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Her dying wish: Rawnie Dunnfights for her right to die

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The Burnaby NOWs Story of the Year is asmuch a tradition as Christmas lights and holi-day treats but this year we are adding a twistto the much-anticipated feature.

This year we are asking you, the readers:What is your top pick for News Story of theYear?

In the running for News Story of the Yearis Kinder Morgans much-debated proposed pipelineexpansion project. This week,Kinder Morgan officiallyapplied to the National EnergyBoard for approval of theirplan to twin the existing TransMountain pipeline, which runsthrough Burnaby, increasingcapacity from 300,000 barrels of oil per day to890,000.

Development in the city: Boom, boom,booming. There are a number of developmentsawaiting approval by Burnaby city council,including the first phase of the BrentwoodTown Centre redevelopment and a possiblethree-tower development at the Value Villagesite in Edmonds.

But with development comes change,and no one has handled change quite likeTransLink: The good, and the botched. Fromthe Compass card to the upcoming changesto the bus loop at Brentwood and Metrotownmalls, TransLink has a lot of projects on the goin Burnaby, and itll be interesting to see how

they all play out in the New Year.TransLinks woes, however, pale in com-

parison to the heated debate over the citysanimal control bylaw. The bylaw sure causeda stir this fall in Burnaby. Pet store ownerswere facing off against animal welfare groupsover the retail sale of pets, while pit bull lov-ers demanded council remove breed-specific

legislation. Council eventuallydecided to strengthen breed-specific wording and continueto allow some pets to be soldin retail shops.

And then we had the rene-gade dentist. Guilty of illegal-ly practising dentistry from hishome, the story of Burnabys

Tung Sheng (David) Wu captured the attentionof readers across the Lower Mainland.

So, we want to hear from you. What storystrikes you as being the most newsworthy, themost important story to Burnaby residents?

Please take our poll at www.burnabynow.com and weigh in on what you think was criti-cal news this year. Oh, and if you think wevemissed something that should be the top story,or at least in the running, shoot us an emailabout it to: [email protected]. Youcan also comment on our Facebook page atwww.facebook.com/BurnabyNOW.

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Critter crazy: From pit bulls to pets for sale in stores, Burnaby wasgoing to the dogs in more ways than one during 2013. Advocatesdefending stores selling pets and those opposed filled a recentcouncil meeting.

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Pipeline: MP says residents need to get involvedIf Burnaby residents have concerns

about Kinder Morgans proposed pipelineexpansion, nows the time to get involvedin the National Energy Board process,warns local MP Kennedy Stewart.

On Monday, the oil and gas giant final-ly filed an application with the board fora $5.4-billion plan to nearly triple pipelinecapacity, expand the Burnaby Mountaintank storage facility and increase the num-

ber of berths at the Westridge MarineTerminal. The board has 15 months todecide if the project is in Canadas bestinterest and can move forward.

When the bulldozers start goingthrough communities, its too late at thatpoint, so we want to start looking into theprocess early on, Stewart said.

The local MP, who has been followingthe issue since he was first elected in 2011,has set up a website called Let B.C. Decide,where Burnaby residents can register forupcoming information sessions hes plan-

ning to host.Well be running workshops on how

to participate in the process because theNational Energy Board doesnt seem towant to do that, Stewart said, referring tothe boards aborted plan to hold a publicinformation session in Burnaby on how toget involved in the process and opt for anonline version instead.

The application includes a pipeline cor-ridor, which is a wide berth where the linecan go, but the exact location wont bedetermined till late 2015, according to the

company.Thats the proposed route, Stewart

said. Once they get approval, then thatthing called right-of-entry kicks in, andanything thats within that 150 metres canbe expropriated if the National EnergyBoard grants approval for this applica-tion. Thats really what homeowners haveto look out for. Its really important forpeople to get involved in this process.

Now that Kinder Morgan has filed the

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Her dying wish Rawnie Dunn wants to end her own life butCanadas justice system has upheld the ban onassisted suicide, leaving her with no legal way outThe Criminal Code of

Canada states in section 241that: Every one who (a)counsels a person to commitsuicide, or (b) aids or abetsa person to commit suicide,whether suicide ensues ornot, is guilty of an indictableoffence and liable to imprison-ment for a term not exceeding14 years.

Suicide was considered acriminal offence in Canadauntil 1972, which is when itwas removed from the crimi-nal code.

Sept. 30, 1993: SupremeCourt of Canada upheld theassisted-suicide ban in thenow-famous Sue Rodriguezcase. Rodriguez was 42 at thetime, and she was sufferingfrom the debilitating terminalillness ALS (amyotrophiclateral sclerosis). She wantedto have a physician aid her interminating her life peacefully.The judges voted 5-4 againsther. On Feb. 12, 1994, ananonymous physician helpedRodriguez end her life.

April 2011: B.C. CivilLiberties Association filesa lawsuit to challenge theassisted-suicide ban in theB.C. Supreme Court, calling itunconstitutional as it deniesan individual control over theirchoices.

