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If it had been up to students, Doug Fordwould be the mayor of Toronto right now.

Like their parents, they also elected hiscelebrity brother, Rob Ford to Toronto citycouncil last month.

This week, its Burnaby students turn toshow who theyd put in the mayors seat ifthey were old enough to vote.

Sixteen local schools have signed up forStudent Vote, a parallel election programfor students that has coincided with officialelections across the country since 2003.

At registered schools, students have stud-ied up on government and democracy, andresearched the local issues and candidates.

The activities culminate this week withan authentic in-school vote on the same can-didates their parents will be picking fromon Saturday.

The student elections feature offi-cial ballots and ballot boxes, with student

Lessons indemocracy

Do CUPE donations influence city negotiations?As Election Day approaches, Burnabys

opposition party is questioning the impar-tiality of city staff when their union, theCanadian Union of Public Employees, wasthe incumbent councils largest financialsupporter in the last election.

In 2011, CUPE donations to the BurnabyCitizens Association totalled $94,500,accounting for more than 35 per cent ofthe BCAs campaign contributions. TheBurnaby First Coalition recently issueda press release raising concerns over theneutrality of city staff particularly thoseresponsible for running the election and

howCUPEs substantial supportmay swaythe wages and votes of city workers.

CUPE Local 23 negotiates directlywith the city, states the release, callingthe matter a perceived conflict of inter-est. Burnaby took over contract negotia-tions from Metro Vancouver after the 2011election and prior to the negotiations forthe most recent contract in 2012. Thereare now 184 city staff paid over $100,000annually.

But Gord Larkin, president of the BCA,denied the notion that CUPEs donationshad any influence on the last round ofbargaining over the citys collective agree-ment with the union.

All kinds of people donate to political

parties and they dont necessarily controlthe political party, he said. It has noth-ing to do whatsoever with negotiations.The bargaining is done they have a col-lective agreement now, I believe, that runsfor another couple of years.

I would assume they have a processwhere they go to their membership, itmust be passed by their membership, headded. Theyre a democratic organiza-tion and they have a right to get involved

in the political arena, the same as KinderMorgan whos spending millions on adsabout their position on the pipeline.

As per the Election Act, donations mustbe disclosed within 90 days after the elec-tion.

Despite the BCAs position, BurnabyFirsts statement went on to say the unionsdonations are a serious issue for transpar-ency and accountability and criticized thelack of regulation for municipal electioncontributions.

Local elections are the least regulatedof our three levels of government withno limits on donations from groups likeunions and developers that have a directinterest in the outcome.

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Is it idealistic to think a coalition of indi-viduals with widely different views and littlepolitical experience could pry the BurnabyCitizens Associations grip off city hall and theboard of education after six years of exclusiverule?

Maybe, says Burnaby First mayoral candi-date Daren Hancott, but the time is right.

Theres a little bit of idealism from anyparty, he told the NOW, but if I didnt thinkit was a good idea, I wouldnt have taken upthe challenge.

The 48-year-old businessman, who movedto Burnaby from Atlantic Canada 15 yearsago, was persuaded the time was right whileknocking on doors as a federal Conservativecandidate for the new riding of BurnabyNorth-Seymour this spring.

Everybody I talked to on the doorstep saidI should do this, Hancott said.

Convinced, he dropped his federal bid andset his sights on city hall.

My goal is to give people choice, diver-sity, he said.

Forging a unified opposition out of candi-dates from all ends of the political spectrum

hasnt been easy, but heading into the lastweek before the Nov. 15 election, Hancott saidhis coalition has gelled.

Id say were a team, he said. We comeacross as a team; we work as a team. I thinkresidents can be assured that this group cando more with less very easily. Weve alreadydone that. Weve demonstrated that we canrun a campaign on one-tenth of the money.

Hancott, who holds a PhD in organizationand management from Capella University,an online school in the U.S., currently makesa living managing investment properties andstock portfolios through his private company,Triax International Enterprises Inc.

Before that he was an executive at two pri-vate, for-profit universities in B.C. and Alberta:the University of Phoenix from 2000 to 2009and the University of Canada West (owned bythe Eminata Group) from 2000 to 2012.

Hancott was transferred to B.C. in 1998 asan executive with Seafood Products (part ofMaple Leaf Foods) after 10 years with thatcompany in Eastern Canada.

Hancott has also been involved in the B.C.Chamber of Commerce for 10 years and is aformer board chair and current member of thepolicy review committee.

He met his wife Linda, who is from

Indonesia, on a business trip and has twosons, one at Burnaby Mountain Secondary andone at SFU.

Among his community activities, Hancottnamed his involvement in the Holy CrossParish and his membership in the Knights ofColumbus.

He is a newcomer to politics but undauntedby his inexperience.

Its not rocket science, he said. Its justtalking to people and getting them excitedabout something.

Despite abandoning his Burnaby North-Seymour bid, he said he will continue to sup-port to federal Conservatives.

He also supports the provincial Liberals butsaid he cant be pinned down politically.

Im Green on certain issues; Im an inde-pendent on other issues, he said. You cantpaint me in a corner and say This is what youare. I think I can bring dialogue to any issue.

Bringing more dialogue and transparencyto city hall is a main plank in the BurnabyFirst platform to counter what Hancott calls ademocratic deficit.

One-party rule doesnt help any commu-nity, he said.

Challenger: Daren Hancott is leading the new Burnaby First Coalition into battle against the juggernaut that is Mayor DerekCorrigan and the Burnaby Citizens Association. Burnaby residents go to the polls tomorrow to choose their new mayor, counciland school board for the next four years.

