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If Mayor Derek Corrigan has an “I toldyou so” dance, he’s breaking it out rightnow.

More than three years ago, Corriganspoke out against B.C.’s plan to create amunicipal auditor general position, saying itwould be a waste of money.

“I always hope against hope that whatI’ve said in the past wasn’t true, but it just

comes to fruition too often,” he told theNOW. “These things are pretty predictablewhen you think about it. As I’ve often said,when you make a decision in haste, you getto repent at leisure.”

The auditor general for local government,Basia Ruta, was fired in March after refus-ing a government audit of her own office,saying it should be done by B.C.’s auditorgeneral instead. She is seeking a judicial re-view of the firing.

Ruta took the position in January of

2013, promising 18 audits of municipalitiesthat year.

Thus far, the office, which has cost $5.2million since it was established, has com-pleted three audits.

“I think setting up an auditor general’s of-fice is very complicated and getting the levelof expertise you need to be able to do thatjob is very, very difficult,” Corrigan said ofthe position. “Having highly trained munic-ipal specialists who can assess municipalitiesis not an easy job description to fill.

“It’s not exactly an attractive job to be go-ing off to do audits on municipalities fromSpuzzum toTrail, to be put in the positionwhere almost invariably you’re an interlop-

er, coming in to try to understand a mu-nicipal system that probably is unique fromothers,” he added.

The problems faced by the office weresystemic and not simply due to one individ-ual’s shortcomings, Corrigan said.

“From what I hear anecdotally, they werespending all their time hiring consultantsfrom as far away as Nova Scotia to comein and do work for them, because they justdidn’t have the resources available andcouldn’t hire the staff that would be neces-sary,” he said. “Trying to place the blameon one individual, which is what they

‘I always hope against hope that what I’ve said in thepast wasn’t true, but it just comes to fruition too often’

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ONTHESCENE: Investigatorswith the Independent InvestigationsOfficeand the IntegratedHomicide InvestigationsTeamwere inBurnabynearWillardStreet and14thAvenueonSunday, collectingevidenceafter a fatal stabbingandsubsequentpolice shootingearlier thatmorning. The suspect shotbypolicedieda shortwhile later inhospital. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

SuspectdiesaftershootingThis was the third police officer shooting in Burnaby in [email protected]

Investigators with B.C.’sindependent police watch-dog were back in Burn-aby Sunday morning af-ter a suspect was shot byMounties responding to afatal stabbing.

At about 5:50 a.m. onMarch 29, Burnaby RCMPwas called to the 6100block of 14th Avenue nearWillard Street following re-ports of a stabbing.

When officers arrived onscene, there was a confron-tation with one of the al-leged suspects, and shotswere fired, hitting the sus-pect, according to a mediarelease from the Indepen-dent Investigations Office.

Both the injured suspectand stabbing victim weretaken to hospital – neithersurvived their injuries, ac-cording to the IndependentInvestigations Office.

At this time, B.C. Cor-oners Service is conduct-ing an investigation into thesuspect’s cause of death, therelease added.

“Due to the preliminarystages of the investigationand the significant concur-rent investigation, no otherinformation will be provid-ed at this time,” stated therelease.

No one else was injuredduring the incident. A sec-ond suspect was arrestedat the scene and taken intocustody.

This is the third timethe Independent Investiga-tions Office has been calledto Burnaby for a police-in-volved shooting this month.

On March 1, a sus-pect was shot by BurnabyMounties following an al-leged attempted robberyat the 7-Eleven at CanadaWay and Edmonds Street.Nineteen days later, onMarch 20, another manwas shot by officers out-side of the LougheedVil-lage apartments on Salish

Court. Both incidents arestill under investigation bythe Independent Investiga-tions Office.

Burnaby RCMP wouldnot comment on the threepolice-involved shootingsthis month as the investiga-tions are now in the handsof the independent policewatchdog.

Prior to these incidents,the police watchdog’s officehad only been deployed toBurnaby a handful of times.

In 2014, investigatorswere sent to Burnaby af-ter officers used a taser ona suspect. After he was de-tained, the suspect becameunresponsive and died.

In 2013, BurnabyRCMP shot and killed 45-year-old Ryan Jacob duringa confrontation on Hast-ings Street on Jan. 31. Lat-er that year, on Sept. 18, asuspect died while in policecustody.

Since April 1, 2014, theIndependent InvestigationsOffice has investigated 11officer-involved shootingsacross the province.

Anyone with informationon either of the shootings isasked to contact the Inde-pendent Investigations Of-fice of B.C. at 1-778-988-1041.

Meanwhile, officers withthe Integrated HomicideInvestigationsTeam havetaken over the investiga-tion into the fatal stabbingthat preceded the shooting.Investigators believe threepeople were involved in thedispute at a home on 14thAvenue, including the de-ceased victim, the suspectwho was shot by Burna-by RCMP and the suspectwho remains in custody, ac-cording to a media releasefrom the homicide team.

Anyone with informationon the fatal stabbing March29 are asked to contact thehomicide team tipline at1-877-551-4448 or email [email protected].

Homeinvasion,woundedmanmaybelinked

A man found sufferingfrom gunshot wounds Fri-day afternoon has police be-lieving there is a connectionbetween him and a homeinvasion earlier that day.

