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Burnaby owes feds $1.2M for policing

Mayor asking public safety minister to cover the costs - expected to grow when 2018 protests included Kelvin Gawley

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Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley has a $1.2 million bill he doesn’t want to pay.

The city owes the Burnaby RCMP for its policing of anti-pipeline protests.The $1.2 million total includes policing mass protests in 2014, when Trans Mountain crews began survey work on Burnaby Moun-

tain, through March 31, 2018, according to Burnaby RCMP Cpl. Daniela Panesar.

She said figures are not available for the remainder of 2018, which saw near daily protests and blockades at the Westridge Marine terminal that brought out dozens of officers each time.

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Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, Ralph Goodale, denied the request and the costs went unpaid.

But the city’s new mayor is determined to take up the fight. Hurley said the federal government should foot the bill, pointing to its “national interest” argument

for the expansion project.

“Our position is if it’s in the national interest, then any extra policing should be paid for within the national interest instead of coming out of the Burnaby coffers,” Hurley said.

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Hurley said he’s keen to take up the battle, despite his predecessor’s loss.

“That doesn’t mean that I can’t keep trying,” he said.

“Different relationships can yield different results ... Also, of course, there’s a federal election (this year), so that can always make a difference too.”

Public Safety Canada spokesperson Zarah Malik said Burnaby is on the hook

to pay 90 per cent of “costs associated with maintaining law and order in the City of Burnaby resulting from incidents, including demonstrations.”The Municipal Policing Service Agreement only requires the federal government to pay the remaining 10 per cent, Malik said.

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Eatery blames cuts on housing crisis

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A local eatery is cutting back the number of days it’s open, and the owners say it’s because they don’t have enough staff thanks to rising housing costs in the region.

Butchers Block BBQ, a fixture in the Heights’ restaurant scene, has announced it will be closed on Sundays starting this week.

“It’s not our fault.We’d like to be open as much as possible,” said Mary Levesque, co-owner of Butchers Block BBQ. Recently, finding reliable staff to work at the restaurant has been a challenge, she said.

“I think it’s the rent,” Levesque said.

“They can’t afford the rent inVancouver and they’re having to move out farther and farther and farther. … For them to migrate all the way intoVancouver, it has to be really worth their time and money, and we can’t afford that.”

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HOUSING COSTS: Mary and Calvin Levesque own Butchers Block BBQ on Hastings Street, and cannot find staff to work there. To mitigate the problem, the couple has decided to cut back the number of days the restaurant is open. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER years ago. In 2016, they rebranded it as Butchers Block BBQ to let people know they also served barbecue items, including ribs, beef brisket and pulled pork.

“That brought in a flood of people that didn’t realize

we were a barbecue place,” Mary told the NOW. “Our restaurant was just inundated.We didn’t have the space to be able to do both.”

The Levesques decided to take burgers off the menu and focus on barbecue.

At the time, they had about 10 employees, including line cooks, servers and bussers, and they were open Tuesday to Sunday.Three years later, they’re down to six staff with only two working full-time.

In the early days of the restaurant, help wanted ads would return an abundance of interested servers and cooks, but now they’re lucky if they get one or two candidates, she said.

But in the past few years,

Butchers Block BBQ has had staff who have come for a day or two and then never returned. Even some prospective employees have bailed on interviews.

“I think there’s such a demand for workers that they can kind of pick and choose what they want,” she said.

With a limited employee roster, the couple has been working extra hours to fill in the gaps. It’s especially tiresome when employees call in sick and Mary and Calvin have to work double shifts to keep stay open.

“When you think you have the day off, then you don’t, it’s taxing on your body,” Mary said.

When the Sunday server gave her two weeks’ notice, the couple decided the best thing to do would be to close on Sundays altogether.

In an effort to recoup some revenue, Butchers Block BBQ will now be serving burgers on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.They’ve also signed on with DoorDash, an online food-delivery service, in addition to Skip the Dishes.

HOUSING

Activists want ‘enemy’ developers removed from task force Kelvin Gawley

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The mayor of Burnaby’s new housing task force is stacked with the “enemy” of working-class renters, according to housing activists.

Roughly a dozen members of Stop Demovictions Burnaby (SDB), an offshoot of the Alliance Against Displacement, rallied in front of Burnaby City Hall Monday evening ahead of a council meeting.They criticized Mayor Mike Hurley for appointing developers, their lobby and a business community representative to the Mayor’s Task Force on Community Housing.

The new 15-member committee includes Beau Jarvis ofWesgroup Properties, Brian McCauley of Concert Properties, Mike Bosa of Solterra Developments, Anne McMullin of the Urban Development Institute and Paul Holden of the Burnaby Board of Trade.

“No developer, nor their lobby, should be on this task force,” activist Zoe Luba

said. “They already have all the power. It’s renters who need to be heard on this task force. No task force meant to really address the crisis the neighbourhood of Metrotown is facing should have their enemy sitting beside them at the table.”

SDB members say they were shut out of the selection process for the task force, which is set to meet for the first time next month with a mandate to find short- and long-term solutions for housing affordability in Burnaby.

The activists demanded that all developers be removed from the task force.

“The thought process that got us into this problem is not going to get us out,” said Metrotown renter Stephen Samuel, paraphrasing Albert Einstein. “We have an opportunity right now to have a real sea change in the way that Burnaby approaches the development process and I don’t want to see that squandered.”

Samuel said he asked Coun. Joe Keithley in December if he could be ap-

Protest: Zoe Luba helped organize a protest at Burnaby City Hall on Monday. PHOTO KELVIN GAWLEY

pointed to the task force but was told it was already full.

The task force does, however, include several affordable housing advocates.

ACORN activist Murray Martin, who has led many rallies outside city hall in recent years, is a member.

Paul Kershaw of Genera-

tion Squeeze,Thom Armstrong of the Co-operative Housing Federation of B.C, Patrick Buchannon of the New Chelsea Society, Kari Michaels of the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union and Daniel Tetrault of the Burnaby Teachers’ Association are

also members.

But even those members shouldn’t come before renters with first-hand experience facing demoviction, the activists said.

“We welcome them to step back so renters can step forward,” Emily Luba said.

The activists said they

will keep up the pressure on Burnaby’s new mayor until their ultimate goal is achieved: the construction of thousands of non-market homes rented at or below welfare shelter rates.

“I know a lot of people are passionate about this issue and I respect that,” Hurley said following Monday’s council meeting, “but everyone’s going to have their opportunity to have their say.”

Hurley also said he will consider adding more people to the task force. He said he did not hear from members of SDB before appointing members of the task force.

“I could fill this room with people who wanted to be on that committee but they were not a group that I heard from,” he said.

