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Burnaby’s 120th birthday is a great excuse to get out and live a little. See Page A3
Local MP, mayor granted intervenor status Chevron application Wanda Chow
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Gerry O’Neil loads up Pepper, one of his Percheron draft horses, at Deer Lake Park on Saturday. The horses, which normally pull carriages in Stanley Park, were hired for a wedding at Hart House.
Two seek NDP’s nod in Lougheed Craig Langston and Dr. Jane Shin to contest nomination in provincial riding; decision Oct. 13 Wanda Chow
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So far there are two candidates vying for the New Democrat nomination for Burnaby-Lougheed, which will be decided Oct. 13. The seat is currently held by incumbent BC Liberal MLA Harry Bloy, who will not be seeking
re-election. Joining Dr. Jane Shin for stepping forward and running in the race is Craig Langston, is I really want to encourage more president of the Cerebral Palsy people with disabilities and more Association of B.C. Langston, aboriginal people to be more 46, said he submitted his engaged in the democratic nomination papers about a process,” Langston said. year ago, in anticipation of “So often we are talking to an early election, and has government from the outside. been waiting ever since. We really need to be at those He has cerebral palsy, tables within all levels of LANGSTON government.” uses a power wheelchair and is First Nations Dene Langston is also a member originally from northern Alberta. of Burnaby city hall’s social issues “One of my main motivations committee and the planning
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When the National Energy Board hearings are held Jan. 15 into whether to grant Chevron Canada priority access to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, Kennedy Stewart and Derek Corrigan would be excused for feeling somewhat outnumbered. Stewart, the New Democrat MP for Burnaby-Douglas, and Corrigan, the mayor of Burnaby, are the only politicians granted intervenor status in the hearings. They’ll be joined by about a dozen representatives from the oil industry, officials from the B.C. and Alberta energy ministries, and representatives from the union representing Chevron employees and Kinder Morgan itself. There is more demand for the pipeline’s capacity than it can accommodate, resulting in almost all users receiving less product through it than they request.
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