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Breakfast options in Burnaby just shrunk even smaller with news of the closure of a beloved pancake house. The Metrotown-area location of the International House of Pancakes has closed as of Sunday.

For many, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wasp-nest piñata of misery, but Burnaby Grade 5 student Kiana Sosa probably wouldn’t have become a published author without it.

About 30% of Burnaby’s registered voters showed up to in-person voting opportunities and gave the BC NDP a comfortable lead in all four local ridings, according to preliminary data from Elections BC.

The City of Burnaby could hold its council byelection as late as May, even as more than a dozen other local governments have recently held or are planning byelections in the next few months.

Elections BC estimates that at least 52.4 per cent of registered voters voted in the 2020 Provincial General Election.

With the pandemic still gripping the country, the Royal Canadian Legion has partnered with HSBC Bank Canada to make it safe, secure, and easier than ever to donate and wear a poppy with touchless HSBC “Pay Tribute” tap-enabled donation boxes.

You’ve probably heard about contact tracing and how vital it is to helping stop the spread of COVID-19.

“To keep a boy out of hot water, put him on ice.” Those words can be found on an old notice about the Burnaby Lake Arena that’s been home to the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association.

Two recent arrests by the Burnaby RCMP are showing once again that many criminals are dumb and that the need for a good night’s sleep is important.