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Vancouver startup has developed blockchain technology to secure online voting

During the gold rush in B.C. some curious animals were brought here to carry the prospectors’ supplies: camels! Bactrian camels to be exact. The ones with two humps.

Historically, reports ICBC, four people are killed in car accidents Thanksgiving weekend

‘Homelessness is a complex issue causing deep and lasting impacts on the lives of too many people’

Does a rising tide lift all boats, or do some of those boats need a little help to keep them afloat? That’s essentially the question that was posed Thursday evening at a Burnaby forum on food security involving five candidates.

Got transit questions and don’t want to tweet TransLink? There is another way to get answers. Customers travelling through Commercial-Broadway Station will have access to transit advice and services, with the new SkyTrain Assistance Counter.

There will be new lane closures on Lougheed Highway in Burnaby, as crews return to finish work on FortisBC’s new line ahead of it going into operation.

The City of Burnaby has removed a poplar tree down at Deer Lake Park by the Hart House – with nine more slated to be removed soon from the bucolic location.

A forest Grove resident contacted the Burnaby NOW on Friday, forwarding a copy of a letter received from Trans Mountain about an application for amendment the company was making to the B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Drive commutes hit an all-time high According to the U.S. Census Bureau, which keeps track of this sort of thing, the average one-way commute for a driver in 2018 was 27.