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Stephen Harper was back in Burnaby on Saturday announcing more tough-on-crime measures.

Our government has made standing up for victims of crime a priority, said Harper. A re-elected Conservative government will build on our accomplishments in this criti-cally important area to ensure all Canadians feel safer in their communities.

Harper promised back-to-back sentences for child sex offenders, including child por-nographers, rather than concurrent sentenc-es. He also called for tougher legislation that would double the fines criminals have to pay to help victims, and annual drug testing for all federal prisoners. The visit was staged at the Beedie Groups head office close to Still Creek.

But Conservative supporters werent the only ones who showed up at the rally. Dozens of anti-war protesters also gathered

to make their voices heard over concernsabout Canadas role in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has barely come up in theelection. We thought it was important toraise this issue, said Derrick OKeefe fromStopWar.ca, the group that organized therally.

OKeefe said Harper extended Canadasmission to 2014, when it was originally sup-posed to end this year.

They are saying the combat mission has

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The Conservatives are apolo-gizing about a case involving a teen who claims she was denied access to Stephen Harpers Burnaby rally on Saturday.

It was clearly an oversight, and we apologize, and everyone in Burnaby and across Canada is welcome to attend our rallies, said Conservative spokesperson Michael White.

According to White, two indi-viduals approached the event to register, and a volunteer recog-nized them as Young Liberals, but it was the teens who then left. According to White, the teens were told they were wel-come to attend the event, as long as they promised not to disrupt, but the offer was declined.

People are welcome to come to our events, and we encourage all Canadians to engage, White said. We invited them in, they chose not to come.

But the Port Coquitlam teen involved had a different account of what happened. Diamond Isinger, 17, is a Young Liberal volunteer. She claims she was denied access because she is a Liberal supporter.

The story, as Isinger tells it, started when she showed up at Harpers rally. She had pre-reg-istered to attend, was approved, and went to sign in upon arriv-ing.

Someone recognized me as a Liberal, pointed to me and

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Its been a year since Chevron first discovered oil migrating offsite at its North Burnaby refinery, and it will take many more to manage the leaking material.

Its going to be a major project on the refinery for many years to keep it contained, said Chevron spokesperson Ray Lord. Weve always made it clear that this is a historical contamination on this site. It means that the seep is the result of contamination on our property thats migrated off our property, and our primary focus is to keep it from migrating off our property.

On April 21, 2010, Chevron dis-covered a mix of gas, diesel and crude was migrating offsite and showing up in a ditch and on the beach downhill from the refinery.

Since then, Chevron has taken several steps to contain the oil on its property and clean up whats seeped offsite. Those measures include installing absorption mats on the beach and using extraction wells to collect the material. The company has also investigated along the beach, pressure tested under-ground lines and recovered oily material from the ditch. Chevron has identified the refinerys sewer system as a contributing source, but thats only part of the picture.

The whole seep is likely the result of a combination of past his-torical releases on our property, including this sewer, Lord said. The company has taken the sewer out of service and installed a bypass system, which should be complete by the end of the month.

Last October, the company noted that the material found in the ditch seemed to be decreasing, from about 3.8 litres a day to half a litre. Lord is waiting for analysis on the latest data to see if the volume has decreased since.

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Pertaining cats and dogs: Lesley Fox, executive director of the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals, sits at heroffice with products imported from overseas that use the hides of cats and dogs. Fox wants to see Canada join other Westerncountries in banning the import of products made of cat or dog fur.

Fighting to end foreign fur importsCats and dogs from overseas could have

an impact on the upcoming federal elec-tion.

Two months ago, departing Burnaby-Douglas NDP MP Bill Siksay introduced a private members bill that would prohibit the sale and import of products made from cat or dog fur and would require labels on all animal skins identifying the types of fur fibers used so that consumers dont unwittingly contribute to the cat and dog fur trade.

The bill is now off the table because of the May 2 federal election, and there are no immediate plans for Canada to join the United States, Australia and the European Union in banning cat and dog skin prod-ucts.

The sale and import of cat and dog fur is still legal in Canada and there are products that use a certain amount of unde-

clared dog or cat fur, said Siksay, who is leaving federal politics but said he hopes the issue will once again be addressed in Parliament. The sale and import of dog and cat fur in Canada has to end.

