TriCity News July 30 2020

Coquitlam

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Car dealership closing its doors in City Centre

Downtown BIA urges residents to shop local

Several Tri-City girls will participate in Camp Ignite

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COMING TO CANADA

Tootian hopes to be a model for others Coquitlam man finalist for top immigrant award MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

A Coquitlam immigrant is so appreciative of the new life he’s been able to build in Canada, he’s hoping to be selected as one of the country’s top 25 immigrants in an annual “people’s choice” competition put on by Canadian Immigrant magazine.

Ali Tootian said being named one of the competition’s 75 finalists is already an affirmation that his ongoing quest to contribute to his adopted community is making a difference that can serve as inspiration for new immigrants just arriving in Canada.

“If you live as a good person, you become a role model,” Tootian said.

“You’re not wasting your time.”

Tootian was a successful metallurgy engineer in Iran,

with a new wife and young son. But in the late 1990’s, as Iranian society hardened ideologically, he longed for a better life with more freedoms.

His mother had immigrated to Canada several years prior, settling into North Vancouver. He also had many family members in Sweden.

Tootian said he weighed the pros and cons of each country and it was the ability to be allowed to vote sooner in Canada that tipped the scales.

“I’m a social activist,” Tootian said. “I wanted to have an influence on my society.”

So began a two-year journey that took his family from filling out paperwork at the Canadian embassy in New Delhi, India, because Canada had closed its outpost in Iran, to his new home in Burnaby, where the Tootians first settled.

Tootian said he expected adjusting to a new country wouldn’t be easy. see

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Ali Tootian is trying to be named as one of Canada’s top 25 immigrants in an annual online contest put on by Canadian Immigrant magazine. mario bartel/ the tri-CitY NeWS File Photo

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NEWS IN TRI-CITIES CHILD CARE IN B.C.

Are new Tri-City child-care spaces enough?

Advocates say new money will not cover the need StEfAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

Over 200 child-care spaces are set to open across Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam as part of a provincial announcement to fund care in 34 communities throughout B.C. In Coquitlam, 106 spaces will be created at Westwood Montessori, 40 at Kidscool Early Learning Centre and five at Mindful Kids Childcare. School District 43 will create a further 60 spaces at Port Coquitlam’s Irvine Elementary school at a cost of $2.4 million.

It’s all part of the Childcare BC New Spaces Fund — launched two years ago this month — with over 16,000 new licensed childcare spaces being funded throughout the province, including 3,160 since March.

Some of the most coveted spots stem from a pilot program held by families of roughly 35,000 children who are paying a $10 a day fee, a benchmark child-care advocates like Sharon Gregson have been pushing the government to embrace through their $10aDay campaign.

Since 2018, the province has helped open 461 new child-care spaces in the TriCities, including 89 spaces as

Child-care advocate Sharon Gregson says Ottawa has fallen short in its recent announcement on child-care funding.

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part of the $10 a day prototype program.

“These pilots are absolutely life-changing for people,” said Gregson. “I hear parents describe it say they can actually start paying off their credit cards, savings for the future and buying nutritious food.”

The $10aDay plan calls on all levels of government to invest public dollars into school-based and non-profit run childcare facilities, something Gregson said the province has been working towards with significant

investment over the last couple of years.

Gregson points to inequities in pay and cost as the main reason why the government shouldn’t be investing in for-profit, childcare providers.

“Now there’s a big push to have more public intervention in the long-term care centres,” she said, referring to the crisis in seniors homes made plain by the pandemic.

“In child care, we have the added bonus of creating more spaces for people to go

to work.”

But where Gregson applauds the province for its investment in child care in municipalities like the Tri-Cities, when it comes to federal dollars, the numbers don’t add up, she said.

The federal government had its own announcement earlier, unveiling $625 million in spending for childcare as the economy reopens. The money will be provided to provinces and territories to provide child-care spaces, part of the $19 billion set aside by

Ottawa for the country’s Safe Restart Agreement, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough announced Friday.

“Unless we have affordable, safe childcare, parents can’t go back to work, and to be quite frank, women can’t go back to work,” said the MP from Delta.

It’s not yet known how much of the total $625 million will be given to each province as that money is tied up as a little over 3% of a $19 billion spending plan.

In a Tweet, federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Ahmed Hussen wrote that the “Safe Restart Agreement ensures all Canadian families will have access to the quality child care they need.”

But Gregson’s organization projects it would take $2.5 billion to achieve that, nowhere near the $625 million announced this week.

“That’s a joke,” said Gregson of Hussen’s comment. “There’s no way that 3% of the funding is going to ensure all Canadians have access to childcare. At the start of the pandemic, we [in B.C.] only had enough spaces for about 20% of the kids. That hasn’t changed.”

She’s not the only one calling for increased funding. So far, roughly 20,000 people have signed a petition backing the $10aDay child care plan. A further 64 municipalities, 34 school districts and a long list of union and non-government organizations have passed resolutions or otherwise officially endorsed the plan.

That includes SD43, the city of Port Moody and the city of Port Coquitlam’s Finance and Intergovernmental Committee.

“It’s significant,” said Gregson. “B.C. voted for this in the last election… It sends a message to the provincial government that this is a priority.”

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How many COVID-19 cases in the Tri-Cities?

Lack of available data makes question difficult to answer STEfAn LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

Just how many cases of COVID-19 are there in the Tri-Cities?

That’s the question on many people’s mind of late, especially after revelations that a handful of community exposures last week triggered closures at such popular restaurants as Earl’s in Port Coquitlam, Brown’s Socialhouse in Port Moody and at the retail shop Aritzia in Coquitlam Centre.

But it’s a question that has proved impossible to answer with any certainty.

Throughout the course of the pandemic here in B.C., provincial health authorities have never released data on cumulative caseloads at the municipal level.

