in Burnaby, even though the city accounts for

Sometimes Garrett gets a little pushback.

Are the projections realistic? Should Canada continue to welcome immigrants at such a rate?

But the stats are all but unassailable. People in that big bulge of baby boomers born during the 1950s and early 1960s did delay their retirements a touch because of the recession, but have now begun to exit the workforce en masse, and their departures will accelerate rapidly over the next few years. Employment gaps have been patched over with temporary foreign workers, but that approach has become unpopular and may well be stepped back. Then there are the other issues that an aging society causes, matters such as supporting a lot of retirees. In 2001, one in eight Canadians was over 65; by 2031 the proportion will be one in four. But newcomers are young, Garrett points out: Almost 90% of them are under 45 at age of immigration.

And for companies, filling jobs that would otherwise be unfillable is far from the only advantage to hiring immigrants, Garrett adds. A wide range ofbackgrounds and experience enhances innovation, creativity

and productivity, leading to economic advantage.Trade and employer groups like the Canadian Chamber of Commerce warn that unless Canada targets diversity the national economy will be relegated to the slow lane.

Garrett goes on to outline some of the ways that workshop participants can take what they’ve heard back to their offices. Then he leaves them with a quiz, asking them to rate their organizations from one to 10 on a series of questions, eight of them altogether. Is there top-down communication supporting diversity and inclusions? Are their strategies supporting diversity orientation, training and promotion?

Does the management team mirror the cultures of the community?

Garrett doesn’t ask participants to share their ratings, as to do so might well be embarrassing. It’s obvious from looking around the room that the last question especially will get low marks, since most of these senior managers are Canadian-born and white, as indeed is Garrett himself.

Yet the point is not that Canadian organizations may have been slow to embrace the country’s new reality, but that they are increasingly doing so now, Garrett says.The workshops he offers are part of the Welcoming Communities initiative of the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table, and funding for the program runs out at the end of March. More than a dozen additional organizations requested the workshop and couldn’t be accommodated.There is widespread recognition that changes must be made, he believes.

Postcards From Your Friends A

major part of The World in Burnaby welcoming campaign, was making newcomers feel like a valued member of their new community.

Welcoming postcards were available at events where our giant globe showed up and Burnaby residents were encouraged to write a message of welcome to their new community members.

The response we had was amazing – everyone wanted to write a welcome message!

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan and members of Burnaby City Council, many of whom are immigrants themselves, also wanted to get in on the welcoming postcards.

Burnaby Calls It A Day B mbracing Cultural Diversity Day, to be precise. Here’s how a municipality that was once one of Metro Vancouver’s most whitebread communities became one of its most immigrant friendly.

new jobs by 2016, and one million by 2021, leading to a skills shortfall of 110,000, just in B.C.“Canadians aren’t having enough babies to solve this,” Garrett says. A big part of the solution lies with immigration.

less than 10% of Metro population overall.

Today Burnaby is one of only nine Canadian municipalities in which more than 50% of the population is foreign born.“We really are one of the most diverse cities in the world,” says Fike.

“There are people from 150 different countries and 120 languages spoken here.”

It would take a while, but in time, Burnaby’s transformation gave rise to the group that in 2010 prompted the City of Burnaby to proclaim February 8 as Embracing Cultural Diversity Day in Burnaby.

As Fike explains, by the middle of the last decade it was obvious that something had to be done.

Rapid change of any sort is problematic, and social

change can be doubly so.With the high rate of immigration came language and cross-cultural issues, as well as increased incidences of poverty, unemployment and misunderstandings.“Local residents had no way of understanding the kind of issues and traumas their new neighbours had experienced, nor of the untapped talent, skills and strengths that many hard working newcomers bring.”While newcomers were longing for their children and families to belong, local residents were feeling the stresses that come with population explosion.

Civic organizations began to recognize that their scattershot efforts to deal with these issues required better coordination. By 2006 Fike was among those convinced that a more organized

In the end, we had hundreds and hundredss of postcards containing greetings, ti tips on places to go and things to see and do in Burnaby. Our next step was to give these to the people they were meant for.

