Terry O'Neill

The blog title says "elect", but I've now retired from elected office and am volunteering with several non-profit charities.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Christy Clark's secret weapon

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Christy Clark: A woman's edge? (Photo by Terry O'Neill) It's taken until this long weekend for some of the best post-BC-elec...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

The truth about taxes

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Graphic from FraserInstitute.org It's only natural for people to "want to have it all." Looking at it from the viewpoint...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Coquitlam Happy with E-Town Hall Turnout

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The City has issued a news release about Saturday's successful E-Town Hall meeting,  Here's the full text, below: COQUITLAM, B...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

E-Town Hall Meeting on Saturday

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Staff at City Hall are in the final stages of preparing for this weekend's E-Town Hall meeting at City Hall, and have just issued a de...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Coffee, Tea, Milk Bone?

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I was especially interested when I noticed a few hours ago that Maclean's had  just published a big story on how Canada has quietly b...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Maximize freedom of expression

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Korean and English signs, North Road/Austin. This afternoon, my council colleagues and I received an email from a Coquitlam resident who...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Horne stands with Clark

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You might have seen a story in yesterday's Coquitlam Now , headlined with the declaration that BC Liberal MLA Doug Horne was refusing ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Celebrate Coquitlam River success

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Page from the City's Coquitlam River Water Quality Monitoring Report Ponderous, doom-and-gloom predictions from the sky-is-falling...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

The cult of the pink shirt

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Well, I survived Pink Shirt Day yesterday without wearing pink. But that doesn't mean I wasn't thinking about the pernicious p...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

All hail rationality and nuance

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The popular culture is drowning in sentimentality and simplification. As an adherent of rational and nuanced thinking, this disturbs me. And...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Coquitlam loses a cherished citizen

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  One of our dear friends, Sue Haberger, passed away a few days ago. Cancer took her away at the relatively young age of 65. I've decid...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Regional policing? Show me the evidence

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Tri-Cities 'regional policing' meeting. Photo by Terry O'Neill You might have heard that members of the three Tri-Cities c...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Towards housing affordability

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Well, we were hard at it again this afternoon, talking yet again about affordable housing in response to this report.  I had originally pla...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Eagle Ridge Hospital to open new thrift shop

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Passing along info about a new charitable enterprise in the Tri-Cities: VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR NEW EAGLE RIDGE HOSPITAL AUXILIARY THRIFT ...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Local gov't AG opens office

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Good news from the Province. Most of the current Coquitlam council did not support the establishment of this office, but I was -- and rema...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Multi-generational consultation

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Concept sketch, from Coquitlam.ca There aren't many times when a city gets to design an entire new neighbourhood from scratch, espec...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

What those assessments mean

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Central Coquitlam residential high rises. (Photo by Terry O) A friend of mine who is a long-time Coquitlam resident approached me at a p...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Transit optimization explained

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Most of my council colleagues and I just spent the past 90 minutes talking with Translink folks about "service optimization" in Co...

Committee and board appointments are set

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I am pleased to report that I will be taking on more responsibilities around City Hall in the coming year. That's because, in addition t...

Good news about the Coquitlam River

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You might remember that, several months ago, an enviro-activist included the Coquitlam River on a list of allegedly "endangered" r...
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Terry O'Neill
Terry served on Coquitlam Council from 2011-2018, and now lends his experience and talents to several community non-profits.
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