November 2011: RoyalSociety of Canada publishedits End-of-Life DecisionMaking report. It had a panelof six Canadian and interna-tional experts from variousfields that compiled informa-tion to fuel the debate andprovide material for thosediscussions.

June 29, 2011: GloriaTaylor, who suffered fromLou Gehrigs disease, joinedthe B.C. Civil LibertiesAssociations other plaintiffsin the death with dignitylawsuit.

June 15, 2012: B.C.Supreme Court struck downthe ban on assisted suicide.Justice Lynn Smith suspendedher ruling for one year toafford Parliament time to draftnew legislation incorporatingher ruling. The case involvedGloria Taylor and the B.C. CivilLiberties Association. Taylordied from a severe infection ofher perforated colon on Oct.4, 2012.

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Rawnie Dunn is lying in herbed, propped in an uprightposition. The room is silentsave for the faint audible voicescoming out of her neck pillowspeaker connected to the TV next toher. The curtains in her small roomare drawn closed. Only a sliver ofsun cuts across her body, casting adull light on the wall behind her,with its framed memories and pastaccomplishments.

To her left sits Dunns part-timecare nurse, who is one of the fewpeople that can understand andtranslate her severe speech impedi-ment.

The quiet scene in the Burnabycare home she now lives in is simi-lar to the one the 62-year-old experi-enced more than a year ago whenshe tried to kill herself. A few weeksafter her 61st birthday, she over-dosed on a mixture of gabapentinand quinine.

I decided to take an overdose ofpills, she said. I wasnt depressed.I thought of it for many decades. Iknew for decades. I knew my end-ing time of this disability was reallydismal. On my 61st birthday, I real-ized that something had happenedand realized I was at the end of thelast phase.

Dunn was born with Friederichsataxia, a 65 per cent hearing loss,aggressive scoliosis, carbohydrateintolerance and heart problems. Bythe age of 30, she was in a wheel-chair and wearing two hearing aids.

At the end of November 2012,she finally followed through on adecision she had made a long timeago to end her struggle.The deci-sion to end her own life, on her ownterms, was unsuccessful. She wokeup in a hospital bed after beingresuscitated against her writtenwishes.

I didnt know I had to have a(doctors) signed form, so I didntreally have one. And when I real-ized it, I was really angry, she said.

The suicide attempt took such atoll on her body that she went frombeing wheelchair-bound with somemobility to being paralyzed fromthe neck down, blind and sensitiveto light, almost completely deaf andwith a severe speech impediment.

I feel like Im in prison, shesaid. I want to die. There arepeople like me who want to die andshouldnt be forced to live like this.

Despite being legally blind,Dunns eyes are bright and lookaware, which her mind very muchis. Although her speech is laboured,she chooses her words carefully totry to explain her story and whyshes fighting for the right to die.

When my sons grew up andhad families of their own, I choseto leave as peacefully as possibleand asked my GP for a DNR (DoNot Resuscitate) order, wrote a willand published my long short storyEmerald Wings: A Canadian Lullaby,to introduce myself to my wonder-ful grandchildren, she said.

Dunns mind has not deterio-rated despite her physical condi-tion. In her younger days she was amember of MENSA an organiza-tion for people with high IQs andsat on and was an active memberof the Council of Canadians withDisabilities.

Ataxia is a degenerative neuro-logical disease that progresses overtime. Respiratory complications,cardiac issues and severe swallow-ing problems can be the result it isa complex disease that has no cure.

Dunn is paralyzed, but it hasnot saved her from experiencingextreme pain. She is given 12 dosesof hydromorphine every day. Herpension is the highest possible oneshe can get, at $1,050 a month butwith all her bills she is left with verylittle afterwards.

This past fall was a tumultuoustime for assisted-suicide advocates,as the B.C. Court of Appeal over-turned last years B.C. SupremeCourt ruling that a ban on assistedsuicide violates the rights of thegravely ill.

In late October, the B.C. CivilLiberties Association took the fightfor physician-assisted suicide backto the Supreme Court of Canada.

Although Dunn has not beenable to find a lawyer who will takeher case, as she lacks the necessaryfunds, she has the support of herfamily.

Dunns mother, Lynn BaurHyde, says shes had a difficult timewatching her daughters struggle.She supports Dunns right to choosewhen and how she dies but said shecould never pull the plug on her

daughter herself.She keeps asking me to kill

her, Hyde said. I just dont wantto do it myself.

Hyde lives in White Rock, is inher 80s and visits her daughter sev-eral times a week. She says watch-ing her daughter writhe in pain isindescribable.

She was screaming at me oneday, at the attendants there. Shewas in such pain, and in a garbledvoice I know what she was saying,Kill me, kill me. I said, I dontknow how. She said, Get a gun,get a gun.

It wasnt the first time Dunnsmother was in a difficult and over-whelming situation. Hyde walkedin on her daughter the night sheoverdosed.

