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MP’s e-petitions bill to be debated in HouseAims for support across partisan linesWanda [email protected]

Kennedy Stewart appears to be putting his political science background to good use in an effort to secure support across party lines for electronic petitions to Parliament.

The New Democrat MP for Burnaby-Douglas has tabled a motion to allow the use of e-petitions to open up the democratic process to ordinary Canadians.

Currently, Canadian residents can only submit printed petitions with 25 or more signatures to their MP, who then submits it to the House of Commons. If the petition meets certain criteria the government is required to respond within 45 days with a letter.

Meanwhile, online electronic petitions are used in the U.K. as well as in Quebec.

Stewart’s proposal would see e-petitions with a minimum number of “signatures” collected within a time limit trigger a debate in the House. Such petitions would have to be sponsored by at least five MPs as a check against frivolous or extremist petitions.

Average family to save $200 on dining outWanda [email protected]

The return of the provincial sales tax system will be a welcome respite for the restaurant industry, says the British Columbia Restaurant & Foodservices Association (BCRFA).

The industry has taken a hit in recent years, not least of which was the Harmonized Sales Tax which added seven per cent to restaurant meals, which were previously not subject to PST, said association

president and CEO Ian Tostenson.When the HST came into effect in

July 2010, “we probably saw in the first month a drop off of sales of seven to nine per cent,” Tostenson said. “That wasn’t surprising because when we woke up and HST was implemented I think everybody had a little bit of sticker shock.”

In 2011, the industry was at minus two per cent in sales.

“Basically the industry has not seen any growth since the HST was introduced.”

Tostenson noted that the impact was not all due to the HST but a

number of factors including the recent recession and new drinking-and-driving regulations.

With the return of the PST system, and no sales tax on restaurant meals, the forecasts are for the industry to see growth in the four to six per cent range.

That’s due to a combination of the tax cut—“we never see taxes going down so that’s quite something, that’s a first actually”—and the fact the BC economy is starting to show signs of strengthening.

The BCRFA estimates the average

family will save $200 a year while dining out as a result of the tax going down, he said.

As for the HST, often it was servers who felt the brunt of it, with customers reducing their tips to reduce the hit to their wallets, he said, noting people started to budget more and increase expectations, seeking value. Servers also saw reduced hours as business declined. And while the HST provided efficiencies and benefits to some sectors, the restaurant industry wasn’t one of them.

PST’s return a boost to restaurants

MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER Ross Spence says the HST didn’t have much of an impact on his Chez Meme Baguette Bistro in Burnaby Heights, so he suspects the return to PST, which doesn’t apply to restaurant meals, won’t help his bottom line too much.

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Heights merchants offer chance to win shopping spree

There’s plenty of free parking in Burnaby Heights.

And now it could even pay off to park there.

The Heights Merchants Association is urging visitors to “Park it where your heart is” for a chance to win a $500 shopping spree plus dozens of $15 gift certificates to local merchants.

Entry forms for the big prize are posted on the Heights’ Facebook and Twitter sites, where there will also be clues every Wednesday that can be sleuthed to find the gift vouchers squirreled away amongst the area’s 20 free parking lots.

“The Heights has so much free parking on the streets and in city lots around our shopping area,” says Isabel Kolic, executive director of the Heights Merchants Association. “People think that the malls have all the convenience, but we’d be willing to bet that it’s even easier and quicker to shop closer to home.”

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Those benefiting could write off the HST on goods they purchased for their business, but most of the costs in restaurants are for labour and food, neither of which were taxed to begin with, he said.

“In our perfect world it would have been keep HST but don’t tax restaurants. We had this untaxed

competitor called grocery stores that people said, ‘you know what, we’ll just stay home and eat, not go out,’ and that was our biggest problem.”

The BCRFA has been placing ads reminding people that as of April 1 it costs seven per cent less to eat out, and asking them to support local restaurants.

The restaurant industry is the

third largest employer in the province, with about 170,000 people working in the industry, and “it really has a great effect on the economy in B.C.,” Tostenson said.

In Burnaby at Chez Meme Baguette Bistro on Hastings Street, owner Ross Spence said he doesn’t expect to see much of an impact from the tax cut to restaurant meals.

With the average sale at his restaurant at around $10, the added cost of the HST wasn’t a major issue, Spence said.

Chez Meme opened in 2009, not long before the HST was introduced.

“We’ve increased sales every year.”

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Barber’s film to get award of excellence at festival SaturdayMario [email protected]

Ishwar Maisuria is used to yelling “cut” when he’s sitting in the director’s chair. He’s also used to being told to cut when he’s behind the chair.

The barber’s chair.Maisuria is an

independent filmmaker who’s about to release his second feature, In the End. But his job that pays the rent, and helps finance his passion for making movies, is wielding the scissors at his family’s Burnaby salon, Harmony Hairworks on Sixth Street.

The two worlds have been intertwined since Maisuria was a boy growing up in Fiji.

His parents ran a barber shop in the small town of Labasa and while they were working his babysitter was the movie theatre next door.

Maisuria spent hours in the darkened hall watching everything that came to town, from Star Wars to Bollywood films.

After his family immigrated to Canada when he was 12, Maisuria developed a passion for photography. He spent much

of his high school years again in the dark, learning about composition and exposure, developing film and making prints.

As the real world of adulthood beckoned, Maisuria studied sciences with an eye to becoming a doctor. But his love for film never waned.

