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MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADERBrian Elders searches for his truck through the leaves and branches of a fallen tree on Linden Avenue. He said he was in Langley when the tree fell.

BC Hydro defends response to ‘unique’ stormTens of thousands without power for three daysJeff [email protected]

BC Hydro is defending its efforts to restore power after a freak summer wind storm cut electricity to 533,000 Lower Mainland homes Saturday and left many residents scrambling to deal with thawing freezer food as the outages dragged onto a second and third day.

About 110,000 homes were still without power Sunday night and that dropped to 32,000 by 4 p.m. Monday — more than 50 hours after some of the outages began — drawing outrage online about spoiling food.

BC Hydro spokesperson Simi Heer said �eld managers have never seen a storm this challenging before.

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The sheer number of downed branches and trees over lines made it more dif�cult to switch the �ow of power to reconnect homes, she added.

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City of Burnaby responds quickly to quell windstorm chaosJustin [email protected]

When a destructive windstorm struck Saturday afternoon wreaking havoc on city streets, parks and residential neighbourhoods, the City of Burnaby was primed to respond.

“The City of Burnaby staff that responded did an excellent job,” said Charmaigne P�ugrath, Burnaby’s emergency program co-ordinator. “… because we were already prepared for an incoming storm and were able to staff up, city staff did an excellent job in responding to the critical issues and then

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Extra city staff was also added to the engineering dispatch centre to help with the overwhelming number of telephone calls coming in and six dedicated crews from forestry services were immediately dispatched to deal with the mayhem caused by toppled trees and fallen branches.

At the peak of the power outages in Burnaby on Saturday, 48,483 customers were without electricity. That number dipped slightly on Sunday to 46,480.

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page5 page13 page15URBAN DIGS SERVES DAVE MATTHEWS

GETTING OFF TO A STRONG START

DRAGONBOATER WINS BIG MEDAL HAUL

MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADERBrian Elders searches for his truck through the leaves and branches of a fallen tree on Linden Avenue. He said he was in Langley when the tree fell.

BC Hydro defends response to ‘unique’ stormTens of thousands without power for three daysJeff [email protected]

BC Hydro is defending its efforts to restore power after a freak summer wind storm cut electricity to 533,000 Lower Mainland homes Saturday and left many residents scrambling to deal with thawing freezer food as the outages dragged onto a second and third day.

About 110,000 homes were still without power Sunday night and that dropped to 32,000 by 4 p.m. Monday — more than 50 hours after some of the outages began — drawing outrage online about spoiling food.

BC Hydro spokesperson Simi Heer said �eld managers have never seen a storm this challenging before.

“What made this storm so unique is that we had so many customers without power all on one day,” Heer said. “The last storm of this magnitude was in 2006. We had hundreds of thousands of customers without power then as well, but it was over a couple of days.”

The sheer number of downed branches and trees over lines made it more dif�cult to switch the �ow of power to reconnect homes, she added.

Unlike a winter storm, leafy deciduous trees acted like sails and became more susceptible to the surprise southerly winds, which came after stress from a prolonged summer drought.

City of Burnaby responds quickly to quell windstorm chaosJustin [email protected]

When a destructive windstorm struck Saturday afternoon wreaking havoc on city streets, parks and residential neighbourhoods, the City of Burnaby was primed to respond.

“The City of Burnaby staff that responded did an excellent job,” said Charmaigne P�ugrath, Burnaby’s emergency program co-ordinator. “… because we were already prepared for an incoming storm and were able to staff up, city staff did an excellent job in responding to the critical issues and then

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“So we were all ready,” she said. “Our �re service staffed up early and provided additional staf�ng in their dispatch centre as well as adding four additional �re companies.”

And �re crews were kept hustling,

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Extra city staff was also added to the engineering dispatch centre to help with the overwhelming number of telephone calls coming in and six dedicated crews from forestry services were immediately dispatched to deal with the mayhem caused by toppled trees and fallen branches.

At the peak of the power outages in Burnaby on Saturday, 48,483 customers were without electricity. That number dipped slightly on Sunday to 46,480.



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“From our perspective I have to say that I think everything worked really well given the amount of power outages that happened,” said Leon Gous, Burnaby’s director of engineering.

