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ELECTION 2017
Clark rides the D-Wave in Burnaby By Cayley Dobie
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TO THE FUTURE: Vern Brownell, president and chief executive officer of Burnaby’s quantum computing company D-Wave Systems, speaks with B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark during a campaign stop last Friday. Clark dropped by D-Wave to talk international trade and praise D-Wave on its success on the global market.
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Christy Clark was in Burnaby last Friday morning lauding her government’s trade initiatives during a tour of D-Wave Systems, an international leader in quantum computing. “The future of our tech sector, just like other industries, depends on our ability to compete around the world,” Clark told D-Wave employees. Flanked by Burnaby Liberal candidates Karen Wang, Richard Lee and Garrison Duke, Clark praised D-Wave for its contribution to the province’s tech industry with its advancements in quantum computing. “D-Wave is an incredible example, just one of many, of what we can achieve in British Columbia when we have a strong plan and the attention and patience to stick with it,” Clark said. Founded in 1999, D-Wave Systems introduced the world’s first commercially available quantum computer system in 2011 – D-Wave One, priced at US $10,000,000. Its current customers include Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Temporal Defense Systems. Many others access D-Wave machines through the cloud. Continued on page 8
A CLOSER LOOK: POLITICS ARE PERSONAL
Taking the election home to the candidates By Julie MacLellan
jmaclellan@burnabynow.com
Some are renting. Some have opted for condos rather than houses. And others consider themselves fortunate to have bought homes
Janet Routledge Burnaby North
before prices went through the roof. When it comes to housing, the candidates running in Burnaby’s four ridings in the May 9 B.C. election have stories that will be familiar to their voters.
Raj Chouhan Burnaby-Edmonds
The Burnaby NOW sent all 16 candidates in Burnaby’s four ridings a brief questionnaire on housing and received 15 responses. (Garrison Duke, the Liberal candidate in Burnaby-Edmonds, did not respond.)
Anne Kang Burnaby-Deer Lake
Katrina Chen Burnaby-Lougheed
Of those, five candidates live in rented accommodation, three in condos and seven in homes. And, perhaps tellingly, none who own their homes report having bought those houses in the past decade.
Several of the candidates, in fact, were quick to recognize their good fortune in having bought before the Lower Mainland real estate market went bonkers. Peter Hallschmid, running for the B.C. Green
Party in Burnaby North, owns a home in East Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. “We bought our home in 2003,” he said. “We’re fortunate enough to have Continued on page 3
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