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‘I’m just very sad I don’t still live here’ Man returns to Burnaby childhood home on his 90th birthday By Tereza Verenca

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Imagine going back to your childhood home at the age of 90 – all the memories and emotions that would come flooding back. That’s exactly what former Burnaby resident David Burnett experienced on Aug. 26, his birthday. His daughter Alaina surprised him with a visit to Wintemute House, one of the oldest surviving heritage homes in the city, and invited the NOW along for a tour. Burnett’s parents owned the Victorianera country farmhouse from 1929 to the late ’70s.The now-retired civil engineer and B.C. land surveyor was only three years old when his family moved in.The two-storey wood-frame structure is where he’d throw the football around with his two older brothers, have big family dinners, commute to and from university and everything in between. A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE Walking up the driveway at 7640 Berkley St. on his birthday, Burnett couldn’t help but tell his daughter and wife, Ann, what the property used to look like. “There were three big cherry trees out front,” the West Vancouverite said, adding that as a kid, he ate so many on one occasion he almost died. “My mother’s bedroom was right there,” he noted, pointing to the front-facing window on the ground floor. “My bedroom was over there, on the top floor.” He described how the property, which eventually sold as 10 lots, used to have a

COMING HOME David Burnett revisited his childhood home in Burnaby for his 90th birthday on Aug. 26, a surprise pulled off by his daughter. The family was given a tour by the current owner, Sultan Karim. Burnett was three years old when his parents moved in to the Victorian-era country farmhouse known as Wintemute House. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

tennis court, a football field, a picnic area and a backyard barn that housed ducks, chickens and a pony named Bessey. In the winter, he and all the neighbourhood kids would pack themselves onto a big sled and ride it down Canada Way. Sultan Karim, who’s owned the historic home since 1979, greeted the Burnetts at the door, gesturing them to come in. Once inside, the tour started in the eightmetre-by-nine-metre billiard room, a space at the back end of the house that still contains the original Douglas fir panelling and, of course, a billiard table. “We had very large weddings here,” recalled Burnett. “We rode our bike around this room. It was a good run.” Alaina was quick to point out this was the room where two secret doors existed – one to the kitchen and one to the bathroom. Burnett incorrectly guessed where they were on his first try but eventually

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found them. He got misty-eyed as he looked around the room. “It’s an unusual old house. It’s amazing to be back here 40 years later,” he said. When asked about some of his fondest memories, Burnett talked about barn parties he hosted while he was a UBC student. He broke down in the middle of telling the story. “Excuse me,” he said while he walked away to collect himself. “I’ve never seen that before. At your wedding, there were a couple of tears,” Ann told Alaina, both with tears in their eyes. Next on the tour was the kitchen and the basement.The basement still carried a musty smell. Burnett said his father poured the concrete walls that remain there today, and Alaina chimed in to say that during the Great Depression, her grandmother and grandfather would get “drifters,” people who would come to the door, begging

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Push continues for compensation A decade ago, the union representing firefighters in this city fought to have certain cancers recognized as job hazards.Today that campaign continues and is expanding By Cayley Dobie

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Twenty years ago, if a firefighter was diagnosed with lymphoma and wanted workers’ compensation, he or she would have to prove exactly when and where they contracted the disease – a feat that was arduous, if not impossible. That’s no longer the case, thanks to work by the B.C. Professional Firefighters Association and its parent organization, the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF). Burnaby fire Capt. Mike Hurley is vice-president of the IAFF’s sixth district, which represents B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Before climbing the ranks of the firefighters’ union, he worked for IAFF Local 323 representing firefighters in Burnaby. More than a decade ago, Hurley and other firefighters in B.C. were pushing the province to have specific cancers recognized as a jobrelated illness. At the time, the onus was on firefighters to prove the cause of the cancer was, in fact, as a result of their work. “You’re already going through a whole bunch of different issues, chemotherapy and all the stress that goes with actually having cancer, … (and) the last thing you needed was fighting Workers’ Compensation as well, at the same time,” Hurley said. In 2002, Manitoba became the first province with presumptive legislation that assumes if a firefighter is diagnosed with one of the

cancers recognized by the legislation, they receive automatic coverage. Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan quickly followed suit – spurring firefighters in B.C. to call on the provincial government to pass its own, similar legislation. “It was 2005 when we had our first six cancers recognized.There was very strong scientific evidence that firefighters were getting these cancers at double the rate of the population,” Hurley said.

It was 2005 when we had our ﬁrst six cancers recognized (as work related hazards)

By 2007, three more cancers were added to B.C.’s presumptive legislation, bringing the total up to 10, including leukemia, lymphoma, brain, lung, esophageal, colorectal, kidney, bladder, ureter and testicular cancer. “It certainly made a lot of difference in a lot of families’ lives; unfortunately a lot of people haven’t lived to tell their story, but the family, at least, gets some coverage when their loved one passes away,” Hurley said. The fight, however, is not over. According to the B.C. Professional Firefighters Association, firefighters are still nine per cent more likely to be diagnosed with cancer

MORE NEEDED: Firefighters are nine per cent more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, and, while the province recognizes certain cancers as job hazards, firefighters are still pushing for compensation for other types of cancer. Below, Burnaby fire Capt. Mike Hurley, pictured here in 2011 during a Fire Ops 101 event, continues to fight for compensation for illnesses related to firefighting, including PTSD. PHOTOS NOW FILES than the general public, and while one out of four members of the general public will die from cancer, for firefighters, the likelihood of dying from cancer is 14 per cent higher. Right now, firefighters in B.C. are pushing to have four additional cancers – breast cancer, multiple myeloma, prostate cancer and skin cancer – recognized under the provincial legislation. If the province agrees, it would align B.C. with Alberta and Ontario, which have already updated their own legislation to include these four cancers. “We’re working on them, and we’re hopeful that the government will move towards recognizing those shortly,” Hurley said. “We’re pushing hard.”

The ﬁght for PTSD coverage continues What is PTSD? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, referred to as PTSD, is a mental illness caused by exposure to trauma involving death, threat of death, serious injury or sexual violence. Symptoms can include vivid nightmares or

flashbacks. People sometimes have a hard time concentrating, feel on edge, nervous or irritable, or have trouble sleeping. Some sufferers may feel numb, detached, disconnected from their body or have a hard time feeling emotions.

What is the union doing to help firefighters? Firefighters are pushing to have PTSD recognized as a work-related illness. Last year, the B.C. Professional Firefighters Association created a task force to bring together fire service

leaders and mental health professionals to address the mental health issues facing first responders in Canada. This includes paramedics and police officers, too. Through this task force, six areas were identified that needed improvements: critical in-

cident stress management, education, mental health injury awareness, WorkSafeBC, family support and spirituality.

– Source: Canadian Mental Health Association and the B.C. Professional Firefighters Association.

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Left, Alaina Burnett and her father David explore his family home, Wintemute House. Bottom left, the front of the heritage home is still intact today. Bottom right, Wintemute House in the 1930s.

