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Judge to review case of alleged police ‘street check’ Chris Campbell ccampbell@newwestrecord.ca

The B.C. police complaint commissioner has appointed a retired judge to review the case of a New Westminster resident who alleges he was racially profiled by local police during

a “street check.”

Clayton Pecknold has appointed David Pendleton, a retired provincial court judge, to review the case of Sundar-Jovian Radheshwar, who filed a complaint to the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner in No-

vember 2020 about being stopped by two NewWestminster Police Department officers.

The complaint was investigated by the Abbotsford Police Department, which filed a report saying that allegations of abuse of authority and neglect of

duty “did not appear to be substantiated.”

In an Aug. 20 report, however, Pecknold disagreed with the conclusions.

“I am of the view that the discipline authority’s decision is incorrect as it relates to the application

of the facts to the relevant NWPD policy, law, and jurisprudence surrounding police investigative detention,” Pecknold wrote in the report.

Radheshwar was walking down a street in New Westminster on July 27, 2020 when he was stopped

by two NWPD officers.

“According to the respondent members, the complainant from a distance appeared to resemble an arrestable person whom they were seeking in the area,” says the OPCC report.

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Union urges kids and staff to get vaccinated

Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

The New Westminster Teachers’ Union is encouraging students and staff to wear masks and get vaccinated to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

On Aug. 24, the province outlined its plans for the new school year, which requires all staff, adults and students in Grade 4 to 12 to wear masks in indoor areas of the school (including at their desks) and strongly encourages students in kindergarten to Grade 3 to wear masks.

NWTU president Sarah Wethered told the Record the union believes students in Kindergarten to Grade 3 should have been included in the province’s mask mandate. She noted children in an age group are currently unable to be vaccinated.

“I was very disappointed that they didn’t extend the masking requirement for K to 3.We have been pushing for that; the BCTF has been pushing for that since the very beginning,” she said. “I feel that the Grade 4 to 12 teachers have some protection, and then if you teach children who are 12 to 18,

then they have the protection knowing their students can get vaccinated.”

Wethered encourages parents to get their children to wear masks at school, even if they’re not required to do so under the provincial mandate.

“I am concerned about the primary teachers. Children are getting the Delta variant. Children can be carriers of that Delta variant, and young children are getting the virus now.

I am concerned about that,” she said. “I would really like parents to realize this, and send this kids to school with a mask and that their kids know how to wear a mask.”

As part of the back-toschool plan, masks will be required for staff, adults and Grade 4 to 12 students.

Exemptions, however, remain in place for students or staff who cannot wear masks or for times when masks may temporarily need to be removed, such as when people are consuming food and drink, actively engaging in an activity that requires temporary removal of the mask (like when they’re playing a wind instrument) and communicating with

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or providing a service to a person with diverse needs who may depend on visual cues or facial expressions.

Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, said she’s encouraged to see rising vaccination rates in most parts of the

province.

“We need every eligible British Columbian, including children and youth aged 12 to 19, to receive vaccinations as they begin the new school year,” she said in a news release.

Wethered agrees.

“Send your kid to school with a mask and get them vaccinated, and know school is not going to be exactly normal like it was two years ago, but we are trying to get there,” she told the Record.

“To get to the new nor-

mal, it has to be a collective effort to get that vaccination rate higher and the transmission lower, and to follow public health guidelines.”

Superintendent Karim Hachlaf said the health and safety of students will be the New Westminster School district’s top priority when classes resume on Sept. 7.

“As we have throughout this pandemic, we will continue to take our lead from the health authorities, knowing the situation will continue to ebb and flow. And we’re well aware that students, staff and families will each be starting September with a wide range of concerns and hopes, as we’re each navigating and living different realities,” he wrote in an Aug. 22 letter to parents, caregivers and staff. “But with today’s confirmation of a more typical return to school than we saw last year, I’m excited about the additional opportunity for learning, for supporting social-emotional needs and for growth that this new school year opens for all of us.”

Commissioner questions investigation’s decision Continued from page 1 “During the interaction in which the complainant stopped to speak with the respondent members (captured on CCTV video), the complainant alleged that the officers asked him whether he was ‘Abdul’ and if he had his identification on him, and remarked that he appeared to resemble ‘Abdul.’ After the complainant responded that he was not ‘Abdul’ and that he did not have any identification on him, the respondent members departed without apologizing.The complainant alleged that he was stopped and racially

profiled because he fit the description of a generic ‘middle eastern male.’”

The Abbotsford police investigation concluded that Radheshwar was “briefly delayed but not detained in a manner to trigger the obligations concomitant with an investigative detention.”

Pecknold disagreed with that conclusion.

“There is sufficient evidence to support a conclusion that, while brief, this matter did include a detention of the complainant,” Pecknold wrote.

“During this incident the respondent members were in uniform, approach-

ing the complainant directly, and calling out to him.The complainant was walking with his back to the officers and, upon hearing the officers, stopped his travel and turned.The respondent members were looking for a person they had lawful authority to arrest and, upon interaction with the complainant, were operating on the subjective belief that the complainant may have been the arrestable person and investigated that possibility. A reasonable person in the circumstances of the complainant would have believed they were required to comply

with the respondent members.

“I also have a reasonable basis to believe that the decision is incorrect in the application of the applicable NWPD Policy OB235.That policy and the Provincial Policing Standards with respect to the Promotion of Unbiased Policing Policy (Police Stops) mandating the NWPD Policy, clearly provides obligations with respect to psychological detention and detention based upon identity factors such as race, colour, ancestry, and other enumerated factors.The discipline authority’s anal-

ysis does not sufficiently consider the available evidence against the applicable obligations governing the respondent members’ interaction with the complainant under the relevant policies and legal authorities.”

Radheshwar, a political science instructor at Douglas College, called the police complaint process a “byzantine and Kafkaesque series of twists and turns through layers of bureaucracy, bad faith investigations, appeals, anxious interludes aimlessly spent worrying about the future of people of colour in New West-

minster.”

“Who knows how many people have been dealt with unjustly,” Radheshwar said in a news release.

Radheshwar has the backing of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

“This whole debacle completely undermines the government narrative that illegal and discriminatory street checks were banned in British Columbia through policing standards made effective in 2020. Racial profiling is unfortunately alive and well in B.C. policing institutions,” said Meghan McDermott, BCCLA policy director.

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Lynda Fletcher-Gordon, acting executive director at the Lower Mainland Purpose Society, said the Community Action Team is working on creating two videos that deal with anti-stigma messaging.The team is looking for people who would like to participate by being interviewed.

Fletcher-Gordon said the power of stigma often prevents substance users from talking about their use of drugs and they hide their addiction from their family and friends, which puts them at risk of dying from contaminated drugs.