Traf�c lights, of course, were an issue across the municipality and throughout Metro Vancouver.

“In some cases we do have some backup power to traf�c, lights but they are normally battery,” Gous added. “And of course with such a long outage that’s why you saw so many, and not just in Burnaby, but totally dead lights, which caused a lot more headaches in terms of the four-way stop procedure.”

Gous says the city will continue to look at ways to keep more of our lights at least �ashing when the power is down.

“When you have power outages it’s the best time when your equipment gets tested, you’re backup equipment, like generators,” he said, noting that city crews check backup systems weekly. That proved to be important because city hall, RCMP headquarters and several �re stations relied on backup power most of the weekend.

“Our task there, obviously, was just staying ahead of fueling the tanks, making sure that they don’t run dry. That worked really well,” he said. “If you came into city hall yesterday you wouldn’t have even known that we were on backup power.”

As well as impacting traf�c lights, power outages can also prove problematic for pump stations, but Gous said that other than a one-hour outage of water on Capital Hill there were no issues with the city’s sewer and water systems.

In the storms aftermath, Burnaby road crews cleared 25 road blockages resulting from fallen trees. With more rain in the forecast, the city’s priority has switched to cleaning up fallen debris and clearing catch basins.

“The guys are pretty much trying to ensure that we don’t add some �ooding to the trees down,” said Gous.

As of Sunday at 11:30 a.m. there were 150-plus trees down across the municipality.

“The [storm] caused more damage than in 2006 [windstorm],” said Don Hunter, Burnaby’s assistant director of parks. “2006 took three months to clean up. This is going to be longer.”

Robert Burnaby Park and Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park were hit the hardest, while Central Park escaped with only one uprooted tree.

“Trails are being inspected now,” he said, noting that some areas are �agged off and parking lots closed if required. “We’re working as hard and as fast as we can,” he said. “With these kind of numbers we can’t get to everything right away, we have our own city crews as well as the contractors out there. We’re doing what we can. Tree inspectors are out as well inspecting any trees that have been called in.”

Despite the magnitude of the damage, Hunter said his department has already received a “lot of good comments from the public about our response.”

Gous said residents who have large branches that have fallen on their property that don’t �t in regular green bins can pile them curbside for road crews to pick up.

Anticipating that residents will have a pile of extra leaves and other debris following the storm, the city is allowing unlimited green waste drop-off for Burnaby residents at the Eco-Centre at 4855 Still Creek Dr. until Sept. 13.

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City starting to return to normalMARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER

Arbourists tend to a tree that crashed into an apartment building on Kingsway in Burnaby during Saturday’s intense windstorm.

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Chaos created by �erce winds kept Burnaby �re�ghters responding to a rush of calls on the weekend.

“[There’s been] well over 300 calls since the storm began,” said Burnaby’s assistant �re chief Rick Weir. “Unbelievably busy. The crews have been run ragged. Ever since the storm began and it’s still continuing now… I’ve had a hard time getting a hold of Station Two because they haven’t been in their hall for the past couple of days running from call to call.”

One of the most serious calls occurred at 4:40 a.m. on Sunday when �re�ghters arrived at an apartment in the 8,000-block of 10th Ave and saw heavy smoke and �ames coming from a suite window.

Weir said the family of seven — two parents and �ve children — had escaped the apartment on their own and �re crews did a quick primary search of the residence before attacking the �re offensively.

“They had a quick knockdown of it. There was no structural damage. It was mostly

a content �re,” Weir said. “The reports are that it appeared to have started by a candle within the suite. I believe [the building] had lost power and that’s why the candles had been lit.”

Weir says the weekend windstorm serves as a good reminder for individuals and families to make sure they’re prepared for emergencies.

“We just saw how much confusion there’s been in the last three or four days after this storm. So we need to prepare ourselves for future storms... or worse.”

As for coping during a power outage, he said, “better than even having a candle is having �ashlights.”

Fortunately no injures were reported in the early morning �re and the family has been provided temporary accommodation by emergency social services.

Weir said many of the majority of the weekend calls were for medical emergencies, motor vehicle accidents and downed electrical wires.

Check the City of Burnaby’s website for tips on emergency preparedness, www.burnaby.ca.

