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Liberals take aim at NDP candidateQuestions medical credentialsWanda [email protected]

The BC Liberal Party is calling into question the medical credentials of Burnaby-Lougheed New Democrat candidate Dr. Jane Shin.

Shin has a medical degree and teaches at Vancouver Community College, the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in New Westminster and until last year, B.C. Institute of Technology.

Until recently, her biographical information found online did not list where she completed her medical degree but it now states she graduated in 2007 from the Spartan Health Sciences University in St. Lucia in the Caribbean.

A BC Liberal press release notes that the school’s graduates are prohibited from being licensed to practise medicine in the U.S. states of California, Kansas, Texas, North Dakota and Indiana, and in the U.K. for those who began their studies before Dec. 31, 2008.

The Liberals also claim a Korean Times article stated she graduated from medical school at the University of British

Burnaby-Edmonds hopefuls take questions at Byrne CreekWanda [email protected]

If there’s one thing Burnaby-Edmonds provincial election candidates are clear on, it’s the legalization of marijuana.

For the record, BC Liberal Jeff Kuah said as a former reserve police officer, he is staunchly opposed to legalization. “Taxing it [sales of marijuana] is not in our platform,

no we’re not going to do that.”Incumbent New Democrat MLA

Raj Chouhan said, “personally I can say yes,” especially now that it has been legalized in Washington state. But he stressed the matter is one of federal jurisdiction and not a provincial issue.

The BC Greens’ Wyatt Tessari also supported the idea. “It’s a moral and practical issue, I think it’s time to legalize.”

The question was one of many posed by students at an all-

candidates meeting for the riding held at Byrne Creek secondary

Thursday.On the topic of social

housing, Kuah criticized Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan for getting “in the way” of allowing secondary suites in the city, apparently unaware city hall is nearing the public consultation

stage of a proposal to do just that.Chouhan said affordable housing

is the issue his constituency office most often deals with, noting that

in the last 12 years the Liberals have been in government, the province has stopped building social and subsidized housing.

He called social housing and public education top priorities for the BC NDP. After listing the Liberals’ cuts since 2001 to counsellors, special education and ESL teachers and school closures, Chouhan said, “We’re going to hire 1,000 more teachers to address the issue of class size and class composition.”

Students put candidates on hot seat

MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADERMichael Nicolaisen, 9, releases some of the 50,000 chum salmon fry put into Burnaby’s Eagle Creek at Charles Rummel Park on Saturday.

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Schools to get carbon cash

Mario BartelNewsLeader

Burnaby School Board chair Larry Hayes has been appointed by the BC School Trustees Association to help the Ministry of Education allocate money from its new Energy Ef cient Capital Account to energy ef cient projects by school districts across the province.Hayes will work with the Ministry to develop a formula for distributing the money that comes from carbon offset fees charged to school boards.

Previously those funds had been deposited into the Paci c Carbon Trust and then distributed to third parties such as Encana Corporation to help reduce its carbon emissions.Environment Minister Terry Lake announced the change to the program last week. The new capital account will make $5 million available to school districts for energy ef cient projects that will lower their carbon emissions.That’s good news for B.C. schools, according to BCSTA president Michael McEvoy.

Safety precautions don’t sway opponents

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The Everest Spirit, an oil tanker the

length of two and a half football elds,

nudges slowly under the Second Narrows Bridge.In its bowels is enough

crude oil to ll more than 30 Olympic swimming pools,

loading it down so that it sits 13 metres deep in the

water, close to the carefully prescribed maximum safe draft for the

narrow, shallow channel.

The ship is one of 32 tankers that

last year loaded crude from Burnaby’s

Westridge terminal, the end of an 1,100-kilometre pipeline that runs from

northern Alberta southwest across B.C. to

the Paci c.But Kinder Morgan, which owns the Trans Mountain pipeline,

has big plans to turn the current trickle of oil through

Vancouver’s harbour into a gusher.

It is expected to formally begin the process this spring

to twin the pipeline and

increase its current 300,000-barrel-per-

day capacity to as much as 700,000.

Some would continue to ow to re neries in Burnaby and Washington

State. But export oil bound for tankers is

projected to soar from a current 80,000

barrels per day to 450,000 if the project

proceeds.The number of tankers lling up in

Burnaby could hit 288 in 2016, four

times more than the record 69 crude

tankers in 2010.That prospect has alarmed environmentalists who worry the risk of

a catastrophic spill is increasing and say

Metro Vancouverites never signed on to

become Alberta’s oil port.

Planned oil surge highlights tanker risks

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The 249-metre Everest Spirit makes its way to the Second Narrows Bridge in Burrard Inlet, on its way to Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Terminal in Burnaby.

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Kinder Morgan Canada is expected to soon announce

that it will seek to twin its Trans Mountain Pipeline

between northern Alberta and Burnaby. The twinning

would mean a huge increase in the amount of crude that

transits the pipeline, and in the number of oil tankers

passing through local waters each year. This is the rst of a three-part Black

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Rudy Pospisil has been chased by bandits in Mexico. He’s endured a week of riding his bike in non-stop rain in Oregon. He got a flat tire from a bullet in Los Angeles.

But his quest to ride around the world to raise money for cancer research was almost derailed by bureaucratic paperwork.

Only days before the veteran Burnaby firefighter embarks on the first leg of the second half of his more than 24,000 kilometre journey, his beloved Giant Seek road bike loaded down with bags and panniers stuffed with 30 kilograms of equipment and supplies he’d need to get from Portugal to Turkey was in customs “prison” in Porto, Portugal.

Officials said they wanted more than 600 Euros to release it, as proof he wasn’t importing the bike into the country to be sold.

Not that Pospisil would sell his bike, even if he could.

They’ve been through a lot together, and the Guinness Book of Records’ rules for global circumnavigation state any claim to such an accomplishment must be done on the same bike.

It’s been “quite stressful, as you can imagine,” says Pospisil, who finally got word on Thursday that his bike had been released after a series of phone calls and emails to the Canadian consulate in Portugal and local politicians to intervene on his behalf.

Pospisil’s global quest started as a more modest trip down the west coast to Mexico.

He took on his “Three Countries for Three Cancers” ride as a way to give back after surviving his own battle with the disease, and witnessing first hand the way it had earlier ravaged everyone else in his family, including his dog.

That ride was 3,000 kilometres and climbed more than 21,000 metres.

