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SAY NO TO HATE: Alison Gu shares a message at Metrotown SkyTrain station as part of a series of rallies on Monday to combat anti-Asian hate.

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Woman organizes rallies to battle anti-Asian hate Jess Fedigan

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With anti-Asian hate crimes skyrocketing in Burnaby, a local resident decided she needed to take action.

Burnaby resident Doris Mah and the group she

founded, StandWith Asians Coalition, recently made a plea to the city to proclaim May 10 as a Day of Action Against Asian Racism.

“As a racialized woman of Asian descent, I have experienced numerous racist incidents because

of the colour of my skin,” Mah wrote in a recent letter to the NOW. “I have been stopped while driving, in the middle of the road, by a white man telling me to go back to China. My elderly mother has also experienced hostile stares and verbal as-

saults on public transit.We must condemn all forms of hate in public spaces as it creates unsafe conditions for members of the Asian, Black, Indigenous, people of colour, and racialized communities.”

Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley and council passed

the proclamation at the end of April, noting May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada.

The proclamation reads, in part, “Every resident in Burnaby deserves safe public spaces without the fear of discrimination based on race, national or

ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”

According to Burnaby RCMP, there has been a 350% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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‘No immediate plans’ for pedestrian bridge

The City of Burnaby says a replacement for the Metrotown pedestrian bridge has been delayed.

The project was aimed at adding a new pedestrian bridge between the Metrotown SkyTrain station – the busiest in all of Burnaby – and the city’s biggest mall, Metropolis

at Metrotown. But a variety of factors have seen the project stall, including COVID-19 and other development projects involving the mall, such as a proposed events centre.

“We are hoping to pick up this work in the coming months, but there are no imminent plans to re-

place that structure,” said a statement from the City of Burnaby. “We were looking to coordinate any future replacement of the passerelle (pedestrian bridge) with the replacement of the existing transit loop on the Ivanhoe Cambridge (Metropolis) site.The transit loop

was an identified location for the Metrotown Events Centre, but it could also be a mixed-use development site, which would be the location to receive the replaced passerelle. Our work on the Metropolis master plan with Ivanhoe Cambridge was unfortunately put on hold due to

the pandemic.”

The city noted that improvements that TransLink undertook to the station in 2018 have “improved the surface crossing of Central Boulevard and the vertical circulation into the station.”

The project was originally listed in the city’s

2019-2023 financial capital plan.

The city was set to allocate $1.25 million from the 2019 budget towards the new pedestrian bridge.

Following this, it was going to allocate $1 million in 2020, $7.5 million in 2021, and $7.5 million in 2022 for the project.

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Suspect charged after man killed, another wounded

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A 20-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in what police say was a gang-linked shooting in Burnaby Saturday.

Berton Dalipi, 19, was shot to death outside a vape store on Sixth Street near 13th Avenue at about 7 p.m.

On Monday morning, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced charges had been laid against 20-year-old Ahmed Riyaz Tahir.

IHIT confirmed an innocent bystander had also been injured in the “brazen daylight shooting” but sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Supt. Graham de la Gorgendiere, the acting of-

ficer in charge of the Burnaby RCMP, said he was troubled that an innocent bystander had been hit by gunfire in his city.

“This violence should not be happening in our streets, and I want to assure the public we are doing everything that we can to stop this,” he said. “I hope residents will find some comfort in knowing that charges have been laid and an arrest has been made in this case.”

There have been a string of increasingly brazen deadly shootings across the Lower Mainland in recent weeks, the most recent at Vancouver International Airport Sunday afternoon.

De la Gorgendiere said Burnaby RCMP’s dedicated gang enforcement team, launched in January, is working to combat gang

Crime scene: One man was killed at Sixth Street and 13th Avenue on Saturday. PHOTO RYAN STELTING

activity in the city.

In the last three months, he said the team has made 400 vehicle checks targeting individuals with sus-

pected gang ties. He said officers have laid charges against a number of people and seized weapons and $40,000 in cash.