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B.C.’s civilian-led police watchdog has forwarded a report to Crown Counsel in relation to a police-involved death that occurred in Burnaby last summer.

RCMP responded to an “unwanted male” complaint on June 4, 2014, at a home located in the 6000-block of Walker Avenue.

The Independent Investigations Of�ce (IIO) release states: “Of�cers located the male affected

person at the residence and attempted to remove him. According to the initial noti�cation, the male was non-compliant with of�cers’ direction.

“A Conducted Energy Weapon was deployed multiple times without success. After a physical struggle, the affected person was taken into custody. Shortly thereafter, while still at the scene, the affected person went into medical distress. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he did not

survive.”After reviewing the

investigative �le, the IIO forwarded the report to Crown. According to the IIO, this happens when it is believed that “an of�cer may have committed an offence under any enactment.”

The threshold for referral to Crown is lower for the IIO than for other law enforcement agencies in the province, noted the IIO.

The IIO’s acting chief civilian director doesn’t recommend whether

charges should be approved or what charges Crown should consider.

The Criminal Justice Branch has jurisdiction over the charge assessment and charge approval process. To approve charges, the CJB “must be satis�ed not only that an offence may have been committed, but that the commission of an offence can be proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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BC Hydro called in staff on vacation and brought in crews from Prince George, Smithers, Terrace, Vernon, Kamloops and Vancouver Island to work 16-hour shifts to deal with downed trees and restore power.

“The damage was extensive and it was widespread from North Vancouver to Abbotsford — it wasn’t just contained to one area,” Heer said. “So extensive repairs were required all across the South Coast.”

About 400 workers were in the �eld at any given time, she said, adding Hydro managers were “quite happy with the response.”

Winds gusted at times to 80 to 90 km/h Saturday, and unpowered traf�c lights caused traf�c headaches as drivers used — or ignored — the required four-way stop procedure.

BC Hydro has a priority system for dispatching crews, but it’s not one that favours any particular municipalities, Heer said.

Top priority goes to safety calls where potentially live wires are down across roads and near homes, as well as restoring circuits to critical services like hospitals and pumping stations.

Heer said the priority then shifts to where crews can get the “biggest bang for our buck” — quickly restoring service to 5,000 homes on one circuit as opposed to 50 on another.

Also down was BC Hydro’s website that provides details of each outage and estimates of when power is restored — an “unacceptable” failure Heer said would be investigated.

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Dave Mathews is well-known for his epic live concerts. He’s also well-known for his locavore diet — even when the band is touring.

So long before his band did a sound check at Rogers Arena on Tuesday, the musician’s chef had already sourced food produced at a local farm.

They chose Burnaby’s Urban Digs Farm, which delivered meat and produce to the arena on Tuesday morning.

“We gave them a whole bunch,” said farmer Julia Smith, who co-founded Urban Digs with Ludo Ferrari.

The list of farm-fresh items included, organic fruits and veggies and dry-aged heritage pork chops that were raised in a pasture less than 10 miles from Rogers Arena.

As Smith pointed out, “…you can’t get any more local than that.”

The call from the DMB’s chef came out of the blue.

“I was pretty surprised,” she admitted. “We’re a

new farm. We’ve only been doing this a few years. And we’ve only been doing it on any kind of scale for only a year now. We just bought our butcher’s shop this spring, so to get a call from the Dave Mathews Band, ‘Hey you’re at the top of our list,’ that was pretty �attering.”

And there are perks that come along with supplying a famous band with fresh dinner ingredients.

“They gave us tickets for the whole staff and we’re all going to the show,” Smith said Tuesday afternoon. “I haven’t seen [the band play live] but I love them.”

And the crew from Urban Digs had some important business after the show.

“They asked us if maybe we could pick up the compost after, that’s cool,” she said.

After getting the call, Smith wondered if this was something the Dave Mathews Band does at every stop on their tour.

“I was really excited to �nd out they do this everywhere they go. They �nd local farms and buy

stuff from them. I thought that was pretty cool,” she said.

She was equally excited to learn that Mathews was himself a farmer and he sits on the board of Farm Aid, an organization dedicated to preserving a strong family farm system.

“He’s a farmer too! It’s pretty cool.”

