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‘Harper proving NDP’s case’Grant [email protected]

The federal New Democratic Party thinks Canada should scrap the Senate.

And Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his party continue to provide more reasons why that should happen soon, says Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian.

In recent weeks the residency qualifications of Conservative senators Patrick Brazeau, Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin and Liberal Mac Harb have been called into question.

On Thursday, Harper removed Brazeau from the Conservative caucus after he was put in jail while police investigated reports of domestic violence.

“The poor character of the people he has chosen has done more to tarnish the reputation of the Senate than anything before this,” said Julian from Ottawa on Friday.

“What he has done very effectively is he is making the case for abolishing this very archaic institution and for stopping what the Conservatives have been doing all along which is making this a partisan chamber. It’s just absurd.”

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As Michael J. Fox Theatre marks its 20th year, retired Burnaby school district superintendent Elmer Froese recalled it was a minor miracle that the school it’s connected to got built at all.

When planning started for a new Burnaby South secondary in the late 1980s, it had many cards stacked against it.

The student population of the district was half what it had been in 1972 when Froese took the helm.

The Social Credit government was in a period of budgetary restraint. And the neighbourhood around Rumble Street and MacPherson Avenue was largely industrial, what homes were nearby belonged mostly to greying, empty nesters.

Referring to the disappearing student population, Froese said, “we had to do something.”

That something ended up being Burnaby South 2000, a strategy to revitalize and renew the district’s high schools by taking maximum advantage of technology, with a new

South being something of a flagship for the new approach.

For the first time, Burnaby companies B.C. Tel and IBM partnered to make it happen on the high-tech end, starting with Cariboo Hill and Alpha secondaries.

But the idea of building a new school when the existing South and other Burnaby high schools weren’t full and the government was cutting back?

“It was, in the minds of many people, crazy,” Froese said.

“To have a theatre as part of that

project was pie in the sky.”What would become Michael

J. Fox Theatre was far from a reality but even then, there were staunch supporters of building a professional-level theatre, such as then-school board chair Carol Jones,.

“I had an ally in her saying, ‘you don’t build a big high school if it doesn’t have a proper performing facility and we need a theatre and it’s got to be a real theatre,’” Froese said.

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While Burnaby had its fair share of athletic facilities, the city lacked arts facilities, he said. Efforts to build a theatre even included a referendum but when it failed to get enough votes, city hall gave up. James Cowan Theatre was renovated instead, eventually incorporated into the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, but it still didn’t have a fly-tower or other infrastructure needed for a professional venue.

The new South was designed with a theatre in it, but “the education ministry was not excited about theatres,” Froese said. “As a matter of fact it was probably the first thing to get chopped as soon as the budget had to get trimmed back.

“My wife will tell you the number of times I came home from planning and committee meetings and said, ‘[the theatre is] dead, it’s gone.’”

The prognosis for the stage facility remained poor until one serendipitous day when the new deputy minister of education, Sandy Peel, turned up in Froese’s office.

The Jericho School for the Deaf in Vancouver had been the subject of allegations of abuse in its boarding school and Peel

wanted Burnaby school district to take over its management.

Peel explained that the ministry was pleased with Burnaby’s success in running schools at Oakalla Prison and the Willingdon Youth Detention Centre, and thought it would be a good fit.

Froese saw an opportunity and seized it.

He said no to managing Jericho but proposed including a new provincial school for the deaf in the plans for South. He touted the technology component as well as a proper theatre as ideal learning tools for deaf students.

Peel was sold and thereafter helped make the project happen at the ministry.

Today, the adaptations throughout South don’t seem out of the ordinary, but they’re significant and belie their state-of-the-art status of the early 1990s—video screens throughout the corridors displaying announcements, both for hearing and non-hearing students, for example.

The theatre, meanwhile, is double-raked, with the sloped portion closest to the stage designed so deaf students can sit up front to read the

sign-language interpreters and participate in what’s happening. Infrared wireless technology also connects microphones to headsets in the audience.