Facts about Wintemute House ! The house was built around 1891, prior to the civic incorporation of Burnaby in 1892, but rumour is it may have been built earlier than that. ! The house was built to face Douglas Road (now Canada Way), one of the first roads built to connect the rural farmlands of Burnaby to New Westminster. ! The house is valued for its association with Joseph S. Wintemute (18321911) and Jane Wintemute (1832-1910), who came to B.C. from Port Stanley, Ont. in 1865. Joseph was a skilled carpenter and contractor by trade. He operated the Wintemute Furniture Factory in New Westminster, the first furniture plant established on the mainland. He acquired the property in 1891 and set up a cord wood sawmill to supply his factory. – Source: www.historicplaces.ca

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House has a heart of its own Continued from page 1 of the house just smelled terrible,” Burnett said. Karim said there has been a lot of interest in the five-bedroom and threebathroom abode, either from people who have memories of the home or from Realtors who want to make an offer (they can’t because of its heritage status). He said a lady knocked on his door one time and told him that her son had been born there. Another stranger stopped by and immediately headed to the basement. “He wanted to find his secret hideout. According to him, there was an entrance from the garden; a tunnel leading

into the basement,” explained Karim. “It would have been a coal delivery chute.” At the end of the tour, Burnett apologized to Karim about subdividing the property. He wished it could have sold as one. Before his family put it on the market, Burnett made sure to apply for heritage status. As a Realtor herself, Alaina said she’s glad he did. Often times, character homes like her father’s get torn down to make room for a cheaper replacement, she said. “It just kills me.There’s no heart.The soul of the community is these old houses that tell a story,” she said.

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posed by these shops. “People were ignoring our signage bylaw and plastering buildings with ugly signs,” he said. “But (Monday) night I decided, OK, well, I should stick to my principles. I like fireworks, so why go the direction of banning them?”

The industry isn’t well regulated If the bylaw amendment is approved, Burnaby will join other Metro Vancouver municipalities that have already banned the sale of fireworks, including neighbouring New Westminster and Coquitlam. Residents will still be able to set off fireworks at Halloween, if they have the required per-

mit. The city’s fire Chief Joe Robertson said he’s pleased with the direction council is headed. “We think it’s the right thing to do,” Robertson told the NOW. “The industry isn’t well regulated, so someone can set up a shop, and by the time we know about it, and we go to do an inspection, the season is over and the shop’s already done.” The challenge for the department is trying to enforce Burnaby’s bylaws regarding the sale of fireworks, and while inspectors do the best they can, it’s hard to stay on top of enforcement, Robertson said. “One less municipality selling fireworks might help things a little bit,” he added. Representatives from the Canadian National Fireworks Association held a press conference Monday in

Burnaby criticizing the city for its lack of public consultation while discussing the sales ban. The NOW contacted the association for further comment following the council meeting but did not hear back before press time.

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The City of Burnaby moved one step closer to an all-out ban on the sale of fireworks this week. Council voted 7-1 in favour of a resolution recommending the city amend its fire services bylaw to prohibit the sale of fireworks across the city.The resolution received second and third reading at Monday night’s council meeting. On Monday, Sept. 12, the resolution will again appear before council for final adoption. If approved, the flashy fireworks shops residents have grown accustomed to seeing every fall would no longer be allowed anywhere in the city. But not everyone supports the decision to ban these shops. Coun. Pietro Calendino was the lone councillor to vote against the bylaw amendment at Monday’s meeting. “In the past, I’ve always maintained that I enjoy watching fireworks, and I think it’d seem to be rather against my own position of the past to really go along with it,” Calendino told the NOW, adding he knew his opposition wouldn’t stop the resolution from moving forward. The decision to go ahead with the amendment was made earlier this summer, when staff presented councillors with a report outlining the various problems associated with the fly-bynight fireworks shops that pop up all around the city every October. Initially, Calendino said he was in favour of the ban because of the nuisance

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Opinion now OUR VIEW

Labour Day: more than a long weekend For most folks, it’s the last long weekend of the summer – a time to load up the barbecue, take a nap in the hammock and, most of all, forget about work. But Labour Day, is, after all, all about work.Work that, in many cases, deserves to be recognized with more pay, better health and safety protections, job security and, last but not least, respect. Unions have earned their chops after countless years

of fighting for workers’ rights. Labour activists have lost their lives, been vilified for their beliefs and sacrificed family life to fight the good fight. And, to be sure, some folks recognize that they owe a lot to unions for better working conditions. Even if you aren’t a member of a union, you have benefited from unions. Does anyone think employers would be plumping up the pension fund or

It is still true that there is strength in numbers and power in unity. adding dental care to nonunion employee packages if it weren’t for a marketplace that included better paid union workers? The simple threat or vague rumour of having a union certify a workplace is sometimes all

that’s needed get wages increased. But times are changing, and we question if workers will be able to avoid clawbacks.With a dwindling union membership in B.C., and more global opportu-

nities for employers, union members are facing a very challenging time. Unions are much more reluctant to pull the trigger and go on strike nowadays. Barring public sector unions, any union that hits the bricks in today’s economy might risk seeing their workplace simply move to another country. Unions are being forced to amalgamate with other unions to survive and, like other organizations, make

cuts to services for their members. Charges of all-powerful unions pulling the strings on politicians ring a lot less true nowadays. It’s a lot harder to throw your weight around when you’re losing it. But it is still true that there is strength in numbers and power in unity. Unions still offer the only true voice for workers in an economy that seems hell bent on treating workers as disposable commodities.

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Burnaby’s voice is clear

When the Canadian government threw together lastminute public meetings on the proposed Kinder Morgan diluted bitumen pipeline in the dog days of summer, they may have thought they would float serenely under the radar. Everything about the public meetings suggested attendance would be poor. There was next to no advance notice. Municipal officials found out about them on Facebook.The registration process was unwieldy and confusing. It wasn’t clear how government would use the information it compiled. Despite all of this, residents of Burnaby packed the meetings. Denied a role in the politically tainted National Energy Board hearings, people would not be deterred.The message to the federal government could not have been clearer. One hundred per cent of those who presented at the Burnaby public meetings were against the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that “governments grant permits, communities grant permission.”The people of Burnaby have spoken: permission has been denied. The Prime Minister now has community backing to align Canada’s economic policy with its climate commitments. Doing so would make economic as well as environmental sense. The evidence suggests Canada can have its lowcarbon future and eat its economic-growth cake, too,

but only by rejecting investments in dirty energy projects like Kinder Morgan. It is the only way to compete in a decarbonizing world. Nearly $7 billion annually in government subsidies goes to prop up the fossil fuel sector. In a time of federal deficits and difficult financial decisions, subsidizing dirty industries cannot compete with areas of real need, including clean energy generation and green job creation. Redirecting subsidies to support renewables could position Canada to take advantage of the global trend in that direction. Support for projects like the Kinder Morgan pipeline threatens to isolate Canada as too invested in extractive industries to transition into the new economy. The people of Burnaby were clear.They prefer a commitment to real sunny ways, without the fossil fuel haze and economic malaise of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.The Trudeau government has community permission to realign itself with the wave of change that swept it into office last October. Saying no to Kinder Morgan would say yes to our Paris climate commitments, to protection of B.C.’s environment and economy from the threat of pipeline and tanker spills and to repositioning B.C. and Canada as job-growth leaders in the emerging renewable energy economy. CaitlynVernon is the campaign director for Sierra Club B.C.

