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Snow hit the Tri-Cities and the rest of the Lower Mainland early Thursday, blanketing the region in soft, white flakes. Above, a fishertakes a break on the pier at Lafarge Lake in Coquitlams Town Centre Park. Below, a pedestrian strolls past an appropriately decoratedwindow at Glen Drive and the High Street in Coquitlam. The snow as expected to be washed away by rain and higher temperatures.

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By Gary McKennaTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

A new cell tower beingproposed next to CoquitlamRiver elementary in PortCoquitlam has some par-ents concerned that theirchildrens health could be injeopardy.

If approved by the city ofPoCo, the tower would be lo-cated approximately 120 mfrom the school, well withinthe 305 m buffer area calledfor by School District 43 policy.

Alison Goulding, chairof the Coquitlam River el-ementary school parent ad-visory council, said the cityand Rogers Communicationshould find another place toput the tower.

It is not somethingwe want to see next to ourschool, she said. I find ithard to believe that with allof the developments goingon that they cant find a bet-ter site.

Bond blinks, agreesto more talks on TransLink funding

By Jeff NagelBLACK PRESS

Transportation MinisterShirley Bond has relentedand agreed to wait until thenew year to find a range ofnew financing mechanismsto fund TransLink and ensurethe Evergreen Line gets built.

The move means MetroVancouver mayors wontvote as planned Dec. 9 on theTransLink boards proposalthat they authorize raisingproperty taxes at least $36per average household tofund the $1.4-billion rapidtransit line to Coquitlam.

Lower Mainland citieshad been told they had to ap-prove some method by theend of this year to delivertheir $400-million share ofthe Evergreen Line costsas well as phase one of theNorth Fraser PerimeterRoad or federal contribu-tions expire.

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Make the MCC case

By Todd CoyneTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

Port Moody citycouncil has failed tomake a business casefor why TransLinks h o u l d b u i l d t h eM u r r a y - C l a r k eConnector, TransLinkCEO Ian Jarvis toldcity council Tuesday.

And that left manycouncillors and MayorJoe Trasolini asking:What about the busi-ness of our multi-mil-lion-dollar contracts?

Jarvis appearedbefore council to an-swer questions aboutEvergreen Line fund-ing and the removalof the Murray-ClarkeC o n n e c t o r f r o mTransLinks 2011 sup-plemental budget.

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Metro will tunnel under Fraser River to ensure water flows

By Jeff NagelBLACK PRESS

At an estimated cost of $230 million, MetroVancouvers latest megaproject will requirea big outlay of taxpayers dollars eventhough its basically a glorified water pipe topump Coquitlam water to Surrey taps.

Construction begins next year on the PortMann Water Supply Tunnel, which will re-place the existing water main across theFraser River that delivers much of the drink-ing water for Surrey, Delta and Langley andis at a significant risk of failing.

Its a lot of money but its a high priorityfor us, said Frank Huber, Metro Vancouversdivision manager of engineering supportand technical services.

A tunnel boring machine will act like amechanical mole to grind a kilometre-longtunnel 30 m below the riverbed, just down-stream of the Port Mann Bridge.

The completed tunnel will link up to two60-metre-deep shafts on either side of theriver and ensure water from the Coquitlamreservoir continues to flow out of taps inthe rapidly growing South-of-Fraser area.The project will take three to four years tocomplete.

When finished, the new tunnel will morethan double the capacity of the existingmain, which was laid in a trench at the bot-tom of the river in 1974 and covered in rip-rap.

Engineers discovered it wasnt adequatelyarmoured in 1997 when raging Fraser flood-waters dislodged a section and knocked itout of service. Severe water restrictions en-sued in the Surrey area until a quick-fix

repair could be made.River erosion isnt the only threat to the

water line.It would certainly fail in a moderate

earthquake and maybe even in a minor one,Huber said. After a major earthquake, wewant to be able to provide a certain amountof water to the communities throughout theregion. This is a critical crossing to do thatjob.

Why didnt Metro ask the transportationministry to build the water line into the newPort Mann Bridge? That was examined butruled out, Huber said, because the bridgewont be as quake-proof as the under-the-river tunnel.

If the existing main failed before the newone is finished in 2014, it would be a chal-lenge, Huber said, but Metro could drawwater across the Fraser through two smallermains to meet basic water needs in theSurrey area.

All the regions taxpayers will share in thecost of the new line under the Fraser, as theywill with the $800-million Seymour-CapilanoFiltration Plant. The drinking water filter-ing plant is finished but the twin tunnelsconnecting the North Shore reservoirs areway behind schedule and the cause for alarge cost overrun.

Huber is confident the Port Mann watertunnel wont run into the same problems.

