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Burnaby hit-and-run driver might have to stay in jail after breaching house arrest. Marcel Genaille will find out Tuesday if he is going back on house arrest or staying in jail after breaching the conditions of a sentence for a 2019 hit-and-run that killed Surrey motorcyclist Mark Peters. Nov 8, 2024 6:33 PM Read more >.
3 people seriously injured after Burnaby Highway 1 crash
1 day ago · Police say two people were badly injured when they got out of their vehicles after a serious crash on Highway 1 in Burnaby Tuesday morning. Emergency crews were called to the freeway just east of the Kensington Avenue off ramp shortly after 3 a.m., according to B.C. Highway Patrol spokesperson Cpl. Michael McLaughlin.
Here's Burnaby's complete election results after final count …
Oct 29, 2024 · Final results for the 2024 provincial election have been released by Elections BC. Jennifer Gauthier for Burnaby NOW. The winners in Burnaby's five ridings all saw an increase in votes after Elections BC completed its final count on Monday, Oct. 28. After all the votes were tallied, Premier David Eby and the BC NDP appear to have won a slim ...
Highway 1 in Burnaby closed after early morning crash sends five …
1 day ago · THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck. BURNABY, B.C. — Mounties in Burnaby say westbound lanes of Highway 1 near the city have been shut after a multi-vehicle crash. They say just before 3 a.m., officers responded to reports of a five-car collision on the highway, just east of the Kensington Avenue off-ramp. Police say five people were transported ...
Province funnels $1.4M to Burnaby to support big housing changes
Jan 18, 2024 · Jennifer Gauthier. The province is doling out money to cities affected by sweeping new housing legislation, and Burnaby will get $1.36 million. It's part of $51 million in grants the province is giving to 188 communities to support them in the transition to the new housing rules. The provincial changes approved in November include allowing up ...
Burnaby residents invited to shape 25-year community plan
Apr 20, 2024 · Burnaby residents can share their thoughts on an early draft of the city’s most important community-planning document. Burnaby’s Official Community Plan (OCP), which will set the high-level policy direction for the next 25 years, is now in the drafting stage.. Burnaby expects to add 100,000 people and 50,000 jobs by 2050, and it has offered two growth scenarios which lay out different ...
Burnaby needs 40K new homes by 2041: housing needs report
Oct 15, 2024 · A new report shows Burnaby will need more than double the homes than it expected by 2031. The city’s new housing needs report estimates Burnaby needs 36,540 homes by 2031, 143% more than its previous estimate, to keep on track to build 74,051 homes by 2041. From 2021 to 2026, the city’s estimates have increased by 181% to 22,724 new homes ...
Top news stories of Burnaby development, real estate and housing
Jan 1, 2024 · Burnaby’s Housing Needs Report has a goal for the city to add 3,050 purpose-built rentals by 2025. Instead, hundreds of rental units have been lost since 2020, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. data. Vancouver city staff crunched the numbers on the change in purpose-built rental stock in the region between 2017 and 2022.
BC real estate: Burnaby reduces non-market rental requirements ...
Oct 12, 2024 · Reducing Burnaby’s rental requirements. Council voted to reduce the policy from 20% required non-market rentals to 15%, and changed the below-market rates: 10% of the units to be rented at 20% below the median and 5% at the median. (The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.’s median rent represents about a 40% discount on market rents ...