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TREE ARREST: RCMP members in tactical gear moved in Wednesday morning to remove Trans Mountain protesters who have been occupying trees in the path of the pipeline on land west of North Road and south of Highway 1 in Burnaby. RCMP read out to the people in the trees a court injunction barring anyone from blocking the path of pipeline work. The NOW was at the scene and witnessed officers using a lift bucket to reach people in the trees. By the NOW’s press deadline, one protester – known as Big Bird – came down the tree on his own. He was then taken away by police. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

Tips sought after man shot outside of ice rink

Burnaby RCMP officers are looking for tips from the community as they investigate a shooting that left a victim with nonlife-threatening injuries. On Saturday, Sept. 18, at approximately 4:30

p.m., Burnaby RCMP received a report of possible shots fired in the area of Sprott Street and Norland Avenue. It was reported that the suspect fled the area in a dark-coloured SUV.

Officers responded and located a 33-year-old man in the parking lot of the Scotia Barn ice rink with what was believed to be a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. The man was trans-

ported to hospital. Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed this incident or potentially have dash-cam video in the area of Sprott Street and Norland Avenue between 4 and 5 p.m.

to contact the Burnaby RCMP at 604-646-9999. “It is unsettling to see such blatant disregard for public safety,” said Cpl. Mike Kalanj of the Burnaby RCMP, in a statement. “At this time, inves-

tigators do not believed this incident is related to the Lower Mainland gang conflict. Our officers are working diligently to identify and locate the people or person responsible.”

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Citynow ELECTION

Beech returning for his third term as MP Stories by Jess Balzer

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Terry Beech is returning for his third term as MP in Burnaby North-Seymour. Beech finished Monday night with approximately 39.3% of the vote, compared to second-place finisher Jim Hanson of the NDP with 29.2%. “I’m never expecting anything,” Beech told the NOW Monday night. “I always go into elections trying to work as hard as I can and kind of letting the chips fall where they may, but I feel very humbled to have such strong support in Burnaby and North Vancouver. “Tomorrow I’m going to make sure that, you know there’s still a lot of work to do and we have a lot of stuff we have to do in the community, but I’m excited to get back to work first thing tomorrow.” While Justin Trudeau

didn’t get a majority government as he had hoped, Beech said he likes the opportunity to work with those in Parliament from all parties in a minority government. “I’ve always enjoyed the minority setting,” he said. “The Liberal party doesn’t have a monopoly on good ideas and I appreciate the opportunity to work with all parties. “I would say we shouldn’t be naive about minority governments. All of the other parties did vote for non-confidence in the last year or so, which is basically a vote to have an election, and of course, we got our COVID supports through on the last sitting day of parliament and there were several bills that were held up. I think this is a new mandate to end the COVID pandemic and to follow the Liberal vision to implement programs like child care and I look for-

Trudeau boost: Terry Beech got a last-minute visit from Justin Trudeau at 11 p.m. on Sunday night at his Hastings Street campaign office. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

ward to working with people all across the aisle to implement those changes.” Similar to Justin Trudeau’s comments saying he and the Liberals

will work for every single person, acknowledging those who did not vote for him, Beech echoed a similar statement for those in Burnaby and North Van-

couver that did not cast their ballot for him at the polls. “In terms of a difference between this time and the last times, I really have fo-

cused on building individual relationships with people in our community and I appreciate all the people that came out and supported me. “But I’m also going to make sure to take that extra effort, I really want to reach out to the people that didn’t support me, to find out what their priorities are because I’m a Liberal when it comes to the election, absolutely and I think it’s the best plan for our country, but I represent everyone and so I’m very looking forward to sitting down with the other candidates and discussing their priorities, but I also want to invite everybody in our community who may not have supported me this time to reach out to me because I want to make sure I’m a voice for everyone in our community.”