Mathews apparently raises, chickens, pigs, cattle, and vegetables and has a vineyard in his hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia.

“It’s really nice to see somebody really putting their money where their mouth is, like literally,” she said. “To take the time… Every stop to have to source the food locally. I mean, really big kudos. Most restaurants in town can’t be bothered to do that well.”

When she delivered the food she didn’t ask to get a photo with the talented musician or his band.

“I’m too shy to ask,” she said. “But I’m going to give him a T-shirt, though. Maybe one day we’ll see them on YouTube wearing our shirts or something.”

Dave Mathews Band feasts on farm fresh food from Burnaby

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The Vancouver Cougars White used the wind at their backs to blow themselves back into the lead in the third quarter of Saturday’s BC Aussie Football League Grand Final at Burnaby Lake Fields against the West Coast Saints.

They then held their rivals scoreless in the �nal quarter to win the championship, 4.8.32 to 3.7.25.

The Saints led at halftime on the strength of a dominating performance in the �rst quarter despite having to play into the gale force winds that whipped the giant oval and felled huge branches from the poplar trees that surround the �eld.

The BCAFL was founded in 2001. Then, most of its players were Australian ex-pats.

But now almost half the players in the �ve-team league are non-Aussies, including Canadians, Brits and Irish who are drawn to the game’s combination of speed, aggression and brawn.

All of which were needed to combat nature’s wrath during the biggest windstorm to lash the Lower Mainland in years.

“It was pretty challenging,” said league president Karl McGrath. “We were a little worried about some of those trees coming down.”

McGrath said while the windy conditions usually lead to a big score as teams take advantage of the conditions to boot goals through the uprights, both sides in Saturday’s �nale employed a defensive strategy to “lock the game down.”

AUSSIE RULES FINALE BATTLES WIND AND RAIN

PHOTOS AND STORY BY MARIO BARTEL

Saturday’s BC Aussie Football League Grand Final at Burnaby Lake may have started with a convivial playing of the Australian and Canadian national anthems, but the action between the West Coast Saints (black kits) and the Vancouver Cougars (white kits) soon got as fierce as the howling windstorm. The weather also proved a challenge for the spectators, who battled to stay dry and planted to the ground. Despite holding the lead at half time, the Saints couldn’t hold on to it, the ball, or their hats in the gale conditions. And by the end of the match, more than a few players were battered.


SkyTrain users should expect some delays this weekend as TransLink is replacing major sections of its 30-year-old track.

Delays are expected on the Millennium and Expo lines.

“Passengers board our trains about 120 million times a year, and we’re committed to a safe and smooth journey for each and every one,” said Colleen Brennan, TransLink vice-president communications and customer experience in a press release. “We want to keep our valued customers moving while the rail replacement work is underway, and we’re doing everything we can to keep people moving while the repair work is done.”

Customers should plan for at least 20 minutes of extra travel time this weekend.

There will be signs at all stations, and announcements will be made on trains and at stations. SkyTrain attendants will be on hand to answer questions throughout the system.

Crews are replacing a total of 4,550 linear metres of rail, work needed to keep the Expo Line safe and reliable. The rail being replaced is original track and is nearly 30 years old.

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Closure of Chevron not expected to increase local gas prices Bob MackinBusiness in Vancouver

Chevron Canada says its Burnaby re�nery lost power during the Aug. 29 windstorm, but doesn’t believe it will harm regional fuel supply.

Spokesman Adrien Byrne said Aug. 31 that the re�nery shut down in an orderly fashion when it lost power from BC Hydro and would be back to full operations in a few days.

“We’re on track to progressively start up the units in a safe and controlled manner in the next few days, and we don’t anticipate any impact on market demand,” Byrne told Business in Vancouver. “We’re waiting for the weather to clear up at the moment.”

The Chevron re�nery is supplied by the Kinder Morgan pipeline, rail and truck. Its website says it re�nes up to 57,000 barrels a day of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other products.

Byrne added that he doesn’t anticipate that the

temporary outage will affect Metro Vancouver’s retail gasoline prices because “we have a strong supply position for our products at this moment regardless of the re�nery being shut down.”

Re�nery shutdowns can cause price hikes.

