JUNE
New Westminster MLA Judy Darcy, the NDP’s health critic, is joined by local youth who are calling for a provincial ban on flavoured tobacco products that come in a variety of fruit, ice cream and candy flavours. They believe tobacco companies are using the pretty packaging and tasty flavours to entice young people to take up smoking.
Five-term city councillor Betty McIntosh announces she won’t be seeking re-election in November’s civic election.
New Westminster teachers hit the streets for a full-scale strike as talks between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. Public School Employers Association break down.
Three-term city councillor Jonathan Cote announces he’ll be running for mayor in the November civic election. While he has a lot of respect for the work done by Mayor Wayne Wright in the past 12 years, he believes the city needs someone with his educational background and vision to lead the city into the future.
An arbitrator sides with Coquitlam in a longstanding feud about the Bailey bridge and supports a two-lane bridge for the controversial crossing.