So Maisuria ditched his lab coat and enrolled at Vancouver Film School.

His parents, he says, “were shocked.”

With his degree in film production in his back pocket, Maisuria got gofer gigs at Cannell Studios, did a little work as an assistant editor, started writing his first screenplay, a semi-autobiographical story about a new immigrant family.

He also apprenticed at his family’s salon, earning his certification to cut hair as a fall-back. And as a way to finance turning his screenplay into his first feature, First Generation.

Maisuria, 44, is under no illusions of directing his way to a glamourous life of red carpet premieres and palatial mansions. Making self-financed independent films is a hardscrabble business of calling in favours, relying on friends and colleagues willing to

work for a free meal and sometimes dodging the police, as occurred when he overstayed a permit while shooting on location in Burnaby and a neighbour complained.

“You do it quickly, you get in and you get out,” says Maisuria. “You have to improvise and sometimes you have to beg and plead.”

While In the End took Maisuria only 28 days to shoot, its gestation from script to final cut spanned 10 years, interrupted by studying for his Masters of Fine Arts at SFU, learning new digital technology and

dealing with a family health crisis.

The noir suspense drama about infidelity and deception has been screened at film festivals in Mexico and La Jolla, California and on Saturday it will be recognized with an Award of Excellence for a Canadian film at the Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver that features independent productions from more than 90 countries.

Maisuria doesn’t have the luxury of resting on his accolades though. He’s working with a distributor

to try to get the film into theatres and then there’s the development of his next project, this time a semi-autobiographical buddy comedy. It’s only an idea in his head right now, but he’ll flesh it out by bouncing thoughts off his customers in the barber shop, captive in their chairs. And to get it into production, he’ll squirrel away their tips.

• For more about Maisuria’s latest feature go to www.intheendmovie.com

• For more about the Canada International Film Festival go to www.canadafilmfestival.com

MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER Ishwar Maisuria finances his independent films with the money he earns cutting hair at the family salon, Harmony Hairworks. His second feature, In the End, is receiving an award for filmmaking excellence at the Canada International Film Festival.

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Burnaby RCMP are asking for the public’s help in finding a suspect in a road-rage incident in which an elderly man was attacked.

On Sunday at about 8:30 p.m. the incident started in the eastbound lanes of Lougheed Highway and continued onto Gilmore Avenue. The driver of a silver Toyota Echo was tailgating a beige sedan and honking his horn repeatedly.

Eventually the driver of the beige sedan pulled over just south of Dawson Street, followed by the silver Echo whose driver got out of his car

and approached the sedan.The elderly man driving the

sedan rolled down his window to speak with the Echo driver who responded by punching the victim several times before fleeing the scene.

Several witnesses came to the victim’s aid and called police. He was taken to hospital with minor non-life-threatening injuries.

“Although this was a relatively minor assault, due to the circumstances we are taking it very seriously,” says Burnaby RCMP Cpl. Rick Skolrood. “Burnaby is a relatively

safe city and people need to know that this behaviour is completely unacceptable. We are thoroughly investigating this attack but we need help from the public to identify the assailant.”

The suspect is described as a Caucasian man in his late 40s to early 50s with grey hair and a slim build. He was wearing blue jeans and a light coloured shirt at the time of the attack.

Anyone who witnessed the incident or knows the identity of the suspect is asked to call Burnaby RCMP at 604-294-7922 or, to remain anonymous,

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Spokesperson for local plant cites ‘miscommunication’ with Calgary officeWanda [email protected]

While Chevron Canada initially said it hadn’t changed its position on Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline expansion, on further investigation it actually has, says Ray Lord, spokesperson for Chevron’s Burnaby refinery.

Lord contacted the NewsLeader Thursday wanting to acknowledge and clarify the discrepancy.

As reported in the NewsLeader, the change, from a neutral to a supportive stance, is significant because it’s the reason cited by both Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan and Burnaby-Douglas New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart for why they are no longer supporting Chevron at its National Energy Board hearings.

The hearings are for Chevron’s application for a priority destination designation on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline to ensure a steady supply of crude oil for its North Burnaby refinery. The company applied for the status last year in response to ongoing supply shortages due

to it having to increasingly share capacity on the pipeline with other users.

Already it has to bring in crude by tanker truck and is preparing to bring in more by rail.

Both politicians had planned to speak on Chevron’s behalf at the hearings, being held in Calgary over two weeks ending April 5.

But with both being outspoken in opposition to the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs from Edmonton to Burnaby, they felt it would be hypocritical to support Chevron

if it was no longer neutral.

Lord confirmed the company had originally taken a neutral position.

He has since learned that back in January it indicated its support for the expansion during hearings for Kinder Morgan’s commercial tolling application, in which it is attempting to set the rate structure for customers on the eventual twinned pipeline.

“Chevron made that decision during the hearing because it felt that it was required to do so as we were challenging the tolls that would potentially be charged and would apply to Chevron on an expanded pipeline if and when it was built,” Lord said in an email.

In short, the company’s representatives at the hearings decided they couldn’t argue as effectively against Kinder Morgan’s proposed rates

without acknowledging “the fact that the pipeline [and its rates] would apply to us if the pipeline was ever expanded,” Lord said in an interview.

However, a “miscommunication” resulted in that change in stance not being made clear to staff at the Burnaby refinery, he said.

