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Andrew Holota discuses the challenge facing us: How to preserve our free country— from within. See Page A6
Protesters hit with Kinder Morgan lawsuit Crowdfunding campaign seeks to raise money for legal fees Wanda Chow
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Workers bring in the cranberry harvest at Mayberry Farms in South Burnaby on Saturday. They use beaters to knock the berries from their vines and then the loose berries are corralled with booms to a conveyor that loads them into trucks. This year’s harvest of 6 million pounds of berries is about 25 per cent lower than usual because of frost last February that killed a number of vines. See MORE PHOTOS on page A3
City finances questioned by Burnaby First BCA says everything is out in the open Wanda Chow
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A Burnaby First Coalition candidate says the city’s budgeting system is “broken” and he intends to fix it. The chair of Burnaby’s finance committee counters that staff are required to justify every expense every year during a rigourous On Nov 15
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budget planning process. Matthew Hartney, running for council for Burnaby First, is an accountant who served one year and seven months as director of finance for North Battleford, Sask. Most recently he served eight months in Huntsville, Ont. as its executive director of public infrastructure. He said in looking at Burnaby’s
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budget and financial statements available online, “what is apparent is the budget system is broken.” He noted that the city’s golf services division of the parks and recreation department budgeted for a $72,000 deficit in 2014. “When you budget for a deficit you have to build it into the tax rate.”
Rather, city hall should be considering cuts to programs such as the free parks and recreation services councillors and other city officials receive, he said. Hartney said it appears the budgets simply add a few percentage points on the previous year’s numbers. “They should at least have a discussion about breaking even.” Please see CITY FINANCES, A15
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Protesters were stunned to be hit by a Kinder Morgan lawsuit seeking damages for being prevented from carrying out survey and study work last week on Burnaby Mountain. But the group is fighting back with lawyers and a crowdfunding campaign to help pay their legal fees. Stephen Collis, an English professor at Simon Fraser University, acted as a media spokesperson for the protesters at Burnaby Mountain last Wednesday. That’s when Kinder Morgan crews were chased off before they could begin their work. The company won a National Energy Board order the previous week, allowing it to go ahead with work to determine if it can tunnel through the mountain as part of its proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. It also prevents Burnaby city hall from stopping them for violating city bylaws. Please see KINDER MORGAN, A3