Tuesday, April 18 edition: Burnaby Mountain, 40 million years ago

Good morning !

I’m no cook, but I’ve been known to dabble with making my own pasta sauces. My problem is that my Indian taste buds need everything I eat to be extremely spicy, and well… Italian food isn’t exactly that. I blasphemed a little the other day while trying to make a homemade carbonara spicy, and improvised what I’ll now be calling a Mexican-style pesto with serrano peppers, onions, olive oil, and a giant heap of basil. It was really good! Food purists, take note.

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👀 In today's edition:

• Burnaby Mountain, 40 million years ago

• Letter: Burnaby continues to ensure status quo of housing and affordability disaster

• ICYMI: The story behind Central Park's entrance gate

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HISTORY

Windows to the past: plant fossils give insight into ancient Burnaby climate

Burnaby Mountain towers in our city’s horizon; a constant, watchful presence and a natural monument to the ancient history of our region.

But what was there before the mountain?

A new paper out of SFU looks into the mysteries of what existed in Burnaby 40 million years ago, in the late Eocene period and long before humanity.

Burnaby Bulletin

➡️ 20-year-old Burnaby man in custody in connection with fatal Surrey bus stabbing of teen: 17-year-old Ethan Bespflug was stabbed on a bus in Surrey last week and died of his injuries. [Global News]

🚘️ Burnaby gets more electric vehicles: After several delays, the City of Burnaby finally has a contract to purchase 27 more electric vehicles (EVs). [Burnaby Now]

 🖌️ Community art mural added to skating/aquatic centre construction site: The community mural titled Transformations: Burnaby Lake Aquatic and Arena, surrounds the Burnaby Lake Aquatic and Arena construction site. [City of Burnaby]

➡️ Federal workers get ready to strike: The Public Service Alliance of Canada says around 155,000 employees are getting ready to walk off the job (including 35,000 CRA employees) if a deal isn’t reached with the federal government by 9pm EDT on Tuesday. [Canadian Press]

🚴 Bike The Blossoms returns on Saturday, Apr. 22! Ride under tunnels of blossoms in East Vancouver. Begins and ends at Trout Lake.*

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HOUSING

Letter to the editor: Burnaby continues to ensure status quo of housing and affordability disaster

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Burnaby staff, in a "Housing Choices" report to Burnaby's planning and development committee on Wednesday, confirmed that there is almost zero urgency or even recognition of how much of a disaster Burnaby's rental housing and affordability crisis is.

They plan for the housing crisis to continue as an ever-worsening disaster for at least another half decade before anything that could possibly start to make a large impact could even start to be built.

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