Opinion

Editor: New Westminster is one of the only municipalities in the Lower Mainland addressing the (housing) issue with real solutions that make a difference.

With a civic election arriving on Oct. 20, local residents look to the Record to get informed on the issues and the campaign. When community groups want to raise awareness about their upcoming events, they turn to the Record for that too.

Money laundering pays off for local cities. It’s a harsh reality, but that’s the truth. Casino revenues have steadily gone up in the past few years and, according to the recent probe into money laundering in casinos by Dr.

New Westminster resident resident Gerald Thomson says he got an unwelcome surprise when a film production called “action” with its trucks at the back of his home.

It’s late at night and I’m sitting on the couch watching my favourite show on Netflix. My three kids have all gone to bed and the house is quiet.

I am an election super-nerd. It’s true. I enjoy elections the same way normal people enjoy, I dunno, going out to clubs or hearing their favourite band play a stadium concert or whatever it is that normal people do for fun.

After engaging in what has effectively been some shadowboxing the past year, the NDP and the B.C. Liberals are about to begin the main bout as the legislature has resumed sitting.

An email landed in my inbox on Saturday from New Westminster school board trustee Kelly Slade-Kerr, who has decided not to run again on Oct. 20.

The B.C. legislature was abuzz Monday with the ramifications flowing from the green light that an international consortium is expected to give to a major new B.C. liquefied natural gas plant. And the buzz is spreading everywhere. B.C.

Editor: Re: Don’t judge moms for their tattoos , Mommy’s Grounded, Sept. 13. I was struck to read in Bianca Bujan’s Mommy’s Grounded column that a social networking page disparaging tattoo-wearers was removed as “hate speech.