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If mayoral candidate HelenHee Soon Chang has knockedon your door during this electionseason, chances are you have apretty good idea what her plat-forms all about.

Chang, a 30-year resident ofthe city, has been vocal over theyears about reducing hate crimewithin Burnaby, giving multiplelectures on the topic.

Burnaby is such a diversesociety with more than 50 percent belonging to visible minori-ties and more than 100 languag-es. These days, white-collar crimelike identity theft is a seriousproblem, she said.

More specifically, Chang ishoping to curb medical fraud atthe municipal level if elected.

In B.C., statisticsshow there are 9.1 mil-lion medical care cardscirculating, but the actualpopulation is 4.9 million.Thats almost double.

At the federal level,the mother of two wasin the news a coupleof years ago when sherequested Parliamentapprove a Hate CrimesStatistics Act, similar tothe one thats in place inthe U.S. If implemented, policewould have to report all hatecrimes to their superiors.

With the help of Burnaby-

Douglas MP Kennedy Stewart,a petition of nearly 500 signa-tures was presented in the House

of Commons in 2011.Changs efforts, how-ever, proved to beunsuccessful.

For 2013, the (hatecrime) stats show therewere only 1,041 cases.Thats kind of a joke,Chang added. Thatswhy Im trying againand collecting signa-tures.

Another piece ofher platform is having

more of a transparent and opengovernment. If Chang wins therace, she plans to introduce achecks-and-balances system that

would have each elected offi-cial report their expenses on thecitys website, as well as a bylawthat would make itmandatory for any-one running in a civicelection to reporttheir financial dona-tions.

To avoid one-party rule, Changalso wants to see acap on the numberof terms a mayor canserve.

One-party rulemeans they can dowhatever they want, maybeeven facilitate a community planwithout opposition, she said ofopponent Derek Corrigan and his

reign since 2002.Chang also envisions a green-

er Burnaby, in which homeown-ers install solar pan-els and geothermalcooling, with thehelp of a municipalrebate system andother levels of gov-ernment.

When not onthe campaign trail,Chang works in thepsychology field,running a counsel-ling and commu-nications services

practice. In 2005, she won a seaton the school board under TEAMBurnaby.

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Parties and their supporters have been workingvery hard to make sure their candidates make itover the finish line and land in one of the politicalseats either on school board or city council. Thistime around its a four-year term, and the stakes arehigh.

The big question on everyones mind is: Cananyone break the Burnaby Citizens Associationsstranglehold on municipal power? Or is the BCA setfor yet another full sweep?

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Ihad one of those momentslast week that happen atleast once in every elec-tion. Someone writes a letteror sends an email to me sayingthat we are either shills for theiropponent or have treated theircandidate or party with appall-ing bias. These missives usuallyhave several words typed inALL CAPS with lots of exclama-tion marks and always try towound me personally.

You need to review, whyyou are doing the job of a Editior(sic), one of them said lastweek. This was one of the mildones.

Many almost always end withsome kind of threat (thankfullynot involving firearms) of neverreading the paper again or neveradvertising in the paper again or telling all of their familyand friends to never look at thepaper again.

Frankly, an election justwouldnt be an election in thenewsroom without at least oneof these letters. They are likeelection lawn signs part of thelandscape.

Some threaten lawsuits iftheir candidate loses on account

of our biased coverage. Otherspledge never to write anotherletter to the editor if their letteris edited down from the 12-pagemasterpiece that must be pub-lished. And if it is not publishedit will be absolute proof that Iam but a front for the other side.

Some try to appeal to my bet-ter angels: In the interests offairness, democracy and justice one writer pressed for hisletter to be printed. They all, ofcourse, are so invested in theirside that there is no discussingthe matter with them.

No matter if you point outany coverage that contradictstheir argument. They are likerugby fans in the finals. Theyare not to be reasoned with. Iam that bad referee who did notred flag their opponent and sendthem to the sin bin.

When candidates who arerunning on a platform of consen-sus building and good listeningskills send such emails, I wonderwhat would happen if they didget elected. Would they throwhissy fits when a vote didnt gotheir way? Hopefully not.

Sometimes I am tempted toprint the worst of these letterswith all of the caps and mis-spelled words with their sig-natures. Such a temptation is,unfortunately, petty and revealsa flaw in my character, and Ihave so far resisted the tempta-tion.

Of course, it will also do little

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#whyIvote: We asked, and you answeredWe asked, you answered. Here are just

some of the reasons you gave us:I feel that voting is an essential

responsibility in our society and allowsevery person to let their voice and opin-ion be heard. I cannot imagineNOT taking advantage of thisamazing opportunity to con-tribute to our democratic wayof life.

Some people say that politics havenothing to do with their lives but theyare wrong. Politics has everything to do

with our daily lives starting from theclean water we drink, the tax that we paywhen we buy our groceries to the qual-ity of our public education. By voting,we are exercising our right to choose the

right representatives who willserve our best interests.

I believe my right to voteis also my responsibility aswell as my privilege. Canada is

a great country because people from somany different backgrounds can and doparticipate.

I vote because it is our responsibilityto do so. So many people take for grantedthe freedoms we enjoy. With democracycomes great responsibility. I want torespect and honour those who fought forthis right.

I vote for my daughters future and Ivote cause I love the city of Burnaby.

People fight and die for the privilegeof having a say in selecting the governingbodywhy would I dishonour them bynot voting?

I havent voted yet as I just turned 19,

but I will vote hoping that my say willmatter one day.

To provide voice to the decisions thatshape my community.

People are dying all over the worldfor the freedom to vote. It is a pillar ofour democracy.

