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If you’re serious about your new year’s resolution to be more physically active or eat healthier foods, you need to employ the best science and strategize — not fantasize, according to a University of Victoria researcher.

The City of Burnaby will likely increase residential property taxes by 2.5 to 2.7 per cent in 2019, Mayor Mike Hurley said. “Our property taxes will stay at a very reasonable level,” Hurley said.

The cedar basketry designs of the Tla’amin Nation, just north of Powell River on the Sunshine Coast, can now be shared with schoolchildren using an interactive, online application where they can re-create these beautiful geometric patterns.

A non-profit announced Thursday that it is removing all of its donation bins after the death of a man in West Vancouver on Dec. 30.

'It's just too close to me,' former firefighter and union president says

The City of Burnaby is considering sealing clothing donation bins following the Dec. 30 death of a man in such a bin in West Vancouver.

It wasn’t the most pleasant start to a trip to sunny Palm Springs for a plane-full of Vancouver International Airport travellers, as their WestJet aircraft collided with a catering truck on the tarmac Thursday morning.

Vancouver Coastal Health says it did nothing to contribute to the death of a 16-month-old boy at an unlicensed daycare, calling what happened a “tragic incident” in its response to a civil lawsuit launched by the boy’s parents.

Guo faces a second hearing to determine alleged conflict of interest and questionable statements to the regulator

The cost of replacing the wastewater treatment plant on Iona Island has been pegged at $1.9 billion and the process will be launched next week at the first community engagement meeting.