Burnaby Now May 5 2017

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Candidates face off in Burnaby-Edmonds

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The final lap - what candidates are saying Christy Clark and her BC Liberals bought and paid for John Horgan and the BC NDP working for you

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Weaver says he’ll work with anybody Green leader sets record straight after media report stated he wouldn’t work with Horgan By Cayley Dobie

cdobie@burnabynow.com

Whatever the outcome of Tuesday’s provincial election, B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver says his party will “work with anybody.” During a recent interview with Global B.C.’s Keith Baldrey,Weaver was asked which party he’d be more comfortable working with.Weaver didn’t answer but said, if he was going to work with NDP leader John Horgan, Horgan would have to “control his temper.” A headline on the interview stated Weaver would not work with Horgan. While it was changed later, the incorrect headline was already being recycled for political purposes on social media.

PHD WITH THE SCREWDRIVER: B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver, left, holds up a low-tech tool at a high-tech Burnaby business Thursday. Weaver made a campaign stop at Greenlight Innovation, a leading global supplier of battery and fuel-cell testing equipment. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

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Mayor picks a fight with B.C. Libs Derek Corrigan demands Liberals retract ‘misleading’ ads about Burnaby’s position on marijuana sales in stores By Julie MacLellan

jmaclellan@burnabynow.com

Burnaby’s NDP-affiliated mayor is taking shots at the Liberal Party of B.C. for ads he says are mislead-

ing people about council’s stance on marijuana sales – but the Liberals aren’t backing down. In a press release issued Thursday morning, in the final days of the election

campaign, Mayor Derek Corrigan criticized Chineselanguage ads placed by the Liberals.The ads in question mention two Burnaby city councillors, Anne Kang and James Wang, who are

both running for the NDP in this election – Kang in Burnaby-Deer Lake and Wang in Vancouver-Langara. “The Chinese-language ad says that Burnaby city

councillors, James Wang and Anne Kang, ‘voted for distributing non-medical marijuana in liquor stores before the federal government has legalized marijuana’ and that this informa-

tion is taken from Dec. 5, 2016 Burnaby city council meeting minutes,” Corrigan said in the release. “This is not true.” The minutes read, in part, Continued on page 11

VOTE FOR THE BURNABY BC NDP MAY 9 Janet Routledge Burnaby North

Raj Chouhan Burnaby-Edmonds

Anne Kang Burnaby-Deer Lake

Katrina Chen Burnaby-Lougheed

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