Lesley Fox, executive direc-tor of the Burnaby-based Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals, says this is an important issue for candidates to address.

Its so ridiculous, we thought this campaign was going to be a slam dunk, said Fox We are one of the few countries left that doesnt have any (laws) when it comes to fur. In Canada, its under the textile labelling act, and fur is exempt from that. What it basically means is, if you have a sweater made out of cotton, you have to label it, if you have a sweater made out of fur, you dont

Fox said around two million animals are killed, primarily in China, Taiwan and the

Philippines, for their skins eachyear, and that the fur ends upin imported products such askeychains, shoes, purses, cell-phone cases, the lining of wintercoats and, ironically, even cattoys.

She puts the lack of legisla-tion to change this squarely onthe Conservatives.

The Conservative govern-ment doesnt want to ban dogand cat fur basically becausethey want to keep open tradewith China, said Fox. It allgoes back to the seal hunt, whichis the biggest bone of contention

in the government today. The EU basi-cally told Canada we dont want your sealskins so we kind of shopped around andnow China is the new dumping ground for

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said to security, Under no circumstances is she allowed in. Shes a Young Liberal, Isinger said.

According to Isinger, her 19-year-old friend, also a Young Liberal volunteer, was first told he couldnt stay, then told he could (only after he mentioned he had volunteered for the Tories in the past), but

he wasnt allowed to ask questions or make a ruck-us. But when Isinger was denied entry, her friend left with her.

When asked why she

was at a Conservative event in the first place, given she is a Liberal sup-porter, Isinger said she was interested to hear what Harper had to say.

Ive been to NDP ral-lies with Jack Layton, Ive heard Elizabeth May, Ive heard Michael Ignatieff speak, and I thought it would be interesting to

hear the prime minister speak, she said. Shes not sure why they would bar her from entering, given she had no Liberal signs or buttons and no plan to

ambush the event. They have a bit of a

culture of control with their events, she said. Me showing up at an event was a threat to them.

Canadas seal skins. But because theyre taking our seal skins, we cant tell China we wont take their dog and cat fur. So youre leveraging the suffering of one species for another.

Although the Liberals never addressed the prob-lem when they were in office either, Fox said the evidence of products being made from cats and dogs wasnt as overwhelming then as it has become over the past few years.

Siksay, however, side-stepped the question when asked if he thought the reason Canada has yet to adopt new legislation was out of fear of offending a major trade partner, say-ing that there is no com-mon consensus among Canadians about the rights of animals.

I think there is a real divergence of opinion across Canada about ani-mal welfare issues, he said. Theres sometimes an urban/rural split, but even though there are dif-ferent opinions, it doesnt mean we dont have the debate.

Kennedy Stewart, the NDPs new candidate in Siksays riding, said he hopes the issue will soon be on the table again. Its not really one of the main issues a lot of people are talking about. However, it does get raised a lot, and I know Bill got a lot of kudos for bringing this up. Sometimes its the little things that make a big dif-ference. We really hope it will make it through the next session.

The Conservative par-tys candidate for Burnaby-Douglas, Ronald Leung, did not respond to a request from the BurnabyNOW for an interview on the subject.

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Both of our major political parties have now com-pleted their leadership changes, and the outcomes could not be more different and stark.

The NDP has opted to make a sharp left turn, and now the party is about to face off against a populist premier.

Adrian Dix and Christy Clark are polar opposites in style, image and philosophy.

Clark is charismatic and tele-genic, while Dix is dour and not very good on television. Clark is perky and enthusiastic, and Dix is relentlessly serious and even grim at times.

Clark is pro-business, with a populist touch. Dix is a class warrior, who sees electoral suc-cess occurring only if he can fashion a great divide and cap-ture one side of it.

Ive known both Clark and Dix for more than 20 years and can attest their public images arent always accurate. Dix, for example, actually does have a good sense of humour but prefers to hide it in public life, while Clark, for all her com-munications savvy, can also be shrill and too aggressive.

Nevertheless, each of them has a style and image that is well grounded in the public mind, Clark more so because shes bet-ter known.