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Dear Editor I have to agree with the NOW’s editorial of Aug. 3, Rule of law is a precious commodity, with some reservations regarding the RCMP’s continuing behaviour. (Yes, Supreme Court Justice Bruce, we do not need the police to create more terrorists, nor do we need to spend $900,000 and counting on the involvement of 240 RCMP cops to entrap an impoverished, drug-addicted young couple. Is it part of the program to create an environment of fear? I have to question the competence and direction of a police force involved in a so-called terrorist sting operation. It is fortunate that the manufactured plot and evidence of the RCMP was seen through by our justice system, and praise be to Justice Bruce, otherwise this hapless couple, who babbled about hijacking a submarine and toppling the Israeli government’s computers might be looking at life in prison. Over the years, that branch of the RCMP has spent untold millions of dollars with their contrived and unwarranted Orwellian surveillance of people such as those involved in the peace movement, trade unions, communists and members of the NDP, such as Tommy Douglas, none of which had anything to do with safeguarding this country. Who is responsible in the top leadership of the RCMP that violation of the rule of law is allowed to go on with untold cost to us, not to mention the incrimination, fear and misery to the people involved? A call to accountability and a cleanup from the top down is long overdue. Bill Zander, New Westminster

Did you know Nancy Jean Bell? Dear Editor I have recently been researching my family history, and one of my great-greataunts was Jane James (nee Vine), who was born in Southampton, England, on Aug. 11, 1891. Jane had – as far as I have been able to tell – five nephews and eight nieces (including both my grandmothers). On May 10, 1919 she married George Statton James. Birth certificates I received from the English General Register Office show that Jane and George had two children while living in Looe, Cornwall – Nancy Jean on May 11, 1920 and Ronald George on Nov. 23, 1921. I recently found out the family had moved to Edwin, Man., in 1929 and then on to Portage la Prairie, also Manitoba. And there was an online reference to a Nancy Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George James of Portage la Prairie. Yesterday, while doing further research, I found an online obituary of a Nancy Jean Bell of Burnaby, who passed away in January 2015, at the age of 94 (which would be consistent with being born in May 1920), and which referred to her late brother, Ronald James. While this could be a coincidence, I think it is likely that Nancy was a cousin of both my grandmothers. I was wondering if any of your readers remember her and know if she was from Cornwall. Graham Pointer, 8 Hunter Court, Yarmouth Gardens, Southampton, SO15 5SG, United Kingdom

Metrotown Residents This plan will impact owners of older condos as well. I talked to a condo owner, a senior, excited by the chance to reap the windfall cash and get out of town. Seems City and Colliers talked to the strata about selling in anticipation of the adoption of the new built form framework. She also knew about the new changes to the Strata Property Act that allow the sale of a condo with only 80 percent consent. This does not bode well for those of us that could be forced to sell. Even a premium price on an older condo will not get you a comperable home in this neighbourhood. If you can be forced to sell without consent, did you ever really own your home in the first place? Heather Morgan ACORN is missing the point. The Metrotown Downtown Plan consultation process is designed to have as little public input as possible. The Mayor wants to help his developer friends make billions tearing down cheap apartments and building expensive condos. Jack Burns Heather Morgan Yes, this seems the real Plan of the Mayor. I understand even those information meetings organized by the Neighborhood House in August (one month prior to the input deadline!) were initiated by some housing advocate group. In my neighborhood, hardly anyone knows about the extent of this Plan, whose repercussions will effectively replace the complete renter population of Metrotown’s 3-storey buildings with mostly wealthier newcomers. Not even the City’s online survey addresses the concerns of Metrotown’s rental population. It’s like we do not exist on these lands of Mertrotown, which are in fact lands meant and zoned for affordable market housing.

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City now Hot real estate market hard on city businesses Local businesses are having a difficult time finding and keeping workers, board of trade says as Burnaby’s leading business association and advocate,” board of trade president and CEO Paul Holden said in the release. The report shows that, of the 82 businesses surveyed in July, 43 per cent of them identified hiring and retaining employees as the singlegreatest challenge they face. Several businesses cited the high cost of housing and real estate in the area as one of the factors “in them being unable to attract and retain employees,” according to the report. The hot real estate market was also identified as a growing concern when it comes to owning or renting workspace in the area. But it’s not all bad, according to the report. Businesses in the Lake City-Production Way area said the number 1 reason

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Burnaby is a good city to do business is its central location in the Lower Mainland. Other reasons included access to transit and the road system and a solid customer base. Ninety per cent of businesses also said they’d try and stay in Burnaby if they were forced to find a new location, the report noted. “We were very happy to see how well businesses are doing and how positively they view Burnaby as a business destination. However, we were very concerned with how many businesses see the high cost of real estate as having both direct and indirect negative impacts on their bottom lines.This isn’t just a housing issue anymore – it’s a business issue,” Holden said.

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It’s never too late to discover your inner artist. Burnaby’s parks, recreation and cultural services department is reaching out to seniors with a host of artistic offerings this fall. The city’s newly released fall-winter Leisure Guide offers a wide range of programs for the 55-plus crowd. For those interested in the visual arts, a course in Watercolour Painting starts at Cameron on Sept. 22 and runs for 12 Thursdays. Confederation, meanwhile, hosts Drawing Lessons With Betty, a course led by instructor Betty Woo, with returning students starting Sept. 16 and beginners on Oct. 28. Seniors can also learn Chinese calligraphy in a course running Wednesdays at Bonsor starting Oct. 5, or photography in a course at Cameron, running Tuesdays starting Sept. 20. Confederation also plays host to Painting With Gabriela, a series of lessons led by artist Gabriela Diaconu. She offers lessons in both Optical illusions: Chalk art by Ian Morris (above) and Scott Gillies (at left) will be the centrepiece of a two-day Chalk Art Experience this weekend at Bonsor Recreation Complex. The family-friendly festival runs from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and everyone is invited to take part. Admission is free. PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED

acrylics and oils and watercolours, both kicking off on Tuesdays starting Oct. 18. For those who want to explore the performing arts, there are also a variety of dance lessons – including tap dance lessons starting at Confederation on Sept. 13 and at Edmonds on Oct. 13; belly dance starting at Bonsor on Sept. 20; and Hawaiian dance starting at Bonsor on Sept. 20. For the musically inclined, there’s Uke Can Do It!, an introductory ukulele course running at Edmonds on Tuesdays starting Oct. 4. Edmonds also plays host to small group voice lessons on Thursdays starting Oct. 13. Pick up the city’s Leisure Guide at city facilities, download one from www. burnaby.ca or check out www.burnaby.ca/seniors for more details. You can also call the city’s seniors’ centres for more information: Bonsor at 604297-4580; Cameron at 604297-4453; Confederation at 604-294-1936; or Edmonds at 604-297-4838.