“The intent of these videos are to reduce stigmatization by seeing and lis-

tening to people who have stories to tell – stories of historical abuse, trauma, dependence on pain killers, bad luck or not so positive choices among a myriad of other things,” she said in an email to the Record.

The objectives of the campaign are: to encourage people who are using drugs alone to engage in help-seeking and harm-reduction strategies; to reduce negative perceptions towards people who use drugs among other community members who aren’t at risk for drug overdose; and to increase the number of residents who can share information about available resources and harm-reduction strategies.

A variety of people will be interviewed for the first video, which will provide information on the city’s safe consumption site and

other available services.

“The second video will focus on the people of New Westminster with lived or living experience of substance use,” said a notice about the project. “We want to find and include people who represent the diversity of folks in New Westminster. Of particular concern are folks who are using secretly, often at home alone, and do not use the various technologies that are available to keep them safe.”

Organizers need to identify interviewees and schedule interviews by Tuesday, Sept. 7.The interviews will be filmed on Saturday, Sept. 11 and Sunday, Sept. 12.

Anyone who is interested in participating in this project is asked to call Sydney Andrews at 604526-2522 or email at syd ney.andrews@purposeso ciety.org.

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Group raises awareness about toxic drugs Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

Purple ribbons and chalk outlines of bodies were placed in Hyack Square as poignant reminders of lives lost to toxic drug deaths.

Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, an annual worldwide campaign aimed at ending overdoses and remembering – without stigma – those who have died.

Moms Stop the Harm, a group that advocates to end substance-use related stigma, harms and death, is calling for “an end to the failed war on drugs” through evidence-based prevention, treatment and policy change. It supports a harm-reduction approach that is both compassionate and non-discriminatory for people who use substances.

In the lead-up to Overdose Awareness Day, Moms Stop the Harm drew the outlines of bodies in purple chalk in Hyack Square. Cards with information about overdoses and Overdose Awareness Day were hung on the pedestrian overpass leading to the Quay.

“Innocent people of all ages, every community, every race, every socioeconomic stratum are dying of toxic drugs in B.C. and across Canada,” Leslie McBain, co-founder of Moms Stop the Harm, said in a press release.

“There are viable solutions to actually stop the deaths.

We must push the governments to immediately implement a safe, regulated supply of the drugs people need.We must stop the preventable deaths of our loved ones.”

According to the BC

Coroners Service, 35 people in New Westminster died because of the tainted drug supply in 2020.That was an increase from the 20 deaths in 2019 and a slight decrease from the 36 deaths in 2018.

Preliminary statistics from the coroners’ service indicate there were 24 illicit drug toxicity deaths in New West in the first six months of 2021.The data is subject to change as investigations are concluded.

The BC Coroners Service is reporting that at least 1,011 British Columbians lost their lives to suspected illicit drug toxicity in B.C. between January and June 2021.

“The deaths of more than 1,000 British Columbians in the first six months of 2021 is a tragic reminder that the toxic illicit drug supply remains a significant ongoing threat

to public health and safety in communities throughout our province,” chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said in an Aug. 31 news release.

“The data released today highlights the immensity of this public health emergency and the need for a wide-scale response.This includes removing barriers to safe supply, ensuring timely access to evidence-based affordable treatment and providing those experiencing problematic substance use with compassionate and viable options to reduce risks and save lives.”

The BC Coroners Service states 159 British Columbians died in June as a result of drug toxicity, which was the ninth consecutive month in which at least 150 British Columbians died as a result of the toxic drug supply.

“The total number of

lives lost between January and June is the highest recorded in the first six months of a calendar year,” said the press release. “Drug toxicity is now the leading cause of death in B.C. for those aged 19 to 39 and is second in terms of reduc-

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Opinion MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Who gains from a Green meltdown?

One of the sidebar issues in the federal election campaign is how the Green Party will fare on voting day.

Most signs seem to point to the party not doing as well as it did in the 2019 election, when it won two B.C. ridings and may have affected the outcome in about 10 more.

For months, the Greens have been consumed by bitter infighting and an open and hostile revolt against party leader Annamie Paul. It also lost one of its three MPs when New Brunswick MP Jenica Atwin crossed the floor to the Liberals.

Paul’s relationship with the remaining two MPs – Paul Manley from Nanaimo-Ladysmith and former leader Elizabeth May – seems frayed at best. Finally, the party spends more time tearing itself apart over the Israel-Palestine conflict, which is hardly an election issue.

Throw in some serious financial problems and the stage seems set for some kind of collapse in Green support. If such a scenario does unfold, the question is which parties benefit the most from any slump in Green fortunes?

The Green voter’s identity has always been somewhat of a political mystery.

Are they disaffected voters who used to support a different party, are they people who never voted previously and what issues motivate them to vote?

Many observers think the NDP would logically benefit the most from any defections from the Green camp, given that historically their stands on various issues most closely mirror each than that of the other parties.The B.C. Greens also propped up a minority BC NDP government for three years.

However, over the past few years the federal Liberals have moved left on some issues and have put

fighting climate change – political turf the Greens had almost all to themselves for a long time – at the top of their agenda.

So it would appear the Liberals could also benefit from any hemorrhage in Green support.

The Greens attracted almost 291,000 votes in B.C. in the 2019 federal election, and about 125,000 of them were scattered through about 16 ridings where any significant downward shift in the party’s vote could see some of those ridings change hands.

For example, the Greens took more than 3,500 votes in the riding of Cloverdale-Langley City, which was won by the Conservatives by about 1,300 votes.Would a decline in Green allow the Liberals (who have promised a SkyTrain extension through that riding) to vault over the incumbent Conservative?

Or what about the more than 4,600 voters who voted Green in the riding of Burnaby North-Seymour in 2019? As I have noted before, the NDP owns this territory at the provincial level so would any significant slide in Green numbers allow the NDP to take this back from the Liberals?

The Greens’ internal troubles may also threaten its hold on the riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, which historically is an area that is a big part of the NDP’s political DNA. Given the political sideshow the federal Greens have become over the past few months it is hard to see the party improving its position on Sept.

20.The question seems to be whether Liberal leader Justin Trudeau or NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will benefit the most from any potential meltdown.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Don’t fear mandates

Editor: The American Medical Association is now calling for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate as the only way to stop the virus.

Vaccine mandates are not new. They have been used to fight polio, smallpox, measles, mumps and rubella to name a few. What is new is a plethora of conspiracy theories spawned on the internet by who knows whom.