In the past week, The Province newspaper has captured what could very well be the themes of

the next election campaign. First, the paper showed a beaming Christy Clark on its cover, clad in a Vancouver Canucks jersey and holding up a hockey stick. Jersey Girl was the headline in large type.

The day after Dixs win at the NDP leader-ship convention, TheProvince cover showed a

victorious Dix with the headline Left Turn.

Clark could not have bought better publicity. The cover showed exactly what the NDP is up against. Something tells me putting Dix in the same jersey and having him smile at the camera simply wont have the same effect.

And the Left Turn reference neatly captures a deliberate shift by the NDP, and its one that has the B.C. Liberals rubbing their hands in glee.

While Clark has a decided edge over Dix in communica-tions, style and image, the NDPs decision to push to the left narrows the number of vot-ers who will vote for the party.

Dix, of course, sees this in a different way. He argues that adhering to traditional demo-cratic socialistic values will ener-gize the party and convince its core supporters to come out and vote in greater numbers.

He may well be correct, but I see little evidence to support that thesis. Dix argues that 1.5

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Tough on crime a slogan that feeds on fears While both violent crime and crime in

general continue to decline from year-to-year the publics perception that there is more crime and more violent crime con-tinues to grow.

Its understandable. The media, in general, plays up vio-lent crime and downplays any news when things get better. So, its no wonder that Stephen Harper continues to count on tough on crime sloganeering to gain support. After all, who wants to be seen to be pro-crime?

We almost expected to see a rerun of the infamous Willie Horton campaign ad featured in the U.S. presidential elec-tion of 1988. Political history buffs may recall Horton was a convicted murderer

allowed out on furlough who then raped a woman. Harper might have been tempted to use Allan Schoenborn as Canadas

Willie Horton. Schoenborn, who killed his three children in 2008, was set for escorted day passes before public outrage triggered a review. We suspect anyone

promising to keep Schoenborn in his pyjamas for life would gain support.

The Conservatives promise to increase sentences for those criminals we all detest: pedophiles, etc. And they also promise to have more drug testing in prisons. In fact, the Conservatives are all about prisons in their platform. But there is little or no mention of increas-ing policing or even following recom-mendations from police organizations. The Conservatives say they will do away with the gun registry contrary to police

requests to keep the registry. Police say keeping the registry will help save police lives and citizen lives. But the Tories ignore that advice.

Voters deserve more than platforms intended to appeal to their fears. They deserve real reforms to the justice system that will put the victims of people like Schoenborn first and they also need poli-ticians to listen to those who are on the street fighting crime. You cant say youre tough on crime and not support those who are actually walking the talk.

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Smoke and mirrors on gun issueDear Editor:

Re: Dont be swayed by Tory politics (BurnabyNOW, Letters to the editor, April 13). Mr. Coles let-ter is fraught with fog, smoke and mirrors when it come to his love and value of, and for, guns.

In the first place, registration is the first step to confiscation, as the history of the matter in other countries has shown us. Also he alludes that, From Montreal to Arizona, we pay the price for angry people let loose with guns. He just shot his regis-tration idea in the foot! Montrealers already had to register their firearms, as does all of Canada. And to even compare Canadas stats to the U.S. is ludicrous a fair comparison is to wait until Canada actually has the large number of people and big cities, there-

fore the congestion that the U.S. has today. As well, many demographics between the two

are different. For one thing, warm and hot tem-peratures can be attributed to the causes of many homicides, as stats have shown us.

Comparing apples vs. oranges is what Mr. Coles has done here.

Further, Coles cites that police want to know whats waiting for them inside. Well, the answer to that is the police should treat every home as if there is a gun inside, since most gun killings are done with either unregistered or stolen guns, instead of adopting such a false sense of security. In fact, two policemen, on two different occasions, realized that they were guilty of making that same mistake, once we pointed it out.

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million voters stayed home in the last election and therefore need motivation to vote, but why he thinks there are a huge number of disaffected socialists out there is beyond me.

Dix and his supporters point to the 1996 election win as proof that waging class warfare is a success-ful formula. But that miss-es the main reason why the NDP won that year: 15 per cent of the vote that mostly would have gone to the B.C. Liberals went to two other political parties, the Reform party and the Progressive Democratic Alliance.

