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Change in Fisheries Act removes habitat protection

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This issue, for our staff's Top 5 (Or More) Things To Do This Weekend, we have some fundraisers lined up. You can do your spring plant shopping or enjoy a burger, while supporting some great local causes. Here's our Top 5 for this weekend.

Canadian Blood Services held a donation clinic at Burnaby North Secondary on the Easter long weekend. Only 73 people showed up, which left them 21 short of their 94-donor target.

When Burnaby was incorporated as a municipality in 1892, there were an estimated 300 people living within its borders.

The fight against graffiti continues in Burnaby. The Burnaby RCMP is continuing to take a pro-active approach to fighting graffiti in the city. According to Const.

Travelling from Metrotown to the Heights is bound to get more and more difficult with traffic increasing from other suburbs, so the city is revisiting its transportation plan.

Burnaby RCMP are looking for a dark coloured SUV involved in a Monday night hit-and-run that left a cyclist in the hospital. According to the RCMP, a small SUV was travelling eastbound on Lougheed Highway near Sperling Avenue, shortly after 11 p.m.

Burnaby school board chair Larry Hayes has come out against the Fraser Institute's annual ranking of schools, calling the reports "drivel." "Once again, without any apparent concern for comprehensive research, the public of B.C.

Vancouver city council and parks board have both passed motions recently opposing the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, but Burnaby is taking a more cautious approach.