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LONG ELECTION CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES
▶ SURREY, NORTH DELTA SEE CHANGES IN FEDERAL RIDING BOUNDARIES; PUNDIT SAYS TORIES HAVE EDGE JEFF NAGEL
Surrey and North Delta will be going to the polls this fall with a few more choices. The federal election campaign has officially started, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper has set in motion a process for a 78-day campaign – the longest in
modern history. Locally, a redistribution of federal election boundaries means there will be more federal politicians in North Delta and Surrey, as the number of ridings in those areas boomed from four to six. Delta is now a standalone riding, rather than sharing its boundaries with
Newton prior to 2013. Newton is also now its own riding. Cloverdale has been hived off from South Surrey-White Rock and now shares Langley City for representation and Surrey-Centre replaces Surrey-North. Fleetwood-Port Kells remains the same.
The changes are a result of population growth in this area. The prime minister visited Governor General David Johnston at Rideau Hall Sunday morning to dissolve Parliament and begin the election set for Oct. 19. continued on page 3
BATTLE OF THE BLAZES IN NEWTON
▶ ARSONIST MAY HAVE TORCHED HIMSELF, A HOUSE AND HIS OWN GETAWAY VEHICLE, POLICE SAY KEVIN DIAKIW
Police are investigating the possibility that an arsonist accidentally lit himself on fire, then ran to an SUV which his burning body set ablaze. On Wednesday at 1:30 a.m., crews responded to a fire at a home in the 7900-block of 134 Street. When they arrived, they found the garage door of a home and an SUV on fire about a halfblock away. Police believe the fire at the home was intentionally set and that the person who set it may have been on fire when they got into the SUV, setting the vehicle ablaze.
Surrey fire crews douse a flaming SUV found not far from where a home was set on fire in the 7900-block of 134 Street. Police believe the home was set ablaze intentionally and the arsonist accidently lit himself – and his getaway vehicle – on fire. SHANE MACKICHAN PHOTO
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