page 3 page 6 page 9 LEGO TEAMS DO BATTLE AT BCIT NEW SEASON FOR ‘SCHOOL WARS’ NURSE PRACTITIONERS GAINING GROUND www.burnabynewsleader.com WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30 2013 Legalizing suites ‘way overdue’: TRAC Last major municipality in Metro Vancouver Wanda Chow [email protected]It’s about time that Burnaby is considering legalizing secondary suites, according to a local tenants advocacy group. “Burnaby is the last major municipality in Metro Vancouver to even contemplate it, it’s way overdue,” said Tom Durning, spokesperson for the Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre (TRAC). Durning was commenting on a recent NewsLeader story that Burnaby city hall is looking into the possibility of legalizing secondary suites as part of efforts to encourage affordable housing options in the city. Currently, apart from in-law suites which must be inhabited by family members, all secondary suites are illegal. Essentially, all it takes to shut them down and displace the tenants is for a neighbour to complain in writing to city hall. Electoral commission opts for merger with North Van despite opposition Wanda Chow [email protected]The Electoral Boundaries Commission of B.C. has made its decision and it’s one a number of people on both sides of Burrard Inlet won’t be happy with. As part of a once-every-10-years redistribution of population among federal electoral districts, the commission has decided to go ahead with a North Burnaby-Seymour riding that it proposed last summer. The aim is to reduce the population in the existing North Vancouver riding by combining part of North Van District with North Burnaby. Since then, the plan has been the subject of much vocal opposition which the commission acknowledged. “It was and remains apparent to the Commission that there is a distinct lack of enthusiasm on both sides of Burrard Inlet” for the idea, with many viewing the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge “as more of a challenge to than an enhancement of access and communication for constituents,” the commission said in its final report released Monday. “The Commission appreciates these concerns but is ultimately of the view that there has to be an amalgamation of these areas into a reconfigured electoral district, Burnaby North-Seymour.” It noted that the move is not without precedent as the two areas have been combined into one riding occasionally over the past 40 years. The new riding will comprise all of Burnaby north of Lougheed Highway and North Van District roughly between the Seymour River and Indian Arm. The initial proposal generated controversy last summer after media reports quoting one of the commission members, Stewart Burnaby riding will include North Van MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER Station Square in the Metrotown neighbourhood is closed and site preparation is underway for the first phase in a major transformation of the mall, which includes several condo towers. See Story on Page A5 Alpha student Tomas Lang saw a whole lot of waste, and decided to dish up a solution. See Page A2 Please see BC TO GET SIX MORE SEATS, A4 Please see RENTERS, A3 Terms & conditions apply. * Real Chequing Account Financial Services Since 1940 • www.gvccu.com 604-298-3344 BRENTWOOD BRANCH 1801 Willingdon Ave. 604-421-3456 LOUGHEED BRANCH 9608 Cameron St. * / MONTH or less 5 $ Your Future. Our Focus. 604.541.8500 www.muironmoney.com THE MUIR INVESTMENT TEAM Your Retirement Specialists
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Legalizing suites ‘way overdue’: TRACLast major municipality in Metro VancouverWanda [email protected]
It’s about time that Burnaby is considering legalizing secondary suites, according to a local tenants advocacy group.
“Burnaby is the last major municipality in Metro Vancouver to even contemplate it, it’s way overdue,” said Tom Durning, spokesperson for the Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre (TRAC).
Durning was commenting on a recent NewsLeader story that Burnaby city hall is looking into the possibility of legalizing secondary suites as part of efforts to encourage affordable housing options in the city.
Currently, apart from in-law suites which must be inhabited by family members, all secondary suites are illegal.
Essentially, all it takes to shut them down and displace the tenants is for a neighbour to complain in writing to city hall.
Electoral commission opts for merger with North Van despite oppositionWanda [email protected]
The Electoral Boundaries Commission of B.C. has made its decision and it’s one a number of people on both sides of Burrard Inlet won’t be happy with.
As part of a once-every-10-years redistribution of population among federal electoral districts, the
commission has decided to go ahead with a North Burnaby-Seymour riding that it proposed last summer.
The aim is to reduce the population in the existing North Vancouver riding by combining part of North Van District with North Burnaby.
Since then, the plan has been the subject of much vocal opposition which the commission acknowledged.
“It was and remains apparent to the Commission that there is a
distinct lack of enthusiasm on both sides of Burrard Inlet” for the idea, with many viewing the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge “as more of a challenge to than an enhancement of access and communication for constituents,” the commission said in its final report released Monday.
“The Commission appreciates these concerns but is ultimately of the view that there has to be an amalgamation of these areas into a reconfigured electoral district, Burnaby North-Seymour.”
It noted that the move is not without precedent as the two areas have been combined into one riding occasionally over the past 40 years.
The new riding will comprise all of Burnaby north of Lougheed Highway and North Van District roughly between the Seymour River and Indian Arm.
The initial proposal generated controversy last summer after media reports quoting one of the commission members, Stewart
Burnaby riding will include North Van
MarIO BarTEL/nEWSLEaDErStation Square in the Metrotown neighbourhood is closed and site preparation is underway for the first phase in a major transformation of the mall, which includes several condo towers. See Story on Page a5
Alpha student Tomas Lang saw a whole lot of waste, and decided to
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Secured grants to purchase dishes, eliminate need for disposablesWanda [email protected]
Alpha secondary student Tomas Lang was helping clean up after an event at school a year ago when he saw how environmentally unfriendly such occasions typically are.
