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ARRESTED: An unidentified protester is arrested March 4 at a Trans Mountain site off North Road in Burnaby. Protests against the cutting of trees have escalated of late.

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Worker hurt at TMX site was hit by bulldozer

The serious injury of a Trans Mountain worker at the Burnaby Mountain tank farm in December 2020 was caused when the person was hit by a bulldozer, according to a new report by the Canada Energy Regulator.

A compliance verification activity report was re-

leased last Friday into the Dec. 15 incident, which was partly to blame for Trans Mountain shutting down work all along the pipeline expansion until into early 2021.

According to the report, a D9 dozer being operated by a worker with the Kiewit-Ledcor Trans

Mountain Partnership in the north quadrant of the Burnaby tank farm “contacted a worker causing serious injury.”

Following the incident, CER inspection officers arrived on scene and conducted several days of interviews and document review.The report outlines

that the project has daily work plans and workers are designated to be in certain parts of the project at certain times.The worker was not supposed to be in the area where the accident took place.

“The injured worker’s presence in that location was unexpected and

not part of the daily work plan,” said the report.

“Appendix A of the KLTP Lower Mainland Project Specific Safety Plan identifies ‘contact between people and equipment’ as a hazard. ‘Unauthorized personnel will not be allowed in work area’ (the control) is listed as

a control for this hazard.

This control was not effective in preventing the injured worker from entering the area where the rock truck and dozer were operating.”

CER told the NOW it is still reviewing the incident andWorkSafeBC is conducting an investigation.

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COVID-19 cases drop in city, says the BCCDC

In the pink: A group of seniors in Burnaby got an inspiring visit to honour Pink Shirt Day and the campaign against bullying. The residents of Normanna Care Home on Fourth Street in Burnaby were visited by students from Second Street Elementary – with all of the students wearing their pink shirts. All the residents were wearing something in pink, too. Due to COVID-19 protocols, the students had to wave to the seniors through a window. The visit is one of many students at the school make through a community partnership. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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SFU loses AC battle with strata Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

The president of Simon Fraser University could be in for an uncomfortably warm summer thanks to an unsuccessful battle with a strata council over air conditioning in her official Burnaby Mountain residence.

The residence – a penthouse condo atop a 10-storey building at One University Crescent – takes up two strata lots leased by the SFU Foundation for the president’s use, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling.

The unit is “subject to excessive heat” because of the way the roof was constructed, the ruling says, so SFU installed an air conditioning system in June 2017.

But it didn’t get approval from the strata council first – and the

council said the installation breached its bylaws.

SFU attended a strata council meeting in July 2017 to request retroactive approval for the system, but the council said no.

The installation jeopardized the integrity of the building envelope; the air-conditioning noise interfered with the rights of other residents; and the approval of the project would set a precedent leading to a “proliferation” of air conditioners, the council said.

SFU was then handed two $200 fines for installing the air conditioning without permission.

The university appealed to the strata council again in September 2017 and was again denied.

And, four months later, the building manager asked SFU for confirmation the air conditioning system had been removed.

When SFU replied that

the strata had never demanded the removal of the system, the building manager wrote back and demanded the air conditioning system be gone within 30 days.

SFU responded by saying the strata council hadn’t officially resolved to require the removal, and so there was no basis for the building manager to demand it.

After another strata meeting, SFU got a second letter from the building manager demanding removal of the air conditioning within 30 days.

After that letter, SFU wrote the council and said it wouldn’t remove the air conditioning, this time arguing it didn’t need council authorization to install the system since there was no bylaw prohibiting air conditioning units.

The strata council then amped up the pressure, resolving at its next meeting

to fine SFU $200 every seven days for a recurring bylaw infraction – retroactive to the day the strata had first demanded the removal of the air conditioning unit.

SFU responded by taking the matter to B.C. Supreme Court and asking for a declaration saying it is not in breach of the strata bylaw and that the strata had acted “significantly unfairly.”

SFU further petitioned the court for an order saying SFU was permitted to install and continue to operate the president’s air conditioning.

But B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ronald Skolrood concluded the university had breached the bylaw and the strata council had not acted “in bad faith or in a manner that was unduly harsh or burdensome towards SFU.” Skolrood said SFU had “good reason” to be un-

happy with the strata’s conduct, calling its decision-making process in the case “opaque” and saying no clear explanation for the denial has ever been provided.

But he concluded the strata’s conduct in the case hadn’t risen to the level of “significantly unfair” under the law. He dismissed SFU’s petition.

“Where, as here, an owner of a strata unit feels hard done by as a result of a decision of the strata council, it is important to keep in mind the nature of strata living,” Skolrood said.

“Strata corporations must often utilize discretion in making decisions which affect various owners or tenants. At times, the corporation’s duty to act in the best interests of all owners is in conflict with the interests of a particular owner, or group of owners.”

New COVID-19 cases in Burnaby dropped during the last reporting period, but are still above the 200-case mark for another week, according to the latest data from the BC Centre for Disease Control.

In an update posted to the BCCDC website, Burnaby saw 203 new cases from Feb. 28 to March 6.That’s down from 270 new coronavirus cases from Feb. 21 to 27 and from the 243 cases from Feb. 14 to 20.

But it’s above the 197 new coronavirus cases from Feb. 7 to 13, which was a dramatic spike from the period of Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, in which Burnaby had 121 new coronavirus cases. From Jan. 24 to 30, Burnaby had 124 new coronavirus cases.Those two weeks were both down from Jan. 17 to 23, when Burnaby had 155 new coronavirus cases.

The most cases Burnaby has seen in one week was 341 from Dec. 6-12.

From Jan. 10 to 16, there were 111 new coronavirus cases in Burnaby.There were 152 new cases from Jan. 3-9.

There were 169 cases from Dec. 27-Jan. 3 – which was a large drop from Dec. 20 to 26, when there were 214 new cases in Burnaby – a drop from the 287 new cases from Dec. 13-19.

While cases dropped as December went on, the month was also Burnaby’s worst in 2020 with 1,139 new cases, compared with the 1,081 new cases during November. Burnaby had just 287 new cases in all of October and 238 cases in September.

Burnaby had 3,077 COVID-19 cases between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020.

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Opinion now MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

The moment the pandemic hit home

As we head into the sec- “We are cancelling all esond year of the pandemic, sential surgeries and we’re it is worth noting all of us getting ready to potenlikely have different motially empty many hospiments that told us that this tal beds.”

COVID-19 “thing” was I was almost dumbreal and not some kind of struck at the gravity of the passing episode. situation.Thankfully, the I’m sure the seriousness worst fears – that the viof the pandemic hit home rus would indeed overfor some when public whelm our hospital system schools were closed. For – were not realized, but others, the suddenly empty they seemed extraordinaroffices as everyone began ily dire at the time. working from home magLater that day, I wrote nified the situation. a memo to my Global BC Or perhaps it was when editors telling them to stores began to close and drop everything and jump travel restrictions took on the COVID-19 train hold. And, obviously, those with all hands on deck. who actually contracted “This is the story of our the virus and became ill lives and it will go on for a enough to be hospitalized least a year, probably two or knew loved ones who and maybe even three or died from it had different longer,” I told them. “We experiences than others. will be covering this thing Since there was no sinin ways we never thought gle event that crystallized possible and we will doing what was happening in some of the same stories clear terms, we have all over and over again.” had to define the pandemUnfortunately, I was ic’s beginning in our own proven right. Media outways. Even lets continue the World cover the Public health to Health Orpandemic in ganization’s an incredofficials say declaration broad there is light at ibly on March fashion, as 11, 2020 that the end of that the “story” we were ofhas taken so tunnel. ficially in a many twists pandemic and turns this did not, on past year and its own, imwill continue mediately to do so for change lives. months to come.

