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HOUSING

Council pulls rental proposal Dustin Godfrey

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A resident in the area of a proposed affordable rental building is declaring victory after council voted to rescind the proposal, potentially moving it to another location nearby. The 151-unit affordable rental building was planned to go up at 7285 Kitchener St., but at a Dec. 10 public hearing last year, local residents showed up to oppose the project. According to a staff report, 19 people spoke on the proposal at the public hearing, while 80 people signed one petition, 480 people signed another petition and five people submitted letters on the project. Concerns largely centred on traffic and environmental considerations for the lot at 7285 Kitchener and the availability of another cityowned lot nearby. The original lot is a wooded area in which a recent study “suggest(s) the presence of a wetland on portions of the site that would meet the definition of a ‘non-permanent, non-fish bearing stream,’ ” according to the staff report. “The location they were looking at just didn’t accommodate the possible rezoning that they were going to do,” said Robert Ponis, one of the local residents speaking out against the project. “There’s only one way in and out of that neighbourhood. … There’s no sidewalk; there’s no infrastructure. So there’s no real way for service vehicles, emergency vehicles to turn and get in there. It’s very difficult.” Ponis said the opposi-

tion had “nothing really to do with affordable housing,” something that may be evidenced by the new proposed location for the development just a couple of blocks away. A staff report said they would study the location at 7409 Halifax St., one of two alternative locations pushed by residents. Although the other location, on Augusta Avenue, is set aside for parkland, staff said the Halifax location could work for non-market housing. If it is deemed viable for such a development, staff said the city would pursue the new spot “expeditiously.” “It is noted, however, that development of this alternative site would result in considerably higher densities and forms (tower) and corresponding number of units,” staff wrote. Burnaby councillors touted their vote to rescind the Kitchener Street rezoning as a victory for public consultation – “the system works,” Mayor Mike Hurley declared in the Monday evening council meeting. They also voted unanimously to direct staff to explore turning that location into permanent parkspace, an issue that will eventually make its way to the parks and recreation commission. Coun. Dan Johnston said developments have been proposed at that lot for around three decades, all of which have been met with significant backlash from the local community. Ponis said he was pleased with the result, now that the application has been officially rescinded, and he added city hall is likely to see more engagement from him moving forward.

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City now POLITICS

Three councillors bolt from the BCA Dustin Godfrey

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Three Burnaby city councillors have resigned from the dominant Burnaby Citizens Association over disagreements regarding subsidized housing in the city, the NOW has learned. Councillors Colleen Jordan, Paul McDonell and Dan Johnston submitted a joint letter of resignation on Wednesday, Feb. 5, Johnston said in an interview. Johnston said the rift comes following several motions from Jordan over the last several months on social housing in the city, which have been shot down by the remainder of council.That includes one last month in which Jordan sought to have the city further subsidize a BC Housing project in Metrotown, where onebedroom rents are projected to run more than $1,300 a month. “Some people in the BCA decided anything and anything the BCA stood for in the last 45 to 50 years doesn’t matter anymore, and what the new mayor brings forward seems to be what the agenda of the day is,” Johnston said. “Anything we as a group of all seven of us campaigned on doesn’t seem to be valuable, doesn’t seem to be worth debating.” Beyond that, Jordan said she didn’t feel free, being part of the BCA slate, to

Political split: Burnaby council. Back row, left to right: Coun. Sav Dhaliwal, Coun. Pietro Calendino, Coun. James Wang, Coun. Joe Keithley, Coun. Colleen Jordan, Coun. Nick Volkow. Front row, left to right: Coun. Paul McDonell, Mayor Mike Hurley, Coun. Dan Johnston. PHOTO CITY OF BURNABY

speak out on council decisions she disagreed with – for instance, her motion calling for subsidizing rents at the Metrotown-area social housing project. “When that happened, I didn’t feel free to go on social media and say, ‘Why not look at some other options?’ ... But now I’m free to do that,” Jordan said. Johnston said motions brought forward by Jordan have left the group of three councillors “ganged up on” by the remainder of council. “I think there should at least be decorum and [we

should] discuss everything,” he said Johnston said he also took issue with council’s vote to spend city money on a new CT scanner at Burnaby’s hospital – Johnston and Jordan both voted against the motion. “We’re basically stepping into provincial territory there, and we’ve always said as a council … that we didn’t volunteer and step into provincial jurisdiction,” Johnston said. “We get a new mayor in and some shift in decisions, and all of a sudden we’re

giving a million dollars of Burnaby taxpayers’ money to Burnaby Hospital, which is basically letting the provincial government off.” Johnston said he did not see Jordan’s motion last month, which would have used Burnaby coffers to subsidize rents at a social housing project in Metrotown, as wading into provincial territory. “We’ve, for the last five, six years, been assisting not-for-profits with waiving costs that make the local project more affordable to the local community,” he

said. “It’s benefiting Burnaby-based societies and Burnaby-based individuals.” BCA president Lee Loftus said he would have liked to see the slate “work together” rather than splitting up, as the group enters what he referred to as a phase of “renewal.” That renewal, he said is coming in the form of consultations with citizens, forming committees and speaking to other stakeholders about the direction of the BCA. “It was getting a little stale … in the past. Our

election was successful last time; we want to make sure that we’re representing citizens properly,” Loftus said. “We’re doing strategic planning, we reached out to our membership at large, we’re doing consulting, we’re trying to put together some committees.” With the three resignations, the BCA’s hold on council is now reduced to four councillors – less than half of the nine-member council – with Mayor Mike Hurley an independent and Coun. Joe Keithley part of the Burnaby Greens. How the newly configured council will interact is yet to be seen, but Johnston said he hopes it’s not more of what’s already been occurring. “It’s really up to the majority,” he said. “I’ve been on council for 25 years. I think we traditionally supported motions at least for discussion.” Johnston said he hasn’t decided yet whether he’ll run in the next election, but if he doesn’t, he said it won’t be because of his split with the BCA. He also said it’s premature to say whether the group of three will be forming an official coalition. Jordan also said the next election is too far away to determine whether or not her resignation from the slate will affect her decision to run again.

ENVIRONMENT

City eyes creating its own organic waste facility

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The City of Burnaby is floating the idea of creating its own organic waste facility, according to documents published last week. In an email to the NOW, city spokesperson Chris Bryan said tipping fees for green waste “have been rising significantly in recent years.” “There are a limited number of companies offering the service in the region. As a result, city council asked that we explore the option of running our own facility,” Bryan said. The city filed a request for proposals last week seeking a consultant to conduct a feasibility study for op-

tions on potentially developing their own organics facility.This comes after the city approved a $16-million, five-year contract for dealing with green waste in fall 2019. According to the RFP, which is set to close by the end of the month, the city is looking at using an organics waste facility to produce energy by capturing the biogas emitted. Processing organics tends to produce methane and carbon dioxide as the waste decomposes, which can be used to replace other natural gas sources. This is typically considered to be a carbon-neutral fuel source, as combustion doesn’t produce any new greenhouse gases –

those are already being released into the atmosphere through decomposition, according to FortisBC. The feasibility study is also expected to help the city find a location for a potential green waste facility, as none has been identified as of yet. That will include looking at space requirements, as well as zoning and traffic issues. Among the considerations, the study will have to look at the economic and environmental arguments for and against an organics facility, regulatory requirements for such a facility, best methods for capturing energy produced by processing organics, staffing requirements and poten-

tial negative impacts to the neighbourhood, including traffic and smell. Such a facility would be aimed primarily at dealing with residential organics – food scraps and yard trimmings – but the city would also look at the potential for including clean wood waste and “commercial-grade food scrap materials.” The successful applicant will also be expected to look at a regional approach to such a facility and potentially collecting materials from beyond Burnaby’s borders. Once the study has been completed and approved by staff, the public will get opportunities to see the study’s findings through town halls, open houses and council meetings, according to the

