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Schools will be open on Monday, but with teachers set to escalate to a full-scale strike, the Burnaby school district is asking parents to find someplace else for their kids.

Local MPs' offices are investigating 'robocall' claims

Simon Fraser University will be going to its first Great Northwest conference women's basketball championships this week.

As cases of whooping cough pop up throughout the Fraser Health region, medical authorities here are now expanding their adult vaccination recommendations beyond the original outbreak zone in Hope and Chilliwack.

Pioneer Cup soccer finals will be played all day Saturday at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West.

Eighty-seven per cent of B.C. teachers voted in favour of new job action

After her professor pans her doctoral thesis on Shakespeare, a student finds herself transported into the Bard's world, where she inadvertently sends his stories in hilarious new directions - and finds her true self along the way.

Taking flight: Tim Townley practises with his paragliding wing on the fields outside Bonsor Recreation Complex. He was taking advantage of a recent windy day to learn how to catch the air for powered paragliding.

Here's a fundraiser with a twist - or a toss, I should say. A group of BCIT jiu-jitsu students are tossing folks around to raise money for the Kids Help Phone this Saturday at Brentwood Town Centre.