Asked why developers were added to the committee, Hurley said: “Well, the reality is they own the property so we have to be in agreement on the way to move (forward).We have to get them to buy in to what we want.”

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Mayor shakes up committees, adds new faces

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A new year, a new mayor and a new direction for Burnaby City Hall.

Mayor Mike Hurley revealed a shakeup of the city’s committees this week.

One of the more significant changes is his plan to split the public safety committee.The committee has, until now, addressed fire, policing and traffic issues.

It will, from now on, only concern itself with issues relating to security and the Burnaby RCMP.The fire department will now report directly to council and a

new traffic safety committee will be dedicated to making the city’s roads safer.

“The public safety committee was getting overrun with traffic, so by the time they ended the meeting, public safety kept getting further and further back down the line,” Hurley explained.

Coun. Pietro Calendino, who chaired the committee for more than a decade, will not sit on the public safety or traffic committees.The mayor said he made the move because Calendino will be taking on a number of other committee roles, including chairing

the new Mayor’s Task Force on Community Housing, and it is not related to recent controversial remarks dismissing criticisms about the city’s handling of road safety.

“It’s got nothing to do with any of that,” Hurley said.

Hurley also appointed two council candidates who fell short of a seat in the 2018 municipal election. Independent Claire Preston will sit on the parks, recreation and culture commission and Green Joel Gibbs will be a member of the environment and social planning committee.

Both Gibbs and Preston have attended several council and committee meetings since the election.

Gibbs said he has remained in contact with the mayor and was glad to be invited to be more engaged.

He wants to “hopefully push things forward that reduce the coming impact of

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Officers executing a search warrant at his residence and vehicle later that day found prohibited weapons – including the bat and a machete – and a quantity of what is suspected to be cocaine hidden in jars and tins.

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“In addition to the drugs and cash, the fact that these weapons are off the street is a big success for our drug section,” Chief Supt.

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of Gibbs’s dream.

Gibbs, in his early 20s, hopes to bring a younger perspective lacking on council.

“It’s going to be our generation that’s going to have to deal with this mess in 20 years,” he said, referring to climate change.

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Burnaby school district staff have been tasked with finding out how much it will cost to provide girls with free menstrual products in school washrooms.

Selina Tribe, a Vancouver mom and Douglas College geology instructor who is on a mission to make tampons and pads as free and accessible as toilet paper, spoke at the district’s Jan. 17 youth and community services committee meeting, urging school officials to install free period product dispensers in local school washrooms.

Trustee Bill Brassington, chair of the committee, said she made a compelling case.

“Her presentation was phenomenal,” he said.

“As a male, it was eyeopening because it wasn’t something that I had considered. I didn’t even know how it was dispensed. I never go in there, but I have a daughter who’s in Grade 5 and so I started to see, ‘Well, what would she do?’”

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Tribe has been going from school district to school district in Metro Vancouver advocating for coin-free dispensers in all school washrooms.

While schools in Burnaby will provide free menstrual products for students on demand, according to the district, girls in most schools have to go to a nurse, safe school coordinator or other staff member to get them.

Tribe is arguing that’s unfair. “(She) made the case for that it’s not something that you can hold,” Brassington said. “It just happens and, when it happens, you shouldn’t have to walk to go to an office or through the school hallways risking embarrassment.You should just be able to have access to free products.”

Burnaby North Secondary is one local school that has already acted on those concerns.

Starting last year, teacher Elizabeth Byrne’s leadership class has stocked “period packs” in all the girls

washrooms, providing free period products right where girls need them.

“A period’s not something to be ashamed of, but there’s this weird feeling around it that we have to hide these pads and tampons and keep them out of view, and that’s why the period pack came to be,” Grade 11 student Cassandra Sacilotto told the NOW. Grade 10 Leadership student Ilyssa Lee said Tribe’s idea of getting free dispensers into girls washrooms is a good one.

“I think it’s something that we need to implement in all the other schools because it’s something that really helps with getting girls comfortable with the whole idea of periods,” she said.

Brassington said the idea makes “perfect sense” but requires some further examination.

The board voted unanimously last week to direct staff to look into the cost of installing the free dispensers.

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We need more than just outrage at spending scandal Not long ago, B.C’s Speaker of the legislature Darryl Plecas promised that he’d resign if the contents of a report into shenanigans at the clerk’s office didn’t make people want to vomit.

Fast-forward to last week when the bombshell report certainly made for a nausea-inducing glimpse into a culture of entitlement run amok.

A truckload of booze and a wood splitter delivered to a private home, trips abroad on the flimsiest of pretenses, gifts and clothes bought

on the public dime are among the damning details in the report.

Both Liberal and NDP politicians are now piling on with shock and outrage.

But these activities have apparently been going on under their noses for numerous years.

Politicians on the committee charged with oversight of the clerk’s office appear to have been clueless.

Speakers from the previous Liberal government have been mum, but the details revealed so far don’t paint

them in a flattering light.

As reporters covering the legislature have pointed out, MLAs on both sides of the house discouraged anyone from digging too deeply into the issue.

It’s instructive that it took an outsider – a Speaker who was a pariah in both Liberal and NDP circles – to point to such rampant entitlement gone wrong.

A culture of “don’t ask, don’t tell” was clearly flourishing in the halls of power.

The good news is that Premier John Horgan looks

like he’s not going to just stop at being outraged.

He’s pledging to reform our access to information laws.

Horgan said the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act (FOIPPA) should be amended to lift the veil of secrecy around legislature spending.That would include adding public scrutiny for senior legislative officers such as the two currently facing allegations of excessive spending. Horgan said he would be meeting with Attorney

General David Eby to carve out protections for whistleblowers to keep them safe when revealing concerns about government.

FOIPPA currently does not define the legislature as a public body, thereby exempting it from freedom of information requests from the public. Few legislatures in Canada or elsewhere have such openness.

“I see an opportunity,” Horgan said.

For his part, BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson said changes to FOIPPA

would be welcome but not as effective as posting expenses immediately.

Any changes have support from B.C.’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, which said the lack of public scrutiny without FOIPPA coverage is a shortcoming of government transparency and accountability.

We agree.

It’s sad that it took a spending scandal to finally prompt action, but here we are.

NOW & THEN CHRIS CAMPBELL

The politics of safety issues Work was finished last week erecting a traffic light at an infamous Burnaby crosswalk.

It’s located on Cariboo Road just south of an overpass that crosses Highway 1. It was where a pedestrian named Fernanda Girotto – a 15-year-old Brazilian exchange student – was killed after being hit by not one, but two vehicles, according to police.

Seeing a traffic light being installed at this crosswalk should be considered good news.

