Burnaby Now November 15 2017

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PAYING THEIR RESPECTS

LEST WE FORGET Above, cadets pay tribute to fallen soldiers at the North Burnaby Remembrance Day ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 11. At right, organizations, individuals and community groups laid wreaths at the cenotaph. Nearly 1,000 participants and spectators turned out for the event, which began with a colour guard and parade along Hastings Street to the cenotaph in Confederation Park, where the formal service took place. See more photos at www.burnabynow.com. PHOTOS ROB SHAER

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Racist flyers dropped at Burnaby library Hand-outs emblazoned with swastikas promoting white supremacist groups are being investigated by RCMP By Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

White supremacist flyers have appeared outside Burnaby’s Metrotown library twice in less than a month. Just before opening on Oct. 29, a patron

alerted library staff black and red posters emblazoned with swastikas and the caption “Deeds not Words” had been stuck on the library’s front door. The flyers advertised the neo-Nazi group Iron March, which describes itself as the internet’s “premium purity spiraling website.”

“We obviously took them down as soon as we could and we reported it to the RCMP,” chief librarian Beth Davies told the NOW. “We spent a long time talking to the patron who reported it just to make sure they were OK and to make sure that they understood that we would be taking this re-

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ally seriously.” Ten days later, however,Twitter user Lea Cohodas tweeted a photo of a flyer advertising another white supremacist group, Stormfront. Continued on page 5

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