The AMA states that the science is clear that the vaccines are safe and effective in battling the virus. People who ignore science and put their trust in snake oil salesmen are endangering the lives of themselves and everyone else and particularly children who aren’t eligible yet for a vaccine and the medical profession who are duty bound to treat everyone no matter how reckless they are.

Voluntary measures don’t work for everyone, and bribery and financial inducements don’t work for true believers who are convinced that the vaccine is worse than the disease. We have laws against driving the wrong way on the freeway or firing guns in crowed places, but we don’t have laws against a person infected with COVID-19 going out in public and potentially killing others. If people are callous and selfish enough to evade the vaccine, thereby prolong-

ing the virus and ensuring that more deadly mutations will develop, they should be forced to have a vaccine just as someone driving the wrong direction on the freeway will be corrected one way or another.

Dan Theal

Don’t yell at workers

Editor: Throughout the pandemic, I – like many who have been working in customer service – have dealt with all sorts of people with all sorts of problems.

I have been berated, screamed at and treated poorly all because I am the face of the company who is explaining and enforcing COVID-19 policies. I can assure you as someone who works in customer service that I’m definitely not the one making the rules and I’m just trying to make a living in the most expensive city – same as everyone else.

Please, please, please stop taking your anger out on front-line workers. We are human and are truly just trying our best. Next time a COVID-19 policy enrages you, for whatever reason, before you rush to your local supermarket to take it out on the cashier, please remember who and what you are frustrated at and act accordingly.

Kyra Xotta

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Community CRIME

Film pays tribute to parents of murdered children

Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

The parents of three murder victims have been a beacon of light for a man dealing with a devastating loss in his own life.

Ben Doyle, who was born and raised in New Westminster, became acquainted with Ray King, Rosalie Turcotte and Chris Simmonds after his childhood friend Angie Richards was murdered in June 1992.

“It really was important for me to find people that I could be inspired by. After Angie’s death, I was in a very troubled place,” Doyle says.

“When I looked at them, I thought, ‘Wow, they are all still so nice. It’s incredible just how genuine and sweet and kind people they all are.’ I found that remarkable given what they were going through.”

Born and raised in New West, Richards, 24, was killed by a neighbour just a few weeks after moving into a Langley apartment near the helicopter flying school she was going to be attending.

Through that horrific experience, Doyle became involved in CAVEAT, a grassroots charitable organization that advocated on behalf of victims and their families. It was through CAVEAT that Doyle met folks who would inspire him, including: Simmonds,

Honouring the victims: Ben Doyle has paid tribute to the parents of murdered children in a new documentary. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

whose 19-year-old daughter Sian was shot and killed in her home in January 1993;Turcotte, whose 19-year-old son Ken was beaten to death with a baseball bat and buried in a shallow grave near Mill Pond in Mission in October 1991; and King, the father of 15-year-old New West resident Ray King Jr., who was murdered by a serial killer in July 1981.

Doyle, who would go on to become a director with CAVEAT, was compelled to pay tribute to the parents who inspired him to move forward with his life.

The result is InTheir Honour, a documentary that includes interviews with those parents and news footage connected to Richards’ murder.

“Sometimes, you have to go back to your past... in order to finally leave it behind,” says a synopsis of the film. “Their lives were uprooted after each of them – one mother and two fathers – suffered the shocking sudden death of their child, all three a victim of murder.Though the crimes occurred long ago, the impact resonated for decades.

Still does.

More than 25 years later, one man goes back to visit the parents of the three murder victims, people who inspired him to continue living, despite his own personal tragedy.Together, as part of a grassroots group of concerned citizens, they became highly active volunteer advocates for victims of violent crime.”

Doyle said the trio served as “beacons in a storm” at a time when he was dealing with a gamut of emotions after Richards’ murder.While they advo-

cated for changes to the legal system to improve the rights of victims of crime, they also became a lifeline for each other.

“Our meetings, a lot of them felt more like grief therapy programs. It felt like a very effective therapy project at times,” Doyle recalls. “I know that they will tell you that it’s a club you don’t want other parents to join. But because they could all look at each other, and knew they were going through the same level of loss, that was helpful to them.”

In the documentary,

King says he was a “total mess” and was “drowning in a sea of drugs and alcohol” in the years after his son’s murder.

Having sought support after additional details about his son’s death emerged years after the murder, he was told his file had been closed for many years and that services were no longer available.

King’s life took a turn for the better after a chance encounter with Simmonds, who was stationed in a mall with CAVEAT to raise awareness about the organization’s efforts.

“Meeting him saved my life,” he says in the film. “Before him, no one else cared.”

Doyle was inspired to make the documentary after reconnecting with Simmonds, who formed a B.C. office of the Ontario-based advocacy group CAVEAT in the early 1990s.

It has since ceased operations.

“I just found it so emotional to talk to him, and I started crying. I wasn’t upset; I was kind of just releasing things, emotions I had been carrying internally for a very long time,” Doyle recalls.

“I literally woke up the next day and thought, ‘I want to make a film.’”

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Community Making film a ‘cathartic’ experience Continued from page 9 Making the film also turned out to be a healing process for Doyle, whose own life was devastated by Richards’ murder.

“It’s been cathartic,” he tells the Record. “It’s been very important, actually; in fact, more so than I realized. I got that feeling as we were making the movie, that I am glad I get to tell sort of my angle on this too – why I know them, and in tribute to Angie.”

Through the filmmaking process, Doyle came to realize it was important to tell that story for his own healing.

“Because I have been in chaos for a long time.

Frankly, I feel like in June of ’92 when she was murdered this crane came down and picked me and I’ve been hovering over my life ever since, not really back on the ground,”

he says. “But making the film has been really helpful. I feel like, it’s like the tagline says – sometimes you have to go back to your past in order to finally leave it behind.

That’s really the essence of that for me.”

While some details about the murders are mentioned in InTheir Honour, the killers are never named during the 93-minute film.

“That was intentional – not to name them – because victims don’t get their due,” Doyle says.

“There is too much attention on the killers. Just generally, that’s a view that I’ve held and others at CAVEAT have held.”

Doyle, who had no prior experience in filmmaking, initially partnered with a cinematographer on the project, but they parted ways during the pandemic.Warren

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Prokopich and Barb Best, who graduated from New Westminster Secondary School with Doyle and Richards in 1986, produced the film along with Doyle, who was also the documentary’s writer, director and narrator.

Doyle hopes he’ll eventually be able to screen the film in the Lower Mainland, possibly New Westminster because of the city’s many connections to the film.

Because InTheir Honour has been submitted to other film festivals, it’s unlikely to be publicly available until the fall.

