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Smoked Out
Part One: Hookah lounges complain of harassment by Burnaby bylaw department Read the original two-part series in Burnaby Beacon. As the...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 715 min read
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Okanagan Incorrectional
Part 1: B.C.’s promising, new jail grinds into motion B.C.’s newest jail, though it came with promises of renewed inmate relations and a...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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Final Pin Falls
COVID closes Burnaby's last-standing 5-pin bowling alley The lanes went out quietly; the pandemic made sure of that. If you asked Keith...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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'Fishy' union office, housing proposal exposes rift in Burnaby council
A B.C. union’s proposal for its new Lower Mainland headquarters with an “affordable” housing component in Burnaby has exposed a sizable...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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Finding A Way Home
The Giver: A community builder in Abbotsford’s homeless community “My mind’s a bit like the clouds out there right now,” Harvey Clause...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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The budding biologist and the amateur investigator
Read the original story in the Burnaby Beacon. Juvenile fish float and flutter in a pocket of water a few feet deep, carved into a corner...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 79 min read
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CUPE 23 holding re-election for president ‘under duress’ after threats of action by national
Read the original story in the Burnaby Beacon . CUPE’s national president threatened to put the union representing City of Burnaby...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 73 min read
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11% of Burnaby food businesses got 'high' risk ratings in 2019 inspections
More than 11% of Burnaby food businesses received a “high” hazard rating during food safety inspections in 2019, including 31 with...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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Abbotsford school suspended 20 students for ‘fight club’
Robert Bateman Secondary School suspended 20 students in October over what two administrators described in emails as a “fight club with...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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Vigilante to volunteer: An Abbotsford woman’s change of heart on homelessness
When Peggy Allen first moved into her Gladys Avenue home in September 1989, it was a secluded location, the perfect spot to raise her two...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 72 min read
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Abbotsford School District management’s gender pay gap at 15%
For every dollar a man makes in management with the Abbotsford School District, a woman makes just over 86 cents, according to an...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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RCMP phone tracking continues despite privacy concerns
The RCMP in the Lower Mainland have continued to use a tool that allows investigators to track suspects based on the location of their...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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I biked all of New West and counted every local election sign I could find
Two Community First signs and one Progressives sign adorn the grass in front of a New Westminster home. / Dustin Godfrey, New West Anchor...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 74 min read
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Is Vancouver Dying? A definitely non-exhaustive review
Watch my video essay, Is Vancouver Dying? A definitely non-exhaustive review . The essay responds in a mere (lol) two hours to the...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 71 min read
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Who gets to decide what is accessible—and who does that leave behind?
This article originally appeared in the Burnaby Beacon. It can be found here . Disabilities advocates are decrying a move by the City of...
Dustin Godfrey
Jan 711 min read
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