In other words, there There are so many queswere no images of planes tions: will the “variants of slamming into office towconcern” bring a “third ers or footage of political wave” of illness? Will the leaders being assassinated vaccines prove to be efthat instantly told us what fective against them? Will was going on. enough of us be vaccinated For me, the moment in a timely fashion? that really made me realize Still, public health offiwe were descending into cials say there is light at the an increasingly dire situaend of that tunnel. tion occurred when B.C. The pandemic will no Health Minister Adrian doubt continue for some Dix phoned me. time yet. However, un“Everything I’ve worked like its beginning -- which for is about to disappear,” looked different to differhe said, referring to the ent people – perhaps its shortened surgical wait eventual end will be much times and greater number easier to spot. of MRI procedures that Keith Baldrey is chief pooccurred on his watch. litical reporter for Global BC.

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Opinionnow Listen to local cyclists Editor: On Feb. 23, the City of Burnaby released for public review and comment its 2021 – 2025 Provisional Financial Plan.

HUB Cycling Burnaby has been the only organized voice of the cycling community in Burnaby for well over a decade, and has consistently attempted to engage meaningfully with the city. However, this has been a very frustrating experience as the city has consistently not consulted with or not responded to HUB on major cycling infrastructure projects and issues, such as the planned $21 million pedestrian and bicycling bridge over Highway 1.

In preparing to provide feedback on the city’s provisional financial plan as it relates to cycling infrastructure, HUB Cycling found this to be virtually impossible because of the way in which the capital budget is constructed and the lack of information on planned active transportation spending in it. Specifically, the five-year provisional financial plan does not clearly identify the amounts budgeted for active transportation infrastructure.

It is obvious to HUB Cycling that the provisional financial plan does not address the bicycling infrastructure priority that the city has adopted within its Climate Action Framework in June 2020. The Climate Action Framework describes a commitment to the build out of the

city-wide cycling network, as follows: Burnaby’s city-wide cycling network would include all long distance, town centre and urban village cycling routes to ensure a complete all-ages, all-abilities network across the city.

As an anchor to the larger cycling network, the core cycling network will provide consistent and clear connections for neighbourhoods across the city, and is the priority cycling infrastructure to be built over the next decade.

Within one of the seven big moves of the framework, number four “accelerated mode shift, one of the quick starts is a detailed design for the cycling network and to begin construction within the next three years. According to the framework, “the Accelerated Mode Shift requires commitment to and rapid implementation of active transportation infrastructure, to ensure a continued and successful transition to active transportation through 2050.”

HUB Cycling Burnaby wholeheartedly supports these objectives, commitments and plans to accelerate improvement and expansion of cycling infrastructure in the city, and it is in this context that we find the 2021 – 2025 Provisional Financial Plan completely lacking.

In other words, the City of Burnaby has failed to incorporate into its five-year capital budget implementation of its Climate Action Plan.

David Fairey, member, HUB Cycling Burnaby

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Burnaby City Council hereby gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing

TUESDAY, 2021 MARCH 30 AT 5PM, ELECTRONICALLY Via a new virtual environment to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendments to “Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965”.

ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENTS 1) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 1, 2021 - Bylaw No. 14296

3) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 3, 2021 - Bylaw No. 14298

5) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 5, 2021 - Bylaw No. 14300

Rez. #19-11

Rez. #19-29

Rez. #18-20

5025 North Fraser Way

9682 University Crescent

6620 Sussex Avenue

From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on M2 General Industrial District, and M5 Light Industrial District)

From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on P11e SFU Neighbourhood District and SFU Community Plan as guidelines

From: RM3 Multiple Family Residential District

To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based on M2 General Industrial District, M5 Light Industrial District, the Big Bend Development Plan, and the Glenlyon Concept Plan guidelines and in accordance with the development plan entitled “5025 North Fraser Way, Burnaby BC” prepared by Christopher Bozyk Architects Ltd.)

To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based on P11e SFU Neighbourhood District and SFU Community Plan as guidelines and in accordance with the development plan entitled “Stony Creek, 9682 University Crescent Burnaby, BC” prepared by Intergulf Development Group)

Purpose: to permit the construction of a one-storey light industrial building

Purpose: to permit construction of four low to mid-rise residential buildings, and two levels of underground parking

Applicant: Beedie Development Group

Applicant: Intergulf Development Group

2) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 2, 2021 - Bylaw No. 14297

4) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 4, 2021 - Bylaw No. 14299

Rez. #20-01

Rez. #18-43

4272 Albert Street

6958 and 6984 Kingsway, 7243 Greenford Avenue, 6957 and 6961 Beresford Street

To: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM4s and RM4r Multiple Family Residential District, and RM5s and RM5r Multiple Family Residential District and Metrotown Downtown Plan as guidelines and in accordance with the development plan entitled “Residential Strata Tower and Low-Rise Affordable Rental Development” prepared by DYS Architecture) Purpose: to permit the construction of a single 30-storey high-rise strata apartment building, and a four-storey non-market rental apartment building Applicant: Keltic Canada Development

From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM4 Multiple Family Residential District)

From: C4 Service Commercial District and M2 General Industrial District

To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM4 Multiple Family Residential District and the Hastings Street Plan Area as guidelines, and in accordance with the development plan entitled “Cranberry Commons Cohousing, 4272 Albert Street - Bike Storage Improvement Rezoning” prepared by Luz Galindo)

To: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on C2 Community Commercial District, RM4s Multiple Family Residential District, RM4r Multiple Family Residential District and the Edmonds Town Centre Plan as guidelines and in accordance with the development plan entitled “Kingsway Honda Redevelopment “ prepared by IBI Group Architects)

Purpose: to amend the approved Comprehensive Development plan in order to reduce the number of resident parking stalls on the subject property from 31 to 27 to allow for additional secured underground bicycle parking, and to increase the total floor area within the existing multiple-family residential building by 37 m² (398.3 sq.ft.)

Purpose: to permit the construction of a single 40-storey high-rise strata apartment building with two-storey townhouses at grade, and a sixstorey mixed-use rental and commercial retail building fronting Kingsway IBI Group Architects (Canada) Inc.

Applicant: Cranberry Commons Cohousing

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TransLink wins case about wage rates Cornelia Naylor

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Control operators who spend 12-hour shifts in a darkened Burnaby control centre ready to take over automated, driverless SkyTrains when things go south are a unique breed – but that may have worked against them in a recent labour dispute with TransLink.

CUPE Local 7000, the union that represents control operators, took TransLink to the province’s Labour Relations Board for reneging on a promise to review the control operators’ pay rate before the end of a contract that expired in 2019.

In a second grievance, the union also sought to have the control operator position evaluated.

The union and TransLink eventually agreed to appoint an arbitrator, John Kinzie.

One of the issues they wanted to him to settle was whether the control operators’ wage rate was on or off market compared to workers doing similar work at other organizations.

Based on reports by their respective experts, the union argued the rate should be adjusted based on “significant changes” to SkyTrain since 2000 and comparisons to similar positions elsewhere, while TransLink argued the job had not “substantially changed” and the control operator job wasn’t comparable to the other positions the union had used as examples.

In a recent ruling, Kin-

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zie sided with TransLink.

He concluded the control operators’ core duties or basic job functions hadn’t changed in a “substantial or qualitative way” since 2000.