“My goal was to finish the film. I knew not to have any expectations about being picked up by anyone. I know it’s a very tough subject, not a wide appeal, I would say,” Doyle says. “But that wasn’t the point; my point was I wanted to do it for

the parents. I wanted to do it for me, in Angie’s honour. I wanted to do it for those reasons.”

In June, InTheir Honour was shortlisted and screened in front of an audience at the Big Bear Film Summit in California.

InTheir Honour was also selected as a special mention for the London International Monthly Film Festival in England and was named a finalist in Best Documentary Feature category of a festival in Athens, Greece.

“I hope that people think more about the victims than they do the killers, and that is aided by the way the film was shot.

I hope it makes people realize that once a violent crime occurs, it certainly is just a beginning of the chaos and pain for the families,” Doyle says.

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31ST ANNUAL SALUTE TO LABOUR UNIONS

‘Building strength for all of our members today and tomorrow’

Mike Farnworth, MLA Port Coquitlam

107A-2748 Lougheed Highway Port Coquitlam, BC V3B 6P2 604-927-2088 mike.farnworth.mla@leg.bc.ca www.mikefarnworthmla.ca

Rick Glumac, MLA

Port Moody - Coquitlam

2708 St. Johns Street Port Moody, BC V3H 2B7 604-936-8709 rick.glumac.mla@leg.bc.ca www.rickglumac.ca

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Fin Donnelly, MLA

Coquitlam - Burke Mountain

510 – 2950 Glen Drive Coquitlam, BC V3B 0J1 604-942-5020 fin.donnelly.mla@leg.bc.ca

THANK YOU to all workers who through their labour, make our communities a better place to live.

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Support workers with paid sick leave

2021 LABOUR DAY BC’s teachers stand proudly with all workers, determined to protect our quality public services and build a more equitable society for every British Columbian.

A message from the Burnaby Teachers’ Association, a local of the BC Teachers’ Federation, a social justice union.

BURNABY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

This summer reminded all of us of the importance of workers. And not just because of the pandemic.We’ve all witnessed the dedication of workers fighting fires, caring for heatwave victims, and just showing up for work in difficult conditions.

It also reminds us that workers deserve the basic protections that help ensure you can go home safely at the end of your day, earn a decent living and build a better future for your family.

But those protections are always being challenged, whether it’s by economic changes, misguided political ideologies or employers (not all, but

many) cutting corners for short-term profit.

Here are some of the important protections we’re working to safeguard in the coming year: Paid sick leave: Nobody should ever have to choose between staying home when they’re sick and being able to pay the bills.

But 53% of BC workers and 90% of low-wage workers don’t have access to paid sick leave, because provincial laws don’t require employers to offer it.

Paid sick leave can help stem the spread of infectious diseases. And when workplace transmission is prevented, it means a better bottom line for businesses, too.

The B.C. government will bring in paid sick leave by next January, and they’re conducting a public consultation about what it should look like.You can share your thoughts with them online at engage.gov. bc.ca/paidsickleave — but don’t stop there. Join our campaign for permanent, universal paid sick leave at www.futureforall.ca/sick_ leave.

Workers’ compensation: It’s been clear for years that B.C.’s workers’ compensation system is broken. Drastic changes and cuts by the old BC Liberal government stacked the deck against injured workers.

Continued on page 17

UNIONMADE Labour Day is

Karen Ranalletta, President

Trevor Davies, Secretary-Treasurer

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Gig workers need more protections Continued from page 16 While we’ve seen some welcome reforms under the NDP, they don’t go nearly far enough.

The Patterson Report clearly identified sweeping changes needed to create a truly worker-centered Workers’ Compensation Board. Every day of delay puts workers and their families at risk.

Protection for gig and precarious workers: Many workers can’t count on even the most basic employment standards — like the minimum wage, Employment Insurance, the Canada Pension Plan, and access to worker’s compensation — because employers misclassify them as

“contractors.”

With our economy shifting toward app-based gig work and temporary and part-time employment, it’s time to make sure employment standards apply to everyone.

The right to organize: The evidence is clear: Unions are the single most effective factor in increasing workers’ standard of living and reducing income inequality.They level the playing field with employers on issues like workplace safety, harassment, pay and benefits, and many more.

But often when workers try to organize, they face major barriers — including grossly unfair tactics from

employers.We can tackle one of the biggest barriers by certifying unions in a workplace when the majority of workers there have signed union cards, which helps prevent employers from manipulating the certification process.

Labour Day is a celebration of workers. And the best way to make that celebration meaningful is by ensuring every worker has the full protection they’ve earned.

Laird Cronk is the president of the BC Federation of Labour, and Sussanne Skidmore is the Secretary-Treasurer.

Happy Labour Day! As we all celebrate Labour Day in honour of working people in Burnaby and beyond, we wish you a safe and happy Labour Day Weekend.

Mayor Mike Hurley and City Councillors: Pietro Calendino Sav Dhaliwal Alison Gu Mike Hillman

Dan Johnston Colleen Jordan Joe Keithley James Wang

Learn more at BCGEU.CA/JOIN

Happy Labour Day! Thank you to the thousands of BCGEU members and other essential workers on the frontlines of COVID-19.

Workers are the key as we emerge from the pandemic stronger and safer.

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ON LABOUR DAY, LET’S RECOGNIZE BC NURSES AND ALL WORKERS www.bcnu.org

BC’s nurses and front line workers are working tirelessly.

With gratitude, let’s acknowledge and support their resiliency and dedication to safe patient care.

Dignity and Justice A Voice in the Work Place

ese are principles on which organized labour was founded.

No single union has ever achieved these goals with more success and consistency than the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Best wishes this Labour Day from the membership and o

ers of

TEAMSTERS LOCAL 31 a liated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Teamsters Canada, and the Canadian Labour Congress

#1 Grosvenor Square, Delta, BC V3M 5S1 Stan Hennessy, President Caley Fieldhouse, Secretary-Treasurer

For Organizing Assistance • Tel: 604-527-2722 Fax: 604-540-6073 Email: bhennessy@teamsters31.ca

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Workers key to our pandemic recovery Workers are the key as we emerge from the pandemic stronger and safer Labour Day is a celebration of everything workers and unions have accomplished by standing in solidarity and using our collective power to fight for our rights and values.We all know the list of union wins – weekends and paid vacation, paid sick leave and parental leave, statutory holidays and overtime, pensions, occupational health and safety rules and workers compensation; protections from bullying, discrimination and harassment in the workplace.To name a few.

Labour Day is a chance for us as working people to look to the future and dream with our eyes open about how we want to use collective power as we move forward together.

And, in that respect, this Labour Day — our second in the pandemic — is a special opportunity. Specifically, it’s an opportunity to remind decision-makers that working people have kept our communities safe and our province running over the last 18 months.