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City now MP hosting pipeline forum with Liberal caucus Terry Beech is hosting a pipeline and energy policy forum in Burnaby, where federal Liberal caucus members will hear from local residents. Beech, the Liberal MP for Burnaby North-Seymour, will host the event at SFU on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Diamond Family Auditorium. The event is the last in a series Beech and his staff have organized.

“This summer we had three coffee meetings, two town halls in addition to the Trans Mountain panel hearings and our door knocking, and we put together a draft report of what we’ve heard over the last 28 months and presented it to the Trans Mountain panel in North Vancouver,” Beech said. “This is our last opportunity for the public to come in and share any comments they may have.”

Beech is arranging to have five speakers with varying views present information on the pipeline.The public will be able to comment or ask questions. Beech said he wants to have a strong understanding of the community’s views to take to Ottawa when the fall parliamentary session starts. Liberal cabinet members have the final say on whether Kinder Morgan’s multibillion-dollar pipeline is

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No matter where you look, screens are everywhere. The proliferation of easily portable tablets and smartphones means many people, adults and children alike, are never too far from the nearest screen. While that accessibility has dramatically changed the way many people live their lives, excessive exposure to screen time can produce a host of unwanted side effects.

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own bedroom television as well. Come kids’ bedtimes, make sure all devices, including smartphones and tablets, are left in common areas of the home rather than bedrooms so kids are not tempted to watch videos instead of falling asleep.

2. Institute a rule during meals. Many parents grew up in households that did not allow televisions to be on during meals, and while the times might have changed with respect to the technology, similar rules can still prevail today. A rule during meals gives parents and their kids time to catch up, bond and foster stronger relationships.

Steven Gortmaker, a professor of the practice of health sociology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has studied the negative effects of excessive screen time on children since the 1980s. According to Gortmaker, such effects include higher rates of obesity among kids who watch too much television and difficulty sleeping among youngsters with access to small screens, such as the screens of smartphones. In addition, a 2012 study published in the journal Psychiatry Research linked screen time with impaired cognitive function in young males. But adults are not immune to the effects of excessive screen time, either. Spending significant time being sedentary and staring at screens can increase adults’ risk for cardiovascular disease. An Australian study published in the December 2012 issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that, compared with persons who watch no television, those who spend a lifetime average of six hours per day watching television can expect to live 4.8 fewer years.

3. Do not use the television for background noise. Turn the television off when it’s serving as just background noise. If you need background noise, turn on some music instead.

1. Remove televisions from bedrooms. Parents may find

it impossible to gauge, much less control, how much time their kids spend watching television when youngsters have TVÕs in their bedrooms. Though this will likely be met with considerable resistance, remove televisions from bedrooms in your home. Set a positive example for kids by removing your

4. Log screen time. Logging screen time for each member of the family can provide an estimate of just how much time the whole family spends staring at screens. Encourage each member of the family to spend as much time being physically active as he or she spends staring at screens. Set goals for each member of the family to reduce their screen time, even rewarding those who reach their goals. Reducing screen time can improve overall health and help family members reconnect with one another. -MC

A High School with a supportive learning environment

Royal City Youth Ballet Company presents the 28th season of its classic and ever-popular Nutcracker. All dancers aged 7 and up are invited to audition for the Royal City Youth Ballet Company:

High school graduation program:

Sunday, September 11th

Grades 8 through 12 for youth 13 and older

Junior 10 am • Intermediate 11 am • Senior 12 pm 511 Columbia Street, New Westminster

• Small structured classes • Supportive Instructors • Innovative programs

Students chosen as Company members will then audition for “Nutcracker” roles starting at 1:30 pm

Dancers auditioning only for parts in the Nutcracker are invited:

Artistic Director Camilla Fishwick-Kellogg

Sunday, September 18th

Beginning at 10:30 pm 511 Columbia Street, New Westminster

For more information email: rcyb@telus.net

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• Introduction to music through singing and activities • 1/2 hour lesson each week • 15 week semester • Parent participation

Carillon Red Program • (ages 4-5)

• Learn piano through the development of a variety of skills including ear training, note reading, rhythm, technique, singing and composition • 3 year program • 1 hour lesson each week • Parent participation

Carillon Yellow Program • (ages 6-7)

• Skill development similar to Red Program, including learning repertoire through ear development and sight reading • 2 year program • 1 hour lesson each week • Parent participation

Carillon Blue e Program • (ages 8-10)

• Skill development in ear training, note reading, rhythm, repertoire, technique, theory, singing, chording, composition, improvisation and transposition • Multi-year program • Parent participation optional

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THE NIKKEI MATSURI FESTIVAL is on this weekend, and it’s one of the biggest Japanese-Canadian family festivals in Western Canada. Nikkei Matsuri runs on Saturday, Sept. 3 from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept 4, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Nikkei Centre. Performances include dancing, singing, taekwondo demos, a talent show, taiko drumming and more. Admission is $3. Info: www.nikkeimatsuri.ca.

Celebrate Japanese culture this weekend

DON’T MISS THE CHALK ART EXPERIENCE on Sept. 3 and 4. Artists Scott Gillies and Ian Morris will be creating sidewalk masterpieces that appear as three-dimensional images.The chalk art festival is on noon to 3 p.m. both days at Bonsor Recreation Complex, at 6550 Bonsor Ave.The festival includes a Fridayevening workshop on the history of chalk art from 6:30 to 8 p.m., also at

Bonsor. Info: www.burnaby. ca/communityarts.

MARK THE END OF SUMMER with the Burnaby Village Museum on Monday, Sept. 5. Besides the usual heritage attractions and children’s entertainment, Monday is when the museum holds its artisans market. Bring cash, as some vendors don’t accept debit.The museum is 6501 Deer Lake Ave.

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THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND Jennifer Moreau

jmoreau@burnabynow.com

CELEBRATE LABOUR DAY on Monday, Sept. 5 with a free 54-40 concert and picnic at Swangard Stadium. The event runs from 11

a.m. to 5 p.m.The B.C. Federation of Labour is hosting the event, and president Irene Lanzinger and provincial NDP leader John Horgan will speak. Speeches start at noon, and

54-40 goes on at 1 p.m. There will be kids’ games, prizes, a beer garden and free hotdogs.

TAKE IN THE TRADITIONAL DANCING at the two-day Multicultural Festival at the Serbian Cultural Centre at 7837 Canada Way. The annual affair features traditional food and dancing from the former USSR.The festival starts at 11 a.m. on

Saturday, Sept. and also runs on Sunday Sept. 4. For food, there’s borscht, peroshki and blinis.There is a kids’ zone and art fair, too. Tickets are $10, available on www.eventbrite.ca by searching “Multicultural Festival.” Send Top 5 suggestions to jmoreau@burnabynow.com. Events must be on Saturdays or Sundays only.