He further concluded the control operator po-

sition was “a very unique position within a very unique light rapid transit system.”

“The SkyTrain system is automated, which is not unique, but it is also driverless, and instead is operated remotely, which

is,” Kinzie wrote. “It is the control operators that have the responsibility for operating SkyTrain’s trains remotely from the control room where they work.Thus, the duties and responsibilities of the control operator position are directly tied to the uniqueness of the SkyTrain system itself.”

Kinzie said he wasn’t convinced there was any justification for adjusting the control operators’ current wage rage and dismissed the union’s claims.

His ruling gives a detailed looked at the evolution of SkyTrain and the work lives of the control operators, who work 12-hour shifts based on a three days on/three days off/three nights on/three nights off schedule at a space-age sounding con-

trol centre located near the Edmonds station.

“The Control Operators work in a control room with eight workstations,” states the ruling.

“Each workstation has five to eight monitors and multiple keyboards and mice. Most stations have phones and radios to communicate with different stakeholders as needed. At one side of the room is a wall of with 25 large monitors, displaying live cameras of platforms and updates of trains throughout the system.

The room is surrounded by natural light, with the blinds pulled down to prevent glare.The overhead lights are often left off, with only small track lights on, and personal desk lamps as needed.”

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The following two rezoning applications were submitted to the 2021 January 26 Public Hearing. Due to a clerical oversight, the applications are being resubmitted for the 2021 March 30 Public Hearing. Rezoning References #19-45 and #19-45a relate to the relocation of an existing liquor store to a new location. The existing liquor store is proposing to move from 7000 Lougheed Highway (Unit #5 - 2909 Bainbridge Avenue) to Unit #102 - 2900 Bainbridge Avenue. To comply with Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch (LCRB) regulations, the zoning that currently allows for a liquor store at the existing location 7000 Lougheed Highway (Unit #5 - 2909 Bainbridge Avenue) is proposed to be removed to allow the new location (Unit #102 2900 Bainbridge Avenue) to be zoned appropriately.

6) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 58, 2020 - Bylaw No. 14270

7) Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 61, 2020 - Bylaw No. 14279

Rez. #19-45

Rez. #19-45a

#102 - 2900 Bainbridge Avenue

7000 Lougheed Highway (Unit #5 - 2909 Bainbridge Avenue)

From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on C1 Neighbourhood Commercial District)

From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on C1 Neighbourhood Commercial District, C2h Community Commercial District, M5 Light Industrial District and P2 Administration and Assembly District) and R2 Residential District

To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based on C1 Neighbourhood Commercial District and C2h Community Commercial District and in accordance with the development plan entitled “Bainbridge Liquor Store” prepared by John McNally Designers Inc.)

To: Repeal C2h District zoning

Purpose: to permit a private liquor store (licensee retail store) within two existing commercial retail units (CRUs)

Purpose: to repeal C2h District zoning. This rezoning application relates to the relocation of an existing liquor store at this location to a new location across Bainbridge Avenue

Applicant: Van Land Use Consulting

Applicant: Van Land Use Consulting

Reports, bylaws, and related information respecting the zoning bylaw amendments are available on the City’s website at burnaby.ca/publichearings from 2021 March 18. Any questions regarding the Public Hearing processes and agenda items may be directed to the Office of the City Clerk, 604-294-7290.

No presentations will be received by Council after the conclusion of the Public Hearing.

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RCMP launch review over feud letter Cornelia Naylor

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Local police have launched a “full review” into a letter on Burnaby RCMP letterhead that appears to take sides in a longstanding feud between two next-door neighbours.

Dated Nov. 29, 2020, the letter went out to neighbours in the area of Rathburn Drive.

It identifies the residents of one house on the street as “victims” of ongoing harassment and then lists a litany of wrongdoing the family has been “subjected to.”

The list includes broken windows, screws screwed into tires, “loud obnoxious music” and “swarming” incidents by individuals “likely attempting to intimidate” the residents, according to the letter.

“It is the goal of your local police to stop the ongoing harassment of the residents/victims living at (the address), and we require your assistance to do so,” the letter states.

It doesn’t name the perpetrators of the harassment, but a woman living next door to the residents named in the letter says it is a thinly veiled, “unsubstantiated and slanderous” reference to her, her husband and their two teenaged sons.

She told the NOW the letter had been distributed to all of the houses in the neighbourhood but not to hers.

She was only made aware of it, she said, when a neighbour told her about it.

He told her he didn’t think it was legitimate, she said, because it was poorly written, didn’t cite a file number and wasn’t signed by a specific officer.

Other neighbours told her there had also been an earlier RCMP letter in the spring.

The woman said her family has feuded for years with the retired couple next door, who live at the address referenced in the letter.

She said the man next

Man found crushed Police believe a man crushed to death under a car in Burnaby recently was in the process of “committing a property crime” when the vehicle fell on him.

First responders were called to 2495 Beta Ave. just after 3:10 a.m. on March 9 after someone reported finding legs sticking out from under a BMW, according to assistant fire Chief DaveYounger.

“It was jacked up, and that was knocked out,” he told the NOW. Younger said it appeared the man had been trapped under the car “for a while,” and he was declared dead at the scene.

Firefighters used airbags to lift the car and recover the body.

“It looks like a possible theft,”Younger said.

“People steal those catalytic converters – although it was still there – but there was a saw and stuff like he was going to remove it.”

In a statement later in the morning, Burnaby RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Mike Kalanj confirmed the car the man was found under was not registered to him.

The man’s identification was confirmed via photo ID located in his vehicle a short distance away, according to Kalanj.

“The man is believed to have been in the process of committing a property crime offence,” Kalanj said.

“The incident is not considered suspicious at this time.”

– Cornelia Naylor

door is a retired Vancouver deputy fire chief and, during the course of their dispute, has told her “I know people in law.”

She believes the RCMP letter came out of the man’s connections in law enforcement, and she has written a letter of complaint to the Burnaby RCMP, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP and Burnaby North-Seymour MP Terry Beech.

In an interview with the NOW, however, the man next door said he has “no connections with the

RCMP at all.”

“I’ve been retired for 12 years, as has anybody that I knew, and I certainly didn’t know anybody in the RCMP,” he said.

He agreed the RCMP letter was unusual but said it “made sense” considering the number of incidents “with evidence” the couple had reported to police.

Many of the incidents the man described were referenced in the letter.

“It’s been a godsend to us that the police have said to the neighbourhood, ‘Watch out for the damage that keeps occur-

ring to these people,’” he said. “There was no mention in the letter of who was doing it … The reason the neighbours know is because, on any given Friday or Saturday night, there are six hooligan cars parked in front of the house.”

But both families have made complaints to police, and both insisted to the NOW that they are the victims in the ongoing feud.

“It’s a neighbourhood dispute that’s been around for years,” Burnaby RCMP spokesperson Mike Kalanj told the

NOW. When asked to respond to the woman’s concerns about the authenticity of the RCMP letter and its bias in terms of portraying one family as the victims, Kalanj confirmed the letter had been written by someone at Burnaby RCMP and that the incident had sparked a “full review.”

He said the allegations of possible undue influence on someone inside the RCMP are “absolutely concerning.”

“It is being taken seriously,” Kalanj said.

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Retired city manager looks back at 30 years When many people retire, they face an uncertain future as far as how they will keep busy.

Lambert Chu is not one of those people.

Chu recently retired as the city manager – the top bureaucrat – for the City of Burnaby, but he won’t be sitting on the couch whiling away the days watching TV. He’ll be building a new house. He just needs the permit to come through and off he goes.