There was little effort made to recycle with only a few beverage containers diverted from the trash can, and all the plates and cutlery used were disposable.
“Everyone was just sweeping everything off the tables into garbage cans,” recalled Lang, now 14 and in Grade 9.
“It was kind of worrisome that sustainability is such a big issue but so many students are uneducated about it and there’s no infrastructure to make it easier for them to learn about it.”
So he decided to do something.In talking it over with his
family, he realized the key to changing students’ behaviour is to make the alternatives easy and convenient.
Lang’s mother told him that when she was a student at Burnaby North, they only ever
used ceramic plates and metal cutlery at school events.
He then set about securing grants for his project. Lang won $1,000 through Changepilotz, an initiative of the Global Stewardship Program at Capilano University, and another $1,000 from Ashoka Canada, an organization that supports social entrepreneurship.
Already he’s purchased a set of 200 plates and cutlery from Ikea for use at Alpha functions and another set of 50 which he donated to his former elementary school, Sperling, for their use. With the money left over he’s looking into adding mugs to the set, as well as buying and installing a portable dishwasher at Alpha.
That would go a long way towards the convenience factor.
The new dishes were introduced at a pancake breakfast held at the school in December and while it went over well, with Lang identifying areas of improvement such as a need for more instructional signage, he ended up taking all 200 plates and the cutlery home to run it through the dishwasher.
Nevertheless, Lang proudly notes that using the plates and having a separate container for
students to deposit food scraps led to a reduction in garbage and an increase in material headed for composting.
And with disposables costing $20 to $30 per event, the dishes will eventually pay for themselves.
Lang plans to make the dishes available for borrowing by Alpha’s feeder elementary schools and is working on a “tool kit” with step-by-step advice on how to run a green event which he’ll make available online.
He’s hoping to encourage all other Burnaby high schools to invest in similar sets of dishware so that they’re eventually available to all schools in the city.
“Instead of promoting recycling, we need to promote reducing [garbage] because recycling is not going to get us to zero waste,” said Lang, who is considering pursuing a career as an environmental engineer.
Meanwhile, at Alpha he’s now referred to as “the plate guy” among some students.
“People make that connection,” Lang said with a smile, “which is kind of cool, I’ve got to admit.”
Teams of students aged 5-14 from around Metro Vancouver competed in the First Lego League regional championships at BCIT on Saturday. They were challenged to design and built robots that would help improve the quality of life for seniors. Top: Jeffrey Wang, from a White Rock elementary school, inspects his team’s flexible walker. Left: Oscar Shi of Burnaby North shows off his team’s smart cane. Below left: Aaron Qiu and Samuel Chen put their robot through its paces. Below right: The Robokids Club sends a robot on a test run. More than 100 students on 14 teams participated in the event. Winners go on to invitational competitions.
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That’s just what happened to Cariboo Hill resident Amanda McCracken, a 33-year-old single mother who is facing eviction after such a complaint from a neighbour resulted in a visit by a city bylaw enforcement officer.
Durning called on Burnaby city hall to place a moratorium on all such evictions and shutting down of suites until it decides whether to legalize suites.
As for Coun. Dan Johnston’s comments that in the past, the city’s legal department has raised concerns about liability issues with legalizing suites that have not been built up to B.C. Building Code standards, Durning called it “an excuse,” noting other municipalities haven’t been concerned about the issue.
“The thing that disappoints me, it’s 10 years ago this year the City of Vancouver legalized them. If Burnaby would’ve done it 10 years ago, how many safe and legal units would have gone in? Maybe hundreds. That’s when you build a new house you can wire in the suite, the whole bit.”
Whether the city requires secondary suites to meet code requirements, even at great expense to homeowners, is up to Burnaby, he said.
“But at least they’ll allow them (suites).”Burnaby is the last of the larger cities in the region to
not allow secondary suites. By legalizing them, “Burnaby would take away the effective power of anybody ratting on their neighbour for personal reasons, that’s what usually happens.”
As for the idea that such an implicit threat serves to encourage landlords to find good tenants who won’t make too much noise or disturb the neighbourhood, Durning said, “what’s the difference between that and a family? And what about a homeowner? There’s as many problematic homeowners as there are basement suites.
“It’s this misconception that if you don’t own you’re a second-class citizen. It’s not that way. If there is a problem suite then it’s up to the landlord to deal with it.”
He added that “there’s 40,000 people moving to the Lower Mainland every year, we need all the housing we can get. So Burnaby has to do its bit.”
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Ladyman, suggested the North Burnaby-North Vancouver riding was a done deal before public consultations had even started. (In a subsequent interview with the NewsLeader, Ladyman said he was quoted out of context and was open to other solutions to balance out the population numbers.)
Burnaby-Douglas NDP MP Kennedy Stewart was disappointed in the decision.
“They also said they’d made up their minds before they’d even talked to anybody that they were going to go ahead with this. And apparently they were true to their word.”
Stewart polled those affected in both his riding and in North Vancouver and found 80 per cent of the Burnaby residents and 79 per cent of those on the North Shore opposed to the proposal.
He also attended the public hearings in both cities where he said speakers were “almost unanimous” in being against it.
“It’s disappointing that all that public input from North Vancouver and North Burnaby made no difference to them at all. It’s really the opposite of how commissions should operate.”
Stewart said he has one last chance to try and prevent the change
when MPs are allowed to speak on the issue at the Procedures and House Affairs Committee within the next month.
That committee could make changes to the ridings before they’re finalized, but he’s not getting his hopes up.
