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Emergency crews were at Burnaby Lake Monday after an early-morning park visitor came upon an empty canoe and a pair of oars floating in the water. The vessel was spotted near the footbridge behind the Bill Copeland Sports Centre shortly after 7 a.m.

The city has, however, been pushing for some budgeting leniency with the provincial government

Claims that a Chinese herbal remedy can prevent COVID-19 is “inappropriate and illegal,” said the national president of the Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Canada (CMAAC).

Since I posted a blog on Sunday about a condescending letter a Burnaby renter received from his landlord ( you can read it here ), my inbox is full of other terrible messages from unsympathetic landlords.

An earlier version of this story included a photo that showed a downtown residential tower. We apologize for the use of that photo. Its use was not meant to imply that people living in that building might be ignoring self-isolation orders.

Ian Mathieson spent Monday morning looking for snorkelling masks in China — though not because he wants to go swimming. Rather, he was riding to the rescue of front-line workers at risk of COVID-19.

The Victoria Tenant Action Group and Landlord B.C. are each calling for more government support as the COVID-19 crisis hammers many renters and property owners.

British Columbia researchers are going to be looking at people’s susceptibility to COVID-19, the transmission routes the virus takes and also searching for a vaccine. But they’re also researching the “infodemic” that’s accompanying the pandemic.

The Burnaby school district plans to have free school-hour services in place for the children of local essential service workers by as early as Wednesday.