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Your source for local sports, news, weather and entertainment! >> www.burnabynow.com BURNABY’S GEORGE MCLEAN SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN BATTLE, THEN CAME HOME TO SERVE HIS CITY
Surviving the horrors of war at 16
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itting up against rocks and boulders, wounded men were slowly losing their lives, their bodies stained red from blood. The Allied forces were tasked to take the eightkilometre stretch of land from the Germans, leaving many soldiers vulnerable on Omaha Beach, waiting, ON MY BEAT row by row. No poppies were Stefania Seccia blowing in the wind and no larks were singing in the sky. Just the battered, beleaguered, exhausted and bleeding soldiers stranded across the beach after storming it in one of the most gruesome and infamous battles of the Second World War. The soldiers who did survive the onslaught of bullets, mines and grenades needed aid, and it was coming. A carrier filled with nurses and doctors was pulling up on shore to help those entrenched in the sand. And one local man was on that ship. He has the black-and-white photograph, approaching the beach from the carrier, to prove it. Signs of mortar shells, tanks and billowing smoke are nowhere to be seen in a quiet South Burnaby neighbourhood where a Battle of Normandy veteran and the last living Freeman of the City calls home. The freeman title is an honour bestowed upon distinguished persons in public service, and Burnaby had five, part of the city and
Burnaby’s last freeman:
George H.F. McLean was only 16 when he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy. He is also a veteran of the Battle of Normandy who witnessed D-Day. Jason Lang/ burnaby now
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City MP says premier making oil deals ‘on the fly’ Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
Burnaby MP Kennedy Stewart thinks Premier Christy Clark is making deals “on the fly,” when it comes to heavy oil projects in B.C. Stewart, MP for Burnaby-Douglas, was commenting on the recent framework agreement between Clark and Alberta
Premier Alison Redford. “All this stuff seems to be happening on the fly without any consultation or input from the local communities that will be impacted,” he told the NOW. Clark and Redford announced Tuesday that the two had reached a framework agreement, where Alberta would agree to support B.C.’s five conditions that must be met for heavy oil projects in the province.
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In return, the B.C. government, which wants a bigger share of the profits, agreed to not go after Alberta’s royalties. B.C.’s five conditions for oil companies are that the environmental review process is met, that there are “world-class” oil spill prevention and cleanup measures in place for spills on land and water, legal requirements over aboriginal and treaty rights must be addressed, and B.C. must receive
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a fair share of the economic benefits to reflect the risk the province faces. “How much money will it take to sway Christy Clark to put these pipelines through, and this is the question my constituents have been asking,” Stewart said. Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are hoping to build pipelines from Alberta to Pipeline Page 10
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