Instead, he’s looking ahead at how he can best serve constituents in the new riding, if he wins the next election.
If the previous election had been held with the planned new riding, Stewart would have lost by seven per cent of the vote, compared to the two per cent he did win by.
“It’s a fairly massive swing in terms of how people vote,” he said. But it’s not insurmountable, he stressed, noting he almost made up a similar difference when he ran in the riding of Vancouver Centre in 2004.
The population of the new riding will be roughly 70 per cent Burnaby residents and 30 per cent North Shore residents, Stewart said.
And despite differences in demographics and voting patterns,
there seems to be agreement on one subject that’s set to be a major issue in the next federal election—people on both sides of Burrard Inlet oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion and the
resulting increase in tanker traffic.Until the next election, he plans
to do as much as he can to represent both current and potential future constituents, noting the current North Vancouver MP, Conservative Andrew Saxton, didn’t attend either of the two commission hearings.
“I did my best to represent folks in North Vancouver even though I wasn’t officially their MP,” Stewart said of his polling work about the riding changes.
During this redistribution, British Columbia will receive six additional seats bringing its total to 42, with the “electoral quota”—what the commission was aiming to get close to—set at 104,763 residents per riding.
The changes include Burnaby getting two additional ridings–Burnaby South and New Westminster-Burnaby, the latter which will include the portion of Burnaby south of Highway 1, southeast of Burris Street and east of Griffiths Avenue, along with all of New Westminster.
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan disclosed five gifts he received in 2012 through his post as mayor, including tickets to the sold-out Paul McCartney concert.
The Community Charter requires civic politicians to declare any gifts or personal benefits they receive while in office.
Corrigan was the only council member to declare any such gifts last year.
The biggest ticket item was two tickets to the McCartney concert held at B.C. Place last November, plus parking and hosting, which was all valued at $650.
The gift was from entertainment company Live Nation, which with Burnaby city hall produces the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival held at Deer Lake Park each August.
The remaining gifts were all tickets to golf tournaments: the Canadian Direct Insurance BC
Institute of Technology Golf Tournament, valued at $375, from BCIT; the Burnaby Hospital Foundation Golf Tournament, valued at $261, from the foundation; and the Michael J. Fox Golf Tournament, valued at $300, from the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown Hotel.
The file also includes a note that Corrigan received a ticket to the Pacific Blue Cross Charity Golf Classic but that the gift was valued at less than $250 so no disclosure form was completed.
Only gifts valued at $250 or more need to be declared, but Corrigan has said in the past that he tends to record all gifts in case a cumulative total of smaller items exceeds that figure.
Items such as pins and plaques presented by delegations are not included since they’re considered to not have any monetary value.
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Burnaby RCMP caught the suspects in a robbery but now they’re looking for the victim.
At about 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23 an Asian woman believed to be in her early 20s left Metrotown SkyTrain station and was walking south into an alley between Telford and Sussex avenues when she was approached by a group of males.
The suspects followed her and surrounded her. “They were starting to swarm her and were demanding her purse,” said Burnaby RCMP Corp. Dave Reid. “They actually knocked
her to the ground. She was technically robbed.”
The woman started screaming and running away from the group when a plainclothes RCMP officer who had observed the incident interrupted.
But they never conversed so the officer doesn’t actually know if the woman spoke English or if she understood what he told her to do.
The group of about three suspects were arrested but when the officer returned, the woman was gone and no one has reported the incident.
On Friday morning, Reid said the suspects were due to be released unless the woman came forward because “under the Criminal Code we must identify a victim.”
Without one in this case, police can’t charge the suspects with the crime, even though the officer was a witness, Reid said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Burnaby RCMP Cpl. Keith Schendel or Const. Dallas Tateyama at 604-294-7922 or, to remain anonymous, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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Rezoning process started Brentwood, Station Square projectsWanda [email protected]
The major redevelopment of Station Square shopping centre has taken a step forward towards reality.
The developers of Station Square have submitted rezoning applications for the first phases of their project which, when completed will eventually add 1,800 homes to Burnaby.
The applications are in the early stages, with council to direct planning staff to work with the developer to prepare project plans suitable for the public hearing stage.
Phase 1 is already under
construction—a 35-storey condo tower over a commercial podium at the northeast corner of the site.
Phase 2 will comprise two high-rise residential towers, 35 and 57 storeys, are being proposed above a three-storey commercial podium with retail, restaurants and offices, on the site at 4670 Assembly Way where the Save-On Foods used to be. This phase will include a public open space at the corner of Silver Drive and Kingsborough Street.
Two additional phases are also in the works planning-wise, for the lots located where the parkade structure a is located.
A 48-storey condo tower on top of a three-storey podium including officer, retail and residential at 6080 McKay Ave.
is proposed for Phase 3 and a 52-storey condo tower on top of a similar three-storey podium is planned for Phase 4, the north end of the site.
All parking will be located underground.
Construction downConstruction activity in
Burnaby last year was at the lowest levels since 2009.
Building permit figures show permits with a total construction value of $514.7 million were issued in 2012.
That’s less than in 2011 ($615.5 million) and 2010 ($539.7 million). In fact, the last time there was less construction activity was in 2009 when almost $422 million in permits was issued during the global economic downturn.
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VICTORIA – Like a bad reality show about a dysfunctional family, B.C. School Wars has lurched to life again for the 2013 election.
Coming soon to billboards and buses across the province: staged pictures of sad-faced kids crammed into dirty classrooms by a heartless government.
It doesn’t even matter which government. This ritual combat went on through Social Credit and NDP governments too.
