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Metro Vancouver Chinese restaurant officials gathered at a news conference in Richmond Friday, urging federal, provincial and municipal governments to provide embattled establishments with more support as patrons stay away en-masse .

Food trucks and family fun will be rolling into communities across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley this spring, thanks to the return of the popular Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival .

The call went out to Burnaby NOW readers recently as I followed up the City of Burnaby’s attempts to crack down on what I termed a “zombie house” that has been left to rot and die by its owner.

When I was growing up in North Burnaby, I couldn’t understand why some of the streets near my home were blocked to traffic. I lived near Broadway and Springer Avenue in the 1970s and ‘80s.

Hammers are still pounding and paint is still being applied as work continues on the new movie theatre in North Burnaby.

The expansion of the Amazing Brentwood shopping mall is moving tooooo slowly. That’s what I say every time I see something new added to the roster of food outlets coming to North Burnaby.

I must admit I didn’t really know much about shawarma until I heard about it from Iron Man. Yes, Tony Stark, at the end of Avengers jokes about going for shawarma after defeating an alien army.

‘Goon’ technology originated in Australia, embraced by Colorado brewery

The City of Burnaby is looking to hire a company for a major creek project in South Burnaby to stem erosion in the water system.

I don’t normally get emotional when reading news stories. Thirty years of reading about tragedies will do that to a person.