They will declare outbreaks to the public when the virus gets into a poultry plant or prison, a health care facility like a hospital or long-term care home, or sometimes when there are people they can’t track down through contact tracing.

There have been calls for increased transparency, with some local politicians looking for neighbourhood level data and others calling on health authorities to collect important information on how race or poverty plays a factor in the spread of the disease.

This week, COVID-19 exposures triggered the closure of two Tri-City restaurants. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

“Over the last few months, particularly due to the pandemic period, a lot of things have come forward, and we see that marginalized citizens of our city have been disproportionately suffering from many things, and that’s not evident just in our city, but across the country,” Burnaby Coun. Sav Dhaliwal told council earlier this week, in which council voted unanimously in favour of endorsing the collection of race-based COVID-19 data.

Tri-City politicians have been largely silent on the issue, despite a major outbreak at Superior Processing Poultry Ltd. where over 60 employees fell ill with the coronavirus, many of whom were newly arrived immigrants.

Still, what information health authorities share continues to shift.

On July 23, Fraser Health launched an online portal to update the public in those situations. Still, all the live contact tracing now occurring in Fraser Health does not meet that threshold and nothing has been posted on the site at the time of publication.

“We walk a balance between protecting the privacy of the individuals involved and avoiding creating stigma, but still trying to keep the public safe,” said the Fraser Health interim chief medical health officer Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin.

It’s a tough balance, leaving Tri-City residents and local media to parse out the numbers.

With over 1,000 people from every health region in the province (including Fraser Health) falling ill due to a Canada Day weekend exposure in Kelowna, many have yet to show symptoms and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has said cases are almost certain to climb as the incubation period wears on.

Broken down into health care delivery area — where the Tri-Cities gets lumped in with Burnaby, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and New Westminster — Fraser North has registered 36 cases of COVID-19 over the last 14 days. That’s quite a few less than the 107 reported in the Okanagan, but more than the four reported on the North Shore and Richmond.

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There were no jobs in his field, so he took whatever he could, like helping out in a lumber yard and then six years working at a grocery store.

Those experiences bought him time and the resolve to figure out his next step: to attain his teaching qualifications at Simon Fraser University.

Tootian also became active in various multicultural groups, eventually ascending to serving as a director for the Burnaby Multicultural Society and then the Burnaby Ethnocultural Advisory Council.

When Tootian landed a teaching gig at Pinetree secondary in Coquitlam, he established an advisory council for the parents of Iranian students at the school and when he moved

to Gleneagle secondary, he set up a math contest club that helped propel that school to a place amongst the top 50 math schools in Canada.

Still, he said, there was more he could do.

In 2013, Tootian established the Farhagian Educators Association, which produced educational handbooks and workshops with a Canadian twist in both the Iranian and Afghan dialects of Farsi.

It was all about forging connections, Tootian said.

“People need to feel like they belong and can get their voice heard.”

To amplify those voices and teach his community the importance of civic responsibility, Tootian started organizing all-candidate meetings for municipal, provincial and federal elections. He said the openness

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of the Canadian democratic process is enthralling.

“Candidates are so accountable,” he said. “You can approach them and ask them questions.”

Tootian said a strong immigrant voice benefits the whole community by creating a sense of identity.

Even the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t veered Tootian from his mission.

In June, with the help of Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart, as well as councillors, he unveiled his Tree of Unity project at his home as a symbol of the province’s resilience and the contributions of its front-line workers.

“We all have to learn how to be a positive influence in society,” Tootian said.

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Summer weather has arrived – finally – and it’s great to see our residents getting out to enjoy it at Coquitlam’s many parks, trails and natural spaces.

With the August long weekend coming up, it’s wise to remember Dr. Bonnie Henry’s advice about not letting COVID-19 steal our summer. The way I see it, that can be interpreted more than one way.

Drop-in access is now in place at City Hall with controls in place and reduced capacity. Due to limits on the number of people allowed inside City Hall there may be long queues. Please consider one of the payment options below:

In one sense, we’ve all seen how the irresponsible actions of a few have caused a surge in cases and a resulting roll-back of some privileges. If we keep heading in that direction, we’ll likely see further restrictions this summer and fall.

Y By mail: Mail your cheque and/or Home Owner Grant application form to: City of Coquitlam, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7N2

At the same time, we also don’t want to let anxiety about other people’s behaviour steal away our enjoyment of summer – something we all need after our stressful spring. Whether you’re picnicking at the park, cycling the trails or sipping a cold one on a patio, try not to let other people’s actions ruin your day. We can only control what we do, and it doesn’t help our mental health to get worried and angry whenever we think others are not doing their part.

Instead, let’s focus on the fact that most of us are trying to be part of the solution, and that there are plenty of ways we can safely enjoy the freedoms that came with Phase 3 of B.C.’s Restart Plan.

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Get your neighbours together while maintaining physical distancing and receive a $150 grant to help you celebrate. This year, we’ve reimagined the Block Party program with the goal that residents can connect together in a physically distant way. Register your neighbourhood for a block party and you could be eligible for a $150 grant. #SupportLocal and use the grant to purchase party supplies such as decorations and food from local Coquitlam businesses. Visit our website for modified block party tips and register at coquitlam.ca/blockparties.

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Coquitlam Expands Temporary Outdoor Patio Program

Coquitlam businesses can now set up temporary outdoor patios on City rights-of-way such as parking spaces and sidewalks, in as little as two business days.

This is the second phase of the program, which started in June by allowing temporary spaces on private property.

Find out how your business can apply at coquitlam.ca/patios.

This is just one way the City of Coquitlam is working to support businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more resources at our Business Support Portal letstalkcoquitlam.ca/business.

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Car dealership will close to make way for towers Valuable piece of land part of City Centre Area Plan GARY MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

In a symbol of the change occurring in Coquitlam’s City Centre neighbourhood, a long-time auto dealership is closing its doors to make way for more transit-oriented development.