Response to the theatre and school when they opened in the fall of 1993 was positive, but the venue didn’t start making a name for itself until its famous acting namesake lent it his name, said John White, retired director of instruction and vice-chair of the Michael J. Fox Theatre Society’s board.

It was originally called “The Theatre at Burnaby South,” said White. But thanks to local restaurateur and nightclub owner Sev Morin, who knew the Fox family and proposed the idea, Michael J. Fox allowed the theatre to bear his name in 1995.

The only disadvantage—often being confused with the Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam—has been far outweighed by the benefits of the name and profile.

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Unique service roasts on-site in just 20 minutesWanda [email protected]

Victor Winterfeld is an admitted perfectionist.

That helps explain how he and his wife Karen went from running Gold Coast Coffee for 12 years, delivering coffee supplies to clients, to learning how to roast the beans himself.

Their office customers liked his roasts so much, the Maple Ridge resident decided to take his creations to the masses.

Their new coffeehouse in Burnaby, Coffee R2O (for “roasted to order”), is the result.

Located in an industrial neighbourhood at 2345 Douglas Rd., just south of Lougheed Highway, it serves the requisite coffee drinks and baked goods. But it’s their custom-roasted beans that’ll get

coffee connoisseurs’ hearts beating faster from more than just the caffeine.

With his fluid-bed roasters, Winterfeld will roast in batches as small as two pounds, enough to supply an average coffee drinker for two to three weeks.

Customers choose what kind of beans they want—their origins range from Brazil and Ethiopia to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea—whether they want to blend more than one type, and the darkness of the roast.

Then they sit back and wait about 20 minutes, or they can order it and have it delivered.

Like any other perishable, coffee is best when it’s fresh, said Winterfeld, 47.

“When you pick up a bag of coffee in the grocery store, you don’t know how old it is, when it was roasted.”

In fact, Winterfeld’s

custom roasts are so fresh, he suggests customers ideally wait one to four days (the darker the roast, the longer) to allow the beans to off-gas excess carbon dioxide, which can

add acidic notes to the coffee.

“It’s like bread. You can’t eat bread right when you get it out of the oven, you let it cool.”

And of course, best

results come from grinding the beans just before brewing. Not only does it make a better final product, but whole beans stay fresher longer than ground coffee.

The customization options are endless. Winterfeld noted that he uses decaffeinated beans produced through the Swiss-water process at a plant nearby in Burnaby. Custom decaf blends are possible, such as half regular and half decaf for those who are looking for just a little less of a pick-me-up effect.

Winterfeld is happy to share his knowledge of coffee and the roasting process and help customers get exactly what they want in their custom product.

But while he’s providing a unique service to coffee aficionados, don’t expect to hear him criticize the giants of the industry.

“If it wasn’t for Starbucks, people like me wouldn’t be here. They revolutionized the industry. I want to revolutionize it again.”

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The money was originally earmarked to pay the theatre’s debt, but now that that’s paid off, it’s used for capital expenditures as well as scholarships for aspiring young performers from Burnaby schools, White said.

When not being used by the school itself—it is alloted 350 hours of use per year—the theatre serves as a roadhouse for shows in which the producers bring in all their own equipment.

It currently accommodates an average of 350 shows a year, making it probably the busiest theatre in the Lower Mainland, White said.

At 613 seats, the facility fills a niche in the regional theatre community—larger than the 285-seat James Cowan Theatre

at the Shadbolt Centre, and other spaces in the Tri-Cities, but more intimate than the approximately 1,200-seat Massey Theatre in New Westminster.

One of the advantages of it being a roadhouse is that the shows bring their own audiences with them, with people coming from all over the Lower Mainland to watch Chinese opera or kids’ dance competitions, for example.

For Burnaby students, they not only get to take the stage of a high-calibre facility, elementary students go there to watch touring performances.

“Very high expectations are placed on their behaviour in the theatre,” said White, suggesting students from the district might be among the best-behaved audiences around.

