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The B.C. legislature will soon be subject to freedom of information scrutiny, the NDP house leader said Tuesday in response to a letter from three watchdogs recommending urgent reforms to increase transparency in the wake of a spending scandal.

This one’s for those Burnaby residents who bundled up in their warmest gear and shivered their way to work this morning, bemoaning the fact that the backyard thermometer had dropped to a shocking -8C.

Initiative comes seven years after the B.C. government rejected Telus’s $40-million proposal

The Transit Police officer who was shot on Jan. 30 – leading to Metro Vancouver manhunt that ended in Burnaby early Sunday morning – has a message for Burnaby RCMP – thanks. A Transit Police news release says Const.

Some collaborations are just meant to be. Not long ago, Burnaby Mountain Secondary music teacher Deanna Gestrin got a call from an Indigenous hip hop artist living in New Westminster.

Hammers and nails are in the future of Don and Darlene Bucholtz. The two lottery winners want do major renovations of their home. When he checked his ticket, Don needed to slow down and recount the zeros to find out he won a life-changing prize.

The pig is the 12th of the 12 Zodiac animals, and myths tell some rather amusing stories about how the pig earned its place in the pecking order.

It’s Lunar New Year’s eve today (Monday) and a local fortune teller has this year’s fortunes for the 12 animal signs.

Authorities say that arrests have been made in the case of a Simon Fraser University professor found dead in Colombia. Colombian authorities found the body of Ramazan (Ramo) Gencay, 57, outside Medellin in December.