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Burnaby Hospital reached a new milestone on Monday (May 30) as construction began on its $1.4 billion redevelopment, with B.C. Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix on hand. The hospital, which turns 70 this year, has not been upgraded for more than 40 years. Horgan said despite the challenges of the past few years, Burnaby reflects a number of accomplishments. “In the past five years, we’ve had fires, we’ve had floods, we’ve had heat domes, atmospheric rivers, global pandemic,” Horgan said. “But through all of that, here in Burnaby, there has been resolve … that we would come out of this better and stronger than ever before.” By 2035, there will be an estimated 50 per cent increase in in-patients at the hospital and a 30 per cent increase in emergency department visits, Dix said. In the next 15 years, a 15-per-cent increase in the number of babies born at the hospital is expected. The new hospital facilities will include two patient-care towers with 399 beds by the end of the project, a larger emergency department and a new cancer treatment centre. Continued on page 4
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Lawsuit claims firms are responsible for delays, extra costs at $108-million Burnaby North replacement Cornelia Naylor
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The Burnaby school board is suing its lead consultant and structural engineer for extra costs and construction delays in the $108-million Burnaby North Secondary School replacement project. In a notice of civil claim filed in BC Supreme Court last week, the school board claims it has suffered damages at the hands of KMBR Architects Planners Inc. and Fast + Epp Structural Engineers Inc. because of negligence and breach of contract. Since construction began on the new 1,800-student school, the school board says it has gotten notice of claims from its prime builder,Yellowridge Construction Ltd., for delays and extra costs. The school board claims KMBR and Fast + Epp are responsible and should have to pay. KMBR signed an agreement with the school board in October 2018 to become the prime consultant on the project, according to the notice of civil claim. Under that contract, the company agreed to design
IN PROGRESS: Construction is underway at the future site of the new Burnaby North Secondary School PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
the building, co-ordinate the project and hire the necessary subconsultants, including a structural engineer, the claim says. DELAYS AND EXTRA COSTS The school board claims KMBR and the structural engineer it hired, Fast + Epp, broke that agreement in various ways, including failing to co-ordinate the design of the project, providing incorrect design details, failing to adequately mitigate design flaws when they came up, failing to ensure the constructability of various components, including the building’s tilt-up concrete panels, and providing slow, incorrect or
incomplete responses to requests for information, shop drawing approvals, design alterations, contemplated change orders, change directives and other contract administration. The project is still under construction, and Phase 1 will likely not be completed by the July 1 date set out in the construction contract, according to the notice of civil claim. “As a result of the delays caused and being caused by the failure of KMBR and Fast to perform their services in accordance with the skills, care and diligence of architects and structural engineers, as the case may be, designing and oversee-
ing the construction of a secondary school in Burnaby in the applicable timeframe, the plaintiff has suffered and continues to suffer damages.” The school board is suing for money it says it has had to pay toYellowridge for delays and extra costs and for any future money it ends up having to pay for those reasons. The board is also suing for the cost of experts and any mediation it has to pay for in relation to the construction contract as well as additional operational costs, inflationary costs and such other damages as lawyers advise it to pursue in the future. KMBR and Fast + Epp have not yet filed re-
sponses to the school board’s suit. None of the board’s allegations have been proven in court. SEISMIC UPGRADE Burnaby North Secondary’s replacement has been a long time coming. In 2004, all local schools built before 1992 were assessed to see how well they would stand up to “the big one” – a catastrophic quake predicted by geologists when pressure built up between the Juan de Fuca and North American tectonic plates for the last 300 years suddenly releases. Burnaby North’s entire campus was rated High 1, a designation assigned
to the “most vulnerable” structures at “highest risk of widespread damage or structural failure; not reparable after event.” In 2013, a month before a provincial election, then-BC Liberal premier Christy Clark announced $584 million in funding for seismic upgrades for 45 schools, including Burnaby North Secondary. North was listed for upgrades in 2014/15 in a press release that quoted Clark saying, “Absolutely nothing is more important than keeping our kids safe.” But it turned out the 2013 promise was an empty one. The district didn’t even get permission to develop a detailed business case for the Burnaby North project until March 2017, shortly before the BC Liberals lost power. When real funding for the project was announced in October 2018, education officials said the school would be ready for students in September 2021. That date has now been pushed back to January 2023, according to the school district.
