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Former councillor doubts such junkets have concrete value

It's described as "a joyous and happy show that makes you want to dance and tap your toes," and it's coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on April 13. The Denis Chang Manouche Quartet will be onstage at the Shadbolt at 8 p.m.

The Association of Consulting Engineers of B.C. has announced that the City of Burnaby and its consultant, Associated Engineering, have won an award of merit in the municipal category for its Burnaby Lake rejuvenation project.

Burnaby RCMP Staff-Sgt. Major John Buis is one of seven new inductees into the Basketball B.C. Hall of Fame.

Burnaby Coun. Nick Volkow has had enough of RCMP management in Ottawa and the new 20-year policing contract the Province of B.C. recently signed.

Vancouver resident Evelyn Florendo is receiving a Governor General of Canada award for her decades of work organizing Christmas dinners for teens in Burnaby's youth prison. "Of course, I'm excited," said the 76-year-old.

One-time Burnaby resident Kaja Pluta wants to return to B.C. when she graduates from medical school in 2014, but she fears as a foreign-trained doctor she'll be jobless.

Red wigglers are uniquely suited to composting waste

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan called for community and business support for a new hospital in his annual State of the City address today.

The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association has launched another postcard campaign, calling for the deportation of former KGB member Mikhail Lennikov. "It's a wake-up notice," said Lubomyr Luciuk, the association's director of research.