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UPHILL BATTLE: Burnaby firefighters couldn’t climb stairs this year due to COVID-19, so they counted steps to raise money to fight lung diseases. Read the story on page 14. PHOTO SILVESTER LAW

TransLink chooses ‘preferred’ gondola route TransLink unveiled its “preferred” route for the proposed Burnaby Mountain Gondola project on Monday. The straight route from ProductionWay-University SkyTrain station to SFU Burnaby campus was chosen, with the gondola terminal located near

the SFU bus exchange. The route is 2.7-kilometres long with an estimated travel time of six minutes – a nine-minute time savings compared to the current average bus travel time of 15 minutes, said TransLink. TransLink said more than 85% of the 7,000

respondents over two rounds of public engagement supported the straight route.This route, however, has been opposed by many of the residents who actually live under where the gondola would travel. The Burnaby Mountain Gondola would provide

service between SkyTrain and Burnaby Mountain for the 25,000 daily trips made by SFU students, staff, faculty and residents. Gondola cabins would depart every minute, carrying more people up the mountain per hour than current bus services and in about half the time.The

proposed project is not yet approved or funded. Area resident Brian Ferguson said it doesn’t matter which route is chosen, he’s against the proposal. “The harm to the environment is the elephant in the room,” he said. “TransLink parrots the gondola salesman’s

claims that they can do it with minimal damage to the wildlife in the conservation area.TransLink makes this claim one moment and then next declares how a gondola per minute will bring more people and activity into the area.”

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TMX starts clearing trees near river Chris Campbell

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Another large protest was held in Burnaby last Sunday condemning the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, but chainsaws still went ahead cutting down local trees in area around the Brunette River. The protest on Sunday included a march to visit activists camped in a treehouse 60-feet up in a tree along the planned pipeline route. One activist has been camped in the tree for more than two months. People at the protest included Burnaby Coun. Joe Keithley, as well as high school students who attended the event to stress the importance of stopping the pipeline for their generation. “As young people, our futures are directly impacted by our government’s inaction on climate change today,” said Burnaby student Lilah Williamson. The main organizers behind the action were Protect the Planet: Stop TMX. Trans Mountain was recently granted the ability to circumvent a section of the City of Burnaby’s tree bylaw, which requires a

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Tree protest: A protest was held on Sunday near the Brunette River in Burnaby as Trans Mountain workers started cutting down the first of more than 1,300 trees. A protester has been living in a tree at the site for the past two months. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

permit for anyone to damage or cut down any protected tree – those with 20.3-centimetre diameters or larger – in the city. However, the order, which came from the Canada Energy Regulator, said the project needed to comply with all other sections of the bylaw.

Trans Mountain plans to cut down 1,308 protected trees in Burnaby, not including trees with smaller trunks. The Brunette River area has been the most recent front line in a dispute between Trans Mountain and anti-pipeline activists, who say the pipeline

will make it impossible for Canada to meet its climate targets and removing the trees will disrupt a sensitive ecosystem around the river. “Trans Mountain has started the clearing work needed to safely construct the pipeline in the Brunette area – the work

area is located in the transportation corridor between the CN Rail line and Highway 1 immediately west of the Brunette exit off-ramp in Burnaby,” said a statement by Trans Mountain. “This work is expected to take several weeks.”

School hit by a COVID-19 variant exposure cnaylor@burnabynow.com

A class of Burnaby elementary school students has been ordered to isolate until today (March 3) after being exposed to a COVID-19 variant last month. Parents at École Marlborough Elementary School got an exposure notice from Fraser Health Monday evening saying someone with “a variant type of COVID-19” had

Woman is charged in case of a senior who was tripped in 2020 Cornelia Naylor

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been at the school on Feb. 16 and 17. “This is a general notification and does not mean you or your family have been exposed to a variant type of COVID-19,” stated the letter. “The person involved has been isolated; as such, there is no chance of direct exposure at this time.” In a news release the next day, Fraser Health said it was working with the district to manage the exposure – the first local

case involving a COVID variant. The health authority said it had initiated mass, rapid testing at Marlborough “in response to exposures of variants of concern.” “As these are variants that are new to our communities and more easily transmissible, Fraser Health is working to identify any further connected variant cases to ensure immediate isolation and case management to pre-

vent further transmission,” stated the release. “The variant strains can transmit more quickly and easily but do not interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines, nor affect our ability to test for the virus.” As of Tuesday, 182 cases of variants had been reported in B.C., according to a briefing by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. Most (159) of the cases have been the B117 variant first identified in the

