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AUGUST 15 2014 The NBA brought its trophy and a Pelican to Metrotown. Page A17
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City man’s murder conviction appeal denied Killed man with sword in 2011 Wanda Chow
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Steven Wong, 16, plays a mini concert to help launch Pianos on the Street in Burnaby on Wednesday. The brightly-painted piano is part of a project by Pacey’s Pianos and the Piano Teachers Federation to place pianos in outdoor locations around Metro Vancouver. The piano is in Century Gardens, between the Shadbolt Centre and the Burnaby Art Gallery.
Burnaby launches court challenge Questions NEB authority to force it to cooperate with Kinder Morgan Wanda Chow
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The City of Burnaby doesn’t think the National Energy Board (NEB) has the power to tell it what to do. So it’s launched a constitutional challenge to prove it. Kinder Morgan now wants to run its proposed expansion of its JUST LISTED
Trans Mountain pipeline through Burnaby Mountain. And it needs to do geotechnical work, including drilling, to study the route. For that, it needs Burnaby city hall to issue permits for it to access the city-owned Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area. But it says Burnaby, which is on record as opposing the expansion project, isn’t cooperating. The NEB has said if Burnaby rejects the company’s permit application, it could force the city to
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cooperate. Not so fast, says Burnaby’s lawyer, Gregory McDade. He’s filed notice with the NEB that the city intends to pursue a constitutional challenge of Section 73 of the National Energy Board Act. Burnaby plans to argue that the act does not give the NEB the power to make orders that override provincial law and municipal bylaws. The move is in response to Kinder
Morgan’s own application asking the NEB to confirm what rights it has to access Burnaby’s land. McDade said in a letter to the NEB that while Kinder Morgan has cited previous NEB decisions giving the company the right to access land without the landowner’s permission, this case is different. That’s because a municipality owns the property which has been dedicated for use as parkland under provincial law. Please see CITY TAKES ON, A3
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A Burnaby man has lost his appeal of his 2012 conviction for second-degree murder of a man on the front doorsteps of his home. Yacine Zouaoui, who was 19 at the time of the offence, was convicted of killing 43-year-old Zsolt Csikos on March 26, 2011 by stabbing him in the back with a sword. Zouaoui’s father was Algerian and his mother is Hungarian. After Zouaoui’s father died in 2009 he suffered from depression and began using drugs and alcohol, according to the reasons for judgment by B.C. Court of Appeal Justice Kathryn Neilson. The Zouaoui and Csikos families lived a few blocks away from each other in the Metrotown area. By 2010 there were strained relations between the two families due to accusations Zouaoui had stolen money from a relative of Csikos, who was also Hungarian.
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