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Burnaby low on the Best Places to Live listBurnaby may have been Canadas best-

run city in 2009 but it placed low on a list ofmost livable cities in the country in 2010.

MoneySense magazine ranked Burnaby137 out of 179 cities across Canada on itsannual Best Places to Live list. Burnabydropped from its 94th-place ranking in2009.

But Mayor Derek Corrigan thinks it isstill a pretty nice place to live, and pointedout that the many people who move here

seem to agree.Im still pretty proud of our portion of

the world, Corrigan said.Burnabys low ranking in the liva-

bility survey was affected by a literaldamp cloud hanging over the city,according to Dan Bortolotti and PhilFroats, who wrote the story accom-panying the survey.

In the precipitation department,we look for the sweet spot of 700 mil-lilitres of rain or snow annually, thepair wrote. British Columbia communitieslay at both extremes in this category: bone-

dry communities in the interior, such asKelowna and Penticton, scored low, as didsoggy coastal cities such as Prince Rupert

and Burnaby.Corrigan acknowledged that peo-

ple who have an ability to moveanywhere they like do consider theweather when doing so, mention-ing his brother-in-law who started abusiness in Sydney, Australia, par-tially for that reason.

But New Westminster rankedexactly the same as Burnaby, weather-wise,and placed at 50 on the annual list.

Both cities ranked at 146 out of the 179cities for rain and snow days, and 173 forannual precipitation levels.

Burnaby, however, also ranked low inthe affordable housing category at 175 and was second-to-last for how long takesto buy a house here, at 7.6 years.

Corrigan pointed out that factors suchas the weather, housing affordability andaverage income are out of the municipali-tys control. Cities such as Burnaby, locatedbetween other Lower Mainland cities andthe ocean, dont have the ability to expand

The sweetsmell ofskunk:Nine-year-old GarrettYeo gets awhiff of thepungentskunkspray atMetropolis atMetrotown.The mallis puttingon AnimalGrossology,an interactivedisplay thatfeaturesanimalpoo andfarts in aneducationaland funsetting. Thedisplayopens today see a sneakpreview onpage 3.

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Janaya Fuller-Evansstaff reporter

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The health of Byrne Creek is gettingbetter after a March 4 chemical spill killedeverything.

Its recovering slowly. Weve beenreleasing fish in there, and they have beensurviving, said Paul Cipywnyk of the ByrneCreek Streamkeepers.

The volunteer stream stewards have beenreleasing small fish into the creek with thehelp of community members.

The streamkeepers have also been fresh-ening up storm drain markers bright yel-low fish symbols that remind people not todump anything down storm drains.

The March 4 spill killed the creeks fishpopulations, including baby coho salmonthat had just hatched and were emergingfrom the gravel and coho smolts that werealmost ready to head out to sea. Residentcutthroat trout also perished. Volunteersfrom the Byrne Creek Streamkeepers count-ed about 500 dead fish but estimated 1,000 to2,000 were killed in total.

Environment Canada test results showedthat various types of cleaning agents werereleased into the creek.

According to the Fisheries Act, its ille-gal to dump substances harmful to fish ortheir habitat into waterways. Under the act,first-time offenders could be fined up to$300,000.

Fish are backin the creekJennifer Moreaustaff reporter

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Getting ticketed in Burnaby willsoon be done with state of the art equip-ment.

The change takes place shortly afterthe city increased parking fines for thefirst time in 15 years, according to DougLouie, assistant director of engineering.

The new system, which is to befunded with $315,000 from capitalworks, could also include cameras forthe devices, voice communication andGPS safety tracking.

Since 1995, the city has issued tick-ets from handheld devices that havean integrated printer. Now, parkingenforcement will be done with wirelesshandheld devices that allow commu-nication between those in the field andthe office.

A report submitted to city council bythe engineering department states theequipment used now is beyond repairor upgrade, and that bylaw officials arecurrently issuing tickets manually.

Parking fines were not increased tofund the new system, but to stay in linewith other municipalities, Louie said.

Council passed a bylaw last summerwhich defined the current fine regula-tions in Burnaby and included newcriteria.