Shortly before 3 p.m. onFriday, police were called tothe 1000 block of Augus-ta Avenue for reports of ahome invasion. Accordingto Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis,multiple suspects forcedtheir way into the home,possibly armed with a fire-arm. No one was injured.

About 20 minutes later,around 3:20 p.m., Burna-by RCMP received anothercall, this time about a manwith a gunshot wound in

the 3800 block of HastingsStreet.

“He was transported toRoyal Columbian Hospi-tal, and we’re still trying tofind out what took place,”Buis said.

Investigators are lookinginto the possibility that thetwo incidents are related butcan’t confirm anything atthis time.

“Given the circumstancesover the weekend and all thethings that have taken place,we’re still in the initial por-tion of our investigation onthis matter,” Buis said.

– By Cayley Dobie,staff reporter

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If B.C.’s education minis-ter wants to improve profes-sional growth among teach-ers, he should adopt theBurnaby school district’smodel instead of turning tolegislation, according to alocal teacher.

Burnaby North scienceteacher Donna Morganwrote a letter to the NOWlast week, saying she was“affronted” by Bill 11– aproposed amendment totheTeachers Act that wouldgive the ministry power toset professional standardsfor teachers.

The veteran educator,who has worked in the dis-trict for 25 years, said themove casts doubt on exist-ing professional develop-ment and the use teach-ers currently make of theirPro-D days.

“The way this is framedis that there’s some needto control [professional de-velopment] because we’reall off getting massages orsomething during thosedays,” Morgan said in an in-terview. “It really couldn’tbe further from the truth.”

Morgan said the majorityof teachers put much moreinto professional growththan the five mandatedPro-D days: buying books,taking online course and at-tending conferences – often

on their own dime.There may be slackers,

but Morgan said the Burn-aby district has a good pro-cess in place to keep themaccountable.

Every November, teach-ers are required to give theirschool administrators a pro-fessional growth plan thatoutlines how they aim toimprove their teaching overthe coming year.

“How we do it is that theteacher, himself or herself,gets to determine the direc-tion they want this growthto go,” Morgan said. “We allwill do the growth, but whatexactly it is will depend onwhat we teach and who weteach and where we teach.”

For Morgan, the key iscollaboration – somethingshe says is missing in theprovince’s approach.

“Burnaby has been amodel for years of how todo it in a collaborative fash-ion,” she said. “And I justthink this government is do-ing things in a conflict-de-veloping kind of way. Ev-ery time they make anannouncement, instead ofmaking us feel better asteachers, that we want to goon and do a great job edu-cating British Columbia’sstudents, it develops con-flict and bad feelings, and Idon’t think it has to be thatway.”

Secondshooting:B.C.’s independentpolicewatchdogwas inBurnabyonMarch20, after local RCMPshota suspectoutside theLougheedVillageapartments. PHOTOFILE

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appear to be doing, toblame the municipal audi-tor general for everything, Ithink it’s pretty foolish.”

The situation is beinghandled poorly, he added.

“It’s being handled in aham-handed way as onemight expect from (Com-munity Development Min-ister) Coralee Oakes,” hesaid. “She’s not the stron-gest cabinet minister to be-gin with, and now she’sbeen put in a position whereshe has to make tough de-cisions, and she’s not doingit well.”

Corrigan was against theoffice from the beginning,but not because of the wayit was established – he saidhe felt the position was notnecessary at all.

And it wasn’t because themunicipalities were afraid tobe audited, he added.

“None of the municipal-ities are hesitant about be-ing audited at any time,”he said. “We all have openbooks, I mean, much moreso than the provincial andfederal governments.

“It’s not something I wantto give the press the im-pression we were afraid of,it’s just that we thought itwas unnecessary,” Corrig-an added.

He also questioned whymunicipalities were the fo-cus.

“TransLink is not subject

to audit by either the pro-vincial or municipal auditorgeneral,” he said. “And thatwas one of the major com-plaints we brought forward.

Why would you not includethem in this net you’re cast-ing? But they didn’t.”

Corrigan still thinks mu-nicipal audits should be

done through the existingB.C. Auditor General’s of-fice, he said.That’s the pro-vincial NDP’s position, aswell.

Overall, he said he wantsthe province to come upwith a solution that workswith the municipalities.

“For all of us, it’s to our

advantage to find a way towork with the provincialgovernment,” he said. “Ifthe province wants to playnice, I want to play nice.”

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Bill 11 was introducedlast week, with EducationMinister Peter Fassbend-er saying it was time to putteachers on the same foot-ing as lawyers, accountantsand nurses, whose profes-sions have detailed stan-dards for ongoing learning.

There are currently nodetailed requirements forcertified teachers to main-tain currency of practice,and the proposed legisla-tion would give the ministerthe authority to “establish amore robust framework” forprofessional development.

B.C.Teachers’ Federationpresident Jim Iker, mean-while, said the biggest prob-lem facing public educationis underfunding and calledthe proposed legislation adiversion.

BurnabyTeachers’ Asso-ciation president Rae Figur-sky echoed his sentiments.

“If government concern isreally about improving pub-lic education, the fundingcuts announced in Febru-ary would be reversed,” shetold the NOW. “…Man-dating the constant profes-sional development alreadydone by teachers does notimprove anything.”

