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Dhaliwal wants ICBC expanded amid strata crisis Dustin Godfrey

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A Burnaby councillor is calling on the provincial government to expand the mandate of ICBC to include strata insurance amid a crisis that has seen rates climb as much as 300% in one year. Sav Dhaliwal made the call recently on Twitter amid news of skyrocketing insurance rates for strata properties.Throughout the region, reports have surfaced of massive year-over-year spikes in insurance rates, and a petition originating in

New Westminster is urging action. New West condo owner Asifa Lalji wrote in a petition that insurance rates for some owners of strata properties are going up by 50 to 300%, while others have been unable to renew their insurance altogether. Dhaliwal said he has gotten two calls from people in Burnaby reporting similar issues with their strata insurance in the city. “There is definitely anxiety,” Dhaliwal said. As a result, Dhaliwal said, he expects the city could be seeing spikes in rental rates,

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as the rising cost of insurance could be passed on to renters. In a Twitter post, Dhaliwal said it’s time for ICBC to “consider entering into the general insurance business to provide choice to renters and homeowners.” Dhaliwal said ICBC should not seek to maximize profits. Instead, as a public insurer, it should seek to break even, he said – which would allow it to offer lower, more competitive rates. “The bottom line is, every time your insurance is through a private insurance

company, there is a … profit margin,” Dhaliwal said. “If those were taken out of the equation, there should definitely be some savings.” Dhaliwal said he doesn’t envision expanding ICBC into general insurance as another monopoly, like the corporation holds over auto insurance, but rather as added competition to private insurers. But since the 2017 election, the BC NDP government has struggled to contain ICBC auto insurance rates after finding the insurer was deep in the red and nearing insolvency.The

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elected official in charge of ICBC, David Eby, has repeatedly referred to the situation as a “dumpster fire.” In recent years, right-wing commentators and politicians have called for ICBC to be privatized as a result, suggesting it’s an issue inherent in public insurance. But Dhaliwal said the crisis currently facing the public insurer isn’t an existential one for a public insurer. “ICBC’s current dumpster fire and their problems aren’t really a problem of the concept, the principle, of public insurance,” Dhaliwal said, pointing instead to

previous governments using ICBC as a “cash cow.” “That can be managed if the governments have the right intentions, like I believe this government is now trying to do, to make ICBC stand on its own without having to have the rates go up substantially.” Between 2010 and 2016, the BC Liberal government siphoned $1.2 billion from ICBC profits, to top up other areas of government.The Liberals said in 2016 the developing crisis was not a result of that, but of increasing crashes and rising costs of car repairs.

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$2M fraud a cautionary tale for co-ops Cornelia Naylor

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A Burnaby housing coop that fell into disrepair for years while its president secretly funnelled more than $2 million of its assets into her personal account is a cautionary tale to the directors of small, volunteer-run organizations everywhere, according to the Co-operative Housing Federation of B.C. “It’s a hard lesson to learn this way,” executive director Thom Armstrong told the NOW, “but, if every coop who becomes aware of this story – and not just every co-op, anybody who’s sitting on a board, whether it’s a co-op or a non-profit association or a neighbourhood association – if the lesson they draw from it is that they should pay extra attention to strict financial controls and the best practices in accounting and control procedures, then there’ll at least be some value to come out of it.” HALSTON HILLS Lillian Cameron had been the president of the 90-unit Halston Hills Housing Co-op on Horne Street for 17 years, according to facts presented at a recent court hearing. In November 2016, she walked into the Burnaby RCMP detachment and announced she was turning herself in for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her co-op. Her bank had told her it was launching an investigation into large sums of money deposited into her account by cheque, she said, and she knew the jig was up. Cameron initially claimed she had stolen only about $500,000 over an 18-month period and lost all the money gambling. But a police investigation eventually revealed Cameron had stolen a little more than $2 million over about five years. And Crown prosecutor Heather Magnin said Cameron hadn’t lost all the money gambling but had spent much of it on a “luxurious lifestyle” beyond her means. Magnin also noted Cameron had applied for and received $24,520 in rental subsidies for being “low income” during the offence period, even though her income during that time averaged about $120,000 a year.

“Her claim of the subsidy meant these funds were not available to other members,” Magnin said. (In a 2014 NOW article, Cameron lamented the coop’s inability to accept more low-income applicants. “We already have too many,” she said at the time. “People can barely afford what they’re paying now. I feel sorry for them because this affects the most vulnerable people.”)