Green waste: The City of Burnaby is seeking a contractor for a feasibility study into building a city-owned organic waste facility, according to a request for proposals. PHOTO THINKSTOCK

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City now TRANSPORTATION

City aims for zero traffic deaths in new plan Dustin Godfrey dgodfrey@newwestrecord.ca

The City of Burnaby has set some lofty goals for itself after council voted to approve Phase 1 of the city’s upcoming transportation plan and move on to Phase 2. Council heard from Renee de St. Croix, a senior planner with the city, on the completion of the first phase of developing the new transportation plan Monday evening. In her presentation, de St. Croix updated council on some of the goals the city is setting for itself for the next 30 years. Perhaps the loftiest of those goals is for zero deaths or serious injuries in the city’s transportation network. De St. Croix said that can be accomplished in a handful of different ways working in concert. “The key actions to achieve this target include prioritization of our vulnerable users, transformation of our infrastructure to support these users and then reducing our overall speeds for all modes (of transportation),” de St. Croix told council.

The city also hopes to have three-quarters of all trips starting in Burnaby to be taken by transit or active transportation (walking, cycling, etc.) by 2050. By contrast, the city also hopes that there will be no increase in the number of kilometres driven in vehicles by the middle of the century. “We have a fundamental space challenge.We cannot build our way out of congestion, and therefore we really need to encourage more people to walk, bike and take transit as often as we can,” de St. Croix said. The third major target the city is setting for itself is to have zero greenhousegas emissions coming from transportation by 2050.To put that into perspective, de St. Croix said roughly half of the city’s emissions currently come from transportation. De St. Croix said the city hopes to achieve that goal by shifting to zero-emission vehicles, redesigning infrastructure and building “complete communities.” On the latter point, de St. Croix said the hope is to make sure people no longer need to regularly trav-

el across town – everything they need is already in their immediate area.That could significantly reduce traffic if more people are inclined to stay within their communities regularly. Coun. Dan Johnston noted the lack of rapid transit between some of the city’s four town centres. While it’s relatively easy to get between Brentwood and Lougheed or Metrotown and Edmonds, which are connected by SkyTrains, there’s less in the way of north-south rapid transit. De St. Croix acknowledged that issue and said the city is working on it with TransLink, saying the current focus is on rapid buses. De St. Croix said the city’s emphasis will be to ensure “all travel choices are enjoyable” for residents and to make cities “not just corridors for movement but places for people to be and participate in city life.” The transportation plan is the first new plan in about a quarter century, according to city spokesperson Chris Bryan, with the current plan put in place in 1995. With city council endors-

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Young cherry trees vandalized A Burnaby Heights resident is furious after discovering some of the trees planted recently by the City of Burnaby in his neighbourhood have been vandalized. The city was forced to cut down a row of heritage cherry trees in the 400 block of Boundary Road in 2019 due to a watermain and sewer replacement project.The trees were prized by residents for their spectacular blooms every spring.

The city recently planted new cherry trees, and area resident Gordon Guenter was shocked to see three of them chopped down. “What is disturbing is that it was not a random act of bad behaviour, but a direct attack on the new trees and what they represent,” Guenter said. “The fact that only the three trees on the 400 block were targeted raises some questions. The cut trees were removed from the site, as well as the

supporting poles which indicates this was not a random act.” Guenter said he has contacted the city about the vandalism and spread the word around the neighbourhood to see if the trees have been dumped nearby. “I know I am not the only one who is concerned about what has happened,” he said. “I am also concerned about the motives and as to whether more trees will be targeted.”

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Opinionnow OUR VIEW

Changes needed to our criminal justice system

We’ll begin with a quote from Dr. Ivan Zinger. He happens to be the Correctional Investigator of Canada, which is a fancy name for a guy who oversees what’s going on in the country’s prisons. The news, as expected, is not good for Indigenous people. “Four years ago, my office reported that persons of Indigenous ancestry had reached 25% of the total inmate population,” Zinger said in a news release. “Today, sadly, I am report-

ing that the proportion of Indigenous people behind bars has now surpassed 30%.” It’s 30.04%, to be precise, which is a significant number when matched up with the fact Indigenous people account for 5% of the Canadian population. Some other facts: ! Indigenous offenders serve a higher proportion of their sentences before granted parole than non-Indigenous inmates. ! Indigenous inmates are overrepresented in use of

force and “self-injurious incidents” and are more likely to be placed and held longer in solitary confinement. ! A recent national recidivism study showed Indigenous people reoffend or are returned to custody at much higher levels, as high as 70% for Indigenous men in the Prairie region. So, what can be done about this? Zinger says the Correctional Service of Canada has a significant role to play, despite the agency having long said it is at the back

end of the criminal justice system and has no control or jurisdiction over the “upstream” factors that drive incarceration. Those factors include colonization, trauma, racism, poverty, abuse, mental health issues and a disconnection from family and culture. Zinger’s office has some recommendations: ! Transfer resources and responsibility to Indigenous groups and communities for the care, custody and supervision of Indigenous of-

fenders. ! Appoint a deputy commissioner for Indigenous corrections. ! Increase access to culturally relevant correctional programming. ! Clarify and enhance the role of Indigenous elders. ! Improve engagement with Indigenous communities and enhance their capacity to provide reintegration services. ! Enhance access to screening, diagnosis and treatment of Indigenous offenders affected by fetal al-

cohol spectrum disorder. ! Develop assessment and classification tools responsive to the needs and realities of Indigenous people caught up in the criminal justice system. Zinger pointed out similar urgent calls to action were raised in the final reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. It’s time somebody started taking action on this. –Vancouver Courier

MY VIEW CHRIS CAMPBELL

Zombie houses are tough to kill

Burnaby has a problem with what I call “zombie” houses – unoccupied singledetached houses that have been left to rot by absentee landlords. These homes are a visual blight on our communities, as well as a safety hazard. Getting these homes fixed up, however, isn’t as easy as you might think. Case in point is one particularly disgusting house in North Burnaby. The City of Burnaby is trying to crack down on this house, located on Grant Street, just west of Kensington. According to a staff report presented to council Monday, “staff believe the home to be unoccupied at the time of submission of this report.” The house has a long history of problems, said the report. “Since 2000, the property has been the subject of fifteen (15) complaints received from five (5) separate complainants.Thirteen (13) of these complaints were related to the unsightly state of the premises and two (2) were in regards to building bylaw complaints. At this time there are two (2) open complaint files on the property.” According to the report, it’s not just a matter of being “unsightly” – the house is also considered a safety hazard because the large rear carport is falling apart – “due to a lack of maintenance and repair” – and there’s a backyard swimming pool that is unsecured. So, it’s a bad situation at a house with a long history of problems – should be easy

to deal with it, right? Not so fast. The staff report recommends that council declare the house a “nuisance” and order the owner to demolish the carport, erect a fence around the pool and generally clean up the “filth” on the property.The owner would be expected to do all of this within 60 days upon receiving notice from the city. The problem is that the owner of this home has been ordered to clean up the property before.The report lists several notices issued to the owner in 2018 and 2019, but further inspections found non-compliance. At one point in 2019, the owner did hire someone to “trim overgrowth” on the property, but the other issues weren’t addressed and the “vegetation that had been previously trimmed had grown back without apparent effort to address the overgrowth.” You might not care about a house being “unsightly,” but it’s bad for communities to have rotting zombie houses. It’s also expensive. Taxpayers fork over for all of these inspections and reports. The city is definitely taking all of this seriously, but this case shows how difficult it is to force compliance. Absentee landlords seem to thumb their noses at cities. Hopefully, this latest report will get the situation addressed. Our community will be the better for it. Follow Chris Campbell on Twitter @shinebox44.