As for Froese, he summed up the “very satisfying experience” of getting the school built this way: “The new school was like designing a gold ring. The theatre was literally adding a big diamond.”

Until Froese retired in 1996, he used to delight in taking international delegations on tours of the school, it was so well regarded.

He recalled with a laugh taking dignitaries such as the minister of education for Malaysia on tours of South and, without any fanfare, leading them through a door to the theatre.

“They would literally gasp and they would say, ‘in a school?’”

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Burnaby RCMP’s property crimes unit is so busy, the force has created a special break and enter task force.

“The protection of people’s property is one of our highest priorities,” said chief superintendent Dave Critchley in a press release. “Burnaby RCMP has no intention of allowing these crimes to continue unchallenged.”

On Feb. 1 the Burnaby RCMP issued a warning about several incidents of theft from central mailboxes at two different locations in North Burnaby.

The task force will be lead by staff sergeant Andy Leclair. Members of the public with any information about recent break-ins to homes or businesses can call the Burnaby RCMP at 604-294-7618.

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Historical photographs depicting the Japanese-Canadian internment are now available for viewing online through the Burnaby-based Nikkei National Museum.

The project has put more than 2,000 photos online, thanks to the Irving K Barber British Columbia History Digitization Program at the University of British Columbia.

The images record the forced removal from the B.C. coast of more than 22,000 Canadians of Japanese heritage into internment camps starting in early 1942. Many families were separated, and homes, businesses and personal belongings were seized, and later sold.

They were forced to live in harsh conditions in remote, mountainous areas of central B.C. until the end of the war, when they were given the option to move east of the Rockies or go to Japan. Their freedom was restricted until they were given the right to vote in 1949.

The museum has now provided online access, through nikkeimuseum.org, of 2,144 historic internment-related photographs, 219 artifacts and 104 audio tapes.

“The images vary from remote mountain settlements,

to family activities, work life and special events,” said Beth Carter, director-curator of the museum, in a press release. “We hope these new online resources will help facilitate a greater recognition and a better understanding of internment camps, and the harsh conditions endured by the Japanese Canadian community in the 1940s.”

Gogos seek your pennies

With the penny going out of circulation, the Burnaby Gogos are collecting them as part of a coin drive called Change for Change.

The funds raised will support African grandmothers who have stepped in to care for grandchildren and thousands of other children orphaned by AIDS. Already, Burnaby Gogos have sent $2,000 worth of coins to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign to help fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Gogo means grandmother in Zulu. Burnaby Gogos is a group of local women which belongs to a network of similar grandmother groups.

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Bonney now with the Builders

Brian Bonney has been appointed the new chief executive officer of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of British Columbia (CHBA BC), effective Feb. 25.

Bonney was perviously director of provincial affairs for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, vice-president for Uniserve Communications and director of communications with the provincial government.

As well as previously owning and operating two telecom companies, he has also been active in politics with the BC Liberals, and at the civic level, having run unsuccessfully for mayor in 2002 under the Team Burnaby banner and for council in 1993 with the Burnaby Voters Association.

“I look forward to working closely with CHBA BC stakeholders, all levels of government and of course, our members, to continue to promote excellence in residential construction throughout the province,” Bonney said in a press release.

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The Conservative federal government is pledging new justice reforms to indefinitely lock up highly dangerous mentally ill offenders who were found not responsible for their crimes.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement Friday in Burnaby alongside Darcie Clark, whose three children were killed five years ago in Merritt by her deranged ex-husband Allan Schoenborn.

The Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act tabled by the government tightens provisions for the release of offenders like Schoenborn.

Courts will now be able to use a new category of high-risk mentally disordered accused.

Instead of annual reviews by provincial review boards to determine if they’re fit to be released, a judge can order the

offender be held for up to three years before a review.

And offenders with that designation would not be released unless a judge agrees.

The courts will also be able to ban provincial review boards from issuing controversial unescorted day passes to designated offenders.