Its my chance to be heard!!Because I am an optimistI keep

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Politics not for thefaint of heart

Time to end the downloadingDear Editor:

It blows me away just how many mayoralty can-didates are making campaign promises to fix thingsthat are not within the municipalitys mandate orresponsible for.

Homelessness is the responsibility of both thefederal and provincial governments to solve, as themunicipalities do not have the funds necessary toproperly impact this problem. I have been watchingour federal government, abandoning their socialresponsibilities to provincial authorities, but theresponsibilities that have been downloaded are notaccompanied with the necessary funds to providethose services.

Now the province has three choices. They canrefuse to accept responsibility for these services and

pass the gauntlet back to the feds. They can acceptthe responsibility, with little or no financial resourc-es which will require them to take money from otherpriorities to pay for it, or, as they have been doing,they simply let responsibility fall to the municipali-ties, with no money to pay for it, and nowhere theycan turn to, to get the money or physical resourcesto impact this situation in an acceptable way, thatdoes not takes resources from other priorities.

Truth is, the feds continue to collect taxes, andrather than spending that tax money where it wasintended to be spent, they invent new things tospend it on, while downloading their responsibili-ties onto other levels of government.

Perhaps the feds should not be permitted todownload their responsibilities onto the prov-inces, and provincial governments should not be

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permitted to download theirs onto themunicipalities. This would leave each levelof government with defined responsibili-ties. They cannot be allowed to pretendthey have balanced their budgets, whenthey have downloaded their responsibilitiesonto other levels of government.

The bottom line is that the money forthese responsibilities has already been paidfor through taxes that have already beencollected.

Wayne McQueen, Burnaby

Kudos for bringing falsewar hero to justiceDear Editor:

Re: Stolen valour, Burnaby NOW, Nov.7. Kudos to the RCMP officer who was ableto bring the man who stole valour medalsand tried to pass them off as his own. WhenI read this article, I was really upset thatsomeone would pull this kind of stunt.

My fatherwas in the air force for 25 yearsand then a civil servant with the same payas a lieutenant and he served the militaryfor another 10 years. It is only because of hisheart condition that he retired, he actuallywanted to do more service.

I also had a brother-in-law who wenton five missions to places like Cyprus andBosnia and three others. He also was eagerto serve his country for many years afterhe retired. He actually was in Afghanistanbefore the war started as a peacekeeper.

So thank you for bring this fraudster tojustice after all the lives of all our veterans.

Jodie Mills, via email

BCA has stagnatedDear Editor:

Re: Corrigan and team have been goodfor Burnaby, Letters to the editor, BurnabyNOW, Oct. 31.

Mr.Myles appears to bemore thanhappywith how Mayor Corrigan and the BurnabyCitizens Association are running Burnaby,but I fail to find his reasons convincing.

First, lets deal with the BCAs well-worn

best managed city in Canada award. Astudy done once, in 2009, and while it wasan excellent achievement at the time, it wasfive years ago. Burnaby has changed a lotsince then.

So, instead of dwelling on an outdatedreport, lets look at a more recent study,Moneysenses Canadas Best Places to Live2014. Burnaby is ranked 102. And if youlook at where other local municipalities areranked like Coquitlam at 84, Port Moodyat 65, Richmond at 61, Delta at 48, andVancouver at 39 one has to wonder whyBurnaby is rated so much lower in compari-son. So, whileMr. Myles defies people to lista single municipality thats doing a betterjob than Burnaby, this study shows there are101 of them.

As for the lower tax rate in Burnaby, itsnot surprising given that Mayor Corriganappears tooutright refuse tobuild infrastruc-ture in our city. By the citys own admissionthey are falling well behind on this, and yetcouncil continues to push higher densities.Just look at how many areas of Burnaby arelacking basic amenities such as sidewalks.Tax rates are low because services levels inBurnaby are equally as low.

Without a doubt theweakest point ofMr.Myles argument is his statement that ourcity provides all the necessary services toaddress the needs of those less fortunate.Apparently that does not include provid-ing shelter to those without homes. Andthat is a pretty glaring omission, Mr. Myles.Burnaby continues to be the only city in theLower Mainland to not have homeless shel-ters and even in the Mayors latest responseto homelessness, its just more of the sameold song and dance. Yes, homelessness is acomplex matter, but you need to start some-where, and a safe dry place to sleep is anexcellent place to start.

Its plain to see that the BCA has stag-nated over the years without oppositionand continues to alienate voters. Burnabyneeds to have someone who is not afraid tocall out city hall when it gets out of line. Andthis election gives us the opportunity to dothat.

Keith Bemister, Burnaby

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to enhance the electionconversation. I prefer tobelieve that such writersjust let emotion get thebetter of them in the heatof the election and theyarent like those peoplewho are always screamingat cashiers in supermarketsfor some minor failure. Butthey could be.

In any case, I also havesome empathy for thosewho lash out at the mediaand editors.

There is a sense ofpowerlessness in everyelection campaign and forevery candidate when theyrealize there are a lot ofmoving parts in democ-racy and they can controlvery little of it try as they

might.There are election rules,

slate rules, so many vot-ers to try to reach, and itsover in just five weeks.Its no game for sissies.Its rugby where you getto keep your teeth hope-fully.

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The president of KinderMorgan Canada is open toconsidering an SFU studythat claims the companyseconomic argument for theTrans Mountain pipelineexaggerates the job num-bers while underestimatingthe cleanup costs of an oilspill.

Company presidentIan Anderson said the fig-ures Kinder Morgan used,which were refuted bySFUs study, were conser-vative.

Clearly the SFU studyhas used a different setof assumptions than ourwork has, and I would bemost interested in look-ing at that to determinewhats the most reason-able, Anderson said ona Wednesday conferencecall with reporters. Wethink what we have doneis fair and reasonable andin many respects conserva-tive.

