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Noel Ouellette joined about a dozen members of ACORN to voice their displeasure about the disappearance of affordable rental housing in Burnaby to make way for gleaming new condo towers they’ll never be able to afford.
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Noel Ouellette looked up at the sleek steel and glass condo tower rising above Nelson Avenue and shouted, “What do we want? Affordable housing! When do we want it? Now!” Ouellette and about a dozen other members of the anti-poverty advocacy group ACORN rallied across from The Met condo project Tuesday to voice their displeasure with gentrification in Burnaby that is replacing affordable old walk-up
rental apartment buildings with homeowners that wind around the pricey new concrete condos. block to snap up units in the new Even a tradesman from the towers. project put down “What’s his tools for a few happening with all minutes and jogged these high towers Monica McGovern, ACORN across the street to they’re building, in It’s not just the housing commiserate with they’re losing. They’re losing some cases they’re the protestors—he’s their communities. tearing down about to lose his affordable rental own home to a new development. housing,” said McGovern. Monica McGovern, the chair of “They’re building huge high-rises ACORN’s Burnaby branch, said and the prices of them will be way her little gathering is the flip side of beyond the means of most people.” the lineups of eager investors and Prices for The Met’s 295 units
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A Burnaby cyclist who was shot in the arm as he pedalled along Highway 1 early June 1 is appealing for information that would help find the gunman. Craig Premack, 54, was on the return leg of the Cache Creek 600, a longdistance cycling event put on by the BC Randonneurs, when he was shot. He’d just returned to the road at about PREMACK 1 a.m. after a meal break and three-hour nap in Spences Bridge. Premack was riding alone at the time, his Willier road bike festooned with lights to guide his way and alert passing motorists of his presence on the road. He said his ride was going well until he was surprised by the sound of explosions next to him. “I thought they were firecrackers,” he said. But then his right forearm “blew up” and he felt blood trickling down to his leg. Please see INVESTIGATORS SEEK TWO MEN, A3