U.K., while the B1351 variant identified in South Africa accounted for (23) cases. The letter to Marlborough parents didn’t specify which variant had been detected at that school. Variant cases are accelerating in the province, according to public health officials. A number of Surrey schools have been hit, including the latest exposure at Princess Margaret Secondary reported Tuesday.

A 31-year-old Vancouver woman has been charged with assault for allegedly tripping an 84-year-old stranger to the ground near the Metrotown SkyTrain station in 2020. Burnaby RCMP released a video in May that shows the senior with a walker making her way toward the station on April 3, 2020. Another woman walking toward the station can then be seen suddenly changing direction, walking towards her and apparently tripping her from behind. The woman then walks away as the elderly woman falls to the ground. “Police believe the attack to have been unprovoked, and both the suspect and the victim were unknown to one another,” stated an RCMP news release. Burnaby RCMP announced Friday that charges of assault causing bodily harm have now been laid against Hayun Song. Police arrested Song at the Metrotown SkyTrain station on Feb. 6, according to Burnaby RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Brett Cunningham. “Our high-risk offender unit has reviewed all the evidence, received tips from the public and completed an extensive investigation,” Cunningham said in the release. “The Burnaby RCMP would like to thank the public for all their assistance.”

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CityConnect PARCEL TAX ROLL REVIEW PANEL PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Burnaby Parcel Tax Roll Review

Panel will meet on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 5pm in the Council Chamber, Burnaby City Hall. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in accordance with Ministerial Order No. M192/2020 and the order of the Provincial Health Officer on Gatherings and Events, the Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel will be conducted virtually and live-streamed on the City’s website. The purpose of the panel is to approve new charges for Sewer Parcel and Local Areas Service Taxes in 2021. Property owners who provide advance written notice to the panel are given the opportunity to appeal against the Local Area Services Frontage and Sewer Parcel tax assessments for 2021.

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2021 utility notices were sent out in early February. If you did not receive your utility notice, please contact the Burnaby Tax Office. To be eligible for the discounted amount, the City must receive the full payment of the amount owing on or before Monday March 15, 2021, whether or not you received a bill. Partial payments or payments received after this date will not be eligible for the discounted amount.

HOW TO PAY YOUR UTILITY FEES

The City of Burnaby offers several options to pay your utility fees:

Internet, telephone banking or at most financial institutions/automated banking machines (ABM): • Please check with your financial institution as some banks require up to 3 business days for payment processing. Payments made online or at your financial institution after the local bank cut off time on the due date will be considered late.

All impacted property owners will receive written notiﬁcation of their assessment prior to this meeting.

Credit card payments are accepted online only at burnaby.ca/myproperty A non-refundable 1.75% convenience fee will be applied.

To have your appeal considered by the Panel, written notice outlining the reason(s) must be made by Monday, March 8, 2021 at 5pm to:

24-hour drop boxes located in the parking lot and at both entrances to Burnaby City Hall, 4949 Canada Way. Please note: drop boxes are cleared daily.

Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel c/o Tax Office 4949 Canada Way Burnaby BC V5G 1M2 604-294-7350 Or by email to revenue.services@burnaby.ca

By mail to Burnaby Tax Office, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC V5G 1M2 Please make cheque payable to: City of Burnaby. Postmarks are not acceptable as date of payment.

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Total $556.4 Million

19.9% General Government, $110.8M 18.3% Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services, $101.6M

Burnaby City Council is committed to ﬁnancial, social and environmental sustainability. To ensure we achieve this goal, the City is focused on providing excellent policing and ﬁre protection services, upgrading roads, water and sewer infrastructure, and ensuring Burnaby parks and recreation facilities meet citizen needs. In addition, we recognize the importance to Burnaby citizens of ongoing maintenance and replacement of existing City facilities. As a result, the 2021 operating budget of $556.4 million is focused on providing quality levels of City services and programs to the citizens of Burnaby.

