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WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 20 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Charlie’s Chocolates has a new lease on life, and some sweet plans for the future. See Page A5
‘Cautious’ optimism school may start on time Involvement of veteran mediator Ready a positive Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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A tightrope walker performs Jultagi at the Korean Cultural Festival, Saturday at Swangard Stadium. Jultagi is a mixture of acrobatics and comedy that is often performed on public holidays and at community celebrations. It is recognized by UNESCO as one example of Korea’s intangible cultural heritage. See MORE PHOTOS on page A3
City, province take issue with Kinder Morgan Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Hell hasn’t frozen over and there haven’t been any reports of flying pigs, but the seemingly improbable has happened—the City of Burnaby and provincial government agree on something. The NDP-affiliated Burnaby council and BC Liberal government have both written to the National
Energy Board (NEB) stating the documents “contain proprietary same position. Both oppose Kinder technical information” about its Morgan’s request to file in secret its emergency procedures. They also emergency plan for include names and its proposed Trans contact information Mountain pipeline for company and City of Burnaby expansion. industry employees In effect, Trans Mountain is The company who could be asking first responders to go filed a notice of affected by resulting blindly into emergency motion earlier this privacy and security situations without the month seeking NEB benefit of a prior knowledge. issues. permission to file its There is a “real emergency management program and substantial risk” that if the (EMP) confidentially. information in the plan is made In it, the company claims the public it will compromise security
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of the pipeline, its facilities and systems, or those methods used to protect them, Kinder Morgan said. It is, however, willing to provide the information to local, provincial or federal authorities. But first they must meet a set of conditions, including that they sign a confidentiality agreement. In its response, the provincial government said the company has not shown that it holds any such proprietary information and if it did, it would be “quite unusual.” Please see SECURITY RISK, A3
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Burnaby’s school board chair is “cautiously optimistic” school will start on time despite the current teachers strike. “That is encouraging news,” said Baljinder Narang of reports veteran mediator Vince Ready is now willing to wade into the dispute between the BC Teachers Federation and the provincial government. “We’re going along targeting school opening on Sept. 2nd as we would and we’re hoping that, you know, it may not be perfect on the first day, but at least we’d be open.” If a contract settlement is reached and teachers ratify the deal, there will be some challenges since the regular end-of-school process didn’t really happen after teachers went on a full-scale strike in mid-June, Narang said. With no summer school some students may need to have their grade levels readjusted. Please see YMCA TO RUN ‘STRIKE CAMPS’, A3