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The region’s mayors arebanding together to call onthe federal government tohalt Kinder Morgan’s pipe-line plan until the Nation-al Energy Board addressescomplaints about the publichearing process.

Mayors from Burnaby,NewWestminster,Vancou-ver, the City of NorthVan-couver,Victoria, Squamishand Bowen Island have allsigned a mayors’ declarationthey will send to the pro-vincial and federal govern-ments.

“We know that our con-cerns are shared by commu-nities throughout the prov-ince,” said Burnaby MayorDerek Corrigan in a mediarelease. “This flawed hear-ing process disallows re-view of aspects of the pro-posal that could cause themost significant damage. Itis critical for this project –and for all projects that canharm communities and theenvironment – that we have

federal review processes thatare rigorous and transpar-ent.”

In the joint declaration,the mayors express their“non-confidence” in theNEB process.

“It has become apparentthat the NEB process doesnot constitute a ‘public hear-ing’ and is completely inad-equate to assess the healthand safety risks of a pro-posed pipeline through ma-jor metropolitan areas, andthe potential risks of ship-ping bitumen oil to Burna-by and through Burrard Inlet,the Salish Sea and along thecoastline of British Colum-bia,” the statement reads.“Itis no longer a credible pro-cess from either a scientificevidentiary basis, nor from apublic policy and public inter-est perspective.”

The declaration allegesthe NEB is not independentfrom the oil industry it regu-lates.The mayors also raisedconcerns the board is notholding oral cross-examina-tions in the Kinder Morganpipeline hearing and said

the company’s responses toinformation requests fromhearing intervenors were in-adequate.

The mayors’ statementcomes on the heels of reso-lutions passed at the Unionof B.C. Municipalities andthe Federation of CanadianMunicipalities, which calledinto question the NEB’shearing process.

No one from the NEBwas available for immediatecomment, but spokesper-sonTara O’Donovan toldthe NOW earlier this monththat the public hearing pro-cess is open and fair, andthe board decides if therewill be oral cross-examina-tions or not on a case-by-case basis.

According to the NEB’scode of conduct, boardmembers and employees arenot allowed to be involved“in any way with a businessthat deals in hydrocarbonsor electricity.” The code alsoforbids holding shares in en-ergy companies, which em-ployees may be forced to sellwhen working for the NEB.

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in the dark on Saturday?We’re referring of course

to Earth Hour, the 60 min-utes starting at 8:30 p.m.Saturday night when ev-eryone was supposed toturn their lights out in thename of energy conserva-tion and – by extension –saving the planet from cli-mate change.

Did you look down thestreet to check out whichof your neighbours had

managed to tear them-selves away from Netflixfor an hour of candlelightconversation?

Thought not.Chances are, if you’re

like most of the popula-tion, the event passed withlittle notice.

Earth Hour was once a“thing.” Cities competedfor the darkest skyline. Itwas socially shameful to bethe one house on the blockwith your lights on.

Earth Hour was a laud-able effort, reminding usof how much energy weuse, how dependent we areon it and how individu-al choices can make a dif-ference.

The problem is that thelarger changes needed fallnot to individuals but tothe collective. And govern-ment policy has not fol-lowed suit.While they maybe happy to dim the lightsfor an hour, not only has

our federal governmentfailed to take action withpolicies that would curbclimate change, they are

either ignoring or active-ly dismantling most of thepast progress in this area.

The feds have scaledback environmental regu-lations, ignored Canada’scommitment to interna-tional greenhouse gas re-duction targets and sent achill through groups advo-cating for more attentionto climate change by send-ing in the auditors – andspies.

And, to top it off, they

have continually alliedthemselves with big oilcompanies and refusedto support calls for moreopen public hearings onprojects such as pipelinesand a process that takesclimate change into con-sideration.

In Parliament, the lightsare on, but the trouble isnobody’s home.

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The introduction lastweek of yet another educa-tion reform package is fur-ther evidence the B.C. Lib-erals remain on a collisioncourse with school trusteesand teachers.

The latest education re-form package takes a directshot at both teachers andelected school trustees.

Last week’s innocuous-ly entitled Education Stat-utes Amendment Act (Bill11) took an easy swipe atone vulnerability of B.C.’steachers: professional devel-opment days.The govern-ment wants teachers to be“accountable” for their ac-tivities on Pro D days. Fairenough, I suppose, but onehas to wonder why it takeslegislation in the newly in-troduced form to do this.

The new legislation sim-ply creates a two-year con-sultation process with theBCTF to come up withsome ground rules. But whynot establish the rules andguidelines first, and then putthem in legislation? Doing itthis way simply pokes teach-ers in the eye needlessly andimplies Pro D day privilegesare somehow being abused(which teachers vociferous-ly deny).

But the fuss over Pro Ddays is window dressingcompared to the real meatof Bill 11, which amends theSchool Act to give the ed-ucation minister far moreauthority over how schoolboards opt to spend money.

Bill 11 will allow the min-ister to effectively forceschool boards into “shared

service” funding arrange-ments with other schoolboards and other public en-tities, such as health author-ities and municipal govern-ments. Critics will no doubtview this potential powergrab in rather sinister termsand portray it is as a stepcloser to abolishing schoolboards altogether.

That seems a bit of astretch, although it is clearthe B.C. Liberals are throw-ing a lot of things at thepublic education systemright now – curriculumoverhauls, huge fundingcuts, the wielding of an in-creasing large stick at all theplayers etc. – that one hasto wonder what is really go-ing on.