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26TH ANNUAL SALUTE TO LABOUR UNIONS

DAY Peter Julian, MP

New Westminster - Burnaby 110-888 Carnarvon Street New Westminster, BC V3M 0C6 604-775-5707 peter.julian.c1@parl.gc.ca www.peterjulian.ca

Kennedy Stewart, MP Burnaby - South 4940 Kingsway Burnaby, BC V5H 2E2 604-291-8863 kennedy.stewart@parl.gc.ca www.kennedystewart.ndp.ca

Raj Chouhan, MLA

Burnaby - Edmonds 5234 Rumble Street Burnaby, BC V5J 2B6 604-660-7301 raj.chouhan.mla@leg.bc.ca www.rajchouhan.ca

Kathy Corrigan, MLA

Burnaby - Deer Lake 150-5172 Kingsway Burnaby, BC V5H 2E8 604-775-2414 kathy.corrigan.mla@leg.bc.ca www.kathycorrigan.ca

Jane Shin, MLA

Burnaby - Lougheed #3-8699 10th Avenue Burnaby, BC V3N 2S9 604-660-5058 jane.shin.mla@leg.bc.ca www.janeshinmla.ca

‘Building strength for all of our members today and tomorrow’

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to all workers who through their labour, make our communities a better place to live.

Fin Donnelly, MP

Port Moody - Coquitlam

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Mike Farnworth, MLA Port Coquitlam

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Jodie Wickens, MLA

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Selina Robinson, MLA Coquitlam - Maillardville

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Judy Darcy, MLA New Westminster

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Providing Quality Skilled Building Tradespersons For Over 118 Years Unions are instrumental in protecting your _nancial investment United Association Local 170 Plumbers & Pipe_tters Union and the UA Piping Industry College of BC supply our signatory contractors with quali_ed, ticketed, journeypersons and indentured apprentices registered with the Industry Training Authority in BC in the trades of plumbing, steam _tting, sprinkler _tting, instrument technicians, and welding. Why is this important? It is important because building trade quali_cations, codes,and practices in construction were developed to ensure long term structural and mechanical safety for homes, businesses, institutions and industrial facilities such as LNG, oil and gas, pulp and paper, and hydro.

All United Association journeypersons have served an apprenticeship and work within the applicable codes and practices associated with their trade. All UA apprenticeships are comprised of four main components: on the job training under the mentorship of a ticketed journeyperson, in school technical training that teaches the codes and their application, yearly exams testing the apprentice on their skills and knowledge, earning a Certi_cate of Apprenticeship and a Certi_cate of Quali_cation upon completion of a four year apprenticeship and passing the Federal Interprovincial Red Seal Trade Quali_cation exam.

We provide qualified & ticketed workers to our signatory contractors What if a tradesperson hasn t taken any in-school technical training during their apprenticeship?? Can you be sure that they know the applicable codes and their applications for their trade?

Protect your investments! Ensure only Red Seal certi_ed journeypersons and apprentices registered with the Industry Training Authority of BC are on your project. Ask to see their quali_cations.

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DAY OPINION

Just think about this By Irene Lanzinger

B.C. Federation of Labour

As we celebrate the holiday – Labour Day – that honours the contributions working people make every day to our economy and our communities, I’m asking all British Columbians to take a moment to think about this. Imagine you work fulltime and support yourself or your family on less than $20,000 a year in Canada’s most expensive province. Imagine, how would you put food on the table or meet the rent? Make a car payment or the fare for public transportation? Pay for school fees or a visit to the dentist for your son or daughter? While it’s hard to imagine for most British Columbians, it’s a reality for far too many people in our province who work hard every day but earn less that $15 an hour. Thanks to Premier Christy Clark and her govern-

ment, B.C.’s $10.45 per hour minimum wage is the lowest in Canada. And their policies, which foster a lowwage economy means nearly 500,000 workers earn less than poverty level wages. Some 60 per cent are women. Four out of five work for companies with more than 20 employees. Eighty per cent are adults. And one in seven poverty wage earners holds a university degree. That’s why the B.C. Federation of Labour and our affiliate unions are working closely with community groups to push for a $15 per hour minimum wage. Our Fightfor15BC.ca campaign is a concrete solution to improve living standards for hundreds of thousands of workers and their families, and to address the widening gap between rich and poor that’s at the root of our festering economic inequality crisis. The plight of low-wage workers and the abject failure of the Clark govern-

ment to tackle poverty and growing inequality are symbolic of what’s wrong with our province. It defines the choices voters can make in next May’s election. We live in an incredibly wealthy province. But when it comes to how that wealth is shared, we are a deeply unequal society where a small group controls most of the wealth. For hard-working people and our families, it’s tougher to get ahead. Unless we do something fast and chart a different course, our province is going to be a place where only the rich can live. I remain incredibly optimistic that we can do better here in B.C. Change is possible.There’s a lot that can be done. Together, we can choose a B.C. where we all have the chance for a better life – and where our kids can build their future.

Irene Lanzinger is president of the B.C. Federation of Labour.

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DAY

A SALUTE TO LABOUR UNIONS

LABOUR ROOTS

Labour council celebrates golden anniversary

Activism in grassroots politics was inspired by the words of Tommy Douglas in 1966 at inaugural meeting By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

The New Westminster and District Labour Council has been following the advice that Tommy Douglas offered the organization five decades ago. One of more than 130 labour councils charted by the Canadian Labour Congress across the country, the New Westminster and District Labour Council is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Douglas was the guest speaker at the organization’s inaugural meeting in 1966. “He was urging members to be engaged in the political life of their community, which I think really sums up our history,” said Carolyn Rice, secretary-treasurer. “Our council, of any labour council in the country, not just the province, has a long history, and one of the

most developed municipal programs. Other labour councils in recent years have adopted some of our program.There’s none that are on the scale that we are.” Chartered in 1966, the New Westminster and District Labour Council has been interviewing and endorsing candidates in civic elections since the late 1960s.While the Canadian Labour Congress tackles federal issues and the Federation of Labour takes care of provincial issues, the labour council’s responsibility is to work with local governments and the communities in which they’re located. “That doesn’t mean we don’t get involved in provincial or federal politics, in fact quite the contrary. However, if a matter comes up that is related to those two levels of government, a program or action is initiated by the two other cen-

why electing good local governments is important.” The New Westminster and District Labour Council covers a region that includes New Westminster, Burnaby, Port Moody, Belcarra, Anmore, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Delta, Surrey,White Rock, Langley City and Langley Township. It addresses issues affecting workers across Canada and tackles a variety of programs including opposing the privatization of health care, supporting a $10-aday child care program, advocating for an increase to B.C.’s minimum wage, a living wage and changes to the regulations to protect workers. The labour council also offers educational courses for its members and hosts community events such as the annual Day of Mourning, which commemorates