Kinder Morgan suggeststhe pipeline expansionwould provide 36,000 per-son-years of employment,but SFUs study, releasedMonday, found that figurewas more like 12,000.

While Kinder Morganestimated a worst-case sce-nario oil spill would costbetween $100 and $300 mil-lion to clean up, the SFUstudy suggested an urban

spill would cost between $2to $5 billion.

The jobs created arenowhere near the numberclaimed by Kinder Morgan,and the costs are grosslyunderestimated when therisks of a major spill, par-ticularly one occurring inthe Vancouver area, arefactored in using standardeconomic costs, said DougMcArthur, director of SFUsSchool of Public Policy, in amedia release.

Anderson said he hadnot yet seen the report, buthe anticipates someonewill enter it as evidence inthe National Energy Boardhearing.

If it introduces betterassumptions than what wehave, Im open to consider-ing the impact of those, butI just dont know yet whatits going to entail. Andmost certainly our viewson that study will be pub-lic shortly, Anderson said.I dont have a completeanswer for you, but wewill most certainly in duecourse.

The NOW also talkedto the Conference Board ofCanada, the non-partisanthink-tank that was respon-sible for Kinder Morgansnumbers on person-yearsof employment.

Spokesperson MichaelBurt explained that the SFUstudy did not use an input-output analysis and insteadused figures from otherpipeline projects (NorthernGateway and Energy East)and applied them to TransMountain to figure out the

economic benefits fromconstructing and operatingthe pipeline.

First, they take a mul-tiplier from another proj-ect and apply it to TransMountain, which is in ouropinion, not the properway to do an economicanalysis, and then they dofurther downward adjust-ments to that multiplier,he said. So thats how youcome upwith their number,which is roughly a third ofthe number we came upwith.

The SFU study is not thefirst time Kinder Morganseconomic arguments havecome under fire. MarcEliesen, former presidentof B.C. Hydro, was accept-ed as an intervenor for theNEB pipeline hearing, andhe told the NOW last Maythat Kinder Morgans eco-nomic case was fabricatedand fictitious.

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Burnabys political landscape dur-ing this election season is, quite frank-ly, boring.

Thats according to Gordon Price,the director of Simon FraserUniversitys city program,which teaches students howcitizens can shape the futureof where they live.

No one outside ofBurnaby thinks theres anylikelihood that themayor andhis council will be defeated,he told the NOW. I thinkif any municipality with apredicted outcome didnthappen, it would be themost shocking thing in theregion, maybe even in all ofCanada.

Mayor Derek Corrigans first kickat the can in politics came in 1987when he won a seat on council. Hetook the role of His Worship in 2002and has been re-elected ever since.

But its Corrigans longevity in thepolitical sphere that makes his plat-form stand out above the rest, Price

said.Incumbency definitely counts. In

the absence of anynew issue orperson-ality emerging, your greatest strengthis name recognition, he added.

He went on to say this hold onpower has affected voter turnout neg-

atively, some-thing he callscheap cyni-cism.

You havethat sense offoregoneconclu-sion.Peoplemaythink, Whatsthe point? Whybother? Theyreall the same. Icall it cheap cyn-icism because ithasnt been thought through.

Its just a way of being lazy to justifyyour lack of interest.

The 2011 election saw less than 25per cent of registered voters cast a bal-lot. While Price suspects much of thesame this time around, hes mindfulthe bottom of the slate is subject tochange.

A few votes, it could be in the hun-

dreds, could be the difference betweenthe eighth councillor being elected ornot.

Price made the case that becauseBurnaby residents are well governedand are generally satisfied with servic-es, they can afford to take everything

for granted.As long as the gar-

bage is picked up, taxesare reasonable and arenot increased significant-ly, people are happy, hesaid. But if we all tookit for granted, bad thingswould happen.

Between the gay-serum rumour andmayoral candidate SylviaGung vowing to ban pub-lic displays of affection if

elected, Price said these are just bizarreinstances that could happen in anymunicipality, and should not be areflection of Burnaby.

He encourages voters to executetheir right on Nov. 15.

Everyone has to take responsibili-ty and take advantage of the privilegesthey have in a democratic society.

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The thing that is reallyso exciting is that it reallygets students involved,Burnaby South social stud-ies teacher Jocelyn Beatontold the NOW.

Beaton, who hostedadvance voting for Southstudents in her classroomThursday, has registeredstudents for at least three ofthe parallel elections, afterhearing about the programfrom a colleague who hadsigned up.

What really surprisedme was how excited thestudents were, she said.Once I saw that, I justthought, This is somethingI will always do while Imteaching.

Its tough to get studentsinterested in politics, Beatonsaid, especially at a locallevel, and programs likeStudent Vote help.

I think the more that wecan do where we have thesesimulations, then the easierit is going to be for themto transition into the adultworld and hopefully to par-ticipate more, she said.

Unlike their counter-parts around the province,Burnaby students haveclosely mirrored their par-ents choices in past StudentVote elections.

In 2013, B.C. studentselected an NDP majority,giving the New Democratsmore than 62 per cent ofthe seats in the provin-cial Legislature and theB.C. Liberals just under 25per cent. Their parents, ofcourse, returned a majorityLiberal government with 57per cent of the seats, com-pared to 40 per cent for theNDP.

In Burnaby, howev-er, parents and studentswere on the same page,with both groups return-ing NDP candidates KathyCorrigan, Raj Couhan andJane Shin in Burnaby-DeerLake, Burnaby-Emonds andBurnaby-Lougheed, respec-tively; and B.C. Liberal

Richard Lee in BurnabyNorth.

