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Burnaby’s school board slate for the November civic election promises to be another crowded one. The Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA) nominated a full complement of candidates at a nomination meeting Saturday.

60-year-old accused and 61-year-old victim were good friends

Workers from the City of Burnaby may soon clean up an abandoned foundry that mysteriously went up in flames earlier this year and has since become a popular dumping ground.

Warning: Some language in this story may offend some readers.

An increasing number of Burnaby secondary students are “vaping,” and it is sometimes happening right under teachers’ noses. Vaping is puffing on electronic cigarettes (also know as e-cigs, or vape pens), which release a steam-like vapour.

The Burnaby school board got an earful Tuesday from a delegation of local teachers fed up with conditions in the trenches of public education.

Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan is raising concerns that the National Energy Board could approve Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion plan without addressing the city's concerns around safety and emergency response capacity.

It wasn’t a good-news budget but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been either. That was the Burnaby Teachers’ Association’s word on the school district’s $253 million 2014-15 operating budget, passed by the board of education Tuesday.

Informed parents will understand the need for the limited strike launched by teachers this week even if it does affect them, say parents in the Burnaby school district.

But more homeless people are seeking help from outreach workers