There were pills everywhere onthe floor, she couldnt do anythingabout it, Hyde recalls. And shesaid, Mom, would you just sweepup, make me comfortable and thenleave?

And you know what? I wentout in the car and shut the doors

I feel like Im in prison: Rawnie Dunn is speaking out for the right to die. Dunn, 62, suffers fromFriederichs ataxia and other complications that have left her paralyzed, blind and almost completely deaf,as well as experiencing extreme pain.

Stefania Secciastaff reporter

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continued from page 3 Oct. 25, 2012: The Conservativefederal government filed a 54-pageargument stating that the currentlegislation was meant to protectthe vulnerable and that the inher-ent value of all human life should

not be depreciated by allowing oneperson to take anothers life. Italso said the B.C. Supreme Courtshould not try to attempt to over-ride the Supreme Court of Canadas1993 ruling.

Dec. 10, 2012: B.C. Supreme

Court of Appeal announced it wouldhold a hearing for the June 2012ruling from Justice Smith.

Oct. 10, 2013: In a split decision,the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld theban on assisted suicide, revers-ing the June 2012 ruling by B.C.

Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith.

Oct. 11, 2013: EnvironicsInstitute released results from asurvey of 1,002 Canadians that 68per cent of those polled supportedphysician-assisted suicide of theseriously or incurably ill but men-

tally competent.

Oct. 29, 2013: B.C. Civil LibertiesAssociation announced that it filedfor a Supreme Court of Canadahearing to appeal the Oct. 10 deci-sion. Elayne Shapray, a womansuffering from multiple sclerosis,

has stepped forward in the caseto challenge the criminalization ofassisted suicide.

Now: Quebec National Assemblyis preparing to pass a provinciallaw that will legalize medical eutha-nasia.

KEY DECISIONS: Canadian courts have been split on the right to die

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Local MLA Kathy Corrigan is claimingFraser Healths failure to alert the publicabout alarming levels of Clostridium diffi-cile at Burnaby Hospital in 2012 was miredin Liberal party politics.

Corrigans comments came onthe heels of a Vancouver Sun storybased on a recent freedom ofinformation request that showedthe health authority tried to dealwith the infection internallywithout warning the public, eventhough public health and safetywere at risk.

They made the choice to keepquiet, said the New DemocratMLA. I think you have toremember that this was takingplace in late 2011, early 2012, at a timewhen the Burnaby Hospital issue washighly politicized. The Burnaby Liberalswere planning to use it for highly politicalpurposes.

C. difficile is a potentially deadly bac-terium that causes diarrhea and is easilytransmitted in unclean environments. InJanuary 2012, a group of doctors wrotea letter to the head of the Fraser HealthAuthority, sounding the alarm over the

C. difficile outbreak at Burnaby Hospitaland 84 related deaths. The NDP got theirhands on the leaked letter and brought itup in the legislature about two monthslater.

That spring, the provincial govern-ment announced it had set up a consulta-tion committee for Burnaby Hospital thatincluded then-Burnaby MLA Harry Bloy,Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee andothers close to the Liberal party. Leakedcommittee emails suggested the group

was using the hospital issue andpublic consultation process asa means to boost the Liberalsstanding in Burnaby and de-seatCorrigan in the next election.

Thats the backdrop,Corrigan said, and I think thatpoliticization of the hospitalleached right down into howthings were handled. I think aconscious choice was made to tryto prioritize the stop of the spreadof the information over the stopof the spread of the disease.

Corrigan said that if Fraser Health hadfulfilled its obligation to inform the publicof the high C. difficile rates, people couldhave decided to take their loved ones todifferent hospitals. Corrigans ownmotherwas in and out of Burnaby Hospital from2009 to 2010, She eventually died from theMRSA superbug and C. difficile, whichcould have been contracted at the hospi-tal.

Public warning notissued about infection

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After fumbling the ballduring the HST debacleand remaining virtuallysilent during the Enbridge pipe-line debate, the B.C. businesscommunity is showing signs itintends to be more organizedand vocal when it comes to othercontroversial economic develop-ments.

Last week, the B.C. Chamberof Commerce organized an eventaimed at sending Ottawa themessage that the proposed NewProsperity Mine near WilliamsLake has considerable supportin the province, despite the factit has failed two federal environ-mental assessment processes.

And now various businessgroups are gearing up to maketheir presence known in thehearings for the Site C damproject on the Peace River. TheB.C. Chamber of Commerce, theB.C. Business Council and eventhe New Car Dealers of B.C. allintend to send representativesto Fort. St. John to make submis-sions in favor of building thedam.

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Its time to let thosewho suffer end their livesRawnie Dunn just wants to die and

end her suffering. This is not a spur-of-the-moment decision. It is not a decisionmade lightly. It is certainly not an easychoice. And whether we agree or disagreewith her choice, it certainlyseems that the humane thingto do is to allow her to exercisethat choice.