Unlike the North Shore tunnels, whereunstable rock prompted crews to walk offthe job, the-tunnel boring machine will chewthrough saturated river soil and put in placebraced tunnel sections as it goes.

Only two of four original companies chas-ing the contract submitted bids and Metrohopes to award the job by the end of the year.

The filtration plant and the Port Mannwater tunnel are part of the reason Metrowater rates will rise dramatically in theyears ahead.

Average Metro water bills jump 12% to$213 per household next year one step in aseries of such increases.

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Lifetime of physical challenges cant keep a Coquitlam piano teacher from helping herstudents and her community

By Janis WarrenTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

If Kyung-Hee Choi were to play thepiano at a benefit concert shes hostingSaturday, the piece she would chooseis Rhapsody No. 1 in B-minor Opus 79 byJohannes Brahms. The Coquitlam musicteacher loves the German composers heavychords and sad melodies. His Romanticpieces, she says, remind her of her life.

But she wont be playing at the recital.She cant.The rheumatism shes suffered for 15

years has gnarled her hands so badly thatshe can only show her students basic tech-nique now. In September, she had surgery inher right hand and plans to have an opera-tion in her wrist next year.

Her disability is compounded by a con-stant ache in her stomach. In her early 20s,Choi, 51, developed ulcerative colitis, a formof inflammatory bowel disorder that hassent her to the hospital many times and hasended her life-long dream of becoming auniversity professor of music and a concertpianist.

The surgeries and medicines have madeher bones weak and her joints sore. Winter isespecially cruel, she says.

Disease is no stranger. When she was eightmonths old, Choi contracted poliomyelitis,which caused a partial paralysis of her leftleg. When it is cold, her limp legs go stiff andcold, too.

She barely sleeps, she says, and binds hertoes at night to counter the pain in her legs.

And she is frank when she talks about herdisabilities and the prejudice she encoun-tered as a child growing up in her native

Korea where, she says, people with disabili-ties are not as accepted as in North America.

She found out the hard way. While study-ing English as a second language and for hermasters degree in music at the University ofNorth Texas in the 1990s, Choi said she wastreated the same as anyone else. But whenher sickness endured and she was forced toreturn to Korea, she said she was back tobeing treated like a second-class citizen.

Choi found refuge in Coquitlam, whereher eldest sister and her family lives. During

a visit in 1996, she took private swimminglessons at the City Centre Aquatic Complex.Being in the pool, she was told by her doctorin Korea, would help her with movementin her legs. A month later, she could swim alength and back.

Choi decided to make Coquitlam her homeand eventually became a landed immigrant.She volunteered in a kindergarten classto improve her English skills and took onpiano students all from Korean-Canadianfamilies.

But again, Choi said she ran into the samebarriers as at home: Her students parentswere apprehensive about their childrenbeing taught by a disabled person. At onepoint, she recalls, a mother advised Choi notto get a wheelchair as it would bring atten-tion to her disability.

Still, she pursued teaching piano and theresults paid off. Her students won competi-tions and scholarships, she said, adding onestudent is now at UBC studying for her mas-ters in piano.

She describes her 16 students as my life.They are my medicine. I have energy,

she said. I can teach like Im very, veryhealthy but, after, I lie on the bed.

With tears in her eyes, she added, I have24 hours of serious pain. But I have a verystrong spirit... I have many things to bethankful for. I work hard and I have got stu-dents who always help me.

Last year, Choi registered her non-profitorganization, Helpful Hands of Classic PianoSociety, with the province and held a concertat Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam toraise money for BC Childrens Hospital andfor disabled people in Korea.

Tomorrow, the society made up of Choiand her students is hosting its second an-nual recital at the same venue, for the samecauses. The event is sponsored by Tom LeeMusic in Coquitlam and will be attended bythe Korean Consul General, said HyesungHelen Han, a staff writer for the VancouverKorean Press who featured Choi in the Nov.s20 edition of her newspaper.

Luckily for Choi, a student has chosen toperform some Brahms.

The Helpful Hands of Classic PianoSociety concert is Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. at TerryFox Theatre, 1260 Riverwood Gate, PortCoquitlam. Admission is by donation. Choihas further plans for her students: She wantsto take them on tour next year, including astop in Korea in May, with the aim of bring-ing disability challenges to the forefront.

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Kyung-Hee Choi, in front of her Yamaha grand one of five pianos in the music teachers Coquitlam home. For the second year, she and her students are hosting a benefit concert with the Helpful Hands of Classic Piano Society. The recital takes place Saturday at Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam.

Metro Vancouver illustrations from plans for a pipe that will carry water from the Coquitlam reservoir to Surrey, running under the Fraser River.

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Clarke Road and Pinetree Way are slated for improvements as part of Evergreen Line development

By Janis WarrenTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

The two Coquitlam streets where the EvergreenLine will be built will be revamped to soften thevisual impact of rapid transit, a city official saidthis week.

