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Fatal fall triggers complaint from family Cornelia Naylor staff reporter
When Patti Watson left her 97-year-old mother Viola Wilson at Fellburn Care Centre on May 16, her mother looked lovely as she always did during their visits. “Every day she dressed up nicely,” Watson said, “and, no matter what, she would be at the window waving till we were out of sight and blowing kisses.” When Watson saw her mother again the following morning, Wilson was at Burnaby Hospital with a broken neck and a fatal deep-brain bleed – her eye and hand black and swollen. “It was all so unexpected, so shocking,” Watson said. “From looking just lovely to black and blue and blood all over her, it was very painful.” Her mother had sustained the massive injuries from what police and Fraser Health investigators both concluded was an unwitnessed fall. But Watson and her brother Doug Wilson think their mother might still be alive today if the care home had had proper fall precautions in place, especially since their mother had already experienced an earlier unwitnessed fall just two days before. The pair lodged a complaint of inadequate care with the Fraser Health Authority, but an
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Patti Watson stands outside Fellburn Care Centre in Burnaby, where her mother had been a resident for more than four years before she died of injuries sustained during a fall no one saw.
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Survey: Opposition to pipeline grows in city Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
Burnaby residents are backing the city’s opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline in growing numbers, according to a new online survey commissioned by city hall. The city first surveyed residents in June and found 61 per cent of respondents (who had an opinion in the matter) were against the pipeline expansion, but the
latest numbers show that opposition has risen to 68 per cent. “We want to be sure that we are understanding citizens’ ongoing and developing concerns about this project, providing them with all of the information we have available,” Mayor Derek Corrigan said in a news release Monday. The city hired Insights West to conduct the second survey in September, and according to the results, more local
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residents are aware of key elements of the project. Those elements include the increased volume of oil shipments Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion would bring. People are also aware the “new” oil is destined for foreign markets and that Kinder Morgan is primarily shipping unrefined bitumen, a tar-like form of petroleum from the Alberta oil sands. Respondents also knew that Kinder Morgan had changed its routing preferences and that in Burnaby,
90 per cent of the route will not follow the existing pipeline’s path, which means the expansion project is more akin to a new pipeline than a twinning project. Fewer respondents believe the expansion project will bring long-term jobs, something Kinder Morgan has been pitching as a benefit of the project. (That number went from 57 per cent in the first poll to 48 per cent in the most recent.) Survey Page 10
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