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Thieves break into Burnaby business twice in 24 hours; steal $500K in equipment

Thieves break into Burnaby business twice in 24 hours; steal $500K in equipment

Burnaby RCMP have recovered more than $500,000 worth of specialized surveying equipment stolen during two break-ins at a North Burnaby business in November.
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Update: Missing person found

Update: Missing person found

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Christine Sinclair calls time on international career in emotional farewell game

Christine Sinclair calls time on international career in emotional farewell game

VANCOUVER — Christine Sinclair went out the way she wanted to. With a win. But there were also tears, a bumper crowd of 48,112, and a little Celine Dion on Tuesday.
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Man gets four years for shooting sex worker in the back at his Burnaby home

Man gets four years for shooting sex worker in the back at his Burnaby home

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Heather Holmes said Varinder Singh Deo's shooting of an escort he invited to his Boundary Road home when he was drunk and high on cocaine was "senseless, extremely reckless, selfish."
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Burnaby council calls on TransLink to stop outsourcing HandyDART bus service

Burnaby council calls on TransLink to stop outsourcing HandyDART bus service

Burnaby councillors want to see higher levels of government fund an expanded, electric fleet of buses for the bus service which helps people with disabilities.
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'Scary numbers': Burnaby councillors alarmed at $7M increase to community centre redevelopment

'Scary numbers': Burnaby councillors alarmed at $7M increase to community centre redevelopment

Councillors expressed surprise at the cost of redesigning the project at Confederation Park.
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Burnaby helps clothe, blanket nearly 22K people for winter

Burnaby helps clothe, blanket nearly 22K people for winter

Volunteers collected winter clothing items at five Burnaby real estate offices as part of the 29th annual Blanket Drive in Metro Vancouver.
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Video: These are Christine Sinclair's top 10 goals from her international career

Video: These are Christine Sinclair's top 10 goals from her international career

Canada Soccer searched through 190 goals to find what the organization believes are the Burnaby sports icon's finest.
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Column: Four mindsets for happier holidays

Column: Four mindsets for happier holidays

Human connections foster greater happiness, says Davidicus Wong, M.D., of PrimeCare Medical Centre in Burnaby.
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Mother-daughter doc spotlights Burnaby prof’s lifelong hockey passion

Mother-daughter doc spotlights Burnaby prof’s lifelong hockey passion

Filmmaker Jenny Lee-Gilmore and her mother, a 61-year-old SFU health sciences professor who still loves to play, take aim at stereotypes about hockey, women, age and ethnicity in the new documentary Overtime.
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