“We are making a dent in deterring and disrupting gang activity, but there’s still much work to be done,” de la Gorgendi-

ere said.

Dalipi had no criminal record, but Assistant Commissioner Manny Mann, the head of B.C.’s anti-gang agency, said he had had “criminal affiliations” and the killing was linked to the Lower Mainland gang conflict.

Mann said it was premature to discuss which gangs were involved.

Relatives of Dalipi have launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to take him “back home” to Kosovo for burial.

“Toni was a loving, kind, gentle young man,” reads the campaign introduction. “He cared for everyone in his life dearly. He loved his family so much.”

City looking at task force to tackle racism issues

Continued from page 1 In 2019, the detachment responded to six hate crimes with an Asian victim or target – that number jumped to 27 in 2020, police said.

Of all the hate-motivated offences reported to police in 2020, 63% (27 out of 43) were identified as having an Asian victim or target – that was up from 30% (six out of 20) in 2019.

Burnaby’s top cop, Supt. Graham de la Gorgendiere, said the inci-

dents have ranged from property damage, including offensive graffiti, to threats and assaults.

That prompted Mah to organize rallies for May 10 throughout the Lower Mainland, which included teams in Vancouver, the Tri-Cities, Burnaby, Mission and Hope.

“It went really well.

The weather was fantastic,” she said of Monday’s events. “We had 14 teams from Vancouver,Tri-Cities, Burnaby, Mission and then Hope.”

In Burnaby, teams were located at the Metrotown SkyTrain station, as well as Brentwood and Lougheed stations.

“People heard from the news and people actually showed up at different locations, out of the blue,” Mah said. “We don’t know who they were, but we know they’re allies.”

While she accomplished her goal of the getting the city to help raise awareness around the issue, she didn’t stop there. Mah sent out 1,000 emails to

cities and municipalities across Canada, with 30 responding and wanting to also have proclamations declared in their areas.

“I have Ontario cities phone the [Burnaby] mayor’s office and say ‘Hey, saw this email from this woman saying you’ve got this proclamation, can you send us a draft? What do you say on it? Because we want to do the same.’”

Mah was incredibly touched to see many attend the events she organized, which helped her

see there are more people that stand with the Asian community than she thought.

“It was really heartwarming to see that there were so many of us out there,” she said.

“This is when people come together and say ‘we’re all in this together’ because we are all hurting.

We’re not pointing fingers, we’re just demanding the government to have stronger action.”

The social planning committee for the City

of Burnaby approved another motion on May 4 as a result of Mah’s advocacy to look at the possibility of developing an anti-racism task force, which would look similar to the Mayor’s Task Force on Housing.

She hopes, going forward, her actions can benefit other communities.

“I really hope this could be a model for other cities across the country,” she said.

– with files from Cornelia Naylor

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CityConnect ELECTRONIC PUBLIC HEARING Burnaby City Council hereby gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing

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Rez. #19-39 7300 Edmonds Street (office building portion of 7364 Edmonds Street) From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM5s Multiple Family Residential District, C3 General Commercial District, P6 Regional Institutional District) To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM5s Multiple Family Residential District, C3 General Commercial District, P6 Regional Institutional District and Edmonds Town Centre guidelines, and in accordance with the development plan entitled “Exterior Sky Sign Proposal” prepared by Galaxie Signs Ltd.) Purpose: to permit the installation of skysigns on the northwest (Edmonds Street) and south (Kingsway) elevations of an office building Applicant: Gulf and Fraser Fishermen’s Credit Union Reports, bylaws, and related information respecting the zoning bylaw amendments are available on the City’s website at burnaby.ca/publichearings from 2021 May 6. Any questions regarding the Public Hearing processes and agenda items B. Zeinabova may be directed to the Office of the City Clerk, 604-294-7290.

