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October 25, 2026

The CONSERVATIVE party of BC swept last night's election.

Locally TREVOR HALFORD returns as MLA for White rock/South Surrey. Plus ALL the ridings in Surrey turned CONSERVATIVE BLUE

 

 

Planning to purchase a Resident Parking Decal or Permit?

Sales for 2027 Resident Parking Decals and Permits begin next week (November 2026.)

Decals and permits can be purchased online, or at White Rock City Hall at 15322 Buena Vista Ave.

 

The final round of voting for the BIA Awards is LIVE!

Nominate your favourite White Rock business that best represents these six categories:

- Community Engagement

- New Business

- Health & Fitness

- Professional Services

- Retail & Personal Service

- Food & Beverage

Voting is open from October 19 until October 30. Submit your vote at this link: https://whiterockbia.com/happening-now/

 

 

 

October 23, 2026

$275,00.00 Raised - RIDE ON!

Photo of Constable Godlien with Caitlyn

CONGRATULATIONS to White Rock RCMP  Constable Carly Godlien who participated in the 2026 Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast.

Cst. Carly Godlien rode in support of Caitlyn Sears, daughter of Cst. Sears, who was diagnosed with leukemia last year, as well as in memory of Cameron Bulger, the grandson of a Community Policing Volunteer who passed away

CARLY was one of 19 lower mainland RCMP officers and first responders who rode to raise funds to fight childhood cancers. The riders weaved their ways through the Fraser valley back in September over 5 days and raised $275,000.00.

In all, $1.75 million has been raised in communities across British Columbia through the Tour de Valley, Tour de Coast, Tour de North, Tour de Rock and Pedal for Hope, with the total expected to climb as more donations are counted.

 

October 22, 2026

Surrey May Get Its Own Charter

Every city in the Province of British Columbia is governed by the Community Charter. That is with the exception of Vancouver which has its own charter. Yesterday on a whistle stop in Surrey Premier EBY made the following promises:


BC NDP Leader David Eby spent the day in Surrey outlining his vision for the fast-growing city’s future. His plan will lower the cost of gas and groceries, strengthen health care, and get the big projects Surrey needs built–like new SkyTrain expansions and hospital infrastructure. 

“Surrey will soon be B.C.’s biggest city, and it’s at the heart of my vision for our province’s future. Building a stronger British Columbia starts right here,” said Eby. “Our plan is fully costed, so I can tell people in Surrey exactly what we’ll build. Mr. Doerkson can’t. He wants to ‘review’ the infrastructure budget, and he won’t say what gets cut.” 

Under the BC NDP, Surrey has received $12 billion in major projects, more than any other community. Those projects include the new Surrey hospital in Cloverdale, the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain, and the SFU Surrey medical school. All three are already under construction, and all three are funded through the infrastructure budget that BC Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson wants to review. 

Doerkson already promised to cancel the Massey Tunnel replacement, which is already underway and start over with a bridge. That would put hundreds out of work, sacrifice $3 billion in federal funding and leave commuters waiting even longer. 

“A growing city like Surrey needs a government that will build and hire – not a one that will cancel and fire,” said Eby. “People here have seen that movie before. It means deep cuts, higher costs, and chaos at the worst possible time.” 

Eby pointed to the record of the last conservative government. It tolled the Port Mann Bridge and left kids in overcrowded classrooms. And they sold the land for the second hospital in Surrey below its appraised value to a well-connected campaign donor. 

Eby also warned that Doerkson's agenda includes a secret deal with personal injury lawyers that would double car insurance, and billions of dollars in backdoor cuts to health care. 
“We’ve got a lot more work to do together. We can’t afford to go back to the days where people in Surrey bear the brunt of cuts and higher costs,” Eby concluded. 

David Eby’s vision for a stronger, more livable Surrey includes: 

  • Getting big projects done: A fully costed plan to complete the new hospital, the SkyTrain extension to Langley, and the new medical school. A re-elected BC NDP will also work with the mayor and council to build a SkyTrain extension to Newton and use the land offered by the city to build a new health care facility. 

  • Lowering the cost of getting around: Taking on big oil and suspending a portion of the gas tax to save people up to 30 cents a litre on gas. Per tank, that’s savings of as much as $20 for families for $116 of diesel for trucks. A re-elected BC NDP will also cap car insurance rates for another three years and offer free transit passes to low-income seniors.