We contacted multiple immigration services organizations and distributed the welcoming postcards to newcomers who were delighted to receive messages from their new neighbours.

response was called for, so she sent out an email inviting concerned people and organizations to a meeting.“We thought maybe a dozen people would show up,” she says,“and we were delighted that more than 80 showed up—passionate about discussing the issues!”

Out of that meeting the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table emerged, believed to be the first of its kind in Metro Vancouver.Today it is a working group of senior representatives from 25 different agencies including business, the RCMP, health, education, recreation and culture, the library, the City, volunteer groups, immigrant service agencies and others—but on that day, eight years ago, it was just a room full of people with good intentions.

This year, celebrations surrounding Embracing Cultural Diversity Day will be held on March 5, when the BIPT will host “Inspiring Stories, Inspiring People; Burnaby Yesterday,Today and Tomorrow,” an event celebrating the contributions of newcomers ot the growth and vibrancy of Burnaby (if you would like to attend, please see the ad on the front of this four page special). Needless to say, Jeanne Fike will be there, though possibly for the last time, as after nearly 40 years of service her retirement date is rapidly approaching. Of her role on the BIPT, she says,“It’s the highlight of my career!”

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Here are the community groups that make up the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table: • BC Ministry of Child and Family Development • Burnaby Board of Trade • Burnaby Community Connections • Burnaby Family Life • Burnaby Public Library • Burnaby RCMP • Burnaby School District • City of Burnaby • Dixon Transition Society • Douglas College • Family Services of Greater Vancouver • Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia • Journey Home Community

• Legal Services Society of BC • Literacy Now, Burnaby • MOSAIC • Pacific Immigrant Resources Society • S.U.C.C.E.S.S. • Burnaby Neighbourhood House • Vancity, South Burnaby Community Branch • Vancouver Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services

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he 759 Falcon Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets made an impressive appearance in Vancouver’s Chinese New Year parade.

Thanks to K.H. Tang, who chairs the squadron’s sponsoring committee, 2014 was the first year ever the local cadets were invited to appear in the parade.

According to Tang, the cadets were one of the largest groups in the parade.

The 759 Falcon Squadron is a group of 185 cadets, aged 12 to 18, based in North Burnaby.

No fewer than 120 representatives marched in the parade, including the cadets, their band, officers and volunteers from the squadron.

The Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion has been a hot topic of late, so I am sure many of you will be interested in this upcoming town hall meeting on Tuesday March 4.

ForestEthics and BROKE (Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion) have joined forces to host the meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. at Cameron Elementary.

The meeting will focus on the latest developments in the project.

Dipak Dattani from the City of Burnaby’s engineering department will bring a PowerPoint presentation on the project and the city’s position.

The Burnaby Teachers’ Association is scheduled to be there, and Mayor Derek Corrigan has been invited but hasn’t confirmed yet.

Ben West, from ForestEthics, is scheduled to speak – he’s one of the leading organizers in the activist movement against the pipeline. A representative from the

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Happy new year: More than 100 local cadets marched in Vancouver’s Chinese New Year Parade recently. This year was the first time the Burnaby-based cadets were invited to the parade.

Tsleil-Waututh Nation will also speak, as the pipeline crosses the nation’s traditional territory.

Burnaby-Douglas MP Kennedy Stewart will be in Ottawa, but a representative from his office may be attending.

I will also be there, so

feel free to approach me with concerns about the pipeline, or just come and say hi. (Hint: Look for the reporter with red hair and 1960s glasses, clutching a notebook.)

Cameron Elementary is at 9540 Erickson Dr. Also, Forest Ethics is

sending out canvassers to publicize the meeting, so don’t be surprised if someone comes knocking on your door.

So long, Jeanne Say it ain’t so! One of our favourite longtime local sources is retiring.

Jeanne Fike, executive director of Burnaby Family Life Institute, is leaving her post.

There will be a retirement celebration on March 12, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Burnaby Firefighters Hall, at 6515 Bonsor Ave. And in true Jeanne fashion, the event is a fundraiser for Kids’ Challenge, a Burnaby Family Life effort to raise money for vulnerable children.