Singh says he feels secure as leader despite small gains Jagmeet Singh will once again represent Burnaby South in Ottawa after being the projected winner in the riding in Monday’s federal election. According to preliminary numbers from Elections Canada, the NDP leader garnered 39.8% of the overall vote while receiving 15,041 votes overall. Liberal candidate Brea Sami is in second place after receiving 11,560 votes and 30.6% of the overall vote. Singh met with reporters in Vancouver this morning (Sept. 21) to discuss the party’s performance during the election that saw Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada secure another minority government. “Yesterday (Sept. 20), I talked about [how] I wanted Canadians to make sure Canadians

Campaign stop: Jagmeet Singh finished up his campaign in Burnaby on Sunday as he met with supporters. PHOTO CANADIAN PRESS

knew we’re going to keep fighting for them and I wanted that to be really clear, that we’re going to keep fighting for the things that people need,” he said. “We heard a lot of things

over this campaign.There are a lot of needs out there and we’re going to keep on fighting for people and I wanted that to be really clear.” As of publication, the

NDP has only gained one more seat from the 2019 election, where they finished with 24. Despite not seeing a larger increase, Singh said he was happy with how his

campaign was run and what the party was able to accomplish. “I’m really proud that we were able to use the resources and time that we had to hear from people and more importantly, to share their stories,” he explained. “The fact that we were able to take a national campaign and highlight the plight of a lot of people.We were able to talk to people in Alberta, who are right now at the brink. We met ICU nurses that were in tears about how horrible things are in health care because of cuts to health care and how important it is for us to fight for health care, to fight for those workers, to fight for people so that they can get the care they need. “I’m proud that we were able to run a campaign that lifted up peo-

ple from coast to coast to coast.We were able to share stories and to fight for what people care about and to hear from them.That’s something I’ll never regret.” As any leader of a political party that failed to be successful during an election, Singh was asked about his future as leader of the party, specifically if he felt secure in his leadership. He had a simple answer: “Yes.” He said he and Trudeau spoke after the initial results came in. “I let him [Trudeau] know as always when it comes to helping out people, we’re going to be there,” Singh said. “If it’s something that’s going to help people out, make people’s lives better, we will not hesitate to provide support to get things done.”

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

TUESDAY, 2021 SEPTEMBER 28 AT 5PM Via a virtual environment to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendment to “Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965”.

ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 21, 2021 - Bylaw No. 14367

Rez. #18-31 6540 Marlborough Avenue From: RM3 Multiple Family Residential District To: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM4s Multiple Family Residential District, RM4r Multiple Family Residential District, and Metrotown Downtown Plan as guidelines, and in accordance with the development plan entitled ”6540 Marlborough Avenue, Suitable Plan of Development” prepared by IBI Group) Purpose: to permit the construction of a single 22-storey high-rise residential building, comprised of market strata, market rental, and non-market rental units Applicant: IBI Group Architects Reports, bylaws, and related information respecting the zoning bylaw amendments are available on the City’s website at burnaby.ca/publichearings from 2021 September 16. 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. CITY CLERK

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in accordance with Ministerial Order No. M192/2020 and the Class Order (mass gatherings), the Public Hearing will be conducted virtually and live-streamed on the City’s website. Anyone who believes they are affected by a proposed bylaw shall be given a reasonable opportunity to be heard.

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PREMISES AT DEER LAKE CENTRE AVAILABLE FOR LEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT certain premises in the buildings owned by the City of Burnaby commonly known as Deer Lake Centre located at 4946 Canada Way and 4940 Canada Way, and legally described as PID: 002-805-677, Lot 52 DL 79, Plan 57774 and PID: 003-062-104, Lot 58, DL 79, Plan 62907, respectively, are available to the public for lease, with the lease rate and term to be negotiated. For lease inquiries, please contact the City’s leasing agent, Avison Young, at 604-647-5074 or 604-647-5076.

Burnaby City Council is looking for volunteers to serve on the: Board of Variance - Community Heritage Commission Environment Committee - Public Library Board Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission Committee volunteers work together with Burnaby councillors, business leaders and community members to advise Council on important issues, ensuring that Burnaby continues to be a great place to live, work, learn and play.