To ensure the City’s priorities reflect those of Burnaby citizens, we want to hear from you! The City’s 2021-2025 Provisional Financial Plan was presented to Council on February 22, 2021 with a proposed property tax rate increase of 2.95%, and a 0% increase in utility rates for both the sanitary sewer fund and the waterworks utility. We would like your views on the budget and, in particular, municipal services and priorities. The Plan is available for viewing on our website at burnaby.ca/financialplan. In order to allow enough time for Council to consider your comments before final approval of the tax rates in May, please provide them by Friday, March 12, 2021 to: finance@burnaby.ca

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Opinion now MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Site C shows BC Hydro is in charge

The BC NDP government’s decision to complete the construction of the controversial and expensive Site C dam should not be a surprise to anyone familiar with the historical relationship between BC Hydro and various provincial governments over the years. More often than not, what BC Hydro wants BC Hydro tends to get. In this case, the Crown corporation has always wanted to build the dam no matter the costs and risks associated with the venture. BC Hydro created a situation that made it virtually impossible for the B.C. government to kill the project at this point. Even though the NDP created a project oversight board soon after taking office, an independent report by a former senior civil servant painted a picture of BC Hydro either dominating or ignoring the board even while serious problems arose at various stages of construction. As far back as 2017, problems with the foundations on both banks of the Peace River started emerging, yet construction continued merrily along while the oversight board was kept in the dark about a number of issues. Even after Premier John Horgan appointed former-deputy finance minister Peter Milburn to assess the situation, the project’s construction continued at a pace that, while not as breakneck as it was pre-pandemic, was nevertheless impressive. And remember, this all happened on the NDP’s watch, not the BC Liberal’s watch.The NDP appointed the BC Hydro board members and the oversight board members. By the time the government got around to announcing the decision last week to give Site C another green light, the project was half-finished

- creating at least a psychological hurdle to killing it. Moreover, the financial consequences of walking away from the project are disastrous. Not only would there be a $10-billion hole covering sunk costs, contract terminations and site remediation costs, but it is entirely possible bond-rating agencies would shift about $25 billion in “self-supported debt” to “taxpayersupported debt” which, in turn, would cost the provincial government hundreds of millions of dollars in higher debt-serving costs every year. On top of all that, B.C.’s credit rating would likely be downgraded, which again would cost taxpayers enormous amounts of money. No one really knows how much this whole affair is going to cost or whether it will even turn out to be a success or a failure. For now, the budget is pegged at a whopping $16 billion, almost double the $8.7-billion estimate back in 2014. For now, engineering experts are confident the geo-technical problems on both banks of the river can be solved and dealt with in a safe manner. I have written previously that, all things considered, the Site C dam was a worthwhile project because it will generate clean energy that will be in demand years from now. But this whole drama reminds me of a piece of advice I was given by an old political hand when I first started covering B.C. politics long ago. “Just remember one thing,” he told me. “The government doesn’t run BC Hydro as much as BC Hydro runs the government.” I think I see what he means. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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A NOW story about coho salmon teeming in the once-pollution-dead Brunette River system unleashed a different kind of threat on the fish: enthusiastic anglers.The number of fishers throwing a line into the stream rose substantially after the Nov. 13 good news story, according Sapperton Fish and Game Club officials, who then grew concerned not all the new anglers understood the special rules that had been put in place to help the club get a natural spawning and restocking process happening in the once-dead urban river.

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Opinionnow Save our wetlands Editor: Amid all the heartening and hope-filled ways Canadians have resolved to make 2021 a year of positive change, one, in particular, holds water: the commitment to saving our wetlands. Leading up to 2021, the Government of Canada promised to make significant investments in our environment – and in the wetlands that underpin its health. Today, this commitment must be among our greatest convictions. Our ability to address the colliding crises of biodiversity loss and climate change depends on it. So does our economic recovery. Upholding our responsibility to conserve and restore wetlands brings us measurably closer to finding solutions to some of the country’s greatest threats. As floods and fires rage more frequently, as sea levels rise and populations of at-risk species continue to plummet, we’ve reached a point where addressing these challenges individually won’t work. Wetlands, by their nature, can help us tackle them simultaneously. These amazing ecosystems hold and slow the flow of water, sequester carbon and support biodiversity. The challenge ahead of us is to value wetlands enough that we keep our promise to protect them so that they may do their job. The case for saving Canada’s wetlands becomes even more compelling when you