“We certainly understand the city’s position in opposition to the pipeline expansion, we understand that,” Lord said.

“And we certainly understand the withdrawal that the mayor has decided is appropriate for the city to take a stand on.”

He wanted to “set the record straight” and acknowledge that the statements of Corrigan and Stewart on Chevron’s change in position were correct.

“Part of the issue is the realities of the different stakeholder relationships here in Burnaby perhaps aren’t appreciated by the priority destination team as much as they are by us here at the refinery,” he said, “or what the implications of that decision on a change in position might mean in terms of the existing relationships that we’ve established.”

Despite the loss of political support, Chevron’s argument remains the same for its application for priority status on the existing pipeline—it needs a reliable, cost-effective supply of crude to continue its operations, which employ 400 people and provides an annual economic impact to the region of over $70 million spent on local goods and services.


MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER FILESpokesperson Ray Lord looks out over the Chevron Refinery in North Burnaby.

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VICTORIA – The Pacific Carbon Trust orchestrated a months-long campaign of calls and letters to discredit a report from B.C.’s Auditor General on its first two big carbon offset projects, before it could be released.

Just as the audit report was about to be made public, the trust, a Crown corporation created at taxpayer expense, participated in the leaking of selected critical letters to media outlets.

Then the Speaker of the B.C. legislature, Bill Barisoff, made a final, clumsy effort to delay the release of the report.

As soon as it was out, Environment Minister Terry Lake tried to discredit it, by blustering about all the highly paid experts who swore up and down that a forest reserve near Kootenay Lake, and a gas flaring reduction project near Fort Nelson, were bona fide carbon offsets worth $6 million of taxpayers’ money.

The audit states in plain language, with charts and timelines, that the $6 million was basically given away for nothing.

I look forward to further audits on this carbon offset scheme, assuming it survives after the May election, because these two projects aren’t the only boondoggles.

The Pacific Carbon Trust was set up in 2008 as part of former premier Gordon Campbell’s climate change program. To make the B.C. government’s operations “carbon neutral,” the government and all of its agencies were required to pay the trust $25 per tonne for their carbon dioxide emissions from fuel use.

In 2011 alone, B.C. universities paid $4.46 million to the trust. B.C.’s 60 school districts paid a total of $5.36 million the same year, and the province’s six health authorities paid $5.79 million. The money is supposed to go to projects that capture carbon, thus “offsetting” the heating

of schools, the fuel burned by ambulances and so forth.

The 55,000-hectare forest reserve is known as Darkwoods. The audit shows that the Nature Conservancy of Canada decided in 2006 to buy it, using $25 million of federal taxpayers’ money. The deal closed in 2008, the same year the Pacific Carbon Trust was formed.

From 2008 to 2010, the trust bought 450,000 tonnes of carbon offset, based on independent evaluations that all rested on the assumption that Darkwoods would be clear-cut logged.

Since the forest was already owned by Canada’s leading conservancy, this assumption makes no sense. Was the conservancy going to log it, or flip it to someone who would, after accepting $25 million in tax money to acquire it? Legally, it could not.

(I would add that the assumption that logging releases all of the carbon in a forest is also false. Lumber actually sequesters carbon for longer than trees, which eventually die and rot.)

The audit found a similar case

against EnCana’s flare reduction program, which the company used on many wells before the trust started offering money. EnCana was saving money as well as reducing emissions without collecting offsets. Therefore, the audit concluded, neither of these projects was a credible offset because the emissions savings would have occurred anyway.

Here’s the next Pacific Carbon Trust project that should be audited. In a complicated transaction, the trust bought offsets from something called the Great Bear Carbon Credit Limited Partnership. Yes, this is the world-famous forest on B.C.’s North Coast that was subject to a preservation deal hammered out between the Coastal First Nations, the B.C. government and three U.S.-backed environmental groups.

That was in 2006. The offset purchases were in 2009 and 2010, years after detailed preservation areas were mapped and codified in law.

Again, the trust paid for forest that was already preserved.

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It was perhaps fitting that B.C. returned to the Provincial Sales Tax on April Fool’s Day.

The rollout of the Harmonized Sales Tax by then-Premier Gordon Campbell was a colossal bungle during his time in office. The HST was praised by economists as sensible tax policy, and approved by many in the business community as easier to administer. But too many people felt betrayed by the way the tax was introduced, particularly due to the fact it came on the heels of an election where no mention of the HST was made.

And after the damage had been done, and after people learned that, in general, most folks would pay more under the new regime, no attempts at explanation could turn the tide of opposition.

In the summer of 2011, residents had their say in a province-wide referendum, rejecting the HST in favour of a return to the PST.

So here we are, again. Back in a world with two taxes,

the GST with a few exemptions, and the PST with quite a few.

There’s a great explainer on the provinces website to untangle it all—just visit http://gov.bc.ca/pst and click “What’s taxable, what’s not.”

Suffice to say, for many things the average British Columbian will save money with the return to the PST.

On things like home repairs and renovations, child safety equipment, smoke detectors, bikes, movie tickets, golf memberships, haircuts, basic cable, gym memberships and buying a new house, the return of the PST is good news and will mean significant savings.

The unfortunate impact, however, is the loss of the provincial rebate of up to $230 a year for low-income individuals, which now drops to $75.

As usual, the most vulnerable feel the shift most keenly. Meantime, the rest of us will adjust, as we always do.