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2021 ANNUAL TAX SALE The Local Government Act Sec. 645(1) states “At 10am on the last Monday in September, at the council chambers, the collector must conduct the annual tax sale by offering for sale by public auction each parcel of real property on which taxes are delinquent.” Prospective bidders are advised that it is their responsibility to search the title in advance to determine if there are any charges against the property. All properties are sold as is. The City of Burnaby makes no representation expressed or implied as to the condition or quality of the properties being sold. All bidders are to be present at time of bidding and pre-register to be eligible to bid at the auction. Due to COVID-19 protocols, registration will start at 9am outside City Hall and bidders must have Photo ID, Social Insurance Number and must have in their possession certiﬁed funds at the time of registration. City Hall is currently closed to the general public, so only registered bidders will be allowed inside the building. Friends and family of registered bidders won’t be allowed inside City Hall. Please note that social distancing and maximum gathering requirements will be in place. Once capacity is reached, additional entry into the auction will not be allowed. Attendees should follow the directional signage and sit only in designated areas.

The minimum bid is the upset price, that is, the current taxes and penalties, arrears and delinquent taxes and interest, 5% tax sale costs and Land Title Office transfer fees. Upon completion of each sale, the successful bidder must make payment for the full bid amount immediately before the auction continues to the next property. Acceptable forms of payment are: certiﬁed cheque and bank draft. Cash, personal cheque, debit and credit cards are not accepted. If the successful bidder does not have the full payment required, the property will be put back into the auction. Properties sold at tax sale have a redemption period of one year from the date of the tax sale by the property owner. Properties not redeemed are subject to Property Transfer Tax, by the purchaser, under the Property Purchase Tax Act. This tax will be calculated on the market value of the property at the time the title is transferred to the purchaser at the Land Title Office. TAKE NOTICE that the following properties shall, on the 27th day of September 2021, in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC at the hours of 10am be offered for sale at the public auction, unless delinquent taxes with interest are paid by September 24, 2021.