Burnaby is falling short of its child-care targets: report Lauren Vanderdeen
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Burnaby is not meeting its goals for child care, according to a new city report. The city’s child-care action plan aims to create 4,412 new child-care spaces by 2030, or 440 new spaces a year. But in the last year, only 210 new spaces were created, as a report presented
to Burnaby’s social planning committee showed. While the number is higher than the average from 2015 to 2020 of 136 new spaces per year, it’s less than half of the action plan’s goal. “Ideally, we’re aiming for 440 spaces a year,” said Burnaby social planner Margaret Manifold while presenting the committee report. “And so, 210 [spaces] is frankly not
enough to meet our growing population.” From 2020 to 2021, seven new child-care centres opened, with an average of 30 spaces each. To reach Burnaby’s goal, 15 centres would need to open. There’s a particular need for child care for children under three, especially in northwest Burnaby, and for school-age children in the northwest
and southeast of the city. City staff are hoping to improve these numbers. Burnaby’s child-care action plan seeks to change the policy regarding community benefits supplied by developers: instead of developers providing cash contributions to childcare facilities, they could be required to build new, smaller centres in their new developments. In her presentation to
the committee, Manifold said she likes the idea of developers incorporating child care in their buildings, as it would mean people have the service close to home. The action plan also hopes to pursue new child-care spaces in future development proposals led by the city, as well as new non-market housing developments. Examples of that type
of child-care space include the upcoming centre in Stride Avenue Park, run by Burnaby Neighbourhood House, as well as the facility in the Christine Sinclair Community Centre. The report also recommends a new staff position dedicated to child-care policy be added to the 2023 city budget.
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Continued from page 1 Phase 1 of redevelopment includes a new sixstorey pavilion with 83 new beds, primarily single-patient rooms with a private bathroom. The pavilion will include a maternity unit and neonatal intensive care unit. A new 35-bed mental health and substance-use in-patient unit will also be located in the tower, and will include a five-bed unit for short-term in-patient care for patients in crisis. The first phase includes a new surgery centre, increasing beds from 72 to 82 and adding six new state-of-the-art operating rooms. Adding new beds to hospitals will not solve all the problems in the B.C. health-care system.
Fresh start: Premier John Horgan, centre, was among the dignitaries present to break ground on the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
When asked about province-wide hospital staffing shortages, the premier said they were a direct result of the pandemic and cited a need for increased federal funding. Horgan said, “The system is vibrant, but the sys-
tem is teetering and we need to support it.” Demolition on hospital grounds has been underway, but May 30 marks the first day of new construction. The first phase of construction is expected to be completed in 2026.
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They are now trying to retrace Kinkar’s movements on his last day and have released a photo and videos of him at a SkyTrain station. “Homicide detectives have determined that on the evening of May 26, Maanav Kinkar arrived at Surrey Central via SkyTrain and may have got onto a bus,” states the release. “IHIT is looking to speak to anyone who may have seen Maanav that evening.” The team is also looking for dashcam footage, CCTV or witnesses from the area around Hazelnut Meadows Park from about 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. last Thursday. “This is a quiet area with several residences surrounding the park along 140 Street, 68 Avenue, and 142 Street,”
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NDP has dug itself into a political hole
Shovels will not even be in the ground for more than three years, yet the BC NDP government already finds itself in a very deep hole when it comes to replacing the Royal B.C. Museum. The unveiling of the plans to build a new museum has to rank as one of the worst communication disasters of all time for a B.C. government and is certainly the biggest misstep by the NDP since taking power in 2017. For more than four years, the NDP administration had enjoyed fairly smooth sailing on all kinds of fronts. Controversies were relatively few and even those that occurred were not of a major, lasting sort. The pandemic provided cover of sorts, of course. It pushed other issues off the table and out of the public mind as society struggled to come to grips with the world being turned upside down. However, while we are still officially in the midst of the pandemic, political issues and government decisions are being seen in a bright new light, and right now that light is trained rather harshly at that $1 billion museum project. Let me examine the numerous problems associated with the project that have quickly arisen. First, there is the cost: almost $800 million for the museum (you can be sure the final bill will be much higher) and more than $200 million in related expenses. One of the government’s main points of defence is that the building is potentially unsafe in a major earthquake and needs replacing. That is a perfectly fine position, but here’s the rub: there are many schools and health facilities with even worse seismic issues, yet they are further back in the queue
than the museum is when it comes to being made safer. Second, it will take eight years for a new museum to open. So for almost a decade, a region where tourism is second only to government when it comes to jobs and economic activity will be without its No. 1 tourist attraction. Third, this whole scheme was literally sprung on the public with no consultation. Oh, there was the odd meeting here and there among various folks, but no venue for meaningful public input. In other words, there was no effort made to bring the public along on what was surely going to be a controversial exercise. (I literally stopped in my tracks, while walking to the official announcement of the project, when I read the news release that shockingly said it would cost almost $800 million and take eight years to build.) The project has all the signs of being sent through a bureaucratic process, but not though a political lens. The term “tone deaf” certainly applies here. I have no idea how the NDP extricates itself from the biggest controversy it has experienced in almost five years in power. Perhaps it delays the planned September closing date for the current museum. Maybe it asks experts who devised this plan to go back and try again, with a cheaper cost and shorter timeline. Or perhaps it hopes that over time this controversy will die down to the point where its hold on the region most affected by the project will not be threatened in the next election. We shall see. In the meantime, the BC Liberals finally have an issue to exploit, and exploit it they will. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.