Maurice Gravelle, Coquitlams general managerof strategic initiatives, said Tuesday city staff aredeveloping a Great Streets program for ClarkeRoad in Burquitlam and Pinetree Way in TownCentre to prepare for the rapid transit line.

Some of the proposed work includes wider side-walks with stamped concrete, landscaping in me-dians and boulevards, decorative street lightingand furniture, and on-street parking. As well, therewould be safety components, especially around thetransit stations. Gravelleis expected to lay out theoptions to city councilearly next year.

We want to softenthe visual impacts [forcommuters, cyclists andpedestrians], he said,because you have thismajor guideway thatscoming down the roadcorridors. You look atway of how you can vi-sually mitigate thoseimpacts.

The Great Streetsconcept is common inNorth America as cit-ies redevelop. Richmondbeautified some of itsarterial roads as the Canada Line was built. In theUnited States, municipalities that have reclaimedtheir main thoroughfares (and are highlighted ongreatstreets.org) include Vancouver and Ellensburgin Washington; Troutdale, Lake Oswego, Sisters,Hood River and Independence in Oregon; and CedarCity, Utah.

Gravelle said no budget is allocated yet for theCoquitlam Great Streets program; however, its likelythe city will be using several funding sources, in-cluding development cost charges, casino revenues,TransLink and the province, under the Major RoadNetwork.

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Clarke Road in Burquitlam (below) and Pinetree Way in Coquitlam Town Centre (above) will be revamped as part of the Great Streets project when the Evergreen Line is built.

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Coquitlam MayorRichard Stewart saidword came Thursdaymorning that Bond who had previouslyhinted Victoria wouldforce a solution if themayors voted down thefunding has agreed towait and consider otheroptions. That means ev-erything from road pric-ing to a vehicle levy orother mechanisms notcurrently available toTransLink could soon beon the table.

The province hasagreed to speak with usin the next three monthsabout a range of othertools to fund the ongo-ing transportation needsof the region, Stewartsaid. It provides breath-ing room.

The issue was also tobe debated Friday by theMetro board, where asenior staff report rec-ommended mayors rejectthe tax-hike plan.

Most mayors had al-ready staked out a firmstance against increasingproperty taxes further forTransLink expansion.It was going to be enor-mously challenging fora yes vote to pass, Stewart

said, add-ing a novote couldhave beenseen bythe prov-ince asthe may-ors break-

ing their commitmentthree years earlier.

Stewart said hes re-lieved the region andprovince wont be forcedinto a confrontation.

It isnt good publicpolicy to be making de-cisions because of artifi-cial deadlines, he said.Time and dialogue willhold the possibility ofmuch better solutionsthat show better respect.

Stewart said he hopesTransLink gets accessto half a dozen or morenew revenue sources. Hisfavourite is a site-specificdevelopment cost chargethat would put a goodportion of the cost ofnew rapid transit linesonto property ownerswho stand to profit in de-fined benefiting areas.

TransLink had con-templated a vehicle levythat would have chargedthe owner of every reg-istered vehicle $15 to $55a year, depending on itscarbon footprint, but

concluded there wasntenough time to properlyconsider and implementthe idea.

TransLink had alsotabled a second optionfor mayors to consider, abroader set of bus serviceand SkyTrain stationupgrades in addition tothe Evergreen Line andperimeter road. It wouldhave meant committingto a bigger tax hike of $61a year for a typical home($8.91 per $100,000 of as-sessed value.)

Mayors had been toldthe property tax hike,if approved, might notneed to go ahead if othersources could be foundnext year. But severalmayors said they wereunwilling to trust thatthe province would de-

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Changes for trashin 2011

Port Moody resi-dents will have to beespecially certain torecycle those holidayboxes and wrappingpaper because, start-ing in January 2011,the city will cut itsgarbage collection byhalf.

At Tuesdays citycouncil meeting,councillors votedunanimously to adopta bi-weekly garbagepick-up schedule overits current weeklyservice.

Kitchen and yardwaste will now bepicked up weeklystarting in Januarywhile recycling willremain bi-weekly.

Responding to acomplaint about theschedule chang efrom a Port Moodyresident, city man-ager Gaetan Royersaid the city weighedthe inconvenience ofthe reduced servicefor residents with theenvironmental ben-efit of reduced citywaste and decidedthat the environmen-tal benefits shouldtake precedent.

The new garbagepick-up calendar isavailable from cityof-portmoody.com.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, located at 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC to receive representations from all persons who deem it in their interest to address Council regarding the following proposed bylaws.