Premier Christy Clark opened the new season with her promised pitch to restructure bargaining. It suggested splitting up bargaining into traditional wage and benefit talks, and a separate table and fund for classroom size and support.
Cast in her familiar role of the sullen, rebellious teenager, BCTF president Susan Lambert staged a news conference to distort and mock the government’s offer.
A 10-year deal if we give up bargaining wages and classroom conditions? “Ludicrous.”
What’s ludicrous is her characterization of a formula to link teacher pay to nurses,
post-secondary faculty and other government workers. Nurses are renowned for getting raises when no one else does, so this should be an opportunity for these powerful unions to co-ordinate.
But the BCTF can’t get along with other unions any more than it can negotiate with any discernible competence.
Lambert falsely claimed there was no consultation on the proposal. This reminded me how she low-balled the costs of her union’s demands by hundreds of millions during what passed for negotiations in last year’s strike season.
Behind the scenes, the BCTF executive and the school district bargaining agent had just settled on a mutual costing model. What this means is the school districts, which have to make payroll and balance budgets,
have convinced the BCTF to stop misrepresenting costs. I’ll believe that when I see it.
Before Education Minister Don McRae had even spoken, BCTF vice-president Glen Hansman was growling his reply on Twitter: See you in court. That message presumably also goes for premier-in-waiting Adrian Dix, unless he replaces the hated B.C. Liberals in May, then quickly kneels before the BCTF and extends the key to the provincial treasury.
Two generations of British Columbians have been bullied by this bad drama, since Bill Vander Zalm decided an industrial union bargaining structure was just the ticket for public schools.
Students are taught by example, if not by blatant propaganda in classrooms, that all problems are solved by demanding more money from the government. After this conditioning, older students are sometimes pressed into service as union pickets.
There’s your Social Justice class, kids. Sorry about those sports teams and field trips, but
we need those as bargaining chips to get more paid leave time.
To state the obvious, Clark and McRae staged this as a pre-election event to frame the issue. They knew their effort would be greeted as a declaration of war.
The main reason the BCTF agreed to a contract extension with a wage freeze last year? It wasn’t the blindingly obvious fact that every other public sector union had already taken two zeroes. It was strictly tactics.
The delay sets up the latest rematch of these old warriors in the spring election. The plan is to get the dreaded B.C. Liberals out and then start working over the weaker, more union-dependent NDP.
That’s who caved in earlier and gave the BCTF broad control over staffing levels, the proverbial key to the treasury.
Along with basic math and economics, a point the BCTF seems unable to grasp is that its strategy is self-defeating. Those sad kids are making more and more parents seek a better deal.
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More money is being earned by fewer people.
According to Statistics Canada, 10.6 per cent of the country’s income is now earned by the top one per cent of those who filed tax returns in 2010. The median income for those top earners is almost 10 times higher than the median income for the remaining 99 per cent.
This disparity between the haves and the rest of society was the fuel for last year’s Occupy movement that spread around the world from Wall Street. It is a component of the First Nations’ Idle No More protests to reclaim their portion of Canada’s enormous wealth of natural resources, pumped and excavated from lands that once belonged to them.
The gap between rich and poor has fired protest and unrest for as long as there’s been currency. Just ask the French, who disposed their monarchy when the population could no longer afford bread because of onerous taxes.
In fact, Canada’s not doing too badly when it comes to dispersing income, ranking somewhere in the middle of the rest of the world.
According to the Gini Index, a measure of income dispersion developed by an Italian statistician and sociologist in which a coefficient of zero means everyone has exactly the same income and one means all the wealth within a country is held by one person, Canada’s coefficient is .688. That’s lower than countries like Brazil (.784), the United States (.801) and Switzerland (.803). But it’s higher than the Netherlands (.650), Belgium (.662) and Germany (.667).
The country with the most equal distribution of income in the world, according its Gini coefficient of .547, is Japan.
Of course, all those statistics are meaningless the next time you check your bank statement.
That’s the true measure of wealth distribution. Somehow, it’s never enough.
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Re: Crossroads on the journey of life (Column, NewsLeader, Jan. 25)
I have come to think of the crossroads of life as ever-present. I agree there are times in our lives where we are more wary of the crossroads, because we have reached a point where we think we need the next answer.
Not everyone has a time in their life where they sit down and decide which path to take. As you stated, people are faced with innumerable choices when coming out of high school or university—which certainly made me feel like it was impossible to decide which path to take.
When faced with making decisions about the future, I found myself questioning further, even wondering why do some of the things we do.
Human wants, human needs and human motivations are very important to ponder throughout life. Why do we need to find a partner and plant a seed or two?
People need to be less concerned about what society expects of them, and to take the time to really know why they are living, what their purpose is, and what will truly make them happy. If these questions are not asked from the start, before we are entangled in family life, then it can be difficult to answer.
Although anyone can put in the time to know themselves better, it is more difficult to change a mindset that’s 40 years in the making.
I liked the line in your column, that they are “happy but unhappy.”
I know what you mean but in itself, this doesn’t make sense. I would say it simply means they are confused. All happiness is derived from looking inward, however, instead we all try to please those around us and at the same time try to fit into the current state of society.
Nevin SinghBurnaby
Budgets Built on fudging projections
On Feb. 19 BC Finance Minister Mike De Jong tables his first provincial budget. He recently announced it will be a balanced budget and warned
there isn’t “a lot of room for extravagant spending promises and proposals.”
It sounds straightforward enough, but look again.
