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Mom details horrific coyote attack on son By Cornelia Naylor
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Drops of blood are still visible on the sidewalk of a Burnaby townhouse complex where a threeyear-old boy was attacked by a coyote Tuesday. Just after 5 p.m., Amanda Dycke said she had run out of the front door of her Dunvegan Court townhome near the Burnaby Mountain golf course to catch her son Ayden, who had squeezed out of the gate in their backyard. A few steps onto her front walk, she heard a scream. “Just like one of those where you just know that’s a bad scream,” she told the NOW. On a sidewalk two doors down from her house, she then witnessed her son trying to fend off a coyote mauling his head. “There was a coyote on his head, chewing his head,” Dycke said. She made loud noises and tried to make herself look intimidating to chase the coyote off, she said, but it didn’t move until she ran at it full force. Dycke said neighbours told her the animal had skulked around even after Ayden was taken to B.C. Children’s Hospital with three bonedeep gashes to his head that took more than 100 stitches to fix. “It was pacing, like it wanted to finish what it started,” Dycke said of the coyote. Continued on page 3
Coyote attack: Conservation officers are unclear which coyote attacked a Burnaby boy. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
CROSSES TO BEAR: Members of Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion hold up homemade crosses emblazoned with messages on Wednesday morning at the Trans Mountain terminal gates. PHOTO LAUREN BOOTHBY
BROKE stages ‘die-in’ protest
Burnaby residents hold up crosses to protest Kinder Morgan’s pipeline plans Lauren Boothby
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Protesters with the group Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion staged a “die-in” outside the Trans Mountain terminal gates on Burnaby MountainWednesday morning — dramatizing the worst-case-scenario in case of a disaster at the tank farm. About 50 people participated in a demonstration, with some lying in front of the gates “dying” from an explosion, while others were singing, chanting, holding banners and sitting in a circle in front of the gates. Some were arrested. Twenty-five demonstrators took their cue after hearing a siren, with some yelling “Fire!” and “Evacuate! Evacuate!” The group lay on the ground holding white crosses and signs listing the reasons they were “killed,” including exposure to hydrogen sulfide, fire, smoke and benzene. Others, dressed in hazmat suits, drew chalk outlines around their bodies
and carried them away on stretchers. One man wearing a toy firefighter hat sat with his feet and hands bound, his mouth gagged. He played the role of Burnaby Deputy Fire Chief Chris Bowcock, meant to demonstrate that his “hands were tied” in stopping the disaster. Bowcock published a report in 2015 outlining the risks to the neighbourhood should the pipeline expansion go through. He expressed concern about wildfire spreading on the mountain close to homes. People at Simon Fraser University would be trapped there as the forest burned, he said. BROKE member Ann Jarrell participated in the die-in. As someone who lives on Burnaby Mountain, she said she’s concerned about what could happen to her if there were an explosion and she couldn’t escape. “The tank farm is already dangerous,” she said. “If there is a fire or explosion or something here, we may not be able to get off the mountain because we only
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have two roads that go up to the mountain.The expansion of the tank farm means the tanks will be closer to those roads … parents won’t be able to get back to their families; students won’t be able to get off the mountain, neither will anyone else be able to evacuate. “I hope the Canadian government doesn’t want the possibility of people dying because of this project.” Karl Perrin, an organizer with BROKE, said he hopes today’s demonstration will “wake people up” to the risks for those living near the tank farm. “Some people know it, and they assume that if their neighbours are not panicking, then they shouldn’t panic,” he said. “Some people are aware of it, but they don’t believe the risk is high enough to bother with, and others don’t know about it or knew about it and forgot. So we are calling the alarm, and we are telling those residents that, yes, there is significant danger to the expansion.” —With files from Jennifer Moreau
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