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A tour of European waste-disposal facilities gave Mayor Bill Lewarne a chance to visit his city’s namesake’s grave in Loughborough, England. Robert Burnaby left England at age 31 and was eventually appointed aide to Col. Richard Moody, who was tasked with surveying the Lower Mainland for settlement. Burnaby returned to England when he fell ill in 1873 and was buried in Loughborough close to his hometown of Misterton. After a two-day visit to the English city, Lewarne hoped the City of Burnaby would develop a sister-city relationship with Loughborough.

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Quick work by the city Editor: Thank you to the prompt clean-up after a vandal dumped garbage on the boulevard in front of my house on Saturday morning. I would have cleaned it up myself, but it was about five times what my small garbage tote would hold, and it was getting lots of attention from crows. A call to the water pollution emergency line (weekend – outside of normal work times) brought a city vehicle to investigate within an hour and another one to do the cleanup shortly after. Well done. Thomas Hasek, Burnaby

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Editor: Thank you to Burnaby. As I start my sixth year as a Burnaby parks, recreation and cultural commissioner, appointed 2015 by the mayor and council, my husband Gunther and I want to express how grateful we are for having had access to golf for the past five years. While I have been spending many hours serving the citizens of Burnaby, the spouse’s pass allowed my husband to golf, something he loves. It helped to make me feel less guilty about all the time I was taking away from him and the family. We really appreciated it, are grateful and want to say thank you. Karin Alzner, Burnaby

We need to crack down

Editor: I wanted to write out of concern for an issue that I’ve noticed for a long time.

It seems that Burnaby fast food restaurants and coffee shops, which produce a huge amount of waste on a daily basis, are not required to recycle containers, paper or compost as residents are, rightly, required to do. Given that these businesses are generating infinitely more waste than any average family, I wonder why they are not required to better manage the vast quantities of recyclable materials that are thrown into their trash cans every single day. The existence of fast food restaurants is a fact of life, but it seems they should be required to minimize their landfill-bound waste given the sheer volume they generate. Also, many restaurants still use Styrofoam containers for take-out food. While many residents, like myself, are diligent about bringing any Styrofoam to the eco-centre, since the city does not collect Styrofoam with other recycling, many people just throw Styrofoam in the garbage. As you know, Styrofoam is a material which takes an incredibly long time to break down in a landfill. As a citizen of Burnaby who is concerned about our environment, I implore you to impose greater requirements on the biggest contributors to landfill waste. I would love to see our beautiful city be a forward-thinking leader on this important issue. At the least, they should be required to use containers made from alternative materials which can be composted. These exist and would make it so there would be very little waste which would have to be sent to landfills compared to the mountains every fast food restaurant generates every single day. Carly Franklin, Burnaby

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A longtime Lower Mainland youth coach who was found guilty of surreptitiously taking photos of two of his players in their boxers will not spend another day in jail unless he breaches the terms of his probation. Randy Downes, 62, was handed a suspended sentence and six months of probation in New Westminster Monday, after being convicted of two counts of voyeurism in June. The convictions are connected to photos taken in 2013 and 2015 of boys aged 12 and 13. Downes’ lawyer, Glen Orris, had argued the judge could have gone as far as handing him a conditional discharge because of unusual circumstances in the case, including misconduct by the Coquitlam RCMP, intense media scrutiny and the particularly difficult time Downes had had in pretrial custody. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Heather MacNaughton agreed a discharge would

Stories by Cornelia Naylor

Two men were found guilty on Feb. 6 of driving without due care and attention in connection with the death of 14-year-old Fernanda Girotto at a Burnaby crosswalk two years ago. On the morning of Jan. 17, the Brazilian exchange student was struck on the crossing on Cariboo Road near the Highway 1 overpass, first by a pickup truck driven by Paul Oliver Wong and then by a car driven by Kai Man Cheu after he passed Wong’s stopped truck, according to evidence presented in court. Both men pleaded not guilty after being charged with driving without due care and attention and other Motor Vehicle Act infractions. Wong’s lawyer, David Fai, argued Wong, who testified that he had not seen Girotto until the last split second before hitting her, had driven in a prudent manner and that the collision had been a tragic accident. Fai argued Girotto’s dark clothing, the rain and the crosswalk design were the factors that led to the tragedy, not careless driving by Wong. Cheu’s lawyer argued his client would have been obligated to look out for reasonably foreseeable risks on the road as a prudent driver but that a pedestrian lying on the street on a dark and rainy morning was not a risk that was reasonably foreseeable. Judge David St. Pierre, however, said it didn’t matter how hard it had been raining or how badly lit the crosswalk was, a reasonable

Two convicted: Fernanda Girotto poses in a photo posted on social media. Girotto, a 14-year-old Brazilian exchange student, was killed in a collision on a Cariboo Road crosswalk on Jan. 17, 2018. PHOTO NOW FILES

driver would have adjusted to the conditions enough to see Girotto. “The extent to whether a driver’s view is obstructed when they are guiding what amounts to several tons of steel down a roadway should cause changes to the way those tons of steel are guided,” he said in his verdict in Vancouver provincial court Thursday. “In other words, if a driver’s view of the roadway is obstructed for any reason, that should cause a reason-

ably prudent driver to take extra precautions.” St. Pierre said there was no “credible explanation” for Wong not seeing Girotto. He also said Cheu should have slowed down when he saw Wong’s truck stopped on the street close to the sidewalk. In a statement to police, however, Cheu had said he had passed the pickup and accelerated toward the overpass before he felt his vehicle hit something. “It is fair to expect a rea-

sonably prudent driver in that circumstance to slow significantly and not to accelerate around a motorist who has stopped in the travel portion of the road very close to a crosswalk for an unknown reason,” St. Pierre said. In delivering his verdict, St. Pierre emphasized it wasn’t the court’s role in this case to decide whether the accident could have been avoided if the two men had acted differently or to assign blame for Girotto’s death. He said the court’s role was to determine there had been “inadvertent negligence” in the case. He found there had. A sentencing date for Wong and Cheu will be set. Crown prosecutor Geordie Proulx said he will be seeking fines and driver prohibitions and that he will present victim impact statements from Girotto’s parents and sister. A traffic light has since been added to the crosswalk where Girotto died.

have been in Downes’ best interest as it would have allowed him to rebuild his coaching career. She said she also agreed Downes wouldn’t have needed a criminal record to deter him from future offences or to rehabilitate him. But she ultimately ruled a discharge was not in the public interest under the circumstances. “I have come to this conclusion in particular because the victims were under the age of 18 and Mr. Downes was in a position of trust towards them,” she said. Under the conditions of his probation, Downes is banned from contacting either of his victims, being in the presence of any boys under 17 years old in places, like locker rooms or change rooms, where they’d have a reasonable expectation of privacy and taking pictures of any boy under the age of 17 without written consent from parents.

