Burnaby NewsLeader, September 19, 2014

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there’s been a sharp decline in gang-related homicides, says B.C.’s anti-gang squad. See page A11

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Monday school re-opening ‘realistic:’ Narang Pending ratification by teachers, school boards Wanda Chow

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Protestors were out again on Burnaby Mountain on Wednesday, on the heels of a B.C. supreme Court decision rejecting the City of Burnaby’s injunction to stop survey work.

Court denies city’s pipeline injunction City tried to stop Kinder Morgan from working on Burnaby Mountain Wanda Chow

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A B.C. Supreme Court judge turned down Burnaby city hall’s request for a temporary injunction to stop Kinder Morgan from continuing work in the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area. The city filed a civil claim Sept. 8 against the pipeline company after it cut down several trees in the park on Sept. 2 in contravention of

Burnaby bylaws. week, said a City of Burnaby press The work is part of survey and release. geotechnical work to “Although this determine whether is disappointing, it can run its Trans it is important to Mountain pipeline consider the impact mayor derek Corrigan We now look to the neB to expansion through of this decision in recognize and respect the the mountain. the appropriate validity of our bylaws as we It had sought the context,” said consider how best to ensure interim injunction that Kinder Morgan does not Mayor Derek to stop the work Corrigan in the resume their destructive until the full civil release. survey work... suit could be heard “It’s not the in court. end of anything. It’s another step The judge’s reasons for denying in what we’ve always known will the application will be provided next be a long fight to protect our

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Conservation lands–and all of our land in the City–from further destruction by Kinder Morgan.” Burnaby will be looking into whether or not to appeal the court decision, Corrigan said. The city believes it should be B.C. Supreme Court which should decide whether the company must respect Burnaby’s bylaws. “By choosing not to grant us our requested injunction, however, the Court has effectively deferred the decision to the National Energy Board,” he said. see ‘YeArS of deStruCtive Work’, A3

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Burnaby schools reopening on Monday is “realistic,” said Burnaby school board chair Baljinder Narang. That is, if both teachers and school boards ratify the tentative agreement reached early Tuesday morning between the provincial government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. The six-year deal includes wage increases totalling 7.25 per cent, $105 million to cover retroactive grievances which the union can share directly with its members, and $400 million for hiring specialist and classroom teachers over the length of the agreement. It comes after teachers have been off the job for five weeks—two at the end of June and the first three weeks of the current school year. “You know what, we’re all on a high at the moment,” Narang said Tuesday, a few hours after learning of the tentative deal. Teachers were set to hold their ratification vote on Thursday. Please see ‘there WAS pAin All Around’, A10