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New rules may hike city costs
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Cayley Dobie staff reporter
A change in the type of supervision auxiliary constables require has some Burnaby councillors worried how it will effect the bottom line. In October, the director of the National Crime Prevention and Aboriginal Policing Services announced that as of Oct. 24 all auxiliary constables serving in RCMP detachments across the country would require direct supervision. The new policy means that for every one or two auxiliary constable working, Burnaby RCMP will have to assign a regular member to supervise. Coun. Pietro Calendino, chair of Burnaby’s community policing committee, was visibly upset at the committee’s meeting on Thursday night. “I want to know what the city can do to express our discontent,” Calendino said. The recently re-elected councillor said the policy change could mean a large cost increase to the city, especially if the ratio of supervision is one-to-one. Events like Hats Off Day, which rely heavily on work done by auxiliary constables, would likely require more than 20 regular members to be on site – and they’d all need to be paid. The original policy allowed auxiliary constables to work with general supervision, meaning Policing Page 9
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The Brandlmayr family , with Chester their cat, joined in the holiday spirit and helped needy pets at the same time. They posed for their holiday portrait at VanPet Burnaby. All proceeds from the fundraiser – $1,460 – went to Action for Animals in Distress to help care for pets in need. Jennifer Gauthier/ burnaby now
City hits pipeline legal roadblock Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
The City of Burnaby has hit another legal roadblock in its fight against Kinder Morgan. Burnaby is caught between two levels of court, neither of which are willing to hear the city’s case against the pipeline company. On Friday, the city received news that the Federal Court of Appeal is refusing to hear Burnaby’s appeal challenging the National Energy Board order that allowed Kinder
Morgan to conduct survey work on Burnaby Mountain. The work was done against the city’s wishes and in violation of local bylaws against cutting down trees in public parks. Burnaby’s lawyer Greg McDade told the NOW the federal court will not hear Burnaby’s appeal, but the judge gave no reasons. “We don’t know why. It’s quite frustrating,” McDade said. “We kind of have a squabble between courts, and we are caught in the middle of it.”
At issue is whether a federally appointed body can overrule city bylaws, as the National Energy Board did with the City of Burnaby, by granting Kinder Morgan the order to survey Burnaby Mountain. The work led to a 10-day standoff with police standing between protesters and company contractors, and more than 100 people were arrested. The B.C. Supreme Court already dropped Pipeline Page 4
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