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TUESDAY, 2020 FEBRUARY 25 AT 6PM

in the Council Chamber, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendments to “Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965”. 1)

Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, 2) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, 3) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 1, 2020 - Bylaw No. 14121 Amendment Bylaw No. 2, 2020 - Bylaw No. 14122 Amendment Bylaw No. 3, 2020 - Bylaw No. 14123 Rez. #16-34 Rez. #18-25 Rez. #18-26 5000 Glenlyon Place 4161 Dawson Street 4161 Dawson Street From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on M2 From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM5s From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM5s General Industrial District, M5 Light Industrial District) Multiple Family Residential District, C3 General Commercial Multiple Family Residential District, C3 General Commercial District, P2 Administration and Assembly District and District, P2 Administration and Assembly District and To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District Brentwood Town Centre Development Plan as guidelines) Brentwood Town Centre Development Plan as guidelines) (based on M2 General Industrial District, M5 Light Industrial District, M5r Light Industrial District, the Big To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based on Bend Development Plan, and the Glenlyon Concept Plan on C3, C3f General Commercial District, RM5s Multiple C3, C3f General Commercial District, RM5s Multiple Family guidelines and in accordance with the development plan Family Residential District and Brentwood Town Centre Residential District and Brentwood Town Centre Development entitled “5000 Glenlyon Place, Burnaby BC” prepared by Development Plan as guidelines and in accordance with the Plan as guidelines and in accordance with the development Taylor Kurtz Architecture and Design Inc.) development plan entitled “Gilmore Place Phase II Suitable plan entitled “Gilmore Place Phase II Suitable Plan of Plan of Development – Tower 5” prepared by IBI Group) Development – Tower 6” prepared by IBI Group) The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to permit the construction of a two-storey light industrial and The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to permit The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to permit office building with an accessory restaurant/café. construction of a residential high-rise within Phase II of the Gilmore construction of a residential high-rise within Phase II of the Gilmore Place Master Plan Site. Place Master Plan site.

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by a proposed bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard: » in person at the Public Hearing » in writing should you be unable to attend the Public Hearing: Email clerks@burnaby.ca Letter Office of the City Clerk 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC V5G 1M2 Fax 604-294-7537

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The Director Planning and Building’s reports and related information respecting the zoning bylaw amendments are available for public examination at the offices of the Planning Department, 3rd ﬂoor, in Burnaby City Hall.

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Entertainment now Burnaby baker chosen for Food Network show year career in the casino industry, during which he worked his way from dealer to pit boss to management Craig Taylor can pinpoint consultant, he wasn’t lookwhen baking became more ing for a new professional to him than just a pastime. direction. More than anyIt was March 2017, the thing, he says, he took to the day after his father died. kitchen because he discov“I’ve always baked; I’ve ered it had huge psychologialways enjoyed it, but then cal benefits. I kind of threw myself into “I don’t know if there’s baking,” he recalls. anything that makes me Taylor set himself a mishappier to be doing on my sion that day: to make a peppermint bark cheesecake own,” he says. “It’s just seeing that look on somebody’s for his girlfriend’s birthday. face when they taste someHe quickly learned pepperthing and it hits them somemint bark was out of season where else. … That’s what I and nowhere to be found in like to do. I want to see peostores, so he spent the day ple happy.” running from store to store With his fain search of ther’s illness, all the inTaylor had gredients left LasVehe’d need to Great Chocolate Showgas behind to make it from down’s panel of judges return to the scratch – beis made up of television Lower Mainfore he even personality and bestsellland. His got started on ing cookbook author Anna mom still lives the cheeseOlson, award-winning Britin Burnaby, ish cake designer Cynthia cake. Stroud and renowned where Taylor “I got it to pastry chef and chocolatier grew up and her at 11:59 Steven Hodge. graduated p.m., but I The show airs Tuesdays from Burndid it,” he at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the Food aby North says with a Network. Secondlaugh. See www.foodnetwork. ary School That was ca/shows/great-chocolate(where he was the moment showdown for info. active in band that set him and theatre on the path and even served as president to the Food Network’s new of the student government). Great Chocolate Showdown. He now lives in downtown Taylor was one of 10 home Vancouver, opting to stay cooks, five Canadian and close to his mother and to five American, selected to continue most of his casinoface off in an eliminationstyle competition where they related work online. At the same time, as he go head to head each week devoted more and more in a range of chocolatehours to baking, friends based challenges.The first and family started to notice episode aired Feb. 4 (if you how elevated his skills were haven’t caught it yet, don’t becoming.Two years ago, read the spoiler alert at the someone forwarded him invery end of this story). formation about the Great Competitive baking Canadian Baking Show, wasn’t Taylor’s original goal which he set aside because three years ago.With a 25Julie MacLellan

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he didn’t feel ready. Last year, someone forwarded it again. “I thought, you know what? It’s time. I think I’m ready for this,” he says. He sent in an application and video reel and got himself invited for a live audition inVancouver, where everything went well and he could tell he was in the running. In the end he wasn’t chosen, but he received a personal message from the show’s producers asking him to please come back and try again. Taylor set himself a mission. He looked at the kinds of things other competitors were capable of, figured out what skills he needed to acquire – “I didn’t have as much experience with some of the French pastries,” he noted – and set out to acquire them. Armed with a list of 25 things he wanted to accomplish over the next year, he started documenting his journey on Instagram last February. That Instagram journey drew the attention of a casting producer from the Food Network, who messaged Taylor on social media to encourage him to apply for a new show they were casting. Taylor jumped at the chance. “The Food Network is massive. A lot of great careers have been started through the Food Network,” he points out, adding that the large cash prize was an added incentive. He submitted everything the show needed as fast as possible, passed through a phone interview and then did a live Skype audition from his own kitchen, during which technical difficulties meant he could only

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hear the other end of the conversation and not see it. Despite talking to a black screen the entire time, he clearly managed to impress the judges, and he found himself invited onto the show. At the time of this interview (on Feb. 3),Taylor wasn’t allowed to say anything about the filming. But he did say the experience is one he wouldn’t change for the world, and he treasures the bond he formed with the other contestants. “They are my family. They are such an amazing group of people,” he says. “We were family in a day.The connections that I made with the competitors were phenomenal.” The contestants come from a huge range of backgrounds, from teacher and pharmacist to human rights lawyer and aerial circus artist.They range in age from their early 20s to 50-ish. At 47,Taylor found himself with the nickname “Bake Daddy” and says he became a bit of an advocate for all the bakers.

He notes it was odd for the bakers to get along so well and find themselves in competition with each other. Even forTaylor, who’s used to competition – he has a background in both competitive dance and competitive sports – the experience was somewhat disconcerting. Not to mention intense. In the real world, he says, he doesn’t usually bake under time constraints. “It can be an art form, and it’s not something to be rushed,” he says. So creating a new dessert with the pressure of a giant clock ticking off the minutes – not to mention an ever-present film crew – added an entirely new dimension of stress to the process. “It’s really intimidating when you have a camera up your nose,” he says with a laugh. Ultimately,Taylor says, he’d love it if his Great Chocolate Showdown experience could serve as a stepping stone for his next culinary goal: to open a small dessert shop inVancouver. He’d

like to see a small, 10- to 12seat café, serving cake by the slice with coffee by day and wine by night. He can see such a plan going over well in the neighbourhood where he lives, near Beach and Hornby – but, as with everything inVancouver these days, the catch is in the cost. Taylor, however, is optimistic. He knows he’ll continue to bake, and he’s happy to follow this new road wherever it may lead him. “You never know where things could go to,” he says with a smile. (And, yes, for the record, he came to the interview armed with chocolate cake – with a salted caramel layer inside and the best chocolate buttercream icing you’ll find anywhere. I could unleash a barrage of adjectives on it, but we’ll stick with “sublime.”) Spoiler alert:Taylor was, in fact, the first contestant eliminated in Episode 1. But he’s still baking.Want to know more about his journey? Follow him on Instagram, @craigt2k.

