Some personal news. I will always be grateful for the privilege of serving and representing the City of New Westminster. ❤️ www.freshetnews.ca/new-westmins...

Let's congratulate Councillor Ruby Campbell – @campbellnw.bsky.social – on 17 years working for the City and people of #NewWest! I've only been here ~half that time, but I think Ruby has exemplified our city's community spirit during my time here. I look forward to seeing whatever Ruby does next.

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"There remains another path. You can reject the course of colonial unilateral action and choose to uphold human rights and the honour of the Crown, and insist that the Province meet its legal obligations" www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...

This a very dishonourable thing to do. Eby and his government failed so broadly to make DRIPA real, to map out the institutional changes required, and to educate and enlist the public in the work, it almost looks like intentional sabotage. Shameful. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

British Columbia's approach to the drug crisis is lethal and careless, @davidebybc.bsky.social.

@thetyee.ca is holding a super fun event in Vancouver events.humanitix.com/reality-chec... — featuring @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, @jenstden.bsky.social, @harrisonmooney.bsky.social & @vancolour.bsky.social. Thursday, May 21, 2026 Doors 6:30 pm · Event 7:00 pm. Tickets at the link above.

something a little too on the nose about saying it's "non-negotiable" that he will be curbing a law that makes repeated use of the phrase "free, prior and informed consent"

Whereas I've noticed a couple anonymous trolls tagging #NewWest of late, one of whom has @-engaged me, I've reflected & decided: I won't directly reply to anonymous accounts, but I may occasionally depict & comment as I am here. Our local social media has already suffered enough from such nonsense.

Hope reporters & Voters ask every #vanpoli pol. if they will pass a law like NewWest in our #RenterMajority City "It is now the landlord’s legal responsibility to ensure that at least one room in every rental unit is kept at or under 26 degrees Celsius between 8:00 PM & 8:00 AM" #vanRE #HeatDeaths

Sometime after #NWP took flak for posting a mistake-riddled, anti- #NewWest AI image, they quietly replaced the original "S***SHOW" image with another, "unoffensive" piece of AI slop. So much for the criticism that they shouldn't be using #AI in the first place! Why not save h2o & just take a photo?

This is needed, province-wide, to save lives in the next heat dome (and there will be another.) The building code protects those in new buildings, but the most vulnerable are renters in the older bldgs. New Westminster Requires a Cool Room in Rental Units to Save Lives thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

As maybe the last person to holler about this, the credit's all mine, right? ;)

Great News for #NewWest! The #Queensborough School Bus gets another year :) Not permanent, and not free, so not perfect, for the promise of permanent and free remains unfulfilled-but still, this is a good thing.

The B.C. government has just introduced legislation to create a streamlined approach to deal with mayors and councillors causing dysfunction. It's a moderate improvement, but won't solve the biggest issues. I'm not working today, but here is a brief overview. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

I guess $80k for World Cup parties is a small win for #NewWest but what we REALLY need is for #NDP to keep their promise to fund the #Queensborough school bus, @davidebybc.bsky.social & @lisabeare.bsky.social. A promise is a promise. Bring it home & bring those kids to school, please & thanks.

Know how #NWP blame #CommunityFirst for #TinyTown & claim "Mayor Johnstone approved this project behind closed doors"? Monday's Council video (from ~26:55 on) seems to show Cllr Minhas reveal that BOTH he & Cllr Fontaine voted *in*favor* of the #TinyTown project at that in-camera meeting. (1/7)

See you Thursday, New West! 🗞️ #newwest #newwestminster #newwestminsterbc #farmersmarket #journalism

New Westminster Mayor @pjnewwest.bsky.social announces he will seek re-election this October, following months of being on the fence. Johnstone will face off against councillor Daniel Fontaine, after four years of fairly acrimonious battles between the two at city hall.

#NWP either have a hard time keeping up or just love to make a spectacle: here's a motion calling for an emergency public meeting for a railway consultation that I'm told is already planned for the #NewWest railway technical committee. It's redundant make-work: they have 8 months to figure this out.

Check out Yari Fulmer, BC Conservative leadership candidate, supported by Abbotsford MLA Bruce Banman & the Let's Vote people who protested the #NewWest #TinyTown open house, lying about the proposed transitional housing project. Making politics of homelessness is icky. Let's break it down (1/4)

this is Maga bullshit happening in Canada

In the case of Paris, that city will be staying the course steered by former Mayor Anne Hidalgo. I hope we see the same here in #newwest this fall, under current leadership which we can push for more gains and improvements in the city rather than taking the centrist-right austere path in a 1/

I am honored and humbled. It is a such a rare and beautiful thing to be someone's first. I hope it was good for them. I don't even know their name.

