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Burnaby firefighters and politicians continue to question the changes in protocol they say are compromising the response times of ambulances and paramedics. Earlier this month, Burnaby deputy fire chief administration Joe Robertson wrote to Dr. William Dick, vice-president of medical programs for B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS), outlining 11 cases involving waits of more than an hour since the change in late October. They include a 90-year-old woman who fell, had a large laceration the back of the head and no memory of the incident. “Unable to control bleed,” the letter said. The ambulance arrived one hour and 23 minutes after firefighters. A 26-year-old woman waited one hour and 53 minutes after suffering a seizure and falling off a massage table, sustaining a possible head injury.
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Visitors explore Century Gardens in Deer Lake Park where the rhododendrons are in bloom. The gardens, near Shadbolt Centre, will be the site of the annual Rhodendron Festival on May 4. The event will feature a plant sale by the Burnaby Rhododendron and Gardens Society, a spring bouquet competition, workshops in weed-free gardening, floral arranging and using bees to enhance gardens, silent and live auctions, as well as tours of the gardens and Deer Lake. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is free.
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There appears to be no shortage of people trying to replace incumbent Kennedy Stewart as MP in North Burnaby. The riding of Burnaby-Douglas has been reconfigured to include North Vancouver in the next federal election and will be known as Burnaby North-Seymour. The New Democrat Stewart announced last year he will run for the NDP nomination in another
*ask if you qualify new riding, Burnaby South. as a tutor with students with As for Burnaby-North Seymour, behavioural or cognitive challenges. local boy Trevor Ritchie has thrown The Conservatives also have two his hat in the ring to vie for candidates running for their the NDP nomination. nomination. A Burnaby North Burnaby resident Daren secondary grad, Ritchie has Hancott previously served as a bachelor degree in political chief administrative officer at science from the University University Canada West and HANCOTT of British Columbia and is is a past-chair of the B.C. currently pursuing a bachelor Chamber of Commerce. of education degree, also at UBC. He has also held executive posts A frequent writer of letters to at Seafood Products Ltd. and the local newspapers, he has worked University of Phoenix.
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“I have left the corporate world to try my hand at politics,” Hancott said by email. Hancott is a member of the Knights of Columbus and is still involved with the B.C. Chamber of Commerce as a member of its policy review committee, which writes and reviews policies for small business in the province. His education includes a bachelor of commerce from Memorial University.
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