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The BC Conservatives are planning on scrapping the carbon tax, bribing Lower Mainland drivers with a $408 tax credit for frequent toll and ferry users, expanding mining, supporting the Northern Gateway pipeline and Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, and so on, and so on. Those who know me know that I’m pretty left-wing. That’s why I…

My questions for New Westminster mayoral candidates proved to be a hit. Thanks to the mayoral candidates and council candidates who answered! I met with a couple of candidates for School Trustees over the weekend, and they wanted their own set of questions to answer. Fair enough! The biggest issue in this year’s election is…

On 11 May 2013 the Vancouver Sun published a list of 20 hot topics in the upcoming BC election with the positions of the four major parties. Based upon their responses, the BC Liberals have put a lot of their eggs in the Liquified Natural Gas basket. The BC Liberals are proposing that LNG be…

Patrick Johnstone is running for New Westminster City Council. He answered my questions using graphics and photos that he was already using on his blog, New Westminster In My Back Yard. Creative, innovative, and showing a distinct amount of laziness to not come up with new answers! Thank you Patrick! I shouldn’t have to mention…

I want to do a little bit of a follow-up to my previous post about building heights in the Brewery District. I posted that because I kept getting annoyed at Sapperton residents saying things like “Wesgroup mislead us” and “it was eight storeys all along.” I did a little more digging, and found the McBride-Sapperton…

In the 2014 December 13 Vancouver Sun, columnist Pete McMartin wrote this correction: My apologies to Mayor Greg Moore for incorrectly identifying him in Friday’s column as mayor of Coquitlam. He is not. He is mayor of Port Coquitlam, which I am assured are two completely different communities. Mayor Moore informed me by email, however,…