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If you want people to spend an extended period of time in your store shopping, you need to reopen your washroom facilities. Some businesses, such as a few Burnaby grocery stores, have shut down their washrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I know the eye test isn’t as reliable as hard data, but there is no hard data that I have seen about who is wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and so I’m reporting what I’ve seen with my own two eyes.

The RCMP is warning people to stay alert and aware of COVID-19 scams that are still lingering about as the province begins to re-open after the pandemic.

There’s more to the Burnaby Mountain viewpoint than just smelling the rose garden, tobogganing, or parking for a steamy-hot make-out session (wink). Some thrillseekers are using it as a launch pad for high-flying excitement.

As far as anniversaries go, this was one I was truly dreading. At the end of June 2019, Burnaby resident Charles Masala was killed by a driver while cycling up Gaglardi Way.

The protest was created in direct response to a staggering increase in overdose deaths in the province from an ever more toxic drug supply due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speed was not a factor, he says

A crosswalk located in the City of Burnaby is becoming “increasingly dangerous” and an area resident is frustrated over how to solve the problem.

Here we go again. Just months after the City of Burnaby shut down a Burnaby hookah lounge, another one just up the street is, uh, under fire for the sound of shots fired and a brawl outside.

Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley came to Canada in 1983 and built a career in firefighting before going into politics. That career has earned him a nomination for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards 2020,put him on a 75-person shortlist.