He doesn’t actually promise there won’t be any extravagance, but only that “there isn’t a lot of room” for it. In other words, he’s given himself some wriggle room to overspend somewhere in the budget. So it’s not out of the question that a goody or two to entice voters in the upcoming election will be included. Or, perhaps more likely, there will be a bit more corporate welfare to boost the so-called BC Jobs Plan. Or maybe a little of both. After all, it’s an election year.
The thrust of the minister’s announcement is that the budget will be “balanced.” However, his understanding of that term is not necessarily the same as ours. For those of us responsible for household spending, a budget is a means to ensure our expenditures don’t exceed our income. Moreover, we know the wisdom of allowing for the unexpected, such as income interruption or unforeseen cost items, and accordingly set aside money for these contingencies.
In other words, we balance our budget by apportioning our income to see us through life’s rough patches as well as to meet our day-to-day needs.
The BC Liberal government implies it does much the same, but it doesn’t. Indeed, although described as balanced, for the last half dozen years each annual budget has ended the year with a deficit; that is, provincial expenditures have exceeded provincial income. The deficit for the current fiscal year 2012-2013, for example, will be about $389 million.
Deficits are usually the result of over-spending during the budget period due to unforeseen circumstances. But B.C.’s budgets in recent years have had an added and more telling element right at the outset. Despite evidence to the contrary, successive finance ministers have included in their budgets forecasted resource revenues that never materialized. The result has been that the touted balanced budget offered in February ends up in financial disarray by
December.The Liberal government
tends to blame this outcome on circumstances beyond its control. But the culprit is actually its misreading or misrepresentation of market trends. For example, the government collects royalties on the sale of natural gas, and the higher the sales volume, the more it is paid. For the last number of years the unit price of gas has been depressed due to a market glut in North America, but the government nevertheless repeatedly based annual provincial revenue calculations on an anticipated recovered and rising price. According to two previous finance ministers, the natural gas price increase projection included in each of their budgets was based on the advice of “industry experts.” It either didn’t occur to them to go elsewhere for advice after the first deficit outcome, or they deliberately adopted an inflated calculation in order to “balance” their budgets.
In the final analysis, whether by default or by design, the result has not been a “sound financial management” of provincial finances that the BC Liberals are so fond of boasting. And no amount of argument or advertisement will stop the public from discovering that truth, especially those who manage household accounts. They know better.
Bill BrassingtonBurnaby
get traffic movingMayor Derek Corrigan and
his merry band of tax collectors must have settled for the worst, and most expensive, “solution” to address the traffic problem on and near Hastings Street.
I wonder if synchronizing and switching off the pedestrian-operated traffic lights on Hastings during rush hour ever became an option? We now have, what I call, roadblocks on the side streets, impeding the so-called “rat runners” and everybody else. Nice going!
Anyone interested in actually moving some traffic?
Ziggy Eckardt, Burnaby
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VANCOUVER – Premier Christy Clark has rejected criticism of her government’s handling of a casino resort proposal in South Surrey.
Speaking to reporters at a mineral exploration conference Monday, Clark brushed aside questions about cabinet minister Rich Coleman telling Surrey councillors they won’t see another casino proposal after voting down the B.C. Lottery Corporation’s proposed Gateway Casinos project.
“He’s the minister responsible,” Clark said. “He got some questions and he answered the questions. I think it was as simple as that. It’s a Crown corporation.”
In an interview, Coleman said there were heated words exchanged after a long public meeting and Surrey council’s split vote against the proposal. But he has no regrets for his
role. Coleman said Surrey council initiated the project by rezoning land three years ago and asking BCLC to develop a plan to transfer a gaming centre licence from the Newton area to South Surrey.
“Then [Surrey] told us this is the only one they’re doing, so go there,” Coleman said. “Then the proponent went and spent a lot of money designing it, went through all the questions, added a convention centre, restaurants and all that stuff.
“And then the hearing wasn’t actually a [land use] public
hearing, so there was no legal process around it.”
Surrey Mayor Diane Watts objected to comments from Coleman and BCLC president Michael Graydon after Watts cast the deciding vote last week to reject the project. While the public meeting was continuing, Coleman told two councillors they won’t have another casino proposal if they reject that one.
Coleman said he doesn’t expect the project to move to the Township of Langley, because Langley City already has a casino and there probably isn’t sufficient market demand for a second one.
The South Surrey location was advantageous because it was closer to Washington state casinos. The four councillors who supported the Gateway plan argued that of $200 million Surrey residents spend in casinos, $160 million goes south of the border.
Premier, Coleman reject casino criticism
Black Press FilesCabinet minister Rich Coleman has been aggressive in his approach to B.C. gambling, including the launch of B.C. Lottery Corporation’s online casino and continued development of gambling facilities while phasing out bingo halls.
The Money Mart Easter Seals 24 Hour Relay may still be five months away, but registration is now open for the annual event at Swangard Stadium that raises money to send kids with disabilities to summer camp.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 NewsLeader A9Wednesday, January 30, 2013 NewsLeader A9
Additions to Fraser Health follows expansion of powers granted by provinceJeff NagelBlack Press
An extra 45 nurse practitioners are to be hired across B.C. this year, including 10 in Fraser Health and nine in the Vancouver Coastal health region.
The province last spring announced it would spend more than $22 million over three years to add 190 new nurse practitioner positions. They’ll work in primary care settings, such as medical clinics, mental health clinics, and residential care homes.
The new positions funded this year will target high-priority groups, such as the frail elderly, mentally ill, substance abusers and patients without family doctors.