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Re: Why should I subsidize $10 a day daycare? (Letters, NewsLeader, March 27)

It’s so disappointing to read letters that seem to say young parents are just not trying hard enough and don’t deserve community support. Sadly Norma seems unaware of the very real stats that clearly show it is far more difficult for young people to thrive today than it was in the 1970s. In terms of real wages, housing costs and child care costs, life is simply more expensive now and government investment in services for young parents has not kept pace—although young parents are taxpayers too.

Whether Norma knows it or not, there is a crisis for young families.

Child care costs have reached $1,915/month in Metro Vancouver, quality spaces are difficult to find and early childhood educators earn poverty

wages. It would seem more Canadian-like to appreciate that while my taxes contribute to Norma’s pension and health care services, some taxes should also support an affordable child care system.

We all contribute to the K-12 education system because it is good for all of us in the long run and the same should be true of child care.

High quality child care for children that is affordable for parents and accessible in communities is proven to be a good economic investment.

Norma should talk with the chief economist of the TD Bank of Canada because he’ll tell her that government investment in child care in the best bang for the taxpayers’ buck.

Sharon Elizabeth Gregson

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Last year it was suggested that Canadian housing prices were, on average, approaching an astounding 40 per cent overvaluation.

If that wasn’t sufficiently alarming, then three back-to-back reports which came out earlier this month should be sufficient to send ice-cold shivers of fear through every realtor, mortgage lender and mortgaged homeowner across Canada.

Moody’s, the ratings service, completed an assessment of housing prices in those countries – Spain, the UK, Australia and Canada - where housing prices over the past decade have gone well beyond sustainable market fundamentals. Its analysis contemplates a 44 per cent drop in Canadian housing

prices, given a severe economic shock.

Meanwhile a subsequent report issued by the Toronto Dominion Bank’s chief economist predicts an annual two per cent rise in prices over the coming decade. However, this report also concedes that prices are out of whack with underlying fundamentals.

Lastly, the Canadian Real Estate Association has just come out with its own report, bemoaning that while the number of sales nationally has dropped some 16 per cent this February from last, the average cross-Canada price—if sales from Greater Vancouver were excluded—continues to rise.

So what is going on? How is it that despite what is recognized as a growing affordability gap homes are still being bought at vastly inflated prices? How is it that despite a

substantial drop in sales, prices are not—as might be expected—falling but are in fact continuing to climb?

The answer is to be found within the very-much changed makeup of the Canadian real estate market.

The “traditional” market - last recognized in the last quarter of the last century – was a pure supply-and-demand model driven by families who wanted to own their own home. Since then, steadily rising prices combined with restricted growth in real incomes combined with tightened-up mortgage regulations have all conspired to exclude more and ever more families from home ownership.

At the same time, speculative activities—encouraged by a generous Capital Gain tax regime and a voracious appetite by non-Canadians for ownership of real estate—

have fed each other while driving prices into the stratosphere. Traditional speculation was no threat in the old days of supply-and-demand: you couldn’t sell a property for more than the market was willing to pay, so the secret was in buying as low as possible.

Today there’s no ceiling. We hear anecdotal stories of buyers with, literally, trunks full of cash, and asking prices being jumped up by several hundred thousand dollars. Money, apparently, is not an obstacle.

So if we want to return the market to those who should properly benefit from it—Canadian families—what should be done?

In my opinion, Capital Gain taxation and non-Canadian ownership of real estate are two areas which require a critical review.

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E-petitions would serve to complement and not replace the existing paper petition system.

His motion calls on Parliament’s Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to study the issue, recommend changes and start the process of establishing an e-petitions system within a year

of the vote in the House.Stewart has secured key

endorsements from opposite ends of the political spectrum for his motion, which is scheduled to be debated in the House starting on May 1.

Former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent has stated his support as has Reform Party founder Preston Manning.

“Once I did that I was able to talk to the Conservatives,” Stewart said of gaining the support of Manning, whose party “always talked about grassroots democracy and reform.”

Both Broadbent and Manning are “senior statesmen” who can help influence those who have a vote on the issue.

Stewart, a political scientist on leave from teaching at Simon Fraser University, said his background, as well as that of his wife, political science instructor Jeanette Ashe, have proven helpful in getting the motion as far as it has.

“I wanted to change Parliament not because I wanted to score political points,” he said.

Instead, he wants to engage the electorate and give people a way to be heard by government.

Pointing out that politicians’ careers have a limited lifespan, Stewart said he wants to make a difference in improving the political process while he can.

“If I’m able to make one little change for the good I could probably be happy with that.”

Info: http://kennedystewart.ndp.ca/e-petitions/.


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VICTORIA – The brief era of the harmonized sales tax ended in B.C. Monday, with a last-minute scramble by thousands of businesses to register as collectors of the revived provincial sales tax.

About 100,000 businesses in B.C. are required to register and collect PST from customers. By the Easter weekend, about 80,000 of them had done so, said Naomi Yamamoto, B.C.’s minister of state for small business.

“I think what most consumers will be doing is looking at their receipts,” Yamamoto said Sunday. “In most cases they’ll be paying the same as they did prior to April 1, unless you’re getting your hair cut, or buying

a ski ticket or you’re paying your golf membership or going to a restaurant, or buying a bike.”

The good news for barbers, bike shops, restaurants and other labour service providers is that they see a seven per cent tax reduction. The bad news is that they have to administer two sales taxes.

