Terry O'Neill

I don't believe I've written a letter to the editor of any newspaper since I was elected a year-and-a-half ago. But the Tri-Cities ...

Robinson and Reimer at their final council meeting earlier this year. The late US president Woodrow Wilson once sa id, “ Democracy is n...

Illustration of how Blake Williams' work (affixed to column) will look.  You might remember that, almost 10 months ago now, I raised...

One of my colleagues on Coquitlam Council is in the news today, complaining that he was the only Coquitlam Councillor, who attended the big...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

  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...

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

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