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On the quidditch pitch
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anada will vie for supremacy in an even weirder broom-based sport than curling this weekend, and two Burnaby natives will be right in the thick of things. The quidditch Global Games hit the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex Saturday, and Burnaby South grads Rebecca Alley (2010) and Ema ShiromaChao (2009) will be there as assistant coach and “beater” respectively. In a nod to the sport’s Harry Potterinspired roots, the international competition will feature competitors from seven nations running around with brooms between their legs, vying to grab the snitch (a tennis ball tucked inside a sock and attached to the waist of a nimble and neutral snitch runner) and/or chuck the quaffel (a volleyball) through their opponents’ rings. Alley and Shiroma-Chao are veterans of the sport, having both recently wrapped up quidditch careers with university club teams in Quebec and Ontario. They’re no longer fazed by the weirdness of, say, the brooms between the legs. “Why do you have to dribble a basketball when you’re running with it? Why can you not touch a soccer ball with your hands?” Alley says. “It’s just an integral part of the sport. … When you stop and think about it, a lot of sports are just kind of like ‘why am I doing this?’ but they’re still a lot of fun.” And make no mistake, real-life competitive quidditch, which is now played in more than 13 countries, is an athletic endeavour that requires more than
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For the win: Burnaby natives Rebecca Alley and Ema Shiroma-Chao are ready to take on the
Burnaby MP Kennedy Stewart says the National Energy Board’s decision to delay the Kinder Morgan pipeline hearing is the “beginning of the end” for the project. On Tuesday, the NEB announced the hearing would be delayed by roughly seven months because the board needs more information on Kinder Morgan’s latest plan to drill or tunnel through Burnaby Mountain. That means the final deadline for the board to review the project has moved to Jan. 25, 2016 – after the tentative date for the next federal election, which is Oct. 19, 2015. That leaves the chance for a new party to form government, one that may not be as friendly to pipeline projects. “A different cabinet would have a different decision on these pipeline projects,” Stewart said. “I don’t think there could be worse news for Kinder Morgan on this. I think it’s the beginning of the end for this pipeline.” The board announced the extension Tuesday, July 15, stating it needs more information – geotechnical studies, for instance – for the mountain route. Mayor Derek Corrigan was surprised by the news but felt it supported the city’s early argument. “They accepted the fact that we were right – the application was incomplete,” he told the NOW.
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