Tickets are $25, and there will be hot and cold appies, entertainment and a silent auction.

Tickets are available by dropping by Burnaby Family Life’s Holdom or Metrotown locations or by calling 604-669-2200.

Tickets will also be available at the door.

Goodbye Jeanne, we will miss you dearly, and thank you for all the contributions you’ve made to our city over the years.

Got an idea for Here & Now? Send your suggestions to Jennifer, jmoreau@ burnabynow.com. You can also find her on Twitter, @JenniferMoreau.

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Families often reluctant to report … from pg. 20 identifying the problem, there’s no further option for seniors to get help.

Elder abuse can take many forms: physical, sexual, emotional and financial. Dhatt said there are a couple of different organizations with phone lines to report elder abuse, and the society receives calls about physical abuse.

“But that’s basically for the police to deal with, and that’s when people back off, because they may be nervous about reporting family members, and that’s where professional counselling is needed,” he explained. “There is really no professional counselling available as far as I’m concerned.”

There’s also no B.C. ministry solely dedicated to helping seniors, Dhatt said.

“We’re thankful and grateful (for the funding), but the province needs to go a step further, and have a ministry that helps seniors, or include seniors in the Ministry of Children and Family Development,” Dhatt said. “We really need to get some discussion taking place, and seniors need help.”

Martha Jane Lewis, the executive director for the B.C. Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support, agreed with Dhatt’s assertion that there are gaps in the system when it comes to helping abused elders.

“If concerned family members or friends or professionals are seeing an older adult they think is being abused, or think they are being neglected or are neglecting themselves, there are really only limited options for the third parties to report this,” she said.

People can report elder abuse to the health authorities or Community Living B.C., according to Lewis.

“But they were given no new funding for these new programs, and there’s not a lot of training,” she

added. “Sometimes you call and leave a message, but you don’t hear back for a week or two.”

In the meantime, the Burnaby Multicultural Society will continue to raise awareness about elder abuse in various cultural communities.

Besides Burnaby and New Westminster, the society’s campaign will also take place in Surrey, Vancouver and Richmond.

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Sharing a modern take on self-defence ON MY BEAT

Janaya Fuller-Evans

D

an Rheaume is the kind of guy you want to meet before walking down a dark alley.

The New Westminster resident has been studying martial arts since he was a kid, he says.

“It’s the typical story of a kid getting bullied at school; I wanted to protect myself. I was a child of the ’80s, I really enjoyed the ninja movies that were out when I was young,” he says. “So for me, that was a huge motivator to get involved with martial arts and my parents obliged.

They put me into martial arts when I was a kid, and I’ve loved it ever since.”

Now, Rheaume runs Heisei Budo Combatives, a self-defence group that meets in Burnaby and New Westminster.

Aside from his training in martial arts, Rheaume is also trained as a firearms, defence-against-guns and use-of-force instructor, he says.

“I’ve done almost every popular martial art you can think of. It felt a little lacking, honestly, in some reality,” he says. “Basically, I’ve evolved what I do into a more general selfdefence course without a lot of traditionalism behind it. We really believe in the human stress response and working with it instead of against it.”

He incorporates his knowledge of the Criminal Code and what levels of force civilians can use to defend themselves into the training, he says.

“Being a use-of-force instructor, I am familiar with the Criminal Code and what options are available to civilians in terms of what their levels of force can be. And I always try to keep that in context with the course, just so that people know that it isn’t ancient Japan where you can take out a short sword and start hacking people up,” he says. “Those skills are great for the historical value, but they’re not really practical for people living in a city in the 21st century.”

A big focus is de-escalating situations verbally so that force isn’t necessary, he adds.

His group is also posted on Meetup.com, under New Westminster Defensive Tactics Training.

They do pressure testing using protective suits, he says, and do some sparring – tailored to each individual – to see what works under stress.

The group rents community halls in churches in New Westminster and also meets at Simon Fraser University, where two of the members are students, he says.

Rheaume started the group instead of opening his own school primarily because he was looking for people to spar with, not a commercial venture, he says.