But life-and-death issuesare never that simple. For the last threedecades, Canadians, their political lead-ers and the courts have swung back andforth like a proverbial pendulum on this

issue. The current federal governmenthas stated that it will not allow the law toencompass physician-assisted suicide andwill strike down any attempts by pro-vincial courts to do so. And yet, there are

those who do assist people toleave this mortal coil, and they if they do not broadcast theirhelp are not charged.

The law, it seems, can turn ablind eye when compassion is required.

Understandably, advocates for thephysically disabled, mentally challengedand very elderly see potential problems

with legalizing assisted suicide. Whospeaks for those who cannot speak forthemselves?

The case of Robert Latimer, theCanadian farmer who killed his youngdaughter in 1993 before she (who wassuffering from cerebral palsy) was toundergo another painful operation, isoften used as an example. However,Latimer was found guilty of second-degree murder and only received fullparole in 2010.

Surely the law can be written to pro-tect those who cannot make such deci-

sions. In the case of Rawnie Dunn, sheis of sound mind and has had manydecades to consider her decision. She is,as criminologist Robert Gordon says, oneof those absolutely dead certain theywant to end their life.

For those who think that we, by nothaving an assisted suicide law, haveevaded a difficult decision, rest assuredwe have not. We have merely allowedunnecessary suffering to continue. Is thatsomething we should be proud of?

Read Rawnie Dunns story and thenanswer that question.

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Brentwood plans raise problemsDear Editor:

Derek Corrigans inability to see past the end ofhis own nose has repeatedly saddled local taxpayerswith extra costs and inconvenience.

He bid for the Seniors Games telling everyonethat Ottawa would share the bill only to discoverafter winning the Games that Ottawa had no suchintention. He funds an apparently never-endingcomputer system upgrade at city hall. And there isalways the dredging fiasco: a barge sitting unusedfor months beside Burnaby Lake incurring chargesbecause someone at city hall forgot about theendangered Western painted turtles until after thefinal dredging permit failed to arrive from Victoria.

But this time Derek may have outdone even

himself. As of Dec. 16 the TransLink bus loop/interchange at Brentwood Mall is to be closed off apparently including access to the ramp that goesfrom the bus loop itself to the SkyTrain platform.

I write apparently because no councillor orMayor Corrigan would answer questions about thisat the Dec. 10 hearing, leaving me looking at mapsfor answers.

Let me repeat that: our peerless mayors latestinept and incoherent plan for Burnaby infrastruc-ture apparently has TransLink closing off the busloop/interchange at Brentwood Mall, along withthe related ramp to and from the loop itself in mid-winter. Talk about shortsightedness!

This closure will force transit passengers manyreliant on walkers or wheelchairs, pushing strollers,

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or carrying bags and packages to walkdown two long city blocks and crossup to three streets (including LougheedHighway and Willingdon Avenue) tomake connections.

Vehicle drivers can expect temporarybus stops on Lougheed Highway andWillingdon Avenue to produce even morecongestion and opportunities to have acci-dents with each other and with physicallychallenged pedestrians (properly usingcrosswalks but unable to complete thecrossing in the alloted time) or with jay-walkers (more physically able but unwill-ing to stick to the marked crosswalks in therush to make connections).

The result will be chaos as commut-ers slipping and sliding on winter iceand snow on city sidewalks mix in withvehicles slipping and sliding on Lougheedand Willlingdon each and every rush hourmorning and evening amidst those six-lane crossings. Not to mention the longlines of people waiting for elevators clearlyinadequate for the task of moving formerramp-users up to the platform itself. Thecurrent station configuration requires useof stairs or two separate elevators that areonly accessible at street level to people on

the north side of Lougheed Highway.Who will be liable for the costs incurred

as the accidents and injuries pile up?Perhaps Mayor Corrigan, being a law-

yer, might solicit opinions on this pointand then revisit this latest civic fiasco inthe making before something other thanhis pride gets hurt.

Now-available information says thechanges are temporary but give no indi-cation of when the on-street bus stops willbe replaced with more acceptable transferpoints.

And reconstruction at Brentwood Mallcan be expected to take years. This is clear-ly not a promising start to the supposedlytransit-oriented development proposedfor Brentwood Town Centre.

TransLink needs to delay the closureand the developers need to rethink theirplan for Brentwood Mall to make fora safer and more convenient transitionto accommodate reconstruction at leastuntil the season of slipping in snow andice is over.

Mayor Corrigan for his part simplyneeds to start thinking period! Why holda public hearing and be unable or unwill-ing to answer questions on such vital mat-ters as the safety of Burnabys physically-challenged and other transit users?

G. Bruce Friesen, Burnaby

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Transit troubles ahead

Prosperity mine, and amore aggressive and orga-nized campaign by busi-ness interests may nudgeit closer to favouring theKinder Morgan pipeline.

In the last provincialelection campaign, B.C.Liberal leader ChristyClark was cautioned by heradvisers not to wade intothe Kinder Morgan issueafter NDP leader AdrianDix made his now infa-mous gaffe of opposing theprojects.