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Opinionnow Willingdon Lands plan needs real consultation Editor: I live at the intersection of Smith Avenue and Canada Way, which is close to the very huge Willingdon Lands Master Plan. This project involves several other smaller projects, and it is very massive in its entirety. This was a piece of public land the previous government sold to First Nations people and Aquilini Development Group in 2014 or 2015 without public consultation and engagement. The First Nations people, along with their developer partner, proposed the plan in 2017 and this year got the permission to proceed with a public hearing on May 31. This was done without proper public and community consultation and engagement. The city planning office in Burnaby based its decision on consulting only 40 people in the community online. They also had a short survey of 81 people online. I am not sure how many of these participants in total were really living in the immediate neighbourhood and how many of them were really neutral and totally independent of this group and developer. I was not aware of this project till I got its flyer in my mailbox about two days before the info sessions (they later on presented it to the council as their proof for having a very exten-
sive public consultation in order to proceed with the public hearing). I did not take part in it because it was online and I was not familiar with the process that much. Besides, my computer is old and does not work well either. There are many seniors living in this neighbourhood, and they are not familiar with participating in online consultations either. I came to know later, through talking with the community residents, that they were not aware of this project and the consultation that came with it. The Burnaby city planning office prepared a report and approved the project for public hearing based on consulting a few people among a community of thousands. This report is inconclusive and should be disregarded. There should be extensive engagement and participation of the local community when it comes to a project of this size and magnitude. This project will also create a lot of traffic, congestion, air and noise pollution in an area already congested and busy for a very long period of time (somewhere between five and 15 or 20 years needed to complete the project). There is also room for future expansion and growth of this project, which would definitely lead to further densification and destruction of habitat of animals and trees and more displacement of people and health issues. Parviz Paydafar, Burnaby
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Citynow ‘He was smiling all the time, smiling everywhere’ Burnaby teen killed inVancouver stabbing came from Afghanistan with his family a decade ago Cornelia Naylor
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The father of a 19-yearold Burnaby Central Secondary grad stabbed to death outside a Vancouver nightclub last week brought his family to Canada from war-torn Afghanistan nearly 10 years ago. He is now waiting for Canadian justice to show him that decision wasn’t a tragic mistake. “I am watching for government, for Canada judgment,” Nazir Fazil told the NOW. “After that, I make decision, [whether] I was right to leave my country. I’m watching for judgment.”
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They settled in Burnaby in 2016. “What I was want from the government of Canada? I didn’t want anything from them, only my child’s safety,” Nazir said. “That’s why I escape my country, that’s why I leave everything behind. Only I have to save my kids.” Naseb, the second oldest son, with one older brother, one younger brother and one younger sister, graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary last year and was working in construction. “He was smiling all the time, smiling everywhere,” Nazir said. On the night he was killed, he had given his father a present, a bottle of cologne, bought with one of his first paycheques. His death has devastated the family, according to Nazir. “This is part of my household foundation. I lost part from my home foundation,” he said, his voice breaking with grief. Naseb’s funeral took place last Friday, beginning with prayers at Burnaby’s Masjid Al-Salaam on Canada Way.