The City Clerks Of ce will compile a Speakers List for the Public Hearing

items please register by telephone at 604-927-3010 or by facsimile at 604-927-3015. Everyone will be permitted to speak at the Public Hearing but those who have registered in advance will be given rst opportunity.

Immediately following the adjournment of the Public Hearing Council will convene a Regular Council Meeting to give consideration to the items on the Public Hearing agenda.

Item #1 Reference No. 10 012393 RZ Bylaw No. 4165, 2010 Address: 3362 Mason Avenue

The intent of Bylaw No. 4165, 2010 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 and its amending Bylaws to rezone the subject property outlined in black on the map hereto and marked Schedule A to Bylaw No. 4165, 2010 from RS-2 One-Family Suburban Residential to RS-8 Large Village Single Family Residential.

If approved, the application would facilitate the creation of approximately eight single-family residential lots.

Item #2 Reference No. 10 013737 RZ Bylaw No. 4161, 2010 Address: 1415 Coast Meridian Road

The intent of Bylaw No. 4161, 2010 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 and its amending Bylaws to rezone the subject property outlined in black on the map hereto and marked Schedule A to Bylaw No. 4161, 2010 from RS-2 One-Family Suburban Residential to RS-8 Large Village Single Family Residential and RS-7 Small Village Single Family.

If approved, the application would facilitate the creation of approximately seven large village single family residential lots and one small village two-family lot.

Copies of the aforementioned bylaws and further particulars pertaining thereto may be inspected from Thursday, November 25, 2010 to Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at the Planning and Development Department, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays (phone: 604-927-3430).

Lauren Hewson,

Legislative and Administrative Services Manager

Item #3 Reference No. 10 014910 RZ Bylaw No. 4160, 2010 Addresses: 365 and 369 Mundy Street

The intent of Bylaw No. 4160, 2010 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 and its amending Bylaws to rezone the subject properties outlined in black on the map hereto and marked Schedule A to Bylaw No. 4160, 2010 from RS-1 One-Family Residential to RS-3 One-Family Residential.

If approved, the application would facilitate the subdivision of two single family lots into three single family lots.

Afew weeks ago, a friendtold me her son broughthome a form that neededto be filled out for Take YourChild to Work Day. Brilliant!she said. Itll be good for myson to appreciate the reasons formy long hours, as well as the ridiculous payand pension I get for doing the job I love.

Take Your Child to Work Day? This wasgoing to be a lesson like no other because myfriends son was going to work with her athome.

Fourteen years ago, my friend quit her jobto stay home with her baby. Having done thecost/benefit analysis of what she would ac-tually take home after paying child care andtransportation costs, the 11 hours her babywould spend in daycare, plus the commut-ing time she would face after a busy day, sheknew her type B personality would crack.

Besides, she told me, if anyones goingto spend the day giving my kid their issues,its going to be me.

Keeping her teenage son home for theday would be about so much more than justrunning errands, doing housework or cook-ing dinner. It would be about not raising thekind of person who ignorantly believed thatstay-at-home moms (and dads) watch soapsall day or are lucky to stay home.

Let me be the first to clear up this littlelucky rumour, she said. If I hear onemore person call me lucky for staying homewith my kids, Im going to insist that weswitch bank accounts or that they adopt my12-year-old minivan.

In fact, in a recent study, it was reportedthat women who stay home are likely to loseup to a million dollars of potential income.

You cant compare children to that, shesaid, because whether you work full-timeor you stay home, what and how you investin your child will be the blank cheque youwrite to society.

So why then is it that stay-at-home parentsstill dont get the appreciation they deserveor are all but ignored at cocktail partieswhen they come out about what they do?Well, with all due respect to Gloria Steinemand what she did for the womens movement,she clearly didnt inspire supportive rela-tions in the sisterhood when she called thosewho chose to marry and stay home with thekids parasites on society whodid useless work.

Useless? The moms I knewgrowing up kept the communityrunning, not to mention theneighbourhood kids disciplined,nurtured and sometimes fedwhile some of their parentsworked. They also assisted teachers, ranfundraisers, drove kids to school on rainydays, chaperoned field trips, provided daycarefor a sick working parents child or set upsports day, all while running their own homes.

And thats not all, according to legalzoom.com. Stay-at-home moms come up with some

pretty savvy business ideas while they foldlaundry and crank out at least 424 new enter-prises every day: the Baby Einstein Videos,the One Minute Manicure, Mothers WorkInc. (a maternity wear empire), Jean ParesCompanys Coming Cookbooks, Mrs. FieldsCookies or a couple of book series you mayhave heard of: Twilight andt Harry Potter.

With the smell of dinner cooking in thebackground, laundry doneand errands run, the nurtur-ers who I knew who had de-ferred achievement outsideof the home until their kidswere older went on to becomerealtors, speakers, authors,business owners and teachers

years of keeping house, makingsandwiches, stretching the family budget or

having hot chocolate and an ear waiting forweary kids after school.

