Whew! Last meeting of 2025 had an epic agenda, even for the end of the year meeting. I’m going to try to keep these reports short, and come back in future post to unpack a bit some of the meatier items. The following items were moved On Consent: Food Security and Systems Plan Food security […]

Council Monday! It was fun to go out to Tipperary Park before and countdown to the Bright in the Park light-up, where a few hundred people got a bit of early Christmas Cheer. Alas, not all of them came to watch Council after. Because we had an exciting agenda starting with this Report: Vulnerable Building […]

As I mentioned in my last Council report, we had a presentation on the first annual evaluation of the Crises Response Pilot Project. I don’t usually report out on presentations here (there was no decision for Council to make), but this one led to some interesting discussion and is centre of mind for many people […]

This is a bit of a late issue – it’s been one of those weeks where I just didn’t have time to write up my notes from Council, so the report is late. Remember, you can always follow the link to the agenda, and watch the video the day after Council if you just can’t […]

We had a relatively short Council meeting, but one full of inspiration as we received two presentations from people doing great things in our community – one about a reconciliation initiative in City Hall and one about the great work a refreshed Tourism New West is doing to promote local businesses. You can watch the […]

This is a blog. A dying media, but indulge me. I this in 2010 when blogging was something people did. I started writing about things going on in New Westminster and my volunteer work with the New West Environmental Partners under the title “GreenNewWest”. I then realized this was probably confusing to people because I […]