  • Strengthening health care: Launching an accelerated "bridging to practice" training program to fast-track qualified international medical graduates living in B.C. into family medicine, committing to 3 new primary care clinics in Surrey, and aggressively recruiting health care professionals and doctors from the U.S. 

  • Getting homes built faster: Accelerate housing development by bringing in a new 30-day permit guarantee for small residential builds, standardizing technical codes province-wide, and partnering with the federal government to reduce development cost charges by up to 50%. 

  • Giving Surrey the tools to deliver: A Surrey charter with the same kind of authority Vancouver has. This gives local leaders more power to make faster decisions on housing, transit, and community services tailored to Surrey's growing population.

 

What Will The North American Time Zones Look Like?

 

 

October 18

Civic Election Results

 

Mayor

Vote for 1

Candidate Advance Voting Kent Street Activity Centre Centennial Arena White Rock Community Centre Mail Ballots Total Votes Percentage
SHIELDS, Chris 1169 571 468 1051 139 3398 58.37%
BAINS, Susan 797 433 300 771 122 2423 41.63%
Total 1966 1004 768 1822 261 5821 100%

Councillor

Vote for 6

Candidate Advance Voting Kent Street Activity Centre Centennial Arena White Rock Community Centre Mail Ballots Total Votes Percentage
TREVELYAN, Christopher 1231 591 447 1048 161 3478 12.12%
CORNALE, Laura 1046 540 433 1015 141 3175 11.06%
CHESNEY, David 967 507 383 877 147 2881 10.04%
MANNING, Anthony 1019 460 391 829 141 2840 9.90%
KING, Conrad 900 475 363 819 107 2664 9.28%
LAWRENCE, Bill 811 450 301 708 101 2371 8.26%
CHEUNG, Elaine 780 387 310 727 106 2310 8.05%
ELLIS, Tracey 733 312 319 675 75 2114 7.37%
MACDERMID, Fiona 622 308 259 630 86 1905 6.64%
KRISTJANSON, Scott 634 274 184 569 68 1729 6.02%
WARNER, Phillip 353 191 144 379 46 1113 3.88%
MILNE, Geoffrey 267 143 103 263 30 806 2.81%
BEDE, Steve 213 136 100 247 27 723 2.52%
OBEROI, Raj 170 131 91 178 19 589 2.05%
Total 9746 4905 3828 8964 1255 28698 100%

School Trustee

Vote for 1

Candidate Advance Voting Kent Street Activity Centre Centennial Arena White Rock Community Centre Mail Ballots Total Votes Percentage
LATTANZIO, Laura 659 460 332 729 80 2260 43.52%
REITER, Dee 841 349 275 651 108 2224 42.83%
WARNER, Phillip 225 115 99 232 38 709 13.65%
Total 1725 924 706 1612 226 5193 100%

 

Mayor

To be elected: 1 Elector Organization Votes %

McCallum, Doug

31.94%

 Safe Surrey Coalition 42741 31.94%
LOCKE, Brenda
23.08%
 Surrey Connect Public IA 30886 23.08%
STARCHUK, Mike
12.92%
 Imagine Surrey 17282 12.92%
ANNIS, Linda
12.39%
 Surrey First 16574 12.39%
VAN VLIET, Troy
11.28%
 SURREY NOW 15090 11.28%
RANDHAWA, Honveer Singh
7.93%
 Conservative 10610 7.93%
AMMONS II, Igal New Surrey+ 615 0.46%

 

Councillor

To be elected: 8 Elector Organization Votes %
BAINS, Harry
3.40%
 Surrey Connect Public IA 31362 3.40%
ELFORD, Doug
3.34%
 Safe Surrey Coalition 30833 3.34%
GILL, Meera
3.24%
 Safe Surrey Coalition 29883 3.24%
NAGRA, Mandeep Singh
3.22%
 Safe Surrey Coalition 29692 3.22%
GILL, Suhana
3.02%
 Safe Surrey Coalition 27820 3.02%
PATTON, Allison
2.94%
 Safe Surrey Coalition 27132 2.94%
GUERRA, Laurie
2.88%
 Safe Surrey Coalition 26554 2.88%
CLOKE, Cheney
2.85%
 Safe Surrey Coalition 26324 2.85%

 

At Friday's club meeting, Semiahmoo Rotary presented the second of 2 large cheques to Sources’ David MacIntyre as part of our pledge towards building The Foundry youth wellness project for our community.