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EAT SOME GOOD FOOD AND DANCE TO THE TUNES OF NEIL DIAMOND – performed by tribute artist Nearly Neil (a.k.a. Bobby Bruce) – all for a good cause. Burnaby Family Life is hosting the dinner and dance fundraiser Friday starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Burnaby Firefighters’

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As war consumed Europe, Burnaby resident Ernest Letendre says there was “no question” about whether he would enlist in the Canadian military. He was 19 when he was sent overseas to fight for the Allies in the SecondWorld War. Nearly 80 years later, the 97-year-old Métis man is finally getting his due from the federal government through a $30-million settlement reached with Métis communities in Canada. The settlement has been at least two decades in the making, according to Métis National Council’s president David Chartrand, who said he’s worked to advance a deal with four different prime ministers, including Justin Trudeau, who committed to the settlement prior to forming government. It was a historic, longawaited acknowledgement of the sacrifices made by Métis people as they offered themselves to the deadliest war in modern history and

the betrayal from the federal government upon their return. “It was a fight for a country that was still treating them with some racism and discriminatory ideologies, but they still went,” Chartrand said, adding that their racist treatment largely vanished for Métis soldiers – until they returned. “The Métis were basically told to go back to your traplines, go back to where you came from.You used to be a fisher; go back and fish. Go back to the North where you came from. So it’s really a hostile environment they found themselves in, and they don’t understand why.” Chartrand said they’ve found 18 living Métis veterans from the SecondWorld War, and they’re hoping to find more – though even the youngest veterans would be in their 90s by now. Letendre, a resident of the George Derby Centre, was surrounded by extended family as he received a $20,000 cheque from Chartrand. A nearby table was filled

with memorabilia and photographs from wartime and the years since. Newspaper clippings, including poems he liked from his time in the war, felt like they might crumble in your hands, but the photos displayed next to them maintained the vitality of Letendre’s youth. As he came to realize the size of the cheque, Letendre’s gaunt features gave way and that same vitality shone through a smile that stretched across his face. Letendre has since lost his voice to a stroke, and he was unable to speak at the event, but a journal offered a glimpse of his life in the military. In one entry, Letendre wrote of invading Sicily on his birthday, July 16, six days after the initial invasion. On Sept. 3, 1943, he joined the invasion in mainland Italy. “That was bad. It was really scary – rough. I lost so many friends,” he wrote. “I saw so much misery that I decided to have fun. I didn’t care if the colonel didn’t like me because I could be dead

At last: Ernest Letendre’s (right) face shone after he received a $20,000 cheque from David Chartrand, president of the Métis National Council, as part of a $30-million settlement for Métis vets of the Second World War. PHOTO DUSTIN GODFREY

tomorrow.” At one point, though it’s unclear when, Letendre suffered a head injury from shrapnel, and he was sent to an English hospital to recover, but he eventually returned to the war – in one entry, he wrote of liberating

Belgium. After sacrificing so much for Canada in the Second WorldWar, Chartrand said treatment from the federal government stung Métis veterans. “Some actually went back to seek help for eyeglasses

or dental, and basically the young bureaucrats of the day … basically told them ‘do you think you deserve it? Do you think you fought hard enough?’ Attitudes like that. It was really heartbreaking,” Chartrand said. “It hurt them mentally.”

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How To Be The Best Valentine This V Day With Valentines around the corner we are presented with a beautiful opportunity to practice self-love. It is an opportunity to contemplate how deep our love goes for ourselves. When you hold yourself in high esteem, you’re more likely to choose things that nurture your well-being and serve you well. These things may be in the form of eating healthy, exercising or having healthy relationships. Self-love is about loving yourself without needing to make downward social comparisons, taking pride in your performance and your achievements, giving yourself the validation, you need and recognizing that it’s okay to feel uncertain and doubt yourself now and then. Self love needs to be cultivated & not left as a band aid approach or solution to the stress in our lives. When we prioritize ourselves & tap into our self acceptance & compassion, we can learn to be better partners, friends and family members. Our relationship with our self reﬂects how we interact with the world. Some activities to foster self love include: Making a gratitude list, slow down & be present with your emotions, learn to say no, increase your activity & nourish your body with water & healthy foods. Create a self care vision board using images, illustrations and/ or words that represent yourself caring & nurturing yourself as you radiate self love. Neurofeedback is an awesome tool to help foster the inner connection with yourself and be the best version of “you”. Brain training allows your central nervous system to function better. The results are increased self esteem, increased self compassion, and an inner knowledge that you are capable. You feel ready for everyday challenges. Social skills and communication improve and hence your relationship with yourself and others are enhanced. Sleep is improved, as is focus & concentration. Your ability to be mindful of yourself and others is strengthened. For more information on neurofeedback or other self care practices contact UR Wellness.

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Mindfulness is “paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, to the present moment, nonjudgmentally” (Kabat-Zinn, 1994, p4). When children practice mindfulness at school, they learn to intentionally self-regulate attention. Children begin with breath awareness, then shift MAUREEN MACKINNONawareness to a focal point. Focal points include MCQUARRIE, PH.D. thoughts, physical sensations or emotions, with the goal of acceptance for the experience. Zenner’s meta-analysis (2014), examined school mindfulness programs and found a moderate effect on cognitive performance and resilience. Zoogman’s meta-analysis of mindfulness programs (2014), found a reduction in anxiety and an increase in coping, especially for the neediest kids. Mindfulness increases attention, self-regulation, and reduces anxiety in children (NASP). Pairing mindfulness with evidence-based instruction for kids with LD can improve the response to intervention, by reducing anxiety-related memory impairment.

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Entertainment now Burnaby duo releases debut album for Valentine’s Day It seems only fitting that Eli Bennett and Rosemary Siemens’ first album together would be out just in time for Valentine’s Day. The husband and wife from Burnaby, who perform together as the duo SaxAndViolin, are set to release their first album together, Can’t Help Falling In Love (Instrumental Love Songs),Vol. 1. The album, which comes out on Valentine’s Day, features love songs that inspired their own personal love story. (The two were featured in the Burnaby NOW in December 2019; you can see an online version of the story at www.tinyurl.com/ RosemaryEli2019.) The album’s title track is particularly special to the couple. In 2017, before they were married, Bennett arrived for a surprise visit at a concert Siemens was giving in Gretna, Manitoba. He came down the aisle playing Can’t Help Falling In Love and got up onstage to propose to Siemens in front of the audience (a proposal that went viral on social

media). Later that year, the two married in a public wedding ceremony in Siemens’ hometown of Plum Coulee, Manitoba, with 1,500 guests.Their 28-member wedding party included Juno-nominated professional musicians and a former member of the Canadian Tenors, who all sang themselves down the aisle. Bennett once again played Can’t Help Falling in Love on his saxophone as Siemens walked down the aisle. In 2018, while touring North America separately, Bennett and Siemens performed some 175 shows in 100 cities – while Siemens was pregnant.Their son, Theodore Parker Bennett, was born on Sept. 13, 2018, and their song for him, You and Me, was recently nominated for a 2020 Canadian Gospel Music Award. Since the official launch of their SaxAndViolin duo in 2019, they’ve performed around the world, including recently at the Vatican, and their videos have been seen millions of times on Face-

book andYouTube. “To be able to share our music and love story together with audiences around the world is something we wouldn’t trade for anything,” Siemens said in a press release. She described the new album as “the soundtrack of our love story.” It includes classic love songs including IWill Always LoveYou, Love Me Tender and Can’t Help Falling in Love, along with more current offerings including Ed Sheeran’s Perfect and Christina Perri’s A ThousandYears. “After sharing our love story through our viral engagement and public wedding, it was only a matter of time before we had to release an album of the music that inspired it all,” Siemens said. Can’t Help Falling In Love (Instrumental Love Songs), Vol. 1, by SaxAndViolin is now available for iTunes pre-order and for purchase at saxandviolin.com/store, with release on Feb. 14. See www.saxandviolin. com for more.

