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THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND FRIDAY JUNE 2, 2017
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What’s a festival celebrating all things European without accordions? Victoria-based Tempo Trend Music was one of many vendor booths during the 20th annual European Festival at Swangard Stadium on May 27 and 28. Crowds of people descended on the stadium for tasty cuisine, dance performances and more. For more photos of the event, see page 17. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
WHAT’S NEXT?
NDP and Greens set sights on pipeline Burnaby-Edmonds MLA says there are ‘many ways’ the new alliance can attempt to stop the project By Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
B.C.’s newly formed NDP-Green alliance will focus on taking big money out of politics, introducing electoral reform and halting the Kinder Morgan pipeline. B.C. NDP leader John
Horgan and B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver released a four-year governing agreement on Tuesday. If the Green-backed NDP comes to power, the party wants to hold a referendum on proportional representation in conjunction with next year’s civic elec-
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tions. The 10-page document also outlines banning corporate and union donations and contributions from non-B.C. residents. When it comes to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, there’s a promise to “imme-
diately employ every tool available” to stop it.What that means is still unclear. “I’m sure there are many ways,” says Raj Chouhan, NDP MLA for BurnabyEdmonds. “It’s our environment, it’s our coastline, which is going to be affected by multiple tankers mov-
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ing through our waters every day.” But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing by his government’s decision to approve the project. “The decision we took on the Trans Mountain pipeline was based on facts, evidence, on what is in the
best interest of Canadians, and indeed, all of Canada. Regardless of a change in government in British Columbia or anywhere, the facts, that evidence do not change,”Trudeau said Tuesday during a press conference in Rome. Continued on page 3
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