consider the economics. Investing in these highly productive ecosystems generates real financial returns. Research that examined Ducks Unlimited Canada’s conservation and restoration efforts revealed that for every dollar invested in wetlands and natural habitats, society receives $22 in economic benefits. This includes nature-based recreation, tourism and employment. It’s a sound return on investment. This past September, Canada joined more than 30 countries from around the world in the “High Ambition Coalition” that pledged to protect 30 per cent of their lands and oceans by 2030. Prime Minister Trudeau said the key to Canada’s efforts will be “moving forward on protecting our wetlands.” It was a welcome acknowledgement for conservation organizations like ours. So, in 2021, saving wetlands is a resolution Canada must keep. Let’s find resolve in the science that demonstrates the positive impact they have on fighting climate change and bolstering biodiversity. Let’s lean on their economic value to build up our communities. And let’s find strength in the solution that’s sitting right in our own backyard. Wetlands, coupled with strong environmental stewardship led by all Canadians, are an outstretched hand that will help us all back to our feet. Karla Guyn, CEO, Ducks Unlimited Canada

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Burnaby’s next top cop will be a “superior communicator and innovator with a relational and collaborative leadership style” if Mayor Mike Hurley has anything to say about it – and he does. With the retirement of Chief Supt. Deanne Burleigh last month, the search is on for the city’s next officer in charge. Much of that process is in the hands of the RCMP, but the final decision will be made “in very close consultation and consideration of input from our mayor,” according to City of Burnaby public safety

director Dave Critchley. The RCMP will start by selecting a small pool of qualified candidates (three or four) from across the national organization, according to Critchley. “All qualified commissioned officers in the RCMP would be reviewed,” he told the NOW in an email. “In addition, the RCMP will advertise the vacancy internally and request qualified candidates to apply.” Once the candidates have been picked, they’ll be interviewed by an interview board consisting of an observer from RCMP Executive/Officer Development and Resourcing (E/ODR), a senior offi-

cer from Lower Mainland District RCMP or RCMP E Division headquarters, Hurley and a senior city staffer at the mayor’s discretion. According to the city’s policing contract, the RCMP ultimately has the final say, according to Critchley, but the Mounties have “significantly increased the participation and input from the mayors in the selection of an OIC, as compared to years ago,” he said. When asked what he’ll be looking for in a new top cop, Hurley started by applauding the outgoing OIC, saying he’ll miss his “great working relationship” with her.

“She is an outstanding leader as was clearly evidenced by the respect she had amongst those who worked for her,” he said. In a send-off for Burleigh at a Feb. 8 city council meeting, Hurley said, “Deanne set the stage for the style of policing that all communities strive for – maintaining the rule of law while staying accessible, approachable and dependable, regardless of the challenging situation.” He said he’ll be looking for much the same thing in Burnaby’s next top cop. The successful candidate will have to be a “superior communicator/innovator with a relational and collaborative leader-

ship style,” who will be able to enhance organizational effectiveness, efficiency and accountability; improve internal culture, morale, and health and wellness; and increase strategic partnerships and programs, Hurley said. He’ll be looking for “a leader with a vision who is visible in our community.” Burleigh doesn’t technically retire until June (she’s taking unused vacation time till then), but Supt. Graham de la Gorgendiere

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Community now Deafblind Burnaby teen publishes children’s book Cornelia Naylor

