Happy Easter everyone 🐣! My team & I broke a record by giving out 500 Easter eggs & 500 chocolate coins w/in hrs at 2 events today! Big shoutout 2 @jennblatherwick in #Coquitlam & City Councillor Tasha Henderson in #NewWest for organizing the two fabulous community events!
A lot of joking about the annual Surrey barge fire, but it does raise the question as to why there's no dedicated fire boat on the Fraser River. Just like with the car recycling fire from a few years ago, the fire boat had to come from Burrard Inlet, which takes at least 2 hours. #NewWest
Great story here! So happy we are going to have local journalism in #NewWest, #Burnaby and the #TriCities during the upcoming municipal elections so our communities will be able to tell their stories.
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I was able to update Minister Beare about our collaboration with SD40 on the new downtown elementary school, and how this starts a new phase of school investments in #NewWest that recognizes a different kind of school is needed in 0ur older, built-out, dense city... news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
A screen capture of a zoom call between Mayor Patrick Johnstone, Minister Lisa Beare, and staff.
This week I met with the Minister of Education, and continued our work on three big issues impacting #NewWest students and their families. Not speaking on behalf of our School Board, but amplifying their already-strong advocacy voice, and finding ways the City can to collaborate and coordinate... 🧵
Thanks to the New West Farmers Market for having us today and to the shoppers who came by our booth for a chat!
Happy Easter 🐣
Our next newspaper comes out April 16 — the first of our twice-a-month publications.
#newwest #newwestminster #localjournalism #followers #nonprofitnews
Screenshot of New Westminster Schools' announcement that the provincial government will fund another year of the Queensborough school bus
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.
Another article on this great story about how #NewWest is leading once again. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Beer Thursday anyone? #NewWest
#newwest has become the FIRST city in Canada to pass a ground-breaking max heat amendment to its landlord licensing bylaw.
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 and 8:00 AM. #bcpoli
Just Added: Krystle Dos Santos & Friends, presented by Collingwood Neighbourhood House and Darick Construction, May 23
Tickets: anviltheatre.ca/event/krystl...
An event to raise funds for core programs and essential services at Collingwood Neighbourhood House
#newwest #livemusic
11 days, 14 showtimes--April is filled with Royal City Musical Theatre's Shrek The Musical!
Come for the preview or opening night, or get your tickets to one of the other days for some swampy adventures with Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, and more.
www.masseytheatre.com/event/rcmt-s...
#newwest #theatre
cc #NewWest
Dan's Diner #NewWest is supposed to have a BBQ today! 🍔
Run!!
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.
Landlords must ensure apartments don’t get too hot under new #NewWest bylaw
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In any case, I hope the 32 people who showed up at Ludica had a great time. #newwest
The way around this, in #newwest" at least, is not to point out how the NWP is flawed, (that's pretty obvious), it's to be humble and acknowledge mistakes and maybe, just maybe, start listening to people outside of the echo chamber.
They cannot do this and that's why they will lose.
For a group of #newwest people that call everything the NWP does, "Trumpian", Community First certainly hasn't learned anything from it.
People don't vote for hope anymore, they vote to punish and humiliate. Voters have lost faith in the system, and now just vote for the biggest shit disturber.
I admire his spirit and desire to serve #newwest, but a lot of the people in this video are NDP or Community First insiders, and not really the general voting public.
The others are the same old PJ fans that would vote for a fucking shovel if Pat told them to.
He certainly hasn't gained ground
#NewWest says ‘YES!’ to affordable housing, renter protections, safer streets, community action, community partners, climate action, and youth empowerment.
That’s why my family chose NewWest and why we love living in this community.
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I’m still buzzing from @pjnewwest.bsky.social ‘s campaign launch Tuesday. The community love vibes were immaculate. #NewWest
First time walking into Bent Ct after 20 years living in New West. Brow of the Hill is the coolest #NewWest
+1 #Newwest
Seriously, to have two people on council labeled as “Progressives” who time and again crap all over #NewWest as being a dangerous pothole-filled kakistocracy is just plain nonsense.