“I’m doing it mainly for myself and I can’t do it by myself, so I want other people to practice with, basically,” he says, adding some people are also intimidated by the commitment and time that joining a school requires.

The group has a weekly free drop-in in New Westminster and meets at other locations, as well.

The Meetup group lists 25 members, but Rheaume says only a handful have actually come to the dropins.

The group is primarily made up of men but some women do attend, as well, according to Rheaume.

As for the usefulness of the training, Rheaume quotes an old expression, “When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.”

“You are responsible for your own personal safety,” he adds. “The police are there, and they do a good job, but they’re there to investigate after the fact in most cases.”

Darcey MacInnes, a Vancouver resident, joined last summer.

“I was looking for a non-traditional martial arts system,” he wrote in an email to the NOW. “I can respect and appreciate the traditions of martial arts, but at this point in my life, I was looking for something more practical.”

He likes the group, he says, and appreciates the way Rheaume works with each member.

“There isn’t a lot of B.S. or fluff with Dan’s system,” MacInnes says. “You learn practical skills for realworld situations.”

MacInnes has studied martial arts – taekwondo and karate – for more than 20 years. He found the group online.

Brian Murata, a Burnaby resident, found the group on Facebook.

“I actually met Dan on Facebook, coming on two years ago,” he says. “I started networking with him, and that’s how I came

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Friendly faceoff: Dan Rheaume, centre, fights off other members of the Heisei Budo Combatives self-defence group at a recent training drop-in at SFU. across Heisei Budo.”

He’s studied martial arts for 15 years, he says, starting with karate.

The practicality of the group’s training is what appealed to Murata most, he says.

For information on the weekly drop-ins, search for New Westminster Defensive Tactics Training

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Burnaby Village Museum opened its doors for a special Family Day celebration Feb. 10. At right, Cristina Ferreira and daughter Mikaela try their hand at a toss game.

The day included crafts, entertainment and carousel rides.

You spin me round: Unlimited rides on the vintage carousel were part of the fun at the Burnaby Village Museum Family Day celebrations.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Author reading by Cynthia Flood, from her latest book Red Girl Rat Boy. Flood is an award-winning author, and this is her fourth short story collection. The event goes from 7 to 8 p.m. at the McGill branch of the Burnaby Public Library, 4595 Albert St. Books will be available for purchase at the event, but only cash is accepted. For more information, call 604-299-8955.

A Little Lunch Music, featuring Rocket Science, noon to 1 p.m. at Encores Café at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby. Concert free, buffet lunch special $12. Info: www. shadboltcentre.com.

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Opening reception, for Life in Colour, an exhibition of work

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SUNDAY, MARCH 2 Kuniyoshi’s Comic Prints: Exploring the roots of Manga in Edo-Period Ukiyoe, with Maiko Behr, Japanese art consultant and translator, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre, 6688 Southoaks Cres. Info: centre.nikkeiplace.org/ ukiyoe-spectacular/.

In the BAG, free family Sunday program at Burnaby Art Gallery, with interactive hands-on activity connected to the First Nations and Inuit prints exhibition, 1 to 4 p.m.

Free, drop in, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Info: www.burnabyart gallery.ca.

New Westminster Symphony Orchestra, presents a choral music concert, with guests the Langley Children’s Choir, 2 p.m. at the Massey Theatre, 735 Eighth Ave., 604-5215050. Admission by donation.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4 Stroke workshop, Burnaby Multicultural Society, 6255 Nelson Ave., 2:30 to 4 p.m.

As we age, the possibility of experiencing a stroke increases. Workshop describes early warning signs and provides information about prevention. Call Carol at 604 4314131 ext. 27 or email carol. ha@thebms.ca.

ESL Conversation circle at the Bob Prittie Metrotown library, which welcomes English language learners to the free drop-in classes

starting March 4 to April 29, every Tuesday, from 7 to 8 p.m. The nine sessions don’t require advance registration.

For info: 604-436-5400.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 The Burnaby Rhododendron and Garden Society, meeting at 7 p.m. in the Discovery Room, Burnaby Village Museum, Canada Way at Deer Lake Avenue.