Jeff Kornatowsky, general manager of Coquitlam Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, said the move should not be surprising given the redevelopment taking place in the area. However, he told The Tri-City News the announcement to shut down the Christmas Way dealership after 44 years was “bittersweet.”

“We are an icon of the area,” he said. “It has been a lot of fun to support the soccer teams and sports teams and parades. We will miss it.”

Still, Kornatowsky lives in the area and is supportive of the redevelopment taking place.

“Over the years, we have watched the SkyTrain come closer and closer,” he said.

Coquitlam Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram is closing its doors after operating on Christmas Way for 44 years. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

“Everyone knew there was a timeline on this property. It is a large property. It is premium placed. It has helped us to sell cars over the years.

Now it makes a lot of sense for high-density residential.”

While the business announced this week it will be closing its doors, it will take months to wind down the dealership.

Kornatowsky said they recently received their first shipment of new vehicles in close to three months following supply disruptions he attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and he believes the dealership will remain open into 2021.

“We have a lot of things to sell off,” Kornatowsky said. “There are lots of parts

and equipment to sell off.

We don’t have an exact termination date yet, but it is coming.”

The dealership leases the property, which is owned

by Marcon Developments.

The developer currently has a pre-application with the city of Coquitlam to build six market residential towers, three rental towers and an

office tower on the site and two adjacent properties.

While it is still early in the planning process, Marcon Developments manager Chris Wilkinson told The Tri-City News last year that the project could include up to 900 rental units and 2,800 market units.

The City Centre neighbourhood is also under-

going an update of its area plan, which will guide development for the next 40 years.

The draft document, which is still working its way through the council process, envisions an urban downtown complete with entertainment district, a hotel, an elementary school and a network of new parks and public spaces.

A range of housing options have also been outlined to meet the goal of creating a “family-friendly downtown,” according to a staff report.

“To meet the varying needs of households of all types and at all stages of life, a variety of housing choices, tenures and price levels will be provided across City Centre,” said the report.

“This will be achieved by respecting established neighbourhoods and directing new high-density residential development to the commercial downtown core.”

With development potential the property, located where the Lougheed and Barnet highways meet, is one of the more valuable pieces of land in the TriCities. According to BC Assessment, the 163,350 sq. ft. parcel was worth $26.6 million as of July 1, 2019.

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The Port Coquitlam Sports Alliance alongside our partner clubs are proud to recognize the outstanding efforts of the following individuals for their immense support and giveback to our sports community for the 2019-2020 season.

• Darcy Jago with PoCo Minor Baseball

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• Sharon Kincaid with PoCo Skating Club

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Port Coquitlam businesses and services are open for customers and on a sunny day in July it looks like a lot of people are taking advantage.

But that wasn’t the way it looked just a few months ago when the city’s downtown was shut down due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.

At the time, shopkeepers were staying out of sight, renovating or relocating while Jennifer McKinnon, executive director of the Downtown Port Coquitlam BIA, was busily making plans for a hopeful restart.

Now that the government’s plan to re-open is well underway, and shops, restaurants and services are back in business, life has returned to the downtown.

But there remain hints that the COVID-19 lockdown was a challenge for shopkeepers. For example, RCMP posters warning loot-

Jennifer McKinnon, executive director of the Downtown Port Coquitlam BIA, takes a stroll down Shaughnessy Street which is looking more lively now that Phase 3 of the government’s restart plan is underway, more shops are open and the weather is good. Diane StranDberg/the tri-CitY neWS

ers and vandals to stay away still grace some windows.

“It was just a precaution,” said McKinnon, but “thankfully we didn’t have any problems and didn’t have to board up windows like many businesses did in Vancouver.”

Still, according to the local business advocate, PoCo is not out of the woods yet.

It’s not just that there are worries about a second wave of the coronavirus and future lockdowns, but summer events that usually

bring people downtown have had to cancelled.

“Last year we were so busy, it was so much fun,” recalls McKinnon who had just been hired to the post when summer activities were just getting started.

Events such as the PoCo

Grand Prix had to be cancelled and the popular downtown PoCo Car Cruise, which brings crowds into the city’s core to dine, shop and enjoy a good time.

There have been a number of virtual events such as Canada Day, and PoCo BIA

has used its financial muscle to purchase gift cards from local businesses as prizes.

But what’s needed now, she said, is a commitment from people to shop local. To that end, PoCo BIA has teamed up with the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce to offer lists of businesses that are open.

“Now more than ever, we need people to shop local,” she said.

Over the coming months, the PoCo BIA will be helping businesses with information about government programs and subsidies.

Meanwhile, downtown businesses will be asked to help out by renewing their annual levy.

A five-year plan for the business organization lays out its mandate and McKinnon hopes downtown property owners will see the value in having someone represent them and be their voice.

In one positive recent development, the Port Coquitlam Farmers Market has re-opened at Leigh Square, running Thursdays from 3-7.

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A Port Moody high school student is hoping a day as a firefighter will spark a future career choice.

Anna Tershchenko is one of several young women from the Tri-Cities participating in Camp Ignite, an annual camp that introduces them to some of the challenges and rewards of being a firefighter. Three others are from Coquitlam, one is from Port Coquitlam and another is from Anmore.

And while the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced the usual week-long camp to be scaled back to just a single day at the Justice Institute’s fire safety facility in Maple Ridge, coordinator Jennifer Dawkins said the prospective young firefighters will still get to experience several aspects of the job, like fire extinguisher drills, hose handling, auto extrication, wearing a breathing apparatus and learning about fitness requirements.

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Port Moody secondary school student Anna Tershchenko safely collects her turnout gear at Port Moody Fire Rescue. SUBMITTED PHOTO

sive,” Dawkins said, adding the group of 28 will be divided into pods of five or six then rotated through the various stations.