THE CRIME The police investigation found Cameron had generated fake invoices for maintenance work at Halston Hills. She had then written cheques drawing on the Halston Hills account to correspond to those invoices. After getting a second signature from another board member, she then deposited them into her own account. All the while, necessary repairs at the co-op were left undone for years. “In our two apartment blocks, balconies and staircases had to be condemned as they were unsafe from the lack of maintenance and upkeep,” stated a victim impact statement from the new Hallston Hills board. “All of our buildings are going to require continual, dedicated efforts over a number of years to return them to the state that they should be in.” Numerous members of the co-op showed up for Cameron’s sentencing hearing. In victim impact statements, some spoke of bullying and threats of eviction they said they had experienced at Cameron’s hand. “I was living in fear for everything because she manage to make me feel insecure in my very own home,” said one co-op member – an immigrant and single mother of two children with disabilities, whose toilet remained unfixed for a year before Cameron left. Others spoke of broken trust. “I feel used, betrayed and broken-hearted because she used me for her theft,” said another member, who had been a director when Cameron was president. Cameron apologized to the court and her former neighbours. “Never in a million years did I think I would find myself in this position,” she

Fraudster: Lillian Cameron was photographed for a 2014 Burnaby NOW story. PHOTO NOW FILES

said. “I disappointed my family and friends, and I broke the law. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of those actions, and I’m filled with regret and remorse.” Cameron’s lawyer, Robert Dick, argued mental health struggles during the

I disappointed my family and friends, and I broke the law.

offence period were behind the crimes and should be considered a mitigating factor in her sentence. He presented evidence from doctors saying Cameron had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as well as PTSD from a random sex assault in 2011, and both had fuelled her gambling problem. But Magnin noted Cameron had managed to stay out of debt and not all the stolen money went to her gambling habit. She further noted Cameron had managed to hold down a good job and keep up her volunteer work, despite her mental illnesses.

Provincial court Judge James Bahen said he accepted Cameron was acting under the influence of a mental disorder when she gambled away large sums of money, but that didn’t account for her actions outside of the casino. “This is not an offence of gambling,” he said. “This is an offence of deception, deceit and taking money from people who are certainly not in a position to spare any money.” He said the court needed to send a strong message of deterrence and denunciation in such cases. “Money is attractive to people,” he said. “If people think that they can defraud any organization, whether it’s Microsoft, Google or Amazon, or a small housing co-op in Burnaby, then they’re going to take advantage of that, somebody will, whether they have a mental health diagnosis or not.” NEW BEGINNING Cameron is now in prison serving a jail sentence of three years and nine months. She has also been ordered to pay Halston Hills back the money she stole and has been banned for 10 years from “any involvement by employment or by volun-

teering in authority over the property of another.” Back at the co-op, meanwhile, members have begun to pick up the pieces of the wreckage Cameron left in her wake, according to Armstrong. “Whenever something like this happens, everybody looks around and asks the questions ‘How could this have happened? Did anyone else know? What could we have done? What could you have done? What could anyone have done?’ And for a little while it’s hard to trust anyone,” he said. The Co-operative Housing Federation of B.C. was called in to help restore Halston Hills members’ confidence in their governance and management systems and develop a financial strategy to get the organization back on track, according to Armstrong. Slowly but surely, he said, morale is being rebuilt, with the members electing a board that once again has the confidence of the community. “The money they’ve been depositing into their reserves, now that it’s not being stolen out from under them, have actually built back up quite quickly,” Armstrong said. “And they’re now starting to no-

tice a difference in their quality of life because now the money that was meant to be put toward repairs actually is being put towards repairs.” For Armstrong, however, the best safeguard against similar betrayals of trust in the future is attention to good governance. “When you’re on the board of a co-op or any other kind of neighbourhood association, the people you sit around the table with are your friends and neighbours, and sometimes people develop this notion that to insist on second- and third-party scrutiny over financial transactions is somehow an expression of mistrust in your friend and neighbour, and maybe you shouldn’t. “But the lesson is that a director’s duty of care and the strict enforcement of proper and standard control procedures is really an essential part of governing or managing a volunteerled organization, and it’s not an expression of mistrust in your colleagues. It’s simply doing your fiduciary duty as a director of the coop – and that’s something you should never shy away from.”

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In order to tackle some of its climate-related initiatives, the City of Burnaby will be opening a new reserve account to set aside funds. Coun. Sav Dhaliwal, chair of the finance committee, called the initiative a “modest” first step for the city toward acting on its climate crisis declaration. As part of the declaration, the city committed to reducing carbon emissions by 45% below 2005 levels by 2030 and 75% by 2040 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The targets are in line with that of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which warned of catastrophic consequences if the world doesn’t maintain global warming to a maximum of 1.5 C over preindustrial times. In a report to the finance committee, director of finance Noreen Kassam said the city has a few related initiatives in the works. That includes a strategy, expected in spring, to re-

duce corporate emissions; an update to the transportation plan, which will emphasize transit and active transportation; a community housing strategy, which includes emphasizing “green” buildings; installing public electric vehicle charging stations; and working with Metro Vancouver on a regional energy system. On Tuesday, council unanimously approved the creation of an operating climate action reserve, where the city will store funding for its climate initiatives. It wasn’t clear exactly how much would be put in there and over what period of time, but the city did point to one particular source of money for an initial deposit. Since 2017, the city has benefited from the province’s climate action revenue incentive program, which provides annual grants for climate-related initiatives to cities that have signed on to the BC Climate Action Charter. Over three years, the city has received nearly $1.1 million from the program.

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New B.C. tax on sugary drinks is easy to swallow

Paying taxes leaves a bad taste in the mouths of most people, but there’s a new one that feels like it will be easier to swallow. Finance Minister Carole James announced in her budget last week that the 7% provincial sales tax will now be added to carbonated drinks that have sugar. The tax takes effect on July 1 and is forecast to generate $27 million in revenues. According to one expert, children’s health will benefit from this decision to tax sugary soda drinks.