Oh my—just noticed that Let's Vote / Wallace Pong's "protest" outside the open house about the #NewWest #TinyTown transitional housing project featured a video from Richmond MLA Hon Chan, who was just charged with assault & booted from the Conservatives' caucus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjIt...

Don't know if you saw the story I did a while back on the Duncan village. (Attached here.) I hear that Dist of NV and Penticton also looking at something similar. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

A new report found 86 billionaire families hold as much wealth as Canada’s 6.2 million poorest families. We speak with @dylandusseault.bsky.social on why some of Canada's richest say they should be taxed more and @jimbostanford.bsky.social breaks down tax loopholes driving the gap lnk.to/bigstory

We don't take road deaths seriously, not even parking lot deaths. Multiple layers of negligence happened here, and the result is a dead person and $1,150 in fines to a traumatized person. Nothing coming out of this will make roads safer. Nothing.

Thank you for sharing this, @fabulavancouver.bsky.social - it's valuable context for #NewWest as we develop our own, smaller, #tinytown. Note to readers - the article is a few months old, but this is one of many I've seen that are cause for optimism and hope. #HousingFirst #HousingForAll

@jodypaterson.bsky.social's deep dive into BC's inadequate support for our unhousing crisis tells me @christineboyle.bsky.social & @davidebybc.bsky.social need to support MORE transitional housing like #TinyTown in #NewWest. #HousingForAll requires unpausing the #CommunityHousingFund & so much more.

The irony of complaints about "no consultation" at the *3rd* consultation event about a project with consultation *built*into* it's design. Or "no advance notice" about an announcement 7-8 months pre-opening. They don't want notice or consultation; they want right of refusal. #NewWest #HousingForAll

Thanks for this, @yesinnewwest.bsky.social. I found the #NewWest & #BCHousing area experts really helpful, & they addressed much of the misinfo that's (still) circulating on social media. I was also impressed that the way the event was designed made for a low-key, low-conflict vibe. #HousingForAll

The #NWP #AI nonsense continues with this rendering of a letter allegedly sent to council. NWP keep throwing #NewWest under the bus whenever they try to smear our city's leadership & staff. "This City is a S***SHOW"? I don't think so. Such toxic, contemptuous rhetoric is damaging to our community.

I can attest to this

everyone needs to have a listen to this its time for all of us to step up and build a better future together there are municipal elections in six provinces this fall and if they are won by bullshit and fear we will lose everything

Dunno if it was intentional or not, but @oplopanax.ca neologized a pretty nifty portmanteau there. #Rascism

Check out 'Port Coquitlam exhibit looks at the value of unpaid work - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/port-coquitl...

I LOVE Sula! Their Moma (appy) are incredible, and everything else we've tried is ++. Thanks for the pics!

"'housing first' as opposed to 'treatment first' has been proven as a more effective approach to reducing substance abuse" – @chmacarthur.bsky.social on the proposed Tiny Home Village in #NewWest Time to finish on my own letter & I encourage everyone to do the same! #HousingFirst #HousingForAll

Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli

Canada’s biggest corporations made a record $677B in profits last year. Yet the share they pay in taxes has never been lower, and investment is lagging. Jared Walker and @silasxuereb.bsky.social of @c4tf.bsky.social ask: If tax cuts worked, wouldn’t we have seen the results by now?

We all agree, a school bus for Queensborough is a good idea, and the funding for it should not be pulled from already-stretched education resources. #NewWest www.communityfirstnw.ca/queensboroug...

A group called "Oppose NW Drug Site" has begun leafletting outside #NewWest schools against the #TinyHome residence - in this case, my child's elementary. "Stop Drug-use Shelter," spins their sign. These stigmatizing messages aren't helpful. Nor is the misinfo & spin that encourages such propaganda.

Wrote a piece for @thetyee.ca about this, including a short Q&A with Tla'amin Hegus John Hackett. thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Racists and other bigots really do not like being described, do they? Keep on Truthing @rachelgilmore.bsky.social & @thetyee.ca. Thank you for your courageous and necessary work!

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

If anybody in #NewWest is interested in supporting this project that would provide supervised and structured housing for our unhoused neighbours, the WhatsApp group listed below just posted this. Show up to help counter their negativity!

"I really stepped in it" – Ken Sim, "Lean Six Sigma Black Belt" and, somehow, Mayor of Vancouver. Good job, @seanorr.bsky.social, and good luck.

#LYINGisDISQUALIFYING: Whether #KenSim & #ABC in #Vancouver, or #NWP in #NewWest, I think maybe I'll just decorate & redecorate the upcoming municipal election season as honestly & garishly as possibly every time someone calls for it. #BCPoli www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Dear my delightful tweeps, some news! So after 30 years of City Hall and urban-issues stories that you all know, I'm doing something completely different — I’ve decided to run for a City Council nomination with @onecityvan.bsky.social and hopefully run on their slate this October.