With a growing list ofschool districts projectingbudget deficits of alarmingproportions, the stage is be-ing set for Education Min-ister Peter Fassbender to di-rectly step into the activitiesof school boards and wrestcontrol of their budget-mak-ing powers.This will nodoubt be denounced as an-ti-democratic by many, al-though the government mayview school boards as pub-lic bodies that are elected bya small portion of the elec-torate and are in many casescontrolled by public sectorunion members.

In any event, there arelively times ahead for thepublic education sector.Last fall’s teachers’ strikeand eventual contract ap-pears to have settled little.

Keith Baldrey is chief politi-cal reporter for Global B.C.

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Hospital has beenneglected by provinceDear EditorWhy is BurnabyHospital not goodfor your health? Thehospitalwas initially builtin 1952with additions in 1973 and1977. A2013 seismic assessment review (Bush, Bohl-mah&Partners) reportedweak lateral systemsprone tohigh risk of failure anddeemed thebuildings apriority for upgradeor decommis-sioning.BurnabyHospital reports a patient infec-

tion rate that is three to four times thenationalaverage. SurreyMemorial Hospital has 606beds to serve 490,000patients –BurnabyHos-pital has 289beds to serve 465,000patients.In an effort towin votes (not improvehealthoutcomes) LiberalMLAsHarryBloy andRich-ard T. Lee, alongwithpaid Liberal operativescreateda committee that advised the Liberalgovernment to announceplans to replace/up-grade thehospital. No suchplans existed, andthe reportwas exposedas a crass attempt togarner votes. The above-mentionedBurnabyLiberalMLAswere alsopart of the “quickwins”scheme to try andattract “ethnic” voters byhaving thepremier apologize for thehead taxonChinese immigrants.BurnabyHospital is not good for your healthbecause it has beenneglectedbyour provin-cial government andoneMLAwho shouldbespeakingout onbehalf of citizens of Burnaby(Richard Lee) does not seem toappreciate thathis first job is to represent the citizens of hisriding.LarryMyers, Burnaby

It’s time to assert ourCanadian valuesDear EditorOne recent day in the SFUcafete-ria, somebodyhada seizure.Within seconds,some students and security guardswereprovidinghimassistance.Withinminutes, thefire department hadarrived, and shortly afterthat, theparamedics. Taking care of peoplewhoneedassistance, nomatterwho, nomat-terwhere. This is a Canadian value.TRIUMF is aworld-class sub-atomic particle

research facility. It’s right here in Vancouverdoing cutting-edge research: this is a Canadianvalue.WilliamShatner, LorneGreene, Shania

Twain, RobertaBondar, David Suzuki, NormanBethune, Terry Fox, TommyDouglas, RomeoDallaire, and soonand so forth. There is noshortageof great Canadians. Peoplewhogaveeverything theyhad. Peoplewhomadeadif-ference. Peoplewhoadded to the legacy thatweallmatter. This is a Canadian value.Sowhy is it that,whenwe start to talk

about the really important issues, suchasclimate change, Canada falls so far behind therest of theworld?Maybe it has something todowith the fact that the federal Conservativesbelieve that theonlyway to runour economyis to ship natural resources overseas as fastas they canbedugout of the ground. I say,apply Canadian values to the issueof climatechange. Invest in sustainable systemsandrenewable energy.Right here, right now,wehave abig op-

portunity. In theurbanareas,weneed to stoprelying on individual vehicles;weneed toinvest heavily in public transit. The fundingmodel in theplebiscitemaybe flawed, but theproject is not. Let’s senda strongmessage tothe future:Thisgenerationwill invest today fortheirbenefit.Victor Finberg,Burnaby

Gen X is votingYes? Here’s what oneboomer had to say

KathyClark Youwrote: “the system isbroken (thanks a lot, babyboomers).”Itwouldbeprudent to expandonwhatwason yourmind rather thanmakeageneralized statement.Which systemandhowdid I break it?And: “theplanet is headingdownhillrapidly (thanks again, babyboomers).Againbeing specificwouldhavebeenhelpful. I expect that drinkingout of awater fountain as opposed tobuyingwater in plastic containers andwash-ingdiapers insteadof filling the landfillwith disposable items started theplanet headingdownhill.Also: “minivan-drivingGenXers likeourselves.” As best as I can remembermost families did not have a car sowewalkedor tookpublic transport. Irespectfully suggest that yourminivanis causingmoreproblems to theplanetthan I did.But one enormousdifferencebetweenyouandme is that Iwas taught torespectmyelders and I taughtmychildren todo soaswell. I guess theGenXers I see sitting in seats for elderlyand infirmonSkytrainwoulddefinitelyagreewith your article. Articles likethis and thosewrittenby theprof atSFUandmore recently in theGeorgiaStraight are very revealing regardinghow this generation thinks. Howsad.I couldwritemorebut Imust haveanother look atmy car just tomakecertain it is a luxurymodel