Dr.Tom Warshawski, chairman of the Childhood Obesity Foundation, told the Canadian Press that studies show sugary drinks contribute to obesity, a leading cause of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and hypertension, and health outcomes have improved where sugar taxes are levied. Warshawski, a consulting pediatrician from Kelowna, said sugar drinks are not healthy and the tax will shift people to choose healthy drinks like water. Warshawski said it may take

a decade to collect data on improved health results for children in B.C., but he’s seen remarkable changes with young patients who cut out sugary drinks. “When I see kids who are drinking sugary drinks, and I get them to shift away from sugary drinks, I see a return on that change in behaviour within a month or so,” he said. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, research published in 2017 by the University of Waterloo estimated a 20% excise

tax on sugary drinks would save more than 13,000 lives in Canada and prevent 600,000 cases of obesity and 200,000 cases of Type 2 diabetes over 25 years. The research concluded the drink tax would result in $11.5 billion in health-care savings over 25 years. Other countries are doing this, including Belgium, United Kingdom, Mexico, Chile, France, Portugal, Norway and Hungary charging an excise tax of 20% on such drinks. Eight cities in the United

States also levy sugar taxes, including Berkeley, Calif., where a University of California study published last year in the American Journal of Public Health found sugar-drink consumption was down almost 52 per cent in some neighbourhoods and water consumption was up 29%. Warshawski said he and other health-care officials had been calling on provincial governments in B.C. to impose the 7% provincial sales tax on the drinks for years, but their efforts were

rejected until Tuesday’s budget. “It was long overdue, but give them their credit,” he said. “It’s hard for government to introduce new taxes.There’s always a political backlash of some degree.” We haven’t seen much of a pushback from the general public, other than some grumbling. The fact is, we already tax dangerous things like cigarettes, so making sugary drinks less desirable doesn’t seem like much of a stretch.

MY VIEW AMRITA MOHAR

Youth exploited by the gig economy

As a 22-year-old Gen Z in the 21st century, I like to say I have a pretty good handle on what is happening in the world. However, I have definitely been blinded to a major issue that we have all been tricked into believing is a good thing. This thing is called the gig economy. Mayday to all Gen Zers – this is not a drill.We are the next ones to be played. The “gig economy” involves the hiring of freelance or temporary workers to perform jobs for a company. However, this is what “freelance” used to mean. It is now taken over and moved to different industries. Uber is a popular example of this. The appeal of the gig economy for the working class is one word, ease.You are your own boss. No one is calling you and asking why you’re an hour late for work, or having to wake up at ungodly hours. You make the time.You call the shots. Or so that’s what it seems. While the gig economy is painting this picture for us, it is painting over what it’s eliminating in the process. This being employees’ rights. Or any sort of protection and benefits. This is what people running towards the gig economy must remember. Not only having a 9-to5 job, but easily accessible work on your own time. Since I was 18 years old, I have done my time in the gig economy, and let me tell you, they have all been 0/10 experiences.

While it’s fun to know you’re getting easy money, what you forget is the protection that you may need if something happens to you. Especially when you’re sexually harassed on the job. The last thing you would ever expect, but it happens. The process for this is short and simple: there is no formal process. You tell on someone that has no experience dealing with this matter.The event lingers. Everyone is uncomfortable.You eventually have to quit to save yourself any embarrassment and for your own safety. This is not only an old people problem, this is a Gen Z problem, too. We are the ones that will define whether this stays or goes. Or at least is modified to ensure safety and protection comes first. While it may be awesome to make money by literally doing nothing, this is not sustainable long-term. At all. What companies don’t want to tell you (and are probably laughing at you behind your back) is you don’t have power at all.You are essentially giving them more money to roll around in. Do your homework, rally the troops and ask for more from employers. That is what can be done. Let’s not be blinded by accessibility and “easy money.” We are starting to lose our rights as employees. Amrita Mohar is a fourthyear student at SFU Burnaby.

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A $9,500 donation from the Royal Bank in October gave a boost to the city’s plan to strike 25,000 commemorative coins in time to celebrate Burnaby’s centennial.The coins, which were to be minted by Sherritt Mint in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., were to be distributed to all public and private school students in the city at the beginning of 1992, Burnaby’s centennial year.The plan was for the coins to feature the centennial logo, the Royal Bank corporate symbol and the words “A Proud Century, 1892 - 1992” on one side and Burnaby’s new coat of arms on the reverse side.