This will be the first timemunicipal candidates facethe student vote since theprogram has never shad-owed a local election in B.C.before.

And school board trusteecandidates will have to waitanother four years to findout whether kids wouldgive them a seat.

In the interest of sim-plifying an already lengthyballot, Student Vote decidedto make trustee candidatesoptional on the ballot thistime around.

This decision wasinfluenced by our concernsabout accuracy and logis-tics, including the challenge

in getting ballots out ontime and building an effec-tive results system, wroteresearch and communica-tions co-ordinator DanAllan. The late start to theschool year was also a con-sideration as we know thatit has impacted the timeavailable among schoolsand our own election readi-ness.

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Sure, directors are supposed to saytheyre thrilled about whichever new showtheyre at the helm of.

But when you see the smile on JamesBrysons face and feel the vibe of excitementthat surrounds him, you know just howgenuine his enthusiasm is.

Bryson is at the helm for Just Broadway!,a large-scale showcase thats the first musi-cal theatre production and the first full-scale production of any kind at the newAnvil Centre theatre in NewWest.

This is so exciting! Bryson announces,casting his eye around the shiny new the-atre where, even as he chats to the NOW,workers are putting the finishing toucheson a few of the final details.

Its particularly special to Bryson to beinvolved in the launch of the new the-atre because his affiliation with New Weststretches back some 25 years hes beenwith Royal City Musical Theatre for all ofits productions at the Massey Theatre.

When he was asked if he was interestedin having his company, James Productions,stage the first show at the Anvil Centre,there was no hesitation.

I said, of course! he says with a grin.Bryson has been mulling the idea of

a Broadway-focused show for a coupleof years now a show that would pulltogether some of the favourite songs he hasencountered as RCMTs musical directorover the years.

For 14 years, his company producedbig Christmas Pops productions, with fullorchestra and ensembles of up to 16 singers.He envisioned the same sort of production,but focusing on Broadway music. So, hesays with a smile, he started pulling in allhis markers and recruiting some of the besttalent he knows.

I said, Everybody come and lets gathertogether and do a great show of Broadwaymusic, he says.

The result is a show that includes threetop professional singers: Burnabys ownSteve Maddock, plus Tracy Neff andJennifer Hayes.

Bryson has worked with them all before in the case of Hayes, he in fact taughther when she was a student at CentennialSecondary in Coquitlam and enthusesabout their level of talent.

Getting all three to agree to be in theshow, he immediately started thinkingabout professional instrumentalists to jointhem.

With Steve Maddock and company,I wanted to have somebody playing forhim who is as outrageously good as he is,

Bryson says.He found that in the person of pia-

nist Diane Lines She quite possibly isthe best pianist that I know, Bryson says plus percussionist Rob Ferguson and JennHodge on bass.

Theyre joined by an eight-member vocalensemble and 15 more instrumentalists with Burnabys Stephanie StanleyDalton in the vocal ensemble andSergei Silin on saxophone for alavish evening of vocal and instru-mental music that will delve intothe Broadway canon.

I chose 22 of my favouriteBroadway show tunes, and thatwas the fun of it, Bryson says.

The songs which will all betied together by host Mark Turpinas the evening progresses includesuch favourites as Sit Down, YoureRockin the Boat and Luck Be a Ladyfrom Guys and Dolls, On the StreetWhere You Live from My Fair Lady, All ThatJazz from Chicago and I Dreamed a Dreamfrom Les Misrables.

Also on the bill will be Written in theStars from Elton Johns musical Ada, TooDarn Hot from Kiss Me Kate, and This isthe Moment from Jekyll and Hyde the lat-ter being a power ballad originally madefamous by Broadway star Colm Wilkinson.

(For the record, Bryson cites Wilkinsonas one of the best male voices ever heardand promises that Maddocks renditionisnt far off.)

The evening will feature solos, groupnumbers choreographed by MelissaAssalone, and instrumental-only renditions,as well as appearances by some special

guests including Julia MacLean,who starred as Annie in the RoyalCity Musical Theatre productionlast year.

This is just kind of special tome, I get to work with all thesefabulous people, Bryson says. Itis so exciting, I cant wait.

For it all to be happening in thenewAnvilCentre theatre just addsto his excitement. Bryson notes hewas surprised but pleased by thecitys decision to include a first-class theatre in the new centre.

Its very progressive for theLower Mainland, he says This is a real I dont know if youd say coup for NewWest, but this is really nice.

Tickets are $30 apiece, or $26 each if pur-chased in a group of eight. Check out www.ticketsnw.ca to buy.

Check out www.jamesproductions.cafor more on the production.

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Two Burnaby performers are in the spotlight at thenext Music at Queens concert.

The New Westminster concert series continues atQueens Avenue United Church on Sunday, Nov. 16 withOn the Rise, a concert featuring emerging young classicalmusic talents.

Among them is Burnabys Jessica de Gaust, a mezzo-soprano who will be performing works by female com-posers including two by Clara Schumann.

De Gaust received her diploma in music from CapilanoUniversity in June and plans to work towards a mastersdegree in music education.

Shes been playing piano since the age of six and hasbeen heavily involved in music since, including singing inthe concert and chamber choirs and playing in the concertand jazz bands at Burnaby Central Secondary.

She has been part of numerous choirs, including theB.C. Provincial Honour Choir, the B.C. Youth Choir, theElektra Womens Choirs Mira Mentorship program andthe Vancouver Chamber Choirs Focus! Choir.

Shes currently singing with the Capilano UniversitySingers and studies classical voice with Geordie Roberts.

Burnabys Daniel Chung, a cellist, is also part of theconcert lineup.