It sure was to nearby residents who had lobbied for years to get a light approved by the City of Burnaby. For them, the crosswalk was dangerous, partly because the angle of the overpass created sight issues while driving south, but also because drivers come whizzing down Cariboo, heading north at high speeds.

A day after Girotto’s death, a cyclist was hit near the crossing, and another pedestrian was seriously injured there in a hit-andrun two days after that.

With residents furious, the city took action. First, a pedestrian-activated flashing light was installed. And now, a full traffic light (at a cost of $450,00).

Like I said, this is good news.The city deserves credit for acting.

But when the NOW contacted Coun. Pietro Calendino, chair of the city’s public safety committee, to discuss the light being installed, he couldn’t resist sounding defensive about the whole thing.

He told the NOW that he hopes the light will make the crossing safer “for the few pedestrians that do use that crosswalk.”

If you’re wondering why Calendino would mention that, it’s because a few months before Girotto’s death, city staff examined the crosswalk, but determined it didn’t get enough foot traffic to justify a light.

Instead of simply saying it’s good the light was installed, Calendino just couldn’t hold back with a dig about how – according to him – not a lot of people use the crosswalk. I don’t know if that’s actually true, but even if he’s correct, the number of people who use a crosswalk shouldn’t be the only determining factor.

What should be paramount is if the crosswalk is particularly dangerous for those who do use it. Area residents sure thought it was because they’d been lobbying long enough for it.

They’d seen what happens there.

I think Calendino is bitter about having to admit that maybe, just maybe, the city was wrong about this one.

He did tell the NOW it was the “right thing to do” but he sure didn’t sound very convincing about it.

This is likely just a coincidence, but Mayor Mike Hurley shook up the membership of city committees this week, and Calendino is no longer on the public safety committee.

Maybe that’s a good thing.

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‘Bold’ plan ignores scourge of imported wealth

Editor: Re: Singh unveils ‘bold’ plan to build 500,000 affordable homes, NOW, Jan. 24.

While attention-grabbing and, perhaps, voteworthy in a riding of many people put in a crisis of losing their homes to invasive real estate developments, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s home-building announcement falls conspicuously short of addressing federal jurisdictional issues that have seriously and decisively caused and perpetuated the “housing crisis.”

This is a miss to catch up on in this campaign of a federal byelection.

An issue at the very top is the immigration that the Lower Mainland has experienced and, specifically, the kind of immigration that focuses on attracting imported wealth exploited to have repurposed real estate from housing as a social need into a speculative commodity of the rich.

When housing is dominated by this foreign money-driven speculative perspective around real estate, even ideas to address the housing crisis shy away from addressing the community as a long-established home and way of life to many Canadians. Sustenance of quality of life and community integrity is about ordinary people and families not having to worry about moving out of their existing homes and their communities. Demovictions and renovictions in Burnaby South are not so much about a housing crisis as about a crisis of people and families’ lives.

In elections of all levels in the Lower Mainland, it is invariably compelling for candidates to make

sound bites on the “housing crisis.”

No candidate would feel relevant enough if they don’t say something about building affordable housing. Then, back to reality, such an obligatory, trite utterance of Lower Mainland electoral politics has hardly transformed itself into anything nearly enough to resolve the crisis for many. Thus, where Singh determines to be bold, he is challenged to go into what is so far ignored – and indeed, be more jurisdictionally proper - to address and engage a debate on the housing crisis as it is related to immigration – specifically, how immigration has adversely impacted the real estate market and housing for Canadians with domestic and social roots in Burnaby South; and then, what he and the NDP is proposing to take on this issue.

Eugene Ip, Burnaby

It’s time to ban plastic bags from stores Editor: Some stores have put a stop on giving (plastic bags) out freely, however they now charge five cents to buy them. I think this is counterproductive. Banning them completely should be the way. But now these stores are selling them and making profits on them. Instead of plastic bags, why not go back to paper bags like in the old days? I always bring my cloth bags when I shop, however, I would not mind paying for the paper bags instead of the plastic ones. I thought the idea was to ban plastic bags, not make it profitable for stores to use them.

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City now Ex-Green running without having a platform For Valentine Wu, the best platform is no platform at all.

The independent candidate in the Feb. 25 federal byelection in Burnaby South says his political opinions don’t matter. Instead,Wu says he will be a conduit for the riding’s diverse perspectives.

“I think that what I want to say is not that important. I think what the people want to say is more important,” he said.

Wu, an IT consultant who says he’s lived in the riding for more than 15 years, plans to run against NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal Richard Lee, Conservative Jay Shin and Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson of the People’s Party.

The upcoming byelection will be Wu’s second time appearing on a ballot.

He ran for the Green party in Burnaby-Edmonds in the 2017 provincial election, coming in third with approximately 14 per cent of the vote.

Wu said he hadn’t decided whether he would seek

the Green nomination in Burnaby South before the federal party’s leader, Elizabeth May, announced in August she would extend a “leader’s courtesy” to Singh and not run a candidate against him.

Asked about the Greens decision,Wu said “Their actions are made by their own interest. I respect that, but I think the byelection should be decided by the people of Burnaby South.”

Wu said running independently frees him from toeing a party line.

“I don’t want to offer people my solution,” he said. “I want people to work together to figure out our solution.”

Wu pointed to the issue of housing affordability. He said many people are worried about the price of homes, which have skyrocketed in the region in recent years. But not everyone shares the same concerns “Some people want to take advantage of this rising price of housing.They want to make money from that.

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Indigenous students find new success Cornelia Naylor

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When it comes to students graduating from high school, the Burnaby school district is ahead of the curve.

For well over a decade, the district has been ahead of the provincial average – by as much as seven per cent – when it comes to sixyear completion rates (the percentage of students who graduate with a Dogwood or adult diploma within six years of the first time they start Grade 8.)

But for Indigenous students, who make up about three per cent of the student population, things have been very different.

For as long as Burnaby’s overall grad rate has been above the provincial average, its grad rate for Aboriginal students has been well below it – and even below the average for all Aboriginal students in the province.

Until last year, that is.

In 2017/18, nearly 71 per cent of Indigenous students in Burnaby graduated within six years of starting Grade 8.

That’s a 22 per cent jump from the year before and nearly one per cent higher than the provincial average for Aboriginal kids.

While that means nearly a third of Burnaby’s Indigenous students still aren’t graduating, it’s a long way from nine years ago when more than two-thirds dropped out before finishing Grade 12.

‘SYSTEM-WIDE APPROACH’ “It’s been a long road, and by no means do we believe that reaching a 70-percent graduation rate means we’ve figured out how best to support each individu-

al Indigenous student in our district, but I think it’s showing that we’re starting to head down the right path,” district principal of Indigenous education Brandon Curr told the NOW. One thing that contributed to the big jump in rates last year was what Curr called “a big, helpful piece of usable data” from the ministry of education.

