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URBAN WILDLIFE
They’re back! Chum salmon face an uphill battle as they fight to spawn in Stoney Creek By Jeremy Deutsch
jdeutsch@burnabynow.com
Mother Nature has been pretty busy this fall, at least in one Burnaby neighbourhood. Among the homes and trails in the Beaverbrook area of the city runs Stoney Creek. And this year, the waterway is teeming with spawning chum. So far, the count in this year’s salmon run for the creek is about 800 chum, and there are still several weeks before the run is finished. “For this time of year, that’s healthy,” said John Templeton, the chair of the Stoney Creek Environment Committee. “This is a very good start.” On Monday, the group provided a tour of the creek and an opportunity to view the spawning chum. Templeton explained the chum, who are about four years old, come
FISH-TASTIC John Templeton, chair of the Stoney Creek Environment Committee holds a chum that finished spawning recently. The groups has counted 800 salmon in this year’s Stoney Creek run so far. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
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IN THE COURTS
BCIT student gets probation for voyeurism By Jeremy Deutsch
jdeutsch@burnabynow.com
A former BCIT student who was caught peeping on men in a washroom at the Burnaby campus won’t spend any time in jail but
will have a criminal record. On Friday, a provincial court judge handed ChiehSenYang a suspended sentence and two years’ probation for pleading guilty to two counts of voyeurism dating back to the fall
of 2015. According to an agreed statement of facts heard in court, on Oct. 22, 2015, the school received an anonymous report that a person was making recordings in the men’s washroom. An
Asian man was caught on surveillance video, but he was never identified. On Nov. 16, the school received another complaint that the same Asian man was recording people in the stall of a men’s washroom.
In this case, the suspect was still inside the bathroom and was eventually apprehended by police. After he was arrested, Yang confessed to the making the recordings, telling police he also used his
phone to take pictures at Richmond Centre mall. When he was arrested, he was carrying a cellphone, tablet and mirror. On the phone were seven images taken on that day. It was Continued on page 8
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