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profit music therapy practice for neurodiverse children in the neighbourhood. Being evicted came as a shock. I feel like so much of my life has been planted into Burnaby. I’m trying to be optimistic about the possible opportunities. Although we can’t find any apartments for the price of what we’re currently paying, Jax has a great job that pays pretty well, and I do OK for myself. We’d survive. I’m grateful for that. We’ve reached out to countless ads, checking at least twice a day for new listings that we could afford. We went and saw a place yesterday that was doing small group hostings every 15 minutes. I’ve gathered our credit scores, references and rental applications into a folder for each listing. As we await replies, I’ve had to face the reality that I might need to leave this neighbourhood. I’m not writing this to speak ill of my landlord. He was good to us, and I genuinely believe he wouldn’t be evicting us if it wasn’t necessary. I’m not writing this to advocate for affordable housing (although it couldn’t hurt). I’m writing this in case I have to leave. I wanted to thank the sweet Nonnos and Nonnas who sit on their porches and people-watch in the summers. I wanted to thank April’s Aquarium on Gilmore and Hastings for our fishy friends and a consistently wonderful store experience. I wanted to thank Parkcrest Diner for being a perfectly preserved time capsule of a classic diner. I wanted to thank all of the people I’ve exchanged smiles and conversation with. Thanks, Burnaby. You’re a truly unique place. I hope I have the privilege of staying with you. Micaela Pirritano, Burnaby

Editor: After four years of living in the Brentwood area of Burnaby, my landlord has notified me that I am being evicted. He needed the property for personal use. I moved from Abbotsford when I was 18, looking for a place to get comfortable in as I pursued my bachelor’s of music therapy. I wasn’t expecting to find the community that exists so beautifully in my neighbourhood. It wasn’t like anything I’d previously experienced. No matter the amount of stress from school or work, I always had my quaint apartment to come home to. It was a constant when I so desperately needed it. I loved passing the local shops on Hastings on my bus home. I discovered the Italian community around me with great joy as it connected me to my own cultural roots. I understood my rental to be a privilege, so I treated it as well as I could. When my partner Jackson moved in three years ago, we worked together to maintain our home. We always paid rent on time. We repainted our walls. We updated our light fixtures. I even borrowed my dad’s powerwasher for our deck. About a year ago, my landlord asked if we wanted to buy the suite from him at below market value. You can imagine that we were beyond thrilled. I’d been cautious about seeing myself in Burnaby, but my landlord had just offered a way that I could enter into the real estate market. I never thought I’d want a mid-’70s drafty apartment this much. I started believing that I could one day even fulfil my dream of opening up a non-

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City now POLITICS

NDP candidate takes issue with city’s sign bylaw Dustin Godfrey

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Burnaby’s signs bylaw could allow election campaigns to wreak havoc on their rivals, a high-profile New Democrat told city council this week. Burnaby officials will be taking another look at the city’s signs bylaw after Svend Robinson highlighted issues during the fall federal election campaign. The bylaw was recently changed to bar the signs from appearing on public property, and the former Burnaby North-Seymour NDP candidate said that left him with a $2,400 fine. Robinson said his campaign had two types of signs: small ones, often picked up by supporters and placed at their discretion, and larger signs, put up by his own campaign team. At first, Robinson said he had a good experience with the bylaw and enforcement

of it, feeling like there was a mutual understanding with the city. Bylaw would let him know if there were any issues, and his campaign would promptly deal with them. But on Oct. 17, four days before the election, Robinson said his team was handed eight bylaw infraction tickets related to the sign bylaw. “All of these were small signs. None of them were in major roads, public areas; all of them were outside residential homes, in a front yard or a boulevard. … This is completely unfair and unacceptable,” Robinson said. “The enforcement notice said this was done at one o’clock in the morning on the 16th of October. … There was no warning whatsoever.” Robinson said his team sought to tell people when they picked up the small signs that they couldn’t be put up on public property, but he said he couldn’t con-

trol what people did with the signs from there. This has the potential to be a particularly bad issue for a candidate, Robinson said. At $300 per infraction, Robinson was fined $2,400 – if a candidate were close to their spending limits, that kind of a fine could push them over that limit and disqualify them from the election. “Think about this for a minute: If your political opponents want to do you mischief, all they have to do is move your signs onto public property,” Robinson told council. He said he spoke with People’s Party candidate Rocky Dong about the issue, and while they don’t agree on a lot of things, the two agreed on this. Councillors expressed regret for Robinson’s experience with the bylaw and voted unanimously to have staff take another look at the bylaw and enforcement of it.

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What better way to understand a piece of music than to work with the person who composed it? Young choral singers in Burnaby had just that chance recently as CoroVoce – the Burnaby school district’s honour choir – teamed up with the Coquitlam-based Coastal Sound Children’s Choir to commission a new work from a Canadian composer. Laura Hawley’s new piece, The Maple Key, will have its world première at an upcoming joint concert by the two choirs, March 7 at NewWestminster Christian Reformed Church in Burnaby. The idea of commissioning a new piece for young voices first started to percolate when Diana Clark, Coastal Sound’s artistic director, was visiting St. Boniface, Man. with her choir two years ago. On the grounds of the Université St. Boniface is a piece of art called À tous vents, a statue created by MadeleineVrignon to recognize Canada’s 150th anniversary.The large statue shows 150 maple seed pods made of polished stainless steel; the giant, stylized maple keys seem to be “whirling out into the world,” as Clark describes it. That image stuck with Clark.When she returned home, she contacted Hawley with the idea of a new piece of music for children’s choirs that would embody the idea of maple seed pods whirling out on the wind. A singer in one of Hawley’s choirs, Marion Saunderson, provided the lyrics in the form of six stanzas of poetry. “We were thrilled that Marion was able to capture the essence of the sculpture and the symbolism of children ‘whirling, twirl-

