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Kinder Morgan granted injunction Wanda Chow
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Burnaby mayor derek Corrigan shares a moment with his wife, kathy, after being re-elected saturday.
BCA scores hat trick of sweeps Win all seats for mayor, council and school board Wanda Chow
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The Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA) reached a seemingly unprecedented election milestone Saturday night, winning its third straight sweep of all civic seats. All the incumbents were re-elected—Mayor Derek Corrigan for his fifth-straight term, councillors Pietro Calendino, Dan Johnston, Anne Kang, Colleen
Jordan, Paul McDonell, Sav Dhaliwal and Nick Volkow and school trustees Ron Burton, Larry Hayes, Gary Wong, Baljinder Narang, Meiling Chia and Harman Pandher. The BCA throng gathered at the Burnaby Firefighters Club cheered as bagpipers piped in the freshly re-elected council and school board. They also gave rousing welcomes to the two new members of its
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elected caucus—councillor-elect James Wang, a former school trustee, and trustee-elect Katrina Chen, who took his place on school board. Corrigan handily won his —PAGE 3 seat with 68.9 per cent of the vote, compared to second-place finisher Daren Hancott of the Burnaby First Coalition who took 21.7 per cent. Wang took the last of eight council spots by an almost 5,000 vote margin against the next
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candidate, Helen Ward of Burnaby First. Similarly, Pandher took the last of seven school board seats by almost 3,000 votes ahead of Burnaby First’s Janice Beecroft. In his victory speech, Corrigan called the BCA, which has controlled Burnaby council and school board since the 1980s, “the most successful municipal organization in the history of Canada.” please see ‘oDDeST CAmPAIgN’, A3
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Burnaby RCMP read a court injunction and enforcement order to anti-pipeline protestors encamped on Burnaby Mountain at 4 p.m. Monday. But Staff Sgt. Major John Buis wouldn’t say when police would start taking measures to enforce the order. At a media briefing earlier in the afternoon Buis said police would allow protestors the opportunity to comply with the order but he declined to go into specifics. “This will allow those assembled to fully understand their role and our role in this process,” said Buis. “We will use our discretionary authority to continue to monitor and assess the situation. This assessment will take time.” A mass rally at Burnaby Mountain was to begin at 3 p.m. Organizers used Facebook, and up to 800 people indicated interest in attending. An hour before the event, protestors mingled around the camp erected alongside Centennial Way where Kinder Morgan plans to bore one of two holes to study the feasibility of building its planned pipeline expansion through the mountain. please see Zero Sum, A7