There are a few anomalies, such as insulation and weatherstripping, where sales tax falls by seven per cent as historic PST exemptions resume Monday, but most retail purchases will remain subject to both GST and PST at a combined rate of 12 per cent.

Yamamoto said businesses can register online by going to www.pstinbc.ca and selecting the registration link. Using

incorporation documents, the process should take about 15 minutes.

Business owners who don’t register immediately can still correct transactions made after the deadline, because the first online remittance of PST is expected at the end of May.

NDP finance critic Bruce Ralston said a statistically average family will be about $350 ahead with the removal of the HST, which was rejected in a mail-in referendum in June 2011. Ralston acknowledged that low-income people will lose the increased HST rebates that have been paid quarterly since the HST took effect in 2010. But he said that will be balanced by the reduced sales taxes they pay in restaurants and other service purchases.

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Border guards take new tack after Wash. legalization voteJeff NagelBlack Press

Pot-smoking B.C. residents are increasingly being banned from entering the U.S. as American border guards try to stem the flow of Canadian marijuana tourists in the wake of Washington State’s weed legalization vote late last year.

Blaine lawyer Len Saunders said he’s seeing more cases of B.C. residents being permanently denied entry after trying to carry pot across the border, thinking it’s no longer an issue.

Because marijuana is now legal to possess under state law, Canadians caught bringing less than an ounce across aren’t charged, as they were in the past.

“I’m seeing no prosecutions – zero since November,” Saunders said. “But there’s more confusion.”

What happens now, he said, is pot-packing Canucks have their stash confiscated and are then interrogated under oath about their drug-using habits.

Admit that you’ve ever smoked or used marijuana in your life, he said, and you’re deemed inadmissable to the U.S. because you’ve confessed to a crime of moral turpitude.

“The key is to not admit that you’ve ever used it,” Saunders said, stressing he isn’t counselling anyone to lie under oath.

He noted anyone could be questioned about past marijuana

use at the border, whether Customs and Border Protection agents find pot on them or not.

Past studies have found a majority of B.C. residents report using marijuana at least once.

Saunders said he’s increasingly had calls from Canadians deemed inadmissable over pot use who say they can’t believe it happened to them and must now apply for a tough-to-obtain re-entry waiver also required for anyone with a criminal conviction

who wants to return to the U.S.

A pot dispensary is expected to open in Blaine, he said, but the licence hasn’t been granted yet.

“It’s legal to possess,” Saunders said.

“So if you make it over the border you can buy it and you can use it.”

Saunders noted Washington’s legalization of pot doesn’t extend to use by minors age 18 or under.

And anyone who brings a “truckload” of pot over the border can still expect to be prosecuted under U.S. federal law.

Ironically, he said, while an admission of marijuana use in the distant past can bar you from the U.S. for life, convicted drunk drivers face no such problem.

“If you have multiple DUIs you are admissable to the U.S.,” Saunders said.

“A DUI is not a crime of moral turpitude because you didn’t have the intention to drive drunk. Because you were drunk.”

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Secrets of the Forest: an Archaeologist Explores the North Shore: Archaeologist Bob Muckle provides an overview of what he and his students have discovered in North Vancouver’s Seymour Valley, along with a selection of the more than 2,000 artifacts that have been recovered from the ground where early residences and logging camps once stood. Seating is limited, please arrive early, no pre-registration. When: Tuesday, April 9, 7 to 8:45 p.m. Where: McGill Branch, Burnaby Public Library, 4595 Albert St., Burnaby. Info: 604 299-8955.

Burnaby’s Got Talent: Burnaby’s District Student Advisory Council presents a fun and entertaining talent show that will feature two finalists from each of Burnaby’s eight high schools. The night will also include a silent auction and some great door prizes. Proceeds to the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness. When: Wednesday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. Where: Michael J. Fox Theatre, 7373 MacPherson Ave., Burnaby. Tickets: $7 and $10, available at [email protected].

51 Shades of Spring: The Burnaby Artists’ Guild is holding its spring exhibition and sale, “51 Shades of Spring,” with featured artist Luise Schulz joining many talented artists in discussing their work and giving demonstrations. When: Friday, April 12, 7-10 p.m., Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6540 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby. Info: www.Burnabyartistsguild.com.

TAKE NOTICE THAT the City Council proposes to adopt Bylaw No. 13181 cited as “Burnaby Highway Closure Bylaw No. 2, 2013” pursuant to Section 40 of the Community Charter. The purpose of the proposed bylaw is to close a portion of Alpha Avenue (entrance off of Lougheed Highway into Brentwood Mall) and a portion of Beta Avenue (north entrance off of Beta Avenue into Brentwood Mall) adjacent to 4515 and 4567 Lougheed Highway (Brentwood Mall) (all those portions of road in District Lot 124, Group 1, New Westminster District, dedicated as road by Plan 1543 and Plan 26085 containing 266.0 m², and dedicated as road by Plan 26085 containing 302.9 m²) shown outlined and described as Parcel A and Parcel B on Reference Plan prepared by Eugene Wong, B.C.L.S.

It is proposed to place this bylaw before City Council for consideration of Final Adoption at the regular Council Meeting scheduled for 2013 May 06.

The proposed Bylaw and Plan may be inspected at the Office of the City Clerk, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, British Columbia, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 8:00 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. and Thursdays between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed bylaw is provided an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting the bylaw to Burnaby City Council by submitting a letter addressed to: Mayor and Council, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C. V5G 1M2. All submissions must be received by the City Clerk no later than Noon, Wednesday, 2013 May 01.

