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Christmas can be a difficult time for some, but when you're living on the streets, it's particularly painful. "It's a very difficult time for people," says Wanda Mulholland, spokesperson for the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness.

Got talent? If singing is your thing, it's time to dust off the video camera and send in an audition tape for the third annual Variety's Got Talent contest, presented by Variety - The Children's Charity.

Operation Red Nose in Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities continues to be record-breaking with the number of volunteers helping out.

Burnaby birders are getting ready for the annual Christmas bird count this month. This year's census of winter birds is on Sunday, Dec. 16 in the Deer Lake and Burnaby Lake area.

Soon after their births, my first thoughts on holding each of my children: "Thank you for this precious life." It remains at the core of my thoughts, grounding and shaping my actions, as a father, a husband, a friend and a physician.

It's Boxing Day, 1887. Sherlock Holmes is at home and in the midst of solving another head-scratcher.

The City of Burnaby is considering increasing property taxes by 2.9 per cent in next year's financial plan. Burnaby council received the 2013 provisional plan at Monday night's meeting, which included the proposed rate increase.

It was week two of Operation Red Nose in Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities and the numbers continue to be record-breaking.

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Not all Christmas gifts come wrapped in paper and bundled in bows. Ten-year-old Burnaby girl Katarina Lewis is giving a different kind of present his holiday season - several inches of her long blonde locks for a sick child.