The NDP now des-perately needs the B.C. Conservative Party, led by former longtime MP John Cummins, to grow in popularity. If the B.C. Conservatives can get to double digits in terms of the popular vote come the next election, then Dixs strategy may well prove to be successful.

But Cummins party is a long way from establish-ing a credible presence in enough areas of the prov-ince to be a threat to the B.C. Liberals. First of all, hes not that well known outside federal political circles and his own com-munity of Delta.

As well, he needs to find good candidates in a lot of swing ridings, where the gap between the NDP and the B.C. Liberals has been relatively nar-row and where a strong Conservative presence can pave the way for an NDP win.

Cummins may well get there, but if he doesnt provide that right-wing split, the NDPs decision to push to the left may seal its doom.

So its Jersey Girl ver-sus Left Turn. Let the fun begin.

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Mr. Coles hunting buddies tell him that registering firearms is much easier now why yes, it is. Thats because Harper and Co. made it that way during their term in office. Easier, less time-consuming, there-fore, less costly. Perhaps the Tories care a little more about taxpayers bucks than does, say, Mr. Coles himself.

By the way, there are as many homi-cides done with knives in Canada (and knife attacks are usually gorier) as done with firearms. I wonder if Mr. Coles has done the right thing and registered his knives yet?

Dennis Robinson, Burnaby

Homelessness is costlyDear Editor:

Re: Dont blame the city, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, April 16

Why do Mayor Corrigans strongest supporters defend the indefensible? And why do they keep recycling the same tired arguments to do it?

Canadas constitution is a living doc-ument. Mayor Corrigan has surely by now read the Court of Appeal judgement affirming the right of homeless persons to camp in urban green spaces like Central Park in cities like Burnaby that lack per-manent emergency shelter beds (overrid-ing their bylaws to do so). Are Mayor Corrigan and Mr. (Peter) Cech content to let our parks become a permanent home to homeless people?

I also note that lack of formal civic juris-diction has not stopped Mayor Robertson of Vancouver, Mayor Watts of Surrey or Mayor Stewart of Coquitlam from invest-ing civic resources to fight homelessness. So why does it stop Mayor Corrigan?

Mr. Cech raises fiscal concerns in his

letter. Burnaby is not a typical Canadian city unable to raise local resources to fight homelessness. As of Dec. 31, 2009 (the lat-est available reporting date), Burnabys cumulative revenue from all sources had exceeded cumulative spending on all items by $661.5 million (2009 Annual Financial Report, Note 3, p. 34.) Just one per cent of this surplus would represent $6.6 mil-lion in capital funding for an emergency shelter.

(Whats more, a prior BCA-dominated council has already allocated some sur-plus dollars to a housing fund dedicated to building social housing presumably including shelter beds in Burnaby town centres.)

A civic contribution to an emergency shelter could be used to leverage further capital and operating funds from B.C. Housing and other agency arms of senior government. Burnaby taxpayers would even recover this one-time contribution (and more) as Burnaby RCMP officers stop spending so much of their scarce duty time year after year catching and releasing homeless people for lack of a local emer-gency shelter equipped and staffed to help them stay off the streets.

Burnabys business community under-stands these economics. Lougheed Town Centre, in particular, has stopped calling the RCMP as a first resort and now instead works openly with social service agencies to address some of the needs of homeless persons found near that mall. It saves the mall money to do so. Investing civic resources in a local emergency shelter is not just a socially responsible thing, it will save Burnaby taxpayers money too. Why cant Mayor Corrigan figure this out? Perhaps we Burnaby Civic Greens will have to explain it to him, and to other Burnaby voters, at an all-candidates meet-ing in the fall.

G. Bruce Friesen, Burnaby


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Burnabys bylaws do not do enough to protect residential trees in the city, two residents say.

Thomas Chan and Donna Polos, neigh-bours in South Burnaby, recently started a petition to revise Burnabys tree bylaw from 1996.

The two are part of a group of neigh-bours on their street who were concerned when all but one large tree on a corner lot property were razed.

When the new property owner had large branches cut off the 80-foot Douglas Fir in preparation to cut it down, the neighbours reacted and surrounded the tree, according to Chan.

Its a neighbourhood icon, he said of the tree. We had a concern about it.