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But province decision against light rail used incomplete infoJeff NagelBlack Press

The provincial government was right to choose SkyTrain technology to build the Evergreen Line to Coquitlam, but it did so with incomplete information, according to B.C.’s Auditor

General. John Doyle’s latest audit concludes SkyTrain and not light rail was the best option because of its greater capacity at similar cost, its easy integration with the existing rapid transit system and because it’s well understood by transit users.

But he also found the 2008 and 2010 business cases for the 11-kilometre line left out information needed to understand the cost, benefits and risks of comparing SkyTrain, light rail and bus rapid transit options.

“They also did not explain that the SkyTrain ridership forecasts were based on assumptions that placed them at the upper end of the estimated range,” Doyle said.

“Omitting this information meant government did not have the opportunity to understand these risks and endorse actions for protecting and enhancing the benefits of the Evergreen Line over its useful life.”

While the $1.4-billion Evergreen Line is already under construction, the findings may influence

the debate underway in Surrey and Vancouver over whether rapid transit extensions in those cities should be done with grade-separated SkyTrain or street-level light rail.

If the province takes the same approach with future lines, Doyle’s audit said, it runs the risk of making different decisions than if it understands all costs, benefits and risks.

Among the concerns raised by Doyle, is that information presented to the Treasury Board didn’t meet the government’s own Capital Asset Management Framework guidelines, and ridership projections were at the top end, and assumed “extensive” investments in other parts of the transit system.

The higher range ridership forecasts for use of SkyTrain in part assumed Broadway and Surrey SkyTrain extensions would be built by 2021, very frequent bus service to Evergreen Line stations and that owning and running a car will be much more expensive in the coming years.

The report noted

TransLink does not yet have committed funding for broader transit expansion.

Nor, it said, has the provincial government yet decided to increase the cost of car use – the province assumed the cost of driving would jump 70 per cent between 2021 and 2031 to 23.5 cents per kilometre, spurring more motorists to take transit.

Despite the information gaps, Doyle said he was “satisfied” the cost estimates for using light rail were in line with comparable North American light rail systems – addressing a key complaint of SkyTrain critics who believe light rail estimates are routinely inflated here due to pro-SkyTrain bias.

The audit also noted the Evergreen Line will carry more riders to the big SkyTrain pinch points at Broadway-Commercial and Main Street stations.

“Not effectively addressing these capacity issues means Evergreen ridership is likely to suffer as downtown commuters face more crowded and less reliable journeys.”

Doyle backed the use of a short-term P3 partnership to build the new line but not operate it, as happened with the Canada Line. Instead TransLink will maintain and run the northeast sector line.

Meanwhile, the province has accepted the results of the audit, and will take steps to carry out the recommendations.

“The Evergreen Line has been studied and reviewed extensively for years by multiple levels of government and transit experts,” Transportation Minister Mary Polak said in a statement.

“We are confident that the Evergreen Line can achieve ridership projections as we have seen with the popularity of the Millennium Line and Canada Line where ridership has met or exceeded projections.”

– with files from Diane Strandberg

SkyTrain right call for Evergreen Line: audit

Mary Polak, Transportation Minister We are confident that the Evergreen Line can achieve ridership projections as we have seen with the popularity of the Millennium Line and Canada Line where ridership has met or exceeded projections.

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Watch as gamers attempt to rewrite history by re-enacting wargames in miniature on April 5 to 7 at Bonsor Recreation Complex in Burnaby.

The 40th anniversary Trumpeter Salute Convention features more than 90 games covering historical periods from Ancient Greeks and Celts

to the Second World War’s Eastern Front as well as science-fiction games with Mechanical Warriors and lasers.

Hundreds of gamers in Metro Vancouver have been playing with the handpainted miniatures on tabletops with model terrain since the 1960s when the Trumpeter Tabletop

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Thousands of hand-painted Russian model soldiers face Napoleon outside Moscow in a recent tabletop miniatures game by members of the Trumpeter Tabletop Society. The society hosts its 40th Annual Convention April 5-7 at the Bonsor Community Centre.

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Burnaby school district is hosting a public meeting on its budget on Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m. at its administration office, 5325 Kincaid St. in Burnaby

The district has a projected shortfall of $6.6 million for next school year.

The community is encouraged to provide input to help the district set priorities as it develops its 2013-2014 budget. Send input to [email protected].

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DigitalServices SpecialistBlack Press B.C. has an immediate opportunity to join our Digital Operations team.Reporting to the VP of Digital Operations, the Digital Services Specialist is a full-time, permanent position based in Surrey, B.C.We are recruiting a champion to develop, implement and support the online tools that will drive traffic, engage and maintain readership for the 90 websites in Black Press B.C.Working with a team of web developers and engineers, you will source, develop then administer resources to empower our newspapers’ staff to manage online content.Among core responsibilities, you will:

