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Opinion: Burnaby Mountain transit is terrible. We need a gondola

Opinion: Burnaby Mountain transit is terrible. We need a gondola

If you’re an SFU student, you know the feeling. You just got off the train at Production Way - University Station. You can see the 145 bus loading up with students ready to tackle their 8:30 classes.
Surrey Board of Trade hosts Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi

Surrey Board of Trade hosts Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi

The three-term mayor says underinvesting in cities comes with great peril; Canadians need to be better at understanding one another
Burnaby won't be seeing 12-storey wood-frame buildings anytime soon

Burnaby won't be seeing 12-storey wood-frame buildings anytime soon

Burnaby won’t be seeing 12-storey wood-frame buildings anytime in the next couple of years, with city staff expressing significant concerns with the province’s pilot program to double the height limits of wood construction.
$30M needed to help build new Burnaby Hospital

$30M needed to help build new Burnaby Hospital

Beedie family contributes $8 million to Phase One of hospital rebuild.
UPDATED: Pipeline protest blocking Granville Street Bridge

UPDATED: Pipeline protest blocking Granville Street Bridge

A protest has blocked the intersection of Granville and Drake in Downtown Vancouver following a protest that started Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Cambie and Broadway and lasted until early this morning.
She’s using her lottery cash to buy a wedding dress

She’s using her lottery cash to buy a wedding dress

We all know weddings can be expensive. Michele Zaharia no longer has to worry about paying for hers. She and fiancé Mark Langton said ‘Yes’ to the Extra — and each other — and won $500,000 playing Lotto Max.
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs ask federal court to halt pipeline

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs ask federal court to halt pipeline

Legal challenge argues Coastal GasLink pipeline violates Canada’s Paris Agreement commitments
Burnaby residents asked to help spot local bats

Burnaby residents asked to help spot local bats

Just 150 kilometres south of the B.C.-U.S. border is the white-nose syndrome, the fungal disease credited with the deaths of millions of bats. While the disease has yet to spread to B.C.
Students scrambling as Burnaby’s biggest ESL school shutting down

Students scrambling as Burnaby’s biggest ESL school shutting down

Hundreds of students and long-term teachers are being forced to look elsewhere for lessons and work as the city’s biggest ESL school is shutting down.
Burnaby filmmaker revisits a historic Haida moment

Burnaby filmmaker revisits a historic Haida moment

Christopher Auchter's short documentary Now is The Time chronicles the raising of the first totem pole in Masset in more than a century