For the first time in his memory, the ministry sent the district a list of names of Indigenous students in their sixth year since Grade 8 who hadn’t graduated but whose last school contact had been in Burnaby.

“There were a number of students last year, who otherwise would have counted as a non-grad in our district, where we were able to reach out to them and connect them with either adult education or an alternative learning environment or connect them back to their home schools to finish the few courses that they had left uncompleted,” Curr said.

The goal however, is to move beyond “playing catch-up in year six,” according to Curr.

Toward that end, he said, the district has been using what he calls a “system-wide approach” that includes professional development for all staff to deepen their understanding of Indigenous culture, perspectives and worldviews.

The district’s goal – supported by the province’s new curriculum launched in 2015 – is to weave Indigenous culture into all school subjects and activities, not just include them as “oneoffs” and “add-ons.”

Take math. A “learning team” comprised of math teachers and the district’s

CULTURAL CONNECTION: Alpha Secondary Grade 12 student Nina Mawji-Sparvier sits by a set of indigenous carvings in progress that will soon adorn the renovated school’s entrance. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

Indigenous education team is currently working on ways to incorporate “Indigenous pedagogy into mathematics,” according to Curr.

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT The district has also worked on engaging Indigenous students in “culturally relevant learning activities.”

That’s made a difference to students like Moscrop Secondary Grade 12 student Jaisen Axworthy, whose family is originally from First Nations near Chase and Mt. Currie.

He remembers his elementary school, Inman Elementary, hosting Aboriginal circles featuring Indigenous speakers and hands-on activities, like making dreamcatchers or drums.

“It was nice because we got to learn a thing or two,” he said. “For me it was nice because it wasn’t really talked about much growing up.”

Axworthy, who is on track to graduate this year, wants to get into BCIT’s Trades Discovery program next year.

Alpha Secondary Grade 12 student Nina MawjiSparvier also didn’t know much about her Indigenous heritage until about Grade 7, when Aboriginal circles at her Coquitlam middle school sparked her interest.

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Those activities at school sparked conversations with her mother, who had become disconnected with her Plains Cree family in Saskatchewan after her father, a residential school survivor, left her mother.

‘SAFE PLACE’ In high school in Coquitlam, Mawji-Sparvier said there was little support for her as an Indigenous student, but that changed when she came to Alpha, where there is a dedicated resource room staffed with a youth engagement worker.

“It’s just such a safe place from school and even from

home for some students, which I do think is very important,” Mawji-Sparvier said.

When asked to name the most important thing the district could do to help Aboriginal students succeed, Mawji-Sparvier is emphatic: Every high school should have a dedicated room for Indigenous students staffed by a full-time support worker.

Currently, youth engagement worker Lorelei Lyons is at Alpha only two days a week.

“A lot can happen those other days for any Indigenous student,” MawjiSparvier said. “I think this should definitely be full time, just daily check-ins, Continued on page 16

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Playtime: A Suncrest Elementary student takes a swing on some monkey bars during the official opening of the school’s new playground, the first in Burnaby built with grants announced

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Parents at Suncrest Elementary in South Burnaby had been scraping money together for five years to install a small new piece of playground equipment this summer when their plans were blown out of the water by the provincial government.

Instead of having $9,000 to work with, they learned they’d have $99,000, thanks to a new government grant.

“It was an amazing relief, but it was also very stressful because the funding came with a deadline,” said Rozsika den Haan, the Suncrest parent advisory council’s playground chair at the time.

Parents and students joined local and provincial education officials earlier this month for the official opening of the new playground, which was installed in December.

The school was given a March deadline to use the grant, which was announced last May. Premier John Horgan announced on May 8 that the government had created a $5-million fund for ongoing support of playgrounds to lift the burden off volunteer-run parent councils who often have to fundraise for new or upgraded equipment.

Suncrest’s was the first playground built in Burnaby using those funds.

Playgrounds are important, not just for school kids, but for the whole community, Burnaby-North MLA Janet Routledge told the NOW at the playground opening. She said her daughter-in-law had been a teacher inVancouver at a school that didn’t have a

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“A lot of the parents were immigrants and refugees – they were not in a position to raise money, so the teachers did,” Routledge said. “One of the things that struck me after they had raised the money is how it built the community because parents who were isolated, socially isolated, isolated from each other would bring their kids to the school yard and they would get to know each other.”

The old wooden playground at Suncrest was “on its last legs in terms of being safe,” according to principal Lori Driussi.

“They were tightening bolts regularly,” she said.

Besides being safer, the new structure is also a real hit with the kids, she said, especially the climbing net and spinner.

That’s no accident since the students were thoroughly consulted, and those were two things they asked for.

In a paper survey during the planning stage, kids were asked to describe what they’d like to be able to do in the new playground and which pieces of equipment they’d like to have to play with, according to Driussi.

“The word ‘tall’ came up a lot, as tall as it can be,” she said.

Driussi said students love the new equipment and she’s heard the playground is being well used over the weekends too.

Without the government grant, though, it’s unlikely the school would have ended up with it anytime soon.

After five years of school carnivals, movie nights, Purdy’s fundraisers and clothing-drives, as well as sales of everything from hot lunches and flower basket to chicken and manure, the

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PAC had scraped together just $9,000, according to den Haan.

Driussi estimates that, including the installation by the district facilities staff, the school has instead ended up with a playground worth about $102,000.

“They love it.They’re so grateful for it.They’re so happy out there,” she said of her students.

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Communitynow Indigenous boys still face challenges Continued from page 13 monitoring the students. It’s pushing them. A lot of students don’t have that push at home and the support and positive role model.”

Mawji-Sparvier is also on track to graduate this year and plans to study human and social sciences at Native Education College and become a criminal defence lawyer one day.

STUDENT VOICES To get a deeper understanding of the day-to-day experiences of its Indigenous students, the district is hosting an Indigenous Student Voice Forum in February.

It’s part of a larger provincial initiative called the Indigenous Education Equity Scan, designed to help districts remove obstacles and make schools more truly inclusive for Indigenous students.

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is the big divide between the grad rates of Indigenous girls versus boys.

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boys in the district and 21 per cent below the provincial average for Aboriginal boys).

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BRING IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR with calligraphy, lantern making, traditional Chinese dance performances and a “travel through Asia” photo booth. Metropolis at Metrotown’s Grand Court will host the events daily from Feb. 1 to 19.

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Lion dancers will be in Burnaby next month spreading good fortune during the Heights Merchants Association’s annual Lunar NewYear celebration.

The community is invited to ring in theYear of the Pig on Saturday, Feb. 9 in the Heights. From noon to 3 p.m., traditional lion dancers will parade down Hastings Street from Gamma Avenue to Boundary Road, bringing businesses good luck for the coming year, according to a press release.

