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Council – June 22, 2026 (part 2)

Here is Part 2 of last week’s Council meeting (part 1 is here). Sorry it is so late, but we have a lot happening and I did want to take some time to write this up, as there was a significant amount of… rhetoric… created around these topics in the on-line chatter, and I wanted […]

Council – June 22, 2026 (Part 1)

Sorry for the late report, still working on some issues here, but it looks like we have a clean bill of health, though fixing some of the older broken links might take some time, so some old pages are still missing. In the meanwhile, here’s the first half of my report on the work we […]

GLITCH!

Hey Folks, Since December 2014, eleven and a half years, I have put out a post here after every Council Meeting. Trying to keep it short, but explaining in as plain a language as I can muster the decisions we made, the way I voted, and the reasons for my voting that way. I went […]

Council – June 8, 2026

(This post is being re-posted in July from a draft version as the original post (which I had split in two because it was so long, but that seems less important now) was lost through some website glitch. Please excuse any formatting errors, lost links or other weirdness, its here for the sake of completeness, […]

Council – May 25, 2026

(This post is being re-posted in July from a draft version as the original post was lost through some website glitch. Please excuse any formatting errors, lost links or other weirdness, its here for the sake of completeness, and I just don’t have time to reformat everything) The Council meeting on Monday started with a […]

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Caveat lector

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 […]

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IWD 2026

Today is International Women’s Day, and it always feel weird to be “Mayorsplaining” the experience of women and girls to the majority of the City who are not cis guys. Especially as I am surrounded by so many smart, strong, and bold women who are leading in New Westminster. So I’ll take this opportunity to […]

Happenings

The spring-summer transition is a busy time, rivaling only September in the calendar challenges in this job. Besides the work, which also ramps up at this time, there are a lot of community events to take part in. It is really hard to report out on it all.

February ’25

I haven’t done one of these posts in a while. I sometimes write about community events in my Newsletter (you can subscribe here), but event happen faster than I can post about. Here are a few fun things that happened in the community in February!

John

Like many of you, I am saddened by John Horgan only getting 65 years. He filled them with meaning and influence, but it doesn’t seem enough for anyone, never mind someone who put so much into the people around him. He was a man of principle and natural leadership. He brought meaningful change to the […]