When he got to the Mexican border he looked at a map, did some quick calculations and surmised if he rode across the southern part of North America to the Atlantic Ocean, he’d have pedaled halfway around the world.

So that’s what he did.“You become hooked,” says

Pospisil. “Your life becomes focused on your survival on the road, where will I get food, where will I sleep, what route will I take, what is the weather.”

After jumping into the Atlantic and dumping some sand and water from the Pacific he’d hauled in his packs, he figured, “you can’t stop at half way, can you?”

This leg of Pospisil’s journey

will take him from Portugal, across Spain on the famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail, into France and then Switzerland where he’ll hook up with some local cyclists to traverse some of the grueling mountain passes of the Alps. He’ll then work his way down to Greece and into Turkey.

Pospisil transports everything

he needs for his trip on his bike, a repair kit, spare parts, food, energy bars, camping equipment, a laptop computer, a compass and water, lots of water.

“I can’t stress enough how difficult and important water is,” says Pospisil. “Without it you run out of gas.”

Along the way he hopes to meet with local firefighters, many of whom have had their lives touched by cancer. The support of the worldwide community of firefighters is what keeps him going through some of his tougher moments.

“It is very lonely on the bike for eight-10 hours every day,” says Pospisil who will return to this firefighter duties

after this leg to save up money and vacation days for the final segments of his global journey, across Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

• To learn more about Pospisil’s ride, including links to his blog and online donations, go to www.firefightercycle.com.

pHOtO COntrIBUteDRudy Pospisil hoists his bike near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco during the North American leg of his global cycling journey to raise money for cancer research. He’s embarking on the European segment on Friday.

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Columbia while a Korean language interview with blogger jonleeblog.blogspot.ca has Shin claiming to have attended the University of Florida. Her BCIT biography also previously stated she studied at Oxford University.

Shin was born in South Korea and immigrated to Canada when she was 11. Her current biography on her campaign website states, “She trained at University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Dalhousie University in Halifax, and John H. Stroger Jr.

Hospital in United States, as part of her comprehensive medical education.”

In an interview last October when Shin won the NDP nomination for Burnaby-Lougheed, she was clear that she is not a practising physician and that she decided to attend medical school after contracting a serious illness when she was 16.

But during her medical training she fell out of love of practising medicine when she found her interactions with patients limited to only about five minutes each.

She turned her attention to academic medicine when she completed her training.

The NDP campaign said in an emailed statement: “Jane Shin completed her Doctor of Medicine at Spartan Health Sciences University, an institution recognized by the Medical Council of Canada. She completed her clinical rotations, almost entirely with honors, at a variety of hospitals in the United Kingdom and in Chicago. Following completion of her Doctor of Medicine

degree, she moved to Vancouver, where she has served as a respected instructor at Vancouver Community College and BCIT.”

A campaign spokesperson said in an email that minor edits were made to Shin’s campaign website and a third-party website to ensure consistency. “The blog post contains an error on the part of the writer.”

She did not graduate from UBC but completed three years of undergraduate studies in science there before transferring to her medical program.

“The BC Liberals are attacking this young woman personally to distract attention from their record, and the lack of credibility of their plan,” said the NDP.

“I try not to pay attention to these attacks, but obviously it doesn’t feel good to have your background unfairly questioned,” Shin said in an emailed statement Monday.

“I worked very hard to earn my Doctor of Medicine degree, and I’m proud of my medical education and my decision to follow my passion for teaching.”

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Kuah referred to the Liberal’s aim of a 10-year collective agreement with B.C. teachers and suggested the students in the audience were probably more aware of issues of teacher contracts, class size and composition than he is.

“Definitely if I come to power and I’m education minister I would fix that problem,” he added.

Responding to a question about how the candidates would help reduce post-secondary tuition costs, Chouhan said the NDP would establish a $100-million needs-based non-refundable grant program for students that would pay $1,500 per eligible student per year.

The party also proposes to provide more skills-training opportunities to address the need for an estimated 160,000 skilled workers over the next five years, he said.

Kuah countered that when the NDP was last in power, it froze tuition fees which resulted in fewer classes and students taking longer to graduate.

He said the Liberals would limit tuition fee increases to two per cent and provide free textbooks, referring to a platform promise of making 40

high-use textbooks available for free.

One student asked how the parties planned to balance their budgets while also promising to increase spending.

Tessari said the Greens would “make it more expensive to do things that are bad for the environment.”

Chouhan noted that the Liberals were trying to balance their budget by selling off $800 million in assets and produced five previous deficit budgets.

Kuah countered that NDP leader Adrian Dix is “planning to spend the money that you don’t have.” The Liberals, meanwhile, are going to strengthen the economy by taking advantage of the province’s “abundance of natural resources.”

On the recent controversy over temporary foreign workers taking Canadian jobs, Chouhan said such workers are sometimes needed, “but not as a cheap source of labour” who have no rights and often end up being exploited. The NDP would lobby Ottawa to strengthen the law to prevent its abuse.

“This is a good example of what looks good financially but

is bad socially,” said Tessari, noting the Greens’ favour a “triple bottom line” approach to the economy that considers social and environmental impacts.

While first dismissing the question as being one of federal jurisdiction, Kuah took the microphone after his

opponents spoke, offering that, originally from Malaysia, he had personal experience as a source of cheap labour and agreed the federal laws need to be strengthened.

On the issue of increased resources

for the transit system, Tessari said increases to the carbon tax would help fund it. Chouhan said funding for more buses would come from the NDP’s increases on taxes to corporations, big banks and the carbon tax. Kuah, meanwhile, floated the idea of a system that tracks when a person’s car is parked, at which point their ICBC vehicle insurance could be used as a transit pass.

Chouhan emphasized the importance of young people getting more involved in the political process.

Kuah advised the teens, “Do your research, what is true and what is not, and vote your conscience.”

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Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness surveysWanda [email protected]

It’s Burnaby city hall’s fault that the BC Liberals have not done more to address homelessness in the city.

That’s the essence of the party’s answers to a survey on the issue of provincial election candidates organized by the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness.

While the BC Liberals say its government has funded more than 1,600 permanent beds in 33 communities, compared to 850 beds in place when it took power in 2001, it said: “But we cannot provide housing solutions in isolation – we need cooperation and commitment from the City of Burnaby.”

It has committed more than $520 million this year to build more than 2,200 new supportive housing units for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in B.C.

