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Burned body found near trail JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Officers from the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team are calling on the public to help provide clues to a homicide after a badly burned body was discovered in a shelter along a trail near Lynn Creek in North Vancouver Monday.
An RCMP officer and police tape block the entrance to a wooded area near Lynn Creek where a burned body was found by a regular trail user Monday. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
The homicide team was called out after the grisly discovery was made off Bridgman North Trail in a densely wooded area near East Keith Road and Mountain Highway by a regular trail user Monday morning around 10 a.m. So far there’s little information about the discovery, including whether the body is that of a man or a woman. Police are awaiting the results
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Trudeau approves Kinder Morgan pipeline
BRENT RICHTER AND JANE SEYD brichter@nsnews.com/jseyd@nsnews.com
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has given approval to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Trudeau announced the decision from Ottawa Tuesday afternoon, clearing the last regulatory hurdle before the company can build the pipeline, which will triple the amount of bitumen destined for the Westridge terminal and increase five-fold the number of Aframax Tankers departing from Burrard Inlet. Trudeau said the deeply controversial pipeline project was safe, necessary for creating middle-class jobs and ensuring Canada is economically strong enough to transition to a carbonfree economy. “We also know this transition requires investment and that this will not happen overnight to fund this change to a
MP Wilkinson says most concerns addressed, Tsleil-Waututh vow to fight project in the courts carbon-free world,” he said. “We said that major pipelines could only get built if we had a price on carbon and strong environmental protections in place. We said that Indigenous peoples must be respected and be a part of the process and we said we would only build projects that could be built and run safely,” he said. Trudeau’s statement did not mention his campaign promise that pipelines must have community consent, which, at the end of the ministerial panel hearings in September, Burnaby NorthSeymour MP Terry Beech said had not been granted. Trudeau acknowledged that Beech has been one of the project’s most substantive critics, among many in B.C.
“To them and to all Canadians, I want to say this: If I thought this project was unsafe for the B.C. Coast, I would reject it,” he said. “This is a decision based on rigorous debate, based on science and on evidence. We have not been and will not be swayed by political arguments, be they local, regional or national.” Trudeau acknowledged the deep controversy that surrounds the project and said he too bears some of the risk. “I share a deep and abiding sense of responsibly for our spectacular West Coast. Indeed it is a personal issue for me,” he said, noting he spent much of his youth visiting his grandparents on the North Shore and spent years as a teacher in Vancouver. North Vancouver’s Tsleil-Waututh Nation remains steadfast in its opposition to the pipeline expansion and is vowing to continue the fight. “Right now Prime Minister Trudeau is approving a project
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