IN HARMONY: Young singers from Burnaby’s CoroVoce and the Coastal Sound Children’s Choir with composer Laura Hawley, front right. The two choirs commissioned a new work from Hawley and workshopped it with her in preparation for an upcoming March 7 concert. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED ing into the future,’” Clark said in a press release. “With lines like, ‘Send me in to the world to plant new hope, to grow new dreams,’ we knew that Laura would be able to write a stunning piece for young voices to sing.” Clark reached out to Teresa Fierro, the co-director of CoroVoce, about having her choir – an auditioned group of singers in grades 4 through 7 – join with Coastal Sound on the project. Fierro was excited about the chance to have the choirs work on a piece with Hawley. “We had seen her work and really loved her inspiration, where she gets her ideas from,” Fierro said in an interview with the NOW. “The music that she writes is so accessible for children to sing, and the message is so relevant.” Clark agreed. “Finding appropriate lyrics to sing for this age level is always a challenge,” she said. “These tweens and teens have depth and soul, and want to find meaning that

Catch the concert Roots Before Branches, featuring CoroVoce and the Coastal Sound Children’s Choir, is on Saturday, March 7 at 3 p.m. at New Westminster Christian Reformed Church, 8255 13th Ave., Burnaby. Tickets are $10. Coastal Sound is also offering an evening concert at 7 p.m., featuring the Coastal Sound family of choirs: DeCoro, Coastal Sound Youth Choir, Coastal Sound Children’s Choir, Con Bella, Boychoir, Con Vita and Con Brio. Tickets are $20 regular, $15 for seniors and students, or $12 for children 12 and under if bought in advance ($23/$18/$15 at the door). For details and tickets for both concerts, see www. coastalsoundmusic.com.

speaks to them, that they can identify with, through music. Laura’s piece fits this need beautifully.” The choirs flew Hawley in from Edmonton for a weekend, and the choirs had two workshop rehearsals with her, one at Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam and the other at South Slope Elementary School in Burnaby. “She was so inspirational to the children,” Fierro said. “She explained and sort of painted the picture of how she comes up with the ideas

of where the lyrics come from.” She was also able to show the singers how different techniques of composition and harmony had an artistic impact on the music, Clark noted. The young singers, Fierro said, were “captivated” – and so were their teachers. “It was so inspiring to listen to her and to then try and embed that into the music,” she said. And, Fierro said, they’ve seen the difference in the choirs as the experience has

elevated their performance level. “They have remembered what her intentions were. It’s brought all the music up to a higher level,” she said. Not only did Hawley work with the children on her own song, but she also took the time to talk about what it’s like to be a composer, how you can make a living at it, how you can find lyrics and find someone to produce your music. “When you actually look at the person who wrote the music … They were in awe of her, and I loved that,” Fierro said. Working together as a joint choir also gave the young singers a boost, she noted.They got to experience each other’s vocal warm-ups and conductors from each other’s choirs, and they had a chance to figure out how to make a new group sound as one massed choir. “Having the opportunity to sing together, for blending, for being able to articulate, it’s really important for

the choirs to sync together,” Fierro noted. The concert program will include two other works by Hawley, EarthVoices and The Sun Is Mine; together, the three pieces are part of a planned five-part song series. It will also include the R&B anthemWake Up Everybody, plus the title song, Room for Two’s Roots Before Branches. The journey to the upcoming concert has also involved several other Burnaby music teachers: Angela Adam, Bonnie Ishii, Sheila Little and Patti Fletcher, who are all with CoroVoce; and Deanna Gestrin, music teacher at Burnaby Mountain, who works with Coastal Sound. Fierro is quick to point out that the whole undertaking has been possible thanks to the Burnaby school district and its board’s “tremendous support” of music at both the elementary and high school levels. “They really do support us tremendously well in Burnaby,” she said.

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City now Burnaby ‘science rock stars’ capture world silver medals Cornelia Naylor

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A pair of Burnaby school district “science rock stars” may have been a bit intimidated going head to head with some of the smartest young scientists in the world this month, but that didn’t stop them from winning silver at an international science fair. Burnaby North Secondary School twins Claire and Vanessa Scrimini were in Taipei,Taiwan from Feb. 3 to 7, competing against 300 young scientists representing 20 countries at the 2020 Taiwan International Science Fair. The Scriminis’ project, “Algae Meets Fungi,” was no baking soda volcano and had already won gold at the

national fair in Canada last May, but the twins knew the competition at the international fair would be stiff. “It was quite intimidating knowing that we were competing against the smartest young scientists from all over the world,”Vanessa said. “Every person in the room found a method of solving a unique issue. It was absolutely amazing to gain perspective regarding what other innovators are doing globally and it gives me hope for our future.” Algae Meets Fungi was designed to test which combination of fungi and algae would be most effective for making biofuel. “A microalgae-fungi biofuel has significantly less C02 emissions, and produc-

tion is classified as carbonneutral because the carbon dioxide that is absorbed by the algae is equal to the carbon dioxide that is released when the fuel is burned,” states a description of the project. At one point, the twins converted two spare bedrooms at home into makeshift labs to grow fungi and algae and later finished their testing at a lab at SFU.