Hes currently in Grade 11 at Burnaby South Secondaryand has been playing cello since the age of eight. Hes amember of the Vancouver Academy of Music SymphonyOrchestra and is taught by both Kevin Park and JosephElworthy.

Theyll be joined in the concert by soprano Michelle D.Herrewynen from Vancouver and guitarist Calvin Doolfrom North Vancouver.

Tickets are available at www.queensavenue.org or atthe door, or they can be bought in advance at the churchoffice at 529 Queens Ave.

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Love historical fictionand fantasy? Thenyoull want to turnout to the next Spoken Inkreading night.

The Burnaby WritersSociety is continuing itsreading series on Tuesday,Nov. 18 with an eveningfeaturing readings byRuth Kozak and EileenKernaghan.

A press release let meknow that Ruth will readfrom her first historicalfiction novel, Shadow of theLion: Blood on the Moon,the first volume of an epicstory set in the aftermathof the death of Alexanderthe Great in 323 BC.

Eileen, meanwhile, willread from her latest novel,Sophie, in Shadow, a storyof enemy spies, terror-ist plots and paranormalevents played out againstthe background of the FirstWorld War in 1914 BritishIndia.

As always, the SpokenInk night will also have anopen mike portion.

Sign up for the openmike at 7:30 p.m. The read-ing starts at 8 p.m.

All the fun happensat La Fontana Caffe inthe Heights, at 101-3701Hastings St.

See www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.comor email [email protected] for more details.

Sculptor inculture crawl

A Burnaby-raised sculp-tor is being featured inthe 18th annual EastsideCulture Crawl.

Stefanie Dueck (www.stefaniedueck.com), whohas been creating metal-work pieces for the past10 years, is part of thepopular artistic event thatruns from Nov. 20 to 23at locations around EastVancouver.

Duecks work can beseen at her East Van studioat 298 Alexander St.

A press release notesthat her work was influ-enced by American sculp-tor Lee Bontecou, who isrenowned for her weldedsteel frame sculptures cre-ated in the late 1950s and

early 60s.Her pieces earned

her a 2013 B.C. CreativeAchievement Award, andshe was a finalist in twocategories of the 2013Niche Awards awardssponsored by NicheMagazine to recognizeexcellence in Canadian andAmerican fine craft work.

Shes one of the 375 art-ists who will be showcas-ing their works in morethan 70 different locations including painters, pot-ters, sculptors, jewelers,photographers, glass blow-ers, furniture designersand more.

The Crawl is a singularexperience that removesthe barriers between art-ist and public allowingcreators to showcase theirwork, answer questionsand share their uniqueart-making process, saidexecutive director EstherRausenberg in a pressrelease. This open invita-tion into artists studiosrepresents a remarkableopportunity for individu-als to enhance their under-standing of the visual artsand deepen their appre-ciation for the incredibleabundance of talent withinour city.

See www.culturecrawl.ca for all the details and toaccess an interactive mapto plan your tour.

Unmentionableexhibition opens

Art lovers, take note:Theres a new exhibitioncoming up at the BurnabyArt Gallery.

All is Unmentionable:Up in the Air, featur-ing the work of EliBornowsky, runs at thegallery from Nov. 21 toJan. 18.

This exhibition fea-tures a number of largecanvas doubles whichmirror each other withtheir almost-but-not-quiteidentical forms, a write-up about the exhibitionnotes. A new suite ofworks on paper is present-ed, as well as a selectionof works from the City ofBurnaby Permanent ArtCollection. Bornowskyexplores the polyrhyth-mic textures of landscape,Renaissance painting, theartists studio, colour,abstract expressionism,doubles, and cubism.

An opening receptionwill be held Thursday,Nov. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Watch for more details

in future columns regard-ing associated events including an In the BAGfamily studio experienceon Sunday, Dec. 7 and anartist and curators talkand tour on Wednesday,Jan. 14, plus a Mandarinlanguage tour on Jan. 20.

See www.burnabyartgallery.ca for more details.

Artists, want tofill in the blanks?

Do you know an artistwho deserves to be in thespotlight?

You may have seen ourongoing series of artistprofiles, Fill in the Blanks

in which various interest-ing folks from the arts andentertainment communityfill out a brief question-naire to let us know aboutthemselves.

Were always lookingfor suggestions of interest-ing people to profile.

If youd like to beincluded, or you knowsomeone who should,drop me a line email meat [email protected].

Do you have an item forLively City? Send arts andentertainment ideas to Julie,[email protected], or find her on Twitter,@juliemaclellan.

Flights of fantasy unfold at Spoken Ink evening

LIVELY CITYJulie MacLellan

Up inthe air:FlyingMachine ispart of anexhibition ofworks by EliBornowsky,running atthe BurnabyArt Galleryfrom Nov.21 to Jan. 18.

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When Burnaby resident SergiiKuznietsov and his wife launched theirUkrainian bakery business earlier this yearat the Steveston farmers market, they hadno idea it would take off so quickly.

It was February, so it was snowingand cold. We got there and I was surprisedto find out it was inside the cannery,Kuznietsov told the NOW. It was dark,and we only sold $180 worth of productthat day.

Today, the average tally has increasedto $1,000.

We grew rapidly. By the end of thissummer, we were at 10 different markets.People love it, he added.

The couple came to Canada two-and-a-half years ago from Kiev so Kuznietsovcould complete his masters of business.While in school, his wife Iryna got a jobat a downtown Vancouver bakery. Aftersome time working in their fields, the pairthought of marrying the two professionstogether. And voil, Solodko (meaningsweet) Ukrainian Bakery was born.

