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Burnaby-Deer Lake MLA Kathy Corrigan does not want provinces footing the bill for the Tories' omnibus crime legislation.

Vancouver-based Glacier Media Inc. is buying the Burnaby NOW from Postmedia Network Inc. Postmedia announced a definitive agreement to sell daily newspapers the Times Colonist, Nanaimo Daily News and Alberni Valley Times and its B.C.

Local New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart wants more oversight on Kinder Morgan's possible plan to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs oil from Alberta to Burnaby. The company is holding an "open season" from Oct. 20 to Jan.

Original date conflicted with a TEAM Burnaby fundraising event

The incoming athletic director at Simon Fraser University says the school, which will become a full-fledged member of NCAA Division II next year, is a "sleeping giant" athletically.

The Anducci's Restaurant on Hastings Street at Stratford Avenue is closed after an early morning fire on Saturday that police are deeming suspicious. "We were called just after 3 a.m. on Oct. 22," said Burnaby RCMP Cpl. Brenda Gresiuk.

Burnaby politicians vying for a spot on council will have to wait to debate each other. The meeting scheduled for this Wednesday, Oct. 26, by Burnaby Community Connections has been postponed until Thursday, Nov. 9.

Dow Avenue property with troubled history may become site of new tower

He's got a golden ticket, and he plans to hold on to it. Charlie Sigvardsen has owned Charlie's Chocolate Factory in Burnaby for 40 years and says he has no plans to retire.

Confederation Park gets brand new rubberized track