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Now that he’s found a way to express himself that people understand, Alpha Secondary Grade 10 student Scott Mallinson is firm about one thing: he doesn’t want anyone talking for him. Mallinson, 16, is deafblind and spent years in school unable to communicate fully with the people around him. “It was hard,” he says in an email interview with the NOW. “I got really tired of being treated like I didn’t know what was going on. I just stopped trying.” A BEE’S JOURNEY That all changed a little before Christmas 2019 after some tapping around he had been doing on an iPad suddenly clicked. “I was typing little sentences for a couple of months before that, but I started to really type well around Christmas. It was awesome. I sent Christmas cards to so many people,” Mallinson says. Just a few months later, the COVID-19 pandemic cut him off from friends and extended family, but, in some ways, the global crisis has only multiplied the connections he is making with others through the written word. He started a blog in April, and, just before Christmas (about a year after his typing really took off), he published a children’s book. “I started missing my cousin lots because of so-

cial distancing,” Mallinson says of the book’s genesis. “I wanted to do something to let him know I was thinking of him. So I wrote him a story.” That tale – about a bee who sets out on a quest to smell all the flowers in the world – was a big hit with his six-year-old cousin, so Mallinson sent it to a friend for her kids to enjoy too. But they wanted pictures, he says, so he enlisted the help of a longtime family friend, Burnaby Mountain Secondary Grade 11 student Rachel Gsponer, to illustrate it. “Her illustrations are exactly what I pictured in my mind,” Mallinson says. When he saw how good they were, he says he wanted to turn his story into an actual book. That book, A Bee’s Journey, is now on shelves at the Burnaby Public Library and available for purchase on his blog. DEEPER MEANING Spoiler alert: In the book, Felix the Bee gets blown off course by a storm and takes refuge in a flower shop. He chooses to stay and smell all of the world’s flowers in the shop instead of continuing his journey. When asked to comment on the story’s message, Mallinson first talks about smell – and the role that sense has played in his life. “We don’t spend much time learning about smell,” he says. “But it can be so comforting. I know it can be gross too. But it can speak to us about what is

around us.” In his blog, Mallinson explains that he uses smell to identify people. “I know my mom is near just by the smell in the air. I don’t have to see her,” he says. So it’s no accident smell features prominently in A Bee’s Journey – as does travel. “Travelling around the world is something I want to do,” Mallinson says, “but I can’t right now; we can’t travel anywhere right now. I’m also happy at home with friends and family. I wanted to say you can go see the world or stay home.Whatever makes you happy, do that.” Mallinson’s mom, Shelley Mallinson, however, interprets her son’s book a little differently. “That book represents him,” she said in a recent post about A Bee’s Journey on the Burnaby school district’s website. “His world may not be as big as others’ – when he goes into a room, he doesn’t see the whole room and can’t hear what’s going on in the room.The bee finding the safety in the last location in the book shows that it’s OK to have a smaller setting in your life.You can bring the world to you.” ‘MOST WONDERFUL’ Mallinson was born prematurely, at a little over one pound, and lost his hearing and most of his vision in his first year, according to a blog post by his dad, Chris Mallinson. His son’s early arrival also caused some mild ce-

FINDING HIS VOICE: Alpha Secondary School Grade 10 student Scott Mallinson published A Bee’s Journey in December. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED rebral palsy, he writes. Mallinson’s parents never doubted his intelligence, says his dad, but he wasn’t able to fully express himself, so it was hard to know how much he was learning. It turns out he was learning plenty. “He had been soaking up everything he saw through the sliver of vision available to him and everything he had heard through his cochlear implants,” writes his dad. “Then he started beating us at trivia, showing us he had been overhearing and understanding the news, and pretty much everything else that was happening around him.” Mallinson says his parents knew he had a better

way of communicating inside him “trying to come out” and just kept trying to help him find it with American Sign Language, pictures, printing, typing and anything else they could find. For him, being able to communicate with them now is “the most wonderful thing,” he says. “I possibly could not plan on a better day than just talking to my parents about everything we could not before,” he says. ‘JUST PART OF ME’ While speaking to them might be wonderful, though, Mallinson doesn’t want his parents speaking for him – or his deafblindness – and they get that, he says.

“They understand I can be happy and smart, with my deafblind just part of me like my curly hair,” he wrote in his first blog post. “You know I’m not afraid to stand up for me; I can do it with the right tools.” One thing he’s eager to share with the world, both in his blog and in his interview with the NOW, is an inside look into what it’s like to be deafblind and what is needed to make the world more accessible to people with disabilities. “I was lucky my world became more accessible,” he says. “It helped me develop and made me feel included in the world. Please make accessibility a priority in what you do. If you don’t know how, ask.”