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115 5715 JERSEY AVE

001-263-463

LT 57/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

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001-602-152

LT 77/ DL 15/56/148/ / PL NWS962

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001-263-480

LT 58/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

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027-910-091

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202 5715 JERSEY AVE

001-263-714

LT 75/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

7989 GOVERNMENT RD

003-396-151

LT 38/ DL 58/ / PL NWP26942

2102 2355 MADISON AVE

026-974-801

LT 284/ DL 119/ / PL BCS2196

111 3925 KINGSWAY

001-262-998

LT 7/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

402 6282 KATHLEEN AVE

005-702-852

LT 14/ DL 151/ / PL NWS2497

115 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-013

LT 10/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

2502 2077 ROSSER AVE

029-040-949

LT 147/ DL 119/ / PL EPS809

117 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-030

LT 12/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

5205 6461 TELFORD AVE

029-342-422

LT 287/ DL 153/ / PL EPS1239

216 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-200

LT 29/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

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029-363-403

LT 177/ DL 153/ / PL EPS2219

217 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-218

LT 30/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

807 6538 NELSON AVE

030-158-729

LT 51/ DL 152/ / PL EPS4147

301 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-404

LT 51/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

207 7368 ROYAL OAK AVE

015-075-257

LT 17 DL 98 PL NWS3099

302 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-421

LT 52/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

1250 SPERLING AVE

003-321-495

LT 3/ DL 132/ / PL NWP19650

305 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-285

LT 37/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

1401 7388 SANDBORNE AVE

025-476-505

LT 207/ DL 171/ / PL BCS40

312 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-340

LT 44/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

1750 CLIFF AVE

002-952-921

LT 177/ DL 135/ / PL NWP29158

316 3925 KINGSWAY

001-263-374

LT 47/ DL 34/ / PL NWS289

PH16 7383 GRIFFITHS DR

024-793-809

LT 60/ DL 96/ / PL LMS4178

3203 4688 KINGSWAY

029-661-366

LT 217/ DL 153/ / PL EPS2739

49 7520 18TH ST

017-625-203

LT 49/ DL 53 & 95/ / PL LMS248

509 4885 KINGSWAY

024-064-777

LT 156/ DL 32/ / PL LMS3131

304 9288 UNIVERSITY CRES

026-111-471

LT 66/ DL 102/ / PL BCS1046

510 4885 KINGSWAY

024-064-785

LT 157/ DL 32/ / PL LMS3131

216 9319 UNIVERSITY CRES

026-219-921

LT 140/ DL 102/ / PL BCS1013

8816 ROBINS CRT

005-103-819

LT 59/ DL 148/ / PL NWS2350

2808 4670 ASSEMBLY WAY

030-574-293

LT 200 DL 153 PL EPS4857

708 4134 MAYWOOD ST

001-882-104

LT 52/ DL 151/ / PL NWS2265

304 5889 IRMIN ST

027-999-645

LT 57/ DL 97/ / PL BCS3540

5655 PATRICK ST

002-798-689

LT 20/ DL 159/ BLK 10/ / PL NWP11705

7572 18TH AVE

026-412-624

LT 1/ DL 30/ / PL BCS1496

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Opinion now

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Action needed to prevent heat deaths

Our summer is drawing to a close, which means it is time to prepare for the next one. And by that, I mean governments at all levels must assume that next summer will see significant heat levels and wildfires. Premier John Horgan has already announced his government will be more proactive before next year’s wildfire season arrives. Presumably that will mean more prescribed burns and other steps that will remove as much fuel as possible from forest floors. Last week, municipal officials and health officers were at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention on a panel addressing some of the lessons learned from this summer’s unprecedented “heat dome” weather event. Even though Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe’s office has yet to release its investigative report on the more than 800 deaths attributed to the heat, the panel provided some fascinating information. For example, Dr. Sarah Henderson of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control provided statistics that showed the highest death rate occurred among people living alone and aged 50 to 75. A disproportionately high number resided in New Westminster, Burnaby or Vancouver. The mortality rate in Fraser Health was 150% higher than normal, while the rate on Vancouver Island, the Interior and the North was 40 to 65% higher than normal. No children died from the heat, and fewer elderly people died than many had assumed.The number of deaths amongst those aged 75 and over was 100% higher than normal, but the mortality rate amongst those aged 50 to 75 was 105 to 115% higher. By far the greatest number of deaths occurred in

homes.The number of people who died at home was 205% higher than normal, while deaths in hospitals were 35% higher than usual and in longterm care, home deaths were 30% higher. The widespread lack of air conditioning and older apartment dwellings contributed to the high number of fatalities. In addition, the fact those temperatures did not drop at night – particularly on June 28, the peak of the heat dome – left many people vulnerable. Two municipal officials on the panel – including New Westminster Coun. Patrick Johnstone – said planning must be done ahead of next summer in case we experience more intense heat. The climate change crisis has turned what had been considered a onein-1,000 year event to something that will likely occur more regularly. They suggested creating more green space, keeping cooling centres open 24 hours a day and improving ways of checking on people in their homes, particularly people who live alone. Dr. Bonnie Henry, who was also on the panel, pointed out British Columbians had never experienced such high and sustained levels of heat, and that contributed to some of the communications challenges that emerged. We have had deadly heat waves in the past.The previous record was in 2009 when about 110 people in the Lower Mainland died from heat-attributable causes.The temperatures in this summer’s heat dome were at least five degrees higher than ever experienced before. Welcome to what could be the new normal for B.C. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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Editor: I would like to share my thoughts about not having to show vaccination proof when using the pool. When I heard that, after Sept. 3, there were no more safety regulations such as crowd sizes put into effect for swimming, I opted to stay away until Sept. 13 when the vaccine mandate came into effect. As I am 60 and my mother 89, with various comorbidities, I am very cautious and was hopeful about the vaccine requirements coming into effect. When I entered the community centre (Edmonds), I was told no vaccine requirements were needed for swimming. This really made me uncomfortable. I understand that a pool area is generally better ventilated than a small room used for exercise, but I don’t understand the lack of consistency of thought for protection. The change rooms and showers are all places that are needed after swimming. With no size control of participants, the shower and change rooms get increasingly crowded throughout the day. No one will be policing that everyone is wearing a mask or social distancing. Why swimmers are not afforded the same protection as someone doing a Zumba class or using the exercise equipment? Annette Davies, Burnaby