Schoenborn, who is in a psychiatric hospital in

Coquitlam, is slated for his next annual review Feb. 15.

“These reforms cannot undo the terrible things that have been perpetrated on victims like Darcie Clark and her children,” Harper said.

“Buy they will help her and other victims regain control of their lives.”


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VICTORIA – Imagine a province where party leaders are chosen in an independently supervised vote, with 12-year-olds, dead people and pets prevented from voting.

Imagine a province where roving gangs of influence-seekers aren’t allowed to join multiple parties, and the rule is actually enforced. One where corporations and unions have to advertise in their own name instead of financing political parties and then disclosing millions in donations months after the election is over.

Imagine a province where elections are held based on audited financial statements, not a collection of election promises that will be dismissed as a work of fiction by the new regime if the incumbent party is defeated.

A cat joined the B.C. Liberal Party to support Christy Clark. Adrian Dix won the NDP leadership with the help of bags of $10 bills stapled to new memberships. As parties go to online voting, multiple PIN numbers may be activated from the same phone number or the same address.

These and other glaring problems with our party-based political system were highlighted last week in a set of reforms proposed by three independent MLAs. Vicki Huntington broke the party choke-hold on B.C. politics by getting elected as an independent in Delta South in 2009. Bob Simpson was kicked out of the NDP caucus shortly after winning re-election for the party in Cariboo North, because he dared to criticize then-leader Carole James for a lack of policy specifics.

They were belatedly joined by Abbotsford South MLA John van Dongen, who quit the B.C. Liberals in an orchestrated move to the B.C. Conservatives, and then quit that party soon after. Van Dongen does not have the credibility of the others to speak on integrity, given his self-serving party antics and his questionable

decision to hire his fiancée and pay her one and a half salaries to serve as his constituency assistant.

Leaving that aside, there are some good ideas in the independents’ reform package. One is to give backbench MLAs a meaningful role in policy-making.

Simpson gave the example of Prince George MLA Shirley Bond’s term as education minister, where she had to reverse ministry policies that didn’t make sense in rural school districts. The all-party standing committee on education could have prevented this error, he said, but it didn’t because it never meets.

The party voting irregularities described above could be addressed by giving Elections BC authority to supervise party leadership votes, the way it does elections and referenda. There are unknown costs for this, and other problems. For instance, should the Marijuana Party be subject to this, or the Work Less Party, should either one muster enough organization to stage a leadership contest?

The independents had high

hopes for one fundamental reform, moving B.C.’s set election date from the spring to the fall.

This would take a simple amendment. The idea is for the government to table the annual budget, present the audited public accounts for the previous year, then have an election that rests on tested financial statements and initial results for the current forecast.

Both the B.C. Liberal Party and the NDP have expressed support for this idea. The independents suggest that this brief three-week legislative session is a good time to do it, so the next government can implement it.

I asked Mike de Jong, the B.C. Liberal finance minister and house leader, if he would consider it.

He allowed that it is interesting, but it’s not contemplated for the pre-election session. That will be dominated by returning the provincial sales tax, and the usual jousting over untested spending and revenue proposals.

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Independent MLAs have a dream

It took a cultural shift to battle drinking and driving, perhaps it’s time to make another shift so fewer pedestrians die in our streets.

As with drunk driving, we can do that by changing laws, attitudes and public perception.

Tougher laws and costly penalties made it unacceptable to drink and drive. Groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving got behind campaigns, and programs such as Operation Red Nose made it easier for people to make the right choice during the holidays. Corporations launched campaigns to make it cool to be the designated driver and drivers—forewarned—changed their behaviour.

It may take similar efforts to reduce the number of pedestrian fatalities, which last year totalled 63, according to the BC Coroner’s Service. That’s almost the same number of people who were killed by drunk drivers last year, yet where’s the outcry?

