new tower to be 2nd tallest in b.C.
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what ails the ndP? Plenty
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tories oPPose e-Petition
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June 19 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com
lakers take on the adanacs in bantam lacrosse action. See Page A19
ICBC takes rioters to court Six Burnaby defendants in Stanley Cup civil suit Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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runners bolt from the start at the easter seals 24 hour relay For the Kids saturday at swangard stadium. the relay is in its 35th year and money raised goes to help sends disabled kids to summer camp.
Mountain city’s top-ranked public school Fraser Institute puts St. Thomas More No. 1 overall in Burnaby Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
When it comes to public schools, Burnaby Mountain secondary is the top-ranked high school in the city, according the Fraser Institute’s annual rankings. Mountain was ranked 83rd out of 284 schools provincewide with a score of 6.9 out of 10. However, first place overall in Burnaby was the independent St.
Thomas More Collegiate, which ranked 21st with a score of 8.3. In third place was another private school, Carver Christian, which was 103rd with a 6.6 score. The top 10 overall rankings were all filled by independent schools led by York House and Crofton House in Vancouver and Southridge in Surrey in spots one to three respectively. Among Burnaby schools, Burnaby North and Moscrop secondaries tied for fourth place with rankings of 107th and scores of 6.5. In sixth place, came Burnaby Central ranked 133rd provincewide
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with a 6.1 score. Burnaby South was seventh in the city, ranked 173rd with a 5.6 score. Alpha and Cariboo Hill tied for eighth, with a 204th-place ranking and 5.2 score. The independent Deer Lake Seventh Day Adventist school was ranked 213th, with a 6.5 score. It was the first year in the rankings for the school, which has a Grade 12 enrollment of just 19 students. In 11th and last spot among Burnaby schools is Byrne Creek secondary which ranked 251st out of 284 with a 4.3 score. The
Edmonds-area school, whose neighbourhood includes numerous refugee and new immigrant residents, also has the highest proportion of English-as-a-secondlanguage students (13.1 per cent), the second highest level of special needs students (9.2 per cent) and lowest average parental income ($44,300). Produced by the rightleaning Fraser Institute, the annual report card is developed using several indicators including average marks in mandatory provincial exams and graduation rates.
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Six Burnaby residents are among those being sued by the Insurance Corporation of B.C. for damages resulting from the Stanley Cup riot. ICBC’s civil suit is against 46 people either charged or convicted for their participation in the downtown Vancouver riot following Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final on June 15, 2011. “ICBC has a responsibility to protect our customers’ premium dollars and is taking legal action to recover the costs of these acts of vandalism to ensure they are not passed on to our customers,” the insurance corporation said in a press release. It is seeking general, special, aggravated and punitive damages, plus interest and costs. The Burnaby defendants are: Spencer Nelson Cox, Matthew Eakin, Timothy Kwong, Sean Yates, Mitchell Mark and James Seager. The cases of most of those charged are still working their way through the system. see 77 vehICLeS, A3