Editor: Re: Residents sign petition opposing Bainbridge urban village plan, NOW News I am extremely disappointed to find out some Government Road-area residents tried to petition the City of Burnaby to shut down discussions on the Bainbridge East development plan. I am a longtime resident in the Bainbridge East area, and I strongly support the city’s proposal. Their petition letter indicated there is widespread opposition to the proposed plan, but most of my neighbours within the Bainbridge East area have not even heard about the survey by the Government Road-area residents until it was published by the Burnaby NOW. I can only assume their survey included mostly residents from the Government Roadarea, instead of the Bainbridge East-area. The city’s development proposal for the Bainbridge East area is a good plan. It provides housing affordability, inclusiveness and a smooth transition with the rest of the community. The proposed plan will introduce affordable family-friendly housing to the neighbourhood that is desperately needed for the community. It will be an absolute shame to get shot down because of some neighbouring residents’ NIMBY attitude. James Ong, Burnaby

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ject of a number of public complaints and had been in the area on a “daily or weekly basis” before the stabbing.

Police got a call from the victim, a 50-year-old man, just before 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, according to Burnaby RCMP spokes-

person Cpl. Mike Kalanj. The man said he’d been stabbed in the stomach by a stranger near the Metrotown bus loop, Kalanj said. He was taken to hospital by ambulance and released later that day. “Police have obtained surveillance video in the area and continue to investigate,” Kalanj told the NOW. “The suspect has not been identified and there is no known motive at this time.” On social media, people who said they live in the neighbourhood and use the bus loop and SkyTrain station regularly, said the victim was a street preacher who comes to the area frequently, preaching loudly at passersby and carrying a placard with religious messages. Numerous online posts dating back at least three

years complained the man was rude and his preaching was often sexually explicit, homophobic and offensive. In one photo posted online, he is carrying a sign that states “Gay sex: Immoral & wasteful. God forbids and destroyed those who persistently do it.” One online post said the man’s placard had been “left alone and isolated with fencing” at the scene of the stabbing. When asked if the victim of the stabbing was the street preacher, Kalanj said the detachment doesn’t “normally talk about victims.” “I can confirm that it is a person that is in that area on a daily or weekly basis,” he said. The victim has also been the “subject of complaints,” according to Kalanj.

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Julian cruises to victory in New Westminster-Burnaby Theresa McManus

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Peter Julian cruised to victory to reclaim his role as the member of Parliament for New Westminster-Burnaby. With 186 of 189 polls reporting, Julian had 21,230 (47.8%) of the votes in New Westminster-Burnaby. Liberal candidate Rozina Jaffer was second at 10,596 (23.9%), Conservative candidate Paige Munro was third at 8,942 (20.1%), Green candidate David Macdonald was fourth with 1,860 (4.2%) and People’s Party of Canada candidate Kevin Heide was fifth with 1,764 (4.0%). Despite having a sub-

stantial lead over his challengers, the NDP incumbent said he never takes the support of the voters in New Westminster-Burnaby for granted. He pledged to continue working as hard as he can on their behalf. “I consider them my bosses. I work as hard as I can to keep their trust,” Julian said. “It looks like we (NDP) see an increase in support from the last election; I am gratified by that.” In 2019, the Liberals formed a minority government after winning 157 seats in the House of Commons, topping the Conservatives (121), the Bloc (32), the NDP (24) and the Greens (two). Results of Monday’s elec-

tion are still being finalized, but as of the Record’s presstime the Liberals were leading or had won 158 seats, followed by the Conservatives (119), the Bloc (34), the NDP (25) and the Greens (two). “What I was hearing on the doorsteps in New Westminster-Burnaby is that people saw this election as completely unnecessary and even detrimental.The results, I think, kind of show that.The NDP is the only party only to really gain seats while all the other parties seem to be losing seats,” he told the Record on Monday night. “We will be getting the final results, I guess, in a day or two; there are still a lot of close

