Burnaby NewsLeader, June 07, 2013

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hate graffiti found in park

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incinerator plan moves forward

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Quilter helps share the love

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another great band—the lumineers—is coming to deer lake park this summer. see Page a9

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Riding re-draw rejected —so far Now up to electoral commission to find solution Wanda Chow

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the B.c. soccer association has followed the decision of the canadian soccer association earlier this year to allow headscarves, including turbans, during a global trial until fifa further clarifies its position on the issue, expected in March 2014. But Quebec has opted to ban the religious garb on the field.

Quebec turban move ‘shocks’ trustee Wanda Chow

wchow@burnabynewsleader.com

News that the Quebec Soccer Federation had banned Sikhs wearing turbans from playing organized soccer had Burnaby school trustee Harman Pandher “shocked” and wondering what century it was. “I think we have just some people holding onto some antiquated notion of what Canadians should

look like, what soccer players might turban in the Sikh faith, Pandher look like,” said Pandher, a Sikh who explained that men are required wears a turban. to not cut their hair, and Calling the decision turbans are to help identify “exclusionary,” he noted, that them as Sikh and “as turbans are now allowed in someone people can go to in the Canadian military and their time of need and your the RCMP. Since last year, obligation [as a Sikh] is to Pandher even a Scots Guardsman help them.” was allowed to stand guard While in other cultures in front of Buckingham Palace people remove their hats as a show wearing his turban instead of the of respect, the opposite is true for traditional bearskin helmet. Sikhs. “The turban must be worn “But boys on soccer pitches aren’t at all times, it’s a basic tenet of the allowed to wear their turbans?” Sikh religion,” he said. As for the significance of the “To then ask someone to remove

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it, it’s a humiliating request and in essence, it’s not an option for people who are practising Sikhs.” Full turbans are worn as soon as a boy is old enough to tie it himself, he said. Younger boys and even adult athletes can also wear a smaller head scarf covering the top knot on the head, called a patka. This too, is banned under the Quebec rules which aim to address vague concerns over safety issues. Pandher said he thought of his eight-year-old son on hearing the Quebec news and noted he plays please see BC sOCCer, a3

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South Asian students can’t relate to Quebec intolerance: Pandher

A parliamentary committee has agreed with just about everyone who’s spoken out on both sides of Burrard Inlet—a proposed federal riding merging North Burnaby with North Vancouver is not a good idea. In its report, released earlier this week, on the new electoral districts proposed by the federal Electoral Boundaries Commission of B.C., the Procedure and House Affairs Committee in Ottawa agreed with the arguments put forward by New Democrat MPs Kennedy Stewart (Burnaby-Douglas) and Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster). “From the evidence it has heard, the Committee foremostly finds the reasons for not having a riding which spans the Burrard Inlet to tie together two dissimilar communities, to be compelling,” the report said. please see COMMissiOn, a4


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