In its tenth year, Dawkins said the program has already produced at least a couple of professional firefighters as well as several serving as volunteer firefighters in their communities. She said that number could increase as early graduates hit 27 or 28-years-old, the average age for most new firefighters.

“You still need some schooling and life experience,” she said. “But they

have this opportunity at a young age to see what it takes.”

Tereshchenko, who’s going into Grade 11 at Port Moody secondary school in September, said she’s just beginning the process of figuring out her future career path. As an avid volleyball and basketball player, who’s also tried her hand at wrestling, Tereshchenko said she thrives on variety and physical toil.

Earlier this year, she spent a day aboard a search and rescue boat, pulling a dummy from the water, tying

ropes, even taking the wheel.

She’s also considering her options in the police service and armed forces.

“All these jobs have something different every day,” Tereshchenko said. “I can’t imagine myself working a 9-5 office job.”

Since most of the participants selected for Camp Ignite are seniors, Treshchenko said she’s got a leg up as a junior. Still, she’s already feeling the pressure to set her future path.

“I try to get every opportunity I can to explore my options,” she said.

The transformation of Port Moody’s downtown is moving a step closer to reality.

A consortium of nine property owners has formally submitted its application to amend the official community plan for the 20-acre neighbourhood adjacent to the Moody Centre SkyTrain station. The project would transform the area from a hodgepodge of commercial and light industrial buildings to a mixed-use neighbourhood with up to 4,135 new homes as well as commercial and office components that could create jobs for about 2,000 people.

The application comes after 10 months of consultation with various

community groups, public open houses and roundtable discussions with stakeholders.

The consortium, which is comprised of developers like Anthem, Beedie Living, Woodbridge Homes and PCI Developments, along with TransLink and several families, said the project will generate up to $140 million in amenities for the city. Among them are the construction of a new pedestrian overpass to Rocky Point Park, the daylighting of Slaughterhouse Creek, the transformation of Spring Street from Moody Street o Electronic Avenue into a vibrant pedestrian and cyclist-oriented promenade flanked by shops and offices along with pocket parks and mews.

As well, the project anticipates 300 to 385 market rental homes and up to 450 affordable housing units.

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Topic: Booking spots at the beach “Great idea. White Pine, in particular, is always absolutely packed... Major hazard for people forced to walk up the side of a narrow road carrying all their beach accessories.”

“Doubt that would work... It’s way more busy than any other year... Kids running around on your mat and adults wandering, again super close. I was very uncomfortable.”

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remier John Horgan has set tongues wagging with his musings last week about an early election call.

He suggested there are three “windows” of opportunity to head to the polls (this fall, next spring and the following fall). It is not clear whether he was having some fun by toying with his political opponents or whether he was genuinely serious.

Put me in the camp of those who think he is not serious about it.

First, there is little evidence that the public is clamouring for an election.

So many people are simply trying to hang on, both mentally and financially, during this pandemic. The thought of listening to politicians

engaging in partisan rhetoric for 28 days likely seems a foreign concept to most folks.

It is far from a scientific finding, but I conducted a “poll” on Twitter a few days back and the result was somewhat staggering. More than 2,500 people took part and 88% said “no” to an early vote. Again, not scientific, but the sample size and the lopsided result should tell Horgan something.

It is also far from clear how an early election could be triggered anyways. There is no “confidence vote” in sight before the vote on next spring’s budget. That is a long ways off. Theoretically, Horgan could approach Lt.Gov. Janet Austin and ask her to dissolve the legislature.

However, under what pretext

could he do that?

Several factors could possibly lead Austin to refuse any such request: The next election date is already enshrined in legislation (October, 2021).

The NDP government has a signed agreement with the Green Party that ensures the legislature can function with “confidence.”

Even though Dr. Bonnie Henry says public health is working with Elections BC to ensure that any election is conducted safely, it is far from clear whether we have reached an accepted safety level. Although Austin only seeks advice from her first minister (the premier), she is under no obligation to follow it. Her top priority is ensuring the legislature functions,

which it is doing quite nicely (thanks in no small part to that deal with the Greens).

Although technically a minority government, the NDP government has been acting as if it was a de facto majority government. There is no demonstrated need that somehow it needs a few more seats, as if that would provide more stability.

The Horgan government has justly won well-deserved praise for its handling of the crisis caused by the pandemic. It would be a shame if that take were to be replaced by a view that a contrived early election call would be seen as needless and reckless, and designed purely out of self-interest.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Time slots needed to fix overcrowded beaches The Editor, Re. “Metro Vancouver parks see massive increase in visitors this year,” (TriCity News, July 25); “It’s the Florida of Metro Vancouver’: Metro parks, mayors sound warning over Tri-City beach,” (Tri-City News, July 24).

Regarding overcrowding and traffic management issues at local lake areas including Sasamat, Buntzen and Belcarra park: As these northern shore recreation areas become more widely known to Metro Vancouver residents, there is increasing demand for time and space, which is creating conflicts

White Pine Beach has become particularly crowded this year, say residents and park staff. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

with those who live in adjacent areas.

We have seen a dramatic

increase in visitors resulting in conflicts with local parking restrictions, increased

risk for serious pedestrian injuries. Drivers are seeking elusive parking spaces while navigating around park visitors with children and recreation equipment, all while walking along and across the roads. Residents living in the area are experiencing difficulties leaving or returning to their homes due to traffic.

Perhaps we need to think differently about how we use these spaces given the expansion plans for the municipalities in this sector.

Why not consider a time slot booking?

That way we could ensure the parks and beaches

are more accessible in the high demand summer season rather than having the parking areas closed to new arrivals early many mornings due to overcapacity and thus preventing many others from using these areas for the rest of the day.

This approach could be used by issuing a daily pass in blocks of three hours with a one hour spacing to allow for one group of users to leave before the next group arrives to park.