Team Orange: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh speaks with New WestBurnaby MP Peter Julian during the final day of the campaign in Burnaby on Sunday. PHOTO ADRIAN WYLD/CANADIAN PRESS

races.” Julian believes people appreciated the work the NDP did in a “pandemic Parliament” and its efforts to fight for programs such

as the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit, paid sick leave, rent subsidy and wage subsidies, and supports for students, seniors and people with

disabilities. “We will continue to fight for people.The dynamic will not change for us,” he said. “We are going to be relentlessly focused on providing supports to people.We now have a bigger contingent of MPs in order to do that.” While the results raise questions about why Justin Trudeau called an election in the first place, Julian said the results do speak well of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. “He’s galvanized younger people, attracted them to the party in a way that we haven’t seen before,” he said. “Very clearly for those under 35, the NDP was leading in the polls.”

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“For this we paid $600 million?” That’s the question posed by New Westminster-Burnaby Green candidate David Macdonald about Monday night’s federal election results, which suggest the political landscape in Ottawa isn’t going to be all that different than it was before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a snap election. “A campaign during the fourth wave of the pan-

demic was never going to go as well as it should – for any party,” Macdonald said in an email to the Record. “I refused to allow any door-to-door canvassing by volunteers because I could not have lived with myself had a single volunteer or a single voter contracted the Delta variant as a result of a chat on the doorstep.” With mail-in ballots still being tabulated as of the Record’s presstime, the final breakdown of seats in the House of Commons is yet to be finalized.

Currently, the Liberals sit on top with enough seats (158) for form a minority government, followed by the Conservatives (119), the Bloc (45), the NDP (25) and the Greens (2).That’s not all that different than the results of the 2019 federal election, when the Liberals won 157 seats in the House of Commons, topping the Conservatives (121), the Bloc (32), the NDP (24) and the Greens (two). “Basically it’s very similar to the composi-

tion of Parliament before Mr.Trudeau called the election,” said incumbent NDP MP Peter Julian, who was re-elected in New Westminster-Burnaby. “It begs the question: why did he call an election in the middle of a pandemic?” Macdonald said the two seats won by the Greens aren’t the five he’d hoped the party would have in the House of Commons, but he’s confident they will serve Canadians well. “This is by no means the end of the GPC,” he

said. “Do we need electoral reform? Ask the Conservatives, who won the popular vote but got fewer seats than the Liberals.” Liberal candidate Rozina Jaffer placed second in the local race with about 23.9% of the vote. “It looks like we are about similar to what we were when we went into this election,” she said of the national results. “I think all of the parties have to have learned a lesson. I think they all have to work together a little bit

more with a little more efficiency. I think that’s the important thing right now. What we are learning is that the parties need to learn to work together.” In calling the 44th federal election,Trudeau had hoped the Liberals would win enough seats to form a majority government. “I take things as they come. I am sure there was always a lot of hope that we would win a majority, but I don’t necessarily look at it that way,” Jaffer said. “For me, it is what it is.”

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A Burnaby woman and some of her family members are being sued for allegedly defrauding aVancouver businesswoman of $260,000 through a “sham” consulting company for getting around currency controls in the People’s Republic of China. In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, SarahWu says she was introduced to Burnaby residentWeihua Xiao in December 2019 by a mutual acquaintance who knewWu was looking to exchange and transfer the equivalent of about $20,000 out of China. China limits the export of currency to $50,000 US per year, andWu says Xiao told her she knew about “several loopholes” to get around those limits. Wu says Xiao told her she would have to transfer her funds to bank accounts controlled either by Xiao, her parents-inlaw or others at their behest, and the funds would then be paid to her in Canadian or U.S. dollars minus Xiao’s fee. Wu claims Xiao told her there was “no risk of loss” and Xiao agreed to be personally liable for the repayment ofWu’s funds in full. After two successful transactions involving smaller sums in December 2019 and October 2020, however,Wu says she transferred another 1,340,000 Chinese Renminbi (currently worth about $264,000) in October 2020 and Xiao failed to repay her. Wu says Xiao then disavowed the deal. Wu is now suing for the Canadian equivalent of the Chinese funds, an injunction to prevent Xiao and her family members from selling off assets before the lawsuit is settled,