On Aug. 8, BP’s Whiting, Indiana, re�nery — the largest in the Midwest — had an unplanned outage because of a leak. Wholesale prices jumped by US$0.60 a gallon in Chicago. That re�nery has a capacity of 413,000 barrels a day.

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Maestro Peter Fisher, an accomplished British violin soloist, will play at a gala fundraiser at the Michael J. Fox Theatre on Sept. 6.

His performance will be part of a variety show organized by the Community Mental Wellness Association of Canada (CMWAC) to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

CMWAC is a non-profit charitable organization that works to connect those with mental illness to their families and provides culturally appropriate counseling services, education and training referrals, among other things.

Fisher, who resides in London, England, has an extensive repertoire ranging from baroque to jazz and a strong af�nity for romantic music of the 19th and 20th centuries. For more about his music visit

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Labour Day is known for many things — a day off work, or the

day that marks the end of summer. But the real meaning of Labour Day is much more significant, and it is important that we reflect on the actual reason we mark this day each year.

More than just a holiday, Labour Day is a day to re�ect on the past struggles fought by working people and to celebrate the victories they secured.

Victories we all enjoy today.

In fact, most Canadians take for granted the outcome of these past struggles. The eight-hour work day, overtime pay, bene�ts, health and safety standards, the weekend...these were all hard-fought for by working people who stood up for their rights and demanded change.

Unions and the labour movement have been at the forefront of improving the lives of all working people for more than a century. And we continue to play an important role in protecting

these rights.In the current political

landscape in Canada, there work rights are paramount.

The Harper government is no friend to working people. Legislation that directly attacks unions, funding cuts to vital public services like health care, and the rise of temporary and precarious work is leaving many Canadians struggling to make ends meet.

It is no surprise that the Harper agenda has sent our economy back into recession, and the income gap between a small group of the wealthy and the rest of us has grown into an overwhelming gulf.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Working people are the backbone of the economy. And unions play a crucial role in creating a more equal society; ensuring working people receive fair wages, are healthy and safe at work, and can support their families and give back to their local economy.

This federal election is an opportunity to change

course.This is our chance to

elect a federal government that respects working people and will protect our basic rights and employment standards. It is our chance to elect a government that shares our values and believes in building an economy that works for everyone.

This Labour Day we need to re�ect on where we came from. We need to remember the mass demonstrations, the strikes and the struggles and the victories they secured for working people right across this country.

And we need to commit to electing a government that respects this history.

In Metro Vancouver, join us on Sept. 7 at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby to celebrate Labour Day. This free event will have food, activities for kids and entertainment from the legendary band Chilliwack! Everyone is welcome.

Irene LanzingerPresident, BC Federation

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Burnaby citizens for making Burnaby a great place to live,

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As we all celebrate Labour Day in honour of working people in

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In today’s age, we “vote” for things we like all the time: who wore it best;

who sang it best; which cat video is the best. We “like” posts on Facebook, we sign online petitions, we show support by retweeting tweets or following people on Twitter. Yet during the last federal election in 2011, only 61.1 per cent of eligible voters in Canada bothered to vote.

The right to vote is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. People around the world are still actively �ghting for that right, in some cases, risking their lives to be able to vote.

The ability to vote is a de�ning characteristic of living in a democracy like Canada. Unions are an important force for democracy, not just in the workplace, but beyond.

Labour Day recognizes the worker and celebrates the labour union movement. This Labour Day, the concept of democracy is an important concept to contemplate

as we head into a federal election.

In this part of the world, United Way and Labour have worked together to change lives for the better for more than 30 years. The power of the individual and the collective is the lifeblood of democracy and underlines United Way’s credo: we believe that everyone who lives here should have access to opportunities to build a better life for themselves.

With the incredible support from individual donors (many who are members of local unions), United Way moves families from poverty to possibility, helps kids be all that they can be, and builds strong communities. United Way of the Lower Mainland touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people a year investing in more than 150 local agencies and 300 programs and services across Metro Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast, and the Sea to Sky corridor.

We all share in the

responsibility to create neighbourhoods and communities that we are proud to call home. When we work together, we can make incredible things happen.

So hold up your end of the bargain. On Labour Day, enjoy the day off, and take a couple of minutes to make sure you are registered to vote.

Then on Oct. 19, do your community a favour: vote.

