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Burnaby octogenarian overcomes absentee landlord with a monster tree

Burnaby octogenarian overcomes absentee landlord with a monster tree

You can’t really choose your neighbours. They are who they are – sometimes good, sometimes bad. But if you have an absentee landlord, it can make the whole neighbour thing really tough to deal with if there’s ever a problem.
This is how you report an abandoned vehicle in Burnaby

This is how you report an abandoned vehicle in Burnaby

I’m nosy. I admit it. I try to stay out of other people’s business, but I’m also a journalist so I’m always looking for a story.
Someone dumped an entire living room in front of a Burnaby Blockwatch sign. Real funny

Someone dumped an entire living room in front of a Burnaby Blockwatch sign. Real funny

I rage a lot about people dumping their crap all over our beautiful city. And for good reason. It’s a constant problem in Burnaby and I see examples of it all the time.
Letter: We still owe a debt to those who stormed the beaches at Normandy

Letter: We still owe a debt to those who stormed the beaches at Normandy

Editor: The 75 th anniversary of the D-Day Normandy invasion is this week. There is a tendency for people today to regard the invasion as more or less an automatic success. This is incorrect.
We all have a role to play in addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls

We all have a role to play in addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls

Thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women represent a genocide, says national inquiry
Trail in Burnaby hit with Nazi graffiti

Trail in Burnaby hit with Nazi graffiti

A disgusting, racist vandal has struck in Burnaby. A tweet by @xDVNx has photos showing swastikas spray painted along the Central Valley Greenway trail between North Road and Cariboo Road. “There is some fresh Nazi graffiti here,” read the tweet.
Letter: People offended by heavily armed Burnaby cops are too delicate

Letter: People offended by heavily armed Burnaby cops are too delicate

Editor: Re: Police were heavily armed at Hats Off Day.
Letter: Abortion is not the solution to the world's problems

Letter: Abortion is not the solution to the world's problems

Editor: Re: So, Sam Oosterhoff, you want to make abortion 'unthinkable'? Here's where to start , NOW Blogs, May 31 A very sad perspective indeed. Abortion is not the solution to the world's problems. There are many problems, yes.
Letter: I've had it with the crazy racket of motorcycles

Letter: I've had it with the crazy racket of motorcycles

Editor: Why do we put up with motorcycles and cars that have been purposely modified to be loud? We have all been disturbed by them, yet we do nothing about them.
The BC NDP won the spring session. And it wasn't even close

The BC NDP won the spring session. And it wasn't even close

The spring legislative session ended in acrimony, but its conclusion bore little relation to the events of the past four months.