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Zombie attack
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Living dead:
They may be just a little bit cuter than your average, run-ofthe-mill zombies. Drama students from the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts were among those who joined in the fun of a community “zombie attack” on the Shadbolt Centre on Saturday, Oct. 25, in honour of Halloween.
Cayley Dobie staff reporter
As ghouls, goblins and other creatures prepare to roam the streets of Burnaby Friday night, police officers and firefighters will be keeping a close eye on Halloween celebrations taking advantage of the city’s one-nightonly fireworks policy. Every year around mid-October, fireworks shops start cropping up in empty commercial spaces all over the city. With flashy, oversized signs posted on the storefronts, the businesses are hard to miss. Burnaby is one of only a few remaining municipalities in the Lower Mainland that still allows the sale of fireworks during the Halloween season. Fireworks can
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City launches federal appeal on NEB ruling Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
The City of Burnaby is appealing a National Energy Board order that allows Kinder Morgan to survey Burnaby Mountain for a new pipeline route, against the city’s wishes. The appeal is the latest development in a long legal battle between the City of Burnaby and Kinder Morgan, which wants to run the pipeline through the
conservation area but must first survey the land to see if the route is feasible. “We want to strike down the NEB ruling altogether,” said the city’s lawyer Greg McDade. “We think this is a matter that has to be decided by a higher court.” McDade said the appeal will be filed with the Federal Court of Appeal sometime this week and that the city and mayor are “leaving no stone unturned” in their efforts to protect the conservation area. Kinder Morgan plans to resume work
on Wednesday. An interim order could take some time, McDade explained, and the only thing now standing in the company’s way is a handful of protesters keeping watch on the mountain. “In the meantime, this is up to the citizens. The NEB order binds Burnaby, but it doesn’t bind anyone else,” McDade said. Last Thursday, the National Energy Board issued the order, which means the city cannot stop Kinder Morgan from working on the mountain, even though it’s
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municipal land and Burnaby is opposed to the expansion. Mayor Derek Corrigan was not surprised by the news and said the NEB process was deeply flawed. “It’s not surprising they will attempt to extend their authority to run our city,” he said. Stephen Collis, an SFU English professor opposed to the pipeline, told the NOW there are two phone trees of people who are Pipeline Page 8
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