During the confrontation with the crew hired to cut down the tree, the police were called, and city staff also came, according to Chan.

At this time, the tree still stands, though the cut branches make it less aesthetically

pleasing, he added.When Chan and Polos spoke with the

city about the issue, they were dismayed to find out that residents can cut down any trees on their property without a permit.

Burnabys tree bylaw only restricts owners from cutting down trees three months prior to applying for a demolition permit for the building on a property, and one year afterward.

There are no repercussions, Chan said of the bylaw.

The petition, which can be found at www.ipetitions.com/petition/burnaby_tree_bylaw_1996, asks that subsection 4g of the bylaw be repealed.

The subsection states: 4. A tree cutting permit is not required: (g) to cut down a protected tree as defined in section 2(o)(i) or 2(o)(v) on any lot on which there is an existing residential dwelling at any time after one year from the date on which an occupancy permit was issued for that dwelling and at least three months before a demolition permit for that dwelling or a building permit for a new residential dwelling is applied for.

The pair would like to see the city adopt a bylaw similar to other municipalities such as Vancouver, Richmond, Delta and

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Large, protected trees - as defined as any larger than 20.3 cm in diam-eter - should only be allowed to be removed if they pose a danger to the safety of people or property, Polos added.

Polos has lived in Burnaby for more than 30 years, she said, and the landscape has completely changed.

Now, the only green sections are areas such as Central Park and Champlain Heights, she said.

Another house across the street from her has sold, Polos said, and she is worried the trees there will also be cut down.

The pair plans to submit the peti-tion to the city after collecting signa-

tures for the next month or so, both online and door-to-door.

The bylaw was created 16 years ago, according to the citys land-scape development technician, Geoff Gooderham, when the city was get-ting a lot of calls from people con-cerned about new property owners buying up houses and cutting down all the trees.

The idea was, we wanted to con-trol what was happening on develop-ment sites, he said.

The city didnt feel comfortable telling residents they couldnt cut down trees altogether, Gooderham added.

People dont often break the bylaw, he said, but if they do, there are pen-alties in place.

For instance, if someone applies for a demolition permit within three

months of cutting down trees on a property, they are generally told theyll have to plant replacement trees, he said. The city can also fine the individual, but usually doesnt go that route.

We want trees, not fines, Gooderham said.

He couldnt remember any instanc-es of someone intentionally breaking the bylaw and cutting down trees after getting a demolition permit.

The city is looking at the bylaw, and seeing what other municipalities are doing, he added.

We are actually considering our options, Gooderham said.

But the bylaws in other Lower Mainland municipalities vary widely, and there isnt a set standard among them, he added.

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Trees: Residents want tougher bylawscontinued from page 9

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With the citys multi-family food scraps pilot project more than halfway finished, the city is moving on to Burnabys elemen-tary and secondary schools.

Council approved the plan to expand the project next fall for up to seven schools in the district.

Larry Hayes, chair of the Burnaby Board of Education, said the board was made aware of the project and given an overview.

We certainly think its a very progres-sive step, he said in a phone interview, but noted the specifics havent been decid-ed yet.

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Coun. Pietro Calendino asked how the city planned to achieve the 70 per cent waste diversion by 2015 at Monday nights meeting.

Lambert Chu, director of engineering for Burnaby, said the city hopes to see bet-ter diversion results at the end of 2011 and even better results in 2012, particularly with the food scraps collection program and pilot projects.

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The students in Rosa Marchitellis news reporting class are learning how powerful the skills theyre developing really are and how those skills can also be used to better the community.

Rosa has introduced a new project this year The Picture Project where journal-ism students are organizing and promot-ing a charitable event with the Tiny Light Foundation.

As always, when the students take things to heart, they run with it, she says in an interview during class.

And from the excited discussions taking place between groups in the classroom, it is clear this is a project close to the hearts of those involved.

Negar Mojtahedi, one of the spokes-people for the project, came up with the idea to hold an event with the Tiny Light Foundation after she saw the founder, Melissa DePape, on Global B.C.s morning news show.

The foundation connects photographers with children suffering from a variety of health issues, to provide families with pho-tographs and documentation of their lives.