We expect and deserve to be front and centre in B.C.’s post-pandemic recovery.

Working people have made extraordinary sacrifices during the pandemic.

Some of us lost incomes when workplaces shut down. Others had to figure out how to do work or school from home. Many more have worked every day providing the vital services that British Columbians rely on – like supporting vulnerable people, families and communities; working frontline on COVID prevention and enforcement; keeping courts and government offices operating; protecting people and property from devastating wildfires, and much more.

COVID-19 hasn’t broken us. But this pandemic has revealed what many of us have known for a long time — our old ‘normal’ was broken.With working people leading the way in the recovery, I’m optimistic we can leverage the lessons of this pandemic to build a progressive, healthy, inclusive, prosperous, worker-friendly society. A society where life is more affordable because of programs like universal child care. A society that invests in public services like seniors care. A society committed to ensuring no worker is left behind as

we tackle climate change.

A society that does the real work to advance reconciliation with Indigenous people and eliminates racism and discrimination.

A society that reflects our shared values: like dignity and respect; equality and fairness; social justice and opportunity for all.

I know we can fix what’s broken and there are great things on the horizon. I also know we’re not through the pandemic yet.

So this Labour Day I’m asking every member of the BCGEU and every working person in the province to stay strong and do your part: protect yourself and those you care about by getting vaccinated if you can; vote on Sept. 20; support businesses that support workers and reflect your values; get involved in your union if you have one and, if you don’t, visit the BCGEU’s website at bcgeu.ca to find out how to change that.

I wish you, your friends and family the very best Labour Day 2021 as we look forward in the coming months to building a B.C. of which we can all be proud.

Stephanie Smith is president of the BCGEU

You can count on us. We’re here for you.

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BURNABY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 323 I.A.F.F.

Random acts of kindness from local workers Working together can accomplish so much

Burnaby Firefighters are proud union members committed to serving the citizens of Burnaby. Our members volunteer their own time to groups and projects in your community.

Follow us on Twitter @IAFF323 or visit burnabyfirefighters.com for more information.

WE WORK FOR YOU. WE CARE ABOUT YOU.

After being with the Building Trades for most of a decade, I’ve had the unique privilege of seeing what we can accomplish when we work together.

There are many big things we do that make their way into the public; like the big infrastructure projects we build or Community Benefits initiatives.

But I also see many of the small things our unions do that we don’t often make a big deal about or really even talk about.

There are so many small acts of kindness our unions have done in just this past year; like calling through their retirees list just to check in and make sure our older members are doing OK. It’s a business manager personally dropping off Red Seal certificates so each apprentice can still receive the recognition so important to this rite of passage into journey status.

It’s the leaders in our unions participating in an intensive Be More Than a Bystander training pro-

gram so they can make our worksites safer for tradeswomen.

It’s the apprentice coordinator who noticed an apprentice was struggling and personally drove them to addiction services.

It’s the many, many scholarships given out and the thousands of union masks distributed to keep members safe.

It’s the members of our women’s committee, Build TogetHER, instantly responding to a call for help to support women with high levels of violence, homelessness, poverty and addiction on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

And then there was the time we called a food bank to say we were donating $15,000 to help care for families over the holidays and the person on the other end broke down in tears because the donation was so needed.That donation was just one of many our affiliates made last December as our unions gave generously all across B.C. There are so many

memorable moments of caring that stand out in my mind, but I will share just one last one.

When Labour Day events were cancelled last year due to COVID, our unions organized a construction vehicle convoy through the Lower Mainland from Delta to New Westminster to Burnaby to Maple Ridge to celebrate the labour movement and demonstrate our resiliency in these challenging times.

A parent group in New Westminster found out and for block after block, families gathered on picnic blankets and children waved at our members as we drove by.

We don’t often promote these things that we do.

I suppose because we’ve been doing them for so long they are an essential part of who we are as unions. But they are special. And our communities are better because of these everyday contributions that we make.

Brynn Bourke is interim executive director of BC BuildingTrades

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“All activities will be to 4 p.m. daily. compliant with updated “Our Summer Days provincial COVID-19 Discoveries programming health and safety prois designed to make long tocols, including the reweekends even more spe- quirement for all peocial this summer,” said ple aged 12 and above Stephen Bruyneel, Fraser to wear masks inRiver Discovery Centre’s side the centre at all director of external relatimes,” Bruyneel said in a tions and development. news release.

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ONLINE AUCTION DONORS TRAVEL Inn at the Quay • Chateau Victoria Hotel & Suites • Executive Suites Hotel & Resort Squamish Sidney Pier Hotel & Spa • South Thompson Inn & Rivershore Golf •Whistler Village Inn & Suites Fairmont Empress Hotel - Victoria • Park’N Fly Airport Parking • Harrison Hot Springs Resort Getaway • Atkinson Ventures Ltd (Maui condo stay) • Up North Adventures (The Yukon) SPORTS/RECREATION Norland Holdings • Peace Portal Golf Course • Mayfair Lakes Golf & Country Club • Morgan Creek Golf Course • Riverside Golf (South Surrey) • Trevor Fraser Eaglequest Golf • Connect Hearing DINING/BREWERIES/WINE Marvel Plumbing • Angelina’s Restaurant • Artusi Restaurant • Craft Café • El Santo Restaurant Fraser Mills Fermentation Company • Cioffi’s Meat Market & Deli • Kelly O’Bryan’s Neighbourhood Restaurant • Patina Brewing Company • Piva Modern Italian Restaurant • Rick Molstad • Royal City Rotarians • Kathy & Bob MacKerricher • Burnaby Palace Restaurant • Romer’s Burger Bar • Team Dave Vallee • Paddlewheeler Pub • Bevies & Bites Package • Amarosa Pasta House HEALTH,WELLNESS, BEAUTY & HOME Columbia Integrated Health Centre • Essence Hair Studio • Head to Toes Medical Spa • Saje NaturalWellness • Kruger Products Ltd. • Pretty Things Florist • Richard & Gloria Staudt • Serta Simmons Bedding • Granville Island Hat Shop • Save On Foods Highgate • Inn at the Quay Windsor Plywood (Coquitlam) • Vivio Flowers • RedWillow Residential Services RETAIL GIFT CARDS Alana McAllister-Hoem • Dave Lodermeier • Tanex Industries • NewWest Auto Collision Join us for the 26th Annual Pot of Gold Charity Golf Tournament on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

Mark it in your calendars now!

“See you next July 12th..”

rotarypotofgold@gmail.com www.rotarypotofgoldgolf.com

Rotary Club of New Westminster

Royal City Rotary Club

If you have any questions, please contact Rick Molstad at 604.831.1821 or molstad.rick@gmail.com and we would be pleased to answer your enquiries. Hoping to see you on August 24th.