Linda Poole will be speaking about the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.

Refreshments will be served and everyone is welcome.

Info: www.brags.ca.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7 World Day of Prayer, St. Helen’s Church, 3860 Triumph St., from 1 to 3 p.m.

Refreshments after service.

Go to www.world dayofprayer.net or contact Susanne at 604-291-7282 for more information.

SATURDAY, MARCH 8 Kidstuff swapmeet, Willingdon Community Centre, 1491 Carleton Ave.

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free admission for shoppers. Call 604-297-4526 for more information.

Of Heaven and Earth, a concert presented by the Amabilis Singers, 8 p.m. at New Westminster Christian Reformed Church, 8255 13th Ave., Burnaby, $20.

Free for children under 12.

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28 Central grad an A-S

28 Local top C-W libero

28 Winter Games results

SECTION COORDINATOR Tom Berridge, 604-444-3022 • tberridge@burnabynow.com

Rebels claim first-ever Crehan Cup Tom Berridge sports editor

Burnaby South won its firstever Crehan Cup with a resounding win over defending champion Argyle.

The BurWest league and playoff champs won the No. 1 Lower Mainland seeding following a 7246 victory over the six-time Crehan Cup winners at Handsworth.

Jasmine Manhas was named the Lower Mainland AAA high school girls’ basketball tournament MVP, leading the Rebels with a game-high 36 points in the title game on Saturday.

Forward Desiree Lister and guard Amie Morrison both earned all-star mentions for the Rebels, while scoring 12 and 10 points, respectively, in the final. Ana Lukic also scored 10 points in the cup win.

A day earlier, South captured a berth into the upcoming provincials with an 82-67 win over district rival New Westminster in the cup semifinal.

Manhas led all scorers with 37 points, including 15 in a runaway third quarter where South outpointed the Hyacks 30-8.

South opened the first quarter with a 25-16 lead but squandered the advantage in a poor second quarter that left the Rebels trailing by six at halftime.

“We got to the locker room and talked about previous games and what we can do,” said Lukic, who was very involved in the thirdperiod comeback. “In our district, (New West) is our biggest rival.

(The games) are always up tempo.

“We just keep pressing and putting them under pressure, and we know we can succeed.”

Lister scored eight of her 14 points in the pivotal third quarter, while Morrison got seven of her

Larry Wright/burnaby now

Cup champs: Burnaby South’s Desiree Lister, in grey, was named to the Lower Mainland AAA all-star team.

10 in the second half.

Burnaby Mountain, 56-46 losers to runner-up Argyle in the cup semifinals, captured one of two Lower Mainland wildcard berths, following a 71-58 loss to host Handsworth on Saturday.

In the quarter-finals, Mountain upset Handsworth 65-60 to send the provincial honourable mention to the back side of the draw.

“We knew we’d have a huge challenge ahead of us,” said Mountain coach Steve Sacilotto.

“We knew (Handsworth) girls were hungry to get revenge. We just had a hard time getting into their zone and getting our shots.

But it’s a great honour for the girls.”

The Mountain Lions advanced to the consolation final with a 6146 victory over Richmond champion McMath.

Lower Mainland all-star Jacey Bailey led Mountain with 16 points, while Shaireen Cassamali added 13 points and Alix Gabriel, who also picked up an all-star mention, chipped in with 12.

Mountain lost its wild card matchup with Fleetwood Park on Monday.

“If they’re hungry enough (next year), we’ll make that next step,” said Sacilotto.

New Westminster picked up the No. 5 Lower Mainland wild card berth, beating McMath 61-49 in the final Mainland wild card matchup.

Princess Frias led the Hyacks with 21 points, while tournament all-star Amanda Zacharuk tallied 20 points, including four threepointers. Lauren Denusik also chipped in with 13 points.

New Westminster played its wild card matchup against Salmon Arm at South Kamloops Secondary School on Tuesday (after NOW deadlines).

The AAA girls’ provincials will be held at the Langley Events Centre from March 5 to 8.

