Terry O'Neill

After a long day of in-camera meetings, public committee meetings, public hearings, public meetings and then a full council meeting, one of ...

Today's Coquitlam Now carries a front-page story headlined, "Kwikwetlem opposed to vote plan." The story describes how both ...

I was busy over the weekend writing promotional material for the Coquitlam Foundation's annual Awards Night, which is being held May 29....

A great many individuals gave well-researched speeches at the shooting-ban bylaw public meeting last night. Some tugged at the heartstrings....

Last night, after some spirited and informative debate, council passed a motion asking staff to prepare a bylaw to “ban . . . the possess...

A briliant column in today's  Vancouver Sun prompted me to write the following to the piece's author, Fazil Mihlar: Brilliant op-...

I'm sorry that a long-planned trip to northern B.C., involving personal business, will prevent me from attending this Saturday's Tow...

The Richmond Review , where I worked for four years early in my career, is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. Reporter Matt Hoekstr...

After three years of study and discussion, City Council finally passed a bylaw banning the use of cosmetic pesticides in Coquitlam. I knew p...

The following is an expanded version of a speech I delivered at Council on Monday night in relation to the controversy over the removal of a...

My apologies for not being very active on this blog in recent weeks. There's definitely more action at my Facebook page , which I invite...

Posted yesterday on the Globe and Mail 's website, a most fascinating story , headlined: Healthy polar bear count confounds doomsayers I...

We've done a lot of work at the Coquitlam Foundation over the past several weeks on a major new initiative, so I thought I'd use my ...

The more experienced I become in civic politics, the more I come to understand that the job calls for balancing the minuscule and the gigant...

Terry O'Neill Returns!!! from RoadKill Radio on Vimeo . Here's my recent interview with Kari Simpson and Ron Gray, talking about m...

Take one part self-serving, subjective and emotional special-interest group, stir with an equal part of one-sided, unbalanced news coverage,...

Jon Strocel, the increasingly well-known and well-read guy behind the local news site, thev3h.com, has criticized the position I took the ot...

At yesterday’s public committee meeting, Council heard a lengthy presentation about the City’s draft Community Greenhouse Gas reduction stra...

Last Friday, Newgen Real Estate Development Inc. of Burnaby took out a half-page advertisement (reproduced above) in the Coquitlam Now prom...

A long-time council-watcher (who is often very critical of council actions) sent me a lengthy note the other day congratulating me for my ou...