A managers report that includedthe new bylaw, 12657, was approvedin March. The city approved the bylawdispute adjudication system last June.

All bylaws and fines are clarifiedunder the new system, Louie said.

We looked at some of the (fine)rates and they were extremely low,Louie said of the parking fine increase,adding that the fines are still low butnow more in line with other cities.

Parking meter fines were previously$50, but only $25 if paid within 15 days.The new system kept the regular fine at$50, but fines are now $40 if paid within15 days.

Parking fines for all other infractionsincreased to $80, $64 if paid within 15days.

The increase in parking fines wasmade after a review showed that ourparking fines were well below whatmany other municipalities were charg-ing Louie added in an e-mail. Forexample, Vancouver fines are $60 formeters and $90 for others, while NewWestminster fines are $70 and $80respectively.

ParkingsystemupgradedJanaya Fuller-Evansstaff reporter

Pooping and farting should still bringa smile to the face of any young boy, butat Metropolis at Metrotown this summer,crap and gas are all part of the educationalexperience.

The Animal Grossology exhibit, whichopens on Saturday in theGrand andAtriumcourts at Metropolis at Metrotown and runsuntil Aug. 22, features a variety of interac-tive exhibits that show the wonder of someof the slimiest, stinkiest and yuckiest bodilyfunctions of animals.

The interactive 3D exhibit is based onSylvia Branzeis best-selling Grossologybooks and the exhibits will keep childrenentertained for many hours.

Kids will experience a carnival-likeatmosphere that also has a large learn-ing and educational focus, said ArtieChumpol, public and community relationsmanager forMetropolis atMetrotown. Notonly will kids learn a lot of interesting factsabout animals, parents will also learn a lotof cool things and the parents will alsoget a break to go shopping.

Animal Grossology exhibits take up bothof themain courts in themall,with the largerdisplay in the Grand Court geared towardolder kids and teenagers. The smaller dis-play in the Atrium Court features games

and displays for younger children ages fiveto 10. Best of all, everything is free.

This years exhibit follows on the heelsof last summers wildly popular dinosaursexhibit, which had more than 1.5 millionvisitors during its summer run.

Anne Blaine, special events manager atthemall, said finding an exhibit for this yearwasnt easy.

We are always looking for new, andfresh ideas and this was one that I sawdisplayed in Reno, Nevada, said Blaine.When I looked at bring-ing this here, I found outthis would be the first timeAnimal Grossology would befeatured in Canada.

Blaine said a similar dis-play, Human Grossology, didappear in Vancouver a coupleof years ago, but the wondersof animals are even more fas-cinating than human bodilyfunctions.

On a Thursday afternoonmedia tour of the exhibits,the Burnaby NOW conscriptednine-year-old Garrett Yeo yes, hes mynephew to be our test subject.

Garrett started with the Scents display,where people can put their noses up to fourdifferent pumps, squeeze and inhale a smellthat only animals can produce.

Wow, thats really stinky, Garrett saidof his first whiff.

And who could argue when he discov-

ered that he had just inhaled the spray ofa skunk?

Not all the smells are as bad as the skunkspray, but in the adjacent igloo display, thefake poo balls are nasty enough.

A display of animals, from an elephantto a rabbit to a penguin, are featured along-side fake piles of animal poo. Childrenmustlook inside the camera, focus on the pooand then try and correctly match up the pooto the animal that produced it.

I know which one is the elephant poo,said Garrett. It took me a coupleof times to figure out what therabbit poo was.

Perhaps the most fun gamein the big kids area is the frog-belching game. Because somefrogs belch out their babies dur-ing childbirth, the Grossologydisplay mimics that action, withkids trying to belch out balls intoscoring areas on the board.

This is the game I havethe toughest time with, saidChumpol as she watched Garretthard at play. I think kids will

have a lot of fun with this game.AsGarrettmovedover to theTransfusion

Confusion game, the wonderful worldof animal blood was introduced to theMarlborough French immersion student.