Time blocks could be from 7-10 a.m. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 3-6 p.m., with the last block and the remaining

hours open to on-demand users. At 30 minutes prior to the end of the block, users are alerted to begin taking down tents or picnic sites, so they can clean up of their immediate area and return to their vehicles to exit the park area.

This is just one proposal which could be amended to ensure more people gets some access to these areas rather than some early risers getting space which they then monopolize for the entire day while others are excluded entirely.

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Use parks responsibly this weekend, Metro pleads Warm temperatures expected this B.C. Day long weekend Don’t be irresponsible.

That’s the message coming from Metro Vancouver as the B.C. Day long weekend beckons. The region has issued a press release reminding people to enjoy the outdoors – and regional parks in particular – responsibly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Metro Vancouver has kept regional parks open as outlets for people to safely enjoy the outdoors, but we are seeing too many visitors neglecting physical distancing guidelines, raising the risk of community virus transmission,” said Sav Dhaliwal, chair of the Metro

A family enjoys a walk at Burnaby Lake in pre-pandemic times. Metro Vancouver is reminding people who use regional parks to do so responsibly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

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spike in new cases.”

Beach parks, especially White Pine Beach at Sasamat Lake in Belcarra Regional Park and Boundary Bay Regional Park, have experienced high demand, especially on weekends, leading to local traffic, parking and physical distancing challenges.

Parks visitors are asked to follow these guidelines: • Choose parks in your own area – do not travel across the region.

• Avoid beach parks – explore nearby trail-based parks instead.

• Walk, bike or take transit to avoid contributing to traffic and parking issues.

• Maintain physical distance of at least two metres from others at all times, including in parking lots.

• Dispose of tissues and other waste in designated garbage bins.

• Pack it in, pack it out – do not leave any items behind in parks.

• Wash or sanitize hands frequently during the day and upon returning home.

• Stay home if you are sick.

The press release notes that all Metro Vancouver regional parks are open. Metro Vancouver has increased staff patrols, sanitation of high-touch surfaces and traffic management and continues to monitor and manage visitor behaviour.

Staff are reassessing the status of each regional park on an ongoing basis.

Amenities including playgrounds, picnic shelters, group camps and reservable

facilities are open, and some nature programs have resumed with modifications.

Parking restrictions are in place at select parks, and municipalities have ramped up parking enforcement in residential areas near regional parks.

Please check Metro Vancouver’s website for the latest parks service advisories.

“Connecting with nature is a great way to reduce stress and promote physical and mental well-being – but only if park visitors are careful and sensible,” said director John McEwen, chair of Metro Vancouver’s regional parks committee. “Please do your part to reduce crowding and keep each other safe, so that we can continue to keep our regional parks open.”

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As the pandemic wears on, the gap in caseloads and fatalities between Canada and our southern neighbour makes it easy to be grateful to live in British Columbia.

But what about those desperate to see their new granddaughter in Arizona or a fiancé in Washington State?

Travel has become a little trickier than last year. And the prospect of travelling to the U.S. can be particularly anxiety-provoking for those with a son or daughter headed off to an American school in the fall.

So what should you expect?

The Tri-City News interviewed two recently returned families who have made that trip to Florida, one of the states worst hit by the virus in recent weeks.

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First, the Canadian government does not recommend any non-essential travel outside of the country at this time. Once you leave the borders, you’ll be subject to another country’s rules — whether that be quarantine or medical bills should you fall ill.

Moreover, Canada’s consulates have had their capacity limited by the pandemic.

With the U.S. land border sealed, your only option is as an essential traveller — ‘essential’ includes such circumstances as visiting family or attending school — is to fly.

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Wilson and Denise Tung had been contemplating the trip with their son Aaron for months. At six-foot-four and 300 pounds, the 16-year-old offensive tackle had caught the eye of coaches at a small high school in Clearwater, Fla., back in February.

As the pandemic heated up, so too did their inquiries.

Soon the Tungs were preparing for the move.

“Do your research, inquire and look into things rather than assuming things,” said Denise, who also called the hotel to make sure she was comfortable with its safety protocols.

“Understand the area you’re going to rather than generalizing.”

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Travel started to look different from the moment the Tungs bought their flight ticket. Denise remembers receiving an email that said they must wear a mask or some face covering at all times unless they were eating or drinking.

When they got to Vancouver International Airport on the morning of July 6, the place was nearly empty. On the American Airlines plane to their layover in Dallas, the Tungs said there were about 20 to 25 people, while the flight onwards to Tampa Bay was “pretty much full.”

When they arrived, Aaron’s quarantine started, though he spent the first few days with his parents at the hotel and shopping at Costco and Target to outfit his bedroom.

Both, she said, felt safer than shopping at the Costco in Coquitlam, pointing to the mandatory mask protocol and thin crowds, but also recognizing the small town size may have played a factor.

This week was the first time the teenager was allowed to mingle with his teammates, who include one of his old opponents and good friend, 16-year-old Tremel States-Jones from Surrey.

“It couldn’t have been worse timing for Aaron to go, but at the same time we couldn’t pass up that opportunity for him,” said Denise.

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about the risks and payoffs of going to school in the U.S. during a pandemic.

“People thought we were absolutely nuts for doing it,” said Denise, “Once we were down there, I felt safer there than we do here.”

Marla States-Jones had a similar experience to the Tungs.

She agreed that having a long lead up time to men-

tally prepare for the move and make the important decisions together made the process a lot easier.

Not every state, county or city has the same risk, they advised, so pay attention to what’s going on around your kid’s school.

Both families were confronted with the double-anxiety of the ongoing protests against police bru-

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“You’re preparing him for the worst. You don’t want him to live in fear, but always be cautious and never be alone.

“You guys are young Black males going down there. You can’t be alone.”

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or families with the frailest of seniors in long-term care, the cracks in the system that led to a crisis when coVId-19 hit were not a big surprise.

The virus brought problems into the open, but they had been there all along.