Useless? I hardly think so.Tara McIntosh is a Port Moody

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The shelterQ WHAT WE THINK:

Coquitlam isnt the first community to considera shelter to provide a roof, support services anda way out for people living on the margins, andit certainly wont be the last.

Langley, for example, has been home to such a facil-ity for a year even though its homeless population isnot as large as that of the Tri-Cities.

As with the shelter proposed for 3030 Gordon Ave.,the $14-million Langley shelter, profiled in a storyin Wednesdays Tri-City News, was a partnershipbetween the city of Langley and senior governments.Residents there were concerned about crime andflocked to a public hearing but the project went ahead.

Now, a year later, the Gateway of Hope offers meals,shelter, job training and a place for people to keeptheir pets and store their belongings. Crime did notmaterialize the way it was expected and residentsseem to have come to terms with the shelter.

Perhaps the city of Coquitlam and its residents canlearn from the Langley experience.

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FACE TO FACE: Human rights tribunals should they stay or should they go?

TERRY ONEILL MARY WOO SIMSYou dont have to look into themurky realm of science fic-tion to find a fantasy parallelworld existing alongside the real-life world. Indeed, you only have tolook into the domain of Canadianhuman-rights tribunals to find aprime example of a bizarre alter-nate realty existing alongside themore rational, real legal system.

And thats why I oppose a newB.C.-led initiative to supposedlystrengthen federal human-rightslaw.

Allow me to explain. Underexisting human-rights law at boththe federal and provincial levels,tribunals are fundamentally unjust.For starters, complainants get alltheir legal fees paid for while thosecharged with human-rights offencesare left to fend for themselves.

Even worse, if youre chargedwith uttering discriminatoryspeech, for example, truth is no de-fence. That is, you may have madea completely factual claim about agroup of people but if a member ofthat group happens to take offenceto your statement of fact, you canbe found guilty. And the complain-ant doesnt even have to prove thatany harm took place as a result ofyour assertion.

Operating in such a fundamen-tally unjust framework, its not onlycounterproductive but also unfair

to all Canadians to seek to broadenthe list of the groups supposedlyprotected by federal human rightslaw. Nevertheless, NDP MP BillSiksay of Burnaby, with the recentsupport of his left-wing cheeringsection on Vancouver city coun-cil, wants to amend the countrysHuman Rights Act to protect peoplefrom discrimination on the groundsof gender identity or gender ex-pression, terms which are disturb-ingly undefined.

If Siksay were truly concernedabout advancing the cause of jus-tice, he would follow the exampleset recently by the government ofSaskatchewan, which announced itintends to abolish its human-rightstribunal and start sending cases toreal courts instead.

He might also have consultedwith legal experts here in B.C.,where the government has recentlyaccepted a report recommend-ing that all employment-orientedhuman-rights cases be adjudicatedby a new workplace tribunal, notthe existing human-rights tribunal.Such a new, super tribunal wouldundoubtedly embrace more rigour-ous labour-law standards of justice.

Siksay and my colleague oppositeboth consider themselves progres-sives. But their continuing supportof the existing human-rights sys-tem is nothing but regressive.

Change the system,dont eliminate it

Whats your take on this weeks Face to Face topic and what ONeill and Sims have to say? Email your thoughts to [email protected].

Send rights fights to the court system

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In B.C.... the govern-ment has recently accepted a report rec-ommending that all employment-oriented human-rights cases be adjudicated by a new workplace tribunal. Terry ONeill

vs.Moving hearings fromtribunals to the courts would be a mistake as it would burden an over-burdened legal system.Mary Woo Sims

Last week, the city ofVancouver passed a unani-mous resolution to supportNDP MP Bill Siksays private mem-bers Bill C-389. This bill, if passedby the House of Commons, wouldadd gender identity or gender ex-pression to the prohibited groundsof discrimination in the CanadianHuman Rights Act (CHRA).

Far from supporting the amend-ment to the CHRA, my colleagueopposite wants major overhaulsand reforms or outright eliminationof human rights commissions andtribunals in Canada. He wants allhuman rights hearings that are cur-rently conducted before tribunals tobe moved into real courts.

Siksays private members bill islong overdue. My colleague oppositeopposes the bill because of the lackof clarity/definition on gender iden-tification. Human rights legislationin the Northwest Territories explic-itly protects against discriminationbecause of gender identity. TheNWT Human Rights Commissionwebsite defines gender identity asincluding transgendered personsand those who identify with or liveas a gender that is different fromtheir biological sex.

Furthermore, while B.C.sHuman Rights Code omits genderidentity or expression as grounds ofdiscrimination, case law established

well over 10 years ago already pro-vides for protection against discrim-ination under the ground of sex.Ontario case law is similar.

