Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Opening the door to more commemorative crosswalks

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The most famous of all crosswalks. After I delivered the following speech at Council in Committee yesterday, most councillors indicated ...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Nuttiest professors redux

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The news that University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson is planning to launch a website that would help students keep track of (the m...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

We grow in Metro but shrink at Metro board

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At Metro board meeting last week. H ere’s an interesting quirk, of the Metro Vancouver Regional District’s board composition and voting ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Rainbow logic supports rainbow crosswalk

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Pride Flag: Strikingly similar to "diversity" crosswalk. A nd so, Coquitlam will now have its very own “rainbow” crosswalk, lo...
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Foreign-funded interest group seeks to sway next civic election

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An organization called the Dogwood Initiative  (also known as Dogwood BC|) has announced it intends to get involved in next year’s municipa...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Green leader agrees to Coquitlam's call for 'careful deliberation' of campaign-spending reforms

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T he New Democrat-Green government in Victoria has pledged to ban corporate and union donations and to impose strict maximum-donation limit...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Two decades and going strong!

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The following is an edited version of a 'story' I wrote this morning for my parish bulletin and the BC Catholic . Picking up 50...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Signal Hill's Value Project is a success

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O ne of the charities I volunteer with is Signal Hill, an educational non-profit dedicated to inspiring young people to "Value Every P...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

What Do Higher Property Values Mean for Taxes?

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With all the discussion, misinformation, speculation and confusion about the impact of soaring assessment rates on property taxes, the City...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

In my books, the biggest city issue is....

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City Council gave unanimous approval to the first readings of the 2017 budget bylaws this past Monday. The Tri-City News ' coverage (m...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Lafarge tour underlines scope of work, reveals surprises

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Looking south across lower part of reclamation site. T he four-wheel-drive pickup truck works its way slowly up a steep, rocky road, ...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Looking forward to new assignments

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A t the end of each year on Council, we decide among ourselves which Council members will sit on which committees and boards for the follo...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Budget plan, pen in hand

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Every autumn, Council sits through several days of meetings dealing with the city budget for the next year. I must admit that my mind occ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

'Our protection is in our fraternity'

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With the worrisome turn of events in the U.S., it was great to see a recent newspaper story describing Prime Minister Trudeau's defence...

Our curling decision made for wider benefit of the community

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This past Monday, I was part of a solid majority* of Coquitlam Council members who voted in favour of a series of recommendations from our ...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Property-tax boost for transit?

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I was a reluctant supporter of the transit referendum last year. Reluctantly in favour, not because I was a big fan of the sale-tax increase...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Some context, please, Mr. Horgan

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H ousing affordability and its associated issues, including "demo-victions," comprise one of the most pressing economic and social...