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Due to rapid growth, the award-winning Outlook newspaper has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time sales person. The successful candidate must have the ability to build relationships with clients and offer superior customer service. The winning candidate will be a team player and will be called upon to grow an existing account list with an aggressive cold calling mandate. The ability to work in an extremely fast-paced environment with a positive attitude is a must. The candidate will have two years of sales experience, preferably in the advertising industry. The position offers a great work environment with a competitive salary, commission plan and strong benefits package. The Outlook is part of Black Press, Canada’s largest independent print media company with more than 170 community, daily and urban newspapers across Canada and the United States. Please submit your resume with cover letter by Friday, April 5, 2013 by 5:00 pm.To: Ad Manager, The Outlook [email protected] fax: 604 903-1001 #104 – 980 West 1st Street North Vancouver, BC V7P 3N4

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Donald’s Fine Foods is a family owned company providing specialty meat procurement, processing, and distribution of our quality products and services from three sites to customers in Western Canadian and International Markets. Our production and distribution facilities work in partnership to deliver an exceptional product.Donald’s Fine Foods has built the business around our mission and core values of integrity, quality, innovation, superior customer service and our dedicated staff. We currently have an opportunity in our IT Department for a self-motivated, results-oriented individual who would be a positive addition to our dedicated staff.The System/ Network Administrator would work as part of our current IT employee base assisting all of DFF’s staff with system and network administration, on site and remote assistance, desktop and Ethernet ready device support. Our current computer network consists of 100 workstations and servers spanning three different locations, Richmond, B.C., Langley B.C. and Moose Jaw, SK.Donald’s Fine Foods offers the successful candidate a competitive compensation package, excellent employee benefit program, RRSP and an employee development plan including, regular performance feedback, a comprehensive development/improvement process, recognition for your team and individual accomplishments and specific developmental activities to ensure continued learning and development. We require a self motivated, independent individual who can maintain the company’s IT infrastructure needs with confidence and a professional attitude. This individual is someone who thrives in a challenging, productive environment built on respectful collaboration and will strive to complete tasks promptly and adhere to deadlines.

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111 CARETAKERS/RESIDENTIAL MANAGERS

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114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING

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125 FOSTER/SOCIAL CARE

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134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

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156 SALES

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160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

COMMERCIAL ROOF / REPAIR FOREMAN

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160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

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PERSONAL SERVICES

173 MIND BODY SPIRIT

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182 FINANCIAL SERVICES

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188 LEGAL SERVICES

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

242 CONCRETE & PLACING

PLACING & Finishing * Forming* Site Prep, old concrete removal

* Excavation & Reinforcing* Re-Re Specialists

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Call: Rick (604) 202-5184

257 DRYWALL

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260 ELECTRICALYOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call Lic #89402 Same day guarn’td We love small jobs! 604-568-1899


115 EDUCATION

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260 ELECTRICAL

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281 GARDENING

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283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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A-1 CONTRACTING. Renos. Bsmt, kitchens, baths, custom cabinets, tiling, plumbing, sundecks, fencing,

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288 HOME REPAIRS

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It can’t be done

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SERVICE CALLS WELCOME

320 MOVING & STORAGE

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329 PAINTING & DECORATING

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338 PLUMBING

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• Plugged Drains 778-862-0560

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24hr. Emergency ServiceC & C Electrical Mechanical

604-475-7077

10% OFF if you Mention this AD! *Plumbing *Heating *Reno’s *More Lic.gas fi tter. Aman: 778-895-2005

341 PRESSURE WASHING

POWER WASHINGGUTTER CLEANING

SAME DAY SERVICE AVAILABLE Call Ian 604-724-6373

Always! Power Washing, Window & Gutter cleaning, all your exterior cleaning needs. 604-230-0627

353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

EXCEL ROOFING LTD. All kinds of roofi ng work. Reroof, New, Repairs. Free est. (778)878-2617



353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTSEastcan Roofi ng & Siding

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Mainland Roofi ng Ltd.25 yrs in roofi ng industry

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FIVE STAR ROOFINGAll kinds of re-roofi ng & repairs.

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356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

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Serving MetroVancouver Since 1988

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359 SAND, GRAVEL & TOPSOIL

Always! Delivering Top Soil, Bark Mulch, Sand and Gravel, Spreading services. Simon 604-230-0627

372 SUNDECKS

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374 TREE SERVICES

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PETS

477 PETS

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ITALIAN MASTIFF(Cane Corso) P/B blues, ready to go, 1st shots,

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(604)308-5665

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Purebred Bernese Mountain dog pups, not reg. Chilliwack family raised, all shots $900 604-845-2125

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

548 FURNITURE

MATTRESSES starting at $99• Twins • Fulls • Queens • Kings

100’s in stock! www.Direct Liquidation.ca (604)294-2331

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560 MISC. FOR SALE

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STEEL BUILDING - BLOWOUT CLEARANCE SALE! 20X22 $4,188. 25X26 $4,799. 30X34 $6,860. 32X44 $8,795. 40X50 $12,760. 47X74 $17,888. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

566 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Piano: GERARD HEINTZMAN up-right piano. $200/obo. Good cond. (604)272-9951

REAL ESTATE

603 ACREAGE

America’s Best Buy!20 Acres-Only $99/mo!

$0 Down, No Credit Checks,MONEY BACK GUARANTEEOwner Financing. West Texas

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627 HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSES!Older House • Damaged House

Moving • Estate Sale • Just Want Out • Behind on Payments

Quick Cash! • Flexible Terms! CALL US FIRST! 604-657-9422

REAL ESTATE

639 REAL ESTATE SERVICES

• DIFFICULTY SELLING ? •Diffi culty Making Payments?

