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Into the fire: a special series

The fate of this year’s Burnaby school district summer school program is still up in the air despite a B.C. Teachers’ Federation announcement that teachers will picket summer school classes if they can’t reach a deal with the B.C.

Everyone remembers their first job, but maybe not how they got it. Now several young, tech-savvy entrepreneurs are changing the way teens and 20-somethings connect with businesses that need employees.

While Burnaby MLA Kathy Corrigan is condemning distracted driving in B.C., her husband, Mayor Derek Corrigan, is among the thousands of drivers who were ticketed in 2013 for not giving their undivided attention behind the wheel.

The Burnaby board of education has joined the chorus of voices calling on the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and B.C. Public School Employers’ Association to bring in a mediator to help end their labour dispute.

A 91-year-old veteran of the B.C. public school labour trenches gave striking Burnaby teachers a shot in the arm Monday.

Burnaby RCMP are searching for two suspects following a targeted shooting at Brentwood Town Centre.

Burnaby Lakers power play currently the best in the league, tallied four times on extra man in overtime win over Maple Ridge

Burnaby parents scrambling to move Grade 7 grad events away from schools shut down by the teachers’ strike are running into a shortage of alternate sites.

Burnaby city council recently denied grants for a wildlife rescue society, food exchange, youth exploitation prevention group and hospital transportation program because they “did not fall within council guidelines for awarding grants.