B.C. already has more than 250 registered nurse practitioners but many have been unable to find work in the province and dozens more graduate from training each year, often leaving for other jurisdictions.
The province in October became the second in Canada to let nurse practitioners admit and discharge patients from hospitals, while working with doctors and other health-care providers.
That followed legislation in 2011 allowing nurse practitioners to make diagnoses, prescribe drugs, order diagnostic tests and treat most common conditions.
Doctors have resisted additional powers for nurse practitioners, fearing they may end up doing nearly all the work of physicians for much lower pay of around $100,000 a year. But the positions are seen as important
in shifting the health care system from an acute care model to a preventive and chronic care model that better fits the needs of B.C.’s aging population.
“Nurse practitioners are a valuable part of our health-care team,” Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid said.
B.C. Nurse Practitioner Association president Rosemary Graham said graduating nurse practitioners have been frustrated by the lack of opportunity, but added she’s hopeful the profession will gradually prove their value and build a case for more funding.
She said more reforms are needed to recognize and improve understanding in the medical community
of how doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners can work together in collaborative teams.
“Historically, nurse practitioners have been positioned as gap fillers,” Graham said.
“This generation going forward wants to do more – not just fill gaps, not replace physicians, but to find their own unique place in health care.”
Funding for new nurse practitioners in Fraser Health is allocated for Burnaby (focus: refugees and new immigrants), the Tri-Cities (frail
elderly with chronic conditions), Eagle Ridge hospital (frail elderly), Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows (homeless, chronic mentally ill), Surrey-North Delta (two positions: marginalized substance users, urban aboriginals), Hope (frail elderly in care homes and First Nations), Langley (frail elderly in hospital and post-discharge), White Rock/South Surrey (homebound or hospitalized frail elderly) and Chilliwack (homebound frail elderly).
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SILVER SOCCER CAN-CANRoyal City Storm defender Ericardo Petiluna tries to deflect a shot by Cliff Avenue Caelian forward Justin Kang in the first half of their U-13 silver soccer match, Saturday at Queen’s Park in New Westminster.
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The Burnaby South Rebels will tip off their eight-team senior girls basketball tournament by playing the Guildford Park Sabres of Surrey on Friday at 3 p.m.
Other opening round games feature the Parkland Panthers from Sidney taking on Richmond’s Cambie Crusaders, the Clayton Heights Night Raiders of Surrey
battling the McRoberts Strikers from Richmond, and Vancouver’s
John Oliver Jokers versus the Woodlands Golden Eagles of Nanaimo.
Taking advantage of the school’s two gyms, the semifinals will both be played at 10:45 a.m. Saturday with the final at 4 p.m.
The Rebels were ninth in the province’s AAA rankings last week.
Rebel tourney tips off
Cameron Proceviat of Burnaby has earned a berth into the Great Northwest Athletic Conference track and championships in the 800 metres.
The Simon Fraser University runner who graduated from Moscrop secondary met the standard by finishing in 1:56.02 at the University of Washington Huskies Indoor Invitation in Seattle on Saturday. St. Thomas More grad Luca Molinari also met the conference standard in the weight throw.
Split city for SFUThe SFU women’s and men’s
basketball teams both split games last week. On Saturday, the women
defeated the Central Washington Wildcats 66-58 in Ellensburg, Wash. The victory followed a 60-59 loss in Nampa, Idaho to the Northwest Nazarene Crusaders on Thursday. The women are 14-3 this season, and 7-2 in GNAC play.
The University of Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves downed the Clan men 86-66 at SFU Saturday after they notched their first win of the season defeating the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks last Thursday.
This Thursday, the men will play Seattle Pacific at 5:15 at SFU (6-11, 1-8 GNAC) while the women will battle Alaska Anchorage at 7:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 NewsLeader A11Wednesday, January 30, 2013 NewsLeader A11
Sheds 80 pounds with RCMP-approved lifestyle programMario [email protected]
There’s no missing John Buis.Whether he’s resplendent in his
RCMP red serge at a community event, squeezed into spandex shorts for the Cops for Cancer charity bike tour, roaming the aisles at the BC Boys AAA High School Basketball Championships, or slogging out a security detail for the United Nations, his curled and waxed mustache, booming baritone voice and imposing stature cut larger-than-life.
Or, at least it did.The passing last summer of
his mother-in-law and mother put the 58-year-old Buis face-to-face with his own mortality. He weighed 280 pounds, he had high blood pressure and cholesterol, and suffered from sleep apnea that had him hooked to a machine to get him through the night.
“I didn’t like myself physically,” says Buis, a Staff Sgt. Major with the Burnaby RCMP.
He decided it was time to get healthy by changing the way he ate, exercised, lived.
“But I needed a plan. His employer hooked him up
with Dr. James Olson, a weight management specialist based in Coquitlam who contracts his services to the RCMP.
He crafted a three-tier program built upon exercise, weight loss and stabilizing Buis’ health.
Buis ran, walked or worked out in a swimming pool three times a week, followed by 15 minutes of stretching. He changed his diet to eliminate carbohydrates and limit dairy while increasing his intake of vegetables and protein from lean meats like seafood, turkey, back bacon and bison.
It was, says Buis, a full-on commitment that required support from his family and the RCMP. His wife Kelly exercised with him and attended weekly
meetings. His employer allowed him to juggle shifts and cut back some of his volunteer activities.
“I had to be organized. I never knew how difficult it was to eat properly.”
Just before Christmas, Buis realized he was no longer taking his daily regime of pills for his blood pressure and cholesterol. He was sleeping well. He had more energy.
