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Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian wants Canada to stop importing goods from sweatshops, but the bill he's proposing is in conflict with labour practices in our own backyard, according to a local SFU professor.

Athletics Canada announced today that Laurier Primeau of Burnaby has replaced Ozzie Sawicki as para-athletics head coach as the organization readies for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Bedazzled snowmen, neon reindeer, puffy Santas and all other manner of Christmas kitsch will be adorning the sweaters of Community Savings Credit Union employees this month. And it is all in the name if charity, as well as good fun.

If you are buying a live tree this Christmas, why not support a good cause while you're at it? Aunt Leah's Place turned to selling Christmas trees in the 1990s, when government funding was cut.

Parent groups from 14 Burnaby schools are getting refunds for money spent on playground equipment.

Burnaby's utility rates are increasing by six per cent next year due to infrastructure costs passed on by Metro Vancouver, according to the city.

There were no sad goodbyes prior to Monday night's council meeting after November's municipal election.

The integrated homicide investigation team has identified the body found in a Burnaby park last Friday as 20-year-old Burnaby resident Branson Kerick Rendell Sanders. IHIT released the name Wednesday morning after the B.C.

The integrated homicide investigation team has identified the body that turned up in Burnaby on Friday morning, but no further details are being released. Sgt.