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Another weekend, another successful Operation Red Nose campaign in Burnaby. It's the first year of the program in Burnaby and the numbers keep on getting better. On Dec.

Burnaby residents will have to wait till the new year when Parliament reconvenes to find out the fate of their federal electoral boundaries. A boundaries commission has redrawn the riding maps to accommodate B.C.

The Burnaby RCMP is looking for whoever is responsible for vandalizing tires in Burnaby between Dec. 2 and 8, according to a press release.

Burnaby resident Maurizio Facchin is concerned about what he believes to be a lack of cleaning done at Burnaby Hospital and Royal Columbian Hospital after his mother allegedly contracted more than one infection at these facilities.

Supporting families: Liam, left, whose father who is home from Afghanistan for the holidays, shows off a new Christmas tree ornament unveiled at Brentwood Town Centre on Dec. 4, while Sears general manager Lisa Phelan looks on.

Coho salmon are now returning to spawn in Burnaby waterways, but their numbers aren't as strong as this season's chum return. "We have a total count of 54 coho, live and dead, so far this year.

The number of residential property sales of detached, attached and apartment properties reached 1,686 on the region's Multiple Listing Service in November, a 28.6 per cent decline compared to the 2,360 sales in November 2011 and a 12.

The city of Burnaby has reached a four-year collective agreement with its union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 23, according to a press release from CUPE B.C.

The Burnaby school board has a new leader at the helm. Baljinder Narang was elected chair at the last board meeting on Dec. 11, replacing Larry Hayes, who served as chair for the last two years.

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