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LABOUR DAY

Though millions of Canadians now see the first Monday

in September as one last opportunity to enjoy some summer recreation with friends and family members, Labour Day is symbolic of much more than long weekends and backyard barbecues.

Labour Day was inspired in large part by Canada’s growing industrialization in the second half of the 19th century, when competition for work in the nation’s rapidly growing cities was �erce and workers who complained of long workweeks or poor working conditions could easily be replaced.

Such was the case in Toronto in 1872, when printers threatened to strike after years of lobbying for shorter workweeks. Those protests went ignored, and on March 25, 1872, the city’s printers went on strike.

Within weeks, other

workers in the city began to support the printers, whose strike had interrupted Toronto’s thriving publishing industry. Within three weeks of the printers going on strike, 2,000 workers marched through the streets of Toronto. The number of marchers gradually grew, and eventually 10 percent of the city’s population, or 10,000 people, had joined in the march that culminated at Queen’s Park.

But the striking workers’ efforts did not go unchallenged, as Toronto Globe founder George Brown replaced his printers with workers from nearby towns and even took legal action to put an end to the strike and have its organizers arrested for criminal conspiracy.

But Prime Minister John A. MacDonald, who worked on the opposite side of the political aisle as Brown, spoke out against the publisher’s

efforts during a public demonstration at City Hall. MacDonald eventually passed the Trade Union Act, decriminalizing trade unions, and set the leaders of the strike free.

Though many printers who walked out never regained their jobs, and those that did still did not earn shorter workweeks, their efforts did mark an important step forward with regard to worker’s rights in Canada. The movement that had started in Toronto soon spread to other Canadian cities, where workers also demanded shorter workweeks.

Other cities also adopted parades in honour of the march that �rst caught the attention of MacDonald in 1872, and in 1894 then-Prime Minister Sir John Thompson of�cially declared Labour Day a national holiday.

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CUPE members will be gathering across the country with

family and friends to celebrate another Labour Day on Monday, Sept. 7.

While the day has always been one to re�ect on the progress we’ve made as working people, this year many of our minds are clearly focused on the future.

This Labour Day will mark the start of the �nal push towards a historic federal election. As we celebrate the contributions made by working people in both the workplace and in our communities, we can see on the horizon the very real chance of electing our �rst New Democrat federal government.

We have never been closer. Only six weeks separates us from realizing

what the labour movement envisioned when we helped found the NDP — a federal government that will put the interests of working people �rst.

Many CUPE members and activists have already been hard at work in the opening weeks of this unusually long campaign. Thousands who took the pledge to help the NDP over the past year have already been canvasing, making phone calls, putting up signs, and talking with their neighbours about the issues important to working people and our communities.

But there is still much to do.

We are urging every CUPE member who cares about their pensions and the retirement security of millions of Canadians to

help get out the message and get out the vote. We need those who want affordable and accessible child care and are concerned about protecting our public health care system to give a day to volunteer. And our party – the NDP – needs the support of every CUPE member who wants a federal government that will help build a sustainable economy with good paying jobs.

We hope you all enjoy this Labour Day, and enjoy a well deserved long weekend. And hope you’ll join us revived and refreshed for the last weeks of this campaign.

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Burnaby’s 12 early learning centres popular with kids and parentsJustin [email protected]

Yoann Chen is off to a strong start in the classroom.

He began attending one of the Burnaby School District’s StrongStart programs last year when he was just 10 months old.

“We still went once and a while just for him to listen to music and interact with other kids,” explained mom Katrina Chen, a trustee with the Burnaby Board of Education. “He’s our only child so we want him to engage with other kids as well. So we started at that time. He started going more regularly after he was a year old.

“It’s really �exible…. he loves the music part, there’s an hour playing with the other kids, playing with all the toys, he loves that and we’ll take him for that, but sometimes he gets really tired close to noon and needs his nap.”

Another thing she likes about the centres: “the teachers are really amazing.”

The Chens are among a growing number of parents in Burnaby who are participating in the 12 StrongStart centres located in elementary schools throughout the municipality. The free, drop-in centres, which are led by quali�ed early childhood educators, run during the school year Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and are open to children between the ages of zero to �ve.