The money comes from Semiahmoo’s main fundraiser, the Rotary Golf Tournament.

 

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Video of the Day

 

For everyone else who grew up in the Guildford area in the 60's and 60's.

Try to locate where your house used to be.

 

 

 

Thought for the Day

 

 

 

Recipe of the Week

We give DUDES COFFEE SHOP in Ocean Park a run for their money with these crowd pleasing chocolate chip cookies.

(click for the recipe)

 

 

Yell It Like It Is

We're Back....and we hope you don't mind that we brought a couple friends!

l-r Conrad King/Laura Cornale/David Chesney/Anthony Manning Christopher Trevelyan

Whew, another election run in the books. It doesn't get any easier.

Again I was under full attack.  

 The main thing is not only was I re-elected but our entire councillor team was fully endorsed by the residents of White Rock.  We told the residents what our vision was, and they said “OK let’s give it a shot.”

Unfortunately our Mayoral candidate SUSAN BAINS did not receive enough votes to anchor council.  CHRIS SHIELDS ran a very strong campaign, I cannot take anything away from him.  And I look forward to four years of Chris and councillor BILL LAWRENCE helping us to advance our vision and commitment to the residents of our city by the sea.

Up north n Surrey DOUG MCCALLUM returns as mayor. It didn’t surprise me.  I attended the SOURCES Surrey mayoral info session.  As much as I was impressed with MIKE STARCHUK and TROY VAN VLIET  it was obvious they lacked the huge machine that was pushing MCCALLUM to victory.  MCCALLUM’S victory will hopefully bring back a productive relationship between our two cities.  MCCALUM has full support on council with every single member of his slate elected with the exception of one outside councillor.  Doug will get things done, you may not like his style, but he is going to make changes.

Over Burnaby way, my fellow music industry veteran JOE KEITHLEY ( he of punk rock legendary band DOA) pulled down the most votes of any councillor.  Joe worked hard, trying for a number of years for not only civic but Provincial politics.  Zippy The Pinhead says “Am I elected yet?”  Indeed Joe, indeed.

Vancouver made an abrupt change in direction.  PETE FRY has always impressed me and I am happy to see he has the full support of his slate to run the city without all the BS that has inhabited local politics for the past term.


A young lady by the name of DELANEY MACK came to my attention this past term.  MACK was a Langley city councillor that came under full attack from her fellow council members as well as the sitting mayor PACHAL.  

Having been down the full attack road twice in my three terms I decided I would reach out and buy DELANEY a coffee.  What I found when we met was an incredibly passionate, intelligent and focused individual that truly loved her home in Langley and was concerned about its  future.  I was  stunned to learn she had literally spent every penny of her 4 term salary of just over $100,000.00 council reimbursement in order to take on the dark evil back stabbing forces of a council in opposition.  She is not independently wealthy but she had principles. It made my evening when I punched up the results for Langley and there she was MAYOR MACK with the majority of council on her slate.  Their future looks bright.

White Rock’s future excites me.  With the 5  members of the TOGETHER FOR WHITE ROCK team elected.  Our Wish is Our Command.

I respect the keenness of CHRIS SHIELDS for Mayor and through all the BS, slandering, backstabbing the past term of council,even though councillor LAWRENCE fell in lockstep with KNIGHT’S knights, I always commended BILL for his civility and professionalism that were very much in short supply for the other member of “The Knights,” but they're gone now never to return!

So cry me a river, gnash your teeth, jump up and down and question how the hell did this happen?

 Then sit back and watch the great things forthcoming for White Rock.  The market housing crash signifies we will not be navel gazing about high-rises for the next 4 years.

You can only imagine what we are going to do.

Stay tuned and come on down to a council meeting when we get back up and running in November.

We can do this TOGETHER!!!!

David Chesney

Editor/Publisher

Third Term Councillor

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Rock Firefighters Charity Association 

Spooky season = Smashing season!!

Join us at the WR fire hall the day after Halloween to smash your pumpkins and help support local charities. Look forward to seeing you all there!

 

All Games Start 5 p.m. our time

Game 1 - Brewers 3 / Tampa 2

Game 2 - Brewers 5 / Tampa 4

Game 3 Monday when the series moves to Florida

(Good thing we have Sunday NFL)

 

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