His RCMP red serge formal uniform hung off him, even when he cinched the big brown belt to its very last hole. He was down to 199 pounds.
“I got the gift of health Physically, I feel like I’m 30 years old again.”
But his journey isn’t over yet.Now that Buis has attained his
health and fitness goals, he has to maintain them, not slip back into old habits. Given his public profile, he knows a lot of eyes are on him.
“As more people ask me about it, the more committed I am to it,” says Buis of his new slimmer self.
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John Buis is now a shadow of his former 280-pound self since embarking on a strict exercise, diet and health regime last summer.
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Dr. Gohar Sheikh, Burnaby chiropractor and director of Elign Chiro Health, has been practising in the Lower Mainland for almost 20 years. Dr. Sheikh’s new Burnaby clinic provides medical laser therapy, rehab therapy as well as traditional chiropractic care for back pain, neck pain and vehicle accident claims. Dr. Sheikh has also appeared on the CTV Morning News Show over the past few years providing valuable health advice for viewers.
Today Dr. Sheikh shares his ‘Top 10 Easy Health Habits for 2013.’
Follow just a few of these, and have a healthier 2013!
10 When reaching in the trunk for groceries, brace your knees on the bumper
9 Avoid stomach sleeping, it causes spinal misalignment
8 Buy a new mattress before buying a new car, you should spend more time on the mattress
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6 Cure many nagging pains with attention to posture; at your desk, in your car, and while sleeping
5 Start your day with a nutritious breakfast, more protein and less sugar will provide fuel for hours
4 Read something non-work related, regulary
3 Have strict times set daily when you stay unplugged from all things electronic
2 Explore new activities and make your regular exercise routine something you enjoy
1 Listen to your body, don’t ignore little pains or signals because they can become something more serious
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Earlier this month, the NewsLeader asked some people in Burnaby their philosophy and ideas around living healthy and living well. Here are some of the responses we received:
I believe you are what you eat and I consciously try to know how and where my food is grown/raised. My family eats healthy whole foods and whenever possible I purchase locally grown foods.
Corp. Brenda GresiukCommunity Programs,
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One thing I do every day (usually as I’m driving into work) is list all that I’m grateful for… Here are a few examples from my list this morning… The peace and security I enjoy living in Canada, the snow on the mountains that fills the watersheds and provides fresh, clean water; the colour green on this dull day in January; my job, which affords the lifestyle I currently enjoy; the people I work with who put up with my quirks; my husband who lets me know every day that he loves me no matter what; my Aunt Ada who at 95 still remembers me as a very small child; my health, eyesight and hearing… You get my drift…
This small practice reminds me every day of just how
fortunate I truly am. I find I’m in a better frame of mind to start my day, when I start from a place of gratitude.
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I try to stay healthy by playing soccer, running and swimming year round. In the winter, I also play hockey and ski. I have been active in sports my entire life and I have never smoked. I work full-time but to relax at home, I play guitar and piano.
I believe that productive work and physical fitness are important to a healthy life.
Lee Rankinformer city councillor
Worry is the factor that determines my health the most. The smaller the worry the greater my health. The best solution I found is in lawn bowling, where the focus is on dealing with life as it is rather than as it ought to be.
John Schwermer
As I have gotten older I have found it important to eat better, get enough sleep, and have a regular exercise routine. The one thing I have found most rewarding is volunteering my time back to the community and working with younger
people. I have found that working with younger people challenges my mindset and helps me realize we must be fluid in our thinking and the way we do things.
Brian Joeformer DPAC chair
Making time for family and
friends makes me happy which adds to my well being and social dancing keeps me active and fit. I have recently tried out some Zumba classes too. Working full time, volunteering with Rotary Club and managing a very busy household often leads to an over-committed schedule. I make sure we always have time for family meals together throughout the week and me and my husband cherish our Wednesday date nights.
Antonia BeckSouth Burnaby
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Use your creative side to clean up a mess whether it is physical or emotional. We can draw a nice picture or clean our messy garden. Or we can cook to feed the hungry. All these activities can help purify ourselves and clean our environment.
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When I set goals, I often forget that having enough time is different than having enough energy. I’m learning to be more realistic when planning my schedule. Yes, technically I’m not ‘busy’ this Friday night. However, if I accept an invitation to a party will I enjoy a hike the following morning? When I overcommit to activities, I curse myself later. I promise myself I won’t let this happen again.
Andrea Noble
Conflict resolution is a key component to healthy living. If something is bothering you, no matter how small or big it is, it has to be resolved in order to move forward and to focus on other things. Unless one is able to analyze and identify the real issue central to the conflict, functioning in day-to-day living is challenging. It is important to stay with the issue, no matter how uncomfortable, until you can get some perspective that lets you to continue with life.
Baljinder K NarangBurnaby Board of Education
Whenever a new staff member arrives at Burnaby detachment, I meet with them as soon as possible to welcome them to our team. A key point I speak about is the importance of being involved in the community. In the RCMP we tend to spend a lot of time dealing with folks in crisis and we need to ensure a positive and healthy balance. Volunteering, getting to know our neighbours and simply enjoying life has tremendous health benefits.
Dave CritchleyChief Sup’t, Burnaby RCMP
A saying I try to live by is “Look for an opportunity in every challenge that comes your way.” It may sound simplistic, but I have been able to find some positive in, or create something positive from, some very significant challenges.
Diane Gillis
I spend time with people that make me really laugh out loud, even if I’m the punch line.