Garrett learned that blood isnt alwaysred, as some animals have clear, blue oryellow blood as well. For example, most

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Eww: Garrett Yeo demonstrates how to aim a viewing scope at various types of poo before trying to identify which pile goeswith which animal. Its part of the Animal Grossology exhibit at Metropolis at Metrotown, on till Aug. 22.

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insects have clear blood while mostcrustaceans have blue blood.

Garrett had the guiding hand ofpublicist Melissa Guillergan lead-ing him through the displays, andGuillergan suggested that he mightbe interested in seeing the youngerkids displays in the Atrium Court.

As we walked through the busymall, we could see that many kidswere envious of what Garrett wasdoing.

Were expecting a lot of kids tocome through here during the open-ingweekend, said Chumpol. Wevealready had a lot of kids with theirfaces pressed up to the fence lookingat the displays.

When we arrived at the AtriumCourt, we found a giant submarinewhere kids can look through a peri-

scope and see whats happening inthe mall all through a secret videocamera.

Kids also learn about fish andother water animals before they canclimb up through a tunnel and godown a slide.

And then its off to the Dung Ballchallenge, where four kids at a timecan go to the computer station andtry to push a dung ball up the hill thefastest.

Garrett convinced his uncle andNOW photographer Larry Wright totry out the computer game and,because Wright and I are considerateadults, we let Garrett win the battleto the top of the hill.

Returning to the Grand Atriumfor a look at the other games, wefound out that tapeworms can growup to 60 feet long and there are some

villages in Africa where one in twopeople has a tapeworm in them.

We also learned that hippos usu-ally poo in the water, but if they pooon land, they leave droppings the sizeof small bowling balls, and gorillasoften eat their own poop because theyare shaped like a big Tootsie roll.

While the exhibits are open duringmall hours, Chumpol said teachershave already signed up to bring theirclasses in for field trips.

There are so many learningopportunities here, and its a lot offun as well, said Chumpol.

Kids will want to keep on com-ing back to try all the exhibits, andthey will learn something new eachtime.

For more information, go to www.metropolisatmetrotown.com.

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Imagine balancing a tray of foodon your lap, while trying to pay thecashier in a cafeteria or spendingextra time getting to work while yousearch for an accessible entrance.

Those are just a couple examplesof things people in wheelchairs doevery day, and on May 12, politiciansin Ottawa had a chance to see whatlife was like in a wheelchair.

Local MP Peter Julian participatedin the event to help highlight disabil-ity issues.

It was far more difficult than Iexpected, and it opened my eyes thatwe really have to make Canada moreaccessible, he said.

Julian was joined by 25 otherpoliticians, mostly MPs and somesenators, who were responding toa call from the Canadian ParaplegicAssociation to spend their work dayin a wheelchair. The annual eventkicks off spinal cord injury awarenessmonth in May.

The idea is participants go abouttheir normal working day in a wheel-chair, having to make extra time tofind accessible entrances and wash-rooms. They are only allowed to leavetheir chairs while in the House ofCommons. There is only one wheel-chair-accessible floor space in theHouse of Commons chamber, and

thats for Conservative MP StevenFletcher, the only MP in a wheel-chair.

Several senators and MPs haveparticipated over the three years,since the annual event started.

I proudly support this veryimportant initiative, Julian said.More than 250,000 Canadians relyon wheelchairs to get around eachday. It is essential that able-bodiedpersons experience some of the chal-lenges Canadians with disabilitiesface and help raise awareness of theirneeds and abilities.

Julian noticed several difficultieswhile in the wheelchair. A two-min-ute bus ride became a 20-minute waitfor the only wheelchair-accessiblebus. He had to go around the backof the Parliament buildings to get insince the front entrance is not acces-sible.

He also noted how little thingslike light switch positions and howto open and close blinds became anissue.

Julian is also former executivedirector for the Western Institute forthe Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

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Wheeling to raise awareness

Photo contributed/burnaby now

Overcoming obstacles: MP Peter Julian, at right, was one of 25politicians who tried out life in wheelchairs as part of an awareness dayspearheaded by the Canadian Paraplegic Association. Some MPs andsenators spent their work day on May 12 in a wheelchair.