“We encourage the Task Force and Burnaby voters to call on the City to partner

with the province and provide city-owned land for supportive housing projects, as the eight other municipalities have done.”

The NDP offers this summary of what it would do:

“The BC NDP commits to build up to 1,500 units of affordable non-profit, co-operative and rental housing for low- and moderate-income families, seniors and individuals each year by leveraging the existing $250 million Housing Endowment Fund to support partnerships and equity contributions with local governments, the private sector, and the non-profit and co-operative housing sectors.”

Wayne Marklund, BC Conservative candidate for Burnaby-North, wrote: “We must work with BC Housing and the city of Burnaby to ensure that a permanent shelter is available for everyone that is in need. It’s quite obvious that we need to get BC Housing, the City of Burnaby and the provincial government to sit down and develop a program that would begin to meet the growing needs of the homeless

community in Burnaby.”The Green Party of B.C.’s

four Burnaby candidates all completed the questionnaire.

Carrie McLaren and Wyatt Tessari, Green candidates for Burnaby North and Burnaby-Edmonds respectively, said in almost identical submissions that the province needs to find a site “and make sure that there is funding in place from BC Housing for the opening of transitional housing such as that proposed last year for the 401 Motel [which didn’t go ahead due to an absence of provincial funding].

Also, they wrote, “BC Greens would mandate that BC Housing Corp. purchase existing units of market housing that are in current or stalled projects to provide an immediate and expanding pool of permanent below-market and market-rental housing. We would also provide financial support for small-scale, mixed-income, co-op and non-profit housing.”

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VICTORIA – NDP leader Adrian Dix has finally rolled out his “fully costed” election platform.

Major policy announcements had been released previously, but there was plenty more spending added to the total.

The NDP’s health care plan is surprisingly modest – more money for home support, residential senior care, mental health and addiction services and a rural acute care initiative totaling $159 million over three years.

As health critic Mike Farnworth points out, the residential care increase will allow seniors two baths a week instead of one. Full marks to the NDP for this part of the platform.

Increases to Community Living B.C., children and families programs and aboriginal friendship centres are also commendable.

Other NDP proposals don’t inspire as much confidence.

Raise welfare rates $20 a month and index them to

inflation. Index the minimum wage to inflation too, at a time when inflation can only rise.

Set up a new child bonus program to send $70 per month for each child with family income under $25,000. Lesser payments would go to families with income up to $66,000.

This ’70s-style family allowance scheme is based on a “child poverty” claim that misrepresents federal statistics of relative income distribution. The program is optimistically budgeted at $210 million a year. Dix insists it isn’t a “big new social program,” which makes me wonder what would qualify.

It would be partly funded by cancelling a B.C. Liberal plan to establish education savings accounts for kids born after 2006. Out with self-reliance, in

with the nanny state.Another $100 million is added

to hire more teachers, to address the teachers’ union’s often-repeated but false claim of “a decade of cuts” in education.

Another $100 million goes to student grants, much of it further subsidizing the oversupply of English, education, sociology, women’s studies, journalism and other university grads who eventually discover there is little demand for their degrees. As with welfare, increasing support for bad choices can only yield more bad choices.

On a related note, the NDP will revive a ministry of women’s equality, “to promote social and economic equality to all government programs....” As with female candidate quotas, the NDP keeps the flame of ’70s socialist feminism alive.

The party totals up its new program spending to $988 million over three years. That’s exactly the amount Dix estimates will be raised by tax hikes on corporate income, bank capital, personal income over $150,000,

carbon tax on oil and gas drilling, and cancelling the B.C. Liberals’ RESP and child tax credit plans.

As for deficits, the NDP claims that the B.C. Liberal budget hides a deficit of $800 million this year and similar deficits in the next two years.

The B.C. Liberals point to an impressive string of “net zero” wage settlements with public sector unions, the core of their spending control record.

Would the NDP continue to hold the line on public service wages, as the B.C. Liberals have done?

Dix’s NDP caucus and staff is stocked with former government union officials. Party president Moe Sihota is essentially a direct employee of the same unions. The B.C. Federation of Labour has shaped the NDP’s Labour Code changes, which we won’t see until after the May 14 vote.

Since this is the party that appears to be cruising to victory in the May 14 election, I’ll look at what’s not in their platform and other issues next week.

NDP plan is borrow and spend

Preschoolers can’t vote. But the increasing cost of their care is an issue of growing importance to their parents, who are wondering how the province’s politicians might be able to ease the strain on their wallets.

Under the Liberals, the Ministry of Education has implemented full-day kindergarten, and introduced free StrongStart programs into schools for toddlers and parents, which are overseen by early learning educators.

Leading into the election, the Liberals are pledging $34 million more for existing Success by Six programs (threatened with deep cuts in 2010) and about $10 million per year for three years to encourage more licenced day care spaces.

The NDP is looking to reroute money promised by the Liberals for registered education plans, and direct it to families, about $70 per kid per month for the lowest income bracket. It also vowed $100 million to reduce child care costs by 20 per cent.

Despite committing plenty of cash for child care, neither party (nor the Greens or Conservatives) have dared to announce anything along the lines of universal child care.

Instead of topping up existing programs or giving relatively small amounts of cash to people with kids, creating truly affordable child care could make the greatest difference in the lives of working parents.

Child care subsidies already exist for low-income families, but a universal low-cost system could finally free parents from calculating if returning to the workforce after a maternity or paternity leave is worth the typically high monthly cost of child care.

The federal government has abandoned any notion of creating universal child care. Our provincial leaders need to take on the challenge.

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COMMENTCan’t help noticing that in

her talks Christy Clark refers to business “leaders” and union “bosses.”

As they used to say on Laugh-in, “ve-ry interestiiiing.”

Russ LeachBurnaby

LET’S GET OUT AND VOTERe: Only those in the know need to get to the polls (Letters, NewsLeader, April 24)

This letter took my blood pressure to a whole new level.

Ziggy Eckardt has every right to express his political views. He can make his derogatory remarks about a specific party and/or its elected officers in order to promote the party of his choice.

But when he starts to use insulting remarks towards British Columbians in general, that is taking it a few steps too far. Amongst the many crass remarks Mr. Eckardt made, he said “...I would prefer to see even fewer voters at the polls, but those who show up knowing the issues.”

Maybe we should leave it up to one voter—himself!