“That will engage me for a fair bit of time,” Chu said with a laugh.

The house will be located outside of Burnaby so he’ll have to deal with a

different city on that, but Chu is well-versed on such issues after 30 years working in a city hall following his training in the U.S. as a civil engineer.

Chu looked back on his time with the city and marvelled at how it transformed from a suburban community to a “metropolis.”

But while it has grown to about 250,000 people, Chu said he is proudest of the environmental steps the city has taken over the years, especially when it comes to our local rivers and streams and the lack of return of fish.

“When you look back to 30 years ago, you would

see that many of our local streams were in dire need of rejuvenation,” Chu said.

“We’ve done that.”

Chu rose up in the ranks through the city’s engineering department, first hired in 1990 as deputy director of engineering. He became the director of engineering in 2007 before being named the deputy city manager in 2012.

After preceding city manager Bob Moncur retired in February 2016, Chu took on the role of acting city manager for a few months until he fully took on the top spot in May that year.

Since his appointment as the direct person report-

ing to council, Chu has navigated the city through a sea change in governing philosophies, with the election of a new mayor, Mike Hurley.

With Hurley’s election, the city has taken on a far more significant role in many services – namely housing – that has entailed significant investments and massive policy changes.

That includes two policies around rental housing – the rental use zoning policy and the tenants assistance policy – that have been called B.C.’s, and even Canada’s, most progressive rental housing policies.

Retired life: Lambert Chu in front of Burnaby City Hall. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

Woman who survived COVID-19 gets big birthday surprise Chris Campbell

ccampbell@burnabynow.com

A Burnaby resident known for a lifetime of community work got an amazing surprise birthday present on Sunday.

Helen Brown celebrated turning 99 with the help of some Burnaby firefighters and RCMP in Red Serge at St. Michaels Centre long-term care home.

Brown and her husband Don (a former Burnaby councillor who has since passed) were the first couple to be named at Burnaby Citizens of theYear, in 1992.

Brown’s birthday was also special after getting

COVID-19 and then recovering. She recently received both doses of the vaccine and is thriving, said daughter Patricia Tochkin.

“Mom is doing surprisingly well and is amazing everyone with her positive attitude and said yesterday to me on FaceTime, ‘I cannot believe that I am almost 99 and have no aches or pains and feel so darn good,”Tochkin said days before her mom’s birthday event and has a community policing office named after him. He was on school board, a councillor, and chair of Burnaby’s 100th Centennial and Freeman of Burnaby.

“My mother was at his side helping him out the entire time,”Tochkin said. “Together they were members of the Metro Club, Historical Society, Lawn Bowling Club, Card Club, Burnaby Heritage Museum, Pacific Open Heart Association, and both sat on many committees and devoted countless hours to the community.”

Don sadly passed away just months shy of the couple’s 70th wedding anniversary.

Police and firefighters all made Brown smile when they surprised her at the front door of the care centre with flowers and a bagpiper.

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Surprise party: Helen Brown accepts flowers from a Burnaby RCMP officer in Red Serge. PHOTO BURNABY RCMP TWITTER

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Arts now Mandarin duck in new art show

An art show that was postponed a year by COVID-19 returns soon with Burnaby’s most famous duck making a star appearance.

Luminescence opens on March 20 and runs until April 17 in the Deer Lake gallery.

This group exhibition by the Burnaby Arts council includes Burnaby photographer John Preissl, who will have one of his photos of the Mandarin duck, nicknamed Trevor by local nature photographers after a character in the movie Iron Man 3.

“Of course I had to have Trevor in the show,” Preissl said. “All of my photos in the show are from Deer Lake, except the Trevor shot, which is from Burnaby Lake. I am honoured to be accepted into this show with so many talented artists.This art show blows me away.”

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Citynow Speed limit times changed

Holdom Overpass Phase two public engagement

Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

School zone speed limits across Burnaby will soon be in effect six hours longer every day school is in session after city council approved an amendment to its street and traffic bylaw this week.

The change, set to be in place by the end of spring break on March 29, according to the school district, means the 30 km/h speed limit around schools will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Friday except on school holidays.

“This is about protecting our children and building a community where walking is an easy and safe choice,” Mayor Mike Hurley said in a city news release. “As Burnaby moves to make streets safer for students and families, we also encourage the provincial government to consider a B.C.-wide approach to traffic-calming measures around parks and school zones.”

On Monday, the city started installing about 600 signs marking the change, according to the school district, and the

Slow down: City of Burnaby crews have started to change signs in schools zones. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

new school-zone times are enforceable as soon as they’re up.

Burnaby is the first city in the Greater Vancouver area to enact expanded school-zone hours, according to the city.

City council approved the new hours along with a series of other traffic-calming measures after requests from the school board and the city’s parks, recreation and culture commission, according to the school district.

Along with the expanded school-zone hours, council also approved the

installation of 200 speed humps at 72 locations – 36 near schools and another 36 near local parks.

“This expansion of school-zone hours and adding more speed humps by schools and parks makes roads safer where children learn and play,” school board chair Jen Mezei said. “It also recognizes that schools are the heart of a community and our buildings and grounds are used earlier in the morning and into the evening for classes and activities.”

School budget needed big boost

Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

Without extra money from the provincial and federal governments, COVID-related costs would have wiped out the Burnaby school district’s reserves by the end of the year, said secretary-treasurer Russell Horswill.

The district is getting nearly $12 million for extra expenses associated with the pandemic this year, Horswill told the school board in a presentation on the amended 2020/21 budget last month.

About $7.8 million of that has gone to hiring extra teachers, $2 million to other extra staffing and just under $2 million to services and supplies re-

lated to battling the spread of COVID-19, like utilities, masks and air filters, according to the presentation.

Costs for custodial staff, including overtime and extra staff for cleaning will be “substantial” this year, Horswill said, but the hiring of extra teachers to provide direct support for students will take up most of the funds.

“A lot of teachers were hired to support students to make sure that whatever program they needed to be in to be successful was something that we could provide,” Horswill told the NOW. Some examples are teachers providing programs to kids who are immune compromised or live with someone who is,

teachers who deliver athome learning programs and teachers who provided additional supports to students returning to school in September after staying at home for the end of 2019/2020 because of the pandemic.

“That’s quite a few teachers that we were able to add into the system to provide those direct supports,” Horswill said.

The extra funding from the province and feds has been crucial to cover the extra costs, according to Horswill.

“If we hadn’t received that funding, we would have had to take the money out of our reserve, which means that we would have had no money left over at the end of this year,” he said.

About the project We’re hoping to make travel around and through Burnaby easier by building a new overpass that will extend Holdom Avenue south over Still Creek and the rail tracks, connecting to Douglas Road at Norland Avenue.

The proposed Holdom Overpass will support trade growth and improve safety, community access and reliability for all road users. In partnership with the City of Burnaby, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is launching the second phase of public engagement for the project.

How to participate As part of this phase of public engagement, we want your feedback to:

Finalize the design for the proposed Holdom Overpass

Finalize public space improvement options

Understand your ideas and interests about construction to inform a traffic and construction management plan

In support of government guidance to practice physical distancing to reduce the spread of COVID-19, we will host the second phase of engagement remotely.

From March 1 to April 11, 202, you can learn more about the project and share your feedback remotely by: Completing the questionnaire Read this discussion guide and complete the questionnaire at:

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HOMERENOVATIONS Some pandemic renovators regretting choices Jeremy Hainsworth

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Some B.C. pandemic home renovators are regretting focusing on aesthetics rather than increasing their homes’ overall values, says a new report from BC Hydro.

“Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, British Columbians have spent more time than ever before at home, and for some it has been an eyeopening experience,” the report - titled “Room for improvement: Why British Columbians are experiencing renovation regret after making home upgrades” - said.

“With the importance of the home magnified, many British Columbians experienced a feeling of dissatisfaction with the way their home

looks or functions, and the desire to complete home improvement projects and in some cases complete renovations has been on the rise,” it said.

The report found 53% of homeowners – spending more time in their residences – have completed a pandemic renovation.

The report said motivations behind improvements were 35% for aesthetic improvement, 29% for comfort and 10% for energy savings.

But many, particularly DIYers, are regretting their choices, Hydro said.

Top regrets include bathroom and kitchen renos followed by flooring changes. Some 16% regret bathroom renovation, 15% kitchen renovation, and 14% changing flooring “At the root of these re-

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grets was the wish they had used different products [and] spent more time planning or invested the money to do the renovation they really wanted,” the report said.

The problem is that many thought changing aesthetics would increase the resale value of their home.

“However, these changes do not necessar-

ily increase or maintain the value of a home longterm. In fact, maintaining worth depends heavily on energy-saving and maintenance upgrades such as updating the heating/cooling system and replacing windows, doors and roofing,” Hydro said.

But, the provincial utility said, renovators aren’t slowing down as 41% are planning spring improvement projects.

The report found DIYers’ top regret was that the project took longer than expected (21%), followed by not being pleased with the results (10%) and taking on too much (10%).

When it comes to cost, renovators have invested between $1,000 to $4,999 on home improvements since March 2020 while almost 30%

have done a small project under $1,000. Almost a quarter spent $5,000 to $19,999.

Despite the aesthetics focus, the study found 47% said they’ve made energy-efficient upgrades, while 50% have not.

“Of those that have not made any energy-efficient upgrades, over onethird said it is because they think these upgrades would be too expensive to make,” the report said.

However, results indicated more homeowners are willing to make significant energy-efficient upgrades if money was no object. Cost aside, 46% would install a more efficient heating/cooling system, 40% would opt for energy-efficient windows and doors and 35% would purchase solar panels.

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KITCHEN & BATH RENOVATIONS

Planning is key to stress-free home renovation It’s clear that a partnership is working when both parties acknowledge that they truly complement one another and recognize that their respective strengths balance out any weaknesses. This is even more remarkable when those who express appreciation for their differences are not only business partners but also life partners.

Such is the case with Yosef Pharaon and Mai Eilia. Together, the pair founded and have run Magnum Construction Services for four years.

Pharaon readily admits that it is Eilia who is the ultra-organized one and possesses the acumen to run the business side of things with her background in advertising and marketing. While Eilia credits Pharaon’s decades-long experience in construction for making a success of each renovation project they complete.

Yet, they attribute their shared values on how to do business, specifically with a renovation company, as the solid foundation for their success.

“We found a gap in the home renovation market here in B.C.,” says Eilia. “There’s sort of a gap in communication between homeowners and the trades. This has caused a lot of frustration for homeowners.”

She says that Magnum takes a different approach, that first and foremost they listen and make sure to completely understand their clients’ needs.

“We make them the centrepiece of the project. It’s a big investment [to do] home renovations. We’re really aware of that and, of course, we don’t compromise on quality,” Eilia explains.

Communication with both clients and the tradespeople who work on Magnum’s projects is key for optimum results.

“I always give clients the best expectation I can as to what will happen and what potentially could happen,” Pharaon says. “I think that for us that’s been a very effective tool because it shows transparency. It’s not a secret what we’re charging or what we could potentially charge.”

Just as crucial is the communication with the trades for ensuring quality work and a smooth schedule.

“We have all our trades who come [in] do what they’re supposed to do,” Pharaon says. “I think the difference is that we’ve developed a really good relationship with them, and there are very few gaps. We plan the projects ahead of time, so everyone knows when they’re coming in.”

Planning ahead is what sets Maganum apart, says Eilia who discovered that efficient project coordination was lacking in the home renovation business and in the trades.

“I’ve heard so many stories of some renovations that went wrong because a lack of planning and lack of setting expectations for the client how the project is going to unfold,” she says.

It’s that organized approach that has Magnum delivering a complete kitchen renovation in one month or a bathroom renovation in two weeks. The couple’s system ensures that projects are always done in a timely way to avoid any inconvenience to clients.

Magnum strives to eliminate any surprises in the work, the scheduling or the cost.

“There’s the open communication. There’s the clarity. There’s complete transparency of what we’re doing,” Pharaon says.

Perhaps when lifting up a floor, it’s found to be rotten—something difficult to detect because it’s not possible to see it. “We have to say this potentially could be an issue. If I spot something that looks a bit iffy, I’m always on it,” Pharaon says.

Starting the renovation process is straightforward. When clients contact Magnum, they book an appointment through the website.

Pharaon then meets with them to determine their expectations.

“Within 72 hours, I’ll have a rough estimate for them. And if the rough estimate sounds good, then I provide them with a detailed estimate. Then it’s just a matter of getting a contract put together, then we take a deposit and form a schedule…and execute. We give them a timeline on how it’s going to happen,” he says.

If Pharaon sounds like an everyman for every aspect of the renovation, he is. He assists in the design process and if it requires more input, they bring in other design or architectural professionals.

“I do preliminary drawings for the client to give them a rough visual.

If it’s a job that requires a further scope of designer or architectural drawings, then we field those out to our vetted [professionals].”

When Magnum creates the design, they offer the client a variety of options, either with samples brought to their home, or with visits to suppliers and their trades. The same applies to the tile supplier where they can go over selections with their in-house designer.

Before and after kitchen renovation by Magnum Construction But in the end, it all comes back to the beginning: planning.

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Community now Robbery convictions quashed due to police misconduct Cornelia Naylor

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home without a warrant before arresting him.

A man serving time for two armed robberies in Burnaby will get a new trial because of police misconduct during his arrest.

Liam Reilly was convicted in 2019 on two counts each of robbery, using an imitation firearm to commit an offence and disguising his face to commit an offence in relation to two robberies in Burnaby in November 2017 – one at an Edmonds-area e-cigarette store called Boss Vapes, and the other at the Deer Lake Market at Burris Street and Walker Avenue, according to court documents.

Reilly’s lawyer applied to have some of the evidence against his client thrown out, alleging police had violated his Charter rights by entering his

THE ARREST Another man arrested in Langley in relation to the Boss Vapes robbery had identified Reilly in 2017 as one of his accomplices – and told them where Reilly lived.

Reilly was already under a court order at the time compelling him to present himself at his door to officers checking to make sure he was abiding by a 7 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew, so police planned to make him present himself and arrest him at his door.

On Nov. 17, 2017 shortly after 8 p.m., Burnaby RCMP Const. Bryce Sinclair and Metro Vancouver Transit Police Const. Kreshnik Adzijaj knocked on a sliding glass door at the back of Reilly’s home and told him to

open up for the police.

They got no answer but heard music playing and a dog barking inside.

Then, without consulting Adzijaj or any senior officer, Sinclair tried the sliding glass door, found it unlocked and went inside, according to court documents. He went directly to a door he believed accessed Reilly’s suite and knocked on it, saying “Police.”

When Reilly opened the door, Sinclair asked him for identification, but, before he could comply, the six-foot-four, 235-pound Mountie “kind of wrapped him up” to prevent Reilly from “reaching for any guns or weapons,” according to statements by Sinclair quoted in a court ruling. After the arrest, police conducted a brief “clearing search” of the residence, with the “sole in-

tention” of seeing whether there was anyone else in the residence that might have access to firearms, Adzijaj told the court.