Recall campaign stirsup discussion

Propitious1While this campaignhadto startwith someone in the currentLiberal government, it is far from justabout one individual. This is aboutcitizens holdingour electedofficials re-sponsible finally. Noother tool, outrageorwhat have youhas changed thewaypoliticians dowhatever it is theywantandget awaywith things the rest of uswouldbe thrown in jail for ...Corruption andbad faith deals doneby the very people that have “honor-able” usedas an introduction, havebeen thenorm for a long, long time.…Manyofmypeers in their thirties andearly forties don’t evenbother to voteanymorebecauseof this same story.Not becauseweare apathetic and justdon’t care but because it doesn’t doadamn thing. Thenext governmentis formedand the sameold toothlesssystemchugs alongdoingwhatever itpleases, throughpolice investigations,scandals, environmental disasters,the sale of Publicly paid for assets forpennies, farmingoutBC taxdollars toforeign firmsbecause theAuditor Gen-eral can’t check their books for payoffsetc etc etc.But our voteWILLbe tallied in actionsthatmakeadifference like this one!I for oneWILLbe signing andusingRecall as theonly accountability tool toever get something accomplished.

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Elsie Dean is known formany things – her activismas a feminist, senior and en-vironmentalist, to name afew.

Now she can add Burna-by’s Outstanding Citizen oftheYear to that list.

While Dean has receivedawards in the past, shedidn’t expect this one, shesaid.

“I couldn’t imagine it,”she told the NOW.“It’squite an honour.”

The news had not yetsettled in for Dean, whosuggested she was like-ly nominated by BROKE– Burnaby Residents Op-posing Kinder Morgan Ex-

pansion. She’s a foundingmember of the local group.

“I really appreciate it,”Dean added.

Dean has lived in Burn-aby since 1970 and boughta home here in1974, she said.

“I’ve alwaysbeen active in thecommunity,” sheadded.

Coun. Sav Dha-liwal announcedDean was the win-ner of the 2014Kushiro Cup atMonday night’scouncil meeting.

The city received about10 applications this year, ac-cording to Dhaliwal.

Dean, who is also afounding member of the

Voices of Burnaby Seniorstask force, won the city’sLocal Hero Award in 2010.

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Mayor DerekCorrigan said heapproved of thechoice.

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This is the second in a two-part series about shop classes inthe Burnaby school district.

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When he was 13 yearsold, John Clarke remem-bers his woodwork teachergathering students arounda workbench in Burnaby’sold MacPherson Park Ju-nior High.

The man took a handplane to a piece of pine, andthe wood came off in longcurly chips.

“He would take a cut andhe would hand it to some-body,” Clarke said. “I re-member that curly piece ofpine to this day. I thoughtthat was so cool. I loved thesmell of it, the texture, thefeel of it.”

Clarke had little inter-est in school back then, but,from that point on, shopclasses gave him an anchor.

By the time he graduatedfrom the old Burnaby Southfive years later, he had de-signed and built award-win-ning furniture and even hisown acoustic guitar.

Clarke went on to be-come a tech-ed teacher,with a master’s degree, a 33-year career in the Burna-by school district and fouryears training B.C.’s tech-edteachers for UBC.

He might not even havestayed in high school if itweren’t for those early shopclasses.

“They kept me sane,”he said. “And that is a veinthat runs right through theschool system – still does.Kids have not changed.”

What has changed, hesaid, are today’s shop class-es. Overcrowded and under-equipped, Clarke calls them“deplorable.”

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Many of today’s tech-edteachers blame inadequateprovincial funding and class-size limits.

Before the provincebarred teachers from negoti-

ating class-size limits in theircontracts in 2002, Clarke –who retired in 2000 – aver-aged about 20 students inhis senior shop classes and24 in junior classes.

Today, Alpha second-ary tech-ed teacher RussellEvanisky told the NOW it’sunusual to have fewer than30 students in any of hisshop classes. He and othertech-ed teachers also havemore ESL and special needsstudents in each class, ac-cording to Clarke.

“I have been back in theclassroom,” said the retiredteacher, who worked as asubstitute in the district un-til 2013, “and I’ve seenwhat it’s done to the pro-grams. Class size went up,and it just made it horri-ble in the classroom.Thereis what I call critical mass.Safety is a huge issue whenyou have 30 students in-stead of 20.”

If the province is seriousabout preparing for a loom-ing labour shortage in theskilled trades, Clarke said, itneeds a government willingto invest in school programs.

But not everything wrongwith School District No.41’s shops can be laid onthe provincial govern-ment’s doorstep, accordingto Clarke. He said Burnabyschool officials in the 1990s– determined to becomeprovincial leaders in com-puter education – guttedschool shops without anyhelp from the province.

THE LEADERANDLOSER

The tale begins in theearly1960s, right afterClarke graduated fromBurnaby South and headedoff to university.

From 1960 to 1966, thefederal government – underthe 1960Technical andVo-cationalTraining AssistanceAct – injected $1.5 billioninto technical and voca-tional education across thecountry, including the con-struction of gleaming new“technical” wings at Burn-aby’s high schools, stocked

with top-of-the-line, indus-trial-grade shop equipment.

“They were wonderful,”Clarke said. “We producedpeople that were proud ofwhat they did.They becametradespeople.They are – alot of them – people thatare now running your local,very successful businesses.”

As the 1990s approached,however, things changed.

Enrolment in shop class-es dropped, Clarke said, asmore academic courses be-came mandatory and moreelectives came on line.

With the rise of comput-ers, he said, senior schoolofficials opted to take thelead in computer education,largely at the expense ofshop classes.

