Burnaby Now November 20 2015

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Precious memories stolen

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Remembering Ardell Brophy

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Drumming up support Cornelia Naylor

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DRUM ROLE Music teacher Geraldine Lazaruk and students, from left, Sateki Vikilani, Nigel Giaglogo and Andrew Lee practise an African rhythm on a set of djembe drums at Marlborough Elementary School Thursday. The school hosts a 12-hour drum-athon next week to raise money for Syrian refugees. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

When Burnaby teacher Geraldine Lazaruk and her sister visited Greece for a holiday this summer, their neighbours on the island of Kos came as a bit of a shock. Right beside their hotel, behind wire fencing, thousands of men, women and children escaping civil war in Syria had made a temporary home in an abandoned hotel. “Every day that we were there, we would see another group of maybe two to three hundred walking down the road to the camp from the water,” said Lazaruk, who teaches music at Marlborough Elementary. “There were people, I guess, staying in the rooms and then also just in makeshift tarps, lean-tos.There were children sleeping on plastic bags and cardboard with nothing over their heads, which was OK in the summer, but now it’s starting to rain ….There was garbage everywhere; there were women trying to wash clothes in mud puddles.” Other tourists on the island walked past the refugees as if they were invisible, Lazaruk said, but she and her Continued on page 5

Liberals mum on pipeline changes Jennifer Moreau

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What changes will the new Liberal government make to the National Energy Board, and how will they impact the Kinder Morgan pipeline? The public will have to wait for answers on this and other pipeline questions, as the Liberal government isn’t revealing any details yet. Jim Carr, the new Natural Resources Minister, held his first conference call with media Wednesday morning. Several reporters asked about plans to change the environmental and National Energy Board processes and how this would impact pipeline

projects, like Northern Gateway, Energy East and Kinder Morgan, but the minister could offer very little new information. When asked if TransCanada would have to reapply for an assessment for the Energy East pipeline, the minister reverted to talking points used in the election. “The first thing I wanted to say is we understand the importance of moving our resources to market, all part of developing our energy resources in a sustainable way,” he said. “We’re committed to a process that has the confidence of Canadians and we’re fully engaged in this issue with the government. I understand that any changes that we make to the process will have an effect on projects, I know that it’s important, and

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we will be reviewing the situation, and we will be giving you the results as soon as we can.” The NOW had similar questions about the Kinder Morgan pipeline application, as the NEB’s deadline for a recommendation is just six months away.When asked if there would be any changes to the NEB or the Kinder Morgan file before the deadline, Carr replied, “We’re working on it, and we’ll be in a position to share the results as soon as we can.” When one reporter asked point blank if the Kinder Morgan file would go forward and what changes, exactly, were going to happen with the NEB, the minister said, “Yes, it is going ahead, and we will make

changes to the National Energy Board that are consistent with our platform commitments, mainly that it be more reflective of the diversity of the nation, that it incorporate into its thinking indigenous culture, which is very important, given the fact that partnerships with indigenous communities will be a welcome part, from my point of view, of the new way in which we go about developing new projects in Canada. I’m looking forward to that engagement, and we will begin to review the particular changes to the National Energy Board.” Carr spoke from France, while attending the International Energy Agency’s ministerial meeting, where representatives from 40 countries gather to discuss energy issues.

COFFEE WITH RICHARD! Saturday, November 28 9:00 - 10:30 am Caffe Artigiano 4359 Hastings, Burnaby

I hope to see you there!

Richard T. Lee MLA Burnaby North

604.775.0778

Richard.Lee.MLA@leg.bc.ca www.richardleemla.bc.ca


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