Like all the entries, the Scriminis’ project was evaluated by industry professionals, professors and researchers. In the end, the Scriminis won silver in the microbiology category. But science fairs – including the international competition – are about more than winning medals, according to Claire. “We had the amazing op-

portunity to meet many like-minded individuals and share our work with students from all over the world,” she said. And Donna Morgan, who oversees the science education in the Burnaby school district, said Claire and Vanessa’s accomplishments go beyond medals and awards: She pointed to a science leadership program cofounded by the twins, who

visit local elementary school classrooms to share handson STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) lessons and mentor younger students working on science fair projects. Morgan said the younger students now follow the Scriminis’ journey “like they are rock stars – science rock stars.”

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SKETCH TO LIVE MUSIC at the Deer Lake Gallery.The Burnaby Arts Council is bringing back its Live at the Gallery event starting on Saturday at 6:30 p.m.The event runs until 9 p.m. and features two very different performances – classical harp and improvised guitar. It’s free, but RSVP ahead at eventbrite.ca. Get all the details at www.burnabyartscouncil.org.

Sketching, singing and celebrating this weekend

TAKE IN A CHORAL CONCERT on Saturday, Feb. 29 as Amabilis Singers present Kim André Arnesen’s Magnificat, a stunning seven-movement work involving choir, soprano soloist, strings, piano and organ. It’s at New Westminster Christian Reformed Church, 8255 13th Ave., Burnaby, at 8 p.m.Tickets $25, or $15 for secondary school students (free for children under

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CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF BURNABY ARTISTS by checking out an

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The Women’s Business Success Network is paving the way for the next generation of business leaders in Burnaby. The network, an initiative of the Burnaby Board of Trade, worked with Burnaby School District 41 to teach Grade 10, 11 and 12 students about a wide range of professions, from engineering to film production, from social innovation to digital arts. “There are so many opportunities in our economy, from sciences to the arts to entrepreneurship, and these events created an opportunity for students to see women succeeding and leading in a variety of these roles and learn from their successes and challenges,” Joanne Curry, chair of the network, stated in a press release from the Burnaby Board of Trade. The two Career and Leadership Exploration

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KEY STONE BATTLE: Terry Fox Ravens’ Ko Takahashi loses his grip on the ball while being

guarded by Burnaby Mountain’s Caleb Chiang during first-round action at the Fraser North senior boys basketball tournament last week. Burnaby Mountain put in a valiant battle but saw its season end with a 91-81 loss to Dr. Charles Best. PHOTO MARIO BARTEL/TRICITY NEWS

Impeccable timing goes a long way towards excellence. The Burnaby South Rebels aim to prove that point, as they prepare for the last handful of games in their 2019-20 senior boys basketball season. The Rebels defended their No. 1-ranking and locked up the first-ever Fraser North zone title on Sunday, beating the rival Centennial Centaurs 76-69 at the Langley Events Centre. Burnaby South will enter the B.C. 4-A senior boys basketball championships March 4 to 8 with a healthy roster and an eye on keeping the ball rolling. “It’s just a different, different atmosphere and nice to see different teams,” Rebels coach Mike Bell said of the new zone, which saw their old Lower Mainland route merged with the Tri-Cities’ squads that played previously in the cumbersome Fraser Valley district. “It’s tougher though, I have to say.There are less berths going around in these zones and you’re seeing a lot of good teams not (advancing).” Sunday’s game was exactly that, as the two teams sparred for the third time in what was the rubber match for more than mere bragging rights.The winner likely enters the provincial tournament as the top seed, and an easier route. Burnaby South never trailed, but had to fend off both an early and late challenge from the Coquitlam team. Six-foot-10 post Sasha Vujisic did most of the first quarter damage for the Rebels, scoring eight of the team’s first 12 points and putting up an impressive block against Centennial’s sixfoot-eight Dominic Parolin. Ahead 17-14 after 10 minutes, Burnaby South was put on their heels briefly as the Cents pulled within a point before Jareb Pineda knocked down a three-point shot to spark an 18-5 run en route to a 42-28 lead at halftime. After the Rebels pushed the lead to 20 points during the third quarter, Centennial

