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The Burnaby South Rebels won both the junior and juvenile boys' basketball titles at the Vancouver and District high school championships last week. The junior Rebels defeated New Westminster 48-42 in an all-district championship final.

Senior doctors at Burnaby Hospital say infection control is a major concern

Burnaby's two members of parliament say they are receiving calls from constituents about possible robocalls they received during the 2011 federal election.

Doctors raise red flags over ongoing infection problems, but health authority says problem is being tackled

Burnaby teachers will join their counterparts across the province Monday for a full-scale teacher's strike. Eighty-seven per cent of B.C. teachers voted yes to escalate the current job action. Of 32,209 ballots cast, 27,946 voted yes.

Burnaby-Edmonds MLA Raj Chouhan reintroduced an act to prevent workplace bullying today in the legislature. "Workplace bullying is a massive issue affecting workers in every sector of the province," said Chouhan, the NDP's labour critic.

Victoria Ronco, one-half of the pair that started Burnaby-based Divina Denuevo, is working on another fashionable project this spring.

Classical music lovers, take note. The Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra is offering up its spring concert at the Michael J. Fox Theatre on March 11. The 2 p.m.

Two Burnaby groups that help homeless people are getting a financial boost from the federal government.