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Burnaby Municipal Greens announces another candidate

A Surrey farmer has joined the Burnaby Municipal Greens to run in the November civic election.

A Surrey farmer has joined the Burnaby Municipal Greens to run in the November civic election.

Matthew Stuart, a Burnaby resident who recently started Training Wheels Farm in Surrey, is passionate about food security, according to a press release from the party.

Stuart, who is also part of the Sur-Del Farmers Cooperative (a partnership of five farms in the Surrey and Delta area), moved to the Lower Mainland from Alberta, where he attended the University of Calgary.

The Green slate also includes Carrie McLaren, who was most recently the Green candidate for Burnaby-New Westminster in the 2011 federal election; Adrienne Merlo, who ran for the Green Party for Burnaby-Douglas in the federal election; Scott Janzen, who ran for the Green Party for Burnaby-New Westminster in the federal 2006 election; and Rick McGowan, a New West teacher and an organizer of the Burnaby Green Party.

The party is not running a candidate for mayor.

Civic elections are being held in British Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 19. In Burnaby, voters will elect one mayor, eight city councillors and seven school trustees.