In the past, about 50 per cent of eligible voters have gone to the polls. This is alarming. The right to vote is not something we should take lightly. It is not only a huge privilege, but every citizen’s duty.

So let’s make this election one of our priorities and break the poor attendance record.

Frank Di CesareBurnaby

HEALTHY PLANET FIRST, THEN JOBSRe: Being led down the garden path to global warming (Column, NewsLeader, March 29)

Chris Bryan’s column was right on the (corporate) money.

I’ll bet that in Big Industry’s universe or dimension, life-sustaining ecosystems are supposed to take a back seat to extremely massive crude oil and coal extractions and shipping, creating transport corridor nightmares, just for one thing; and, unfortunately, the pursuit of the almighty dollar is far from unique.

Do B.C.ers in favour of basically unhindered resource extraction ever question the good of creating jobs when the planet is getting deathly polluted? Believe it or not, some will dismiss my rhetorical question with a specious, erroneous flip-flop, and will come back with one of their own, such as, ‘well, what good are clean, healthy ecosystems when there are no jobs to allow people to afford to take a day off and breathe the fresh air?’

Frank G. Sterle, Jr.White Rock

GRILLING CANDIDATES

There are many questions which I’d like to put to our highly questionable candidates running for election this May.

Show me the candidate who answers all these questions to my satisfaction and I’ll show you the candidate who gets my vote.

1. Will you support a No Fee opt-out for people who refuse smart meters? Please don’t refer this matter to the B.C. Utilities Commission when you could easily accommodate refusers by amending the Clean Energy Act.

2. Will you support competition in the auto insurance business? Any government which does so will break ICBC’s monopoly on basic car insurance rates and give people a chance for cheaper car insurance.

3. How dependent is your party on the ethnic vote? If you need them more than you need the non-ethnic vote, then obviously you don’t need my vote.

Jim ErvinBurnaby

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The NewsLeader received several honours during this year’s awards season.

At the recent Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards presented by the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspapers Association, the Burnaby NewsLeader received two gold awards.

The first was the John Collison Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism by regional reporter Jeff Nagel and a team that included reporters Wanda Chow and Mario Bartel, editor Chris Bryan, and fellow Black Press reporters Matt Hoekstra and Todd Coyne.

The award was for Oil & Water, a series exploring the potential impact of the Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline.

Mario Bartel won a gold in the Outdoor Recreation Writing Award for “Cycling for Change.”

Grant Granger took silver in the Sports Writing category for “Home

turf/Sinclair dazzles on home turf.”Editor Chris Bryan won a

bronze award for best columnist for columns “The real solution on the Pattullo” and “Our strange dance with wildlife” in the New Westminster NewsLeader.

Burnaby NewsLeader reporter Wanda Chow also took bronze for the Neville Shanks Memorial Award for Historical Writing for “Sisters bid farewell to father’s home.”

In the category of Ad Design, over 25,000, the New Westminster NewsLeader’s Matt Blair won gold while Carly Moir took the silver.

In Ad Design Award, Collaborative, Over 25,000, Blair won a silver for a Burnaby NewsLeader holiday ad.

Earlier, the NewsLeader was recognized with two Canadian Community Newspaper Awards. Mario Bartel placed first for Best Feature Story, circulation 12,500+ while Wanda Chow finished second for Best Agricultural Story for her

piece on a local farmer bringing a piece of land in Burnaby’s Big Bend back to its agricultural roots.

The NewsLeader also received recognition recently from the Local Media Association, formerly the Suburban Newspapers of America, which represents over 2,000 suburban and community newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.

Chris Bryan was awarded first place for Best Opinion Column in the New Westminster NewsLeader, in the 8,001 to 16,000, non-daily circulation class, for his entry comprising “Black Peter,” “Real Solution On Pattullo” and “Club’s Possible Demise.”

Wanda Chow of the Burnaby NewsLeader took second place for Best Feature in the over 36,000, non-daily circulation class for “Refugees must repay plane tickets.”

The Oil and Water series, meanwhile, received an honourable mention in the Best In-Depth Reporting category in its circulation class, over 36,000, non-daily.


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Schools to get carbon cashMario BartelNewsLeader

Burnaby School Board chair Larry Hayes has been appointed by the BC School Trustees Association to help the Ministry of Education allocate money from its new Energy Ef cient Capital Account to energy ef cient projects by school districts across the province.

Hayes will work with the Ministry to develop a formula for distributing the money that comes from carbon offset fees charged to school boards.

Previously those funds had been deposited into the Paci c Carbon Trust and then distributed to third parties such as Encana Corporation to help reduce its carbon emissions.

Environment Minister Terry Lake announced the change to the program last week. The new capital account will make $5 million available to school districts for energy ef cient projects that will lower their carbon emissions.

That’s good news for B.C. schools, according to BCSTA president Michael McEvoy.

Safety precautions don’t sway opponentsJeff [email protected]

The Everest Spirit, an oil tanker the length of two and a half football elds, nudges slowly under the Second Narrows Bridge.

In its bowels is enough crude oil to ll more than 30 Olympic swimming pools, loading it down so that it sits 13 metres deep in the water, close to the carefully prescribed maximum safe draft for the narrow, shallow channel.

The ship is one of 32 tankers that last year loaded crude from Burnaby’s Westridge terminal, the end of an 1,100-kilometre pipeline that runs from northern Alberta southwest across B.C. to the Paci c.

But Kinder Morgan, which owns the Trans Mountain pipeline, has big plans to turn the current trickle of oil through Vancouver’s harbour into a gusher.

It is expected to formally begin the process this spring to twin the pipeline and

increase its current 300,000-barrel-per-day capacity to as much as 700,000.

Some would continue to ow to re neries in Burnaby and Washington State. But export oil bound for tankers is projected to soar from a current 80,000 barrels per day to 450,000 if the project proceeds.

The number of tankers lling up in Burnaby could hit 288 in 2016, four times more than the record 69 crude tankers in 2010.

That prospect has alarmed environmentalists who worry the risk of a catastrophic spill is increasing and say Metro Vancouverites never signed on to become Alberta’s oil port.

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The 249-metre Everest Spirit makes its way to the Second Narrows Bridge in Burrard Inlet, on its way to Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Terminal in Burnaby.

