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MARCH 28 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Chouhan to repay $2,200 for wife’s plane ticket Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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Molly O’Brien, a strength and conditioning specialist at Fortius Sport and Health, guides Burnaby firefighter Adam Brown through a workout. On Wednesday, the City of Burnaby and Fortius announced a partnership that gives the city’s firefighters full access to the facility and its fitness and health care professionals to help keep them fit and on the job.
Fortius to build healthier firefighters Mario Bartel
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A new program at Fortius Sport and Health for Burnaby firefighters will help make them healthier. It could also improve the health and fitness of firefighters across Canada and around the world. Wednesday, Fortius joined forces with the City of Burnaby, the Burnaby Fire Department and Firefighters Local 323 to launch a Performance Health program that will help reduce injuries and improve their overall health.
The program costs $500 per The goal, said Local 323 president monitoring their health ensures firefighter per year, which will be Rob Lamoureux, is to create “a they can continue to do their job, shared between the city and the healthier firefighter service” that will and live long lives, said Lamoureux. firefighters’ union. ultimately save the city money. “Maybe we can save somebody.” It includes an Firefighters Working with the firefighters will annual physical face all kinds of also allow the health professionals exam, stress, hazards to their at Fortius to collect data about Mayor Derek Corrigan movement and well-being while them that can be shared with fire The facility is recognized physical testing, as on the job, from departments elsewhere to create worldwide... it’d be crazy well as full access strains and injuries their own wellness programs, said not to use it. to Fortius’ workout from hauling Randy Goodman, the director of and rehabilitation heavy equipment Institute Operations at Fortius. facilities as well as its health to exposure to toxic fumes and “Our goal is to create a baseline,” 1 12-03-05 1:20 PM practitioners like trainers and chemicals.4x1.25_small_appliances_ad_final.pdf said Goodman. dieticians. Keeping them in top shape and Please see POLICE COULD BECOME, A3
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Burnaby Edmonds MLA Raj Chouhan says he offered to pay for his wife’s plane ticket to accompany him on a work trip to South Africa but was told it wasn’t necessary. The New Democrat said from Victoria he plans to repay the $2,200 shortly as he didn’t have his chequebook with him. Chouhan has been caught up in the controversy since it emerged that taxpayers covered the $5,528 cost of a flight to Johannesburg for the husband of BC Liberal MLA Linda Reid, the Speaker of the Legislature. Reid was attending a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference last August. She and her husband flew business-class to South Africa. Reid said Tuesday there is a long-standing practice of spouses accompanying B.C. officials on such trips, but the B.C. legislature’s internal financial standards are evolving in light of public expectations. Please see ‘I’M GOING,’ A3