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Protesters brace for a blockade on mountain For the trees:
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Protester Dan Wallace is escorted away by an RCMP officer after activists chained themselves to the fence at Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Marine Terminal in honour of 13 trees that were cut down on Burnaby Mountain.
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As the city awaits a decision from B.C. Supreme Court for an injunction to stop Kinder Morgan, anti-pipeline activists are bracing for a blockade on Burnaby Mountain. The protesters are planning to stop the company from resuming survey work for a new pipeline route. “We’re trying to organize to have some people here at all times,” said SFU English professor Stephen Collis, speaking on the phone from the site Tuesday morning. “The group has agreed we are going to try and block (Kinder Morgan). Numbers of bodies is what we need. We’re going to try and impede them if they come back to do their work.” Many of the activists are from BROKE, Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion, and they’ve been taking turns watching over the woods at bore hole area 1, a small clearing in the conservation area, just a short hike from Horizons Restaurant. Kinder Morgan needs to finish survey work for a new pipeline route through the mountain – work the National Energy
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City schools could be open by Monday Cornelia Naylor staff reporter
Striking Burnaby teachers said they got more enthusiast honks on the picket lines Tuesday morning after news a tentative agreement had been struck at the provincial bargaining table. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, mediator Vince Ready announced the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and B.C. Public School Employers’ Association had
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reached a deal that teachers around the province will put to a vote Thursday. No details had been released by press time Tuesday afternoon, but Burnaby Teachers’ Association president Rae Figursky said local teachers were hopeful. “People are excited about the prospect of a deal that actually might be something that would meet kids’ needs and teachers’ needs for the coming few years,” she said. But enthusiasm on the picket line was tempered by caution, according Cariboo
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Hill Secondary home economics teacher Jayne Roberts. “We know there’s been give and take on both sides, but the government’s lied to us before,” she said. “If we’re in, I’m relieved. I didn’t think we’d get a paycheque before the end of October. I thought they would be legislating us back.” If the deal is ratified Thursday, local teachers hope to get back into their classrooms by Friday to organize before facing students Monday morning.
“This is the first time in 20 years I’ve ever had to leave it in such a mess,” Cariboo fine arts teacher Helen Geddes said of her classroom. Not having had a chance to wrap up year-end business before walking out in mid-June will create all kinds of challenges for the new year, according to teachers. “I’m lucky that I even know the courses I’m teaching,” Cariboo math teacher Lori Bernard said. “There’s other teachers that Teachers Page 9
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