If my colleague opposite believesthat the issue is the lack of clarity/definition on gender identification,I suggest he look up the defini-tion at the Ontario Human RightsCommissions website.

This leads me to our next area ofdisagreement: the need for humanrights commissions and tribunals.Moving hearings from tribunalsto the courts would be a mistakeas it would burden an overbur-dened legal system. In addition,real courts have failed victims ofhuman rights abuses. These courtsjustified racial segregation. Thesecourts found that to discriminateagainst a woman because she ispregnant is not sex discrimination.

There is a legitimate public policyreason for the existence of humanrights commissions and tribunals,and that is why they were estab-lished in the first place. It is thesame reason we have a specializedlabour relations board and workerscompensation tribunal expertisein a specialized area of law.

Theres room for improving theway commissions and tribunalsoperate but eliminating them is, toresort to clich, like throwing thebaby out with the bath water.


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TransLink appearsto have lost all filesshowing the past busi-ness justification thatsupported the long-standing commitmentfor the Murray-ClarkeConnector through PortMoody.

The Murray-ClarkeConnector, initiallya p ro j e c t p l a n n e dby the Ministry ofTransportation andHighways as part ofthe Barnet/HastingsPeople Moving Projectin 1990, has been a trans-portation priority forTransLink since the pro-vincial government de-volved responsibility forMetro Vancouvers MajorRoads Network (MRN) toTransLink in 1999.

Where is it now?A c c o r d i n g t o

T r a n s L i n k s C E O,there are no files in thetransportation author-itys possession thatoutline a business planfor the Murray Clarke-Connector. How can thisbe? As recently as May14, 2009, TransLinksown press release statedthe following:

TransLink allocated$64.7 million for majorroad capital projectsincluding the RobertsBank Rail Corridor inthe South of Fraser,the Coast MeridianO ve r p a s s i n Po r tCoquitlam, the Murray-C l a rk e C o n n e c t o rin Port Moody andt h e N o r t h F r a s e rPerimeter Road in NewWestminster.

We now see thatTransLink has removedthe Mur ray-Clarke

Connector from all dis-cussions concerningits 2011 supplementalplans. Its also appar-ent that TransLinkand the provincialgovernment have heldminimal, if any, discus-sions to align/collabo-rate on a plan to buildthe Mur ray-ClarkeConnector at the sametime as the EvergreenLine.

Just as concer n-ing is the fact thatthe Evergreen Lineproject has developedall its drawings andspecifications for westPort Moody based ona prospective routefor the Murray-ClarkeConnector a MajorRoads Network prioritythat is now not even inTransLinks plans.

If there is no Murray-

Clarke Connector, isthere a better optionin the current designand planning for thefuture location of anEvergreen Line stationin West Port Moody?

Residents and busi-nesses of Port Moodyand the rest of the Tri-Cities deserve a betterexplanation on reasonswhy the Murray-ClarkeConnector is no longera TransLink priority. Inaddition, area residentsand businesses also needa better explanation onwhy two transportationauthorities funded bytaxpayer dollars havenot been able to align/collaborate on a jointbuild of the EvergreenLine and Murray-ClarkeConnector.Robert Simons,Port Moody

Dog tiredThe Editor,

I have read over thepast several months let-ters to the editor in localnewspapers from peopleconcerned about dogsoff-leash in public areas.Heres what no one wantsto say: Get over it! Thedog owners have won.

Heres how I knowtheyve won:

I walk the ShorelineTrail in Port Moodyevery day. In October, Idid an informal surveyand a full 80% of dogswere not on-leash.

I have never seen abylaw enforcement of-ficer anywhere near theShoreline Trail and Imcertain a call to PoMocity hall to enquire howmany tickets its bylaw of-ficers have handed out forfailing to restrain a dogin the past year would bea negligible number.

When the majority ofpeople ignore a law andour elected officials andcivil servants fail to en-force a law, there is nolaw. Heres what I havechosen to do:

First, I thank the smallminority of dog ownerswho have respect for oth-ers by keeping their dogon-leash and clean upafter it. I love dogs, itsmost dog owners I have aproblem with.

Second, as a result oftoo many close calls withaggressive dogs in publicspaces, I carry bear spraywith me when I walk theShoreline Trail. I wouldprefer not to use it but inthe absence of any mean-ingful response from thecity, the choice betweenmy familys safety and thecomfort of an off-leashdog is a very clear one.Bob Bradley,Port Moody


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Before a storm arrives, please check with others in yourneighbourhood to see if anyone with limited mobility issues may need help clearing their sidewalk.

