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If the “big one” were to hit tomorrow, students and staff at Lakeview Elementary would be left without any supplies for the first 72 hours.

As world leaders get set to converge in Paris at the end of the month for a major climate change conference, a local business group is calling on the newly elected prime minister to support real targets.

An annual book sale at SFU’s Burnaby campus raised nearly $13,000 for the United Way last week. Tables of books lined a hallway off the academic quadragle from Tuesday to Thursday, and book lovers were helped by a team of about 50 volunteers.

The young family of a Burnaby school district custodian is faced with the double burden of grief and financial stress after his death in a cycling accident this month. Ronald Ordinario was struck and killed while cycling in Richmond on Nov. 5.

The National Energy Board has set the schedule for intervenors’ final arguments in the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion case, and the City of Burnaby is one of the first presenters.

Burnaby’s fight against Kinder Morgan and the Trans Mountain Pipeline is destined to go all the way to Canada’s top court.

It was an eventful few hours for local RCMP in North Burnaby Thursday night. Around 9 p.m. officers were called to the 200 block of Fell Avenue near Dundas Street after a car crashed into the side of a house.

The group involved in setting up a disc golf basket that happened to trap a bald eagle in Robert Burnaby Park has come forward to apologize for the incident.

She’s been a symbol of the Heights for more than a half century. Helen, the Swinging Girl, has grown to become the icon of the North Burnaby neighbourhood.

It will be at least another week before traffic is allowed to flow on Production Way following the repair of a sinkhole. City officials confirmed Thursday repairs to a sinkhole on Production Way between Broadway and East Lake will take another week.