“The celebration will usher in theYear of the Pig, in accordance to the Asian zodiac, and include giveaways for lucky shoppers,” notes the release.

Lunar NewYear is coming up on Feb. 5 – and Burnaby Public Library is giving local families a chance to celebrate.

On Sunday, Feb. 3, the McGill branch (4595 Albert St.) hosts Lunar New Year lantern making from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Families, teens and adults are invited to drop in to make

Happy new year: Lion dancers perform on Hastings Street during a past Lunar New Year celebration in the Heights. PHOTO FILES

There will be music and dancing throughout the event, and everyone is welcome to drop by. For more

information, go to www. burnabyheights.com/news/ lunar-new-year.

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Brentwood hosts festivities Brentwood Town Centre is hosting a Lunar NewYear event on Feb. 2.

The shopping centre will welcome theYear of the Pig at 1 p.m. with the following: ! Special guests, members

of Burnaby city council !Traditional dances ! Chinese Lion Dance and drum show ! Blessing of the Merchants ceremony ! Complimentary artisanal offerings, including Chinese

calligraphy, balloon artists, traditional ribbon artisans, traditional dough artisans, and traditional knot artisans ! Festive treats including lucky red envelopes, chocolate gold coins, and tea sampling from DAVIDsTEA

a lantern to welcome the Year of the Pig. Supplies are limited, so please arrive early. It’s aimed at ages six and up, and adults must accompany children under 10. No registration is needed.

On Monday, Feb. 4, the Tommy Douglas branch (7311 Kingsway) gives children a chance to make

Lunar NewYear crafts – you can create your own paper lantern, dragon and lucky envelopes.The session runs from 3 to 4:30 p.m. and is aimed at ages five to 12; children under 10 need to bring an adult who will take part. For info, call 604-522-3971.

See www.bpl.bc.ca/ events for details.

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MLA hosts celebration to welcome the Year of the Pig Everyone’s invited to Bonsor rec centre on Feb. 2 Kelvin Gawley

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For Burnaby–Deer Lake MLA Anne Kang, the Lunar NewYear is a time to bring the community together.

That’s why she’s hosting an event on Feb. 2 at Bonsor Recreation Centre to bring in theYear of the Pig.The celebration will have a special focus on seniors groups, she said, but will also welcome community members from all backgrounds, Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley and Premier John Horgan.

There will be food, music, community booths and plenty of opportunity “to

talk about life and catch up,” Kang said.

Last year, the NDP legislator hosted the event at her constituency office but roughly 500 people showed up over the course of the event after only 100 RSVP’d. So this year, Kang figured she needed a bigger venue.

Kang said the event helps her reconnect with constituents after spending so much of her time inVictoria.

The Lunar NewYear holds a special place in several Asian cultures from China to Indonesia to Korea and more, she said. But Kang said the event is for everyone in the communi-

New year wishes: A Wishing Tree, where residents posted their hopes for the new year, was part of the Lunar New Year festivities held at Lougheed Town Centre on Saturday, Jan. 26.

For more photos from the event, see page 20.

ty, no matter their cultural background.

And theYear of the Pig brings with it positive traits to take to hear, Kang said.

The pig, she said, is associated with loyalty and sincerity in Chinese culture.

The new year could also bring prosperity. Kang recalls hearing people say “We hope your envelope is as fat as a pig,” referring to the red pouch stuffed with cash and gifted to friends and family at this time of year.

While all the free tickets to the event have already been claimed, Kang said everyone is welcome to come for the last portion of the event after 2 p.m.

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Burnaby’s newest care home is officially under construction following a groundbreaking ceremony last week.

Local politicians and dignitaries were on hand Friday at the site of the upcoming 240-bed facility to be operated by the New Vista Society.

The B.C. government has kicked in $5.5 million for the project and the City of Burnaby has waived $600,000 in development cost charges.

“The City of Burnaby is so pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to this important project,” said Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley in a statement. “When complete, it will be an invaluable addition to our community, providing muchneeded new, affordable, residential care units for seniors.”

The seven-storey care

home on New Vista Place will provide 236 subsidized care units and four private units.

One floor will be dedicated to culturally sensitive care for Korean-Canadian seniors.

Two longtime supporters of the Korean-Canadian community, Eunice Oh and the Rose of Sharon Foundation, donated $1.5 million towards the project.

“The province recognizes that there is a need to revitalize and create new affordable housing options across the province, which is why we are investing in the redevelopment of the New Vista Society’s care home,” Raj Chouhan, MLA for Burnaby–Edmonds, said in a statement.

“I know that many seniors will benefit from the facility and I look forward to visiting the new care home once complete.”

The building is expected to be complete in the summer of 2020.

New beginnings: Dignitaries participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for a new care home. Left to right: MLA Anne Kang; Curtis Snider from Fraser Health; MLA Raj Chouhan; Linda Flegel, New Vista board president; Eunice Oh, New Vista director and donor; Coun. Paul McDonell; Lynn Squance, Family Council. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED.

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Everybody has to go through their own journey Men who are dealing with prostate cancer can meet with others who have gone through it and have firsthand knowledge of what’s involved.

“I myself have been treated for prostate cancer and found a support group, the one I am now in,” Andersen said. “It provided me with answers that I did not, could not possibly expect, from a medical treatment.

The whole idea is we have time to spend with individuals who don’t have immediate answers in their treatment.”

Andersen said the health care system is set up in such a way that people are often treated for a disease or ailment and then quickly sent on their way.

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The Prostate Cancer Burnaby Support Group – which attracts resident from New Westminster, Burnaby and East Vancouver – is for anyone with prostate cancer, whether they’re experiencing shock from a prostate cancer diagnosis or having issues later in their journey with the disease.

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The Maria Ho Quintet is offering up a special concert onWednesday, Feb. 13 as part of the Jazz Evensong series at Brentwood Presbyterian Church – which will double as both a salute to love forValentine’s Day and a fundraiser for the Socks for Souls campaign.

Ho, a vocalist, will be joined by topVancouver-area musicians BobYork on piano, Noah Gotfrit on bass, Brendan Steele on guitar and Buff Allen on drums for a program of jazz standards from the 1920s through to the 1960s.

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Urban Academy - Opening Doors to the Future

Seventeen years, three campuses, fourteen grades of students and countless supporters seems to be the perfect formula to see a private school from a dream through childhood, into its adolescence and on the precipice of opening the doors to the future.

invested in developing the creative The program is not only strong, but for innovators of tomorrow. a small school, wide ranging. “Students know that they are committing to high And finally, the future of its facility. This academic expectations, and they are focus is one of the most measurable prepared to do the work” continued ones and certainly one of the most Beaumont.

In addition to academics challenging at a time when real estate is she notes that “the Drama and Music scarce and building costs high. But once programs, including Glee Club, are again, by focussing on the future, Urban Academy is proving to be resourceful incredibly popular and successful the last and determined as it opens its brand number of years, and our competitive new purpose built modern school athletics program and our outdoor facility this March. The school, located at education component really add a 466 Rousseau Street in New Westminster is an example of an urban school, built high not wide, ready to welcome Urban Academy students from JK to Grade 12 with everything from a media lab and theatre to a full-size gym and music room.

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The future of its students, to provide an exceptional learning environment that not only prepares students well for their post secondary education, but for a fulfilling and prosperous life beyond as well. The future of its community, focussed on building a strong, connected and committed parent group who are invested in the students and families of UA. The future of its staff, developing a strong and united team passionate “We are very proud to be able to about excellence in education and open our doors to an environment of learning that will benefit each and every Urban Academy Student” says Cheryle Beaumont, Urban Academy’s Head of School. Beaumont, the construction team and staff have been working in parallel streams to not only build an exceptional facility, but to build an educational program equally as impressive.

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Entertainmentnow Burnaby grad brings new ‘Canadian soap opera’ to life An Alpha Secondary grad is getting set to launch her latest project: a six-episode web series that she’s billing as a “Canadian soap opera.”

Angela Galanopoulos, who grew up in Burnaby, is one of the creators, writers and producers of the new series Michelle’s, alongside co-creator Andrew Barber.The show, which is set to debut on Brain Bird Productions’YouTube channel today (Jan. 31), is coming to the screen thanks to funding from the TELUS STORYHIVE program and CreativeBC. As a press release notes, the show stars Galanopoulos as Michelle Gidard, an ambitious restaurant owner who’s the queen of latenight dining in Hope, B.C. When a mysterious man from her past, Hank Deveraux (played by Cameron Bancroft) pays her a visit, it becomes clear that he will stop at nothing in order to destroy her empire.

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Evensong features jazz music Combine that with Brentwood’s warm ambience and acoustics, and it seemed a perfect fit, so the church launched Jazz Evensongs in 2013.

The 2019 schedule includes an array of vocalists and musicians, many of whom will be familiar to fans of the Vancouver jazz scene.

On Feb. 6, audiences can enjoy the vocal stylings of Vancouver-based blues singer Dalannah Gail Bowen, while Feb. 13 will feature a Valentine’s celebration of love with vocalist Maria Ho, along with pianist BobYork, Noah Gotfrit on bass, Brendan Steele on guitar and Buff Allen on drums (see story on page 28).

Feb. 20 will feature the funk-soul-gospel sounds of Dawn Pemberton, hailed as “the new queen of Canadian soul.” Feb. 27 continues with powerful female vocals, as Candus Churchill sings the music of Nina Simone.

Those who attend a Jazz evensong are invited to put money into the “thanks bucket” – a tradition borrowed from New Orleans

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A write-up on the church website notes that the evenings are mostly music, with seven pieces in all.There are also prayers, inspired by the Iona Community tradition of Trinitarian thinking about the blessings of God that flow to us, moment by moment, in the most ordinary of things.

The Jazz Vespers evenings grew out of a love of jazz shared by many in the congregation, especially the minister and director of music.

“Vancouver is blessed with a rich pool of amazing talent in its jazz musicians, complemented by musicians on tour coming through town,” the write-up says. “Churches are looking to offer an alternative time and form of worship in which people can be nourished by the grace of Jesus Christ to flourish.”

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It starts when they’re still in the womb. From baby rooms decorated in 50 shades of blue to toy boxes topped up with footballs and firetrucks – as soon as the presence of aY chromosome becomes apparent, many parents begin their prep based on preconceived assumptions about the gender of their soon-to-be-born male child.

But it’s not just the dudecentric decor that has today’s parents squirming; it’s the societal expectations that have been tagged on to the traditionally masculine behaviours that have some of us rethinking our approach to parenting our boys.

It’s shrugging off aggressive behaviours with the “boys will be boys” copout, the “man up” mentality that discourages boys from showing any emotion and the superiority complex that stems from the old-school ways of thinking that are

giving us the biggest cause for concern.

Today, however, a slowbut-steady shift seems to be happening.We’re starting to recognize the detrimental effects that the expectations of “traditional” masculinity are having on our boys and men.

Gillette, best known for their “The Best A Man Can Get” slogan paired with tough-man imagery used to depict the well-shaved dudes who use their products, has finally adjusted their messaging – and they’ve definitely gotten our attention.

In their recently released ad, Gillette flips the script, asking, “Is this the best a man can get?”Through tear-jerking imagery, such as a boy being bullied and crying in the arms of his mother, or men stepping in to break up a fight or shut down cat-calls, Gillette asks men to not only change the way they behave, but to remember who is watching and mimicking those behaviours.The video closes with the hard-hitting message to “be the best men can be,”

“because the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow.”

Within two days of its release, the video received more than six million views (and now sits at more than 27 million views onYouTube), and it’s not only going viral because of great marketing.

At the end of 2018, a new APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice Around Boys and Men report was released, revealing the harmful effects of the traditional masculinity ideology – which, according to the APA, includes “antifemininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence” – all of which can be psychologically harmful to men and boys.

The report shares the findings that: “Socialization for conforming to traditional masculinity ideology has been shown to limit males’ psychological development, constrain their behavior, result in gender role strain and gender role conflict, and negatively influence mental

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health and physical health,” linking “constricted notions of masculinity” to aggression, homophobia and misogyny, saying such notions “may influence boys to direct a great deal of their energy into disruptive behaviors such as bullying, homosexual taunting, and sexual harassment rather than healthy academic and extracurricular activities.”

Traditional masculinity goes far beyond the girl/boy, pink/blue gender biases – it’s the associated old-school mindset that has become truly toxic.

It’s time for us as parents to make a change – not only to teach our boys to treat others with respect, refrain from violence and set a good example for those who are watching and learning from their actions, but to hold themselves and their friends accountable for their actions – to be the best boys and men they can be.

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For Tomlinson, that means sitting down with clients to look at goals, budgets and most importantly, cash flow, and not just figuring out the biggest possible amount a client can be approved for.

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Contemporary dance onstage at Shadbolt For fans of contemporary dance, the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is the place to be in February.

Coming up Feb. 6 to Feb. 9, audiences can enjoy In Fiction, a new work from the Action at a Distance company that “blurs the line

This creates a responsive, improvised state between the real and the imagined,” says a write-up about the show.

“This visceral solo strikes a balance between cognitive understanding and phantasmal imagination with engaging, highly physical re-

sults,” says the write-up.

It’s created and performed by Vanessa Goodman, in collaboration with lighting designer James Proudfoot.

In Fiction is onstage Wednesday, Feb. 6 through Saturday, Feb. 9.Tickets are $15 for the Wednesday show, and $36 for Thursday to Saturday.

Then, from Feb. 21 to 23, it’s time for Company 605’s work Loop, Lull.

“Set in an environment striving to be in continuous transformation, the performers take charge of lighting and sound, shifting the movement in reaction to one another and the changing space,” says a writeup about the performance.

“This creates a responsive, improvised state for those

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The show welcomes submissions from visual artists working in all media, including painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, wood, metalwork and installations.

This will be the fourth edition of the popular exhibition, which has become one of the biggest draws on the local arts scene since its first edition attracted a huge social media buzz.

Luminescence IV will be at Deer Lake Gallery from Friday, March 16 to Saturday, April 6, and artists will install work on Tuesday, March 12.

For full submission details and to fill out the online application, see www. burnabyartscouncil.org/ 2019-call-luminescence-iv.

Explore Japanese books, food at Nikkei If you’re interested in Japanese culture, here’s your chance to explore the widest selection of used Japanese books in the region – plus a host of family fun and food.

The Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre is holding its annual Japanese book sale on Friday, Feb. 1 and Saturday, Feb. 2, with a flea market also on Saturday.

The book sale will offer thousands of Japanese and English books, manga, CDs and DVDs both days.The flea market, meanwhile, will offer secondhand collectibles, household goods,

kimonos and other Japanese items. Japanese food vendors will also be on site serving up foods and refreshments such as takoyaki (octopus balls), crepes, waffles, tea and burgers.

Saturday will also feature a variety of valentinethemed activities, including a screening of the film The Night is Short,Walk on Girl (in Japanese with English subtitles), a felting workshop and a cookie making workshop.

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Les Habs coming for Burnaby benefit game

Although 25 years have passed since they last hoisted Lord Stanley’s famous silver chalice, the Montreal Canadiens hockey team, or le Club de hockey Canadien for those whose passion runs deep, still has a mystique all its own.

Canada’s greatest hockey club – with 24 Stanley Cup titles to prove it – is coming to town.

For one evening, fans can watch and meet their heroes as the Montreal Canadiens alumni visit Burnaby for a charity game to benefit Burnaby Family Life.

It’s a special event on Feb. 9 at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre, where the game will pit members of Les Habs’ alumni against a coed team from Burnaby with the focus on fun and charity.

Fans will also have an opportunity to meet and talk with team members at a post-game reception dinner at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown.

“This is the first time for us doing this,” remarked BFL fund development coordinator Nancy Grenier. “The Montreal Canadiens are a very popular club, and the alumni is very active.They do these kinds of charitable events with cross-country tours.”

Burnaby Family Life is a charity that offers quality supportive services for families from Burnaby and neighbouring communities in need. The non-profit organization offers free counselling for children between three and 12 years of age who have experienced or witnessed abuse, edu-

cational activities for parents and children, help for refugee families in making cultural integration and resettlement, and support for single mothers, expectant mothers and new immigrants.

As evident by their many fans’ emotional display at Rogers Arena whenever Montreal comes to play Vancouver, Quebec’s hockey team has a passionate fanbase that stretches deep along the West Coast.

Fans may have caught Les Canadiens fever during their firewagon hockey years in the 1970s, or the cup runs of the 1960s.

A partial list of players, which may change due to availability, include Jesse Belanger, Marc Andre Bergeron, Patrice Brisebois, Matthieu Dandenault, Pierre Da-

genais, Glenn Metropolit, Oleg Petrov, John Scott, Richard Sevigny and Mike Weaver. Expected to work the bench is Hockey Hall of Fame member Steve Shutt.

The game starts at 4:30 p.m. at the Copeland Sports Centre and includes an appearance by tribute artist Bobby Bruce of Nearly Neil fame, and a minihockey game with Burnaby Minor Hockey Association players.

The reception/post-game dinner begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown.

All proceeds raised will go to Burnaby Family Life, which has been helping people in the community for the past 47 years.

Tickets for the game or the game and reception are available at https://bflgrowscommunity.org.

SFU relay teams one-step away from nationals Three Simon Fraser University relay teams and two individuals achieved provisional qualifying times for the upcoming NCAA Indoor track and field championships with their results at last week’s University of Washington Invitational.

The SFU distance medley relay quartet of

Paige Nock, Renate Bluschke, Sophie Dodd and Addy Townsend ran a Div. 2 season-best time of 11:35.62, just three-tenths of a second shy of the automatic qualifying standard.

The men’s tandem of Aaron Ahl, Nate St. Romain, Carlos Vargas and Pierre-Lous Detourbe finished in 9:58.86 for its provision-

al mark. Also earning a provisional standard was the women’s 4x400-metre relay, featuring Bryce West, Dodd,Townsend and Bluschke.

Both Townsend, in the women’s 800m, and Detourbe, in the 3,000m race, achieved provisional times. Burnaby’s Nathan Mah ran 7.14 in the 60m and 22.61 in the 200m.

Health and happiness go together like pancakes and syrup.

The defending B.C. champion Burnaby South Rebels ate a lot of dry hotcakes to start the season, but this week it was nearly all sweetness.

The Rebels secured the chance to host the Burnaby-New West senior boys basketball league playoffs by knocking off archrival Byrne Creek 8454 on Monday, spurred on by a full lineup of healthy players.

It lasted for less than a half, but as has been the case during the team’s 18-3 record, it was enough to carry them on to victory.

“Our big strategy was just to play the way we wanted, not get bogged down by the intensity and game play of Byrne Creek,” remarked Rebels coach Mike Bell. “It was a little bit shaky at the start.The crowd was loud and there was some anxious energy for the first bit, but we played to our side of the crowd and got on track.”

In fact, Byrne Creek held an 18-17 edge after 10 minutes, but Burnaby South lassoed the lead, then took off.

However, they lost star post Sasha Vujisic, who had just fully returned to the lineup 14 days ago after missing the first six weeks to a leg injury, with a cut lip that required stitches.

Although he missed the rest of the game, the six-foot-10 Vujisic is “100 per cent ready” to play their next game, Bell said. In his absence, everyone did their bit to step up, with returning players fuelled by the memory of last year’s league final loss to the same Bulldogs.

“That was a big letdown, but it was also something that sparked us,” Bell said of last year’s loss, which proved to be one of the motivational pieces that steered them to the B.C. 4-A title.

“Our kids understand what we need to do and how to do it.”

By going on a 31-8 roll in the second frame, the Rebels put their fingerprints on every aspect of the game, en route to locking up first place. Guard Baltaj Sohal led the way in the crucial second-quarter turnaround, scoring eight points and adding three assists.