Peter Cech
Two things that help keep me healthy: 1) Walking in Byrne Creek Ravine Park. I can do a 45-minute loop and work up a sweat rambling down, and back up, the ravine. I try to go a few times a week. The babbling creek, the chirping birds, and the wind in the trees cleanse my mind and relieve stress. 2) Participating in my community. Getting out with streamkeepers and putting in sweat equity working on the creek, sharing a few laughs, and learning from others keeps me invigorated.
Paul Cipywnyk
It seems that inevitably the food I like is either fattening, unhealthy or both. I also try to get enough exercise but again usually fall short of my expectations. I know what to do but find it increasingly difficult to do it.
Garth Evansformer city councillor
I have managed to drop 28 pounds and feel much better. My knees and hips don’t ache like they did. Smaller portions of food and a little exercise can do wonders.
Paul McDonellcity councillor
I have been grateful to have my life enriched by a group of 10 lady friends who have met for lunch every month for the last eight years. We share trials and tribulations, but also joys and successes, all with much laughter! I always leave our lunches with a lighter step and the feeling that we each matter.
Diana Mumfordformer school board chair
As well as eating healthy foods and trying to exercise my body and mind, the following points are all part of my philosophy of living.
• Cherish family and friends• Say, “I love you,” to the
people I love• Give and get lots of hugs• Enjoy lots of laughter• never break a confidence• Do a good deed each day• Don’t just think
compliments and positive comments, say them out loud to family, friends and strangers
• Do volunteer work• Shake a veteran’s hand, give
him/her a Canadian flag, and say, “Thank-you.”
Ila Appleby
Over the past couple of months, I’ve incorporated running for 30 minutes into my daily routine. My motivation isn’t to lose weight. Rather, the fuel that keeps me going is the feeling of accomplishment I get when I reach new levels of speed, endurance and overall fitness. To those who can’t run, I recommend walking or some other exercise for 30 minutes a day, and don’t look back!
Harman PandherBurnaby Board of Education
I take my dog for lots of walks. Having a dog forces me to go out for walks on those rainy and cold days. I probably wouldn’t leave the house on those nasty weather days. But when I get back from a walk, I feel great physically and mentally.
Tod Fraser
I park far away from the door of stores, so it encourages me to get a bit of exercise. I’m 81, still have all my hair. I rent two plots in our community garden, and that gives me a lot to do.
Ray Beaton
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 NewsLeader A15Wednesday, January 30, 2013 NewsLeader A15
Liliana Tosic never paid much heed to her diet. Until her father was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer.
Her efforts to prolong his life changed hers.
Growing up in Bosnia, family meals consisted of a lot of meats, breads and fatty foods. When Tosic was a harried engineering student, breakfast was coffee and cigarettes. Working long hours as a software engineer on the Canadarm project, she ate out a lot.
“I didn’t think much about health,” she says. Her father’s illness changed that. She wanted answers to why he got sick and how he could get better.
“I knew there was a lot I needed to learn,” says Tosic.
Much of her research focused on diet. She worked hard to change her father’s strict eastern European ways. She herself stopped drinking coffee, started eating more fruits and vegetables and less meat.
Tosic’s father felt better for a stretch, but the cancer had already spread.
The changes in her own health and well-being were undeniable.
“I didn’t think I was sick, but I noticed my concentration improved, I was more productive and had more energy at work.”
While Tosic was on maternity leave with her first child, she took online courses in natural nutrition. By the time her year at home was up, she knew she wanted to make it her new career. Tosic says her journey to better health through diet and exercise is like so many others—precipitated by a health crisis, a confrontation with mortality. But getting better is so much more difficult and time-
consuming than prevention.“It’s better to be proactive.
We have to learn ahead of time to make change.”
For Tosic that’s meant eliminating as many chemicals and processed foods from her diet as possible. Her family eats organic meats, fruits and vegetables. They drink homemade smoothies and avoid grain cereals. She relieves stress with exercise.
“Once we’re healthy, the body is so resilient it takes a long time to break down again. Your diet has to become part of your lifestyle.”
Changing diet, changing lifestyle
MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADERBurnaby resident Liliana Tosic shows off her avocado pie, one of the all-natural treats she makes since switching her career and lifestyle.
All the signs of New Year’s fitness resolutions are in the air.
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So pick a workout that’s fun, interesting, challenging and be a social animal and leave the basement to its natural inhabitants (washing machine, National Geographics) and commit to your own 30 x 3 x 30 resolution!
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Passed away peacefully on January 22, 2013. Predeceasedby her husband of 35 years, Carmen (Bucky) Lloyd Brown in 1980. Lovingly remembered by her children Carol (Bob) Van Balkom, Douglas Marty (Diane) Brown. She’ll be dear-ly missed by her grandchildren Michelle Van Balkom (Jules Nicholson), Scott Van Balkom, friends and relatives. Donna was born in Niagara Falls, Ont. July 25, 1924 and raised in Queenston, Ont. We wish to thank her care workers and staff and doctors of Langley Memorial Hospital for their support and considerations. No service by request. In lieu of fl owers donations to a charity of your choice or her favorites Canuck Place, Dia-betes or Cancer in her memorywould be appreciated.
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709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL
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711 CO-OP RENTALS
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830 MOTORCYCLES
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A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing of $3836.00 plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale. Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of February, 2013 or thereafter, the said equipment will be sold. The equipment currently stored at Elite Bailiff Services, 20473 Logan Avenue, Langley BC V3A 4L8. The vehicle was placed in storage on December 28th 2012.
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