“I call them the lead-er and loser on that basis,”Clarke said.

Across the district, shopswere closed, and money waspoured into computer tech-nology.

Sudents increasing-ly learned design and con-struction on computers andthrough what Clarke calls“toilet-paper engineering.”

“They decided kids couldbe building bridges on atable top out of Popsiclesticks,” he said.

The new Burnaby South,which opened in 1993, wasthe crown jewel of the newregime. Shop space andequipment were cut drasti-cally to make way forTechLab 2000.

“Students were votingwith their feet and leaving

the shop empty,” said then-superintendent Elmer Fro-ese, explaining the changesin a 1993Tech & LearningMagazine article.

Meanwhile, much of thetop-of-the-line equipmentonce housed in wood andmetal shops around the dis-trict was auctioned off forpennies on the dollar asthose programs were cut,Clarke said.

He and his tech-ed col-leagues at Cariboo Hillfought back by collect-ing some of the equipmentand stashing it behind afalse wall in an alcove of theschool’s shop wing.

“We knew we couldn’ttake it off the premises,”Clarke said. “That wouldhave been theft, so wethought, well if they can’tfind the God damned stuff,they can’t take it.”

Rod Ramage, another re-tired shop teacher whose ca-reer spanned the same eraas Clarke’s, was one of thegroup. He said some goodthings were added to tech-ed with computers, but thedistrict’s approach at thetime was lopsided.

“We were concernedabout what was being givenup,” he said.

The Cariboo Hill teach-ers added the equipmentback to their shops someyears later, and, to this day,the school has the best-equipped shops in the dis-trict, according to Clarke.ACAUTIONARYTALE

For Clarke, district deci-

sions about shop classes inthe 1990s were disastrous.

“They followed falsegods,” he said, “and it’scome full circle becausenow people are saying, ‘Whydon’t we have the equip-ment and the facilities totrain tradespeople?’”

Clarke has nothingagainst computers, he said,but the district’s pursuitof computer education atthe expense of shop classeshasn’t turned out to be thebest move for all grads.

As an example, he pointsto the many computer-based jobs now outsourcedto developing countries.

That’s harder to do withtrades jobs, according toClarke.

“You cannot export aconstruction site,” he said.

Clarke said the admin-istrators – all since retired– who steered the districtsingle-mindedly towardscomputer education in the1990s kept elected schoolofficials in the dark aboutthe effect on shop classesand shop equipment.

His colleague, Ramage,said trustees should havepaid closer attention.

But Clarke said the taleshould be a lesson to par-ents too.

For too long, he said,they have focused on get-ting their kids into universityand ignored the benefits oftrades careers, both in termsof employment and person-al satisfaction.

After spending plenty oftime at both, there’s no con-test for Clarke.

“What am I the proud-est of?The things I cando with my hands and theequipment and the machin-ery,” he said. “It is that tac-tile thing that most humanbeings need and a lot of uscannot live without. And alot of kids are totally frus-trated in school becausethey don’t get that opportu-nity now.”

See an extended story atwww.burnabynow.com.

Falsewall savedtools fromauction

Goldenage:RetiredBurnaby shop teacher JohnClarkeposes inAlphaSecondary’smetal shop in1975beforemuchof theequipment in thebackgroundwasauctionedoff by the schooldistrict in the1990s.PHOTOCONTRIBUTED

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Australian-born author NikiKoulouris is the featured writer atthe next Spoken Ink night.

The BurnabyWriters’ Soci-ety continues its series of readingand open mike nights onTuesday,April 21 at La Fontana Caffe.

Koulouris, who was born inMelbourne and now lives inTo-ronto, will be reading from herfirst book of poetry, The sea withno one in it. Her poetry and prosehas previously appeared inThe

Cortland Review, Space,MetroMagazine,Subtext Magazine andThe Age.

The sea with no one in it wasshortlisted for the 2014WesleyMichelWright Prize and the Re-Lit Award.

La Fontana Caffe is at 101-3701 Hastings St. in North Burn-aby. Open mike sign-up starts at7:30 p.m., and the reading beginsat 8 p.m. See www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com.

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Printmaking and photog-raphy are in focus in twonew exhibitions at Burna-by’s public libraries.

The Burnaby Art Galleryis offering two new off-siteexhibitions at Burnaby Pub-lic Library branches.

At the McGill librarybranch (4595 Albert St.),visitors can check out LauraWidmer’s Face to Face.

Widmer is an award-win-ning Canadian printmak-er based in Kelowna, whohas earned recognition fromthe Open Studio NationalPrintmaking Awards.

Her first prize-winningwork from the 2010 com-petition, One of the Daves IKnow, is part of the exhi-bition at the library – as isPearls, which earned hon-ourable mention in thesame competition last year.

“My work is a quiet actof defiance in a digital age,”Widmer says in a statement.“I wish to draw attention tothe tactile, sensual subtletiesof our world at a time whenthe word ‘touch’ frequent-ly references a finger-swipeacross a flat, rectangular

screen. I use a deliberate-ly physical process and em-phasize the handmade markin creating works that ex-plore the subtleties of ex-pression; I hope that thelines, textures and accumu-lation of marks in my worksuggest a process, a histo-ry and a sense of presencethat will invite the viewer topause, if even momentarily.”