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Kinder Morgan Canada is expected to soon announce that it will seek to twin its Trans Mountain Pipeline between northern Alberta and Burnaby. The twinning would mean a huge increase in the amount of crude that transits the pipeline, and in the number of oil tankers passing through local waters each year. This is the rst of a three-part Black Press series looking at the logistics, risks, and politics involved.

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The Oil & Water series, which took a closer look at the impacts that expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline could have on Burrard Inlet, won first place in the Investigative Reporting category at the Ma Murray awards, put on by the BC/Yukon Community Newspaper Association.

In seven years, the Harper government has made a number of changes to our country, many of which have not been for the best.

We’ve seen a government that actively attacks science or anything else that impedes their ideological freight train of legislation. Democratic values are routinely eliminated or curtailed. This government remains the only political party that pleaded guilty to an offence in court in the history of Canada.

Perhaps the most reprehensible act has come recently, when it has now twice asked soldiers serving in Afghanistan to return combat pay to the government—”at the earliest possible convenience.”

Harper and this federal government asked the troops to serve in a country that has long since become a no-win situation, and instead of supporting these troops the government is now demanding the return of hazard pay.

This may surprise the Conservative Party, but Afghanistan is still a danger.

To disrespect our troops in the line of fire this way is beyond dishonourable.

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Metro Vancouver may cut costs by turning some of its regional parks over to local municipalities to stop inefficently duplicating their efforts.

The regional district is embarking on a wide-ranging service review of its regional parks system that will report back with a draft report by summer and final recommendations by fall.

Regional directors increasingly question Metro’s role at some parks, saying it makes little sense for regional district and municipal parks crews to work in close proximity.

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said Surrey crews could probably easily take over the maintenance of Tynehead Regional Park in the midst of her city.

In some parts of North Vancouver, where regional,

provincial and municipal parks abut each other, three separate sets of workers and managers are responsible.

“It just doesn’t make sense to have three different land agencies monitoring the same trail within 300 metres,” North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton said at an April 18 Metro committee.

Also to be probed is why Metro still runs regional parks like Sumas Mountain and Matsqui Trail in the Abbotsford area, even though that city is in the separate Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD).

Directors suggested the FVRD might take on the Metro parks there.

Metro needs to either find more revenue or cut costs to free up millions of dollars it estimates are needed to upgrade aging facilities and infrastructure at existing parks, as well as bankroll an ambitious program of acquiring more parkland.

Regional planners want to add 5,500 hectares of land to the park system at an estimated cost of $1.1 bllion over 30 years.

Tremendous investment is also needed to make the proposed Experience the Fraser trail network a reality instead of mainly a plan on paper.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said he wants a “real hard look” at the role Metro plays in running parks and whether it makes more sense for local cities to take them on.

He noted Metro couldn’t afford to dredge Burnaby Lake Regional Park so his city had to contribute to the cost.

The review will examine the parks function’s relevance and look at potential different operating models. Parks deemed regionally or ecologically significant are unlikely to be offloaded.

Corrigan was skeptical as to whether Metro staff will deliver “dispassionate” findings that might result in them losing jurisdiction over some parks.

Metro has more than 14,500 hectares of parkland in 22 regional parks, five greenways, two ecological conservancy areas and four regional reserves.

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Dates: July 2-5, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. (Ages 5-7)

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If you enjoy acting, stories and musicals, this is the camp for you. The Story of Jumping Mouse (by John Steptoe) will serve as a starting point to explore stories, songs, dances and ceremonies from different First Nations traditions. This week-long adventure will take you through acting, music and dance while learning about culture, stories and First Nations culture. You will be invited to make connections between what you are discovering and your own lives in a truly creative way.

Dates: July 2-5, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Ages 8-12)

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They will also get comfortable using a digital SLR camera and have the choice of being in front or behind the camera for a themed indoor photo-shoot using a variety of costumes, props and face paint materials. Dates: July 8-12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (Ages 11-17)

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Dates: July 15-19, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (Ages 5-7)

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This robotics camp will teach the engineering, technology, and mechanical principles used by robots and other machines in the real world. Students learn by building with LEGO® Technic kits and other project materials. Over the duration of the camp, students will build progressively more complex projects and increase their knowledge of the engineering principles used. They will use motors to create movement, and learn how to use normal and alternative energy sources. Projects will incorporate pneumatics, wind power, solar power, generators, gearing, and motors. By the end of the course students should have a good grasp of the ways machines move and the power sources used by them.

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with Grupo Axe Capoeira. This is an active, exciting week where students will learn the basics of this beautiful martial art. As an Afro-Brazilian art form, capoeira will give students an appreciation for multiculturalism through music on traditional Afro-Brazilian instruments, songs sung in Portuguese, and aspects of Brazilian dance. Dates: July 15-19, 12:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. (Ages 7-14)

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dance style each day. You will learn each dance style with some background of where it came from and what inspired it. Participants will also learn about some famous dancers from each dance style. Students will learn the basic important movements for each style. Classes will be covering ballet, jazz, hip hop, modern, and African dance. Dates: July 22-26 12:20 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. (Ages: 6-10)

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needed for a performance including costumes and set. Dates: August 19-23, 9 a.m. -3 p.m.(Ages: 5-12)

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dedicated to creating environments and characters for video games, and producing visual effects. In the afternoons, students will create games from a variety of genres.Dates: August 19-23, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (Ages 11-16)

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VANCOUVER – Four party leaders squared off Friday in a debate on CKNW radio, with B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark and NDP leader Adrian Dix trading accusations of dishonesty over budget deficits and oil pipelines.

B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins and B.C. Green Party leader Jane Sterk got their first high-profile exposure to voters province-wide. A televised debate is set for 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 29.

As the key part of the campaign for the May 14 election approaches, Angus Reid Public Opinion’s monthly poll showed Clark’s B.C. Liberals up three points to 31 per cent in voting intention. The NDP held steady with a commanding lead of 45 per cent, while the B.C. Conservatives slipped one point to 11 per cent and the Greens lost three points to 10 per cent.

In the debate, Dix pressed his campaign’s major attack, that the government’s pre-election budget isn’t balanced, because the B.C. Liberal government lowballed spending and claimed revenues from pending asset sales. Clark said rating agencies maintained B.C.’s triple-A credit rating because they accept the revenue and debt forecasts in the February budget.