Songs for a love story: Rosemary Siemens and Eli Bennett perform as SaxAndViolin. They’re releasing their first album together, Can’t Help Falling in Love, on Valentine’s Day. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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City now No safe sleep: Tracking the number of homeless people in the city can be difficult. Volunteers will be out March 3 and 4 for the annual homeless count in Metro Vancouver. PHOTO THINKSTOCK

Please join us for an exclusive event on Mastering your Retirement Homeless count needs volunteers One way that governments on all levels determine how to help people is through data. When it comes to people who are homeless, some of that data comes from the annual homeless count in Metro Vancouver. The Burnaby homeless count is on the night off March 3 and throughout the day on March 4. Volunteers are badly needed to take part in Burnaby. “Governments, funders and community agencies rely on data from homeless counts to help make informed policy and program decisions,” said a news

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Wandering the aisles of Michaels on a Friday night, I pick up a pink and red box of pre-madeValentine’s Day cards and ask my youngest child, “How about these ones?” She shrugs her shoulders and skips off. I grab three more boxes of the overpriced items and apathetically toss them into my shopping bag.Tallying these, plus other assortments of cards and crafts for the classmates of my other two children, I’ve spent $40 – completely begrudgingly. I can remember a time before kids whenValentine’s Day was all about the element of surprise – romance, and quality time with my partner. Perhaps some flowers and a nice dinner for two. Now, with kids, it’s not about me or my spouse at

all. Instead,Valentine’s Day is about helping my kids pen cards for their peers. It involves coming up with something crafty to accompany the cards, and preparing a tasty treat for the classroom party. And it always seems to happen at the last minute. On the actual day – if I even remember – I help my kids dress in pink and red outfits, and ship them off to school with their arms full of goodies. And when they return home, they have bags stuffed with carefully-crafted cards that are much better than the ones we’ve made, and I feel inadequate as a parent as I toss them in the recycling bin. Then, as they chomp on their stale dollar-store suckers, I realize that I’ve forgotten to do anything for my husband at all. Before he gets home from work, I rush out to the grocery store and buy one of the lastValentine’s Day cards on the shelf – something with a punny

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message like “Yoda best” or “You’re one in a melon.” I scribble a note in the card and place it on the chocolate bar I’ve grabbed at the checkout counter (because he also needs a gift!) before I buckle my seatbelt in the car and rush home. If we have time, we may opt for a family dinner out. A meal at one of the family-friendly trio of restaurants that are packed with other families just like ours. Then, we head home and watch an animated movie, before hurrying the kids off to bed, catching up on work, and then dozing off on the

couch – because all the work to makeValentine’s Day special for the kids has totally worn us out. Valentine’s Day for many parents is no longer about romance and showing your partner how much you love them. Instead, it’s about making the day extra special for your kids – and that’s OK, too. Bianca Bujan is a mom of three, Editor ofWestCoast Families magazine, and a freelance writer who shares about travel, family and food in print and online publications. Find her on Twitter @biancabujan and Instagram @bitsofbee.

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Losing one of their own to lung cancer has galvanized Burnaby firefighters in their efforts to raise funds for research, patient support, health education and advocacy. Thirty five local firefighters will be at the B.C. Lung Association’s Climb the Wall fundraiser in Vancouver this month. For almost 20 years, Climb the Wall has seen firefighters and other fundraisers climb all 48 storeys of the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre to raise money for the association’s work. Until last year, about eight to 10 Burnaby firefighters took part in the

event every year. After local fire Captain Ken Kinney was diagnosed with lung cancer, however, the whole department rallied, and 25 firefighters participated last year, claiming all three spots on the podium in the firefighter division as well as earning top individual and top team fundraising honours. Kinney was a healthy, fit non-smoker, and his death of lung cancer drove home the reality that firefighters face an elevated risk of certain cancers because of exposure to toxic chemicals, according to Joel Nacauli, co-captain of Burnaby’s Climb the Wall team. “It was really hard losing Ken to lung cancer,” he said. “We just knew what

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kind of person he was, and I think it really brought our department together. And, as far as the climb, it just means a lot to us. It could happen to any of us.” This year’s team will keep the name established for the fundraiser last year – The Climb for Tinman, based on a nickname for Kinney, who lost his battle to cancer in June. “We’re just trying to continue Ken’s legacy here,” Nacauli said. Kinney’s death drove home the importance of the climb as a fundraiser for the lung association, but firefighters are also a competitive bunch, according to Nacauli. For about a month now, he said they’ve been meet-

ing at a 25-storey Brentwood once or twice a week and going from top to bottom in full gear about five to seven times. “We’ve been doing this for years,” Nacauli said, “so most of the residents know that we go there for training.” At the event, Burnaby will go up against firefighters from more than 20 departments from around the province. Participants go flat out carrying 50 pounds of firefighting gear and are pretty exhausted by the time they get to the top, but Nacauli said that’s a privilege. “It is hard, but at the same time, we look at it as we have the opportunity to train for this, where-

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as people who are affected by lung disease or some sort of breathing difficulty, they don’t have the opportunity like we do.” To date, Burnaby firefighters have raised about $40,000 at the event.

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What-a-Theatre is at it again, and you’re invited out to share some laughs. The theatre group from Cameron seniors’ centre is presenting a new production, Now or Never, on Feb. 14 at 11:30 a.m. in the Maple Room at Cameron Recreation Complex. The play, written and directed by Eileen Mackenzie, is about a free dating service for seniors, as friends attempt to help each other find the perfect match on the internet. The show is free, and everyone’s welcome. Admission is free. Cameron centre is at 9523 Cameron St. For more information, call 604297-4453 or email sue. mcintyre@burnaby.ca. SPOKEN INK Writers and lovers of the written word, mark Feb. 18 on your calendar. That’s the night for the next Spoken Ink reading night.The Burnaby Writers Society hosts the reading evenings on the third Tuesday of every month at Deer Lake Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake Ave. Each night includes featured readers and an open mic.This month features Stephen Karr,Warren Dean Fulton and Shawn Gale. See www.burnabywriters

news.blogspot.com or check out the Burnaby Writers Society on Facebook for full details. CONCERTO CONCERT Burnaby audiences have a chance to hear from some rising stars of the classical music world. The VancouverYouth Symphony Orchestra is bringing its senior orchestra Concerto Winners’ Concert to the stage on Sunday, Feb. 23. It’s at 2:30 p.m. at the Michael J. Fox Theatre, 7373 MacPherson Ave. Admission is by donation, with a suggested minimum donation of $10 per person. See www.vyso.com for more details. SONGS AND SKETCH Live at the Gallery is back at Deer Lake – with an added twist. The Burnaby Arts Council is kicking off its live music series for 2020 with a night of music on Saturday, Feb. 29 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Feel free to draw, write, compose, whatever you want to create.

