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A cluster of women stands outside the Fit City for Women gym at 4664 Lougheed Hwy., reading the notices pasted on the windows. The large room is empty and dark, with mirrors at the far end reflecting the world outside.

Burnaby's "godfather of punk" is after a provincial NDP seat in neighbouring Coquitlam.

When my kids were young, I would make them play the Appreciation Game. Sitting around the dinner table, we would take turns telling each of the other members of the family what we liked about them.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, once 10,000 strong, claim the Burrard Inlet and surrounding areas as their traditional territory.

Muslims from around the Lower Mainland gathered at the Burnaby mosque last Sunday to celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, which marks the end of Ramadan, a holy month of fasting.

A new bocce area at Confederation Park was made possible through a $15,000 donation from the Burnaby-based G&F Financial Group. The courts were completed in time for the B.C. Seniors Games bocce competition held this week.

A concert slated for Deer Lake Park on Aug. 31 has been moved to a new venue, organizers announced Thursday. Gotye, with guests Chairlift and Jonti, will now perform at the Orpheum theatre in Vancouver, according to a press release from Live Nation.

Condo owners moving into Bosa developments can soon plug into a whole new transportation trend, as well.

Business at Bridge Studios will be booming just a little bit more once it adds two more sound stages. The studio's rezoning application for the sound stage expansion passed third reading at the Burnaby council meeting on July 30.

The City of Burnaby has received a Portal of the Year Award from the Americas' SAP Users' Group for the second year in a row. The city won the award for Burnaby's Systems Applications and Products software - also known as SAP - in April of this year.