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Opinion now MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

The PNE deserves a B.C. bailout

The B.C. government should begin explaining soon how it defines “anchor attractions” when it comes to qualifying for a new $100-million fund to assist the tourism sector in economic recovery.

There are likely few people waiting more anxiously for this clarification than those who run the Pacific National Exhibition.

To no one’s surprise, for the second straight year the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the cancellation of the PNE fair.

With no fair and no other events being held in the various facilities at its location, the PNE has lost almost all revenue streams and piled up $8 million in debt. It fears the debt could rise to $15 million by the end of this year.

This situation should put considerable pressure on the NDP government to provide the financial assistance being requested of it.The PNE is located in east Vancouver, which is ground zero when it comes to NDP support.

The PNE directly employs 4,200 people and its managers say it creates a further 9,500 indirect jobs and generates about $200 million in economic activity (in non-pandemic years).

The vast majority of its employees are young people and many are members of CUPE. Regular readers of this column will know I used to have one of those indirect jobs, having spent 10 summers as a teenager and young adult running various carnival games on the PNE midway.

So, yes, you can call me a fan of the PNE. That sentiment aside, I am betting the case can be made the PNE should be considered an “anchor attraction” in this province.

More than one million people (many of them “tourists” from other B.C. towns) annually attend

the fair and other events – concerts, sporting events etc. – held on the grounds.

Nothing like it, in terms of size, exists anywhere else in the province. Sure, there are other large fairs – the Cloverdale Rodeo and the Williams Lake Stampede, to name two – but nothing meets the scale and economic impact of the PNE. So far,Tourism Minister Melanie Mark has been coy in her response to PNE’s plea, saying she would “have more to say in the coming days.”

She has noted the City of Vancouver – which owns the PNE but which does not fund it – has received various forms of financial assistance from the provincial government throughout the pandemic, which may suggest this may not be a slam-dunk case for the PNE qualifying for the funding.

I detected a less-than-sympathetic ear from a number of NDP cabinet ministers when it came to Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s demands for financial help from the provincial government in the early days of the pandemic.

The government did, however, eventually provide some help.

Let’s hope that happens in this case.

It would be a shame to see the PNE denied the financial help it so desperately needs and to watch it perhaps drift towards permanent closure because of escalating debt levels.

The NDP government earmarked $6 billion in pandemic-tied economic relief in this year’s budget. Surely, the 111-yearold PNE can make the case it deserves a comparatively tiny portion of that life-saving funding.

Anchor attraction indeed.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Opinionnow School cuts hurt kids Editor: The word vulnerable in the media has been used a lot this past year. We as a society have been trying to figure out how to support vulnerable people, families, and children throughout the pandemic. When we think of what vulnerable means, we can generate a pretty biased and stereotypical image in our minds of what that looks like.

There are different types of vulnerable groups. I would like to acknowledge the children who are vulnerable and invisible. These are the children who no one knows about. The families who live their lives with secrets. Secrets of unsupported mental illness, addiction, poverty, abuse, medical issues, etc. These are the children who show up to school smiling, trying not to expose the family for fear that parents will go to jail, siblings will be separated, or a million other reasons that whirl around in their minds.

Cuts in education hurt children.

What has occurred across the province is a systemic problem that needs a systemic solution. The education system needs to be flipped upside down. It’s not working the way is could or should be and if we keep doing what we have always done and just cut the budget to make numbers match on paper, we will be ignoring the lessons that we have now realized.

Those lessons include that schools are the backbone to our society and without teachers, EA’s, support staff and the administration to run it all, our society quickly falls apart.

Many government systems are reactive.

Our health-care system takes care of people, but they need to be sick first. Our criminal system processes people, but they need to commit a crime first. Our roads are built and infrastructure created, but we need population growth first. Education is not reactive. It’s preventative.

Education that meets children where they are, will decrease poverty, will decrease crime, will decrease hate, will decrease vulnerable populations and will support, nurture, and grow the society we are all desperately craving and dreaming about. The government cannot be reactive when it comes to children and education. This is a provincial wide systemic problem that will only be solved by a provincial wide systemic solution.

