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The 2012 season for the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra opens Sunday at Massey Theatre with a very special treat: an all-Beethoven concert.

WorkSafe B.C. levied 20 penalties against Burnaby companies in 2011, according to its annual enforcement report. That number jumps from 15 penalties in 2010. In 2009, there were 18 penalties levied and in 2008, only four.

Burnaby teachers are voting on their next move to escalate job action, following the provincial government's legislation to force an end to the ongoing labour dispute.

Local MLA Raj Chouhan is raising concerns about a Burnaby senior who was left in a hospital hallway for 11 days. "She was not treated with respect," Chouhan said.

Cicely Mary Brown would greet fellow volunteers with a kind word and a plate of cookies, according to Burnaby Village Museum conservator Elisabeth Czerwinski.

The RCMP's top cop in B.C. offered up his thoughts about the suspension of Burnaby RCMP Const. Susan Gastaldo, who faced dismissal after having a sexual relationship with her boss, Staff Sgt. Travis Pearson, in the spring of 2009.

Burnaby teachers are joining B.C.-wide protests today while the provincial government is drafting legislation to force an end to the ongoing labour dispute.

Almost three years after the murder of Ping Li, a man was convicted on Feb. 23 of first-degree murder in Li's 2009 death in an Burnaby apartment where she worked as a prostitute.

Three people were arrested this weekend after the Burnaby RCMP drug section took down a suspected clandestine synthetic drug lab in the 100 block of Ellesmere Avenue in North Burnaby.