For may mikhail’s 94-year-old mother Isabelle mikhail, it started with falls. Isabelle had been in north Vancouver’s Lynn Valley care centre a couple of months when she fell in 2014. Another fall soon after sent her to hospital with a massive bruise on her face.

Previously, Isabelle had used a walker.

“And after that, she never really managed the walker again. so she was in a wheelchair, but she continued to fall,” said mikhail. “she fell numerous times off the toilet.

I gave really strict instructions: ‘Please do not leave my mom unattended on the toilet because she will try to get off.’

“They said ‘yes, yes, we will make very sure.’”

But Isabelle continued to regularly fall off the toilet onto the floor. s u c h i n c i d e n t s a r e n’ t a n anomaly.

For many years, long-term care has been under-resourced, understaffed and largely hidden from public view, say experts.

“It’s unfortunate it took a pandemic to really wake us up to what we’ve been talking about for the past few decades,” said Habib chaudhury, professor and chair of simon Fraser University’s department of Gerontology. dr. Roger wong, a clinical professor in the division of Geriatric medicine at the University of British columbia (UBc), agrees.

“I th i n k what it has done is

really revealed some of the systemic issues,” he said.

There are 294 long-term care centres in B.c. with roughly 27,000 publicly-subsidized beds – not counting about 8,747 assisted living and over 19,248 unregulated independent living homes for seniors or those which are strictly privately paid. The average age of residents in long-term care is 85 and over 30% are dependent on staff for basic activities like bathing and getting out of bed. Almost 65% of residents have some form of dementia and 30% have severe cognitive impairment.

Until it affects a family directly, however, long-term care for seniors tends to be out of sight and out of mind.

And while most experts recommend that residents receive over four hours of direct care a day, care homes in B.c. continue to fall below that. o ne p erson who h a s b e en sounding the alarm for years is B.c.’s seniors Advocate Isobel mackenzie.

The ministry of Health sets 3.36 hours of care a day as guideline for how much care residents should receive. But mackenzie found 70% of long-term care homes in the province fail to meet that. For contracted facilities the percentage not meeting guidelines rises to 82%.

Perhaps that’s not surprising.

As mackenzie noted in her 2019 report on long-term care homes “currently, facilities are funded at levels that may not meet this guideline.” contracts covering block funding between care homes and health authorities are complex.

But for much of the past two decades, “there has been consistent downward pressure on funding,” said mike Klassen, acting ceo of Bc care Providers, which

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represents private care home operators in the province. “The consistent message from the care home sector to the government is the funding is too low to run many of these care homes sustainably.”

Under those circumstances, pressure to find ways to be eff icient w it h l abou r costs i s inevitable.

“If you ask why, that’s a million-dollar question,” said chaudhury. “It’s a value question.... we’ve done a very poor job in long term care.”

In the case of mikhail’s elderly mother, caregivers encouraged her to use a diaper rather than a bathroom – describing it as a ‘toilet in her pants’ – not because she was incapable, because they didn’t have time to help her, said her daughter.

“There’s never enough care aides to stay with them long enough,” said Kelly shellard,

whose 82-year-old dad, Bill shellard, has dementia and is also in care at Lynn Valley care centre.

“These are people who try really hard to do their best. It’s a really hard job. But it’s an impossible job when there are not enough bodies physically to do it.”

Today’s long-term care system was first developed in the 1960s.

But unlike other government health care services, long-term care was never put in the canada Health Act, meaning there are no national standards.

That’s why long-term care can be very different in different provinces.

In earlier decades, there was also a more tiered approach to seniors’ care in B.c., say experts.

Residents in long-term care home were “much more diverse in terms of their needs,” said jennifer Baumbusch, a registered nurse and professor at UBc’s

school of nursing, who specializes in residential care.

About 20 years ago, however, that shifted. People being placed into long-term care “had to be fairly complex and dependent to qualify.” critics have maintained the move artificially reduced – temporarily – the need for long-term care, while forcing seniors into cheaper assisted living beds.

But while the needs of those in long-term care increased, staffing levels didn’t, said Baumbusch. many physical buildings that had been constructed for a more capable population of seniors were also now providing homes for increasingly frail residents.

“If you go to any care home you’ll see long hallways,” where it’s easy for dementia patients to get lost, and dining rooms on main floors that residents have to be brought down to, said chaudhury.

That only adds to the difficulties of providing care.

The other major change that happened in the early 2000s was a move to increased privatization and contracting out of long-term care for seniors – in part because contracting those services was cheaper for government than building and operating new care homes directly.

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left facilities unprepared for pandemic has suffered chronic shortfalls of resources and staff, experts say The result was a decreased share of care homes owned and operated by health authorities directly and an increase in those owned and operated by the for-profit sector. Today, roughly one-third of long-term care homes in B.C. are operated by health authorities, one-third are run by non-profits, and one third are run by the private sector.

Increasingly, for-profit care homes that used to be family-run businesses are operated by corporate chains that own multiple care facilities.

Jennifer Whiteside, secretary business manager of the Hospital Employees Union that represents care aides at unionized care homes, characterizes the early 2000s as “a real deregulation of our long-term care system. I think there was a real perspective on the part of health authorities that long-term care operators were businesses. And the operating model wasn’t really the concern of the health authorities.... I don’t think there were enough checks and balances in the system.”

To avoid higher labour costs, operators of nu rsi ng homes stopped hiring employees directly and instead contracted those services through third-party companies.

“We have many, many examples of contract flipping over the years,” said Whiteside, pointing to Inglewood Care Home in West Vancouver as a prime example, where the previous owner of that facility “contracted out [with different companies] six times in 10 or 12 years,” she said.

Klassen said care home operators were forced by the government to contract out their labour costs as funding was squeezed.

“The only way [many care homes] could actually operate and not be constantly in the red was to try

Habib Chaudhury, professor and chair of Simon Fraser University’s Department of Gerontology: “it’s unfortunate it took a pandemic to really wake us up to what we’ve been talking about for the past few decades” | Submitted

to address some of the costs of labour.”