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Do we want representativegovernment? Yes. Do weget it? No.Burnaby city council now

consists of eight members allfrom the same party; theyreceived 51 per cent of the votesat the last election.The other 49 per centof the votes did notyield any representa-tives of those voters points ofview.

The previous election in 2005was mainly a contest betweentwo parties; the one that got themost votes got three councillors;the other party got fewer votesbut got five councillors.

It is clear that the city govern-ment we get is not representa-tive of the voters. These typesof results are characteristic ofthe block-voting system that weuse. On examining the results ofseveral Burnaby and Vancouverelections one finds that a partythat gets over 50 per cent of thevotes will probably get 100 percent of the council seats, and aparty that gets under 30 per centof the vote will probably getzero council seats.

The provincial govern-ment recently set up the LocalGovernment Elections TaskForce to look at several issuesassociated with governmentelections.

The task force received manymore submissions than it hadanticipated and has posted themon its website. On reading them

one finds there is an overwhelm-ing opposition to any form ofcorporate vote. The backgroundinformation provided by thetask force tells us it could findonly one place in the world inwhich a corporate vote exists,

and that is the tiny por-tion of central London,England, its financialcentre, that is known

as The City. Yet, many in ourbusiness community plead thatthey should not be taxed with-out representation. Read on andyou will find the solution belowthat should make most peoplehappy.

The task force did not havethe system of voting explic-itly mentioned in its mandate.Despite this, 10 of the 45 submis-sions from organized groups ofcitizens made recommendationsabout the voting system. Theclear message from them is thatthey want city councils to bemore representative. The recom-mendations included the use ofpreferential voting, wards andallowing each city or municipal-ity to choose its voting system.None of the submissions recom-mended keeping the presentblock voting system.

If we are to be able to havelocal governments that are trulyrepresentative of the voters thenit will be necessary to use someform of proportional representa-tion obtained using preferentialvoting.

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Newspaper Associations annual auditof Canadians access to government-heldinformation found that B.C. is at thebottom of the list where transparency isconcerned. In fact, it gave theprovince a D+.

All democracies are builton the basis of openness andtransparency, John Hinds, the presidentand CEO of the association, said whenreleasing the results.

We couldnt agree more.Of course, journalists have a vested

interest in wanting easy access to infor-mation. Its what readers want and oftenneed, and readers often do not have thetime or the knowledge to find it.

But we also like to think that thereis a more profound principleinvolved. Information is keyto making decisions. Whetheryoure voting or trying to find

out if your neighbourhood is safe, youneed information to make a good choice.

To be sure, governments are gun-shyabout revealing information for fear ofendangering someones privacy rights.

But those concerns do not excuse thevacuum-sealed approach to releasinginformation. Moreover, even if you canfind the information, you still often haveto pay for its compilation in amountsthat make it prohibitive to obtain. Thengovernment stalling tactics and appealsoften stretch the potential release ofinformation for months and months.

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decision does not mean that journalistswill not try to protect their sources, butit certainly means that those who wouldtry will face less legal support and thatwill send a chill through journalists andwhistleblowers. (For the editors view,go to Pat Tracys blog, From the editorsdesk, at www.burnabynow.com.)

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City must act on homelessnessDear Editor

Dear Editor: Re: Working to end homelessness(In My Opinion, Burnaby NOW,May 8)

Ms. Mulholland makes many excellent points inher column.

Perhaps the most important is that all levels ofgovernment including Burnaby must get morefully involved in addressing this issue.

Some of your readers object to spending civicfunds on the homeless, as the homeless are not for-mally a civic concern.

They ought to reflect on two points: (1) millionsof civic dollars are already spent each year on thehomeless and (2) Burnaby could reduce such spend-ing (potentially freeing tens of millions of local dol-

lars over a decade for other purposes) by makinga capital contribution to the proposed ProgressiveHousing shelter.

How are Burnaby dollars already spent on home-lessness?

It happens most times an RCMP officer attends acall for police service involving the homeless.

Absent a local properly equipped and staffedemergency shelter, most homeless persons accusedof misdemeanours like loitering on Burnaby streetsjust ride in a police car, sit in a cell for a few hours,and then go back to the street as they are not guiltyof real crimes.

