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High-end cars impounded for blowing by at 138 km/h Cornelia Naylor
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The high-end sports cars of two 22-yearold Burnaby men have been impounded after the pair were clocked driving nearly 140 kilometres per hour in an 80 km/h zone in Maple Ridge. The Ridge Meadows RCMP traffic section was conducting routine traffic enforcement in the 25800 block of Lougheed Highway Thursday when officers saw a Blue 2017 Lamborghini Aventador and black 2016 McLaren 675H blow by. Laser equipment clocked them at 138 km/h, according to police. Officers stopped the pair and impounded their vehicles for a minimum of seven days. Both drivers now face fines of $368. An incident report will also be forwarded to the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles. The driver of the McLaren is an “N” driver, according to police, and both had previously been served with excessive speeding infractions and fines. Police say the two Burnaby men were headed to the Mission Raceway for a planned private track event when they were stopped. One vehicle was equipped with a radar detector.
SMITTEN WITH KITTENS: Yoga Spirit and Wellness in Burnaby hosted a ‘kitten yoga’ event Saturday in support of VOKRA (Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association). See more photos from this event on Page 9. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Pro-pipeline group threatens vigilante eviction Kelvin Gawley
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An Alberta-based pro-pipeline group is threatening a vigilante eviction of pipeline protesters on Burnaby Mountain – prompting police to urge the public not to take the law into their own hands. “This is a national embarrassment and something needs to be done,” Cory Morgan wrote on his blog. Morgan, a libertarian blogger and former political candidate, said the legal system has failed to properly deal with Camp Cloud, a collection of trailers, wood structures and tents near the entrance of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline tank farm. On Wednesday evening, Morgan tweeted that some members of the camp would be in Vancouver for court proceedings the next morning – providing an opportunity for his
group to move in. “The Citizens Committee to Evict Camp Cloud will be performing their first direct action while the squatters are gone,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “It’s going to be fun.” The morning came and went without any appearance from Morgan or members of his closed Facebook group. “Last night’s postings were more just actually to light a fire under their butts,” Morgan told the NOW. But, he said, the threat won’t be empty next time. “We really are organizing with the plan on getting out there if the authorities don’t get a move on with this,” Morgan said. Morgan said he will wait to see the outcome of the City of Burnaby’s application for a court order to enforce the eviction notice it gave Camp Cloud on July 18. A B.C. Supreme Court judge is set to hear the
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city’s application on Aug. 10. If the judge upholds the portion of an existing injunction allowing the camp to remain, Morgan said he believes the law would no longer apply in that area. “If it turns out that it’s a completely lawless spot – as far as I’m concerned that’s what the injunction is saying – then I guess citizens will have the right to take it upon themselves to go in there and deal with it themselves,” he said. Morgan’s proposed “cleanup” of Camp Cloud would simply amount to picking up garbage, he said. He said there would only be violence if it were instigated by members of Camp Cloud, in which case Morgan’s “eviction committee” members would defend themselves. Morgan said he was motivated to organize the group in an effort to end interference with the planned expansion of the
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Trans Mountain pipeline. “We seem to be crippled by a camp full of layabouts on the side of a road,” he said. “We can’t even clean them out, how is any investor going to feel confident investing in any energy project in Canada when we can’t even do the most minor of removal of illegal protesters?” But local police are reminding Morgan and others it is not their place to evict Camp Cloud. “Police would urge people not take matters into their own hands,” said Supt. Chuck McDonald, Burnaby RCMP operations officer. “The RCMP respects the dignity of all people and ask the same of all stakeholders.” An RCMP spokesperson said police were aware of the online comments threatening a vigilante eviction and that police were monitoring the area to keep the peace.
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