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Douglas College

Wrap Up

By Matthew Steinbach, News Editor

DSU calls for nominations

The Douglas Students’ Union has announced
that it will be holding its general elections
for the next year next week and nomination
forms can be picked up today at their main
offices at both campuses. Students must

fill out nomination forms in order to run

and they have to be signed by at least ten
students.

All positions are open to be run for. The
board of directors is in charge of running
the day-to-day operations of the Student’s
Union.

A-Sexy Pan-Sexy day comes to David Lam
On March 24", the Douglas College Pride
Collective is heading over to the David

Lam Atrium to promote A-Sexy Pan-Sexy
day. They will be handing out information,
pamphlets and buttons as well as to be there
to answer any questions that David Lam
students might have for the Collective.

Imperfect begins showing this week
Douglas students will have another chance
to see a Douglas play, as the highly touted
Imperfect will begin showing in the Laura C.
Muir Theatre on March 20".

The play was put together Douglas
College’s performing arts program and is
about the Woodlands School, a now-closed
mental institution in New Westminster, and
highlights the abuses and — issues that
happened at ~ facility.

CSRW to have sports day

The Centre for Sport, Recreation, and
Wellness is going to have a sports day

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Canadian campuses to become bottle-free zones

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out the sale of bottled water on
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The meeting, which took place March 7" in
Victoria, saw the passing of an anti-bottle resolution.

The resolution does not have any legal power, but does
establish a way of thinking that encourages eco-friendly
initiatives.

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities numbers
more than 1,775 members and already twenty-seven
municipalities in six provinces have eradicated the sale of
bottled water on their property, and twenty-one Canadian
universities and colleges have done the same, creating
bottle-free zones on campuses.

The sale of bottled water creates a significant amount
of monetary waste by Canadians as Canada proudly
boasts some of the best drinking water in the world,
available free for every citizen. Although many perceive
a danger in drinking from drinking regular water, the
quality of water in Canada is equal with, if not higher
than, the standards followed by bottled water companies.

Awareness campaigns about the benefits of drinking
from the tap are also being planned at the discretion of
each city which chooses to participate. Notably, the cities

 
  

of Toronto and London, Ontario proposed the resolution.
The two cities have emphatically backed the movement,
urging their citizens to decrease the consumption of
bottled water both in and outside of municipal facilities.
Though the bottles are recyclable, more than half of
all bottled water containers will eventually wind up in
a local landfill, the cause of unnecessary environmental
detriment as the manufacture, transportation and disposal
of bottled water containers uses up a major sum of
energy and resources, and creates massive air pollution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proposed prison source of conflict between
Burnaby Council and Provincial Government

By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter

he mayor of Burnaby and Burnaby Council
are voicing their concerns over the proposed
establishment of a 360-bed pre-trial centre at
Willingdon and Canada Way near BCIT.

The provincial government announced last August
its decision to construct the facility, an act “that will
effectively poison the well” said Burnaby Mayor Derek
Corrigan. The mayor and Council cite the project as
contradictory to their vision of Burnaby’s future.

The site has been the focus of two years planning
between BCIT and the BC Building Corporation for
the expansion of BCIT that would coordinate with the
Discovery Place Research Parks, located in the same
area. The land has also been talked about for possible
expansion of Burnaby General Hospital.

Both the mayor and Council of Burnaby stand
firmly united against the proposed prison and will
re-zone the area to remove the plan from action. The
provincial government then has the option, thanks to the
Significant Project Streamline Act, Bill 75, to override
the decisions of the city and continue construction.

Other cities will certainly be paying close attention
to the province’s reaction as the same dilemmas could
show up in their communities as easily as seen in this
situation, where they would be rendered incapable of
recourse against the government.

“This is a lesson to other municipalities” said
Mayor Corrigan. “The government are blatantly
bullying, they don’t care what the students or people of
Burnaby want and they never consulted with us.”

The business community of Burnaby is resolutely
opposed to the project, as a recent poll by the board of
trade shows 85% are not in favour of the prison.

The provincial courthouse in Burnaby was one of
many in the Lower Mainland closed some time ago in

cutbacks by the government, meaning inmates would
be transferred by vehicle from the remand center

to hearings in other cities, a process susceptible to
dangerous escape attempts into the general population.

The British Columbia provincial courthouse on 222
Main Street, Vancouver had an adjoining holding facility
until it was shut down as were numerous provincial
courthouses in BC. Mayor Corrigan, who is in his third
term of office, would like to see the facilities at Main St.
revamped, a plan he believes would be far more cost-
effective than the construction of a brand-new center,
and would eliminate the risk of break out attempts
during transport.

On March 24", the Mayor of Burnaby and Burnaby
council will be holding a public hearing for further
discussion of this matter at 7:30pm in the Burnaby
Central high school gymnasium. They expect to see
a strong public turn out from concerned community
members somewhere in the hundreds.

 

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan