I sat beside Lorrie Williams in the Council Chambers for 4 years, me the fresh-faced and keen new Councillor, she as a fresh-faced and still-keen City Councillor who had already seen it all! We joked and ribbed each other, sometimes we disagreed, sometimes we changed each others minds, but through it all she taught me […]

Summer is surely over not when the riverfront fireworks happen, not when the rains fall on the PNE, and not on some strange astronomical even in last September, but when New West Council gets back to work after more than a month off. We had a fairly concise Agenda after a full slate of Delegations […]

It must be an election year. The right-wing public-services-defunders the Fraser Institute are putting out the same flawed anti-government “comparison report” that they put out last election. And the election before. There is nothing new here, and instead of writing a new post, I should just provide those links to the previous posts from 4 […]

The last Council meeting before we take a bit of a summer break had a long agenda, but we got through it fairly quick. The following items were approved On Consent: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Plan – Phase 4 Update This is an update report on the implementation of our CCARP, following a recent […]

What a weekend. It featured the entire breadth of emotions, as we learned about the frailty of individuals and the strength of community. I first heard about the fire uptown early on Friday afternoon. I had a meeting at the masjid in Burnaby, so I stopped on the way there to check in with 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 […]