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The provincial government is suing to keep thousands of dollars in cash and a diamond ring seized from the Burnaby home of two murdered gangsters’ parents. On Aug. 7, 2018,Vancouver police officers executed a search warrant at 3845 Fir St. and seized $22,300.05 in cash and a diamond ring, according to a notice of civil claim filed by the province’s di-

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Community now Rare sunﬂower a tribute to a mother’s love Cornelia Naylor

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It’s fall and that time of year when local newspapers get calls about all manner of giant vegetables and weird plants growing in people’s gardens. I answered a call like that last week. “I have something in my garden, a flower, I want to talk about,” a man said enigmatically in a voicemail. He said it was a thing that hadn’t happened “for years and years.” So when I called him back and found out it was a sunflower with “triplets,” I was underwhelmed. I thought he meant the sunflower had three heads, which isn’t all that unusual.What he had turned out to be a little rarer – a very tall sunflower with what looked like conjoined-triplets for a head. But the flower wasn’t the story anyway. The story was the man’s love for his mother. Samiha El-Ezzi was the rock of her family, according to 57-year-old Khaled

Ezzo, one of her 13 children. When he was a boy in 1980s civil-war-torn Lebanon, he remembers bombs dropping near his home and his mother moving all the mattresses so the family could all sleep together in the safest place in the house in case it got hit. Later, as a refugee in Canada in the early 1990s, she didn’t have the financial means to bring over all her children, some of whom had been scattered by the war. (Ezzo had spent eight months alone in a refugee camp in Germany when he was just 15.) But she pleaded with the authorities until she got her way. “When she come to Canada, she like the peace,” he said. “She start to say, ‘I want you all here one by one.’ She got us all here.” In her new country, she kept the family together – cooking, resolving family disputes, dispensing wisdom. For the last seven years, she lived practically next

door to Ezzo’s Arcola Street home and would walk over almost every day for tea in the backyard, he said. His brothers and their families would drop by too, filling the yard with some of the family’s 32 Canadian-born kids. “They all come with their mom and dad to see grandma.We have big, big meeting every day,” Ezzo said. “This is where she like to be.” When his mother died in April 2019, Ezzo was “destroyed.”Then his father died of COVID-19 in December 2020. “My life collapsed,” he said. The big family gatherings shrank to the occasional visit from a brother here and there. Looking for a way to honour their mother, Ezzo and his brothers created a memorial site for her near the corner where she used to sit and drink her tea with her children and grandchildren. The yard was pretty bare then, according to Ezzo; even the grass was

For his mother: Khaled Ezzo examines a strangely shaped sunflower that sprang from a few seeds he planted beside his Arcola Street home earlier this year. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

patchy, so he decided to plant a fig tree and some roses near the granite stone engraved with her name. Ezzo had never wanted to be a “garden guy,” but those first few plants sent his life on a new course. Over the last two years, gardening has become a passion and a way to deal with his loss.

“The gardening relieve my pain,” he said. “I work half an hour. I never think, never stress, never pain. I feel like I’m somewhere else. I’m newborn.” The front- and backyards are now dotted with flowers, bushes and trees, some acquired through purchase and some donated by other gardeners with plants that have

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I wrote my first column for the Burnaby NOW 30 years ago this month! I recognized that there was a lot of confusion and misinformation in medicine.Yet there was no shortage of people providing unqualified medical advice. The average person also needed help in demystifying medical terminology,

emotional health. My goal remains to provide readers with the practical, evidence-based information they need to maintain their own health. When medical advice came from friends, relatives and hairdressers, it was always well-intended. There was considerably more incorrect, incomplete and biased information coming from the media, primarily radio and television, and to a lesser

extent the internet. Can you really trust a full-page newspaper ad promising a cure for your back pain or a TV celebrity promoting their own products? With the explosion of social media over the past two decades, and pandemic confusion over the past two years, the situation is even worse. No wonder friends and families are divided by heated debates about masks, vaccines and public health guidelines.