Dix was pressed on his decision to oppose expansion of the 60-year-old Trans Mountain oil pipeline from northern Alberta to Burnaby and northwest Washington. Dix maintained for a year that he

wouldn’t take a position on the proposal by Kinder Morgan Inc., but announced his opposition on Monday because he doesn’t want Vancouver to become a major oil export port.

Cummins characterized both the B.C. Liberals and NDP as big spenders, increasing debt and running deficit during their shared 20-year

history in government. Cummins said he would

abandon the quasi-privatization of BC Ferries and bring it back under direct government control.

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Clark countered that her government has cut the cost of generic drugs, reducing costs for patients.

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New oil port might satisfy NDP promiseHorgan doesn’t rule out pipeline twinning with different terminal Jeff NagelBlack Press

Imagine a twinned Kinder Morgan pipeline that sends oil sands crude not to its current Burnaby export terminal but to one in northwestern Washington instead.

Or Deltaport.It would still mean

hundreds more tankers carrying much more crude oil through the Gulf Islands, past Victoria and up the west side of Vancouver Island.

But NDP leader Adrian Dix would have kept his Earth Day election promise not to transform Vancouver harbour into “a major oil port.”

NDP energy critic John Horgan did not rule out that scenario in a Black Press interview last week, going so far as to say he met Kinder Morgan officials the previous day and anticipates their proposal could evolve ahead of a

formal application later this year to the National Energy Board.

“It wouldn’t be a challenge in Burrard Inlet any longer,” Horgan said, when asked if oil flowing to a different terminal would still be problematic for the NDP.

“There are a number of options they may pursue,” Horgan said, adding he can’t pre-judge them because the company has not yet made them public.

“I’ll leave it to them to put forward the options they consider viable,” he said. “The current proposal is a massive expansion of export capacity in Burrard Inlet. So I’m hopeful Kinder Morgan will review our leader’s position and act accordingly.”

Kinder Morgan officials didn’t comment on the idea of a new terminal this week.

A statement posted online in February says the company has considered terminal alternatives but has yet to find an option

compelling enough to deviate from the existing corridor.

Horgan was also asked if a less sensitive terminal might be Deltaport or even Fraser Surrey Docks, which could accept larger ships if the Massey Tunnel is replaced with a bridge.

“Deltaport would be a more likely scenario [than Fraser Surrey Docks for Kinder Morgan to propose]. But again those are options for the proponent.”

He cautioned any twinning of the pipeline would be “transformative change” that would present “a challenge and a problem for us” but that it would be up to Kinder Morgan to bring back proposals that are defensible and in the public interest.

The Trans Mountain pipeline forks at Abbotsford, with a spur running south to Cherry Point refineries in northwest Washington.

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The impending arrival of U.S. retailer Target in B.C. may come mainly at the expense of Walmart, a new poll suggests.

An Insights West poll found 82 per cent of shoppers are likely to shop at Target if there’s one nearby and 96 per cent are aware it’s coming.

Pollsters say respondents were broadly enthusiastic and attribute that to brand awareness

– 69 per cent of B.C. residents polled have visited a Target store in the U.S. before, 35 per cent within the last year.

That level of recognition outstrips other U.S. retailers that have yet to enter the Canadian market, such as JC Penney and Nordstrom.

“Target is well positioned with British Columbians even before market entry,” Insights West senior vice president Catherine Dawson said.

About a third of respondents said they won’t shop less often anywhere else after Target arrives, while 28 per cent said they’d cut back on visits to Walmart.

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But they’re not under any illusions that prices will be as cheap as at its U.S. stores – 87 per cent said they don’t expect U.S. retailers to offer south-of-the-border prices here.

Target’s already open stores in Ontario charge somewhat more than in the U.S. for most items. The retailer has cited higher transportation costs, wages and duties as the reason. Consumers were split on whether Canadian retailers are to blame for a lack of competitiveness against U.S. chains.

Dawson said it appears B.C. shoppers are torn about what will happen when Target arrives.

“While they will certainly shop these big U.S. retailers and hope for a positive impact on our economy, they worry about it hurting Canadian businesses,” she said.

Clothing and various products for the home top the list of categories those polled said they expect to buy at Target Canada.

Fourteen per cent of those polled disapprove of U.S. retailers and 31 per cent said they’re indifferent to Target’s plans.

Target is to open 19 locations in B.C. in the coming months.

The first Lower Mainland locations opening this spring include sites in Delta, Coquitlam and Langley, while more expected by winter in Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby, Maple Ridge, Abbotsford and Chilliwack.

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This summer, the Burnaby Village is revisiting the early years of radio with a special exhibit, On the Air: Live from the Burnaby Village Museum. The museum has created its very own station: Radio BVM, playing news and entertainment from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as recently recorded content that reflects on the history of Burnaby and the region. The broadcast can be heard on several antique radios located throughout the heritage village.

Visitors can listen to the broadcasts, participate in radio-related activities, or watch material being produced in the working radio studio Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On Thursdays in May and June, special guests are being interviewed live on the air, featuring a variety of topics related to Burnaby, and the history of radio. Topics range from the early development of interurban railways, to the rise of the “crooner” as a musical star.

The exhibit was developed in partnership with the Society for the Preservation of Antique Radio in Canada, BCIT’s Evolution FM, and the Canadiana Costume Society.

For opening day on Saturday, May 4, visitors can stop in to see the exhibit and participate in broadcasts. At 3 p.m., Royal BC Museum Archivist Dennis Duffy will be on site, interviewed live on Radio BVM about his extensive knowledge of the early history of radio in B.C. Families will also enjoy live music performances from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m., and can participate in a free tour of the

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Disruption hit Canucks fans during rush hourJeff NagelBlack Press

TransLink is apologizing to passengers after a major SkyTrain disruption Thursday evening meant lengthy waits for hockey fans heading to a Canucks game.

Officials say a power rail expansion joint failed between 22nd Street and New Westminster stations, forcing them to shut down SkyTrain service on that section of the Expo Line around 5:30 p.m.

Fred Cummings, president of TransLink’s SkyTrain subsidiary

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A bus bridge was put in place and some passengers were able to take the Millennium Line.

TransLink officials estimated delays of about an hour and called it one of the worst service disruptions in recent years.

Repairs were completed later that night and the system was running normally Friday.

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 NewsLeader A19

Rated best painting & moulding company (2010 & 2012) by consumers. www.benchmarkpainting.homestars.com

CALL 604-595-4970


260 ELECTRICAL

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

#1113 LOW COST ELECTRIC Panel Upgrade • Reno’s -Com/Res.

