JEREMY DEUTSCH / TRI-CITIES NOW FEBRUARY 28, 2014 12:00 AM Just a couple of hours after Shin Noh left his home for the last time back on a late summer’s day last September, the Coquitlam father with Alzheimer’s disease was spotted …
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MLA calls speech ‘smoke and mirrors
SAM SMITH / TRI-CITIES NOW FEBRUARY 14, 2014 12:00 AM New markets and investments, skills training, controlling spending, social and practical infrastructure, the opportunity of LNG and ensuring B.C. remains a leader in the modern world. Those were the key talking …
Care centre to close? E-Mail Obtained by Tri-Cities Now Spells Out Plan
JEREMY DEUTSCH / TRI-CITIES NOW FEBRUARY 7, 2014 12:00 AM A residential care home that has operated in Coquitlam for more than 30 years appears to have been given its walking papers by Fraser Health. The Tri-Cities NOW has learned the …
Failed candidate put to work handing out B.C. Liberal patronage appointments
VICTORIA— New Democrats have uncovered documents showing that the failed B.C. Liberal candidate for Port Coquitlam, Barbara Lu, was hired by the B.C. Liberal government to help hand out patronage appointments, many of which have gone to other failed B.C. …
B.C. Liberal incompetence threatening province’s international education schools
VICTORIA— Chaos in the Ministry of Advanced Education is leaving international students in limbo and threatening British Columbia’s international education industry, says New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby. “Students thinking about coming to B.C. to study are being put …
Op-ed: B.C. must reconcile with its past official racism against Chinese Canadians
A “White Man’s Province” was more than a slogan, a political excess. It was a primary feature of B.C. government policy for seven decades after B.C. joined Canada in 1871, with Chinese Canadians a constant target of hostile action by their provincial government and legislature. British Columbia passed an avalanche of discriminatory legislation in this period—a record not matched in any other Canadian province.
New cosmetic pesticide regulations fall short: NDP environment critic
The BC Liberal government came out on Wednesday with new regulations surrounding the use of cosmetic pesticides in residential areas; which stops short of a full ban. Several other provinces have already adopted the ban of pesticides but in B.C. …
Bus route scrapped Translink Points To Low Ridership
JOHN KURUCZ / TRI-CITIES NOW NOVEMBER 1, 2013 12:00 AM The elimination of a bus route that served three communities has Coquitlam-Maillardville MLA Selina Robinson seeing red in more ways than one. Robinson told the Tri-Cities NOW the elimination of the …
MLAs upset over legislative closure
SAM SMITH / TRI-CITIES NOW OCTOBER 2, 2013 12:00 AM There will be no fall sitting of the B.C. legislature this year, and Tri-Cities MLAs are completely divided on the subject. Rookie NDP MLA for Coquitlam-Maillardville, Selina Robinson, says the Liberals’ …
Mayors’ Vote To Turn Hospital Site Into Mental Health Centre Nixed
Premier douses Riverview plan JEREMY DEUTSCH / WITH FILES FROM THE PROVINCE SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 12:00 AM It appears the fate of Riverview, at least its role in future mental health treatment, is even more in doubt following an annual meeting …