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It’s not hard to see the difference a year has made to the BC Lung Association’s Climb the Wall fundraiser – all you have to do is look at the Burnaby Fire Department’s 2020 photos. They show a sea of smiling, maskless firefighters squeezed in close together for a photo before they raced up 48 flights of stairs at Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre to beat out other B.C. fire departments and raise money to combat lung diseases. Since 2006, a team of local firefighters has trained each year to take part, but COVID-19 threw a wrench in the event this year. Instead of squeezing into the Wall Centre to compete, about 170 firefighters on 16 teams from around the province participated virtually, counting steps for the month of February via an app connected to their Apple watches, Garmins and Fitbits. But on the last day of the challenge Sunday, the Burnaby team also set itself an extra challenge as a send-off for the team’s founder, Captain Brad Mars, who put the first

Burnaby team together in 2006. “This was his last year doing it because he’s retiring this year,” team captain Noel Nacauili told the NOW, “so he wanted to do something where we all got out in our gear, on air and climbed a hill somewhere.” The hill they picked is one of Burnaby’s steepest – Royal Oak Avenue.

We all just kind of donated what we could, and a lot of our families and friends just helped us out.

In the end, the 10-member Burnaby Fire Department team took first place in the team category with 6,811,723 steps for a daily average of 17,185 per person. Firefighter Adam Brown won the individual challenge with 859,554 steps, deputy fire Chief Darcey O’Riordan came in third with 772,178 steps and Nacauili came in fifth with 643,061.

Local firefighters really stepped it up for the last week, some logging daily averages between 25,000 and 29,000 steps. But O’Riordan (the team’s second oldest member) blew them all out of the water on the last day – logging 43,000 steps. It was the third-highest daily total logged by a firefighter in February, according to BC Lung Association events and engagement manager Marissa McFadyen. O’Riordan said he went for a run in the morning, took part in the Royal Oak climb and then went for another run at about 7 p.m. “But I had a nap in the middle; I’ll tell you that,” he said with a laugh. “I was just trying to contribute to the team, and I had some extra time.” For O’Riordan, this year’s event is more about Mars and his work keeping the local Climb the Wall team going. “Sometimes it’s been down to three, four members, and last year we had an all-time high of 29,” O’Riordan said, “but Brad’s been there every year, which is amazing. And he’s quite the motivator; he was on all of us all month long.” Fundraising was down

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Enjoy the return of spring by visiting Heights shops, eateries Katrina Caguioa Heights contributor

As days get longer and the sun makes more frequent visits, the start of a new season is coming. Although springtime might look the same as last year, it feels different on the inside, with the hope of a vaccine to ease our challenges. With the weather changing, there is much to do here in Burnaby Heights.

Whether you’re looking for a new restaurant for you and your family to try or to discover new hobbies, take the opportunity to explore your local, friendly neighbourhood this March. Don Oso Restaurant (4421 Hastings St.) is a family-owned and -operated Mexican and Latin eatery that will make your mouth water. Their tacos are fresh and full of flavour. If you’ve never tried a quesabirria taco before, pay them a visit.

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portant part of our lives. So many people today are having challenges with their health, which impacts their lives considerably. I knew growing up that I wanted to do something that would allow me to help others, to be able to positively impact our community and the lives around them. What plans do you have for the future? We are grateful for the support we have received from our community. Our plan is to continue to grow our clinic to serve our neighbours, friends and their families.

Creating a memorable experience for patients is one of our goals and something that we will continue to strive for. What does the Heights mean to you? Connection and community. In this hectic world we live in, the Heights represents how life should be. A collection of caring individuals, families and businesses connected together. Living together, working together and raising our families. Cedar Chiropractic & Physiotherapy is at 102-4181 Hastings St. Call 604-738-1168 or see www.cedarhealth.ca.

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If it’s best practice to under-promise and over-deliver during a vaccination campaign, B.C. and Canada may already be heading down the wrong path.

With Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. contracted to deliver as many as 120 million combined COVID-19 vaccine doses this year, federal and provincial officials have repeatedly declared all Canadians who wish to be vaccinated will get their jabs by the end of September. “While it is certainly possible that the stated goal could be hit, it doesn’t appear to leave much room for error or contingency,” said Steve Waters, CEO and founder of Contrace Public Health Corps in Washington, D.C. He pointed to real-time data from COVID19tracker.ca, which is administered by the University of Saskatchewan, that reveals Canada has administered 76 per cent of doses that have been delivered as of late February. B.C. is doing slightly better at 79 per cent. “[It] doesn’t lead to confidence that a large increase in delivery of doses will mean a massive increase in the rate of administration. In fact, a large delivery of doses at one time could potentially create logistical issues that could even reduce the administration rate,” Waters said. “Considering there is a global shortage of vaccines, existing production and delivery delays, and increasing geopolitical pressures around the most complex logistical challenge in modern history, Canada is certainly at a disadvantage having to depend on other countries for vaccines.” Mahesh Nagarajan, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business whose focus area is supply chains, said effectively vaccinating a population involves a two-step process: sourcing the vaccine and distributing it. He commended Canada for quickly acquiring options to buy hundreds of millions of doses of a range of drug makers’ vaccines, and said that had a different drug developer than the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership been able to

Vancouver’s Precision Nanosystems Inc. will help boost Canada’s domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity. CHUNG CHOW first get its drug approved for use in Canada, it is “quite likely” Canada’s vaccine rollout would have been faster. “The Canadian government has not opened up its books, and shown us the exact nature of these contracts,” he said. What the Canadian government should have done, he said, was revise its strategy over time. “You cannot say in June of 2020, ‘We have option agreements for 400 million vaccine doses,’ and then you do nothing after that,” Nagarajan said. Had the Canadian government swapped its options to buy vaccine doses for concrete commitments to buy those vaccines, backed with top-dollar prices, Nagarajan said, Canada would likely have been a world leader in getting its residents vaccinated. He pointed to Israel, which has long been the No. 1 country for per-capita vaccinations. “We know that Israel paid more money,” he said. Nagarajan added that the federal government, knowing that Canada has little drug-manufacturing capacity, should have done more to ensure sufficient vaccine supply.

Some critics have suggested that were Canada equipped with a robust drug-manufacturing sector, similar to the U.K.’s, its manufacturing companies could have reached agreements with the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership or the second fastest vaccine producer, Moderna, to produce vaccines in Canada. But Nagarajan said Canadian drug manufacturers would have had to pay the drug developers a significant sum for the right to produce the vaccines and that any such partnership would be feasible for the drug developers only if the prospective manufacturers could produce huge volumes of the vaccines – not merely enough for 38 million Canadians. Another challenge is that Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines are more complicated to manufacture than AstraZeneca’s, which is based on double-stranded DNA. As such, established drug manufacturers may have had difficulty producing the vaccine. “That said, having a large manufacturing capacity can definitely help a country,” Nagarajan said. With Canada facing sharp vaccine shortages in January and February, Ottawa revealed last

month it’s tapping Vancouver-based Precision Nanosystems Inc. to boost domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity in the coming years. Plans for PNI’s new $50-million biomanufacturing facility in Metro Vancouver are now underway after the federal government revealed last month it was earmarking $25 million for the endeavour. “The government support … has been a great catalyst to be able to bring that to fruition,” he said. PNI is a provider of technology for the development and manufacture of genetics medicines that deliver RNA or DNA directly into cells to treat disease at its molecular root cause. Last fall, Ottawa earmarked $18 million for the company to pursue its own COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to enter Phase 1 of clinical trials this coming summer. PNI specializes in a class of vaccines known as self-amplifying RNA vaccines. These have the potential to create more potent vaccines as they amplify the signal, allowing PNI to manufacture more doses for less volume. The new 40,000-square-foot facility, expected to be completed in March 2023, would be able to produce up to 240 million of those self-amplifying RNA vaccine doses. Moderna and Pfizer, meanwhile, have been manufacturing conventional messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. Taylor said PNI’s facility would be able to manufacture two million to 24 million mRNA doses – a significant difference compared with the manufacturing capacity for a self-amplifying RNA vaccine. With PNI’s facility slated to open in 2023, the Vancouver company’s expanded manufacturing capacity does not fit into the federal government’s timeline for vaccinating all Canadians by September 2021. Instead, it’s poised to play a part in future responses to health crises. “This facility will be utilized for the production of both therapeutics and vaccines applied to cancer, infectious disease, rare diseases. … Continued on next page

