THE WEDNESDAY
FEB. 20, 2013
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Pieces of PoCo
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INSIDE
Tom Fletcher/10 Letters/11 Community Calendar/18 A Good Read/21
City seeks to borrow for Burke projects
What is she wearing – for art’s sake?
By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Coquitlam council wants to borrow $17.9 million to pay for new infrastructure works — most of them for Burke Mountain. And residents can vote in March and April if they don’t want the city to take on the debt. O n M o n d ay, c i t y council gave three readings to a loan bylaw that would authorize city staff to hold an alternative approval process, a voting method allowed under the province’s Community Charter that permits municipalities to canvas the public on a specific matter. The process — often criticized as favouring
CQ. COUNCIL See How They Voted: page 3 municipal governments as a threshold of 10% of the electorate would be needed to challenge a proposal — is most commonly used for longterm borrowing. Thus, in Coquitlam, which has 82,839 electors, more than 8,200 residents would have to sign the counter-petition to force the city to either drop the project or hold a referendum; if there are too few signatures, the borrowing can go ahead. see DCCs WILL, page 5
Pot forum on Fri. at Douglas Hot topic on both sides of border By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
DARLA FURLANI PHOTOGRAPHY
“Moving Day” by Carol Funnell was one of the entries in the 2013 edition of the Wearable Art Awards, presented by the Port Moody Arts Centre and held Saturday evening in the galleria at Port Moody city hall. For more photos from the annual event, please see page 15.
A public forum on the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana will be held at Douglas College on Friday to help people form educated opinions about the controversial issue. The Joint Family Court and Youth Justice Committee and the
Communities Embrace Restorative Action (CERA) Society have invited five speakers to share their views at the Feb. 22 forum and the executive director for CERA hopes people will hear them out with open minds. “The intent of the forum is not to support any viewpoint — neither CERA nor the justice committee supports any viewpoint,” said Gurinder Mann. see JUSTICE, page 7