Our work is largely to make sure that our local governments and our school boards are representing the needs of people and families ... trals,” Rice said. “Our work is largely to make sure that our local governments and our school boards are representing the needs people and families, not just unions, but people and families.” While the civic endorsements have drawn the ire of critics in some communities, it’s been something the New Westminster and District Labour Council has been doing for decades. “It was the first full year of our council – ’67 or ’68, I think we endorsed one or two candidates in New Westminster,” Rice said. “It

just grew from there.” Currently, about 100 local unions – and more than 56,000 workers – are members of the New Westminster and District Labour Council.The labour council recently surveyed its membership about a number of issues, including the endorsements, to find out whether they support the program, know about the program and participate in local elections. “We found out that a very high percentage of our members are voting,” Rice said. “People understand why they should vote and

the lives of workers who have been killed or injured on the job and encourages action that prevents workplace deaths, injuries and accidents.This year’s event was held at Westminster Pier Park. The New Westminster and District Labour Council will be returning to its roots this fall to celebrate its golden anniversary. “We have an event planned at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster.We are going back to where we were born, if you like,” Rice said. “On that day in 1966, the Port Mann Bridge had only been opened one year and the density of the membership that belonged to the labour council was right in and around that New Westminster area.”

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DAY UNION PROJECTS

Fighting for child care

$10-a-day child care campaign hopes to help families have better lives in British Columbia

By Jeremy Deutsch

jdeutsch@newwestrecord.ca

As any parent with a little one knows, daycare isn’t cheap. And for those just scraping by in the workforce, the cost of early child care can be downright crippling. That’s why a number of unions and organizations have signed on to support the $10-a-day child care plan being proposed by the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of B.C. Essentially, the $10-a-day plan is calling for fees down to $10 a day for full-time care, $7 a day for part-time care and no fee for families with annual incomes under $40,000. According to the website $10aday.ca, all children, including those with extra

support needs, will be welcome, and existing childcare services will be invited into the new system. The coalition believes the plan will make a real difference for all families and is the single biggest step in reducing poverty for families with young children. Sharon Gregson, a spokesperson with the coalition behind the plan, suggested there is a huge connection between access to quality, affordable child care and impact on the workforce. She said, from one perspective, the people who work in early childhood education can earn a decent wage with benefits and make a career out of it, and secondly, she suggested when parents and mothers re-enter the workforce after having children, it’s good for

the economy. “For families with young children, the child-care crisis in (B.C.) is at least as bad as the housing crisis,” Gregson told the NOW. The B.C. Federation of Labour, which has more than 500,000 members in the province, is one of the groups supporting to daycare plan. Irene Lanzinger, the president of the B.C. Federation of Labour, explained the organization supported the plan because working families need help. “There are many people working for low wages, and child care is extremely expensive,” she said. “Having accessible, affordable universal child care would really help working people in the province who are Continued on page 26

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Continued from page 25 struggling.” Lanzinger also argued it is important for children to have stability, adding working families are moving kids around as they struggle to find child care. The head of the union noted the comprehen-

sive proposal also calls for proper training and pay for childcare workers. Lanzinger said child-care workers need support, and often have low wages to do the important job of helping raise children. The $10-a-day plan isn’t particularly new.The coali-

tion has been pushing the plan for several years. But with the provincial election looming, Lanzinger is hoping the political parties will have something to say on child care. To learn more about the plan, go to www.10aday.ca.

Congratulations to all City of Burnaby staff and to all Burnaby citizens for making Burnaby a great place to live, work, learn and play. As we all celebrate Labour Day in honour of working people in Burnaby and beyond, we wish you a safe and happy Labour Day Weekend.

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WHY PROFESSIONALS ARE TURNING TO UNIONS NOW MORE THAN EVER The next wave of workers turning to professional development and benefit cuts unions isn’t from the factory floor. They’re are some of the reasons professionals are lawyers, paralegals, engineers, analysts, IT looking towards organized labour. professionals and accountants. A shift in how professional workers are White collar professionals don’t have a utilized in their workplace has also led to long history with organized labour, but interest in unionization. “When someone they’re increasingly joining unions. “We’re contacts us, they often refer to the past seeing more professionals looking for union when professionals were treated differently representation,” said Scott McCannell, in organizations,” said McCannell. “Their Executive Director of the Professional input and expertise was once respected, but Employees Association (PEA). today professional’s influence on their work has diminished.” There are a number of reasons why professionals have been turning to unions Unions can help change this power dynamic. like the PEA. Stagnant wages, no pensions, Collective bargaining enables professionals workloads, excessive hours, lack of to come together and have their voices heard

in the workplace. Collective agreements often include joint committee processes so that professionals’ views are considered and reflected. Collective agreements also have a variety of dispute resolution processes so issues can be fairly resolved. Professionals often have a history of identifying as individuals. But when their incomes are squeezed and the prospect of retirement seems daunting, being part of a union of professionals is appealing. “Our members are extremely committed to their professions and we respect this in how we represent them in the workplace,” said McCannell.

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From one union to another B.C. Nurses’ Union leaders need to ‘walk the talk’ By David Black

Now picture this, because it’s every trade unionist’s nightmare: after months of fruitless discussion, the employer locks out the staff. An hour later, they ask staff to return to work under an employer-imposed contract that guts benefits and other terms of employment. And when staff refuses to gut their contact the employer puts a six-foot wall around the workplace to keep staff out. If the locked-out staff were nurses, you can almost hear the howling from B.C. Nurses’ Union leaders. Press releases would fly, picket lines would go up and BCNU President Gayle Duteil would bellow with outrage at this despicable act by employers. But the tawdry part of this situation is that Duteil and her governing council are the employer. And, on

July 22, they allowed their negotiators to use anti-union tactics that they regularly condemn on their own employees. Picket lines did go up, and staff was forced on strike. And what’s worse is that the reason the dispute began was because of the heavy-handed, concessionary negotiation tactics of the BCNU leadership, who are trying to roll back medical and family obligation leave for their office staff. Pretty rich for an organization that has a “no concessions” policy when it comes to bargaining for their own members. So how did BCNU leaders become so confused that they used Ikea-style anti-union tactics to lock out their own employees and provoke a strike? The answer to those questions hasn’t been discovered yet, but in time it will be. What we do know is,

when a union’s leaders repeatedly violate the principles they claim to value, it’s only a matter of time before their members call on them to correct the situation. If BCNU leaders don’t “walk the talk” on these values, the public won’t trust them to advocate for nurses and better public health care. It undermines their own position at the bargaining table – it’s too easy for employers to say, “Well, you did it to your staff.” No one trusts leaders who say one thing and do the opposite. And the public desperately needs to hear the voice of principled nurses because everyone cares about better health care.

