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Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver has a new advertising campaign that aims to prove we all have time to be a kid’s mentor.

Weddings, funerals, gender reveal parties, workplace functions and Thanksgiving gatherings linked to surge in COVID-19 cases, could lead to new measures.

“They’re an angel and a devil all at once.” That’s what the owner of a medium-sized Burnaby restaurant told me a couple of weeks ago about the food delivery apps they were forced to team up with during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Burnaby pharmacist has been fined $5,000 and had her registration suspended after admitting to ethics violations she committed in 2016.

The City of Burnaby says its new tactics to expand rental options are working, with nearly 900 non-market units and just over 900 market units recently built or under construction.

Score one for road justice. Fresh off my column about the return of many ratrunners to Burnaby roads, I’ve received some responses from city residents sharing their tales of woe.

Embattled clothing retailer Le Chateau Inc. pulled the plug on its meeting of shareholders on the eve of the annual gathering.

While it’s possible to extrapolate seat counts and projections with the methodology used, pollster says it’s more like the 338 Canada project saying, “this is how we think the vote will land but it’s not an actual poll.”

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from studying analytics on our newspaper’s website, is that some people wait until the last minute to research who they will vote for in an election. And when I say last minute, I mean literally 2 p.m. on election.

Physical distancing, self-isolation and quarantine have been a difficult transition for most British Columbians but they have been particularly challenging for residents of Burnaby living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, their caregivers