I do not think the responsibility of cutting the school budgets should fall on our Boards of Education working individually with their own budget to somehow make the unworkable, work. It’s impossible. Vulnerable families are vulnerable for a reason.

These budget discussions should be led by our provincial and federal governments. They should be the ones looking for solutions.

Kim Block, Burnaby

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Citynow COVID complaints, tickets hit a record high in April Cornelia Naylor

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COVID-related complaints and violation tickets jumped dramatically in Burnaby during the crest of B.C.’s third wave of the pandemic in April, according to local police.

Burnaby RCMP’s COVID compliance enforcement team responded to 98 complaints and handed out 27 violation tickets totalling $39,330.

(That’s compared to 40 complaints and six tickets in March.)

“April was the busiest month for violation tickets and complaints in Burnaby since the start of the pandemic,” media spokesperson Cpl. Brett Cunningham said.

Most of the tickets last month, 16, were issued to

the organizers and hosts of non-compliant parties and events – a violation that comes with a $2,300 price tag.

On April 25, for example, police shut down a gathering of about 30 people at a house in the 4600 block of CanadaWay.The host said the get-together had been a music release party, Cunningham said.

Eleven individuals were also fined $230 each last month for failing to wearing face coverings in public indoor spaces, and Cunningham said the RCMP is also investigating a case involving two people who went to a local restaurant just eight days after testing positive for COVID. Since the Burnaby RCMP started sending out monthly updates in October about its COVID en-

forcement efforts, April has seen the most COVID-related complaints and tickets by far.The next-highest number of complaints, 58, came in December.

Cunningham said the team moved from an educational model to an enforcement model in the spring, which might account for an increase in tickets, but it doesn’t explain the dramatic jump in complaints.

“At this time, we can only speculate as to why we are seeing an increased number of complaints in Burnaby,” Cunningham said. “We are examining whether more people are breaking the public health orders or whether Burnaby residents are simply fed up with those breaking the rules and more likely to report it.”

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Citynow North Van councillor named NDP candidate Incumbent Liberal Terry Beech and Conservative Kelsey Shein also vying for Burnaby North-Seymour Burnaby North-Seymour residents now know who the three main candidates will be whenever a federal election is declared.

Last Friday, lawyer Jim Hanson was elected to stand as the NDP’s candidate in the riding, defeating candidates Markiel Simpson and Jason Blackman. Hanson is a twoterm councillor in the District of North Vancouver, elected in 2014 and reelected in 2018.

“People have started to see the real Justin Trudeau in the last few years, and we need more than just empty talk,” said Hanson, in a statement. “Burnaby North-Seymour residents want real investments in

local affordable housing, reliable transportation, and a real climate action plan.”

He will challenge incumbent Liberal MP Terry Beech and 31-yearold Kelsey Shein, who was elected to be the candidate for the Conservatives.

In a press release, Shein described herself as a born-and-bred British Columbian and an experienced campaigner, having held every position from intern to senior campaign manager.

“I’m a lifelong Conservative, and grew up in and around this riding,” Shein said. “I’ve knocked on doors in dozens of campaigns, worked in Ottawa for Conservative MPs, and

now want to represent the hard-working people of Burnaby North-Seymour as we strengthen Canada coming out of COVID.” In March, Beech was appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister of economic development and official languages, in addition to his existing role as parliamentary secretary to the minister of fisheries, oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.

NDP candidates have finished second in the riding in both general elections since the electoral district was officially created in 2013. Last time out, Beech defeated former MP Svend Robinson by a little over 1,500 votes.

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Citynow Unions warn against deep cuts in school budget Cornelia Naylor

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The union that represents education assistants and other school support staff is saying “Don’t cut deeper than is needed” to the Burnaby school board as it ponders ways to cover an anticipated $12.4-million budget shortfall next year.

