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Backcountry hikers invited to join study BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Frank Zappa famously advised us all not to eat that yellow snow. It turns out there are instructions that come with pink snow as well.
Lynne Quarmby and Laura Hilton are leading a study asking backcountry hikers to report and collect samples of pink snow they may come across in the North Shore Mountains during the melting season. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
A North Shore microbiologist is hoping some backcountry adventurers will help in a study aimed at better understanding the role pink algae play in climate change. Lynne Quarmby, a Simon Fraser University professor and former Green Party candidate for Burnaby North-Seymour, is asking hikers to document patches of pink snow in the alpine so she can study the algae causing the change in colour. A study published by the German Research Centre for Geosciences last week caused a tizzy among scientists for being the first
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North Van City to consider casino again BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
After folding its hand last year, City of North Vancouver council is anteing up again for the possibility of commercial gambling.
In early June, the B.C. Lottery Corporation asked the North Shore’s three municipalities and two First Nations whether they’d be interested in hosting a gaming facility, giving them a deadline of July 15 to respond. In 2015, the city debated and rejected a request to overturn its bylaw forbidding commercial gaming when a casino
BCLC asking North Shore governments and First Nations
developer wanted to install slot machines at the Shipyards. But some members of council had a change of heart Monday night, voting to take another more general look. Governments that host gaming facilities get a 10 per cent cut of the revenues, which BCLC estimated would be between $1.5 million to $2.2 million for a North Shore casino. That was money the city shouldn’t be sacrificing, said Coun. Holly Back. “I truly believe we will get one in North Vancouver, whether
it’s in the city or on band lands. I’d rather see the money in our purse than theirs,” she said. Despite worries about negative community impacts, Back said she spoke with Burnaby and Richmond council members who had nothing but praise for the casinos they host. “They both said they’ve had absolutely zero problems – in fact they’re probably the best tenants they have in their city,” she said, noting gaming facilities also bring jobs, amenity space and restaurants. “Everybody has this vision of this big scary thing and it’s not. They actually can be quite beautiful.”
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