The Picture Project is taking place at Science World in Vancouver on April 30. Six families are scheduled to attend, with student photographer Matthew J.

VanDeventer taking family portraits, and toys and gift baskets being donated to the families.

Its a nice, fun day for the kids, to give them a chance to get away for the day, Negar says.

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Up close and personal: Darren Colello of the Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society displays a polar bear skull for TeaganGammel during Earth Fest celebrations on Saturday at the Burnaby Lake rowing pavilion.

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The nature festival, hosted by the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C., includ-ed displays and information from environ-mental groups, as well as nature walks, tours and a variety of family activities.

Helping: BCIT journalism student Negar Mojtahedi, a spokesperson for ThePicture Project, first heard of the Tiny Light Foundation two months ago.

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Last Sundays bright April evening was the perfect backdrop for the Amabilis Singers perfor-mance of Carl Orffs goth-ic masterpiece, Carmina Burana.

The New West-based choir was able to move from the darker opening pieces into those celebrating the natural world and raptur-ous love with ease, evoking a sense of spring with a clear and steady voice.

The performance at Shaugnessy Heights United Church in Vancouver, led by director Ramona Luengen of Burnaby, was the last of Amabilis 30th season. Carmina Burana is composed of 24 poems from the 11th to 13th centuries from a set of 254 poems discovered in a Benedictine monastery in Bavaria and set to music by Orff in 1935.

The 25 pieces O Fortunais sung both at the begin-ning and end that make up the composition were performed with brief paus-es between, allowing the pieces to flow smoothly to the finale.

Luengens energetic direction brought out the best in the choir, as she deft-ly moved from guiding the whole chorus to the solo-ists.

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there were not more piec-es for tenor soloist Saygin Ozgum, whose rendition of Olim lacus colueram rang out through the church with impassioned clarity.

But all the soloists, as well as the 56 chorus mem-bers, provided exactly the right amount of exuberance needed to keep the perfor-mance dynamic and alive. And the chorus ability to sing with one unified voice was exceptional.

Overall, it was a fine end to three decades of music by the group, which began in 1981 as the Douglas College Community Choir.

Note: The Burnaby NOWs arts editor, Julie MacLellan, is an alto with Amabilis Singers, and was a member of the chorus.

Grand finale: Ramona Luengen leads the Amabilis Singers in Carmina Burana.

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Atradition in my family has always been the customary ritual of decorating eggs for Easter. As far back as history can take us, the egg seems to have always been a symbol of continuing life and resurrection. Therefore, it was natural to decorate them and give out as gifts for part of the feasting after the solemn fast of Lent. Although it is now more contemporary to exchange chocolate or candy eggs, many families still carry out the historic practice of using real eggs. However, what is to become of all the excess hard-boiled eggs other than the habitual egg sandwich?

Allow me to give you a few examples that will

hopefully inspire some culinary creativity in your kitchen.

A quick and simple idea would be to crumble them to garnish salads. This would not only add bright colours to the salad but is also is a fantastic way to add additional protein. Crumbled eggs are also vivid garnishes for stir-frys or around the outer edge of a platter of rice. Add a splash of freshly chopped parsley over the rice, and you will have transformed the bland grains into some-thing more attractive. The crumbled mix of white and yellow is much more eye appealing than two-toned slices of egg.

Egg slices are better used along with spinach and cheese rolled inside the middle of a pork loin for a stuffed roast that is extraor-dinary. Egg slices can also be layered in many differ-ent casseroles.

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My favourite hard-boiled egg recipe is Scotch eggs. This Scottish recipe is prepared by encasing hard-boiled eggs with sausage meat. They are then rolled in a mixture of cracker crumbs and fresh chopped parsley, and baked in the oven. Once cooled, they are sliced into quarters for a sensational presentation.

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The green ring indi-cates a chemical reaction between the iron in the yolk and the sulfur in the white. This happens when the egg is either cooked too long, or at too high of a temperature.

Try adjusting your cooking time and plunge them into an ice water bath immediately to stop the cooking process.

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Grammy-nominated rap star Kid Cudi will be hitting the stage at Deer Lake Park this summer as part of the Cud Life Tour with special guest Chip Tha Ripper.