The upshot was many care aides, who are responsible for about 67% of direct care and previously earned a standard provincial wage of up to $25 an hour with benefits, found their wages repeatedly cut – to as little as $17 an hour in some cases. According to BC Care Providers, the average starting salary for a care aide in B.C. is $19 an hour.

Care aides frequently needed several jobs in different care homes to make ends meet.

The consequence, said Whiteside, is that it made working in care homes “very unattractive to people.”

“It tends to be a precarious workforce,” said Whiteside. Most workers are women and many are from vulnerable communities. Some are temporary foreign workers recruited to work in jobs other health care workers have rejected.

The scale of how much changing that would cost is evident in the

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over $10 million a month the province has been paying since the spring to ensure all care aides work at a single facility – while being paid a higher wage.

Care homes receive block funding that is negotiated individually with health authorities to subsidize the costs of publicly funded care beds.

Health authorities specify the number of direct care hours care homes are expected to deliver.

Contracted long-term care homes cost taxpayers almost $1.3 billion a year in B.C. But as Mackenzie pointed out this year in her report, A Billion Reasons to Care, there is inadequate transparency on exactly where that money goes and how much of it is spent on direct care.

Staff who work in this environment are under pressure to provide care as efficiently as possible.

“They’re given a certain amount of time to do a certain task,” said A lthea Gibb-Carsley, Mikhail’s partner. “And as people’s

cognition changes, it’s very seldom enough. And it often is grossly inadequate…. They’re pushed, pushed, pushed, in relation to that task list.”

Theoretically, she said, every resident has a care plan driven by their unique needs. “And theoretically, each of the staff who comes in to take care of the residents is acquainted with that care plan.”

The reality is often different.

“It’s feed, clothe, clean,” said Mikhail. If you’re lucky. Everything else falls by the wayside.

“To put it crudely we’re warehousing seniors,” said Chaudhury.

The idea that someone could sleep in late or go for a walk in the garden has been replaced by the need to make sure “they are fed, they are clean, they are calm,” he said.

According to Mackenzie, 25% of long-term care residents are given antipsychotic medication without a diagnosis of psychosis and twice as many residents take anti-depressants as those with a diagnosis of depression.

“We use psychotropic medications to help people calm down and stay put,” said Chaudhury.

Putting a parent or other family member in residential care is often a difficult decision.

“It’s not a light switch,” said Wong. “Typically, seniors and thei r loved ones or fa m i l ies have really struggled. They’ve struggled for a long time in the community with all kinds of supportive services, home care, etc.

And then finally, as a result of multiple health conditions, and sometimes it includes things like mental health conditions, like dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, or significant disability, or significant burnout from the caregivers, then they go in there.”

“Nobody says, ‘I’m dreaming of

going to a care home when I get old,’” said Bauschbusch. “And so it’s not something we like to think about a lot. And when the government is having their calls around, informing the next budget, this is not necessarily an area that people have stood up for.”

The system in place until very recently where families had to take the first available bed in the region has in itself been “a traumatic experience,” she said. “You get a call from the hospital saying transport is coming to take your parent to care home B. People have very limited choice.”

At a fundamental level, seniors’ care is an uncomfortable topic, tied up with the issue of ageism, said Chaudhury, plus scarce health care dollars and a vulnerable population with limited power to advocate.

“Definitely at the policy level, it is a reflection of how we have devalued seniors’ care.” •

B.C. seniors’ care crisis Glacier media’s in-depth look at the problems besetting care for the elderly in b.C. as the COVid-19 pandemic exposes deep weaknesses in the system. See also: • What are the lessons learned from the outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities? Answers are starting to emerge. biv.com/article/2020/07/taletwo-pandemics-protecting-seniors-homes-next-wave • How do we fix the problems in our long-term care facilities?

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Anmore looks at urban designation on Ioco lands Public consultation before village approaches Metro DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

A pause in planning for a major development in Anmore is giving the village an opportunity to ask residents what they want to see on the 150-acre former Ioco lands.

Currently, the property is designated a special study area. But Tuesday the village council agreed unanimously to seek a change to urban in Metro Vancouver’s regional strategy.

begin as early as this fall in a combination of surveys, online consultation and even socially-distanced outdoor meetings, as was held recently so people could comment on a new village hub.

McEwen cautioned that there are no pre-conceived notions as to what should go on the site. It could be a high tech hub as was dis-

and Metro Vancouver updating its regional plans, the time is ripe to take a closer look at what could go on the property, Mayor John McEwen told The TriCity News.

“We’d be signalling to the developer or if they sell it to another developer what we envision seeing there,” said McEwen.

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cussed over a decade ago or a commercial node with some homes, however not as many as is envisioned in the Gilic project, he said.

Metro Vancouver must also approve a change to the regional growth strategy that would see the property placed within the urban containment boundary.

Among the benefits of the change, McEwen said,

would be to provide more housing options, possibly commercial and a sewer connection to the property.

The village council approved unanimously to start the application process with Metro Vancouver with more information to come.

“There’s going to be a lot of public engagement in this,” he promised.

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A popular Tri-Cities outdoor summer camp is opening its doors after the province approved its COVID-19 operating plan.

The Mossom Creek Hatchery and Education Centre — known for its years of work rehabilitating local salmon populations and teaching children about the environment — brings together certified teachers and nature experts to offer kids hands-on outdoor learning and fun every August.

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Participants will learn how to use a naturalist’s tools to study wildlife. They will practice monitoring water quality and learn how species struggle to survive in their ecosystem as climate and landscapes shift across seasons and geologic time.

And they’ll get to know all sorts of animals, insects (there’s a waterbug workshop) and the trees of the “B.C. Salmon forests.”