If 15 per cent of Burnaby RCMP calls involvenon-criminal homeless people, then as much as$6 million (or 15 per cent) of the now $40 million

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As we saw above,presently a party with 50per cent of the vote usu-ally gets 100 per cent ofthe council. This is notfair representation. It isessential to have a varietyof voices on council withdifferent points of view sothat reasoned discussionsand decisions can takeplace. Even the occasionaleccentric is good to haveas such people can makepeople think more clearlyabout their values, andthey can be harbingers ofsignificant change in atti-tudes.

There is no questionthat the best system toobtain proportional rep-resentation is the singletransferable vote. It isthe choice of voters oncethey understand what itcan bring them. It is thechoice of academics whenthey reason that the vot-ers should get what theywant and vote for. WhatSTV does is to group equalnumbers of voters, not bygeography, but by theirinterests. If used properly,it also puts in the hands ofthe voters the choice as towhich candidates offeredby each of the parties areelected, and the ability toelect popular independentcandidates. Those who runthe political machines havea deep-rooted hatred ofSTV as it transfers powerfrom them to the voters.When it was introduced

in two dozen cities in theU.S.A. early in the lastcentury, it played a sig-nificant role in reducingcorruption in their admin-istration, and it resulted inimproved services at lesscost. The politicians man-aged to get it repealed inall these cities, except forCambridge, Massachusetts,which uses it to this day.

In 1917, the B.C. legisla-ture passed a bill that per-mitted any city or munici-pality to use proportionalrepresentation, and at leasteight, including Victoria,Vancouver and NewWestminster, adoptedSTV for their elections.As expected, it resulted inimproved representation.

In the three electionsin Vancouver in which itwas used, it resulted in theelection of one of the citysleading business men anda representative of orga-nized labour, which it hadnever had before.

STV in B.C. was got ridof by politicians when theyrealized its potential forgiving power to the vot-ers. In New Westminster,the city council rescindedSTV without any publicbody requesting this, yetthere were strong protestsafterwards. In Victoria,STV was adopted by plebi-scite but repealed after oneelection due to a campaignagainst it by a local news-paper which spread thefalse statement that ballotswere transferred to per-

sons for whom the voterhad not voted.

A number of other citiesin Western Canada haveused STV. The longestuses were in Calgary from1917 to 1971 and Winnipegfrom 1920 to 1970.

The Local GovernmentElections Task Force oughtto consider seriously ourvoting system as our pres-ent system is seriouslydefective. Half the votersmay have no one on coun-cil who represents theirpoint of view. A smallchange in the vote cancause a wholesale changein the council; in the caseof Burnaby if the otherparty vote were to gofrom 48 per cent to a littleover 50 per cent, they arelikely to take all the coun-cil seats. This is not goodfor either party or for thegovernance of the city.

The alert reader willnow realize that with aproportional representa-tion voting system one ormore representatives of thebusiness community canbe elected if the voters sowish. This is as it shouldbe. The same applies toother community interests.

(The early historyis largely taken fromProportional Representation,by C.G. Hoag and G.Hallett, published byMacmillan in 1926, andincludes some quotationsand paraphrasing.)

David Huntley is aBurnaby resident.

Voting: Proportional system neededcontinued from page 6

annual RCMP allocation is ineffectivelyspent delivering police service to peoplewho really need social service.

This cumulative $60 million (over 10years) could buy more genuine felonyprevention efforts from the RCMP andenable local social workers to better helpthe homeless at the same time.

How might this happen?The plan starts with a $7.7-million capi-

tal contribution to Progressives proposedshelter, from the $400 million or so inBurnabys fiscal reserve (repaid at $1 mil-lion per year over 10 years discounted atfive per cent) to prod Victoria and Ottawainto offering matching funds.

A second $1 million per year could thenfund joint patrols by officers and socialworkers to secure and support the hostneighbourhood for the new facility.

(And the remaining $4 million can gointo other policing priorities!)