We wanted to show the public that ourculture isnt about just perogies, but sweetand delicious pastries that go beyond cook-ies and muffins, he said.

And thats exactly what youll find onthe menu. Customers can choose betweenitems like piroshki (baked buns with meator fruit filling inside), makovik (sweet roll

with poppy seeds) and orehovik (sweet rollwith walnut).

Its exactly how we make it back inKiev, how my wifes great-grandmothermade it.

Farmers markets arent the only placesto find these savoury treats. Solodko isalso making its way into local coffee shopsand delis. Its received so much attentionthat it will also set up shop at this yearsVancouver Christmas market.

Well be introducing our Ukrainiancrepes and borscht, the countrys maindish, Kuznietsov said. Very authenticfood.

Because the business has being doing sowell, the couple has had to hire three full-time employees and up to four part-timers.The goal is to one day open a restaurantthat can offer locals a complete Ukrainiancuisine.

For now, the duo is looking at build-ing a commercial kitchen sometime in2015 to help with the companys growingdemand.

When asked if there have been anychallenges along the way, Kuznietsov wasquick to respond not really.

The small business environment inCanada is much better than in Ukraine, so Ididnt face any big obstacles or red tape. Itsbeen a good experience, he said.

So whats the secret to their success?You have to like what you do, other-

wise you wouldnt be able to do it every-day.

Sweetsuccess:BurnabycoupleSergii

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For one thing, the cur-rent mayor and council dothe bare minimum whenit comes to making them-selves financially account-able, he said.

Most people dontunderstand financial state-ments, and theyre notgoing to read through 58pages of notes to find outwhat theyre looking for,he said.

As a longtime busi-ness instructor, he said heknows how to break downfinancial information intoeasy to understand ele-ments, and he would makesure financial reportingwas both more fulsomeand simple if he weremayor.

He said his businessexperience and ability tocollaborate will also helpBurnaby build better rela-tionships with other levelsof government, somethinghe maintains is desperatelyneeded to address issueslike homelessness and theaging Burnaby Hospital.

Because of ideologies,we cant negotiate with theprovincial government,said Hancott, referringto the current mayor andcouncil, who, as BCA mem-bers are all card-carryingprovincial NDP members.We cant get what weneed for Burnaby, and wekeep blaming everybody.Its our problem.

As proof for his abilityto work with different lev-els of government, Hancottpointed to his success inhaving the University ofPhoenixs masters of educa-tion program approved bythe province in 2001 duringwhat he called an anti-pri-vate-education climate.

His business past alsoshows that hell be up tothe job when it comes toimproving services whilesticking to Burnaby Firstspromised three-year taxfreeze, he said.

As an executive atSeafood Products he saidhe won numerous awardsand bonuses for sticking tobudgets even when timeswere tough.

If you have to look atcertain positions, you haveto look at certain positions.If you have to cap expens-es, you have to cap expens-es, he said. It seems likenone of that happens at cityhall. Its just three- to four-per-cent (tax) increases nomatter what.

And those tax increasesare pushing away busi-nesses and jobs, he said, soBurnaby First has promisedto hire a municipal auditorand conduct a core reviewof every city budget to seewhat fat can be trimmed.

As an example of howto do more with less,

Hancott did not highlighthis experience at Universityof Canada West, one ofthree Eminata schools thatcame under media fire inB.C. and India in 2012 fortheir recruiting practicesand the quality of theirservices.

Asked if the privateuniversities hes workedat were good examples ofopenness and transparencyand how to do more withless, Hancott said one ofthe reasons he left CanadaWest was that he wasntaligned with their viewsand philosophy on the waythey were doing things.

If I had to do it all overagain, he said, I wouldntchoose to be at that organi-zation. Hindsight is 20-20.

At city hall, however,he said he would be com-mitted to thorough publicconsultation before any bigdecision, something he saidhas been lacking under thecurrent regime.

Thats one of the reasonsHancott has resolutelydeclined to come down oneither side of two thornyissues that have come upduring the campaign: theTrans Mountain pipe-line expansion and theschool districts 2011 anti-homophobia policy.

Burnaby First hascrafted its platform toaddress the concerns raisedby thousands of residentsat their doorsteps and atthe partys townhall meet-ings, and the pipeline andanti-homophobia policywere not significant amongthem, according to Hancott,so he said he will not makean election issue out ofthem.

Given his partys consul-tative approach, he said itdoesnt make sense for himto come down one way oranother on the issues untilthey have been thoroughlydebated after coming up asreal issues in the future.

There will be tons ofdebate in our group, hesaid, and there will be avote, and I get one vote,and then you will see howI vote. Only then will yousee how I vote. Right nowits immaterial.

In its final press releasebefore the Nov. 15 vote,Hancott said Burnaby Firstplanned to send out a list,outlining everything theparty plans to do in thefirst 180 days after beingelected.

Idealistic? Perhaps, butHancott said his party is upto the task.

Just because they haveno political experiencedoesnt mean they cantlisten and debate and vote,which doesnt happen rightnow, he said. I think afresh start is the best thingwe could do.


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PUBLIC HEARINGThe Council of the City of Burnaby hereby gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing

TUESDAY, 2014 NOVEMBER 25 AT 7:00 P.M.

in the Council Chamber, Burnaby City Hall, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C., V5G 1M2, to receive representations inconnection with the following proposed amendments to Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965.

1) BURNABY ZONING BYLAW 1965,AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 34, 2014 - BYLAW NO. 13408

Text Amendment

The purpose of the proposed bylaw text amendment is to create a new P12 Utility Corridor District, add adefinition for utility corridor and make minor amendments to two sections of the supplemental regulations.