No Equity? Expired Listing? Penalty? We Take Over Payments! No Fees!www.GVCPS.ca / 604-786-4663

RENTALS

700 RENT TO OWN

STOP RENTING! RENT TO OWN!No Qualifi cation Required!

FLEXIBLE TERMS!Cloverdale 60th &176th Spacious

708sf. 1 bdrm. Condo. Only $880/mo. Option Fee Req. 604-657-9422

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

Bright 2 bdrm apt.

Large 2 br located in a Central Coq Co-op.

$810/mo. No subsidy.Close to transit, schools,

and shopping.

Sandy 604 945 5864 [email protected]

BURNABY, Linden Glen Apts. 7052 Linden Ave. Spacious & bright Studio, 1 & 2/bdrms. Incl heat & HW. Near Highgate. Cats ok. (604)540-2028 or 778-552-5325

BURNABY, Lougheed Mall, totally reno’d beautiful 1/bdrm, 7th fl oor. $960 incl. HW 604-469-0269

BURNABY

Park Crest Apts.1 & 2 Bedroom Reno’d suites located in upgraded blding in cul-du-sac. Next to large green space. Incl’s heat, hot water and basic cable. Walk to High-gate mall. Quiet and clean. Cat okay. Deposit required. For viewing....

Call 604-540-6725

CLEAN SPACIOUS SUITES1 & 2 Bdrm SuitesCentrally Located,

1/2 blk-Metrotown MallFull time caretaker.

MOVE IN TODAY!!!CALL ANYTIME TO VIEW

778-323-0237 COQUITLAM

Welcome Home !

1 Bedrooms available near Lougheed Mall and transit. Rent includes heat & hot water. Sorry No Pets. Refs required.

Call (604) 931-2670

New West. Crown Manor 430 – 9th Street.

1 bdrm apart, on site laundry, 1 parking spot.

Close to shops, all amens, great loc. Heat

& hot water incl. $775/m. 604-451-6676

NEW WESTMINSTER

Large newly renovated 1, 2 & 3 bdrm. units available from $950 in well-kept concrete building. New fl oors and appl’s. Freshly painted. Patio and large storage room inste. 3 laundries in bldg. Rent incl’s heat & hot water. Sauna & ja-cuzzi. 5 min. walk to skytrain, Douglas College & New West Quay. Close to all amenities.

Please call 604-834-1756 www.aptrentals.net

711 CO-OP RENTALS

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HOUSINGCO-OP ORIENTATION

Do you want to live in the security of a

family community?

Woodland surroundings, on Forest Grove Drive. Good location, close to schools, SFU and Lougheed Mall. No subsidies available. $10 appli-cation fee. Maximum housing charges; 2 bdrms $919/mo. 3 bdrms. $1029/mo. & 4 bdrms. $1134/mo. Shares $2500.

NO SUBSIDIES AVAILABLEOrientation:

Sunday, April 7th1:30 p.m. at

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715 DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

PORT MOODY 1 bdrm duplex near walking trails & beach, 2 car pkng, ns/np, avail now. 604-469-2150.

736 HOMES FOR RENT

MAPLE RIDGE - 5200 sf house, 4 bdrms, 3 -1/2 bthrms, 2 car carport, extra parking in yard, games rm with wet bar & sauna. $2200/mo + utils & damage dep. (604)463-7116

750 SUITES, LOWER

Coquitlam SE - 1 bdrm suite, brand new. n/s, n/p. Prefer mature single. $750/mo. (604)889-6636

E. Burnaby- 2 Brand New Suites, 2 bdrm $1150, 1 bdrm $800, incl. util. & laundry, 9 ft’ ceil, ground lvl, fenced yard, close all amen. & tran-sit, N/P,N/S, Available Now! 604.773.5507

752 TOWNHOUSES

PITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1030/mo - $1134/mo. Shares req’d. Close to WCE, schools & shopping. No subsidy available. 19225 119th Ave. For more info & to book an appt. call 604-465-1938

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810 AUTO FINANCING

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845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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Did you know...fruits and veggies can help reduce the risk of cancer?

For more health tips, visit www.kinsgreen� ghters.com!

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Brentwood Town Centre58 - 4567 Lougheed Hwy Beside IHOP604.298.8299OPEN same as mall hours

Royal City Centre103 - 610 6th StreetNear Dollarama604.520.9923OPEN same as mall hours

Lougheed Town Centre206 - 9855 Austin RdBeside Purdy’s604.420.0788OPEN same as mall hours

Marine Way Market200-7515 Market CrossingBurnaby, Beside PriceSmart604.432.6199OPEN 9am to 8pm

Now Hiring Shift Leadersat Royal City Centre and other locations. Great bene� ts and advancement opportunities.

FAX: (604) 272-8065 EMAIL: [email protected]

Prices e� ective: April 3rd to April 7th, 2013 *While Quantities Last

Sweet & Juicy

Seedless Mini Watermelons

2/$4.00Mexico Grown

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Nutritious & Delicious

Asparagus

BUNCHES/$4.00Mexico Grown

Fresh & Sweet

Strawberries (1lb)

BOXES/$5.00California Grown

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Healthy & Tasty

Field Tomatoes

69¢/lbMexico Grown

Convenient & Super Healthy

Sweet Kale Salad Kit

$3.99 eaCalifornia Grown

Fresh New Item!

burnaby newsleader, april 03, 2013

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restaurant industry

hst didnt

harmonized sales tax

restaurant meals

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