The sad fact is it’s walking seniors, 70 years and older, who die the most often in a collision with a car. Where do most of these fatalities occur? At intersections and marked crosswalks. When? In December and January, when it’s dark and rainy. In fact, people of all ages are at greatest risk during this province’s gloomiest months.

Pedestrians need to understand that there are no safe intersections or crosswalks. Adults must apply the same safety rules they teach their kids: be aware of your surroundings, look both ways, make eye contact with drivers. And sorry, seniors, old age is not an exemption from the crucial lessons we direct at our youth.

But it doesn’t stop there: Driver education must be be enhanced, laws toughened and outwear must be reflective, or at the least lighter.

Pedestrian fatalities aren’t any less serious than drunk driving deaths. So why are they treated that way?

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COMMENTRe: Mayor speaks out about shelters (Column, NewsLeader, Feb. 1)

I agree with the mayor that there needs to be appropriate places for people residing in a shelter to go in the long term.

But I suspect we have different understandings of what a “permanent shelter” is. My understanding of “permanent” is that there is a place to go 365 days a year where people without a place to sleep can get connected with the people and resources they need to get on their feet again. It seems the mayor is using the term to mean a permanent address for those “beyond hope.”

I don’t think the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness shares the mayor’s impression of what a “permanent homeless shelter” would look like, although I suspect such places are often at risk of becoming so.

I question the mayor’s notion that people needing shelter throughout the year are “by and large beyond hope.” Certainly, many potential users of a shelter will be suffering from a mental illness or drug addicted, but there are others that often require a safe place to sleep temporarily and need to get connected with services. Specifically, there are the hidden homeless: couch-surfing teens at risk of getting involved in illegal activities, women and children trapped in abusive relationships, the unemployed, seniors on fixed incomes and individuals without families that fall victim to long-term illness. Helping all those who need assistance requires cooperation and trust among a host of service providers which will include the health authority, the police, school district, social workers, non-profit societies, volunteers, business and the community in general.

With regard to the hardest to house, arguably the drug addicted that often have other accompanying

issues, we need a plan that first of all gives these individuals an address.

This is a first step to getting connected to social, health and educational services. Ideally, within days of arriving at a shelter, individuals would get connected to the health and social services they require and relocate to a more suitable place in the community to continue recovery.

When ready, an individual would get help connecting with employers in the community and offer their skills in exchange for the dignity of a paycheque. For such a plan to succeed, we need greater cooperation and monitoring at the local level.

A permanent emergency shelter is one piece of a much needed larger strategy to ensure all members of the community have a roof over their heads.

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It was shocking to read the story about the tenant with a mental illness. I have had a similar situation in my building, a strata in Burnaby.

It involved the people who lived on the floor above my apartment. The two were in their mid twenties, and the boyfriend would from time to time abuse his girlfriend. He would yell, drag her across the floor, and she would be crying.

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“Something here is very wrong,” Harper said.

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Provincial review boards will now be able to better restrict the movements of offenders it does release, by ordering they not have contact with victims

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A coalition of mental health groups urged Ottawa to carefully consider the need to promote the recovery of mentally disordered offenders while pursuing public safety aims.

“These changes will unnecessarily heighten the public’s fears, increase negative stigma around mental illness and ultimately undermine the reintegration of [not criminally responsible offenders] without increasing public safety,” said Schizophrenia Society

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He said offenders declare not criminally responsible account for just 0.001 per cent of all criminal charges and they have a far lower rate of recidivism – around five per cent – compared to more than 40 per cent for regular convicts serving federal time.

SFU restorative justice expert Brenda Morrison said the legislation puts more focus on victims instead of offenders, but much will depend on how the government implements it.

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Feb. 23 will be Rotary Day in Burnaby.

The international community service organization comprised of business people and professionals is celebrating its 100th anniversary in British Columbia.

It has been a part of Burnaby for 66 years.

In that time the city’s three Rotary clubs have contributed to such projects as the Rotary walkway and viewing tower at Burnaby Lake, the playground

at Fraser Foreshore Park, the Rotary House for disabled persons, Rotary Rollers graffiti paint outs, Coats for Kids, the Brentwood Festival of Lights and Edmonds School’s Santa breakfast.