Now readers who seek full value fromlocal taxes (just raised, yet again, by 3.95per cent) should join me in pressing MayorCorrigan to offer Progressive Housing thiscapital contribution.

At one stroke he could deliver moreeffective police service, give Burnaby socialagencies a focal point for helping homelesspersons and finally demonstrate some fis-cal acumen and social progressiveness.

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John and Reza Jahanashahi have many reasonsto smile.After more than a decade selling hearing aids

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here and all of our service is done right on sitein our production laboratory, said Reza. Unlikeother hearing aids that are made out east, ourproducts are in stock and our staff is ready to helpyou right away. You can be tested and tted witha new hearing aid the same day.Now with three locations, Acoustica can provide

hearing aids and repair hearing aids for manycustomers in the Lower Mainland. We will testyour hearing, we will help select the best hearingaid for you and we will t your hearing aid, all inthe same day, said Reza.Reza said the advancements in hearing aids

mean small behind-the-ear units are almostinvisible. The new units t more naturally behindthe ear and most people dont even know theyare wearing a hearing aid, said Reza. The newunits dont plug the ears.Since opening its retail outlet in Burnaby in

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products, Acoustica has managed to dramaticallyreduce the costs of manufacturing and cut downwaiting time, allowing the savings to be passedon to the consumer. We make the shells andassemble the hearing aids right here, said John.We dont have to send things out East.When customers need repairs or service,

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outwards, he explained, so housing costsare high.

However, Burnaby is growing upinstead of out, he added, necessary whencreating higher density in a limited space,much like Vancouver.

As for the average income, Corrigansaid he is content with focusing on keep-ing Burnaby as affordable as possible forthe people who live here, adding that, ifit comes down to attracting people withmore money or protecting rental housing,Ill take protecting rental housing.

Residents ranked low when it came towalking or cycling to work, coming in at156, though Burnaby did relatively wellwhen it came to public transit use, ranking34th on the list.

The citys low crime rate was a definiteplus in the lifestyle section of the survey.

In that section, Burnaby ranked num-ber 10 for having a low crime rate, andnumber 7 for having a low violent crimerate.

It was number 4 of all 179 cities basedon the countrys crime severity index.

The low crime rate is especially goodfor attracting tourists to the city, Corrigansaid.

Burnaby also received extra points forhaving a college, university and hospitalin the city.

Despite ranking in the top half of cit-ies for how many doctors Burnaby has,at 75, the city ranked 129 for the num-ber of health professionals overall withinits boundaries. In the culture category,Burnaby came in at 35 on the list, whileNew Westminster ranked in at 15.

Vancouver ranked 29th overall on thelist but came in dead last at 179 in theaffordable housing category.

MoneySense released the results at theend of April.

Macleansmagazine named Burnaby thebest-run city in Canada in a 2009 surveybased on economic development, environ-mental health, culture and recreation.

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Two Burnaby residents are paving theway for the faster creation of anti-viraldrugs.

SFU chemist Andrew Bennet and PhDstudent Jeff Chan have developed a newtechnique that will help speed up thesearch for molecules that help stop influ-enza viruses from spreading.

Chan and Bennet were on a team offive, working on the research project. Theyused a specially equipped nuclear mag-netic resonance spectrometer to speedup the search for molecules that disruptthe chemical workings of an enzyme thathelps flu viruses to spread.

This is the first time people have usedthe spectrometer this way, Bennet said,adding he came up with the idea yearsago, but the technology wasnt availableat the time.

The researchers use the spectrometerto detect differences in the molecules

mass, which helps determine the molecu-lar vibrations. That helps them identifyhow the viruss enzyme reacts with eachtype of molecule.

Once you know that, you can design amolecule that interferes with the reaction,Bennet said.

Almost all drugs are molecules thatinteract with enzymes, which act as cata-lysts, helping viruses spread.

If the virus mutates, it takes only twoweeks to analyze its drug resistance andthen create more effective pharmaceuti-cals, a press release notes.

If you give a person a cocktail of twoor three anti-viral drugs, then the viruswould have to mutate two or three timesbefore it would be fully resistant, Bennetexplained.

