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What does Burnaby city council’s new motion mean?

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On August 26, the Burnaby mayor, councillors, and residents filed into city hall and found their seats, a regular biweekly occurrence. Soon after calling the meeting to order, mayor Mike Hurley turned the mic over to councillor Alison Gu to introduce a motion titled “Advocating for Canada’s Role: Peace for the Palestinian People.”  Gu called on the mayor to send a letter to the Canadian government “advocating for the establishment of a full two-way arms embargo to end both the export and import of all military goods between Canada and Israel, and for the transformation…

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