pushed back and began a rally that carried into the fourth quarter.The Centaurs crept within six points, on the strength of Parolin’s game-high 37 points. But Burnaby South’s defence wouldn’t break, holding the lead until the end. “I thought we needed to get a bit more secondary scoring in this game, and I thought that was the difference in this game,” remarked Centennial coach Rob Sollero. “(Burnaby South) have a lot of weapons, and they take advantage of all the different players who can score.” Parolin, who was named the tourney’s Most Valuable Player, was a one-man wrecking crew. Burnaby South, however, was able to contain most of the other Centaurs. “Dom’s a battler, as you saw today,” noted Bell. “He just wouldn’t go away.That’s why he won the MVP and if you look at stats sheet I’m pretty sure it says a lot of twos and threes beside his number. He filled that stats sheet pretty well.” Guard Justin Sunga led the Rebels’ offence, scoring 18 points and draining three treys on the day.Vujisic finished with 17 points, while Grade 10 post Karan Aujla contributed 13 points and Emir Krupic chipped in 12. Sunga,Vujisic and Aujla were named to the first Fraser North allstar team. Bell noted that his lineup, virtually at full health after both Vujisic and Krupic missed the first month due to injury, has benefited from having such depth, including Grade 10s Jimmy Zaborniak and Aujla. “It gives us a little younger lineup and we get to play with Karan in the centre when Sasha goes off.These kids have been playing it all year long.We’ve been injured all year long so kids have stepped up and played some bigger minutes for us and that’s kind of what they did today.There’s just good chemistry right now,” said Bell. Having everyone ready to take to the floor couldn’t come at a better time, he added. Burnaby South advanced to the final by Continued on page 29

Burnaby trio turn mat work into B.C. gold medals Dan Olson

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Bearing broad smiles, three girls marked last week’s Family Day with gold. On the strength of some sharp technical moves and determined skills, Burnaby’s Gina Bolognese, Clara Scaglione and Logan Stimson each finished the three-day B.C. Secondary School Wrestling championships as best of the best. In the span of a handful of minutes, each wrestler saw their season come to a close with an upraised arm and the thrill of achieving a hard-fought goal. “It was a dream of mine, and I wanted to see myself up there and I said ‘Whatever happens, happens.’ It’s my Grade 10 year so I wanted to see if I could get up there,” noted Bolognese, the lone entry from Burnaby North. “The seeding really kind of boosted my

self-esteem a little, made me a little bit of an airhead but I was really excited just to come out and wrestle.” The teen entered the tourney as the No. 1 seed in the 47-kilogram division, and bested a handful of rivals en route to the final to face Sir Charles Tupper’s Brooklyn Prasad. In the first period, Bolognese held a 2-0 lead thanks to a throw-down.While Prasad recorded a point in the second period, and the Tupper coach contested a point late in the match, the final score stood. “I just went on the mat with the jitters but I really think that pushed me forward, helped me have better reflexes,” said Bolognese. “I wrestled her in the past but this was my first time this year – I lost (to her) last year at age class. I like to see the improvement in my wrestling and I’m pretty happy about it.“

A year ago as a Grade 9, Bolognese secured silver in the 43kg division. Building on that, the Vikings grappler, who trains with the Burnaby Central Wildcats team, rolled through the 2019-20 season undefeated. As a Grade 12 grappler, Scaglione was motivated to wrap up her high school career on a winning note and improve on last year’s silver.The St.Thomas More Collegiate athlete made quick work in the final, pinning Kelly Road’s Kaily Pattison at 1:19 of the first period to score gold. “I don’t even remember what happened. I remember the end,” remarked Scaglione moments after receiving her medal in the 60kg division. “I prefer to wrestle people that I don’t know, that way I can just focus on my own set of takedown turns.” She began the season in the 57kg category but jumped up a

Shining moment: St. Thomas More wrestlers Logan Stimson, left, and Clara Scaglione celebrate their gold medals after victories last week. PHOTO DAN OLSON

class, without pausing. “(Scaglione) is probably the most technical wrestler we have. She’s methodical, she goes out there and does what she needs to do. She doesn’t overexert herself, she doesn’t go crazy,” STM coach

Max Arcand said. “She went out there, very smart, and kind of felt her out a bit. (Scaglione) took the shot she needed to take, it didn’t work, backed up and went to neutral then came back in.” Continued on page 29

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The Grandview Steelers’ playoff mastery of the Richmond Sockeyes continues, and it doesn’t seem to matter how much adversity they face. A 4-1 Game 7 victory at Minoru Arenas on Monday night made it five Pacific Junior Hockey League opening round series wins in the last six years against Richmond – dating back to the 2014-15 campaign. That streak looked to be in serious jeopardy on Sunday night at the Burnaby Winter Club with the Sockeyes enjoying a 4-2 game six lead and less than five minutes away from a series

win. However, the Steelers scored twice then pulled out an improbable 5-4 victory in overtime. That result put them exactly where long-time coach and GM Aldo Bruno thought they would be all along — in a Game 7 winner-take-all showdown. That’s not a bad scenario when you happen to have the league’s best goaltender in veteran Cale Dolan. “Every year we go through this and it’s unfortunate we have to do this to each other. Almost all the series have been seven games too,” said Bruno. It’s a good bet the Sockeyes will be among the PJHL’s top regular season teams each year based on

South on playoff roll

Continued from page 28 topping the Terry Fox Ravens 82-53 on Friday, getting 27 points from Vujisic and a dozen by Aujla. Both Burnaby Mountain and New Westminster were eliminated on Day 2 of the tourney, with the Lions falling 81-71 to Best, while New West’s season ended in a heartbreaking 87-77 overtime tilt with Maple Ridge.