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Coquitlams Board of Variance is an autonomous body with authority to vary requirements of the Zoning Bylaw within prescribed statutory limits. This authority is exclusive to the Board. Hearings follow the procedures prescribed in Part 26, Division 6 of the Local Government Act and the Citys Board of Variance Bylaw No. 4030, 2009. Appointments are for a three-year term, effective January 2011.

Coquitlam City Council is seeking quali ed applicants with preferred experience in adjudication, land use planning, law, architecture or engineering. Applicants should have the ability and time to attend approximately ten (10) meetings a year in the evening (7:00 p.m.) and should also be prepared to examine each site and relevant background materials prior to each meeting.

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Beginning next week, The Tri-CityNews will begin publishing a list of largeslocal Christmas light displays at homesthe Tri-Cities.

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The Tri-City News will print the detailssin most issues in December.

Take look at plans for Austin areaMeeting Monday to cover plans for Austin Heights

C o q u i t l a m r e s i -dents will get their firstglimpse of a documentoutlining the future ofthe Austin Heights neigh-bourhood at a committeemeeting next week.

The draft land useplan will be presentedat the committee meet-ing next Monday andthe city is encouragingthe public to see what isbeing proposed for theneighbourhood.

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The plan also looksat diversifying housingchoices for the area,meaning coach housesand laneway homescould be coming to theneighbourhood.

Mondays meetingwill not be the last timethe public gets an oppor-tunity to comment onthe plan. Open housespresenting the proposalare expected to be heldin the new year and thecity will look at waysof improving the plan

based on feedback fromresidents.

The public will get anopportunity to weighin on a document out-lining the future of theAustin Heights neigh-bourhood sometime inthe new year.

The plan will bepresented at the landuse committee meet-ing Monday, Nov. 29 at2 p.m. Those who can-not attend can watch onthe internet by going towww.coquitlam.ca andfollowing the links.

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An illustration from a proposal for the Austin Heights area of Coquitlam.

More than 30 peo-ple have signed up tospeak at Mondays pub-lic hearing on the pro-posed homeless shelterand transitional hous-ing project planned for3030 Gordon Ave. inCoquitlam.

City council is ex-pected to make a deci-sion after the hearingon rezoning the 2.3-acresite where the shelterand a commercial de-velopment are set tobe built (although pro-vincial funding is stillpending).

The proposed shel-ter has divided thecommunity, with someneighbours voicingconcern about an in-crease of crime and aloss of property valuesif the facility goes up;many are also urgingthe centre be located onthe Riverview Hospitalgrounds.

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h oweve r, s u g g e s thomelessness in theTri-Cities needs to beaddressed and pointto 3030 Gordon Ave.as being an ideal site,close to where manypeople in need live.

City staff s 79-pagereport detailing theplans is available on-line at www.coquitlam.ca.

To register as a del-egation for the Nov.29 meeting, call 604-927-3010 or fax 604-927-3015. Everyone at thehearing is allowed to

comment before coun-cil but those who reg-ister in advance will begiven first opportunity.

No one is going tobe intimidated to speakat this hearing, MayorRichard Stewart saidyesterday, referring toprevious hostile meet-ings about the shelter.We want to hear fromall sides.

The hearing takesplace at 7 p.m. incouncil chambers atCoquitlam city hall,3000 Guildford Way.

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Jarvis told PoMocouncil the Murray-C l a rk e C o n n e c t o rwasnt on TransLinksrecently released listof 14 transit projectsgetting funding nextyear because Por tMoody hadnt provedto TransLink that theproject should be a pri-ority.

Were committedto starting the pro-cess with Port Moodystaff to build the busi-ness case for Murray-Clarke Connector,Jarvis said, addingthat such a case is notin [TransLinks] filescurrently.

Mayor Trasolini shotback, saying, If youneed a business case,I dont know any bet-ter business case thana contract sealed withmillions and millionsof dollars.

That money is fund-ing the city had alreadyput up as its share ofthe TransLink expan-sion into the regionwith the understandingthat the Murray-ClarkeConnector was part ofthe Evergreen plan.

This is a huge back-ward step, Trasolinitold The Tri-City Newsafter Tuesdays meet-ing. We had the proj-ect approved, $50 mil-lion put in front of it,then all of a sudden itgets taken back.

Weve done ourgrowth, weve doubledour population, hesaid, and now thep r o m i s e d M u r r ay -Clarke project is beingreneged [email protected]

Tower falls within 305 m buffer setout by district

Last June, School District 43trustees voted in favour of a reso-lution that would oppose any celltower within 305 m of a school.

The decision was made afterRogers and the city of PortCoquitlam announced a proposalto build a facility on a vacantpatch of land at PoCos cemeteryon Oxford Street. After severalresidents came forward oppos-ing the 62 m antenna being lo-cated on the cemetery site, theproposed location was movedto Greenmount Park, closer toCoquitlam River elementary.