There are all sorts of activities, from creating art to participating in songs and storytelling to playing with building blocks and other physical activities.

“[StrongStart] is gaining in popularity as families have realized this is an opportunity that would be of bene�t and they can participate in,” said Burnaby StrongStart co-ordinator Doreen George. “Almost all of our centres are at max… we don’t set a limit because we feel that we never quite know who will come in that might need this program. But for some of our centres we’ve had to limit it to two or three times per week just because it’s so very busy.”

George says the programs are popular for a variety of reasons.

“I think it’s an opportunity for parents and caregivers to participate in learning actives with their children. We’ve tried to be as barrier free as possible. It’s a no-cost program. It’s in many of our communities, so walking distance for as many families as we can manage. I think that it’s a drop-in program, so there’s not an expectation that you’re going to be there at 9 a.m. and stay until 12.”

Of course it’s not just the kids who bene�t from the regular social interaction.

“I think that for families connecting to each other is a really important thing in this day and age,” she said. “I think back to when I grew up and I grew up in a community that was pretty static, everybody knew everybody else, extended family around, so families really weren’t bringing up

children on their own.”But today’s population is

much more transient and mobile.

“And for families with young children it can sometimes be a very lonely thing, a very isolating thing to be home with young children, whether you’re a parent, a caregiver or a grandparent,” she said. “So I think having a place where you can come and belong is really important and I think it develops that sense of community.”

The program also gives parents and their young children an early introduction to the school system.

“It’s also a chance to welcome young families into schools. We think it is really important, we get to know them, and they get a chance to know our schools before children start into the formal kindergarten system,” said George.

In 2004, Burnaby became one of the �rst school districts to introduce parenting and family literacy centres. A year later, the province introduced StrongStart to school districts across the province.

“Initially there was funding to grow StrongStarts and we’re hopeful that might come back because the numbers are really indicating there’s a huge need for us to have more opportunities for young families in our school systems,” said George.

To learn more about StrongStart in Burnaby or to register your child, visit http://www.sd41.bc.ca/strongstart/.

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It’s usually students who get a reading list their �rst week back at school, but here’s some suggested reading for parents: Insider’s Guide to K-12 Education in BC: What every parent and educator needs to know.

The book is written by three B.C. principals, David Mushens, vice-principal at Ecole Cariboo Hill; David Starr, principal at Byrne Creek; and Faizel Rawji of Sunnyside elementary in Surrey.

Published by Paci�c Education Press, it provides parents — and educators — answers to all sorts of important questions about B.C. schools, everything from what makes a good school good to how parents can choose the right programs for their kids to dealing with issues like bullying and life online for students.

Mushens says as principals they �eld a steady stream of questions from parents — and oftentimes parents are continually asking the same types of questions.

“We answer these questions so much we thought clearly we’re lacking a guide, a place for people to look,” he said.

The trio of educators �rst met around 15 years ago when they were all teaching in the Coquitlam school district and have remained in contact.

Whenever they got together, inevitably they’d talk shop.

And often they’d discuss the questions that parents routinely asked them.

“It just really came from there — there really isn’t really anything that talks to parents, primarily, about how systems work. So when parents come into our of�ce when they are upset or they are confessed, a lot of it just comes from

they don’t have the information that they need and like any system,” said Mushens. “Whether it’s medical or school or whatever, we all sort of have our own jargon because we live in it so we know. What we set out to do was ‘OK, let us try and demystify some of the things that you’re thinking about as you head into school.’”

Along with teaching parents to navigate the school system, it also teaches them how to access rescuers and support. It’s also an invaluable tool for educators to help parents.

The book covers Kindergarten to Grade 12.

“Typically we �gure there are going to be people in the early stages ‘OK, how do I pick a school’ and then how do I navigate once I’m in and that leads us right through into secondary.”

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The Burnaby Winter Club (BWC) will play host to the Express and Wenatchee Wild this Thursday, Sept. 3 set for a 7:10 p.m. faceoff.

All BWC members will be admitted free to the game if they are wearing their hockey jerseys and bring a non-perishable food item to the game. Admission for all others will be $5.

The Wild are entering the BCHL for their �rst season. They are the 17th team to join the league and the �rst U.S.-based team since the Bellingham Ice Hawks were in operation from 1990-1995.