Heating • Trouble ShootingLicensed & Bonded. 604-522-3435

C & C Electrical Mechanical• ELECTRICAL

• FULL PLUMBING SERVICES• HVAC GAS FITTING

*Licensed *Insured24hr. Emergency Service

604-475-7077

281 GARDENING

Always! Landscaping Services, Pwr Raking, Delivery, Spreading, Yard &Rubbish cleanup 604.230.0627

15% SENIORS DISCOUNT A+ Rating with BB Bureau

•Lawn Cuts/Trim •Aerating •Leaf Cleanup •Power Rake •Hedge & Shrub Trimming

•Pruning Trees •23 yrs. exp. •Insured •Free Estimates

Brad 778-552-3900A Dream Landscaping. Lawn mowing, aerate, power rake, trim, prune. Res/Com. 604-724-4987.

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

ALWAYS! GUTTER Cleaning & Roof Blowing, Moss Control,30 yrs exp., Reliable! Simon 604-230-0627

287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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

reroofi ng. Dhillon 604-782-1936.

604-949-1900QUALITY RENOVATIONS

• Kitchens • Bathrooms*30 years *Licensed *Insured

www.metrovanhome.ca

. Expert Power Washing. Gutters cleaned & repaired. www.expertpowerwashing. Mike, 604-961-1280

Central Creek ConstructionRefi nishing fl oors, sanding

& fi xing fl oors & Reno’s. SeniorsDiscount 10% off (604)773-7811

320 MOVING & STORAGE

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING. Across the street - across the world Real Professionals, Reas. Rates. Best in every way! 604-721-4555.

GET the best for your moving 24/7 From $40/hr. Licensed & Insured.Seniors Discount. 778-773-3737

ABE MOVING - $35/Hr. Per Person*Reliable Careful Movers. *RubbishRemoval. *24 Hours. 604-999-6020

AFFORDABLE MOVINGLocal & Long Distance

From $45/Hr1, 3, 5, 7 & 10 Ton Trucks

Licensed ~ Reliable ~ 1 to 3 MenFree Estimate/Senior DiscountResidential~Commercial~Pianos

604-537-4140

329 PAINTING & DECORATING


329 PAINTING & DECORATINGAAA PRECISION PAINTING. Quality work. 778-881-6096.

www.paintspecial.com 604.339.1989 Lower Mainland

604.996.8128 Fraser ValleyRunning this ad for 8yrs

PAINT SPECIAL3 rooms for $299,

2 coats any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls

Cloverdale Premium quality paint.NO PAYMENT until Job is

completed. Ask us about ourLaminate Flooring &

Maid Services.

Stan’s PaintingExterior / Interior

Good Quality Paint. Member of BBB & WCB

References & guaranteed work Discount for

Seniors - 10%

604-773-7811 or 604-432-1857

332 PAVING/SEAL COATING

ASPHALT PAVINGCommercial & Residential• Parking Lots • Driveways

• Garage Apron • Speed Bumps • Potholes • Patchwork • Tennis Courts • Repair & Resurface

(Insured, WCB)Over 10yrs of exp. Free Estimates

★ Reasonable Rates ★

604-618-2949

338 PLUMBING

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

BRO MARV PLUMBING$49 Service Call. 24 Hrs. Plumbing, Heating, Electrical, (604)582-1598

FULL PLUMBING SERVICES• Hvac Gas Fitting • Electrical

*Licensed *Insured24hr. Emergency Service

C & C Electrical Mechanical604-475-7077

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

Roofi ng Experts. 778-230-5717Repairs/Re-Roof/New Roofs. All work Gtd. Free Est. Call Frank.

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

Free est. Reasonable rates.(604)961-7505, 278-0375

Mainland Roofi ng Ltd.25 yrs in roofi ng industry

Family owned & operated. Fully ins. We do Cedar Shakes, conversions,

concrete tiles, torchon, fi bre-glass shingles, restoration

& repairs. 20 yr labour warr. 604-427-2626 or 723-2626

www.mainlandroof.com

10% OFF - Call 604.812.9721AMG ROOFING & SIDING.

Re-roofi ng, new roof, gutters. WCB

Eastcan Roofi ng & Siding •New Roofs •Re-Roofs •Repairs

Liability Insurance/BBB/10% off with ad604.562.0957 or 604.961.0324

329 PAINTING & DECORATING


353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

Bulldog Disposal Co.Home & Yard Clean UpsResidential / CommercialNo Job Too Small

Free Estimates ~ 7 Days/Wk

Call Tony 604-834-2597www.bulldogdisposal.ca

bradsjunkremoval.comHauling Anything.. But Dead Bodies!!20 YARD BINS AVAILABLE

We Load or You Load !604.220.JUNK(5865)

Serving MetroVancouver Since 1988

RECYCLE-IT!JUNK REMOVAL

• Estate Services • Electronics• Appliances • Old Furniture• Construction • Yard Waste• Concrete • Drywall • Junk

• Rubbish • Mattresses • More

Recycled Earth FriendlyHOT TUBS ARENO PROBLEM!

604.587.5865www.recycleitcanada.ca

FLEETWOOD WASTEBin Rentals 10-30 Yards.Call Ken at 604-294-1393

359 SAND, GRAVEL & TOPSOIL

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

372 SUNDECKS

Aluminum patio cover, sunroom, railing and vinyl. 604-782-9108www.PatioCoverVancouver.com

373B TILING

TILE, MARBLE & slate installations and home renos. No job too small.

Call 604-521-6919

374 TREE SERVICES

TREE & STUMPremoval done RIGHT!

• Tree Trimming• Fully Insured • Best Rates604-787-5915/604-291-7778 www.treeworksonline.ca

10% OFF with this AD

PETS

477 PETS

BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOGS, bred at Diesel Kennel, 6 mo old, 2 males, $1000. each. (604)869-5073

CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes! All cats are

spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed. Visit us at

fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977

GERMAN SHEPHERD Pups & young adults. Quality German & Czech bloodlines. 604-856-8161.

LAB PUPS, Chocolate, $700. vet ch, dew-claws rem. 1st shots, de-wormed. qual. lines (604)702-0217

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

PETS

477 PETS

ITALIAN MASTIFF(Cane Corso)

P/B blues. Ready to go. 1st shots & tails/dew claws done.

