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A new child-care centre, Seeds and Roots Montessori, has been proposed for the Bainbridge Avenue area of Burnaby. The facility, with space for 53 children, is planned for 2830 Bainbridge Ave.

The Norampac containerboard mill in Burnaby is shutting down by Dec. 1, according to a press release from parent company Cascades Inc. The closure means 100 workers will lose their jobs.

Burnaby agriculture research company Diacarbon Energy Inc. won the B.C. Bioenergy network prize at the British Columbia Innovation Council's New Ventures Competition.

The amount of building permits provided by the city neared 2008 levels in August, but the amount of money collected for those permits did not. There were 192 building permits dispensed this August, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,219.

He's now received four endorsements from NDP backbenchers, but Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian said he's still 10 days away from deciding if he'll throw his hat into the NDP leadership ring.

Nine Burnaby addresses are among the places listed as sites of recent marijuana grow operations and drug labs dismantled by the RCMP. The addresses are part of a new RCMP and Government of Canada national strategy to combat grow ops.

The trial in China of Ang Li, accused of killing his former girlfriend Amanda Zhao in Burnaby in 2002, has wrapped up in China.

Arry Dhillon, a fourth-year Simon Fraser Business student, won't be around to see a gondola if TransLink ever does send one up the mountain.