Rez. #14-37

BC Hydro Corridor Properties

6760, 6763, 6772 and 6777 Arcola Street; 6780, 6792, 6808, 6809, 6823, 6831 and 6843 Balmoral Street;6844 (Lots 17 and 18), 6856, 6868, 6869, 6885 and 6891 Elwell Street; 7085 and 7086 Burford Street; 7051and 7061 Halligan Street; 6908 Imperial Street; 6559 and 6560 Leibly Avenue; 6558, 6568 and 6569 MalvernAvenue; 6617, 6637, 6647, 6667 and 6687 Salisbury Avenue; 6620 Sixth Street and 6570 Walker Avenue

City Owned Properties

6974, 6984 and 6994 Imperial Street; 7409 Morley Drive; 6595 Walker Avenue

Lots 12 and 13 Blk 7, Lots 13, 14, 15, 32 and 33, Blk 6, Portion of Lots 17, 18, Lots 19, 20, 27, 28, 29 and 30,Blk 3, Lots 22, 23 and 24, Blk 2, DL 96, Group 1 NWD Plan 1194; Lots 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 and70, DL 95, Group 1, NWD Plan 1056; Part .284 of an acre more or less of Lot 162, DL 92, Group 1, NWD PlanAs Shown Red On Statutory Right Of Way Plan 10599; Lot 21, DL 92, Group 1 NWD Plan 1318; DL 90, NWDPlan 10303; Lot 12, Blk 1, Lots 1 and 12 Blk 2, Lots 1 and 2 Blk 3, DL 91, Group 1, NWD Plan 1348; Lot 211,89 and 90, Group 1, NWD Plan 35322; Lot 1, Blk 1, DL 91, Group 1, NWD Plan 1348; Lot 324, DL 91, Group 1,NWDPlan 46432; Lot 162 Except: Firstly: Part on Statutory Right ofWay Plan 10599; Secondly: Part subdividedby Plan 13681, DL 92, Group 1, NWD Plan 1146

From: R1 Residential District, R2 Residential District, R3 Residential District, R5 Residential District, RM2Multiple Family Residential District, and RM3 Multiple Family Residential District

To: P12 Utility Corridor District

The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to maintain the Newell Transmission Corridor as autility corridor consistent with the Official Community Plan (OCP) and other community plans.


Rez. #12-38

4205, 4213, 4223 and 4227 Canada Way; 4108, 4206, 4214 and 4224 Norfolk Street; 3249 Gilmore Diversion.

Lots 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, Lot 3 Except: Part Dedicated Road on Plan LMP 50077, Lot 4 Except: Part Dedicated Roadon Plan LMP 50077, Lot 5 Except Firstly: Part on Plan with Bylaw Filed 56876, Secondly: Part on Bylaw Plan64207, Blk 49, DL 69, Group 1, NWD Plan 1321; Lot 46, DL 69, Group 1, NWD Plan 54176

From: P5 Community Institutional District and R5 Residential District

To: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM3 Multiple Family Residential District, P5Community Institutional District, and Broadview Community Plan as guidelines and in accordancewith the development plan entitled Chartwell Carlton Gardens Retirement Residence prepared byCraven, Huston, Powers Architects)

The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to permit the development of a new 105 unit seniorsrental apartment building (independent supportive living and assisted living units) to complement the existingseniors complex care development.

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by a proposed bylaw shall be afforded a reasonableopportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respectingmatters contained in the bylaw.Written submissionsmay be presented at the Public Hearing or for those not attending the Public Hearing must be submitted to the Officeof the City Clerk prior to 4:45 p.m. the day of the Public Hearing. Please note that all written submissions must containname and address which will become a part of the public record.

The Director Planning and Buildings reports and related information respecting the zoning bylaw amendments areavailable for public examination at the offices of the Planning Department, 3rd floor, in Burnaby City Hall.

Copies of the proposed bylaws may be inspected at the Office of the City Clerk at 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C.,V5G 1M2 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. weekdays from Wednesday, 2014 November 12 to Tuesday, 2014 November 25.

NO PRESENTATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED BY COUNCIL AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING

D. BackCITY CLERK


There is a lot to dothis weekend, but themost important thingis voting on Saturday. Thefuture of this city is inyour hands, so dont missyour chance to make yourvote count.

Here are our Top 5things to do this weekend.

1Get out and vote!Of all the elections,municipal are theworst when it comes tovoter turnout, with just 30per cent of B.C.s eligiblevoters showing up at thepolls. In the last Burnabyelection, the local figurewas only 23 per cent.Come on, Burnaby, we cando better than that.

The polls are open onSaturday, Nov. 15, from8 a.m. to 8 p.m. There are35 locations in the city tocast your ballot, just checkout the map at www.burnaby.ca/Our-City-Hall/Elections/Voter-Information for the oneclosest to you.

2Check out the HapaHuman Library Projectat the Nikkei Centre onSaturday, Nov. 15, from 2to 5 p.m. Hapa is a termthat refers to people ofmixed racial background,usually Asian or PacificIslander. The human

library model uses peopleas real, live books thatreaders can sign out forone-on-one conversations.This event will give partic-ipants the chance to learnmore about how people ofmixed-race identify them-selves. The library projectis in conjunction with KipFulbeck: part Asian, 100%hapa, an exhibition show-ing at the Nikkei Centreuntil Jan. 4. The centre is at6688 Southoaks Cres.

3Swing by theMaywood CommunitySchool flea market on

Saturday, Nov. 15, from10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 4567Imperial St. Thefair will havetons of bargains.Admission is 50cents. There willbe toys, games,books, clothessports equipmentand householditems. There willbe a concessionand door prizes.Proceeds from thefair go towar

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