The three-hour-a-day program offers 24 spots over two weeks. Organizers have set up four groups of six children each to ensure a podlike physical environment.

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Inlet Marine Enhancement Society Tracy Green in an email.

In addition to the smaller groups, the program has taken steps to ensure everyone’s safety from COVID-19 by running all activities entirely outdoors. There will be a daily check-in procedure that includes a wellness check, physical distancing and hand-washing proto-

cols, as well as a strict sanitization regime that offers each child her own sanitized tools for the week.

The Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society decided to offer the programs to children aged nine to 12 after the group was told that demographic was the most affected by limited camps during the pandemic, said Green.

The summer camp will also act as a test run for small-group field trips in the fall.

The Mossom Creek watershed usually hosts class field trips during the school year, but due to the ongoing pandemic, the organizers are trying to work out an alternative so local schools can identify students who would most benefit from outdoor

learning.

That plan will hinge on funding and a partnership with local schools or the school board, something Green said will be a tall order given the tight timeline.

• Camps run from Aug. 4-7 and Aug. 10-14. For details on how to sign up, go to mossomcreek.org/ our-programs/outdoor-summer-programs/.

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Adam Smith likes to say “football isn’t really just kids running into each other.”

Beginning Aug. 4, the president of Coquitlam Minor Football will see just how much weight there is behind those words.

That’s when about 150 kids, aged 5 to 18, as well as another 30 in the association’s cheer program, begin hitting the field at Mackin Park in small groups for truncated 45-minute workouts twice a week.

There won’t be any body contact allowed until at least September and Smith said he’s hopeful some form of games might start by later that month.

Until then, Smith said, the emphasis will be on conditioning and developing individual skills. Tackling sleds and bags will be sidelined and coaches will be disinfecting footballs after every pass and reception.

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to look at football in a new way,” Smith said.

Already struggling to attract new players because

of growing concerns about concussions and injuries, Smith said the new reality of playing football in the mid-

dle of a global health crisis is hastening further changes designed to make the sport safer and more attractive to

families.

Better equipment and new tackling techniques have mitigated some of the injury risk, he said.

Emphasizing skill and better fitness rather than game preparation should continue that momentum.

“It’s a chance to give kids with other skills a chance to perform,” Smith said.

Still, he conceded, registration for the fall program that normally begins in early July, has slipped, and coaches are being challenged to completely change the way they design their practices.

Smith said getting kids outdoors and active remains the paramount driver.

“The idea is to get out and play and have some fun.”

Other elements that will look different include nineman sides, with team rosters capped at 18.

Smith said not only will the smaller squads make it easier for coaches to keep kids apart, it will also allow the creation of more teams that might be able to at least play against each other if league play doesn’t go ahead but inter-club scrimmages are permitted.

Parents also won’t be al-

lowed to hang around on the sidelines during practices or even linger in the parking lot while they wait.

Smith said that will be a loss as the association has developed into a close-knit family where everyone is keen to participate and help out.

“They’ve been very understanding and receptive to that,” he said. “They’re just excited to get their kids back on the field again.”

As well, the strategies and plays won’t be taught on a whiteboard in a tight huddle.

Instead, coaches will likely convene online sessions.

“We’re trying to think outside the box to work up the football knowledge of things,” Smith said.

And while the traditional patterns of preparation for games to be played on Saturdays or Sundays may be absent for awhile, Smith said that’s not necessarily a bad thing as players get more time to work on skills.

“The focus is too much on getting out and winning games,” he said. “But community sport is not supposed to be about that, it’s supposed to be about getting kids active and learning a sport.”

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OKANAGAN PEACH

WHITE NECTARINE

Product of U.S.A. 4.14 KG

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1

1

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LOCAL CELERY

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2

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49

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4

REGGIA

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ea.

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ea.

lb.

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2

ea.

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IT’S NOT TOO LATE – APPLY NOW FOR THIS SEPTEMBER There are seats remaining in our Associate of Arts, Associate of Science and General Studies programs.

Even if you aren’t sure what you want to do, these programs offer you the flexibility to explore different classes while accumulating credits that can be transferred to university or put towards another program at Douglas.

Choose Douglas.

Maki Murai, Commerce and Business university transfer

Apply now, start in September. douglascollege.ca/apply

Turn the page to learn more about Douglas and read Maki’s story.

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5 reasons to

Build your career before (and after!) you graduate

1 Return on investment

The Douglas College Career Centre is where students and grads build their careers. Gain skills and experience through full- or part-time work or find your dream job after graduation. We offer:

choose Douglas

One of the most affordable post-secondary institutions in Metro Vancouver.

2 Pathways to university Students successfully transfer to SFU and UBC, as well as universities across Canada.

3 High interaction with professors Maximum 35 students per class.

4 Hands-on experience Through co-op education, work placements, field schools, field trips and labs.

5 School-life balance Reach our campuses in 30 minutes or less by SkyTrain from most of Metro Vancouver.

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Get help paying for school Douglas offers more than 250 scholarships, bursaries and awards every year. Some are based on financial need, while others recognize academic achievement, community involvement and other criteria. Find out more at douglascollege.ca/finaid

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HIS FUTURE IS BRIGHT When Maki finished high school, he was eager to pick the right post-secondary. He chose Douglas for its quality of education, academic rigour and universitytransfer options, with the goal of transferring to UBC after completing his program. It wasn’t easy – he had to maintain a good GPA in order to get into UBC – but his hard work paid off: He graduated from the Commerce and Business program and went on to complete his bachelor’s degree at UBC. Now, with a degree in business and economics, he is helping international students find accommodation in Vancouver for Global Education City, a student residence and housing organization. But this isn’t the end of his education goals: Maki is studying for the Canadian Securities Course so that he can become a financial advisor, and he eventually wants to pursue an MBA or master’s degree in international relations. He says choosing Douglas was one of the best decisions he’s ever made. “Thanks to Douglas, I have a great future ahead of me.”