During that search, however, one officer spotted a black skeleton mask, of a kind witnesses had reported one of the robbers wearing.Witnesses said the man had brandished a silver handgun and pointed it at one Boss Vapes cashier’s face.

Police returned with a search warrant the next day and seized the mask and other evidence linking Reilly to the robberies.

JUDGE ERRED B.C. Provincial Court Judge Gregory Rideout ruled in December 2018 that Reilly’s Charter rights had been violated by the police, but found there had been cause enough for the search warrant with-

out relying on what police spotted in their brief, warrantless “clearing search.”

He also ruled the unwarranted police intrusion into Reilly’s home was “significant and unjustified,” but not “profoundly intrusive to the extent of establishing that the state conduct would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.”

B.C. Court of Appeals Justice Susan Griffin saw it differently.

“I respectfully disagree,” she wrote in a Dec. 17, 2020 ruling. “The appellant was tackled in his own home in the privacy of his bedroom by a large police officer who was immediately joined by another officer. Additional officers followed shortly thereafter.The impact on the appellant’s Charter-protected rights is connected to the seriousness of the

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“The police misconduct was wilful and so serious that it is necessary to exclude the evidence obtained in order to disassociate the justice system from the police misconduct and preserve the reputation of the administration of justice,” Griffin wrote.

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Community now HEALTH

Pandemic has destroyed our eating habits ported that in the early months of the pandemic, one in seven (14.6%) of Canadians were experiencing food insecurity.

This was an increase from 10.5% in 2017-2018.

As with almost all of the negative effects of the pandemic, hardest hit are the most vulnerable in our communities.The economic crisis has resulted in many losing jobs and secure housing.

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A number of my patients have joked about “the COVID-19” – referring to the 19 pounds they have gained since the start of the pandemic.

They attribute their unintended weight gain to the loss of their previous exercise in gyms and sports teams, spending many more hours in front of screens and being at home where snacking is easy. It’s just too tempting to turn off your mic and video and eat during an online lecture or meeting.

Many have enjoyed cooking, baking and bread-making at home.

Others have ordered food delivery far more often than they ever ate out before the pandemic.

Remember, we are what we eat.

Food provides the building blocks for the regeneration of our tissues and organs and energy for the cells of our bodies and

Fast food: People have been eating more fast food during the pandemic. PHOTO GETTY IMAGES

brains. Consider the quality of your food before you grab what you crave or call UberEats. Garbage in, garbage incorporated.

If you feel like a Big Mac, you will be a Big Mac. If you are stuck in your home all day, plan and prepare your meals and

snacks in advance. Stock up on fresh fruit and other healthy snacks.Take your breaks as you would in school or at work with at least 10 minutes of physical activity, maybe a short walk in or around your home or some household chores.

If you’ve gained a few

pounds over the past year, count yourself lucky.

For others, the pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity, which is increased uncertainty about their ability to feed themselves and their families.

A Stats Canada report released in December re-

School donates food Chris Campbell

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Most people celebrate their cultures new year by popping champagne and filling their faces with food.

For Burnaby’s M.T.O. Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism, they are celebrating International Nowruz Day by giving back to their local communities through charitable action.

Nowruz (“the new

sion’s Empowering Patients public health education program, I’ll be giving a free online talk on Healthy Eating at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 25. I’ll be talking about the essentials of healthy eating, the new Canada Food Guide, eating on a budget and practical tips on making positive lifestyle changes.

For more information, email Leona Cullen at lcullen@divisionsbc.ca.

Dr. DavidicusWong is a family physician. His Healthwise Column appears regularly in this paper.

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On Thursday, students donated 258 tote bags of non-perishable food items and PPE to local families in need through Burnaby Neighbourhood House.

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Community now HEALTH

Burnaby donating $5 million for hospital rebuild Chris Campbell

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A majority of city council has approved spending $5 million towards the $1.3-billion redevelopment of Burnaby Hospital.

But not everyone is happy about it.

Council voted on March 8 in favour of a financial management committee recommendation to authorize the use of money in the gaming reserve in the amount of $5 million towards the project – with $1 million paid out annually over a five-year period.

The caveat is the money will only come “once casino revenue starts to be received by the city again,” said a staff report. The city gets approximately 10% of the net provincial proceeds from Burnaby’s Grand

Villa casino, which has been closed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No announcement has been made about when the casino will be allowed to reopen.

Couns. Dan Johnston and Colleen Jordan both voted against the motion, with Johnston saying this funding should come from the province – not cities.

“I want to make it clear, I did not support the #Burnaby Council report this evening to donate 5 Million to Burnaby Hospital,” Johnston tweeted.

“Healthcare should be funded by Provincial Govt not by Municipal budgets.”

Jordan agreed with Johnston in a message to the NOW, adding the funding should go elsewhere in the city.

“It seems this current version of council is hellbent on spending all of the reserves previous administrations have built up, which should be going towards needed projects in Burnaby, not subsidizing a provincial project,” Jordan said.

Jordan says the city is overestimating how much revenue will be flowing from the casino to the city coffers.

Others, however, are calling the donation an “extraordinary move.”

Burnaby businessman William McCarthy, who chairs the Proud History, Bright Future campaign that is raising money for the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, praised Mayor Mike Hurley and council.

“The Burnaby Hospi-

tal Foundation and the entire Burnaby Hospital community is extremely grateful and proud that the City of Burnaby has joined other supporters in assisting with the much-needed redevelopment of Burnaby Hospital,” he said, in a statement.

“While our city has grown tremendously, the hospital has not been expanded or upgraded in over 40 years” said Hurley, in a statement.

“This contribution, which comes from the city’s gaming revenue fund and leaves city reserves intact, will ensure our citizens have a new hospital they can depend on.”

With the $5 million contribution from the City of Burnaby, the foundation has now raised over $17 million toward its $30-mil-

lion goal.

This isn’t the first time city council has approved a large amount of money for Burnaby Hospital.

Back in 2019, the City of Burnaby announced it would help pay for a second CT scanner at Burnaby Hospital.

City council approved a $1-million grant to the Burnaby Hospital Foundation to partially cover the cost of the medical imaging equipment.

At the time, the hospital only had one CT scanner and it had been breaking down.

Michael Keller, spokesperson for the hospital foundation, said at the time that it’s “quite unusual” for a municipality to give such a large grant to a hospital foundation.

Johnston and Jordan

opposed this motion as well.

Burnaby Hospital, built in 1952, currently has 297 beds and hasn’t been upgraded in more than 40 years.

The redevelopment begins with a new six-storey, 11,858-square-foot, 78-bed tower that will include an upgraded mental health and substance use inpatient unit and a new maternity ward. According to the city staff report, construction is supposed to begin in 2021 and be complete by 2024.

Before the city’s donation, the foundation had raised about $12 million in a $30-million campaign, said the staff report, with $8 million of that coming from Burnaby’s Beedie family.

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Jammed gears

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tangle of trees lines the shores of Burrard Inlet, a blend of coniferous trees whose evergreen peaks peer over the water and deciduous trees, naked limbs still awaiting their spring buds.

Today called Barnet Marine Park, the beach and wellgroomed park stand in contrast with the wilds that tower overhead. Not long ago, however, these shores were known not for the park but for a very specific type of tree – one known for its peeling bark.

The Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish) people called it Lhuḵw’lhuḵw’áyten (pronounced “Thluk-Thluk-Way-Tun”), named for the Arbutus trees – “lhulhuḵw’ay,” which in turn comes from the word “lhuḵw’,” meaning “peel.”That name, Lhuḵw’lhuḵw’áyten, more literally means “where the bark gets peeled in spring,” according to the SFU website.

Khelsilem, a Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh Nation councillor who has taught the language and studied documentation of oral history from the nation’s elders, says Burnaby Mountain itself wouldn’t have had its own name.

“One of the things about our place-naming culture historically is that a lot of the place names are based off of sightlines from the water. So there’s a lot of mountains that don’t have names or a lot of areas inland that don’t really have names within our history,” Khelsilem says. “Most of the place names

To understand the issues facing Burnaby Mountain today, we need to take a look at the mountain of yesteryear. In this second of our four-part series investigating mountain biking on the peak and the pull between recreation and conservation, we look back – starting with the mountain’s Indigenous roots.

a special report by Dustin Godfrey

PEAK POTENTIAL: Burnaby Mountain rises over the city, with the mountaintop development of UniverCity visible from afar. The mountain has long been the site of a push between human development and the conservation of its natural heritage. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER were more sightline-based from the ocean because our main mode of transportation back in the day was canoeing.”

He notes that not every landmark had a name if it wasn’t part of the regular canoeing travel routes.

“But Lhuḵw’lhuḵw’áyten is sort of the name that’s at the base of the mountain.

So if they were talking about that mountain, they would have said ‘the mountain of Lhuḵw’lhuḵw’áyten,’” Khelsilem says.

The earliest archeological find from the Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh people in their traditional territory is about 9,600 years old, Khelsilem

Natural beauty: The slopes of Burnaby Mountain, as seen from Barnet Marine Park at its base on Burrard Inlet. PHOTO DUSTIN GODFREY

says, and there have been finds of rock tools identified as coming from the SquamishValley all around their territory. Khelsilem says one SFU researcher and member of the Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh Nation, Rudy Reimer, has been doing the work of analyzing the finds and connecting the rocks to their place of origin. (Reimer was not available for an interview for this article.)

Burnaby Mountain is near the southeast corner of the Sḵwxw ̱ ú7mesh Nation’s traditional territory. It’s also covered by the Səl̓ ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nation’s traditional territory and that of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam) and kwikwəƛ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples.

According to submissions by the kwikwəƛ̓ əm First Nation to the now-defunct National Energy Board in August 2014, regarding the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the mountain and the area around it were used for hunting, gathering wood and plant resources, and for overland travel.

“The mountain also provided prime upland areas for hunting and medicinal and food plant collection, particularly in the early spring when salmonberry, Indian plum, red elderberry, and other plant species important to aboriginal subsistence began producing,” reads the sub-

mission.

No archeological sites have been found on the mountain, in the area of the pipeline route, and City of Burnaby’s director of parks Dave Ellenwood wasn’t aware of any on the rest of the mountain. But the submission notes archeological finds “should be anticipated, but are likely low-density site types and those that may be difficult to detect in both the developed and remaining forested environment.”

LACKING CONSULTATION espite long histories in the area, Indigenous communities have rarely, if ever, been consulted about what’s happening, according to an SFU academic, who spoke to the university’s student paper The Peak in 2017.

“In the 1960s, First Nations were emerging out from under the thumb of the government, despite the fact that the Indian Act and the government had a lot of power,”William Lindsay, then the director of the Office for Aboriginal Peoples at SFU, told The Peak at the time.

“They weren’t asked for their input on building the university.

The First Peoples had no say, really, on what was happening on the mountain at that particular time.”

Even today, as the Trans

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Mountain pipeline expansion gears up construction in the region, Indigenous communities say they haven’t been adequately consulted by the government.

That led to court rulings that, in 2018, stalled the pipeline to make way for more Indigenous consultations and, in 2020, dismissed further complaints that Indigenous communities weren’t adequately consulted.

But local Indigenous communities have continued to rail against the pipeline project. In fact, that has likely been the greatest point of contention on the mountain in recent years, with activists and Indigenous land defenders arrested and even jailed in recent years for defying court injunctions. And neither side looks likely to back down at any point.

Beyond the pipeline, Khelsilem says his community has “always been advocating for the recognition of our cultural heritage in our territory,” including things like restoring Indigenous names to landmarks, and that could include Burnaby Mountain or Barnet Marine Park. “(It’s) an opportunity for the public to engage and learn about the local Indigenous history and to appreciate it the way that I think our people have for many Continued on page 27

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Decades-long pull between park, development Continued from page 26 thousands of years. And we’ve got a lot of really exciting pro– jects in that regard around signage and recognition and things like that,” Khelsilem says.

And there are plenty of opportunities for reconciliation or decolonization in the area, including on Burnaby Mountain, he says.

“There’s a lot of opportunity to partner with First Nations and to do projects together, and there’s lots of opportunities for either co-management of areas within the territory or repatriate the land back to the community.”

As the city looks at planning the future of the mountain, Ellenwood says it’s committed to increasing Indigenous participation in its policies.

“I think the city … has taken a very progressive approach to that, and the mayor’s office in particular has developed an Indigenous consultation processes that allow us to do that. And we’re going to take full advantage of them in this analysis,” Ellenwood says. “There will definitely be an Indigenous factor to this, a study that incorporates not only an archeological asset assessment but a planning and consultative element to this.”

CHANGING LANDSCAPE n old, black-and-white CBC B-roll, found in the Heritage Burnaby website’s archives, heavy, steel-framed cars float in a silver sea speckled with the blemishes of old film.With the buoyant reflex of 1950s suspension, the cars straddle each bump like a wave as they navigate the uneven parking lot on Burnaby Mountain.

In 2021, it would be unusual to see more than a handful of dignitaries and media at a sod turning. But on Oct. 7, 1957,

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dozens of people greet the cars at an event to watch exactly that, marking the beginning of one of the first developments on Burnaby Mountain.

Frank M. Ross, then B.C.’s lieutenant-governor, gives a brief speech at a podium under a tent before turning to his ceremonial duty.

In his tight black blazer and loose grey dress pants, Ross is no natural with a shovel. But after a few awkward jabs and a little shake, he’s able to gain purchase and turn the soil over before his audience.

The sod turning launched the Burnaby Mountain Centennial Project to celebrate B.C.’s 100th anniversary.The project saw a pavilion and park built on the northwest quadrant of the mountain.That pavilion was eventually renovated to house the Owl and Oarsman restaurant before later becoming Horizons, which closed early last year.

Burnaby archival records indicate the park was chosen by the Burnaby centennial committee over eight other proposals to mark the province’s first 100 years.

The view from the surrounding park is about as iconic as it gets in Burnaby. Now, more than 60 years after that sod turning, it’s complemented with a centennial rose garden, created in the 1990s to celebrate the city’s 100th anniversary, and the wood sculptures, gifted to Burnaby by its Japanese sister city of Kushiro, that overlook the Burrard Inlet.

Near the top of the city’s own Mount Olympus, the aptly-named Kamui Mintara – “Playground of the Gods” – sculptures sit where the Burnaby earth meets the heavens, and the natural surroundings are only a reflection of that.

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Bird’s-eye view: A mid-century aerial shot of Burnaby Mountain, before the university was built but after the construction of the centennial pavilion. PHOTO

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TOP OF THE CITY: An undated aerial shot of Burnaby Mountain looks out over Simon Fraser University. The university, which dates back to 1965, was just one in a series of developments that have staked out a human presence on the mountain for many decades. PHOTO HERITAGE BURNABY ARCHIVES The finely groomed park is among the first developments on the otherwise natural space, being completed just half a decade after the originalTrans Mountain pipeline.