The Chicago MC is best known for the hit single Day n Nite and for creat-ing fans among the non-hip hop set with collabora-tions with rock acts such as MGMT and Ratatat. He last came to B.C. in December 2009.

Footage from the now infamous gig at Vancouvers Commodore Ballroom, which shows Cudi (whose real name is Scott Mescudi) allegedly punching a fan who had thrown a wallet on stage, has since gone viral on the Internet, although the fan declined to later press charges.

Cudis third album, Ragers Revenge: Key of Wizard, is scheduled to drop this summer.

Tickets for the June 16 concert are $49.50 (plus service charges) and go on sale Thursday (April 21) at www.livenation.com.

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Think before you ushCanadians urged to stop using toilets as garbage cans

Canadians say they appreciate the vast amount of fresh water that exists in this country, but are quite willing to waste much of it by unnecessarily dispos-ing of things through toilets, according to a study.

A survey commissioned by

the Royal Bank of Canada and

diversi ed product maker Unile-

ver, with the endorsement of the

United Nations Water For Life De-

cade project had 72 per cent of

respondents saying they dispose

of things such as hair, bugs, ciga-

rette butts and food by ushing

them down the toilet.

We should stop using our toilets

as garbage cans, said Bob Sand-

ford, chairman of the Canadian

Partnership Initiative of the UN

Water for Life Decade.

Each ush of a toilet uses six to 20

litres of fresh water, noted Sand-

ford, not to mention the energy

used to move and to treat that

water.

Almost half the water Canadians

use is ushed down the toilet,

the study said. It cited data from

Environment Canada that shows

Canadians use 329 litres of wa-

ter a day per capita. Thats about

double the amount of Europeans,

Sandford said.

There are various ways people try

to justify ushing things not meant

to be ushed, such as not wanting

insects eggs being laid in ones

house or making sure cigarette

butts dont start a re. But theres

always a better way to deal with

such issues, Sandford said.

I dont think you need to use 20

litres of water to put out a ciga-

rette, he said.

Results of the survey, released

Monday, had 55 per cent of re-

spondents saying fresh water is

Canadas most important natural

resource, and 78 per cent claimed

they make reasonable efforts to

conserve it.

Other water-wasting activities

survey respondents admitted to

included leaving the water run-

ning while washing dishes (46 per

cent) and hosing down driveways

(17 per cent).

Sandford said the supply of water,

even in Canada, is not without its

limits. However, it might not be an

easy point to make, especially at

this time of year when lakes and

rivers are at high levels from melt-

ing snow.

However, Sandford said signs of

water scarcity are starting to show

up in places such as Saskatch-

ewan, southern Ontario and the

Okanagan region in British Co-

lumbia. An implication right now,

for example, is that new permits

to use water for food production

or other industrial uses are not be-

ing granted in southern Saskatch-

ewan, he said.

In time, if we dont manage our

water resources ef ciently, there

are going to be places in the

country where availability of wa-

ter is going to limit our social and

economic development in the fu-

ture, Sandford said.

He said some of the moderate lim-

itations on water usage in Canada

now resemble the types of things

that preceded serious shortages

in other parts of the world.

Bryan Karney, a water supply ex-

pert teaching at the University of

Toronto, said its dif cult to imag-

ine Canada as a whole ever expe-

riencing a water shortage, though

that is a risk in certain regions.

Karney added that if one area

runs of out water, replacing it with

supplies from another part of the

country is not so simple.

Moving water in any signi cant

quantity a long distance is ex-

traordinarily expensive, he said.

It requires a pipeline, it requires

infrastructure, it requires energy

and it requires a huge, compli-

cated process of reassessment of

what that water is currently doing

in its (other location).

The study used results of online

polling of 2,066 adult Canadians

conducted by Ipsos Reid between

Jan. 10 and 17.

The researchers said the results

were weighted to re ect Cana-

dian demographics and that an

unweighted sample of this size

would normally be representa-

tive of the population within 2.2

percentage points, 19 times out

of 20.

Derek Abma

STOP DISPOSING OF THINGS SUCH AS HAIR, BUGS, CIGARETTE BUTTS AND FOOD BY FLUSHING THEM DOWN THE TOILET.

green tip H2O SAVINGS:20 litres of fresh water per ush.