According to Rogers, the celltower would comply with allIndustry Canada regulations,limiting electromagnetic energyin the frequency range from 3kHz to 300 GHz. Exposure tothese levels, Industry Canadasaid, is considered safe for thepublic.

If the cell tower were to go for-

ward, the cityof PoCo wouldstand to make$25,000 annu-ally and $3,000for each addi-tional sublease,money thatwould be usedfor improv-ing the nearby

cemetery and other parks.Ron Myers, PoCos manager

of parks, said the city follows theIndustry Canada guidelines andsaid a lot of peoples fears of cellphone towers are not based onscience.

A lot of this boils down topeoples opinions, Myers said.We have chosen to recognize thefederal governments take on theissue.

Those words are little comfortfor parents like Goulding, wholives across the street from theschool. She said if the tower isbuilt, her children would be ex-

posed at school and at home.They are saying there is no

scientific studies saying it isharmful, she said. But on theother hand, there are is nothingout there saying it is safe.

SD43 chair Melissa Hyndestold The Tri-City News that noformal request for comment hascome before the board but, givenSD43s support of the 305 m buf-fer area for cell towers aroundschools, she believes it is likelythe district would oppose Rogersplans.

But it will be the city of PortCoquitlam that decides whetherto approve the tower, and it is ex-pected that once the consultationprocess is complete, a report willcome before council in the newyear.

Rogers public consultationprocess is expected to continueuntil Dec. 19. Those who wish toweigh in on the issue can [email protected].

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With unseasonablycold temperatures al-ready upon us, the needfor the Realtors CareBlanket Drive couldbe higher than at anypoint in the donationdrives 16-year history,according to its orga-nizers.

All Tri-Cities realtorsare taking part in thesoutheastern B.C.-wideclothing and blanketdrive, which collectsnew and gently useditems for the areashomeless and under-privileged.

From Nov. 29 to Dec.6, Tri-City residents areurged to donate blan-kets and winter cloth-ing to their local real-tors offices, from whichthey will be picked upand distributed to morethan 30 charities fromWhistler to Chilliwack.

Following on theheels of the most suc-cessful year in the char-itys history, organizershope to top 2009s recordof 4,350 bags of dona-tions, which helped anestimated 13,200 peoplestay warm through thewinter.

Our charities giveus wish lists, DeannaHor n, president ofthe Fraser Valley RealEstate Board, said in apress release Tuesday.People coming in fromthe streets are lookingfor warm winter coats,sleeping bags, hood-ies, toques and gloves.Community serviceclients are looking forblankets, bed sheetsand everyday cloth-ing for themselves andtheir children that theyotherwise just cant af-ford.

For more informa-tion, visit the RealEstate Board of GreaterVancouver website atwww.rebgv.org or www.realtorscare.ca/bc.htm.

Be prepared for a cold winterBy Todd CoyneTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

A cold, snowy fall has officiallyarrived in the Tri-Cities and thecity of Port Coquitlam is warn-ing the public that, while civiccrews are prepared to handle theworst of it, they cant do it alone.

The city took the unusual stepof issuing a press release thisweek warning the public to stock-pile food and ensure prescrip-tions for any needed medicinesare filled in case city crews aredelayed in removing snow andice from hazardous roadways.

The city is also reminding resi-dents to purchase snow shovelsand salt to clear their sidewalks in fact, its the law.

All residential and businessoccupants in Port Coquitlam arerequired to clear sidewalks nextto their property of snow and iceas soon as possible after a snow-fall, or by 10 a.m, the releaseread.

Residents are also asked toclear snow from nearby fire hy-drants and not to park cars on thestreet as it hinders snow removalby city crews.

Port Coquitlam boasts one ofB.C.s first automated road sen-sor systems, which includes in-pavement temperature and mois-ture sensors that alert city staffto trouble spots and changingconditions on municipal streets.

The city uses a prioritizedranking of roads when clear-ing snow and ice, giving highestpriority to main routes, arte-rial roads, steep hills and schoolzones, followed by non-arterialbus routes and collector roads.Last on the priorities list are res-idential streets in subdivisionsand industrial side streets.

Tri-Cities drivers are encour-aged to have winter tires installedon their vehicles, something theInsurance Corporation of B.C.agreed is a good idea.

If you get in a crash wherewinter tires could have helped,it may be a deciding factor indetermining whether or howmuch you are at fault, ICBCspokesperson Adam Grossmansaid in a press release. TheMinistry of Transportation andInfrastructure can also designatethat winter tires are required oncertain roads and highways. Thistypically happens during the falland winter months in northernB.C. and the southern Interior.If you are driving on these roadswithout winter tires, police canticket you and make you turnback.


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