Once called Snake Hill, Burnaby Mountain has always been recognized as a special place in the city. Royal Museum of B.C. archives indicate the province was considering making it a provincial park possibly as far back as 1909, and it was ultimately dedicated as a provincial park in 1942.

In the middle of the 20th century, the vast majority of the mountain was mostly untouched. But since that time, there has been a slow encroachment of development, despite its park designation.

The boundaries of that park were altered in 1952 to accommodate the development of the Trans Mountain pipeline, but according to Heritage Burnaby, “significant conservation and park lands were left untouched.”

In one black-and-white aerial photo, taken some time in the 1940s, the Trans Mountain tank farm is the only noticeable mark on the otherwise undisturbed mountain, looking more imposing without the nearby Forest Grove development or Burnaby Mountain Parkway flanking it.

Another aerial photo, taken sometime between 1958 and 1965, shows a blanket of trees over the ridge where Simon Fraser University now sits.

In the decades that followed, of Burnaby’s community herimore and more portions of the tage commission in 2007 (upnatural space were cleared for dated to 2011). development.

As early as 1964, there had At the very top of the mounbeen considerations for adding tain, of course, sits Simon Fraser a housing development around University. Nicknamed the “inthe university, but that was never stant university” when it first actualized until the mid-1990s – opened, SFU turned a design and that appears to have broken submitted by Erickson/Maswith the architectural philosophy sey Architects to a 1963 design of hugging the contours of the competition into an operational mountain.Today, if you look at university just two years later. the mountain from Cariboo Hill, The university stands in stark housing complexes and cranes contrast with its natural surare visible atop the mountain. roundings, with brutalist archiWith the creation of the Burntecture – hard anaby Mountain gles baked into area, Tall buildings conservation cement buildings a line quite liter– then seen as “fu- would have been ally was drawn turistic.” out of scale with between where But despite the developments the massive architecture, the can occur and university still mountaintop where they canmanaged to blend not occur.That ridge into its surroundline was the 500ings, and that’s foot elevation no happy coincimark, although dence.When deit has been tinsigning the unikered with over versity, Erickson/Massey, whose the years to accommodate original design submission was neighbourhoods, such as Forest followed without alterations, Grove. specifically designed a “series of But there hasn’t been a clear horizontal terraced structures … limit on human uses of the park, that hugged the ridge and disand conservationists worry that solve into the landscape.” people are continuing to en“Tall buildings would have croach on the space, affecting been out of scale with the masthe plants and wildlife in the sive mountaintop ridge,” reads a area. writeup on the university’s conIn part 3 of this series, we’ll look struction in Burnaby’s Heritage: at the challenge in conservation An inventory of buildings and posed by human activities on the structures, published by the City mountain.

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Park renamed after long-serving mayor The City of Burnaby has officially renamed MacPherson Park to Lewarne Park, to honour the former Burnaby mayor, councillor and volunteer, William Lewarne.

Born in the Alta Vista neighbourhood in Burnaby, Lewarne founded

the Burnaby Voters Association and served on city council from 1973 to 1975 and again 1977 to 1981. In 1981, he was elected mayor and served until 1987.

“Bill’s dedication to this community went far beyond his years as an

elected official. He served with local community organizations such as the Lions Club, the Rotary Club, the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation,” said Mayor Mike Hurley, in a statement. “Bill’s ded-

ication to this community helped Burnaby develop into the thriving city that exists today.”

The park is located at Rumble Street and MacPherson Avenue, adjacent to Burnaby South Secondary School.Working with the Lewarne fam-

ily, city staff determined that this park location was ideal due to its proximity to where he lived.

Lewarne was integral to the creation of Burnaby’s Most Outstanding Citizen Award. In 1982, Professor Takayoshi Makino of the University of Hok-

kaido in Japan presented Lewarne with the Kushiro Cup.The trophy is now presented each year to honour the contributions of Burnaby’s Most Outstanding Citizen.

Lewarne passed away in 1995.

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32 THURSDAY, March 18, 2021 • Burnaby Now

LANGLEY FARM MARKET PRODUCE SMALL NAVEL ORANGES ORANGES SMALL

79

POMELO

FUJI APPLES

Product of U.S.A. $1.74/kg

Product of U.S.A.

Product of U.S.A. $2.18/kg

99

¢

2 for

5

¢

lb.

SPINACH

$

lb.

LO OCAL LONG LO ONG ENGLISH LOCAL CUCUMBERS CUC CUMB BERS

Product of U.S.A.

LLOCAL OCAL RUSSET RUS SSET POTATOES PO OTATOES

Product of B.C. 10 lb. bag

Product of B.C.

99

7

99¢

¢

$

ea.

ea.

GROCERY EAT WHOLESOME ORGANIC

INDOMIE

MI GORENG HOT & SPICY NOODLES

LYVI

2 for

4

5

$

CHEONG JEONG ONE

MULTI-P PURPOSE PEPPER SAUCE (S SWEET) 250g

$ 49

$ 99

ELIAS

SAN REMO

CA ARNATION

TEXANA

375g

1L

35 54ml

1

HONEY BEARS

Cut from AA A Be eef / $13.18/kg

SIRLOIN TIP P STEAK

Cut from AA A Be eef / $15.38/kg

CHICKEN WIINGS Fresh / $8.12/kkg

2

5 $ 99 6 $ 69 3 $ 69 5 $ 59 8 $ 99

WHITE SHRIIMP 40/50 ARCTIC SUR RF CLA LAMS A

Clearw rwater w / Frrozen / 400g

SUND DRIED TOMATO HAVARTI

lb.

ea.

1 $ 29 9 $ 39 1 $ 29 1

PARM MIGIANO O REGGIIANO WEDGES 200g

HONEEY HAM M

LANGLEY FARM MARKET

For fresh and quality foods

5

$

BAKERY MANGO SWIS SS ROLLL

/100g

TRE STELLE

2 for

ea.

$ 89

600g

COFFFEE COO OKIES

/ea

BEER R SAUSA AGE

5 $ 50 3 $ 20 1

$ 25

ea.

280g

ea.

COCO ONUT BU UNS 100g

ea.

/100g

/100g

ea.

For freshness and quality you can count on!

LFM

2lb.

1

DELI

ea.

LONG GRAIN BROWN RICE

$ 79

ea.

lb.

1

ea.

EV VAPORATED MILK

$ 99

ea.

lb.

Champmar / Frrozen / 400g

1

ea.

SUNFLOWER OIL

MEAT & SEAFOOD SIRLOIN TIP P ROAST

Regular/Light / 400ml

$ 29

ea.

$ 99

ea.

COCONUT MILK

50 00ml

$ 29

5

$ 99

PU URE COCONUT WATER

350g

500ml

EAT WHOLESOME ORGANIC

KIN NG ISLA LAND A

SINGLE CRYSTAL ROCK CANDY SUGAR

BALSAMIC VINEGAR OF MODENA

5 x 85g

2

2 for

7815 KINGSWAY, BURNABY 604.521.2883

This sale is only for Kingsway Location.

Your Choice. Our Honour.

Our Effort. Our Award.

Thank you to all our valued customers for your ongoing support

GIFT CARDS AVAILABLE IN STORE VALID THURSDAY MAR. 18 – SUNDAY, MAR. 21, 2021 • WHILE QUANTITIES LAST.

STORE HOURS: MONDAY TO SUNDAY 8:30AM TO 9:00PM • HOLIDAYS: 9:00AM TO 6:00PM