Local Business

You’ve heard the phrase, “Christmas comes early” when someone receives unexpected good news.

Burnaby’s fried chicken wars just got a little more crowded with the opening of a new restaurant two weeks ago. We have Church’s Chicken and Hi Five with multiple Burnaby outlets (do we count KFC in this conversation?).

Look, I get it – we all love a long, leisurely meal once in a while in which the conversation flows into the night. But now is not the time to do that.

Burnaby’s Vitacore Industries Inc. has become the first Canadian company to receive Health Canada authorization to produce N95-equivalent respirators on home soil.

Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley joined Adera Development at Adera’s Eastlake Campus to celebrate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification at the high-tech commercial campus.

As the new wave of COVID-19 cases rolls through Burnaby and the rest of Metro Vancouver, the situation is getting more desperate for local businesses trying to stay afloat.

If the Canadian Motion Picture Park was a fisherman, you could say it landed a whale. The South Burnaby film studio has signed a mega-deal with entertainment behemoth Netflix, in which the company will lease 178,000 square feet of space from CMPP.

Vancouver tech company was facing backlash from employees for signing a deal with controversial American law enforcement agency

Continuing conflict between the U.K.-based owners of the Lush Cosmetics brand and their Vancouver-based partner, Mark Wolverton, has prompted the retailer to ask the BC Supreme Court to step in and settle the dispute.

If you want to learn more about people’s behaviour as the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved – or disintegrated – then follow retail sales. How people are spending their money in Burnaby offers a glimpse into people’s reaction to the pandemic.