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The non-competitive event will take place at and around CG Brown pool, starting with a swim, followed by a bike ride on a closed course around the Burnaby Lake sports complex and a run around the fields. Distances vary according to age group.

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TAKE NOTICE THAT the City Council proposes to adopt Bylaw No. 13175 cited as “Burnaby Highway Closure Bylaw No. 1, 2013” pursuant to Section 40 of the Community Charter. The purpose of the proposed bylaw is to close a 4.0m portion of unconstructed Seventeenth Avenue road allowance adjacent to 6084 Marine Drive (all that portion of road in District Lot 155A, Group 1, New Westminster District, dedicated by Plan 1425 containing 170.5m²) shown outlined on Reference Plan prepared by Robert G. Flynn, 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 March 18.

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 March 13.

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Burnaby-based G&F Financial has once again been selected as one of British Columbia’s top employers.

It’s the second consecutive year the credit union has been recognized by the editors of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in their annual evaluation of employers’ physical workplace and atmosphere, benefits, vacation and leave policies, employee communication, performance management, skills development and community involvement. G&F was noted for its career development programs, education and initiatives promoting employee work/life balance.

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BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix won’t pledge to block new casinos or expansions but says he expects the BC Lottery Corp. to rethink its current approach in the wake of last month’s defeat of a proposed casino in South Surrey.

Asked Thursday if an NDP government would freeze further gambling expansion, Dix criticized the BC Liberal government’s “petulant” response to Surrey city council’s decision Jan. 19 to reject a gaming licence for the proposed South Surrey Entertainment Centre.

“I don’t know if a freeze is what’s required,” Dix said at a stop in Surrey.

“But clearly the lottery corporation, after their difficulties in both Vancouver and Surrey, has to reflect on the issue of casino expansion at this time.”

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Vancouver’s Edgewater Casino into a giant casino at BC Place stadium was defeated by Vancouver council more than a year ago in another contentious battle between gambling opponents and supporters.

“We’ve now had two major setbacks where the lottery corporation was at odds with where the community was going,” Dix said.

“We clearly have to review what’s going on.”

BCLC’s president Michael Graydon and gaming minister Rich Coleman both ruled out any other Surrey casino location after the rejection but said they’d consider other nearby municipalities, including First Nations land, for a similar casino.

The NDP launched B.C.’s casino gambling expansion in the late 1990s, but it really took off when the Liberals took power in 2001 after running on a platform that promised to stop the expansion of gambling.

Back then, there were 2,400 slot machines province-wide.

Now there are close to 12,000 – a five-fold increase over the last dozen years that has included the conversion of old-style bingo halls into “community gaming centres” with slot machines.

Casinos now generate more than $1.5 billion a year for the

provincial government.“There’s no question

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In an interview last week, Coleman denied

he did anything wrong in contacting Surrey councillors in between public-hearing sessions prior to the vote and said he wouldn’t do anything differently.

“I don’t know how we could have done anything any differently,” he said, adding the province believed Surrey council wanted the site off Highway 99 near the Peace Arch border crossing.

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PETS

477 PETS

BEAUTIFUL ST. BERNESE PUPS $750 Healthy, Happy, 1st shots, Vet Check Ready to go Feb. 22/13 www.stbernese.com (604)750-0480

BORDER COLLIE X, born Dec 5th, ranch raised, getting lots of atten. $350. Carol 604-316-4668 or email: [email protected]

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

CHIHUAHUAS, tiny tea cup pup-pies, blonde & white, M/F, 8 weeks, ready now. $700. 604-794-7347

ENGLISH Bulldogs, 8 weeks, 2 fe-male, 1 male. Not reg. $1800. [email protected], chilliwack

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

tails/dew claws done. Ultimate family guardian $800

(604)308-5665

Lab/Shepherd/Rotti x pups, 3M/3F. vet check, dewormed, ready to go, $495. Call 604-864-1004.

