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Kim Goldberg: Why Gun Bans Hurt Women Handgun ban hurts women.

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23.10.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amy Hamm: USA Transgender/Queer Identities are tanking. So Why is Canada still hyping trans insanity? A new report from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science suggests that β€œnon-binary” and β€œqueer” identities are tanking among youth in the U.S.

www.newwesttimes.com/news/amy-ham... #newwest #bcpoli #canpoli

21.10.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Banned and Burned: Jim McMurtry's Book Battles The Nazi book burnings in Germany and Austria in the 1930s targeted books that were deemed subversive by the German Student Union.

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21.10.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amy Hamm: New Westminster’s Left-Wing Social Media Censorship Dumpster Fire If social media is today’s de facto public square, then New Westminster’s public square is one where left-wing censorship and mandated tolerance are the rules of the (β€œunceded” and/or β€œstolen”)

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16.10.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Westminster City Hall: Is Change in the Wind for 2026? Eleven years ago, New Westminster residents ousted long-term mayor and independent candidate Wayne Wright. Wright, then 71, had been in power from 2002 through to 2014β€”four consecutive termsβ€”when the ...

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15.10.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A pill for every ill Oversprescription of Hydromorphone for pain in BC's Healthcare system?

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World's Largest Tin Soldier Attacked by Cancel Culture Even an enormous, cheery, smiling Tin Soldier can't escape the humiliating rebuke of cancel culture.

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07.10.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I Am Afraid of the Left: Amy Hamm on Vile Reactions to Charlie Kirk Assassination One of the most intimate things you can share with another person in this life is to witness their death. One never forgets these moments.

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26.09.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mass Casualties: Addiction Has Killed More Canadians Than WWII β€œSafe Supply will fix everything”, say the Harm Reduction Evangelicals, β€œwe just need more of it”.

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19.08.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Canada's Safety Cult Should Take a Hike" www.newwesttimes.com/news/canadas... #NewWest #Vancouver #Canada

15.08.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Zombie Apocalypse: Vancouver's Dystopian Downtown" #Vancouver #NewWest www.newwesttimes.com/news/zombie-...

15.08.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Subverting Democracy: Powell River's Name Change Process Demands Transparency and Fair Play" #PowellRiver www.newwesttimes.com/news/subvert...

15.08.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finding Solidarity: The Free Speech Union in Canada On July 30, a gathering of more than 50 members and friends of the Free Speech Union of Canada (FSUC) met in Vancouver.

www.newwesttimes.com/news/finding... #NewWest #Coquitlam #PortMoody #NewWest #Vancouver #PoCo

07.08.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Burnaby Library Says Political Symbols in the Workplace are No Problem, Despite Complaints Should Burnaby Public Library (BPL) staff members be allowed to display political symbols while on duty?

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07.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why I am taking my fight to the BC Human Rights Tribunal My Fight Goes to BC Rights Tribunal Why I’m Taking Case to TribunalI’m Fighting at BC Human Rights My Battle Hits BC Rights Tribunal Why I’m Suing at BC Tribunal Taking My Case to BC Rights My Fight a...

www.newwesttimes.com/news/why-i-a... #NewWest #Vancouver

07.08.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Colllective Insanity: Streets of Death Vancouver urban missionary Pastor Mark Buhler, with Faith Fellowship Baptist Church, ministers to many individuals suffering from addiction, either personally, or as family members of the addicted.

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30.07.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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22.07.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why governments alter the past Canada's Liberal government came up with a grand plan to boost its popularity: put down all previous governments by calling them racist and genocidal, express deep remorse for the past

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21.07.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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21.07.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nightmare: Can We Finally Admit that the Frightening Drug Experiment Has Failed? Social Experiment Crashes. Costly Failure: Why This Hurts Us All. Social Flop. Failed Experiment: Anger at Wasted Efforts. Failed Test: Outrage at Costly Mistake

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21.07.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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O Canada? Yes. Troubled. But worth fighting for Canada’s Troubled, Ignite Your Fight. Angry? Fight for Canada’s Future. Canada Hurts, But We’ll Fight. Passionate? Save Troubled Canada. Love Canada? Fight Its Troubles. Heartbroken? Canada’s Worth Sa...

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21.07.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is Autogynephilia Being Celebrated During Pride Month? In his 1991 paper, β€œClinical Observations of Systematic Studies of Autogynephilia,” (AGP) researcher Ray Blanchard wrote that β€œ(t)he term autogynephilia denotes a male’s paraphilic tendency to be sexu...

www.newwesttimes.com/news/why-is-... #newwest #bc #canada

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Climate Change Is Reducing Fraser River Flood Risk Says New Westminster Mayor Patrick Johnstone Responding to concerns from the Quayside resident's association about a lack of Fraser River flood mitigation, New Westminster's Mayor Patrick Johnstone said that climate change had reduced the risk o...

Contrary to mainstream media fear mongering & hype, climate change reduces Fraser River flood risks, says #NewWest Mayor Patrick Johnstone. www.newwesttimes.com/climate-chan...

24.06.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does Harm Reduction Reduce Harm? β€œPeople have these unrealistic expectations like . . . we need to get [safe-injection users] abstinent and recovered … That so rarely happens to people that I don’t have those

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24.06.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BC Unions Hungry to Get Back In the News Biz Cleverly disguised as a grass-roots movement to β€œSave Our Local News,” Unifor, that claims to be Canada’s largest private sector union, has thrown the weight of its 320,000 members behind

"BC Unions Hungry to Get Back In the News Biz." www.newwesttimes.com/news/bc-unio... #newwest #burnaby #coquitlam #portmoody #portcoquitlam

18.06.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Free Our Kids When I was eight years oldβ€”the same age my oldest son is nowβ€”I would take my grandparents’ canoe out on the lake by myself. I pretended to be the proprietor

Free Our Kids. www.newwesttimes.com/culture/free... #vancouver #canada #newwest

18.06.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Modern Day Enslavement;" One Addict's Heartrending Story A decade and a half ago you would have found me in my illegal basement suite flat, desperately crawling around the carpeted lounge floor, tweaking for crack rocks I may

New columnist for our newspaper shares her compelling story. #NewWest www.newwesttimes.com/news/nationa...

13.06.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Westminster City Council Grapples with Community Concerns and Logo Controversy The New Westminster City Council meeting on June 9, 2025, was a marathon of public delegations, financial scrutiny, and heated debate over a new city logo, revealing both the city’s

#NewWest City Council Summary. www.newwesttimes.com/news/politic...

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New Westminster Mayor Patrick Johnstone Hit with Code of Conduct Complaint Alleging Online Abuse of Longtime Resident and New Westminster Times Editor David Brett Longtime New Westminster resident and the editor of the New Westminster Times, David Brett, has filed a formal complaint against Mayor Patrick Johnstone, under the city’s Code of Conduct for

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