RICK MOLSTAD, CHAIRMAN, POT OF GOLD CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE

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20 THURSDAY, September 2, 2021 • New West Record REMEMBRANCES

LEGAL WAREHOUSE LIEN ACT Annacis Lock-Up Storage Depot, claims a Landlords Contractual Lien against the following persons goods in storage at 555 Derwent Way, Delta, BC. 604-527-0388 C014 Premium Liquid Labs Inc. J001 Premium Liquid Labs Inc. 3627 Franklin George Tremblay 3713 Franklin George Tremblay 2918 Franklin George Tremblay Notice is hereby given, that a sale of the contents of the storage unit will take place September 17th, 2021 or thereafter, by way of public auction or private sale.

WITNESS NEEDED

FISHER, Darren Melvyn March 11, 1967 - August 15, 2021 At age 54, Darren succumbed to injuries he received from being hit by a car when he was 12 years old.

Fortunately, he seemed to have been born with a positive attitude; seeing the world as if everything was possible and life was great. Even at his first swimming lesson, when the class was asked if anybody could dive, Darren enthusiastically raised his hand and then pulled off a reasonable dive much to his family’s surprise.

Praise from the swimming instructor was completely redundant but he lapped it up anyway. Through his long journey from coma and vegetative state to being the best he could be, he was never one to be angry or bitter about his completely changed life and amazingly, he continued to demonstrate that he viewed the world with optimism. Although rendered pretty much non-verbal by his profound brain injury, Darren had an incredible way of engaging people, even strangers, with his gestures, charming and winning ways and his gorgeous smile. For example, one day while riding in mom’s car, a big and burly biker pulled up beside them and Darren approvingly looked over the beautiful Harley Davidson bike and then he gave the rider a big grin and a thumbs up which his new friend returned. So the injury didn’t change Darren’s personality, he was always awesome and his lesson to all of us who might be brave enough to follow is to accept our challenges and get on with life. As Darren so prophetically wrote forty-three years prior to the day of his passing: “You see yourself in a puddle, a crisp, slick, cool mountain puddle.

It is a reflection of yourself.

As you stumble away from your reflection, you get smaller and grow faint.

As you come nearer you get dazzly large.

Then after a while, the puddle drys up, your image grows faint and starts to fade, then you have no hope.

Still you must go on, and find another puddle, another life.”

Darren’s indomitable personality was sustained by his loving and attentive family, his loyal friends and his devoted care workers. His family is grateful to the B. C. medical system for his care and support over all these years, because his life certainly was worth living thanks to all of us. So finally thank you to Darren for demonstrating how to rise above adversity and to find and give as much joy in life as is possible. We will love him always and carry him in our hearts to the end of our days. The above photo was taken three hours before he passed away and we know he would want everyone to have such a great last day. A small private outdoor gathering will celebrate Darren’s life during these covid times. In lieu of flowers, any donations could be made to jodickeyfoundation.ca which is a charitable organization that gave him a new tricycle.

MARKETPLACE BURIAL PLOTS OCEANVIEW BURIAL PARK South Mausoleum.

2 Tandem Exterior Crypts, 2 openings, 5th row above ground level.

604-341-4394

To advertise in the Classifeds call

604.444.3056

BURIAL PLOTS 2 Side by Side Single Depth Burial Plots Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery, 3789 Royal Oak Ave, Burnaby Each plot can hold 1 casket plus 1 urn or 2 urns and flat grave markers.

Lot 135 - #7 & 8 in the Benediction section which is currently sold out. $30,000 for both open to offers.

Transfer of ownership done at the cemetery office.

Buyer pays transfer fee.

Please call or text; 604-615-8403

BRANSON, Loyal Raymond Loyal Raymond Branson of Burnaby, born March 20, 1928, passed away peacefully on August 9, 2021.

Survived by his brothers, Merle (Shilda), Ivan (Ina), Audrey, Jim (Pat), sister-in-law Della; five children, Richard (Kim), Raymond (Colleen), Maryanne (Shane), David (Cindy), and Darline (Mike); 15 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Loyal was actively involved in the St Francis de Sales Parish. Nine years ago Loyal and Anne moved to a Care Home in South Surrey. He is now reunited with his wife Anne who passed away in November, 2020.

He will be forever in our hearts.

We are seeking information regarding an incident that took place on a Translink bus on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at about 3:10 pm on bus #H16027 (Route 106) which was heading westbound on Edmonds Street. The bus came to an abrupt stop near Humphries Street outside Edmonds Community Centre causing a female passenger to fall from her seat to the floor.

If you have any information, please contact Anthony Thomas • 604-689-8888 Simpson, Thomas & Associates

Avis public de notification (art. 136 et 137 C.p.c.)

Section I - Avis Avis est donné à Antoine Christopher Laliberté Gomez de vous présenter au greffe de la Cour du Québec du district de Montréal située au 410, rue de Bellechasse, Montréal, Québec, dans les 30 jours afin de recevoir la demande introductive d’instance qui y a été laissée à votre attention.

Vous devez répondre à cette demande dans le délai indiqué dans l’avis de présentation qui l’accompagne, sans quoi un jugement par défaut pourrait être rendu en votre absence.

PETERSON, John June 5, 1950 − August 29, 2021 John Peterson passed away on August 29, 2021 at his home after a courageous battle with COPD. Born in New Westminster, BC on June 5, 1950, to Phylis and Alan Peterson, John made New Westminster his home most of his life. He moved to Surrey in the early 2000s but his heart never left the Royal City.

He was well known to many residents and loved striking up conversations with neighbours and passersby. His easy smile and quick wit made him well−loved. John was also known as the guy who wore his ballcap on backward long before it was fashionable. He was ahead of his time.

John graduated from NWSS in 1969 and was a good athlete in his youth. He played lacrosse, hockey, and baseball. Some of his most fond memories involved playing ball at Moody Park.

Although John suffered a serious accident as a young adult and lived with a significant head injury, he carried on with courage. Most would never know the challenges he faced.

John is predeceased by his mom, Phylis; dad, Alan; and sister, Paula Houweling. He is survived by his siblings, Arlene (Frank), Patti, Michael (Wendi), and Ivan (Kelly); and brother−in−law, Jack; as well as numerous beloved cousins, nieces, and nephews.

At John’s request, a private family gathering will be held to celebrate his life. In lieu of flowers, you might donate to your favourite charity.