“Once we got the ball working for us they had to try to double-down, and our depth just took over. ... I think (Sohal) played great, he just stepped up in that atmosphere. (Vujisic) used his size, and him and Aidan (Wilson) were able to eat it up along the boards,” said Bell.

Byrne Creek, ranked ninth in 3-A, was without one of their key forwards but did get the usual strong performance from Grade 12 guard Bithow Wan, who accounted for 12 points Continued on page 43

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If last year’s disappointing result was a mere blip, next week’s junior draft offers a one-time only reward.

The Burnaby Lakers expect to get a couple of starters from the Feb. 7 Western Lacrosse Association’s annual draft in Langley, where they hold the second overall pick.

Taken at face value, the selection should bring some balm for the burn that was a 6-11-1 run, only better than Coquitlam’s 2-16-0 mark.

It won’t take away the sting, but it could help turn the page.

“There are so many factors you have to consider,” Lakers general manager Kevin Hill said of the draft.

“You look at needs, you gather information on each player and you have to do what’s in the best interest of our club.”

League and Minto MVP Christian Del Bianco is expected to go to his hometown Adanacs.The standout goaltender has already made the jump to the National Lacrosse League, af-

ter starring at the junior level the past four seasons.

“A goalie like that doesn’t come around often, so that’s a no-brainer,” Hill, a former netminder himself, said of Coquitlam’s likely selection.

At second, Burnaby has options.

Among the prized graduates who are available are a pair of Adanacs, Ryland Rees and Dylan Foulds, and a trio from Victoria, Braylon Lumb, Marshal King and Brad McCulley “You have Rees who, at 21, made the Canadian world championship (field) team,” noted Hill. “He’s a good two-way defender, but you have weigh the risk of him going (to play in the Major Lacrosse League, a pro field lacrosse circuit based on the U.S. east coast).”

Rees, a first team conference All-American at Stony Brook, played 13 games between his hometown PoCo and Adanacs, netting 14 goals and 17 assists in 13 games. At six-foot-two and 195-pounds, Rees is considered physically ready to make the jump to the senior circuit and is versatile.

Foulds tallied 32 goals and 64 assists over 18 games, and was one of the top snipers in Coquitlam’s run to a Minto Cup title.

Lumb topped the B.C. junior league’s scoring table, tallying 57 goals and 46 assists over 21 games, while King posted the best pointsper-game average at 31 goals and 41 assists over just 11 games.

Drafting players from the Island in the past has been a rarity for mainland teams.

However, with both Victoria and Nanaimo more inclined in recent years to select mainland players, the reverse is slowly becoming an option.

Hill said the key is learning a player’s interest and intentions.That interest could give reason to pause, instead of letting better talent pass by as in past drafts.

“It’s similar with eastern imports; you never know if that player is heading back east or staying for a year,” said Hill, noting how the team struck gold when it selected Ontario native Brine Rice in the fifth round last year, after he spent 2017 with New West.

To the crease: Burnaby junior Lakers’ Mason Pomeroy, shown getting off a shot against Victoria last season, is one of the graduating Lakers who could be drafted next week at the Western Lacrosse Association junior draft in Langley. PHOTO NOW FILE

Burnaby South locks up banner Continued from page 42 over three quarters. Mukhtar Afadish chipped in 11 points and three rebounds during the first 30 minutes.

It was the second straight 30-point league win for Burnaby South, who knocked off it’s North rival 82-52 last week.

The No. 6-ranked Rebels continued their roll by defeating No. 5-ranked St. George’s on Tuesday, 77-69.

Tied 20-20 after one quarter, the visiting Rebels gained some traction in the second frame and then gathered momentum in the second half, breaking open a three-point contest.

Jiordano Khan set the tone with 20 points and seven rebounds, while Vujisic knocked down 16 points and 22 boards. Chipping in with eight timely points was Kyle Kirmaci.

Byrne Creek, meanwhile, ventures to Abbotsford to play in the Robert Bateman Timberwolves Classic tournament, starting today (Thursday).The Bulldogs face unranked Brookswood in their opening game.

League playoffs begin on Monday at New West, when the Hyacks play the sixth place finisher, and teams 4 and 5 meet in the other preliminary game. Alpha, Burnaby North and Cariboo Hill were still jostling for the final three seeding positions at press deadline.

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The stress test introduced in January 2018 was largely to blame for the current housing market slowdown.

In its 2019 Annual State of the Residential Mortgage Market in Canada report, the group came down hard on federal mortgage regulation policies, saying that the stress test introduced in January 2018 was largely to blame for the current housing market slowdown. MPC argued that many buyers were now unable to get into homeownership at all, while others have had to buy a cheaper, less desirable home to qualify for a mortgage.

Paul Taylor, president and CEO of MPC, said the slowdown in key markets across the country was steeper than anticipated. “We are seeing downward trends and/or depressions in areas like

the resale market, the outlook on employment in the housing construction sector, and a continued decline in rental vacancy rates,” stated Taylor.

“Federal policy changes are disqualifying potential first-time homebuyers and creating immense pressures on the rental market, which is in turn driving rental prices higher. It is a spiralling problem.”

UNFOLDING AS EXPECTED Report author and MPC chief economist Will Dunning cited a comment made in the same annual report one year ago, which read, “By the time of the next federal election in October 2019, about 200,000 Canadian families will have encountered sharp personal disappointment as the direct result… (they will either have significantly reduced their housing expectations in order to obtain financing, or been entirely prevented from buying a home).”

The 2019 report added, “This is all unfolding substantially as we expected a year ago.”

Dunning argued that the federal government’s promise to help middle-class Canadians prosper was being undermined by the mortgage stress

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RENTING VS OWNING The report also cited a recent MPC analysis of the costs of renting versus homeownership in 266 cases of varying housing types and locations across Canada. The study found that homeownership was less expensive than renting over the course of a lifetime, making homeowners much more financially stable than renters in the long term.

“In terms of total monthly costs, renting costs less than owning. However, the monthly cost of homeownership includes large amounts of repayment of principal, which is a form of saving. Therefore, it is reasonable to net-out principal repayment from the cost of ownership.

On this net-cost basis, the cost of ownership

The report concluded, “The mortgage stress tests, by making it much more difficult for Canadians to become homeowners, are going to significantly impair their long-term financial well-being.”

Dunning added that there could be wider economic effects of a housing price correction.

He wrote, “Constrained growth of house prices will dampen consumer confidence compared to what it would be otherwise, and this will gradually impair job creation across the economy.”

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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR FEBRUARY 5TH YEAR OF THE PIG Prices Effective January 31 to February 6, 2019.

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5.99

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