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Millions on the table for more SkyTrain cars, station upgrades

Burnaby is hosting a celebration for National Aboriginal Day for the first time ever. A coalition of local groups is organizing a day of dancing and drumming at Edmonds Community School, followed by a free community dinner in the evening.

A group of moms have shown a Burnaby teen there are still good people in the world. Early Monday morning, 12-year-old Keira Fix’s bike was stolen. Someone had cut the lock and taken it right from the family’s front door.

An impassioned speech on the global water crisis earned a Burnaby French immersion student a silver medal at a national public speaking contest.

There are some new faces at the Burnaby Board of Trade. At its 106th annual general meeting on Tuesday, BBOT welcomed its new chair and elected a new board of directors. Frank Bassett replaces previous board chair Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie.

If you were hoping to get your hands on some fireworks for Halloween in Burnaby this year, you will be out of luck. On Monday, council gave approval for amendments to its fire service bylaw that will ban the sale of fireworks in the municipality.

Burnaby Mounties are investigating several allegations of sexual assault at the Simon Fraser University campus.

The three men allegedly involved in the assault of a Good Samaritan on a Burnaby SkyTrain have been identified.

Burnaby has recorded its second homicide of the year. Police were called out to the 3900 block of Forest Street at sundown Monday evening after shots rang out on the residential street.

Burnaby RCMP are appealing to the public for help finding a missing resident. Marwin Baloloy, 28, was last seen on Tuesday, June 7 at his family home in Burnaby. He disappeared sometime between 11 and 11:30 p.m.