BUSINESS SERVICES

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE SERVICES WE BUY HOUSES Townhomes & Condos & We Take Over Payments Any Situation, Any Condition

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Section II - Informations relatives à la publication Le présent avis est publié aux termes d’une ordonnance rendue le 18 août 2021 par l’Honorable Paul Grzela de la Cour du Québec dans le dossier numéro 525-43-007966-217.

Il ne sera pas publié à nouveau, à moins que les circonstances ne l’exigent.

Section III - Informations finales New Westminster, Colombie-Britannique, le 2 septembre 2021 Me Gwendolyne Chan Ying. (gcy@laroseavocats.ca / 514-332-2282)

Public notice of notification (art. 136 and 137 C.C.P.) Section I - Notice Notice is hereby Laliberté Gomez to Court of Quebec, Montreal situated Montreal, province order to receive there in your name.

given to Antoine Christopher take delivery at the office of the Youth Division in the district of at 410, rue de Bellechasse, of Quebec within 30 days in the originating application left

You must answer the application within the time specified in the Notice of presentation attached to it, failing which a default judgment may be rendered in your absence.

Section II - Information on publication This notice is published under an order rendered on August 18, 2021 by the Honourable Paul Grzela of the Court of Quebec in case number 525-43007966-217.

NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that ULock Mini Storage, 4240 Manor St, Burnaby, will be selling the contents of lockers: − Jonathan Derozario, #0051 − Martel Markwei, #0054 − Jiajun Liang, #1062 − Gunnar Nielsen, #2174 − Lawrence Carriere, #2182 − Trung (Aaron) Nguyen, #3203 It will be sold by online auction from September 10, 2021 to September 15, 2021.

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RENTAL STORAGE

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• 9 foot high Fully Alarmed Lockers Mention this ad & receive $25 credit on the first month rent.

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APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT

DANIA MANOR

4155 Norland Ave, Burnaby 10 newly renovated

private assisted living suites that offer the independence you want with the care you need; providing housing, hospitality services and personal care.

It will not be published again, unless required by the circumstances.

Section III - Final information New Westminster, British Columbia, September 2, 2021 Mtre Gwendolyne Chan Ying (gcy@laroseavocats.ca / 514-332-2282)

Call for information: 604-292-8136 Email: info@dania.bc.ca www.dania.bc.ca

RENTAL

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This is truly one of a kind.

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Due to space restrictions, there is no puzzle this issue.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

115 PLACE CO-OP Located in Burnaby near Lougheed Town Centre Accepting applications for

2 Bedroom Units

only available. $1,133 to $1,227 per mo.

Adult oriented high rise.

Share Purchase Required.

For qualifying criteria go to: www.115place.com Apply online or phone 604-421-1222

VILLA MARGARETA 320-9th St, New Westminster

Suites Available.

All suites have nice balconies, Underground parking avail. Refs req’d.

Small Pet OK.

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REAL ESTATE

HOME SERVICES

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT

DRYWALL

LAWN & GARDEN

FLOORING INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar.604-518-7508

GARDEN VILLA 1010 6th Ave. New Westminster.

Suites Available.

Beautiful Atrium with Fountain. By College, Shops & Transit/Skytrain.

Pets negotiable. Ref req’d.

CALL 604-715-7764 baysideproperty.com

Boarding & Taping, Good Rates! Reliable, Free Est. Reno’s & Small Jobs Welcome! Call Gurprit 604-710-7769

ELECTRICAL All Electrical, Low Cost.

Licensed. Res/Com. Small job expert. Renos, Panel changes.

(604)374-0062 Simply Electric

LIC. ELECTRICIAN bf#37309 Commercial &

GUTTERS

• Gutter Cleaning • Roof Cleaning • Power Washing WorkSafeBC • Insured

www.gutterguys.ca Mike 604-961-1280

HANDYPERSON

EXCAVATING SKYLINE TOWERS

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Interior / Exterior Specialist.

Many Years Experience.

Fully Insured.

Top Quality • Quick Work.

Free estimate.

Donny 604-600-6049

Top Quality • Quick Work Free Estimates

25+ yrs exp. WCB. Insured

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Full Lawn Maintenance Lawn Seed / Repairs NEW Lawns. CUTS. Trimming, Hedges, Pruning Driveways •Paths •Patios Decks & Fencing & More 20+yrs exp. WCB. Insured

#1 Backhoes & Excavators Trenchless Waterlines Bobcats & Dump Truck & All Material Deliveries

HOME SERVICES CONCRETE

New • Repaired • Rebuilt Fences & Decks.

604-788-6458

cedarinstall@hotmail.com We do ALL kinds of Concrete Work.

• Seniors discount.

Local, family business 40+ yrs.

604-240-3408

FLOORING

• Polished Concrete Floors • Pumping • Placing • Sealing • Acid Staining • Decorative Concrete • Forming • Demolition • Foundation Pouring

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Experts • Repairs • Staining • Installation • Free Estimates

Professional Work

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778-919-7707

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

604-900-6010

33 years experience

FAIRWAY PAINTING Fully Insured 20 yrs. exp. • Free Est.

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR SPECIALS 10% OFF

Gutter Specialists. Licensed. WCB Insured.

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PATIOS

Call 604-

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Aluminum & Glass Patio Covers, Sunrooms & Railings

7291234

Free Estimate

604-821-8088

Painting Specials

2 rooms for $350, 2 coats any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed.

Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Moulding Services.

BOWEN ALUMINUM

RENOS & HOME IMPROVEMENT

ALL RENOVATIONS: •Kitchen •Baths •Additions •Patio •Stairs •Deck •Fences •P Painting •D Drywall & MORE

778-892-1530

MrHandyman.ca

LANDSCAPING

Start-Finish. Demo-Design.

PAVERS, Driveway, Sidewalk Concrete Removal - Replace LANDSCAPING, Turf, Hedges, Retaining Wall, Patio. Drainage

MOVING ???

2 GOODMEN + TRUCK. FULL SERVICE, PACK − LOAD −UNPACK.GREAT RATES FOR MIDDLE−OF− THE−MONTH MOVING. LOCAL, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC INTERIOR. SPECIAL RATES FOR SENIORS. 604−782−6600

604-782-4322

SHAW LANDSCAPING LTD

LAWN & GARDEN

25 years Experience.

Fully y Ins’d. Lic’d & WCB • SUMMER CLEAN-UP • Lawn Maintenance • Power Rake • New Sod & Seeding • Tree Topping & Trimming • Power Wash • Gutters • Patio’s • Decks • Fences • Concrete • Retaining Walls • Driveway ys & Sidewalks & Much MORE All work guaranteed Free Estimates .

604-240-2881

PLANNING TO MOVE ????

2 Good Men + Truck.

Home/ Office/ Junk Disposal. $120/hour Full Service (Local). Special Rates − Vancouver Island, BC Interior.