Burnaby in Jr. B.C.s

In B.C. high school junior basketball, St. Thomas More Collegiate qualified for both the girls’ and boys’ provincial championships to be held in Langley, beginning today (Wednesday).

New West is also entered in the junior girls’ provincial tourney.

Playoff fate on the line Tom Berridge

sports editor

The Grandview Steelers dug a deep hole for themselves in Pacific Junior Hockey League playoffs.

The junior B Steelers fell behind 3-0 in their first round best-of-seven playoff, dropping a close 3-1 decision to the league-leading Richmond Sockeyes at the Burnaby Winter Club on Sunday.

The Steelers opened the series well, before falling 4-3 in overtime at the Richmond Arena on Feb. 20.

Grandview took a 30 lead early in the third period in the opener but gave up three answered counters later in the frame, including the game-tying tally by Dominic Centis in the final minute of regulation time.

Ayden MacDonald, who scored an empty-net goal in Sunday’s win, scored the OT-winner.

Grandview also lost 5-0 to the Sockeyes on Saturday.

At home, Steelers goalie Cole MacInnes was named a third star in the loss.

Jacob Mills scored the Steelers’ lone goal on a late third-period scramble that shaved the 2-0 deficit in half.

Steelers Page 28

Knights qualify for AAs with third-place finish Tom Berridge sports editor

St. Thomas More booked a ticket to the B.C. high school AA girls’ basketball championships, avenging an earlier loss to Bodwell international school on route to a third-place finish.

The Knights, led by all-star junior point guard Zion Corrales-Nelson, earned the No. 3 Lower Mainland berth into the upcoming B.C.s following a 70-50 victory over Bodwell at the Crehan Cup AA high school girls’ basketball championships at Windsor Secondary on Friday.

STM, still smarting from an earlier 58-56 loss on a last-second buzzerbeater to Bodwell, made no mistake this time, jumping out to an early 21-6 first-quarter lead.

“In the first game, we weren’t

as intense. This game we came out strong and wanted it really badly,” said Corrales-Nelson, who led the early charge with nine first-quarter points.

Bodwell chipped away at the deficit in the second frame, outscoring the Knights 17-10 to pull within single digits at halftime.

But Corrales-Nelson was not done.

The STM point guard took over the game in the third quarter, potting 15 of her game-high 25 points to swing the momentum back in STM’s favour.

“The third quarter is the best quarter in basketball. We wanted to make sure we didn’t back down,” CorralesNelson added. “We really played as a team in that quarter, and it really showed.”

In the fourth quarter, a long threepointer by junior forward Nikko

Sahagun put the Knights up by 20 points early in the final period.

Sahagun then made a steal and set up Mainland all-star forward Leilani Carney for her ninth point of the game to all but seal the final outcome at 62-40.

Meghan Ho chipped in with 11 points and nine rebounds, while fellow senior Domunique Booker, who earned an honourable mention, also counted 11 points and seven boards.

On Thursday, STM won its consolation semifinal 69-36 over Britannia to advance to third-place game.

Carney led the Knights with 16 points, while Madie Bouvier and Corrales-Nelson added 14 points apiece.

With the win, STM earned a spot in the AA provincial championships to be held at the Langley Events Centre from March 5 to 8.

Jason Lang/burnaby now

Honourable mention: STM forward Domunique Booker goes hard to the ring at the Lower Mainland AA girls’ basketball championships.

A28 • Wednesday, February 26, 2014 • Burnaby NOW

COLLEGIATE VOLLEYBALL

Douglas wins way back to nationals

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Moscrop Secondary grad Jordan Or was named libero of the year in Canada West volleyball.

The fourth-year Mount Royal student played his first three years at Douglas College, where he helped the Royals earn a silver medal in the 2012 collegiate nationals.

In his first year at Mount Royal, Or led the conference with 2.67 digs per set, fifth best in the nation.

“He’s a special talent,” said Mount Royal coach Shawn Sky in a CanWest press release.

– Tom Berridge.

Tom Berridge sports editor

The Douglas College Royals are going back to the Canadian Colleges’ men’s volleyball championships.