But her politicalinstincts told her the issuewas a good one for herand her party, because itexposed a neat fault linebetween the B.C. Liberalsand the NDP. The rest, ofcourse, is history.

Clark has clearlyaligned her governmentwith megaprojects thatproduce jobs, no matterhow controversial theymay be. She realizes herbase of supporters agreewith her, and an organizedcampaign by the busi-ness community will only

strengthen her resolve inthese matters.

Ive gotten a fair

amount of pushback (actu-ally, more like Why dontyou jump off a cliff?) fromsome folks who live onlittle islands for my sug-gestion that B.C. Ferriesare not an extension of thehighway system.

Their reaction is basedon emotion rather thanlogic, however. Let usexamine the differencesbetween a highway and aferry system:

Highways are open andaccessible 24 hours a day,seven days a week (barringweather or traffic abnor-malities). Even those whoare outraged by the slight-est change to their ferryservice implicitly agreethat there limits to howmany times a ferry sails,limits that do not exist onhighways.

Although highwaysincur capital and main-tenance costs (as do B.C.Ferries fleet) motoriststravel them for free. I have

yet to hear anyone suggest,with any justification, thatB.C. Ferries should all befree.

When you drive a B.C.highway, you are notrequired to have a bunchof other people in yourvehicle. When you travelon a B.C. ferry, however,the law dictates there mustbe anywhere from six to 48people on board with you(these are crew members,all earning roughly $25 anhour).

No, B.C. Ferries arenot a highway. They area service, and one that iscosting more and moreto provide. Boosting thegovernment subsidy to payfor those rising costs is avalid argument, but try-ing to pretend this is stillthe 1960s and that W.A.C.Bennett is still the premier(the one who first equatedthe major B.C. Ferries routebetween the mainland andVancouver Island a high-way) is delusional.

Keith Baldrey is chiefpolitical reporter for GlobalB.C.


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Its not very compli-cated to become involved,

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When we went in andout, we were supposedto put gloves on. I believeif I had known how seri-ous the problem was atBurnaby Hospital, I mighthave behaved differently,Corrigan said.

Elizabeth Brodkin, FraserHealths executive medicaldirector of infection control,was not able to commenton why the authority didnot alert the public, as sheonly started working in late2012.

According to Brodkin,

Fraser Health started deal-ing with C. difficile in 2009,and the rates have beendeclining steadily. In the2011/12 fiscal year, therewere 15.2 cases of C. dif-ficile at Burnaby Hospitalper 10,000 patient days. For2012/13,thatfiguredroppedto 8.5 cases. So far, for thisfiscal year, there have been5.6 cases per 10,000 patienthours. Brodkin said FraserHealths goal is no morethan six cases. Fraser Healthalso posts information onoutbreaks at tinyurl.com/FHAoutbreaks.

Kinder Morgans facilities application is more than15,000 pages long, which translates to a seven-foot stackof paper contained in 37 binders.

The application includes a pipeline corridor forBurnaby, but the exact location of the new line within thatcorridor will be determined in late 2015.

Kinder Morgan wants to twin the Trans Mountainpipeline, increasing capacity from 300,000 barrels of oilper day to 890,000 nearly tripling current volume.

To read the full application, go to application.transmountain.com.

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A jury is recommend-ing changes to the firearmslicensing system after afour-day inquest into thedeath of Angus Mitchell.

RCMP in Maple Ridgeshot Mitchell on May 30,2012 after he allegedly shotand killed two people ina Burnaby sushi restaurantthree days earlier.

More thanayear later, theB.C. Coroners Service heldan inquest into Mitchellsdeath, and last month a jurydeclared his death a homi-cide. Homicide refers to thelegal definition, the kill-ing of one human being byanother human being, andin this case it was death bypolice shooting.

Along with a verdict,the jury submitted severalrecommendations to theCoroners Service, includ-ing amending the MentalHealth Act, changing theway information is sharedbetween police departmentsin B.C. and enacting a strict-er policy for people seekinga firearms licence.

According to the verdict,the jury has recommend-ed the Minister of Healthamend the Mental HealthAct to require doctors toreport assessment outcomeson individuals arrested bypolice under Section 28of the (Mental Health Act)where a firearm is involvedto the appropriate policeagency.

The jury also recom-mended the College ofPhysicians and Surgeons ofB.C. ensure doctors makingthese assessments make allefforts to contact next of kinor close friends in order tobetter understand the indi-viduals mental status.

A recommendation wasalso made to conduct astudy into the possibility offamilies requesting psychi-atric assessments for a fami-lymember they believemayhave a mental illness evenif the person is resistant tothe assessment.

Furthermore, the juryrecommended the ChiefFirearms Officer for B.C.require all applications orrenewals for a firearmslicence include consent toreleasemedical information,that MSP and PharmaNet

records be reviewed prior toissuing the licence and thatall firearms licence renewalsbe suspended for 30 days ifthe individual was arrest-ed under Section 28 of the

Mental Health Act.The jury recommend-

ed that during the 30-daysuspension, the individualmust surrender all firearms.