The Western Economic DiversificationFund, the Canada Foundation forInnovation and the B.C. KnowledgeDevelopment Fund provided researchgrants for Chan and Bennet.

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Thursday afternoon rush hour trafficalong Boundary Road was snarled for sev-eral hours after a semi-truck going towardMarine Way lost its brakes and caused anaccident that involved at least six othervehicles.

The accident, which occurred around6 p.m., saw the southbound truck hit a14-foot trailer that was being towed byAbbotsford resident Tim Lee.

Lee told Global News that the trailer con-tained a collection of paintball guns andpellets that he was collecting for use withvarious childrens groups.

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said he was lucky that he was able to gethis car out of the way of the oncomingtruck, but the trailer he was pulling wasntso lucky.

And while the road was littered withbrightly coloured paintball pellets, theaccident only resulted in minor injuriesto two people also caught up in the chain-reaction accident.

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The British Columbia Institute ofTechnology has been named one of thetop 50 greenest employers in Canadafor 2010 by the Globe and Mails Reporton Business.

The Burnaby-based post-secondaryinstitution won the honour primarilybecause of its food-composting pro-gram, according to Report on Business.

(The) food composting programfirst established at the main campusin 1998 today has more than 170,000red wiggler worms working aroundthe clock to create compost to fertil-ize campus flowerbeds, the Reportstated.

We compost all of our food wasteon campus and mix it with shreddedpaper, said Jennie Moore, director ofsustainable development and environ-

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tion with the institutions food serviceprovider, Chartwells, she added.

There were some snags in theearly days of the composting pro-gram, Moore said, though she wasntwith the program when it started. Inone instance, compost was put outtoo early and tomato plants startedsprouting, Moore said.

Moore listed other sustainabilityinitiatives at BCIT, including facilitiesmanagements recycling stations; recy-cling of cans and bottles, funding fromwhich goes into the Student AssistanceFund; and programs that managewood use by the joinery woodwork-ing program and limit the use of urea-formaldehyde in BCIT programs.

The school is planning to expandthe compost program in the future,Moore said.

BCIT measured its ecological foot-print for the 2006/2007 fiscal year. Itwas 16,159 hectares, based on use ofenergy, water, food, waste, transporta-tion, land and buildings.

BCIT also has an environmentalstewardship and sustainability prac-tices committee whose goal it is totransform BCIT into living labs ofsustainability; a student-run eco-fair;an in-house energy management pro-gram; and an employee-driven GreenTeam, which generates sustainabil-ity awareness among employees andencourages them to get involved.

Another Burnaby-based company,the Certified General AccountantsAssociation of Canada, with a 138employees, was also on the list whichcame out on April 22 because ofenvironmentally friendly transporta-tion initiatives.

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Just in case Yvette Lu wasntalready busy enough with adual career as a doctor andfilmmaker, shes also adding play-wright to her resum.

Lu who has a part-time careeras a family doctor and also worksas an actor and filmmaker - wasfeatured in the May 8 BurnabyNOW for her short film thats air-ing as part of Shaw MulticulturalChannels annual FilmmakersShowcase.

On the Victoria Day weekend,shell also be seen as part of theFirehall Arts Centres B.C. BUDSspring art fair.

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Lu will be doing a partial read-ing of her play Stories from theCloset: a play about living with chron-ic illness. Shes performing in theSt. James Cathedral Hall, 303 EastCordova St., on Sunday, May 23 at3:30 p.m.

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Pianist on stageA Burnaby pianist is taking to

the stage in a fundraising concertthis weekend.

Eric Hominick is featured in arecital on Sunday, May 16 at 7 p.m.

The event is a fundraiser forthe Maple Ridge Music Societyand the Ridge Meadows HospitalFoundation..

It features duets and arias fromworks by Hayden, Mozart, Verdi,Puccini, Wagner, Schumann,Rachmaninov and more.

Madeleine and Ionut Pascu,leading soloists at the BucharestNational Opera House, willperform, along with SylviaSzadovszki.

Its at the Maple Ridge MusicSociety Hall, 23575 124th Ave.

Tickets are $30. Call 604-467-3162.