“Sometimes they go deeper than needed and then it’s ‘Oh look, we found the money.’ Consider the impact on the students and the staff,” CUPE Local 379 president Paul Simpson told the NOW. At a public budget meeting last week, the district unveiled a plan that would see the district dip into its accumulated surplus to cover about half the shortfall and a list of

proposed budget cuts that would cover the remaining $6.55 million.

Among the possible cuts are the equivalent of 40 teaching positions and about 20 support staff positions.

Burnaby Teachers’ Association president Daniel Tétrault said the teacher cuts will hurt “across the board,” impacting specialty programs and the district’s most vulnerable students.

“They mean larger classrooms, less one-on one-time, less extra support when kids have challenges,”Tétrault said in an emailed statement. “Budget cuts mean fewer overall supports for students in a time where they will need it more than ever.They are not just numbers; they represent people, including teachers who provide

an invaluable service to our students, and we know that next year our kids need more not less.”

Simpson agreed.

He said education assistants are already “understaffed and overworked.”

“The scariest piece is, when the support staff get cut, it is usually the most vulnerable that are left behind because that is primarily where our members support,” Simpson said.

He also questioned eliminating the equivalent of four custodians, another cut proposed in the plan.

“Everyone knows COVID’s not going to magically disappear by September, so having a lack of touchpoint cleaning being done by custodial services is potentially more than even just job loss,” Simpson said.

“You’re talking the health consultation is that these and wellness of an entire decisions will really affect school community.” teachers, support staff, stuBut the cuts aren’t writdents and families directly, ten in stone yet, according and we really want to hear to school board chair Jen from them before we make Mezei. these decisions.”

“We’re kind Groups repof in the midresenting teachdle of the process ers, support staff, still,” she told the parents and stuNOW. dents met with The school disdistrict officials trict expects to Tuesday night to end this year with discuss the pro$13 million in reposed cuts. serve funds, and And there’s Jen Mezei Mezei said the another meetboard hasn’t de- board chair ing scheduled cided how deeply next week with it wants to cut into that the district parent advisory fund to cover the shortfall. council before the budShe said the board is get is finalized at a finance also open to other suggescommittee meeting on tions on how to fill the gap. May 18 and sent to a May “We really do value the 25 public board meeting input that our partners for final approval. give us,” she said. “What’s Secretary-treasurer Rusreally important about the sell Horswill said the pro-

jected shortfall is largely the result of some anticipated lingering impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The district doesn’t expect any extra pandemic-related funding from the provincial or federal governments next year, according to Horswill, but COVID-19 is nonetheless expected to keep regular enrolment flat and international student enrolment below pre-pandemic levels.The pandemic is also expected to impact the district’s summer school program, continuing education and investment income, Horswill said.

Even with $6.5 million in cuts next year, he said the district’s reserves would only hold out for another two years before it was $3.25 million in the red in 2023/24.

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The City of Burnaby is moving ahead in 2021 with replacing the old Guichon Creek pipe culvert that runs under the Deer Lake Parkway so fish can actually pass through it.

That’s according to Burnaby resident Mark Angelo, a renowned Canadian conservationist, streamkeeper and founder of World Rivers Day. The new culvert will have a natural bottom that will be fish passable.The project is currently out to tender, with work set to commence sometime after Aug. 1, Angelo said.

“This is a major step forward for the creek. Urban streams often face barriers to the movement of fish, be they trout or salmon or other species, and poorly designed culverts are often a major reason for this,” Angelo told the NOW in an interview.

“In fact, for this coming World Rivers Day – set for Sept. 26 – while ‘waterways in our community’ is once again our main theme, the importance of retaining or restoring stream connectivity is one of our sub-themes.”

Angelo said he’s been working to restore Guichon Creek, which runs through the Burnaby campus of BCIT, where

Angelo used to run the school’s wildlife management program.