The jury also recom-

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Environment.It is now the responsi-

bility of the B.C. CoronersService to pass on theserecommendations to theappropriate agencies.

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Burnaby council is adding its voice tothe chorus opposing the environmentalimpact assessment concerning the pro-posed coal transport facility at FraserSurrey Docks.

The controversial SNC-Lavalin com-pany was commissioned by Fraser SurreyDocks and Port Metro Vancouver to com-plete an environmental impact study onthe proposed coal transfer project, whichwould handle up to four million metrictonnes of coal annually.

The company concluded that the proj-ect would not cause significant adverseenvironmental issues. However, two chiefmedical officers have called the assess-ment inadequate. Dr. Patricia Daly andDr. Paul Van Buynder of the VancouverCoastal and Fraser Health authorities haveboth sent letters to Port Metro Vancouverregarding the assessment.

It was reviewed by two doctors, and theyre raising a lot of questions,Coun. Sav Dhaliwal said at the Dec. 9council meeting. They believe it didntgo far enough with the impact on the localhealth of the residents in the area.

Fraser Surrey Docks began a 30-dayconsultation process, ending Dec. 17, afterreleasing the assessment.

I think its a fairly important issuefor us, for our citizens, Dhaliwal noted.Were not far from the facilities. I believe,just in line with other cities, such as Surrey,

Delta and other Metro Vancouver citieshave raised concerns about this expansionand, I believe, in the absence of having alot of those questions answered properly,I would think that it would be appropri-ate for this council to go on the recordto oppose any expansion until we aresure this doesnt have long-lasting healthimpacts.

Dhaliwal said he intends to make amotion at a city council meeting in thenew year to outline the citys opinion onthe matter.

Mayor Derek Corrigan said hes beendealing with the same issue on the MetroVancouver board.

Im sure that it just gives everyone justoodles of confidence that SNC-Lavalin didthe environmental study, Corrigan said.But theres a company whose reputationhas suffered significantly, and then to putthem in charge of an environmental assess-ment in our community in which they areasked to stand up for the interests of thepublic thats a difficult one to swallow.

Corrigan noted that Port MetroVancouver is run by the businesses thatwork at the port, and they appoint theboard of directors.

And then theyre given the authorityto conduct the environmental assessmentfor whether or not another business onthe port gets to export dirt coal, he said.Somethings wrong with this picture, andI dont know if I can be satisfied that thepublic interest is protected.

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Its never easy whenlongtime habits suddenlyshift, but a few locals areconcerned about what theBrentwood mall bus loopremoval will bring duringextreme weather condi-tions.

The bus loop at thefuture site of the Brentwoodmall redevelopment closedon Dec. 16 for good, and itleft some locals wonderingif that was the best wayforward.

Its going to be interest-ing, said Carrie McLaren.My main concern with allof this is safety.

McLaren, a Burnabyresident and former GreenParty candidate, says shesconcerned what icy condi-tions will do for seniors anddisabled patrons trying toaccess transit.

Its a dangerous parkinglot, McLaren noted. Thereare a lot of accidents. Theresnot really a sidewalk, otherthan the bus loop sidewalk.

I keep seeing all thesepeople going around, all theshopping carts, strollers orwalkers. The spring usuallyis fine, but this is winter. Ifit snows again, and we getsome really bad weather,its going to be an issue.

Helen Ward, also aBurnaby resident, has beenvocal about her issues withthe Brentwood mall rede-velopment, including theclosure of its bus loop.

Theres no dangertoday, but if it was slipperyyoud have people physi-cally challenged trying toaccess the area, she noted.

Ward said shes glad tosee the ramp has not beenremoved or closed. But thesection of the ramp that con-nects to the bus loop willshut down at some point inthe future.

Buses 25, 123, 130, 134and 136 all moved to tem-porary street locations nearBrentwoods SkyTrain sta-tion.

Shape Properties,the company that ownsBrentwood mall, had itsmaster concept plan for its

redevelopment approvedby council in September.

Now, the first phasesrezoning application isnearing final approval. Itsplanned for the first 10 acresof the property that wouldconnect it to the SkyTrainstation at WillingdonAvenue and LougheedHighway. Preliminarywork has begun on the site including the bus loopsremoval. TransLink leasedthe site where the loop was,but the lease expires at theend of December.

Burnaby Coun. SavDhaliwal raisedhis concernsat several council meetingsabout removing the busloop because he was wor-ried about the various busstops being chosen aroundthe mall in some cases toofar away for seniors or thosewith mobility issues.

I recognize that dur-ing construction, there willbe some changes and yes,they were going to do thefirst phase, changing thefaade and getting ready does make a bit of inconve-nience, he said. Its a badtime right now to do it.

But TransLink says itsjust doing what it was toldto do.

According to Jeff Busby,senior manager of project

development and networkmanagement at TransLink,the bus loop will most likelynever return.

