Burnaby Now April 6 2018

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CITY 3

Teaching Canada’s game to all

NEWS 5

Two charged in bus attack

BUSINESS 11

Dageraad turns to cans

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LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS

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SPRINGTIME IN THE CITY

RIDING THE RAILS:

Nadia Lokot and three-year-old Leana Lukavaya ride the train at the Burnaby Central Railway on Easter weekend. The miniature train line is run by the British Columbia Society of Model Engineers. It officially opened for the season last weekend and is open every weekend and stat holiday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. right through to Thanksgiving. Tickets are $3.50 for one 10- to 15-minute ride. For more photos of the opening weekend fun, see a photo gallery at www.burnabynow. com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

ANTI-PIPELINE DEMONSTRATION

Protesters’ pooping pooch provokes police Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

Anti-pipeline protesters who allowed a dog to take a dump in the lobby, left the excrement outside and shared images of the incident on social media showed a lack of respect during a protest at the Burnaby RCMP detachment last

week, according to police. About 30 people descended on the detachment Friday to protest the arrest of fellow pipeline protester Harry Johnson-Larue, who is accused of assaulting a police officer while the officer was trying to arrest another protester for mischief near Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby Mountain terminal on March

25. The group refused to leave, and a number of citizens couldn’t access the detachment as a result, police said. “The Burnaby RCMP detachment also regularly has people who have been victims of crime coming to the detachment to provide statements or information,”

stated a Burnaby RCMP press release Tuesday. “This was the case on Friday, and the noise of the demonstration caused one victim who was attending the detachment a significant amount of distress.” The release goes on to say a dog brought in by a demonstrator had defecated on the floor of the de-

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tachment lobby. A demonstrator had picked up the excrement but left it outside the detachment, police said. An image of the dog pooping was shared on social media, according to police. “Should people decide to demonstrate at any RCMP Continued on page 9

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