The 2012 national collegiate runner-up pulled off a surprise upset at the PacWest provincials, defeating regular season champion Columbia Bible College in four sets in the gold-medal final at Capilano University on Saturday.

The Royals were slow out of the gate in the opening set, dropping a 25-22 match, but got behind some strong serving to rally 25-17 and 25-16 in the next two sets, before putting the Abbotsford school away with a 25-21 outcome in the fourth frame.

Tournament MVP Andrew McWilliam picked up his second player of the game nod in the win.

“The question (at the provincials) was where did that come from? But I’d argue we have been growing,” said Douglas head coach Brad Hudson. “With us, it was a matter of when we could accomplish it, not if.”

Robson and PacWest rookie of the year Caleb Konrad were both named to the all-tournament team following the provincials.

The Canadian college nationals will be held in Moose Jaw, Sask. from March 6 to 8.

In women’s PacWest volleyball, Burnaby Central grad Kelsi Boroevich was named to the provincial all-star team following the Capilano University Blue’s silver-medal result – a 3-1 loss to top seed Vancouver Island University in the championship final last Saturday.

Boroevich, the team’s left side power, was named Cap’s player of the game in a 3-0 win over Douglas College in the opening quarter-final match on Feb. 20.

The Blues defeated the No. 2 seed and defending Canadian champion University of the Fraser Valley with a 3-0 sweep in the semifinals.

Capilano University advanced to the collegiate nationals as a wild card entry.

Jason Lang/THE RECORD

Bronze medallists: Burlington, Ont.’s NEXXICE placed third in the open synchro division at the Skate Canada synchronized skating championships held at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre last weekend. Nova from Boucherville, Que. won the open dance. Other winners included NEXXICE in the senior category, Quebec’s Les Suprèmes in the junior and novice divisions, and Synchronicity from Ontario in the intermediate synchro.

Zone 4 fourth at B.C. Winter Games

Zone 4 Fraser River Delta, including the municipalities of New Westminster and Burnaby, placed fourth overall at the B.C. Winter Games in Mission last week.

Zone 4 team garnered a total of 56 medals, including a third-highest 22 gold, to finish behind overall winner

Zone 3 Fraser Valley with 104 total medals.

Zone 5 Vancouver Squamish was runner-up with 81 medals, including a Games-high 33 gold.

Individual results will be available online and in Friday’s NOW. tberridge@burnabynow.com

Steelers: continued from page 27

“Right now, we’re taking too many penalties and theirs is probably the best power play in the league,” said Mills after the game.

“We’re trying to keep and open mind, … but it’s hard to keep momentum when we take so many penalties.”

Game 4 of the playoff series will be played at the Burnaby Winter Club today (Wednesday). Puck drops at 7:15 p.m.

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“I also taught Indian cooking in the United States for five years before immigrating to New Westminster in 1997,” says Bains. “As soon as we moved here, we opened the Indian Star (until the lease ran out last December 2013).”

Bains brings his own unique interpretation of authentic Indian cuisine into innovative, original dishes, along with the classically inspired, traditional favourites.

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Even though the eatery has only been open three months, it’s already garnering quite a following, with equally great reviews online.

Bains maintains the genuine Indian flavours in all of their dishes, using only fresh ingredients, such as ginger, garlic or cilantro, and mixing his own spices.

It’s that attention to detail that leaves each customer wanting more.

Some of its popular entrees to rave about are their mango butter chicken, lamb Tika and the prawn Malai – all prepared in their tandoor oven. For vegetarians, its mouthwatering dishes such as Kadahi Paneer and Paneer Shahi Korma that customers crave.

Indian Bombay BIstro embraces lovers of true East Indian cuisine in Burnaby and the gateway to New Westminster.

Indian Bombay Bistro is located at 7558- 6th Street, Burnaby. The eatery, which seats 65, is open Sunday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. for lunch and dinner.

The restaurant also offers private rooms for up to 35 guests for your next special event, as well as catering services. To make a reservation, call 604-553-1718 or 604-553-1719. For more information, visit www.indiabombaybistro.com.

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