ULTIMATE FAMILY GUARDIAN$1000 604-308-5665

Pomeranian pups. Ready/Vet chkd. M&F. 778-838-2700, 604-504-1559.

www.pomeraniansbyparis.com

PUG AVAILABLE for stud service. He is a rare silver male, purebred but not registered. ALSO GOLDEN RETRIEVER (not reg.) available for stud (OFA hips and cert eyes).Mission 604-820-4827

SHELTIES: 6/mo male, 4/yr male, 3/yr fem, 2/yr fem. Sable,ready now Shots / dewormed. 604-826-6311.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

551 GARAGE SALES

Moving SaleSat. / Sun. May 4th & 5th

9am - 3pm5710 Booth Ave.

Burnaby

Piano, Antiques, Appliances,Furniture, Tools, Books & more.

Everything Must Go!!

560 MISC. FOR SALE

AT LAST! An iron fi lter that works. IronEater! Fully patented Canada/ U.S.A. Removes iron, hardness, smell, manganese. Since 1957. Visit our 29 innovative inventions; www.bigirondrilling.com. Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON.

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.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

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 1-800-457-2206www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

REAL ESTATE

625 FOR SALE BY OWNER

GREAT STARTER HOME &/OR INVEST-MENT ON RIONDEL RD. above Kootenay Lake. 4 k to Ashram 4 k to Riondel & beach. 2 3/4 acres & 2 storey unfi n-ished (but furnished) “Small is Beautiful” cabin. Good benches for build-ing, one with lake view. In Aug,12 appraised at $170,000 but older, fl exible vendor open to offers & might carry part of mort-gage for suitable person or couple. For info & view-ing please call : 1-780-566-0707

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! 604-626-9647

OKANAGAN

PRIME LAKEVIEW LOTSFrom $140,000. No time limit to

build. Near by lake access. ALSO:1 spectacular 3 acre parcel at

$390,000 owner wants to retire and will carry fi nancing. 1-250-558-7888

www.orlandoprojects.com

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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

651 COQUITLAM/POCO/PT. MOODY

Price Reduced. Luxury Parkside townhouse 2039 s/f. Reno’d 3bdr 2.5bath, dbl garage, granite, A/C, h/w fl rs, 5’10” heated crawlspace, 2 f/p’s. Nr Terry Fox High School.$521,400. May 23rd Possession.

Owners Motivated to Sell.Call Tim 604-818-6293 or John 604-341-1500. 1 Percent Realty.

696 OTHER AREAS

Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Waterfront Lots for Sale Excellent Climate Near the Atlantic Ocean. Three Bedroom House for Sale or Rent www.sawmilllanding.com. [email protected] 1-902-522-2343 1-902-328-4338.

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. 604-626-9647

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

2 bdrm bright 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. Reno’d Spacious & bright 2/bdrms with laminate fl oors. Incl heat & HW. Near High-gate. Small pets ok. (604)540-2028 or 778-552-5325

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

778-323-0237COQUITLAM - Penthouse 1400 s/f 2bd, 2ba, 2balc, hi-ceil, pool, gym, h/w fl oors. GORGEOUS! $1875/mo Avl now. Lafarge Lk. 604-808-4687.

NEW WESTMINSTER

Large newly renovated 1 and 2 bdrm. units available from $900 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

NEW WESTMINSTER

Panorama CourtSpacious & clean 1 & 2 bdrms avail. From $750 - $1020/mo. No pets.

Call 604-540-6732

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RENTALS

750 SUITES, LOWER

COQUITLAM Como Lk/Thermal Dr. 1200 s/f, 2bdr bsmt suite, inste w/d, nr Como Lk Shopping Cntr. May1st. $1000 +1/3utils. 604-780-1099.

752 TOWNHOUSES

NOONS CREEK Housing Co-op Orientation Meeting,

Saturday, May 4that 1pm in the common room located

at #58-675 Noons Creek Dr. Port Moody. We are accepting applications for 2 - 3 bdrms.

Subsidy wait list avail.Share purchase from

$1400-$1800. $15 Non-refundable application fee required.

Applications available at orientation Please call 604-469-9763

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

TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

DreamTeam Auto Financing“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK -

Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals1-800-961-7022

www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVALThe Scrapper

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVALMinimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673

TRANSPORTATION

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ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME

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CA$H 4 SCRAPWE PAY $$ ON THE HAND• Scrap Cars • Trucks • SUV’S• Vans • Buses • Tractors etc.

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www.scrap4cashjunkcarremoval.comTOP CA$H PAID TODAY For SCRAP VEHICLES! 2 hr. Service www.a1casper.com (604)209-2026

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FREDERICK CHARLES MCALLISTER,

Deceased Formerly of Burnaby, BC

All parties having claims against the said Estate are required to forward particulars of same to the law fi rm of WINGHAM LAW CORPORATION, Solicitor for the Personal Representative, at P.O. Box 1489, Vanderhoof, British Columbia, V0J 3A0, on or before the 22nd day of May, 2013 after which date the claims fi led may be paid without reference to any claims of which the Personal Representative then has no knowledge.

Personal Representative, by:CHRISTOPHER K. WINGHAM,Solicitor

923 TENDERSLand Parcel Sale By Tender SW 17-28-29W1 RM of Shell River, MB. 80 acres. Hay/Pasture/Bush For Farm/Recreation/Acreage. Highest or any Tender not necessarily ac-cepted. Closes 05/17/2013 204-937-7054 (Roy).


Happy Mother’s Day!

She always made sure you ate your veggies. Return the favour by buying her a Kin’s fruit basket!

M ththt ’ D !!

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

Royal City Centre116 - 610 6th StreetAcross from Shoppers 604.520.9923OPEN 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: May 1st to May 5th, 2013 *While Quantities LastPrices e� ective: May 1st to May 5th, 2013 *May 1st to May 5th, 2013 *While Quantities LastMay 1st to May 5th, 2013 *

Fresh & Flavourful

Rhubarb

$1.69/lbLocally Grown

Fresh & Flavourful

HotHouse StrawberryTomatoes (255g)

$2.99/boxLocally Grown

Sweet & Nutritious

Driscoll Strawberries (1lb)

BOXES/$6.00California Grown

2

Sweet & Juicy

Large Navel Oranges

49¢/lbCalifornia Grown

Sweet & Flavourful

Jumbo Haden Mangoes

4/$5.00Mexico Grown

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