The buses are nowoper-ating on Willingdon andLougheed Highway, hetold the NOW. Customerslooking for buses will go tostops that are on the side-walks.

The bus stops will shiftonce again when the mallsfirst phase of redevelop-ment is done, three yearsfrom now, Busby said.

The locations willshift slightly and theyll beimproved from what theyare today, he said. Thedeveloper has helped usby providing really largeshelters and really pleas-ant waiting areas on thesidewalk, dependent onwhen the redevelopment isdone.

Darren Kwiatkowski,vice-president of develop-ment for Shape Properties,said Shape and TransLinkhave worked with custom-ers extensively to make theright decision about theloop. He also said the side-walks near the mall will bemaintained.

Kwiatkowski said thebus stops moving closerto the SkyTrain is a betteralternative to the bus loop,

adding TransLink suggest-ed raking it off-site.

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Safety concerns: Burnaby resident Helen Ward is concerned about the bus loopsremoval from Brentwood mall on Dec. 16. But TransLink and Shape Properties saythe switch to curbside bus stops is a better alternative.

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Burnaby has 164 physicians currentlypractising, but with a population of morethan 220,000, Dr. Baldev Sanghera says thecity is in dire need of at least 60 more.

Sanghera has practised as a family phy-sician in Burnaby since 1998.

He works in a clinic with seven fam-ily doctors, and between all of them, theyhave 25,000 patients. On average, one fam-ily doctor should have about 1,200 to 1,500patients only.

Right now, the only way people areable to find a family doctor is either bygoing to the College of Physicians andSurgeons (of B.C.) website and lookingthrough the database, but its an olderdatabase; or contacting the local emer-gency ward and getting the list of physi-cians taking patients but it is not updatedfrequently, he told the NOW.

Sanghera is part of the BurnabyDivisionof Family Practice, which is a collective ofabout 150 family physicians in the city.Since hes been in Burnaby, about eightfamily doctors have retired and none of

them have been replaced. Its led to doctorstaking on way more patients, or Burnabyresidents having to go elsewhere.

The BCMA (B.C. Medical Association)did a survey about five years ago, and 20per cent of doctors overall plan was toretire in the next five years, he said. Notonly is there pressure with the populationincrease, but theres also the pressure ofolder physicians retiring.

Burnabys population is expected toballoon to 355,000 by 2041, and Sangherasaid its of great concern as to whether ornot there will be enough family doctors.

Its why the Burnaby division has spear-headed a local survey for residents to fillout, called GP for Me, and why Sangheraapproached council recently to plead hisorganizations case.

Sanghera made presentations to boththe Burnaby school district and councilat their year-end meetings to promotethe survey, which closes at the end ofDecember, and ask for representation atthe municipal level.

The citys social and health committeesare what Sanghera wants representationon, and he hopes the survey results andhaving a doctor on board will help guidepolicy.

Sanghera says he hopes the survey willupdate the actual number of family physi-cians in the city and lead to more doctorrecruitment.

For more information, visit www.divisionsbc.ca/burnaby.

See an extended version of this story onlineat www.burnabynow.com.

Is Burnaby sufferingfrom a doctor shortage?Physician says city needs atleast 60 more family doctorsto keep up with demandStefania Secciastaff reporter

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Attendance for a decades-long lunchprogram at Confederation Seniors Centreis dwindling, and organizers are losingmoney.

The program provides low-cost lunchesthroughout the week at the centre. The pro-gram, which has been running for roughly20 years, usually attracts between 50 and

100 people, but more are needed to bringin enough revenue to keep the programafloat.

We want word to get out there thatlunch is available, whether youre a senioror not, said Ashley James, the centressupervisor. Its an incredibly importantpart of what we do here, because for someof them, this is the big hot meal of theday.

The lunches runMonday throughFriday,from 11:30 a.m. till 1 p.m., and tickets are $7for centre members or $8 for non-members.

The price includes a main entre, coffee, teaand dessert.

Thats a pretty darn good deal forlunch, James said.

The lunch program is also a social affairfor the seniors, James said.

We have people who come here at ninein the morning. They sit in the lobby, chatwith their friends and wait to buy theirticket, she said.

The program is completely volunteerrun, apart from one paid staff member whoworks in the centres kitchen. The centres

staff members, who are City of Burnabyemployees, run the program in conjunctionwith theConfederationSeniorsAssociation,the non-profit group thats connected withthe centre.

The volunteers do such a great job, andwe want nothing but for it to succeed,James said.

But getting the word out is only part ofthe solution, she added.

We are looking at other ways we cancut costs, she said.

For more information, call 604-294-1936.

Burnaby post-second-ary student MicaelaEvans was awardedone of the five Fire FighterHelping Hands Bursariesthrough Muscular

Dystrophy Canada.Evans, who has spi-

nal muscular atrophy, isregistered with MuscularDystrophy Canada, whichis a nationwide non-profitorganization that strives tohelp those with any of the150 different forms of neu-romuscular disorders.

