CITY FUN 3
How long can a cardboard boat float?
ARTS 11
Dream project comes true
SPORTS 28
Knights shine on track
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THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND FRIDAY JUNE 9, 2017
LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS
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HANDS-ON FAMILY ART
Moeez Shezad, 6, gets a hand with some collaborative assemblage art at the In the BAG family studio dropin held at Burnaby Art Gallery on Mother’s Day, May 14. The gallery’s next free Sunday drop-in is this weekend. Families can drop in to the gallery between 1 and 4 p.m. on June 11 to check out two new exhibitions – Tara Nicholson’s Arctic Claims and Les McKinnon’s Reflecting on Headlines – and then create their own art work inspired by the shows, using photo abstraction techniques. The gallery is at 6344 Deer Lake Ave. See www. burnabyartgallery. ca or call 604-2974422 for more information.
PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT
Hero firefighter now fighting landlords The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal dismisses Remigiusz Janus’ claims that he has suffered discrimination By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed the complaint of a former Polish firefighter who waded through thick black smoke five years ago to pull a neighbour from a burning
Burnaby apartment. Remigiusz Janus was presented with a certificate of bravery in April 2012 for going back into his Inman Avenue apartment building to save his neighbour after alerting the fire department about kitchen a fire in his neighbour’s apartment.
“He entered the suite with heavy, heavy black smoke,” said Burnaby fire Chief Shaun Redmond in April 2012. “He went in as far as he could and decided to turn back when he couldn’t locate his neighbour. It was then that he stepped on (his neighbour)
Mr. Mochev, and then he dragged him out and took him down the four floors.” Janus relocated to Ridgelawn Gardens in North Burnaby a little over a year after the fire. He filed a human rights complaint against his new landlords, Affordable Hous-
ing Societies, in March 2016, alleging the non-profit had discriminated against him based on his physical disability and source of income. According to tribunal documents, Janus, who used a cane when he first moved to Ridgelawn Gardens, said
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the society had failed to address issues with the condition of his rental unit and that the building manager and property manager had verbally bullied and abused him, calling him a “dog” and telling him to move out if he didn’t like his Continued on page 5