604−782−6600

25+ yrs exp p. WCB. Insured.

Bob • 778-968-7843

• Hot Water Tanks • Plumbing • Heating • Furnaces • Boilers • Drainage • Res. & Comm. /77 Service • 24/7

Gutter Cleaning, Power Washing, Window Cleaning, Roof Cleaning

Call Simon for prompt & professional service 30 yrs exp.

604-230-0627

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

EXTERIOR & INTERIOR Residential & Commercial

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE SERVICES − GUTTER CLEANING − PRESSURE WASHING − WINDOW CLEANING − LAWN & GARDEN 604−209−3445 www.npservices.ca

RENOS & HOME IMPROVEMENT

35%OFF

25+ years experiencee.

Free Estimates

A. RIGHTWAY PAIN NTING Ltd.

778-984-0666

ROOFING

• FULL SERVICE JUNK REMOVAL & Clean-Up at Affordable Rates • Pianos & Hot Tubs No Problem • Booked Appointments • Same-Day Service • Residential & Commercial

A-1 Contracting. Bsmt, bath, kitchen cabinets, tile & laminate flrs, painting, decks.. and more.

Call Dhillon, 604-782-1936

604.220.JUNK (5865) TREE SERVICES TREE SERVICES

Pruning, Hedge Trimming Tree & Stump Removal 75 ft Bucket Trucks

604 - 787-5915

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A-1 Contracting & Roofing New & Re-Roofing • All Types All Maintenance & Repairs GUTTER CLEANING Gutter Guard Installations • RENOVATION WORK • WCB. 25% Discount • Emergency Repairs •

Jag • 778-892-1530

a1kahlonconstruction.ca

Re-Roofing & Repairs Specialists

20 Year Labour Warranty Available

604-591-3500

Bros. Roofing Ltd.

Rubbish Removal $40/hr per Person.24/7 • 604-999-6020

SPECIAL SUMMER PAINTING DISCOUNT

BRADS JUNK REMOVAL.com

20 YARD BIN RENTALS Kitchen & Bathrooms, all Tile, all Flooring, Drywall, Paint. ALL REPAIRS +More!

INT & EXT • 778-836-0436

ABE MOVING & Delivery &

2 Guys With A Truck Moving & Storage 604-628-7136

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

from $249/week + dump fees

POWER WASHING

PAINTING/ WALLPAPER SUMMER SPECIALS • Chafer Beetle Repair • LAWN Seed, Install, Repair, Artificial Lawn/Turf • Tree Prune & Hedge Trim • Paint • Stucco Repair • Decks, Fencing, Patios • Retaining Walls • Paths • Rock/Stone Retain Walls • Driveways • Roofing

PLUMBING

604-437-7272

778-688-1012

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Free Membership Card Promotion!!!

Hello food lover, in the celebration of our 9th newly renovated restaurant, just recently open in your neighborhood. Visit us and enjoy authentic Vietnamese cuisine with our Fall special offer for dine in service. Show this ad and get a FREE membership card (normally $10 value) with any bills over $10. This card can get 10% off the whole bill every time you dine in and valid until Aug 27th, 2022 . This promotion applies for our New West location (1190 8th ave) and SFU location (8901 Cornerstone Mews) and valid until Sep 30, 2021!!!

We look forward to seeing you all at our restaurant. − Pho99 team

Seniors Discounts

Armoniapainting.com 604-247-8888

Complete Landscaping • Lawn Cutting • Gardening • Prune/Trim • Full Maint.

AGGRECON SPECIALTIES

Commercial & Residential. Free Estimates.

SUMMER SPECIALS

RONALDO

BONDED & INSURED EXPERIENCED EMPLOYEES PROFESSIONAL, SAFE AND RELIABLE

FENCING West Coast Cedar Installations since 1991.

GUTTERS • REPLACEMENTS • DOWNPIPE • LEAF GUARD • DRAIN GUARD • SIDING

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Call • 604-780-6510

MOVING

Drainage; Video Inspection, Landscaping, Concrete, Stump/Rock/Cement/Oil Tank & Demos, Paving, Pool/Dirt Removal, Paver Stones, Jackhammer, Water/Sewer, Line/Sumps, Slinger Avail, Concrete Cutting, Hand Excavating.

Basements Made Dry Claudio’s Backhoe Service

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Summer Specials • Clean-up Chafer BEETLE Repair Lawn Seed, Install, Repair Tree Pruning & Hedges Blackberry Removal BOBCAT SERVICES • Retaining Walls • Concrete • Driveways •Paths •Patios’ • Asphalt Repair & Sealing • DECKS & FENCING & more

604-720-3205

Hi-Rise Apartment with River View & Indoor Pool.

1 BR & 2 BR Available.

Rent includes heat & hot water. Remodeled Building and Common area.

Gated underground secure parking available.

References required.

CALL today for Summer DISCOUNTS!

D&M PAINTING

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102-120 Agnes St, New Westminster

GUTTERS

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A-1 Steve’s Gutter & Window Cleaning & Repair from $98 !

Gutters vacuumed and hand cleaned. 604-524-0667

residential reno’s & small jobs.

778-322-0934

PAINTING/ WALLPAPER

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Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

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Gutter Cleaning • $80 Free Est. • GLRoofing.ca

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Grow Your Business Call 604-444-3056

www.treeworksonline.ca

$50 OFF

* on jobs over $1000

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Further, the publishers do not accept liability for any loss of damage caused by an error or inaccuracy in the printing of an advertisement beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by the portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred. Any corrections of changes will be made in the next available issue. The Richmond News will be responsible for only one incorrect insertion with liability limited to that portion of the advertisement affected by the error. Request for adjustments or corrections on charges must be made within 30 days of the ad’s expiration.

For best results please check your ad for accuracy the first day it appears. Refunds made only after 7 business days notice!

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BACK TO SCHOOL Prices Effective September 2 - September 8, 2021.

Organic Lean Ground Beef

100% BC OWNED AND OPERATED

100% Grass Fed, Value Pack

99/lb 11 26.43/kg

Organic Corn on the Cob

Hot House Grown Long Seedless Cucumbers LO CA L

4/500 LOCAL

Rossdown Roasted Chickens Assorted Varieties

Choices’ Own Sourdough Bread

2/ 300 ‘Cooking with Spinach’ Baby Spinach Blends

499

999

398

530g

376g-454g

Ready to Eat

Garden of Life Dr.Formulated Probiotics

GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha

Smart Sweets Low Sugar Candy

20% off

799

2/600

1.4L +deposit +eco fee

assorted sizes Regular Retail 24.49-53.99

50g

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