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The grocery store landscape in Burnaby is about to add a new player to the game in an already competitive market.

It’s been four years in the making, but major plans for the Lougheed Town Centre area are now getting to the reality stage. On Monday, city council forwarded the Lougheed Town Centre Core Area Master Plan to a public hearing set for Feb. 23.

Edmonds Community School students grilled Vancouver Canucks rookie Ben Hutton about his career and personal life Monday. Asked if he was “in love with a girl,” the 22-year-old said yes – with his mother.

While hundreds rallied outside the NEB hearings in Burnaby this Saturday, police arrested three people staging an impromptu sit-in protesting lack of access to the pipeline hearing.

A suspect is in custody after two random knife attacks in the Metrotown area Saturday night. The first incident happened around 7 p.m. at Kingsway and McKay Avenue.

A lawsuit pitting the Tsleil-Waututh Nation against the National Energy Board, Trans Mountain and the federal government is being put on hold so the feds and First Nation can meet face to face for the first time on the matter.

1. Oral final arguments for intervenors continue till Jan. 29 in Burnaby, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A second set of hearings will take place in the NEB’s Calgary office Feb. 2 to 5. 2.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has failed to gain social licence from the provincial government, or any Lower Mainland municipality or First Nation, and the National Energy Board (NEB) – facing an overhaul from the federal government –

A business turf war between local chambers of commerce and the Vancouver Board of Trade could come to a head this Friday.