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Candidates spar at Edgemont debate
Politicians pull no punches at final debate in election run-up JEREMY SHEPHERD newsroom@nsnews.com
Like weary boxers looking to land one last haymaker before the bell, North Vancouver’s six federal candidates rebutted, refuted and repudiated each other one final time
in a two-hour debate Wednesday. Highlands United Church was packed past capacity as undecideds and very-firmly-decideds lobbed inquiries and incendiaries in an attempt to suss out the riding’s best representative. Independent candidate
VOTE 2015 Payam Azad was the first to pound the pulpit as he decried the high cost of medicine in Canada – a cost he said has resulted in thousands of deaths. “If we put a universal
medicine plan in place in Canada, it is going to even cost less ... than the status quo,” he promised. Another cost Canadians should be wary of bearing involves the TransPacific Partnership, a trade agreement that is a “double whammy of bad news,” according to Green candidate Claire Martin. Signing on to TPP will mean paying off inevitable lawsuits, as the deal would force Canada to either
break its own environmental laws or fail to live up to the contract, according to Martin. “Hilary Clinton – and I’m not a fan – but when Hilary Clinton says it’s a bad deal for the U.S., I think Canada should take a second look,” Martin said. NDP candidate Carleen Thomas concurred. When asked about the possibility of party leader Tom Mulcair ripping up the TPP, she pointed
to communities being devastated by lost mill and cannery jobs as a result of previous free trade agreements. There needs to be full disclosure as well as “an understanding that we’re impacting families,” Thomas said. While moderator Adrian Chaster was largely successful in limiting cheers See Debt page 3
Bear shot in Grouse basement break-in BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Conservation officers shot and killed a black bear late Sunday night after it broke into a Grouse Woods home and ransacked the kitchen. According to the Ministry of Environment, the bear had found its way into the basement suite of a home on the 5800-block of Nancy Greene Way around 10:30 p.m. The homeowner noticed the sliding glass door pushed open and went in to investigate only to be confronted by the bear. Officers flushed the bear out of the home and shot it. Neighbours told the North Shore News they heard several shots. “Bears exhibiting that type of behaviour entering homes do not fit the black bear response matrix for See Bear page 11
RESCUE RELIEF North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks and Port Metro Vancouver director of marine operations Chris Wellstood discuss the finer points of operating an infrared camera. The port donated the camera to the rescue team to help find lost hikers in the bush. See story page 5. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD JU
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