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MLA led the ﬁght for farm workers’ rights Tereza Verenca

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When Raj Chouhan landed on Canadian soil in 1973, he never imagined he’d become the founding president of the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union and at the forefront of a social movement that would bring farm workers under the Employment Standards Act. It all started with an ad in a newspaper that advertised the need for workers at a Fraser Valley farm. The then-20-something had seen it and decided to check out the farm. But when he got there, he was shocked by what he found. “There was no running water, no toilets, absolutely no facilities,” Chouhan, the now-Burnaby-Edmonds MLA, told the NOW. “I was expecting, in a country like Canada, that there would be something better than that.” Some workers lived onsite in converted cattle barns and were squished in like sardines, with six people to

a cubicle, he recalled, adding a good chunk of the little money they did make would go to the contract labourer for rent. Meanwhile, workers were constantly exposed to toxic pesticides and unguarded machinery, and many were forced to bring their children to work because they couldn’t afford daycare, he said. After asking the farmer’s son why conditions were so bad, Chouhan was fired. The same fate followed him after he asked the same question of two other employers. “That created an interest, a curiosity to find out what was going on,” said Chouhan. “Nothing was being done to organize or help farm workers.They were not even deemed workers under the Employment Standards Act.” In the years following, Chouhan familiarized himself with labour activist Cesar Chavez, who founded California’s United Farm Workers. (The pair would

go on to become friends.) It took at least five years before the local politician was able to rally a group of farm workers under one roof to talk about their dire situation.Threats, intimidation and bullying tactics were used by the employers to keep the workers quiet. “They were telling the workers that if you contact any authority, you will be deported.We were meeting them in their kitchens. People didn’t know about their rights, so they were afraid,” explained Chouhan. In September of 1978, 30 farm workers met Chouhan at a library in Surrey.The following April, the Farmworkers Organizing Committee was struck. About 2,000 members signed up that first year, which led to the establishment of the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union on April 10, 1980. “It was a moment, for me, personally, like God, is this real? It was like a dream coming true,” said Chou-

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The fight for rights: Raj Chouhan, MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds, holds an article from October 1979, about six months before the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union was formed. Chouhan says California’s labour activist Cesar Chavez was his mentor while during the ’70s and ’80s, when he was trying to establish a bargaining voice for farm workers. PHOTO TEREZA VERENCA

han. After gaining union status, the next step was to go out and organize. The task was difficult, however, because most farm workers were seasonal and

didn’t have a permanent work address. The first two employers Chouhan and his team attempted to bring under a collective agreement was a mushroom and alfalfa

sprout farm. Both farms were reluctant to give into the demands, so the workers were forced to go on strike for six months. “The pressure from the Continued on page 30

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‘They’re human beings, too’ Continued from page 29 farming community was so much on these two employers because they were afraid that if we were successful here, then we would go to other places.They didn’t want us to succeed,” said Chouhan, adding employers would send in “scab workers,” non-unionized workers, to cross the picket line and work. Given that the union had limited financial resources, he said union members would pool their money to survive.With a wife and a young daughter at home, times were tough. “I had no money. My daughter wanted to go to McDonald’s to have a Happy Meal. In order to avoid that, I would make sure I wouldn’t drive on the street that McDonald’s was on because I couldn’t afford to buy it,” he told the NOW. When the strike ended, it was a huge celebration, Chouhan remembered, but it didn’t last long. Over the next few years, organizing transient farm workers con-

tinued to be difficult. Intimidation got to the point that if workers spoke to a union representative, the employer would refuse to issue them a record of employment, which they needed to apply for employment insurance. As a result, union membership began to drop, and by 1984, there were no new collective bargaining agree-

There was a need, and I didn’t think twice at all ment certifications.Today, the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union only exists on paper and has no members. Despite not being an active body, Chouhan said the union helped draft health and safety regulations for the agriculture sector that were adopted by the provincial government in the early ’90s; regulations that still stand today. It also played an important role in educat-

ing workers who were illiterate, by teaching them about their tools, pesticides and anything agriculture-related. Looking back on those years, Chouhan said he’d probably have to think twice about doing it all over again. He admitted there were some “very scary” moments, including a time when he had a gun pointed at him by an employer while he was out handing out pro-union pamphlets. “At that time, there was a need, and I didn’t think twice at all,” he said. More than 40 years later, Chouhan still gets stopped in the street and is recognized as the “farmworker organizer.” “When people go to restaurants, or have dinner at home, they don’t think about where the food is coming from.They don’t think about the people who produce it, who work 12 hours a day under very harsh conditions.We have to think about those people, they’re human beings, too,” he said.

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Unions need to build new green economy When it comes to that delicate balancing act between protecting jobs and protecting the environment, Burnaby resident Ananda Lee Tan’s would rather to upset the scale. The veteran union organizer has roughly three decades of experience under his belt, and he insists the dichotomy of jobs versus the environment is a false one. For the past six years, he’s been with the Climate Justice Alliance, working with communities that live close to harmful extractive polluting industries, helping them negotiate alternatives in their respective industries. He calls this a new, emerging area of “just transition,” which he defines as a strategic pathway from the present “dig, burn, drive, dump” economy to one where the well-being of people and the planet come first. Q: Unions don’t create the jobs or determine how much energy is consumed while doing the work. So what exactly should they be doing to

protect the environment? A: Unions need to play a leadership role in rethinking, recreating and rebuilding a new economy, where we make the economy work for people and planet. … That will mean also fulfilling a long-term view of the labour movement, moving past the short-term, what I would call a business union model, towards a long-term social justice ideals of the original labour movement. Q:What advice would you give a union that represents people who rely on fossil fuels, but also represents people whose jobs may be at risk due to an oil spill, for example? A:What is a just transition pathway to local living economies that will sustain not only our jobs, but the jobs of our children and grandchildren? Unions need to play a leadership role in building the new economy for people and planet. Unions have the

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expertise to do that.They need to step up to their own long-term responsibilities but also engage their own rank-and-file members, the people who know how to build the infrastructure we need to sustain ourselves, who know how to build the renewable energy infrastructure, the transportation infrastructure, the long-term housing infrastructure. Q: How do they do that? A: First of all, we need to start negotiating with the biggest extractive industries. We need our government to

start working for us rather than the corporations, and that can only happen locally, town by town, community by community, municipal district by municipal district.Then move up to the provincial and federal levels, negotiating power. Our unions work for community groups, reassert power up the land base and ensure that we are working with First Nations as well. If we align ourselves on the grassroots and make sure we are taking back the resource theft that is taking place by big private corporations – stealing our water resources, our food resources, our forest resources, our mineral resources – and ensure that a greater portion of those benefits are being directly invested in the infrastructure, in a new economy, in a people’s economy infrastructure, where communities can not only control energy resources, food resources, building resources, this is about people taking back the land and the

resources from multinational corporations. Our days are numbered on this planet as a result of their carbon intensity, the pollution intensity, the toxin intensity, the layered destruction of the planet. Q:You’ve done work internationally.What have you seen in other parts of the globe that’s worked? A:There are some amazing models. For example, Cuba, they were forced, due to an economic embargo placed by the U.S. – people were starving at one point as a result of this economic embargo. As a result, they had to shift from an industrialized model to an agroecology model just to meet their food needs. What they transitioned to while moving to an agroecology, local sustainable food model, they’re not only (enjoying) domestic food security, they are in a position to actually export some of these organic

foods.The agroecologists in the last year who have been down there say that it’s like their nutritional levels are amongst the highest in the Americas now from feeding themselves. Q:There are some people who want the environment protected and others who say you are going to kill jobs if you do that.What would you say to their union leaders? A: Unions, if they can do one thing towards creating the new economy, it’s democratizing their own decision making. … They need to go back to the basics of organizing 101, taking these issues back to the rank and file, engaging them in discussions, local by local, community by community so that there can be local intelligence from the rank and file applied to design a new economy. – Jennifer Moreau