Face to Face is on untilJune 8.

At the Bob Prittie(Metrotown) library branchat 6100Willingdon Ave.,visitors can take in PeopleWith Cameras, an exhibi-tion of photographs fromthe City of Burnaby Ar-chives – historic photo-graphs that show the riseof photography as a lei-sure pursuit, especially af-ter 1900 when the KodakBrownie Box roll-film cam-era was introduced.

It’s on until June 7.Check out www.burnaby

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Faceof thepast:DavidGrayandBobWood, fromMay1927 (copied1986) is part of thePeopleWithCamerasexhibitionat theBobPrittielibrarybranch.PHOTOCITYOFBURNABYARCHIVES

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A band of volunteers putthe finishing touches on arestoration project at DeerLake Brook on March 21and 22.

About 15 volunteerscame out on the Fridayand Saturday to plant na-tive species along a stretchof the small waterway thatserves as important habitatfor many species at Burna-by Lake.The crew also re-moved invasive blackberrybushes, cleaned up the siteand set up a fence to keepdogs and beavers out.

“I think it went real-ly well. It was fun and peo-ple had a good time, andwe were able to talk to peo-ple about the importanceof this kind of work,” saidAnn Green, a volunteer co-ordinator with the BurnabyLake Park Association.

The project, which start-ed last summer, was a jointeffort between the Burna-by Lake Park Association,the FraserValley Conser-vancy, Fisheries and OceanCanada and biologists fromthe Coastal PaintedTurtle

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main connecting waterwaythat flows from Deer Lakeinto Burnaby Lake.Thebrook is a habitat for manyspecies, including the en-dangeredWestern paintedturtle and the Pacific wa-ter shrew, the red-leggedfrog and great blue her-ons. Chum, pink and cohosalmon were also trying totravel through the brookbut were blocked by an oldweir, which was removedin July with a large excava-

tor.The team then addedrocks, large tree trunks andwads of roots to create amore natural flowing brook

with basking sites for turtles.Within days, fish and wild-life were spotted using therestored habitat.

The March weekendof work put the finishingtouches on the project.

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Flying tackle:JoeDolesau, inblue, helped theBurnabyLakeRugbyClubcome frombehind toekeouta19-19drawwithUBCOldBoysRavensinpremiermen’s spring league rugbyactionatBurnabyLakeSportsComplex-East onSaturday.BurnabyLakeoutscored theRavens threetries toonewithKimi Vunituranga,RyanMcHolister andAndrewLackner touchingdownwith five-pointers.PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

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Soccer players scoredthe top prizes at the annu-al Douglas College Royalsawards banquet.

All-Canadian SpencerDeBoice and CanadianColleges’ Association wom-en’s player of the year final-ist Marni McMillan werenamed this year’s athletes ofthe year winners at the AnvilCentre lastThursday.

DeBoice finished runner-up in league scoring and thetournament MVP for thePacWest provincial cham-pions. He was also named aPacWest first team all-star.

DeBoice beat out All-Canadian volleyball playerGeorgeThompson, a sec-ond-year player who wasthe only player to finish inthe top eight in all four ma-jor offensive categories inthe PacWest this season.

The PacWest player of theyear was third in the leaguein total offence, fourth inkills, fifth in blocks and sixthin service aces.

Also shortlisted was soc-cer goalkeeper Marc Min-cieli, who over the last threeseasons has crafted a stingy1.2 goals against average inthe PacWest.

Mincieli was named thetop goalkeeper at the pro-vincial championships.

McMillan earned thewomen’s athlete of the yearaward over softball’s HilaryStrelau and Nanaya Mikifrom women’s basketball.

McMillan earned thePacWest player of the yearaward and All-Canadi-an honours. She led theRoyals in scoring and wasnamed the player of thegame in both matches at thePacWest provincials, helpingDouglas win its first provin-cial medal in women’s soc-cer in 15 years.

Strelau was a big rea-son for Douglas winning itsfirst-ever Northwest region-al softball title last season.

Strelau was named the

North Region player of theyear and a Northwest con-ference All-American.

She led the conferencein stolen bases and hittingpercentage, while the teamplaced third in average runsper game.

Miki was a PacWest firstteam all-star, finishing theregular season 12th overallin league scoring and 11thin rebounding. At the pro-vincials, Miki was named tothe all-tournament team.

Men’s volleyball coachBrad Hudson, who was re-cently named the CanadianColleges’ coach of the year,was also named coach ofthe year at the Douglas Col-lege awards.

Hudson, who led themen’s volleyball team to a21-3 league record and No.1 in the nation, earned theaward over women’s bas-ketball coach CourtneyGerwing and men’s soccercoaches RobbyToor andPaul Bahia.

Gerwing led the basket-ball team to back-to-backsilver medals at the PacWestprovincials, whileToor andBahia upset No. 1 seedVan-couver Island University inthe PacWest provincial final.

Academic athlete of theyear awards went to men’svolleyball player Lucas De-Coste of NewWestminsterand soccer’s Ashley Melvin.

TEAMAWARDS:

Thompson earned themen’s volleyball team’s im-pact player award, while An-gus Ireland took the prideaward and Matt Santemareceived the set-the-baraward.

Julianna Penner wasnamed the MVP for wom-en’s volleyball.

