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If there’s one thing BurnabyEdmonds provincial election candidates are clear on, it’s the legalization of marijuana. For the record, BC Liberal Jeff Kuah said as a former reserve police officer, he is staunchly opposed to legalization. “Taxing it [sales of marijuana] is not in our platform,
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in the last 12 years the Liberals have been in government, the province has stopped building social and subsidized housing. He called social housing and public education top priorities for the BC NDP. After listing the Liberals’ cuts since 2001 to counsellors, special education and ESL teachers and school closures, Chouhan said, “We’re going to hire 1,000 more teachers to address the issue of class size and class composition.” Please see ‘VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE’, A4
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The BC Liberal Party is calling into question the medical credentials of BurnabyLougheed New Democrat candidate Dr. Jane Shin. Shin has a medical degree and teaches at Vancouver Community College, the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in New Westminster and until last year, B.C. Institute of Technology. Until recently, her biographical information found online did not list where she completed her medical degree but it now states she graduated in 2007 from the Spartan Health Sciences University in St. Lucia in the Caribbean. A BC Liberal press release notes that the school’s graduates are prohibited from being licensed to practise medicine in the U.S. states of California, Kansas, Texas, North Dakota and Indiana, and in the U.K. for those who began their studies before Dec. 31, 2008. The Liberals also claim a Korean Times article stated she graduated from medical school at the University of British see ‘I WORKED’, A3