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tal but died of his injuries. While first responders were still working to save the young man’s life, Nazir woke from a restless sleep for prayer about 20 kilometres away in Burnaby. He noticed his son, Naseb, who had said he was only going out with friends for an hour, hadn’t returned.
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Community now Take in some jazz music or join a sketch party this weekend Lively entertainment is happening all week in Burnaby. Check out these weekend highlights: SKETCH PARTY: LIFE DRAWING SESSION The Burnaby Arts Council is hosting a nude life-drawing session for artists 19 years old and
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LATIN JAZZ WITH SUSANA WILLIAMS Award-winning musician and composer Susana Williams will perform her mix of Latin and Anglo pop and rock. Ð When: Saturday, June 4, 8 p.m. Ð Where: Shadbolt Centre (6450 Deer Lake Ave.)
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Citynow Single-use grad caps, gowns bad for environment: grad ability. He also asked whether his daughter could opt out of the purchase. Unsatisfied with the school’s response, Ella and Claude took their concerns to the school board.
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A Burnaby student refused to wear a cap and gown for her graduation ceremony this weekend to protest her school’s use of the single-use items. Out of 208 École Alpha Secondary School grads who walked the stage at a convocation ceremony at SFU Sunday, Ella Tani was the only one not wearing the traditional graduation garb. When Ella discovered in February that part of her school’s mandatory $80 graduation fee was going toward the purchase of the cap and gown, she was upset. A member of Alpha’s Enviro Club, she was worried about the environmental impact of the single-use garments. “It’s pretty common sense that disposing gowns every year is much more wasteful than reusing them,” Ella told the NOW. Her father, Claude Tani, raised those concerns with the school in an email in mid-March. He told principal Tim Wozney he had thought the grad fees would be used to rent the cap and gown and asked how the practice of buying the single-use items squared with the school’s commitment to environmental sustain-
SUSTAINABILITY PLAN “Every year you are adding thousands of single-use caps and gowns that will just end up in our landfill.The resources used to make these products will never be recovered,” Claude said in a March 30 letter to the board. Board chair Jen Mezei wrote back more than a month later, saying individual schools have contracts for grad cap and gown rentals or purchases. “These decisions are made at the school level, and many schools have existing multi-year contracts,” Mezei wrote. “As you may be aware, the board recently approved a Sustainability Strategic Plan that will be part of future contract considerations.” Claude and his daughter then appeared at a virtual public school board meeting on May 24 to present trustees with a 162-name petition saying the signatories didn’t support the use of the single-use caps and gowns and that using them wasn’t consistent with their goal of environmental sus-
tainability. “Basically, we weren’t very happy about this mandatory purchase of the cap and gown,” Claude told trustees at the meeting. “I believe the school board needs to take responsibility on this.You can’t just let schools make their own decisions.” Trustee Ryan Stewart agreed waste from disposable products, particularly textile items, was a major global environmental concern but said there wasn’t “a single simple answer” to the cap-and-gown issue. He cited unknowns about the cost and environmental impacts of shipping, dry-cleaning and storing reuseable gowns. But trustee Christine Cunningham pointed out the option of no caps and gowns should also be considered. Mezei noted the school district’s first Sustainability Strategic Plan, adopted in February and designed to reduce the district’s environmental impact, includes a call for updated procurement standards to purchase sustainable goods and services. “I think, moving forward, it’s something that will be considered and something that I’m sure we’ll be having future conversations on,” Mezei said.
NO COMMITMENT By the end of the meeting, however, the board hadn’t initiated any specific response to the concern. Claude was frustrated. “I would like to see a bit more commitment,” he told the NOW. “What’s the point of a sustainability strategy if you don’t even monitor it?” He noted some families he’s talked to already have multiple caps and gowns, but the school’s policy forces them to buy more. Like Cunningham, Claude said the district should be open to not having caps and gowns at all if renting turns out not to be viable. He said his grad class didn’t wear caps and gowns when he graduated in Richmond in the 1980s. Alpha Secondary is in the last year of a multi-year contract with the company providing the school’s grad garments this year, according to the school district. “We will review the way we look at caps and gowns for graduation and the factors involved, including the impact on the environment,”Wozney said in an emailed statement. And what became of the single-use items Ella was forced to buy? “Her brand new shiny cap and gown sits in our closet, unopened,” her father said.