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UBC professor Mahesh Nagarajan, whose focus area is on supply chains, says vaccinating a population involves a two-step process. CHUNG CHOW fast and so seamlessly that the focus is unrelentingly on getting the vaccine in somebody’s arm and getting them out.” The federal government awarded Deloitte Inc. a $16-million contract late last year to provide a national vaccine management IT platform meant to assist provinces with vaccine rollout, administration and reporting. The NVMIP isn’t meant to replace B.C.’s existing system, but the province confirmed it would be used to record all immunizations electronically and track vaccine inventory. “I know that there’s going to be glitches, there’s going to be bumps,” B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry told reporters in late February. “We will not let people be left behind.” Bill Tam, chief operating officer for the B.C. Digital Technology Supercluster, said he thinks a new purpose-built scheduling system, called Project ABC, can be in place by the time Phase 3 starts in April. With the help of the Digital Supercluster, Cambian, a B.C. software company specializing in health care, developed the Project ABC software, which stands for “authorization, booking and confirmation.” “We’ve got the scheduling software that allows people to book these appointments,” said Cambian CEO Bruce Forde.

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will be a public awareness campaign never seen before in B.C. and Canada. Valorie Crooks, professor of geography at Simon Fraser University and the current Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geography, noted that – at least in northern, remote communities where vaccination clinics are likely limited – the opportunity is there for the province to deploy targeted marketing to achieve a better result. The rise of anti-vaxxer sentiment in North America and throughout the world in the last few years has raised concerns among many experts that a COVID vaccination drive may be impeded by misinformation. That is why, Crooks said, the key will be avoiding a one-size-fits-all public awareness campaign. The priority should be to identify trusted message-carriers – whether that be local newspapers, community leaders, online platforms or other individuals – whose delivery of vaccination information would be more easily accepted at the micro-local level, she noted. “We need public health communication strategies that make sense in the places where people live,” Crooks said. “People who are health authority liaisons or on-site providers need to be involved in leadership in how information is shared. It may involve turning over the messaging to people who are members of the community who are reliable relaters of key information.” Rhea Dubois-Phillips, Vancouver general manager of public relations firm Edelman, agreed. She said relying on daily news conferences will not by itself lead to a successful public awareness rollout. Dubois-Phillips noted examples during the early days of COVID-19 where provincial news conferences were aimed at urging people to stay home and flatten the curve; some of these efforts, she said, were unsuccessful because the information wasn’t readily available in the languages of certain ethnic and religious communities – meaning the messaging did not reach all of its intended target. “You have to figure out what barriers are there that would prevent certain stakeholders from getting the vaccine,” Dubois-Phillips said.

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Jean was born in 1941 in Vancouver, BC, and lived the first few years of her young life in the company pulp mill town of Woodfibre with her parents, Isabel and John Dawson, and her siblings, Flo and John. Upon the sudden passing of her father, the young family moved to Cambridge Street in Vancouver where Jean graduated from Britannia High School. With a natural affinity for children, Jean attended the University of British Columbia where she qualified as a teacher. First teaching at Lord Nelson Elementary and then David Oppenheimer Elementary, Jean is remembered for employing silly humour and bringing music into every classroom to engage her learners. Not done with teaching when she retired in 1996, Jean volunteered her time applying her teaching skills at the Dogwood Pavilion Community Centre where she taught introductory computer skills to seniors. Retirement also allowed her to embrace another passion, her dogs. She trained several dogs over the years in obedience, agility and canine freestyle, valuing both the companionship of her four-legged friends and the comradery of the dog training community. Later in her life, Jean faced the challenge of kidney disease. With optimism and bravery, and support from her good friend, Debra, Jean gratefully underwent two kidney transplant surgeries in 2011 and 2013. As a daughter, sister, aunt, great-aunt and friend, Jean was a loyal and giving person. A person who was always there when help was needed, she was a friend indeed. She is remembered with fondness and love by her surviving sister, Flo; her nieces, Kenna and Diana and their families; and her many good friends. Her family kindly asks anyone so inclined to donate to the BC Kidney Foundation in memory of Jean.

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