“We’ve made great headway over the years in terms of restoring what was once a dead stream and bringing this creek back to life,” Angelo said.

“Over time, we’ve worked on a number of sections, including the lower stretch north of Canada Way, as well as the middle section that runs through the eastern half of BCIT to where it reaches the Deer Lake Connector, and then the upper reaches west of Willingdon. After working to restore and clean up the creek, we then got to a point where we were able to re-establish a significant

trout population throughout the creek, while also re-establishing a significant chum salmon run in the lower creek.That success also highlighted the importance of restoring stream connectivity so that fish of all species could move freely up and down the creek, something that we had long wanted to achieve.”

In 2020, a group of BCIT students built a new wetland area for wildlife of all types near Guichon Creek.The newly built wetland is on the south end of the BCIT campus, near Guichon Creek.

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A Burnaby woman is helping War Amps key tag service celebrate 75 years of returning lost keys to their owners.

Donations to the key tag service provide vital support to amputees across the country including Carla Marino, 21.

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Entertainmentnow ‘Carbershop’ keeps music alive through COVID Vancouver Thunderbirds are using technology to keep singing as a group – safely – during pandemic Julie MacLellan

jmaclellan@burnabynow.com

When you sing in a barbershop chorus, harmony is everything.

And that means there’s just no substitute for singing live, together, in person.

So when the Vancouver Thunderbirds, like choirs around the country, found themselves unable to gather in the face of COVID-19, they looked for alternatives.

They started with rehearsals on the ubiquitous Zoom meeting platform.

You can only do so much in Zoom

But, as anyone who’s tried to sing so much as “happy birthday” in a virtual group knows, such platforms have an inherent time lag. Rehearsals mean each singer staying muted and singing along to learning tracks, visible but unable to hear each other.

“You can only do so much in Zoom,” noted Jeff Gogol, the chorus’s

music vice-president.

Searching for more ideas for safe singing together, the group came across an idea from the North American Barbershop Harmony Society: parking lot rehearsals.

With the so-called “carbershop” rehearsals, singers remain safely in their vehicles, gathered in a semi-circle in a parking lot. Each singer gets a microphone that feeds to a central mixing board and then transmits over FM radio to the gathered cars.

The director is the only one who remains outside, leading the singers from front and centre while chorus members sing from the safety of their cars.

There’s no time lag, and everyone can hear the entire group, allowing them to adjust to each other’s voices just as they would during an in-person rehearsal.

“It’s a good way to actually harmonize but still follow medical health officer’s orders,” Gogol said.

“It’s amazing.To actually listen and actually get to harmonize with it, it’s so much better than just the learning tracks.”

The group has been

PARKING LOT HARMONY: It’s not your typical choir rehearsal, but with microphones, a mixing board and an FM transmitter, set up in the Riverway Sports Complex parking lot, the Vancouver Thunderbirds have figured out a way to make ‘carbershop’ harmony happen during the pandemic. Singers take part from the safety of their individual cars (below). PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER holding its weekend car rehearsals, when weather and scheduling permit, at Burnaby’s Riverway Sports Complex, which has an appropriately large parking lot.

Rehearsals got off to a slow start with a run of

In harmony: Microphones, a mixing board and an FM transmitter allow all the singers to stay safely in their cars and still hear each other in real time. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

bad weather following the kickoff of the parking lot practices in November, but momentum has been building since.

Each time, they’ve been able to get a minimum of 20 singers out, with voices from across the choir – basses, baritones, leads and even a tenor or two – to make for a balanced sound.

The technical equipment has also come in handy for other, smaller rehearsals; one of the group’s quartets has been using it for their own Tuesday afternoon sessions.

Now that the weather’s getting nicer, the chorus is hoping to be able to practise more regularly on Sunday afternoons, and it’s also eyeing the parking lot at the Kensington arena for some Wednesday night sessions to supplement its current Zoom evenings.