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Lets be smart with our power and waste less electricity byrecycling seldom used televisions. To nd a recycling depotnear you, visit return-it.ca/electronics

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WHAT IS THE ELECTRONICS STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (ESABC) PROGRAM?

ESABC is a not-for-profi t extended producer responsibility program set up by the producers and retailers of electronics in British Columbia to provide a province wide recycling system for unwanted electronics.

WHAT ARE THE ACCEPTABLE ELECTRONIC ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAM?

Effective July 1, 2010, the following items can be recycled free of charge at any Encorp Return-It Electronics Collection Site: display devices, desktop computers, portable computers, computer peripherals, computer scanners, printers and fax machines, non-cellular phones and answering machines, vehicle audio and video systems (aftermarket), home audio and video systems, and personal or portable audio and video systems.

ISNT IT IMPORTANT TO REUSE BEFORE RECYCLING?

While the program is designed to manage unwanted electronic products that have exhausted their reuse potential, we strongly encourage users to fi rst reuse their products. If you choose to donate to a charity, make sure you have backed up your data and wiped your drives clean prior to donation.

HOW ARE ELECTRONICS RECYCLED? Electronics collected for recycling are sent to approved primary

recyclers in North America. They are broken down using various manual and mechanical processes. Products are separated into their individual components for recovery. Through a variety of refi ning and smelting processes, the materials reclaimed from unwanted electronics are used as raw materials in the manufacturing of new products.

IF I RETURN MY RECYCLABLE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, HOW DO I KNOW MY PERSONAL INFORMATION WONT BE SEEN OR STOLEN?

For your own personal security you need to take adequate steps to ensure that no private data remains on your electronic products prior to donation or return to a Collection Site. Once an electronic item has been delivered to an Encorp Return-It Electronics Collection Site, it will not be reused. All items collected will be recycled. ESABC, Encorp, or Return-It do not accept any liability for any data that remains on your electronic products.


BC recycles an astounding 80% of its beverage containersEncorp Pacifi c (Canada) believes we can still do better

Environmental

Encorp Pacifi c aims to improve BCs already high recovery rate for beverage containers. As one of BCs largest Product Stewardship Corporation, Encorps mandate is to develop and manage a consumer friendly and cost effective system to recover end-of-life consumer products and packaging for recycling. You probably know them best through the Return -It Depot system.

There are more than 175 indepen-dently owned and operated Return -It Depots and mobile collectors across BC. This system recovers and recy-cles approximately 80% of the bev-erage containers sold in the province. Thats over one billion containers kept out of our landfi lls. But, theres always room for improvement. To continuously increase the recovery of containers, Encorp develops spe-cialty programs.

Bear-proof bins keep BC Parks cleanEncorp has been busy keeping our parks free of littered containers. In the summer of 2009, they tested 57 bear-proof beverage recycling bins in three BC Parks: Rathtrevor Beach, Goldstream and Alice Lake. In 2010, Cultus Lake Park received bins as well. The parks receive the deposit refunds and most are given to their favourite charities. So far 235,800 containers have been collected, refunding over $16,000 back to BC Parks.

Youre never too young to learn about recycling Encorp is looking to the future by teaching kids the value of recycling.

Their School Recycling Program helps elementary and high schools raise money, while promoting environmental action. Now in its ninth year, the school program continues to grow. In the 2010 school year, Encorp beverage container bins were in 365 schools across BC. That means 151,000 students participated in the annual competition to collect the most containers. The schools raised over $291,000 in deposit refunds and the winning schools shared $13,500 in prizes.

Another way Encorp reaches kids is through its school tour and pre-sentation. Last year, the Return-It Man team gave 33 presentations to nearly 6,000 elementary school stu-dents. The fun and entertaining pre-sentations feature interactive sorting games, full audience participation and a Recyclator that shows kids what recycled containers turn into in their next life. Plus every kid gets to learn what it takes to become a recycling hero.

More containers recycled, less in our landfi llsThe BC Parks and school programs are just some of the targeted initiatives Encorp has in the works. Its all part of their vision to divert even more containers from our landfi lls so they can be recycled into useful products. Learn more about Encorp and fi nd depots at return-it.ca.

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