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Lorrie Williams is currently a councillor for the City of New Westminster. She is running for re-election in November 2014, and I won’t be voting for her. There’s an intersection in New Westminster that is dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. Since 2011 there have been various attempts to make the intersection more friendly to pedestrians…

I figured out If This Then That and set it up to email me the Vital Statistics page from the Hawaiian Tribune-Herald every time it gets published to the web. This means that I get a fresh new list of baby names every week, and you get a fresh new Bad Baby Names post every…

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…

New Westminster Council recently debated an Official Community Plan amendment to allow a six-storey affordable rental building to be built on land that had been designated to only allow townhouses. During the public engagement and feedback period, including the public hearing, people opposed to the project said that it did not respect the OCP, that…

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,…

Note to self, Baba O'Riley is best karaoke troll song. Everyone knows it and sings along, but forgets about the 2 minute instrumental outro. — Jason (@XaiaX) June 16, 2013 @XaiaX well hopefully people remember that so next time they *puts on sunglasses* won't get fooled again. YYEEAAHH! — Brad Cavanagh (@CanSpice) June 16, 2013