MULTI POM puppies, 2 F, 1 M, 7 weeks old. Ready to go. All shots. $550. obo. Phone 604-825-2271.

NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

548 FURNITURE

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

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

*NEW QUEEN MATTRESS SET*Pillow Top in Plastic. Mfr. Warranty Must Sell $200 ~ 604-484-0379

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

560 MISC. FOR SALE

SAWMILLS from only $3997 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.Nor-woodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

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

REAL ESTATE

603 ACREAGE

DEVELOPMENTLAND WANTED

If you would consider selling your property of 3 Acres or more and want maximum value, send the details to: [email protected] will be no pressureand no obligation, but let’s

discuss possibilities.

627 HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSES!Older House • Damaged House

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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

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]

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

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

Coquitlam 996sf 2bdrm 2bath strg same fl r carpet/wood, prkg cls to Coq Ctr Doug College elem schl NP/NS $1236 Mar 1. 604-941-3259

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 WESTMINSTER: West Coast Apt. 520-11th St. Large 1 bdrm w/ small storage room. Incl h/w & heat. By Transit. Cats ok. $735 - $750/mo. 604-540-2028.

736 HOMES FOR RENT

POCO clean 3 bdrm rancher. Near school/amens. $1560. NS/NP, ref’s. Now. 604-805-2768, 604-931-1573

746 ROOMS FOR RENT

POCO - furnished bdrm. shr’d kit. & living area. Quiet house. No Smoke $400/mo. incls. lndry. 604.941.2959

750 SUITES, LOWER

Central Coquitlam 1 bdrm new g/l top of line appls, tile fl rs inste ldry $1100 incl util/net. 604-999-3227

752 TOWNHOUSES

New West- McBride Place. 415 Ginger Drive. 3 bdrm T/H. Family Housing. Close all amens, schls, transit. Pet friendly great loca. $1135/m. Call Now! 604-451-6676

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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TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

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TRANSPORTATION

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

2008 VW GOLF City, 5 spd manu-al, silver, 85,000k. a/c, p/w, $7300/fi rm (604)538-9257

830 MOTORCYCLES

THE ONE, THE ONLY authorized Harley-Davidson technician training program in all of Canada. You’ll work on all types of HD bikes. Quality instruction and state-of-the-art training aids. GPRC Fairview Campus, Fairview Alberta. 1-888-999-7882; www.gprc.ab.ca/fairview.

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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NO. VIC-S-S-121121..............Victoria Registry.........................IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA............. BETWEEN: RUSSELL ANDER-SON AND DAWN ANDERSON PLAINTIFFS.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AND: WADE TODD AND KRIS-TINE CURALL DEFENDANTS ADVERTISEMENT.........................To: Wade Todd and Kristine Curall TAKE NOTICE THAT on January 30, 2013 an order was made for service on you of a Notice of Civil Claim issued from the Victoria Reg-istry of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in proceeding number VIC-S-S-121121 by way of this ad-vertisement. In the proceeding, the plaintiffs Russell Anderson and Dawn Anderson claim the following relief against you: judgment for the damages and costs sought by the plaintiffs in the Notice of Civil Claim. You must fi le a responding plead-ing/response to petition within the period required under the Supreme Court Civil Rules failing which fur-ther proceedings, including judg-ment, may be taken against you without notice to you. You may ob-tain, from the Victoria Registry, at 2nd Floor, 850 Burdett Avenue, Vic-toria B.C. V8W 9J2, a copy of the Notice of Civil Claim, all the plead-ings fi led this action, and the order providing for service by this adver-tisement. This advertisement is placed by Dean P.J. Lawton of the law fi rm Carfra & Lawton, solicitor for the plaintiffs Russell Anderson and Dawn Anderson, whose ad-dress for service is 6th Floor, 395 Waterfront Crescent, Victoria B.C. V8T 5K7.

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