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Illuminated: Work by Steven Smethurst was featured in last year’s Luminescence show . Smethurst is leading a workshop in digital stained glass leading up to this year’s exhibition at Deer Lake Gallery.PHOTO NOW FILES

cal rocker Shockk (Rob Matharu). The twist?You’re invited to sketch while the artists perform. Bring your sketchbooks and pencils (or use the materials provided by the gallery) and do some live figure sketching while they play. “The purpose of this night is to not only appreciate the talented local artists, but engage everyone in art, in a unique way. Feel free to draw, write, compose, whatever you want to create,” says an event write-up. “Of course, you are welcome to simply enjoy the music too.” It’s free, but you’re asked to reserve a spot at www. eventbrite.ca (search for Live at the Gallery – Songs and Sketch). Deer Lake Gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave. See www.burnabyartscouncil.

LUMINESCENCE WORKSHOPS Remember Luminescence? The large art show of two- and three-dimensional light-based works that marks the spring equinox is returning to Deer Lake Gallery this March – and you have a chance to be part of the fun. Leading up to the show, the gallery is hosting a couple of workshops to help you tap into your creative side. On Saturday, Feb. 22, there’s a Digital Stained Glass workshop led by artist Steven Smethurst. Participants will learn to design and make an illuminated digital stained glass window. All the finished work will be displayed for Luminescence V at the gallery, then it will be yours to take home. It costs $125. Then there’s a two-day lantern-making workshop being held on two Saturdays, Feb. 29 and March 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Andrew Tuline is leading the workshop, in which participants will create their own lanterns using LED lighting and materials such as grape vines, bamboo and round reed, with layers of tissue to diffuse the light. The finished lanterns will be part of Luminescence V.The lantern workshop costs $75. For details on both workshops, see www.burnaby artscouncil.org.To sign up,

go to www.eventbrite.ca (search for Deer Lake Gallery). GALLERY NEEDS VOLUNTEERS Love art? Deer Lake Gallery could use your help. The Burnaby Arts Council is looking for volunteers to serve as gallery docents and installation assistants. Volunteers are needed to help supervise the gallery during opening hours (noon

to 4 p.m.), educate visitors about the current exhibition, help with the installation of artwork for monthly exhibitions and help out with a variety of community events. Email bac_volunteer@ shaw.ca or call 604-2987322 if you have any questions. To fill out an online application, see www.tinyurl. com/DeerLakeGallery Volunteers2020.

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Thursday, Feb. 20, local audiences will be treated to a performance by the Toronto-based Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar. A write-up about the concert describes Martin as “an artist of extraordinary power.” “A dynamic front woman, she possesses a stunning voice that is capable of summoning up tidal waves of spine-tingling emotion in one instance while delicately bringing out the nuances of a gut-wrenching lyric in the next,” it says. She’s joined by Delta Sugar’s co-vocalists, Sherie Marshall and Mwansa Mwansa, in offering up the band’s gospel-tinged blues and soul music. Rounding out a trifecta of musical events is a Saturday,

Feb. 22 performance by Farofa and Caro Pierotto. The Brazilian exports bring to local audiences the hot rhythms and sensuous melodies of their birthplace. Vocalist Pierotto fronts a band that includes Felipe Fraga on percussion, Isaias Elpes on bass, JP Mourão on Brazilian viola caipira (a Brazilian 10-stringed guitar), and Luis Mascaro on violin. The concerts start at 8 p.m. in the Shadbolt’s Studio Theatre, 6450 Deer Lake Ave. Tickets are $36 regular, or $15 for youth (18 and under). Buy through tickets. shadboltcentre.com or call the box office at 604-2053000.

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MAKE WAY: Burnaby Lake captain Emily Van Gulik, centre, looks to break away from a Scribes defender during Saturday’s Div. 1 women’s rugby game. Burnaby Lake would find a lot of openings en route to an 89-8 victory in their first game of 2020. Sally Hillier and Brynna Walker counted three tries apiece, while Alex Fern, Alaya Govorchin and Leyhana Van Vugt tallied twice. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Quantity doesn’t always take a back seat to quality. As the Burnaby Lakers took the temperature of their lineup heading into last Thursday’s Western Lacrosse Association junior draft, they felt the depth of the graduating 2020 class provided an opportunity. To take advantage of it, Burnaby general manager Kevin Hill had to trade last year’s second overall pick, Ryland Rees. But the end result, which reaped a pair of picks in the first round – one round after the league’s inaugural protection/compensatory round – is going to benefit the team in the present and long term. The Lakers used the third and sixth picks, acquired when they dealt Rees to Coquitlam, on a pair of versatile stickmen, Robert Kidd III and TylerYanko, whom Hill envisions being regular contributors for the squad and available for nearly the full season.

“We had an offer on the table just before the draft, depending upon the players we wanted being available,” remarked Hill. “We had to give up a good player (in Rees) but feel that we got fair value and players who we can have in our lineup regularly.” But even before that happened, the Lakers were able to add another offensive weapon in the form of Ryan Martel, an offensive lefthander who is currently on the National Lacrosse League’s Calgary Roughnecks playing roster. It followed the expected selection of Tre Leclaire by the Langley Thunder with the first pick of the compensatory round, after Coquitlam and Maple Ridge protected locally produced players Reid Bowering and Anthony Kalinich, respectively. Only after that inaugural round was completed did Hill agree to the Adanacs’ offer on Rees, with both Kidd andYanko available. “(Kidd’s) a big, six-foot-three right-handed defender who’s strong on the ball,” said Hill.

“He’s a superathlete who can transition well. He does a lot of what Rees does, very strong on the backend and can score, too.” Playing for Langley last season, Kidd produced five goals and two assists over 14 games. Burnaby used its own pick, fourth overall, to select former jr. Laker Patrick Shoemay.The 2018

It was really difficult when we thought about it. B.C. Jr. A League’s top defender, Shoemay is another big piece to a defence that has some openings. “He’s excellent on defence.We had him rated as one of the top D-men coming out of this year’s draft,” noted the Burnaby GM. Yanko, meanwhile, was taken two picks later at sixth overall. The righthander displayed strong offensive skills in his graduating

season, tallying 45 goals, just one back of Martel. “(Yanko) has a very high lacrosse IQ and is a good passer,” said Hill. “He’s able to bury the ball and really gives us another shooter on that side.” While dealing last year’s second overall pick for two choices in essentially the second round in 2020 may not look so smart on the surface, Hill said the incentive was that Rees has East Coast summer options he’s investigating. The polished six-foot-two defender had indicated to Hill an interest in staying back east to play pro in the Professional Lacrosse League. It’s the same league that lured sniper Josh Byrne away from Burnaby. Rees is currently playing for the NLL’s Rochester franchise. “It was really difficult when we thought about it,” said Hill. “(Rees) expressed an interest in possibly playing in the PLL, and if he goes there we’d lose him for the entire year.We were looking Continued on page 30

League battle down to Burnaby South, New West

The red-hot Burnaby South Rebels will square off against the upstart New Westminster Hyacks in the senior boys basketball league final tonight (Wednesday). The winner will carry the higher seed heading into next week’s Fraser North regional

playdowns, which start Feb. 20 in Coquitlam. The Rebels, who finished the Burnaby-New West regular season a perfect 8-0, advanced to the final on the strength of a lopsided 109-44 win over the Burnaby Mountain Lions. South led 61-20 at halftime.

In the third-place game, Byrne Creek, a 3-A school, takes on Burnaby Mountain. The Lions, Hyacks and Rebels will all compete next week with Coquitlam district teams for three positions to the 4-A provincial basketball championships.

It’s been quite a week for the Burnaby South senior girls Rebels. After demonstrating just how good they can be last week, when they locked up a second straight Burnaby-New West senior girls basketball playoff banner, the Rebels moved one step closer to securing a B.C. 4-A girls provincial berth. On the strength of a hard-fought 65-54 win over city rival Burnaby Central at the Fraser North quarterfinals, South heads into tonight’s (Thursday) match against No. 2-ranked Riverside on a hot streak. A win in the semifinal would guarantee a top-three finish at the playdowns and a B.C. berth. It came on the heels of last week’s league playoff victory, capped with a decisive 69-47 triumph over previously unbeaten Burnaby Central. South was happy to serve up a platter of vengeance, after tasting their first loss of the season to the Wildcats in their first league game two months ago. “It was a bit of a retribution game,” Burnaby South coach Cody Cormack said last week. “We lost to them the very first game of the regular season.We were hungry coming into it and knew we needed to want it more than they did, and we came out on top.” Setting the tone early, the Rebels shot out to an 11-1 advantage and didn’t waiver.While Central would briefly get to within five points midway through the opening frame, Burnaby South closed the quarter with a 12-2 run.They’d rack up a 10-0 string midway through the second frame to essentially put their foot down. Nadia Singh counted a teamhigh 16 points, while co-captain Awek Deng netted 15, with 13 of hers coming in the second half. Cashing in 10 points was Diya Sehgel, while Zayre Aspiras and Laini Glover added seven points apiece. Priya Dhaliwal led the Wildcats with 19 points. For Deng, one of the team’s four graduating players, the banner win signals just a tip of the iceberg when it comes to potential. “I knew we were capable of it, because all of our other games we had our ups and downs, but we know how great we can be when we’re all in sync with each another,” said Deng.

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Steelers take aim at Sockeyes A more consistent effort key for Grandview in playoffs

The playoffs present a perfect opportunity to change things up. For the Grandview Steelers, it will be about bearing down and finding the consistency that’s been lacking of late. The Burnaby-based Pacific Junior B Hockey League team opens the playoffs tonight (Thursday) against their Tom Shaw Conference rivals Richmond Sockeyes. The Sockeyes edged Grandview down the stretch drive to claim second place in the conference, thus gaining home-ice advantage for the first round tilt. But on the Steelers’ side of the slate is a pretty solid 3-1 head-to-head record, which saw

them outscore Richmond 1813 over four games. The Sockeyes’ offence has been the league’s second-most potent, averaging 4.75 goals per game.They’ve also been successful on the man advantage at a 27.46 per cent, which could give Grandview’s penalty-kill unit a tough test. Although they went 5-5 over their last 10 games, the Steelers did prevail in their last meeting, a 6-3 win two weeks ago. Last Sunday, Grandview ended the regular season with a 7-6 loss at the hands of Aldergrove, despite defenceman JarodYau’s hat trick. Leading the Sockeyes into the playoffs is 20-year-old

Ryleigh Anderson, who tallied 25 times in 41 games, including 13 powerplay markers. Expected to carry much of the netminding duties is Vancouver Giants prospect, 17-year-old Brady Eurby. The Steelers can count on 20-year-old Cale Dolan, who has posted a league-best eight shutouts, and offensive leader Jack Hamilton, with 23 goals in 44 games. Game 2 of the series goes Sunday, 7:15 p.m. at the Burnaby Winter Club, followed Monday with Game 3 in Richmond. Game 4 goes Wednesday, 7 p.m., in Burnaby. If necessary, the series continues on Feb. 20, 23 and 24.

Burnaby pick up depth at draft

Continued from page 29 at what we need, and that’s to have a consistent lineup on the floor.That’s how we’re going to progress as a team, and we felt the players that were available (at those picks) would more than make up for the player we lost.” In the third round the Lakers selected a pair of Burnaby natives, Mac Burns and Kieran McKay.

The Lakers would also add Coquitlam junior Dawson Rodin, goalie Torin Van Rheenen , Coquitlam import Philip Buque, Burnaby’s Kurtis Shum, defender Mackenzie Rope and Delta’s Lucas Greene to complete a busy evening. “We felt this year’s draft class was fairly loaded, and we’re definitely happy with how it went,” said Hill.

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Protect the ball: Burnaby Mountain’s Ashley McKee looks for a passing lane while being checked by Dr. Charles Best’s Natalie Howell during Monday’s opening round of the Fraser North senior girls basketball playoffs. Burnaby’s season ended in a 61-39 loss. PHOTO MARIO BARTEL/TRICITY NEWS

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First-time buyer incentive branded ‘a ﬂop’ with minimal take-up The federal First Time Buyer Incentive (FTHBI), introduced in September 2019, has so far been used by only 29 buyers in Metro Vancouver and fewer than 3,000 first buyers across Canada. Calling the program “a flop,” Sherry Cooper, chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres, noted that total funding of $55 million was “less than a stellar start” given the FTHBI’s $1.25 billion three-year target. Cooper added the incentive has been introduced while the federal mortgage stress, which requires all homebuyers to qualify for mortgage interest rates higher than what is actually available, is in effect. The incentive’s price ceiling also makes it hard for buyers to qualify in some big cities, she added. The FTHBI currently caps household income at $120,000, making the maximum eligible mortgage value approximately $480,000, a price that is rare in Metro Vancouver. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) data shows that in Metro Vancouver the program received 45 applications but only 29 were approved, with an average loan of $18,000, representing a home price of approximately $350,000. Only four applicants were approved in Victoria and just 84 in the rest of the province. This is the lowest level for any province east of the Atlantic region during the last four months of 2019. Sharing in a home’s appreciation could be a disincentive for Vancouver-area buyers. For example, if a $350,000 condo

increased by the same amount – 67 per cent – in the next five years as it did in the last five years in Metro Vancouver, and the owner sold, they would have to pay back $29,225, not the $18,000 borrowed. CMHC figures show the largest take-up for the FTHBI was in Montreal, where 557 out of 654 applications were approved with an average incentive loan of $16,000. In Greater Toronto, 109 out of 145 applicants were approved for an average loan of $20,000. The city of Edmonton had the second-highest first-time homebuyer applications approved, with 375 buyers receiving an average loan of $24,000. In an emailed statement, a CMHC spokesman defended the program. “The First-Time Home Buyer Incentive has been available for only four months, during the fall and winter seasons, which are slow for homebuyers. As the busier spring and summer seasons approach, we expect the number of homebuyers who can access the incentive to increase significantly,” stated Leonard Catling, senior officer, media relations with CMHC. In 2019, the percentage of Canadian first-time homebuyers fell to 47 per cent of all buyers, down from 51.5 per cent a year earlier, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association, which blames the decrease on the effect of the national mortgage stress test.

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WILLINGDON AVE.

WESTWOOD

COQUITLAM CENTRE

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PIN ETR EE

Dual Zone Climate Control

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