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Burnaby and new westminster battled each other — and the rain — saturday in their under-12 girls field lacrosse match Saturday. See Page A19
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Little did Paul Steeves know the V.P. Twin pocket camera his mother gifted him when he was five years old would embark him on a lifetime of adventure and photography. His first photo of a neighbour’s kitten has become tens of thousands of negatives, slides and digital files of birds and animals from the Amazon rainforest to the steppes of Machu Picchu to the plains of Kenya to the craggy rocks of the Galapagos Islands. But the bulk of Steeves’ photos
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Despite suggestions by some that Burnaby Hospital should be moved to the corner of Willingdon Avenue and Canada Way, the province plans to sell the property, said Burnaby-Deer Lake NDP MLA Kathy Corrigan. She was commenting on the controversy and allegations of potential political interference in the Burnaby Hospital Community Consultation Committee’s report, resulting from the NDP’s release to media last week of emails between committee members and Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid. “My cynicism is fuelled by the fact the provincial government is now trying to sell that Willingdon property,” said Corrigan. It has been suggested by many, notably Burnaby council, that the aging hospital should be replaced with a new facility on the former youth detention centre site on Willingdon, to improve access and create synergies with nursing and other related programs at BCIT across the street. please see cANNot, A4