Lynnea Carr was themost improved and GeorgiaHurry was the team’s rookieof the year.

In soccer, DeBoice wasthe men’s most outstandingplayer. Devin Phelan wasnamed the unsung player

Burnabyskateratworld’sdoorFourth-best free skate vaults Nam Nguyen into top five at [email protected]

Former Burnaby resi-dent Nam Nguyen postedpersonal best scores to fin-ish in fifth place at the In-ternational Skating UnionWorld Figure SkatingChampionships this week-end.

The gifted 16-year-oldlanded his quadruple jumpand recorded the fourth-best free skating programat the worlds, leaping upfrom ninth place after theopening short program tofinish fifth in the men’s fi-nal in Shanghai, China onSaturday.

Nguyen finished with apersonal-best 242.59 scorefollowing a 164.86 PBscore in the long program.

Javier Fernandez ofSpain won his country’sfirst-ever men’s gold med-al in figure skating, over-taking defending world andOlympic championYuzuruHanyu of Japan in the freeskate.

Both Fernandez andHanyu share the same Ca-nadian coach as Nguyen– two-time Olympic silvermedalist Brian Orser.

“In the long program,I needed to be more ag-gressive. I achieved that,and I’m really happy with

myself,” said Nguyen in aSkate Canada press release.

Nguyen won four na-tional figure skating titlesbefore the age of 13. He isthe youngest Canadian ath-lete to date to be crowneda national champion in allfive divisions he has com-peted in, including nationaljuvenile champion at eightyears of age.

After winning the juve-nile title, Nguyen achieveda rarely seen triple, winningthree national gold med-als in a row, taking top spotthe following year in men’spre-novice and the novicetitle in 2009.

Nguyen also became

the youngest-ever juniormen’s champion at age 12in 2011 and recently be-came the youngest seniormen’s champion this yearat 16 following a phenom-enal free skate, includinga perfect quad Salchowand eight triple jumps toscore 256.88 overall pointsthat vaulted him into theworld’s elite skaters.

Nguyen left the Low-er Mainland forToronto in2012 to train with Orser.

Nguyen won the worldjunior men’s championshiplast year.

Burnaby’s JeremyTenplaced 22nd overall in themen’s free skate program.

EDCFCBurnabyfalls inCupfinalsPremiers lose 1-0 toWestVan,u-21s beaten in extra [email protected]

It was an unpleasantSaturday on a number offronts.

Not only was the weath-er characteristically unco-operative, but the decisionsEDC FC Burnaby waslooking for in both Imperi-

al and under-21 Cup finalsalso failed to materialize.

The premier men lost1-0 toVancouver MetroSoccer League regular sea-son leaderWestVan FC inthe Imperial Cup final atTrillium Park East on Sat-urday, while the Burnaby-based club’s grad team alsofell toWestVan 3-2 in over-

time earlier in the day.“The men’s game …

could have gone eitherway, (WestVan) really onlyhad one clear chance andscored in the second half,”said EDC coach ClaudioRamirez.

EDC had two gloriouschances at goal, but theWestVan keeper was stellar

on both attempts, Ramir-ez added.

“We pressed the last 25minutes hard, but theywere solid in the back. Itwas a great run for ourclub,” Ramirez said.

In other results, Guild-ford FC clobberedTwinArrows 5-0 to take the Div.2 Cup final.Continuedonpage16



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and Mincieli best defensive player.McMillan was the women’s soccer MVP,

while Nicole Fraser was named the best all-around player. Melvin was the Royals’ mostconsistent player.

Steven Hayes and Danielle Dewar wereselected as golf’s respective MVPs. Chris-tine Con was the most improved player.

Andrew Baron was the MVP on themen’s basketball team. Bradyn Norris wasnamed the most improved and DustinPopoff earned the coach’s award.

Chloe Kennedy was the women’s bas-ketball MVP. Ellen Fallis was the most im-proved and GaralineTom most inspiration-

al player.Strelau was the winner of the rising star

award in women’s softball. Jenna Holmtook home the purple heart award and Syd-ney Brown was the team’s golden glovewinner.

In baseball, Jeff Bouchard was the North-west league’s all-conference hitter.TaylorLawrence won the dedication and leader-ship award, while Cory Duggan was the topsophomore pitcher.

Julianna Hodanic was the top female onthe Douglas College running club.

Diego Arellano was named best juniorathlete and Chris Raeside top achieving se-nior athlete.

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Noconsolation:BurnabyGirls SCRush lost 1-0 to

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theMetroWomen’sDivision I consolation

soccer final atBurnabyLakeSports

Complex-WestonSunday.Rushleading scorer

BiancaBertelli, inred, scored10goalsthis season. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

MoreteamhonouredRoyals

Three Burnaby hock-ey players are on their wayto the CycloneTaylor Cupfollowing a first-ever Pacif-ic Junior Hockey League ti-tle for the NorthVancouverWolf Pack last weekend.

Connor Pasco, who

scored a goal in NorthVan’s3-2 win over the MissionCity Outlaws in Game 6of the best-of-seven juniorB final, will play alongsideBurnaby rookies Adam Me-renda and Alex Ambrosio.

Pasco scored three times

in the playoffs, includingone game-winning goal.

Ambrosio had four goalsand three assists in post sea-son play.

The CycloneTaylor Cupgets underway on April 3 inMission.

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