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It’s a moment Max Anchor will never forget. The 17-year-old goalkeeper from Burnaby made his professional soccer debut on Sunday (May 22) whenVancouverWhitecaps FC took on Charlotte FC. Anchor stood his ground in net and faced five shots in the match. At the end of 90 minutes, Charlotte FC came out on top 2-1, but the young pro was given a team nod with the RE/ MAX Move of the Match. “You know, honestly, ever since the final whistle, I’ve been trying to find the words to put into perspective how much this has meant to me. It’s honestly been crazy. I don’t have the words to express the last
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90 minutes and my first game. It was unbelievable,” Anchor said in a postgame interview. Anchor was called into action afterVancouver found out its two backup keepers, Isaac Boehmer and Cody Cropper, were placed in Major League Soccer (MLS) health and safety protocols, which made them unavailable for the match. Starter Thomas Hasal was also sidelined because of a finger injury. TheWhitecaps were able to secure the services of Niko Giantsopoulos from the Canadian Premier League’s (CPL)York United, but it was the Burnaby standout who was chosen to start. Anchor was signed from theWhitecaps FC BMO Academy system to an MLS homegrown pre-con-
tract that will start in 2023. The club also announced he agreed to a multi-year MLS contract through 2025 with club options for 2026 and 2027. “Max is a young goalkeeper and has done well in every step he’s made at the club,”Whitecaps FC sporting director Axel Schuster said in a news release announcing the signing. “He is a good fit with our other keepers, and we are looking forward to see him test himself at the next level.” Anchor joined the Whitecaps FC BMO MLS Academy when he was 13 from Mountain United FC of the EA Sports BC Soccer Premier League. He recently spent the entire pre-season with theWhitecaps FC first team on the road in California.
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Citynow Pickleball courts won’t be cut
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A petition from pickleballers in Burnaby has staved off suggested cuts to the number of pickleball courts in the city. After a parks department information report showed the possibility of significantly reducing the number of outdoor pickleball courts shared with tennis (in some cases reducing the number of pickleball courts from six to two), the Burnaby Pickleball Association created a petition to stop the cut. More than 730 people signed the petition in two days. Marion Taylor, the association’s secretary, said she was “astounded by the reaction of the pickleball community.” “There were groups out there that came out of the woodwork that we really didn’t know existed,” she said. But after a meeting last Thursday with city staff, the association says the city has listened to its concerns
and agreed to no court reductions. Eric Bientjes, the city’s recreation director, said the parks report was strictly for general information for the recreation commission and not an action plan or recommendation to reduce the number of pickleball courts. He said the images of the pickleball courts were used for illustrative purposes, but there are no plans to change the number of courts. “They were just some examples of different things that could be done, not different things that are planned to be done, to handle sharing of community assets between, primarily, pickleball and tennis,” Bientjes said. Future planning of court layouts will be determined by a working group of people from the pickleball association, city staff and other user groups. WHAT IS PICKLEBALL? Pickleball is a sport played on a badmintonsized court (frequently
played on courts shared with tennis) with a perforated plastic ball and paddles. Pickleball BC has a membership of more than 9,600 — and that organization is made up of more formal competitors and doesn’t include all recreational players. The Burnaby Pickleball Association has more than 650 members. Pickleballers highlight the social nature of the game, which is often played in doubles. “The social aspect of pickleball is foundational to the game,” said Burnaby Pickleball Association president KarenWatson. “Groupings of courts or hubs of courts are very important,” she said, citing those groupings as one reason it was important to not reduce the number of courts. Taylor said she believes the city has listened to the association and is pleased with the outcome. “The petition, I think, was extremely helpful and positive because it showed
them that we are serious about our sport, we’re passionate about our sport,” Taylor said. BothTaylor andWatson said they’re hoping for dedicated hubs of pickleball courts not shared with other sports in the future, with permanent nets and lines and proper lighting. Bientjes, however, said cities tend to build facilities that are multi-sport and try to ensure everybody gets equal enjoyment. “We’re looking to find the right balance between dedicated and between multi-sport activities,” he told the NOW. The city is in the final design stage for four dedicated pickleball courts at Squint Lake. ButWatson pointed out that other cities already have a number of dedicated courts. Delta has 19 dedicated pickleball courts, Surrey has 20, with eight more coming later this summer; Richmond has nine. “Burnaby needs to go in that direction,”Watson said.
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