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 […]

We had a longish meeting on Monday Night, and there were a few moments of tension, and as always I recommend you watch the video for details and to get the tone of the room during some of the deliberation, instead of reading through my filter here. After a notable delegation period, our regular Agenda […]

Ugh, it is hard to think about the dull procedure of a City Council Meeting on a week like this when the province is grieving an unimaginable tragedy. But we had a meeting on Monday with a lengthy Agenda, and here is the report. The following items were approved On Consent: Construction Noise Bylaw Exemption […]

Monday’s meeting featured a Public Hearing. Two actually. This is something the City doesn’t do as much anymore since the Province changed the rules and limited our ability to hold them for routine rezoning applications. These OCP and Zoning changes were not routine, however, but represented a big step forward in housing variety and affordability […]

Happy 2026. We are back at it after a bit of a break, and we go through our first agenda of the new year fairly quickly. It started with a Presentation from BC Housing: Letter of Commitment, Operations Management Plan and Neighbourhood Inclusion Table for the Purpose Shelter at 502 Columbia Street This presentation from […]

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 […]