The Wild, who played the previous seven seasons in the North American Hockey League, had a winning record every season. They will be in the BCHL Mainland Division with the Express when the regular season begins.

Express head coach and general

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“The Express are the communities team. Even though we play our regular season home games at the Poirier Sports Complex, we want to reach out to all surrounding communities. All should feel part of our team. We are very excited to play a game at BWC and thank the BWC for their hard work and efforts.”

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You will have to excuse Paige Misfeldt if her luggage was a bit heavier when she arrived home from Toronto.

The Burnaby native was carrying seven medals she won at the 12th annual International Dragon Boat Federation World racing championships in Ontario.

Misfeldt raced on Team Canada’s premier mixed and women’s teams winning gold in the two-km, silver in the 200m and two bronze medals in the one-km and 500m all with the mixed team and two gold in the one-km, 500m and a silver in the two-km with the women’s team.

It was quite the experience for her as it was her �rst time at the event.

“The overall experience was exhilarating,” she recalled. “You train two years for a race that can be won by fractions of a second

(.058 sec for our 200m mixed race). And there are so many unknowns as new and emerging teams enter the dragon boat scene. You really have to pause just to take it all in.”

Misfeldt went through a rigorous two-year selection process to make Team Canada.

There were 200 athletes battling it out for 26 spots on the team (11 women selected for the mixed team, 25 for women’s). It included individual testing (how fast you are on water and how strong in gym), as well as team bonding (ability to adapt technique and blend in a boat with other paddlers).

Misfeldt started paddling recreationally in 2010 and just recently started training competitively in 2013.

“I got introduced to the sport by a friend who asked me if I would be interested in trying it out, and I instantly fell in love with

the physical challenges, teamwork and social aspects of it,” she said.

Shane Beaton, who grew up in Burnaby and now lives in Vancouver, raced on the open and mixed crews

that also won seven medals.Canada also captured the

Nations Cup for the �rst time since 2004. The Cup is presented to the nation with the most points in the premier division.

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PHOTO CONTRIBUTEDBurnaby’s Paige Misfeldt won seven medals with Team Canada at the 12th annual International Dragon Boat Federation World racing championships in Ontario recently.

Burnaby’s Terran Campbell is among the three players signed to pro contracts with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 team in the United Soccer League.

Also signed were defender Kadin Chung of Port Coquitlam and mid�elder Thomas Gardner of North Vancouver.

Campbell has made 82 appearances and scored 25 goals for Whitecaps FC Residency in USSDA.

He also played in �ve games for Canada at the 2015 CONACAF U-17 Championship. Previously, Campbell was also called up to Canada’s U-15 national team.

Campbell, 16, made his WFC2 debut as an academy call-up on July 31, coming on as a substitute in a 3-0 road win at Tulsa Roughnecks FC.

With Whitecaps FC U-16 and U-18 Residency teams, Campbell has started 63 of his 82 appearances and scored 25

goals over the past three seasons. This past season, he scored 10 goals in 11 matches with the U-16 squad, adding another three goals while playing 22 matches for the U-18 team.

All three players were introduced at BC Place on Aug. 26 just prior to the second leg of the Amway Canadian Championship �nal, which was won by Vancouver following their 2-0 win over Montreal.

“We’re thrilled to see three more local players progress through our Residency program and earn professional opportunities with our club,” said Whitecaps FC Residency technical director Craig Dalrymple. “Credit to our technical staff for their continued excellence in developing young players. Kadin, Thomas, and Terran deserve this opportunity, and we look forward to continuing to help them develop through the next stages of their careers.”

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The Burnaby Art Gallery (BAG), in collaboration with SFU Art Gallery, presents Alex Morrison: Phantoms of a Utopian Will / Like Most Follies, More Than a Joke and More Than a Whim.

The exhibition takes place from Sept. 4 to Nov. 8 at the BAG and from Sept. 5 to Dec. 11 at the SFU Art Gallery.

The public is invited to the opening reception this Thursday, Sept. 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the BAG.

An artist talk and free bus tour from Vancouver to SFU and Burnaby art galleries is also scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 5 from noon to 2 p.m. leaving from Vancouver’s SFU Audain Gallery at noon.

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