What do you need to make the right decisions for your personal health? I’ve drawn up a list. Ð Recognize that medical science – as with all areas of knowledge – is evolving and growing. Nearly all of the treatments I was taught in medical school for specific conditions have changed.That’s why physicians are always keeping up with journals and require continuing medical education. But the evidence for new treatments and procedures requires rigorous study to confirm safety and effectiveness. Because of growing knowledge and changing conditions throughout the pandemic, the recommended advice for managing COVID-19 has evolved over the past two years. Ð Consider the source. Are the opinions from others unbiased and really based

on solid scientific evidence? If so, they should be open to new information as it arises and be amenable to change. Ð Keep an open mind. One of the keys to mental health is the growth mindset, the recognition that we can learn and grow in a positive way over time. Likewise, with our world views in a larger sense, we should be open to revising and updating our ideas about life and society with experience. With how social media functions to silo all of us into tribes of opposing world views, all of us can get cognitively trapped in an echo chamber.We keep seeing more of what we believe and this strengthens our resolve. A clue that we might be stuck: hearing opposing information just makes us angry.

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Artsnow Burnaby artist a ﬁnalist for Salt Spring prize Julie MacLellan

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Michelle Sound’s childhood memories are filled with aunties: her older sisters, her aunts, her cousins. The Burnaby artist remembers the groups of young women who would come over to see her sisters and how, as a preteen, she would watch them get ready to go out for a night on the town. She remembers breathing in the scent of their Obsession Calvin Klein, envying their makeup and their fringed jackets. “I vividly remember them having all their friends over and being really loud and giggly and just getting ready to hang out,” Sound recalls with an affectionate laugh. “It seemed as glamorous to me as Vogue magazine.” Those memories from the late ’80s and early ’90s surfaced for Sound in her art – in the form of a series of unplayable drums pay-

ing tribute to the “auntie culture” of her Indigenous family, with leather jackets, neon fur, denim and animal prints stretched across drum frames. That series, NDN Aunties, has earned her a nod as a finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize. Sound, who lives near Deer Lake, is Cree and Métis, a member of the Wapsewsipi Swan River First Nation in Northern Alberta. She grew up in EastVan, raised by her birth mother’s sister. “I had personally always grown up being told your aunties are like your mothers; you’re supposed to listen to them and have the same sort of respect as for your moms,” she says. Her NDN Aunties work grew out of a previous series of drums featuring rabbit fur, which were inspired by her kokum (grandma) and her greatgrandmother, who ran traplines and supported their families with the food and furs they caught.

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Sound decided she wanted to do a similar series of drums to honour her aunties. “At first, I was thinking it was going to be jean jackets and rabbit fur,” she says. “It went in all these other directions – a fringed dress is one of them; metallic leather and all these really fun things.” She sources all her materials in thrift stores, with the help of her longtime companion in art – her 14-year-old son, Ethan. He’s been “helping” with her art since he was a toddler. Sound went back to school for her master’s degree in applied arts at Emily Carr University when Ethan was just two years old. In those days, he’d tag along to the studio with her and play or make art of his own. “Sometimes he used to draw right on top of my paintings when he was little. He’d draw right on top of my painting and think he was helping,” Sound says with a laugh. Now the two go thrifting a lot together, and Ethan has developed an eye for the kinds of late ‘80s and early ’90s fashions that inspire his mom’s work. “If something catches my eye and triggers a memory, I know this is a piece I need to buy and turn it into a drum,” says Sound, who works as an Indigenous advisor for Douglas College. For Sound, sharing the

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murdered Indigenous women.” She doesn’t downplay that reality; one of the aunties in her own family is one of those women. “I just want to remember them in a positive way. I think that’s why I wanted there to be so many drums,” she says, noting she’s created about 30 of them altogether. Looking back, Sound can see how much the realities of Indigenous women’s lives influenced her aunties’ behaviour. “It was never just my sister going out by herself; it was anywhere from five to 10 girls. It is this gang of them, in my mind.They were together as a group, and safe, and looking out

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