The disorder has neverheld Evans back. She hasalways been involvedwith her local community,whether it be in her home-town of Armstrong, B.C.

or in Burnaby where she isstudying communicationsat Simon Fraser Universityand pursuing her goal ofbecoming a journalist.

Helping her on herjourney, she was awardedthe Fire Fighter HelpingHands Bursary. The bur-sary provides financialassistance to students whowish to pursue post-sec-ondary education and whowill continue to give backto the community.

Jane Leung

Musical morningBand students from

Burnaby South Secondarybrought some Christmascheer to the pancakebreakfast fundraiser forthe Burnaby ChristmasBureau at the Hilton onThursday.

The band performedChristmas-themed musicfor the crowds flocking tothe hotel for a hot pancakebreakfast in exchange fora donation to the bureau,

which provides toys forchildren and hampers forseniors during the holi-days.

Hunger ActionsStudents at Burnabys

SFU campus have beenbusy helping single momsin need.

Students from acrossthe university are involvedin Enactus, a volunteerorganization that runsHunger Actions, a pro-gram that offers free finan-

cial literacy and healthycooking workshops forsingle moms. Enactushas chapters in differentuniversities, and studentscreate programs to addresssome of the needs in theircommunities.

Business student LeslieChow manages the SFUHunger Actions programand has been involved inEnactus for two years.

I really grew up in afamily where everything

CLASS ACTJennifer Moreau

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Enjoy the best lunch deal in townConfederation SeniorsCentre working to save low-cost hot lunch program

University student earns Helping Hands bursary

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The Safe Harbour program recentlyrecognized the Burnaby NeighbourhoodHouse as an award finalist for being anoutstanding community organizer.

More than 80 B.C. organizationsattended the fifth annual Safe Harbourawards ceremony on Nov. 19. The awardsacknowledge community organizers forshowing leadership and creating inclusiveenvironments through the Safe Harbour.

Having been recognized as a final-ist means a lot to our organization, as itshows that we, as an organization, havemade an impact to the community inall the work weve done, said AntoniaBeck, executive director of the Burnaby

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This coyote was found on Sept. 19,lying on the road after being hit by a car.Ten minutes later, the SPCA was calledand the coyote was picked up and broughtto the association.

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and screamed my head off. This is abso-lutely true. Then a voice got through thescreaming. A calm, loving voice reassuredme, You have to know everything, youhave to understand everything. And thathelps me when I really get down. Life isreally something.

Dunn has two sons and three grand-daughters. One of her sons, Tavis Dunn,lives in Burnaby and visits his mother sev-eral times a week. When he was a child,he remembers his mother having to con-stantly fight to keep her children. His par-ents separated when he was young, andhis father moved back to Saskatchewan.

Government care workers assumedshe was slow or mentally disabled, hesaid. She constantly had to fight to keepus. They didnt understand, they didntthink she was mentally able to take careof us.

Now that Tavis is a father with a 10-month-old daughter, he has a new appre-ciation for his disabled mother who raisedtwo kids.

She single-handedly raised two reallyrambunctious boys. We destroyed every-thing in the house, and she had to man-age that, he said. I couldnt imagineraising a child like that, and on the otherside having people think youre not goodenough and try to take your child away.

Tavis, like his grandmother, supportsDunns decision to end her life. He saidhis mother has been preparing him andhis brother for this moment almost hiswhole life. Some forms of ataxia can take apersons life when theyre in their 30s.

Its the perfect example of someonewho really, genuinely, doesnt want to beon this planet anymore, in an enormousamount of pain. We dont have it set up inour legal system, the choice for someoneto be able to do that, Tavis said.

While the contentious issue of physi-cian-assisted suicide has been makingheadlines, the idea that someone has theright to choose their own fate is a strongbelief held firmly by Tavis.

Its different when theres someonebeing pressured, someone wants them togo. Thats a real issue, he said. Theresgot to be a middle ground, I dont seewhy we need to keep her here just to sat-isfy our own moral statutes.

Tavis said he does realize the scope ofpeoples concerns and the potential fordisabled people to feel pressure to endtheir lives prematurely.

I totally understand that people areconcerned about making disabled peoplefeel, or have their families make themfeel like theyre not welcome or theyrea huge burden, he said. In my momscase, I totally support her. I know whereher brain is. I strongly believe if you havea family member in this type of pain, itshard to see someone you love so much in

that kind of pain. And the only solution isto have more drugs? All we do is drug herup with hydromorphine. Its just druggingyou out. Thats existing?

According to the federal government,it is. The governmenthas made it clear thatit would challenge anyprovincial ruling tolegalize assisted suicide,and strike it down.

Robert Gordon is aprofessor of criminol-ogy and associate deanof arts and social sci-ences at Simon FraserUniversity and a dis-tinguished fellow ofthe Canadian Centrefor Elder Law at theUniversity of BritishColumbia.

Gordon has beenkeeping track of assistedsuicide cases beforethe cour

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