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In the crease: The Burnaby Lakers’ Zak Boychuk, shown above turning back a Victoria Shamrocks’ shot during the first round of the Western Lacrosse Association playoffs, was voted the Most Outstanding Goaltender and to the first all-star team. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Boychuk scoops up top netminding honour There’s no doubt that if Zak Boychuk had his way, the Burnaby Lakers would still be playing. The 26-year-old backstop’s performance over the 2016 Western Lacrosse Association season checked all the boxes for the voters in the league’s annual awards, resulting in the robust netminder walking off with the Most Outstanding Goaltender award. Acquired in an trade with Nanaimo nearly

a year ago, Boychuk took on the bulk of ballstopping duties with the Lakers, recording a league-best 6.94 goals against average. He also posted a top .844 save percentage over 856 minutes. Except for a brief span where the club turned to veteran Tyler Richards, Boychuk carried the ball for Burnaby and registered a 9-3-1 record during his starts. Only Maple Ridge’s Frank Scigliano, 1,054

minutes played, and Coquitlam’s Dan Lewis spent more time in the crease. Scigliano, voted to the second all-star team, was the only netminder with more wins, at 10. Boychuk, a native of St. Catharines, Ont., was also voted onto the league’s first all-star team, joining teammate Robert Church. Church finished the season ninth overall in league scoring with 29 goals and 24 assists in just 13 games.

Great Northwest Athletic Conference cross-country coaches have picked the Simon Fraser University men’s team to finish second while the women’s program is ranked third in the 2016 men’s and women’s Preseason Polls. Just three months removed from sweeping men’s cross-country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field titles, Alaska Anchorage received all 11 first-place votes to lead the poll with 121 points. Simon Fraser was picked second with 106 points and Western Washington was third with 101 points. Alaska Anchorage returns eight runners from the squad that went on to win the NCAA West Region championship and placed fourth at the NCAA Div. 2 championships. Simon Fraser returns a pair of AllGNAC selections after placing second in last year’s conference meet. Senior Oliver Jorgensen finished fifth at both the GNAC championships and NCAA West Regional and just missed All-American honours with his 38th place result at nationals.The Abbotsford native led the Clan to a fourthplace regionals finish and 12th-place overall nationals result. Joining him is senior Marc-Antoine Rouleau, who placed seventh at the GNAC meet and was 44th at the NCAA championships.The Clan also returns GNAC Freshman of theYear Sean Miller, who placed 12th in the GNACs and 33rd at the NCAA West Regional. Continued on page 33

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Call it a Michael Phelps hat trick on a local scale. The Burnaby Barracudas’ Fernando Lu made the most of his Div. 1 races two weeks ago, winning three times to lead his team in golds at the B.C. provincial summer swimming championships. Lu won the 50- and 100-metre freestyle events, posting times of 35.38 seconds and 1:16.04, and collected the top prize in Div. 1 boys’ 100 individual medley, with a time of 1:30.36. The only other multiple gold individual male swimmer was clubmate Cayden Liang in Div. 3, with first-place times in the 50m free (29.88) and breaststroke (37.10).

While the two boys set the medal pace for local swimmers, it was the Burnaby Mantas who put the charge in team numbers.The Burnaby Mantas club finished fifth overall, and second in the Simon Fraser district behind Coquitlam, with 1,418.5 points. The Barracudas stood fourth in the zone with 1,287 points. On the girls side, the Mantas’ Sayla Briggs was a two-time winner in Div. 6 competition, topping the 50m free (27.70) and 100m breast (1:17.02). Claiming a bounty of medals in girls Cat ‘O’ 1 was Barracudas’ Ashley Ko, who won the 50m butterfly in 34.91 seconds, picked up silver in both the 50- and 100m free, and a bronze in 100m individual medley. Adding one of each medal was

Cameron Dickson in boys ‘O’ Cat2 division, topping the 200m IM (2:21.19), second in 100m free, and a bronze in 50m fly. The other Barracudas with gold results were Div. 2’s Paul Orogo, in 50m backstroke (37.53),Tristan Govier in ‘O’ Cat2’s 50m fly (33.92), Natalia Blazevic, in girls Div. 1’s 50m breast (48.06), and Div. 2’s Anastasia Cimiliuc in 50m back (37.19). For the Mantas, Div. 8 swimmers May Li, in 100m back (1:05.63), and Lauren Swistak, in 100m fly (1:05.30) rounded out their gold medal haul. Picking up a pair of silver in girls Div. 2 was the Barracudas’ Amy Kang, in 50m back and 100m IM. Mantas’ Armaan Basi placed second in Div. 4 boys’ 100m back and third in 100m free.

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style events. For more Burnaby club results go to www.burnabynow.com.

Against the tide: Burnaby Barracudas’ Garrett Yeo puts his back into it during the B.C. provincial Div. 6 boys’ 100-metre backstroke final. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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MJT tour title in as many starts. Harper remained consistent over both days, with rounds of 73.The 14-year-old posted two birdies on the opening day and three bogeys, and a single birdie and two bogeys on the final round. Placing sixth overall was Burnaby’s Andy Luo, with identical rounds of 80. Xu, 14, carved five strokes off her opening round to close out the two-day event with 10-over 82, putting her tied for third and nine shots back of girls’ under-15 winner Rachel Chung of Abbotsford. After a tough 87 on the first day, Xu posted a single birdie on the par-3 13th hole, registering one double-bogey.

Bassett sets x-country pace Continued from page 32 On the women’s side, Alaska Anchorage earned nine of 11 first-place votes to lead the poll with 117 points.Western Washington was a close second in the poll, earning 107 points and the two remaining firstplace votes. Simon Fraser, the 2014 GNAC champion, was third with 90 points, closely fol-

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TANGUAY, Antoinette (Toni) Stella (nee Demers) July 1, 1918 - August 16, 2016

Passed peacefully at age 98. Predeceased by husband Amede Tanguay. Survived by her two daughters; Pat, husband Denis, granddaughter Michelle, great-granddaughters Taylor and Riley, daughter; Susan, husband Doug, grandson Brent and his wife Susy. .

She was much loved and is greatly missed by her family and friends. .

Donations in her memory, to the Royal Columbian Hospital, Good Samaritan Society New West or the Red Cross Equipment Program is appreciated.

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