a roster loaded with speed and skill.This campaign was no exception and that talent was evident at times in this series, especially in winning games 4 (6-3) and 5 (7-0). The Steelers are also a perennial contender, only with a different blueprint. “We can’t match them talent for talent but our work ethic is there.That’s our motto and that’s what our organization is about,” Bruno continued. “We have always been about having kids that have the heart ahead of the talent.When you do have talent and put the two together, you usually have good results.” Brett Reusch, the Sockeyes head coach, has watched promising seasons come to an abrupt end the last couple of years courtesy of the Steelers. “It’s a tough pill to swal-

low for sure and right now I’m just trying to digest everything,” said Reusch. “We blew a couple of two-goal leads in Game 6 and they are a relentless and mature group that does not give up.” It was Hamilton who notched the Game 7 winner early in the second period. Jordan Myers added a shorthanded breakaway goal in the third.That was more than enough for Dolan, who earned first star honours with a 35-save performance. Hamilton added salt to the Sockeyes’ season with an empty-net tally in the dying moments. Grandview now meets regular season champion North Vancouver in the Tom Shaw Conference finals, starting Friday, 8 p.m. at the Harry Jerome Rec Centre.

Continued from page 28

There were fewer finals as dramatic as Stimson’s victory in the female 75kg division. Up against Robert Bateman’s Rupinder Johal, STM’s Stimson approached it like a chess match, with each grappler searching for an opening. Down 4-1 early in the second-and-last period, the Grade 11 athlete moved into the lead with less than 20 seconds remaining when a challenge from the opposing coach paused the match.The judges reversed the score to put Johal back in front 4-3, making the final 15 seconds a frantic flash. “Before they took the points off and my coach said it was OK, you’re one point ahead,” recalled Stimson. “It’s 13 seconds, you can stall for 10 seconds.Then when they took the points off, I was like, ‘She can also stall for 10 seconds, what am I suppose to do?’ It was just balls to the wall.” With a mix of urgency and efficiency, Stimson closed out the match with her favourite move, a fireman’s throw, to post a dramatic 5-4 comeback to claim the gold. A year ago, Stimson finished fifth overall in the 64kg division, and put in a lot of work over the year to prepare for a chance at redemption.That it worked out right down to the final moment was pure magic. Burnaby Mountain’s Marley Jackson, meanwhile, picked up a silver medal in her 54kg division final against national champion Marquesis Haintz of Maple Ridge. Her match ended in the first period with a takedown. Capturing bronze were Burnaby Central’s Arash Rasti, in boys 70kg, and New West’s Willow Beyea, in girls 90kg.

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31, 2020, the median price of a luxury house in Greater Vancouver decreased 1.3 per cent year-over-year, while the median price of a condominium was relatively flat, posting a 0.2 per cent year-over-year increase.”

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Jason Soprovich, a West Vancouver realtor with Royal LePage Sussex, said, “Metro Vancouver’s residential real estate market is shifting towards a balanced market and this trend has been moving upward through the luxury market. There is healthy demand for homes priced between $3 million and $5 million, and this segment is starting to stabilize. It will take more time for the upper-end segment to move into a balanced market, but it is expected.” The report added that luxury home prices in the region were expected to continue their decline, but with relatively “modest” drops, over the coming year. Royal LePage expects the median price of a Metro Vancovuer luxury house to fall another two per cent year-over-year to $5,287,000, while the median price of a luxury condo is predicted to slip 1.5 per cent to $2,376,000.

Across Canada, the national report said that the Greater Montreal Area had posted highest appreciation in Canada over the year, for both luxury houses (up 8.5 per cent) and condos (up 8.3 per cent). This was followed by Greater Toronto Area luxury condos, which were seven per cent higher than one year previously. Royal LePage said of the two metropolitan regions, “Limited inventory and high demand will continue to fuel luxury home price growth, and Royal LePage forecasts continued price appreciation across GMA and GTA luxury markets.” The report said that Greater Ottawa’s luxury housing market has seen a balanced market for luxury houses (prices up 2.7 per cent) and condos (up 2.2 per cent) “as new-build prices push demand for resale listings,” it added. Greater Calgary’s luxury home market told a similar story to Metro Vancouver, with prime real estate prices softening, but signs of renewed market activity leading to optimism. Royal LePage’s report said, “Calgary’s luxury house prices are expected to be relatively flat [over the coming year]. The median price of a luxury house is expected to decrease by 0.5 per cent to $1,941,000 while the median price of luxury condominium is forecast to decrease 3.0 per cent to $860,000.”

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34 THURSDAY February 27, 2020 • BurnabyNOW

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100% BC OWNED AND OPERATED Organic Lemons Imported

Wild Sockeye Salmon

Farmcrest Non-GMO Specialty Roasted Chickens

Value Pack

6/300

1499/lb 33.05/kg

1399 each

Choices’ Own Ready to Eat Green Salads

Organic Clamshell Herbs Assorted Varieties

15% off

499799

14-28g

each

Hardbite Natural Potato Chips

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29990g

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1999 3399

473ml

749

package of 6

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1999 3599

GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha Assorted Varieties

250g

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2/500

946ml

Choices’ Own Keto Chocolate Coconut Fat Bombs

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500g

3/999

480ml +deposit +eco fee

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