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Council approved funding for seven elementary schools from the community school program. Edmonds, Gilmore, Lochdale, Maywood, Second Street, Stride Avenue and Stoney Creek community schools received an equal share of $399,597.

A Burnaby group opposed to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion plan is hosting a meeting tomorrow night to update the public on the latest expansion developments, including routing options for Burnaby.

Council approved $924,000 in funds for eight parks, recreation and cultural services projects. Central Park will receive $250,000 for improvements including upgrading the perimeter trails, surveying for an asphalt trail and widening some corridors.

A Burnaby crossing guard was overwhelmed by an act of kindness from a stranger this morning.

Frances Cooper is "27-and-a-half" years old, she says, and she's in love with her first job.

Wissam Nassar hasn't seen his fiancé, Marwa, in two years. He left her behind in Syria, after a former Burnaby pastor and his wife sponsored the Nassars as refugees.

Sigurdson was former president of the longshore foreman union and Burnaby's parks commissioner

A student group at Simon Fraser University has joined a national campaign that's pushing campuses to divest endowments from tar sands and other fossil fuel companies.

Her field is called forensic taphonomy, the study and interpretation of the changes that occur to human remains from the point of death to discovery at crime scenes, and Sgt.

Despite the underwhelming response received from council during Monday's delegation, the Burnaby Arts Council is still moving forward in hopes of making a new state-of-the-art facility a reality.