Singing in HarmonyMusic lovers should also note a

Poetry and prose will be celebrated andshared at the next event in the Spoken Inkreading series.

The next Burnaby Writers Society gath-ering is set for Tuesday, May 18 at LaFontana Caffe, 101-3701 Hastings St.

Featured at this months reading will beMarni Norwich and Don Simpson.

Norwich is the author of Wildflowers atmy doorstep (Karma Press, 2008), winnerof the 2009 Independent Publisher BookAward for poetry.

She presents her work at events through-

out Vancouver and has performed with thedance and musical ensemble Bad Poetry.She works as a writer and editor with herbusiness, Inkcat Media.

Simpson is retired from a working back-ground in mechanical engineering andmetal fabrication.

His prose consists mostly of gallant,but often doomed, attempts at humour,he says in a press release. His verse tendstowards the more traditional poetic forms but then, he adds, with a backgroundlike that, what can you expect?

This months open-mike session has nospecific theme, so all types of presentationsare welcome.

Once again, Browns Books (across thestreet from La Fontana, at 3740 Hastings) isoffering a 20 per cent discount to all SpokenInk attendees between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Sign-up time for the open mike readingsis 7:30 p.m., and the featured guests willbegin reading at 8 p.m.

For more information, check out www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com or e-mail [email protected].

Modern dance intertwines with spokenwords, video and theatre in a performanceat Shadbolt Centre for the Arts this week-end.

Continuum Dance Company, theShadbolt Centres modern dance commu-nity company for adults, is presenting aperformance called Here and Now tonight(Saturday).

The performance includes works bycompany dancers and accomplished dance

professionals Heather Kirkland and DonnaRedlick.

Theyve worked with dramaturge RuthMcIntosh and artistic directorSalome Diaz on the production.

As a press release says,Here and Now asks the audi-ence, where are we in our life?Which moments in our life havedefined our journey? What kindsof events have influenced theway we live our lives, relate toothers and make sense of it all?Working with the elements ofdance and theatre, the dancers are intro-duced to the integration of movement and

text. Continuum Dance Company works to

provide dancers with a chance to continuetraining and performing in a non-competitive environment, whileexposing dancers and audiencesto the art of modern dance.

Tickets for the show are $8.The show is set for Saturday,

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For the love of singing

Sharing in song: The B.C. Boys Choir entertains an audience at Montecito School during a recent performance in Burnaby. Thechoir holds a series of Just Sing It school shows, presented by its international touring choir, to introduce schools to the choir andto keep the love of singing alive in schools. See more about the choir at www.bcboyschoir.org.

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Sunday afternoon choralconcert on their calendars.

The Harmony womensvocal ensemble is present-ing its Voices n Timespring concert on May16 at 2 p.m. at ComoLake United Church, 535Marmont St. in Coquitlam.

The concert features aneclectic program of music folk, pop, jazz, gospeland more all on thetheme of time.

The 13-member wom-ens ensemble draws mem-bers from around the area.

And yes, regular read-ers may remember that Iam indeed one of thosemembers. (Whats lifewithout a bit of shamelessself-promotion?)

My cohorts MeredithColman, Carolyn Haley,Linda Hodgson, JacquieHnat, Simone Josephson,Nancy Knaggs, LorieNaylor, Tami Piskorik,Sandra Pollard, EleathaReniers, Lorraine Rossand Alison Smith and Ihave been working withour dedicated accompa-nist, Ruben Federizon,on a program that shouldentertain people of allages.

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Kids fest setIts a kids world under

the tents at VancouversVanier Park and Burnabytalent is getting in on theaction.

The VancouverInternational ChildrensFestival runs from May17 to 24, with a week ofmusic, dance, storytell-ing, puppetry, theatre andmore, all aimed at youngaudiences.

Among the headlin-ing performers will bethe National Acrobats

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Burnabys own JouTou a cultural fusion actthat merges the soundsof Quebec, Ireland, Chinaand South America willbe part of the fun onWednesday, May 19.

Theyll be on the CoastCapital Bandshell stagefrom 11:45 a.m. to 12:30p.m. that day.

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