Terry O'Neill

Riverview landmark. (Photo by Terry O'Neill) You might recall that Council and the City of Coquitlam spent a fair bit of time and ef...

Evergreen Line construction tour. (Photo by Terry O'Neill) What's in a name? Well, when it comes to the name of the Evergreen Li...

Swiss vacationer Lustenberger. (Photo by Terry O'Neill) My old reporter's instincts kicked in this morning while I was at the RB...

Ok, so here's what bugs me about the way the GVRD (aka Metro Vancouver) governance system works. 1. A candidate gets elected to a local...

Spirit Square (photo from bynettconstruction.com) The City of Coquitlam has rules and regulations protecting sensitive habitat from dogs...

UPDATE: At its June 16 meeting, Coquitlam Council voted unanimously to, "Request the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to c...

Proposed Miller Avenue quadruplex: Helping on housing affordability. A week rarely passes without the question of affordable housing bei...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The above, in a nutshell, is my down-home philosophy when it comes to deciding on whether to suppo...

Last year, I attended a speech in Vancouver by the eminent Roman Catholic leader, Thomas Cardinal Collins, and was very impressed by his a...

Mowat exposed as a fabricator of 'facts.' What is "true?" I am no philosopher or theologian, but it's still a ques...

We learned last week that a judge had sentenced Cory Sater--the drunkard whose monumental selfishness led him to drive without a licence, to...

Our volunteers for 2014: (l-r) Dora, Catharina, Jaci, and Irene. I n the late winter of 1994, a small group of parishioners from St. Jos...

Big changes are coming to the way trash (aka "garbage"), green waste and recyclables are picked up in Coquitlam. But, despite the ...

Justice Minister Peter MacKay was busy today d efending his victims'-rights legislation , which will give to crime victims some statuto...

Citizen Budget: Tri-City News left the impression I oppose it. T he time has come for me to turn the tables and "blame the news m...

T his past Monday, council-in-committee received a presentation from Sharon Gregson , a former COPE/Vision Vancouver school board trustee ...

Coquitlam Council voted unanimously last night to apply to the National Energy Board for formal Intervenor status at the NEB’s upcoming hea...

I continue to be disappointed that something for which our Eagle Ridge neighbourhood fought with so much vigour three decades ago--door-to-...

The provincial government is asking for public feedback on proposals to limit campaign spending, and has set the end of this month as a dea...