Those Wednesday Zoom sessions now are devoted to not just learn-

ing new songs but also presentations and workshops on vocal technique and music theory – covering topics such as breath control, how to look after your voice, time and key signatures, and the circle of fifths.

That offers extra learning opportunities for chorus members, Gogol noted, even above and beyond what they would normally be able to cover during in-person rehearsals.

The Thunderbirds are hoping to get back to reg-

ular in-person singing as soon as they can, but Gogol noted that won’t happen at least until everyone has been vaccinated and life has returned to a more normal state.

In the meantime, parking lot carbershop gives them a chance to connect and keep on making the music they all love.

“Just keeping the chorus together has been great,” Gogol said.

For more about the chorus, see www.thunder birdchorus.ca.

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In the case of Pfizer, that’s a three-week delay, while Moderna dictates a four-week gap between doses, and Oxford-AstraZeneca recommends waiting between four to 12 weeks for a second shot.

Medical experts say emerging research suggests many cancer patients have a reduced immune response to the vaccine, so a single COVID-19 shot may leave them insufficiently protected.

“We’re not asking for special treatment. We’re just asking for equality,” said Martinson, 37.

“In order for us to get the same efficacy as everyone else with one vaccine, unfortunately, we do need two vaccines.”

There are patients like her in many parts of the country, say advocates, who are calling for a national policy to exempt people with cancer from extended dose delays.

Earlier this month, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization affirmed its recommendation that a second dose be delayed as long as four months in order to offer more people a first dose faster.

NACI left it to provinces and territories to decide if exemptions should be made for highrisk groups.

Some provinces, such as Ontario and Alberta, chose to prioritize some people with weakened immune systems, including certain cancer patients. But elsewhere, including British Columbia and Quebec, the four-month interval applies across the board.

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“If we have something on a national level, then that will help for that trickle-down effect to be able to implement it and roll it out in the various health units,” said Crosbie.

Dr. Keith Stewart, director of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, says people with cancer often have weakened immune systems, both because of the disease itself and the treatments for it.

Blood cancers, in particular, often impair the immune system. Solid tumors, such as those in colon cancer or lung cancer, are often treated with therapies that destroy cancer cells, but can also damage the healthy cells involved in the body’s immune response.

COVID-19 vaccines trigger the body’s immune response to produce antibodies that help fight off infection. But in cancer patients, that response will be diminished, says Stewart.

“Not enough cancer patients response to the first dose to be comfortable leaving them without the second,” he said. “Even with the second dose, protection will be suboptimal.

But any protection is better than none.”

Researchers in London published a paper

Elya Martinson of Kelowna, B.C., shown in this handout image, has stage 4 lung cancer.

She says her second vaccine shot will be delayed four months. The Canadian Press / Vibrant Okanagan Photography in the Lancet this week suggesting a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine leaves many cancer patients partially or mostly unprotected, based on data collected from 151 cancer patients and 54 healthy controls.

Three weeks after receiving one shot of Pfizer, the study found an immune response in 38 per cent of people with solid cancer, and 18 per cent of patients with blood cancer.

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A Health Canada spokesman says there’s little data on the issue because cancer patients were excluded from clinical trials.

And early data suggesting a reduced immune response in some cancer patients does not necessarily indicate the level of real-world protection they’d have against COVID-19, Eric Morrissette said on Wednesday in an email.

NACI will continue to monitor the evidence about the effectiveness of vaccines in high-risk groups and adjust its recommendations if needed, he added.

On Wednesday, a coalition of cancer advocacy groups published an open letter in the Globe and Mail calling on all levels of government to ensure Canadians with cancer aren’t put at risk because of a delayed dose.

The executive director of Myeloma Canada, which was one of more than a dozen signatories of the letter, says anxiety over second doses has prompted some cancer patients to delay treatments that may impact the effectiveness of the vaccine.

“Because of COVID, many cancer patients have had their diagnosis or treatment delayed, which is a very stressful experience,” said Martine Elias.

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