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Simon Fraser University students held a “vote mob” on Thursday, with music, dancing and signs, to help raise election awareness and inspire other students to vote. Similar vote mobs have been held at colleges and universities across the country. Larry Wright/burnaby now
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Tory candidate denies dodging debates NDP candidate gets translator so he can participate in Cantonese debate on radio Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
Burnaby-Douglas Conservative candidate Ronald Leung says he has not been avoiding debates as his competitors have charged. “No, I have not avoided any English debates,” Leung said in an interview with the Burnaby NOW on Monday. Leung was at a candidates’ meeting in
Vancouver’s Chinatown on Saturday, April 23, with Liberal Ken Low and New Democrat Kennedy Stewart, who brought a translator as the debate was in Cantonese. Candidates from the Vancouver Kingsway riding were also there. On Monday Kennedy Stewart night, Leung was also at a debate and meetand-greet at Seton Villa, a local seniors’ home where he sits on the board of directors, but that event was not open to the
general public. So far, those two meetings are the only ones where all three major candidates from Burnaby-Douglas have been present. Leung was noticeably absent from an all-candidates debate at Moscrop Secondary on April 19, a Ronald Leung CBC Radio appearance on April 21 and a debate at a local Muslim community and youth centre later that same day. And while his competitors accuse him of avoiding scrutiny, Leung said he’s
been busy knocking on doors and attending events such as coffee parties. “I go to talk to voters, do door-knocking and just talk to them directly,” Leung said. “It’s going to be a tight race. My focus will be to get to as many voters as possible. My job is very simple: I identify who is going to vote for me, and I make sure they get out to vote.” Leung said he’s also planning to attend a candidates’ meeting on Friday April 29 at Capitol Hill Community Hall, and on Saturday April 30, he will be on Fairchild Radio for an all-candidates debate in Cantonese with Low and Stewart. (Stewart
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