WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15, 2014
TRI-CITIES
Councillor has questions for CP
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RAILWAY CONCERNS
OLYMPIC HOPEFUL A skater will represent the
Tri-Cities at the Winter Games
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Serving COQUITLAM, PORT COQUITLAM, PORT MOODY, ANMORE and BELCARRA since 1984
TAX CHOICE IN POCO
A tax rate cut will come with a price NEWS 6
Road named for Trevor Wingrove NEWS 11
Permit issued for homeless shelter NEWS 11
DREAMSTIME
Coquitlam council voted Monday against allowing a medical marijuana facility to operate in Maillardville.
No break for grow-op DREAMSTIME
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CITY PUTS MEDICAL MARIJUANA FACILITY ON NOTICE
Sam SMITH
editorial@thenownews.com The City of Coquitlam is trying to shut down a grow-op in Maillardville whose four tenants were licensed by Health Canada to grow medical marijuana for personal use, but which never had a business licence from the city allowing it to operate. The tenants are represented by high-profile lawyer John Conroy, who has provided legal services to “Prince of Pot” Marc Emery, as well as the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver,
VANDU (the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users) and the BC Compassion Club. While Conroy is providing legal expertise to the unidentified tenants, he has not said they plan to sue the city. “It’s Health Canada that dropped the ball and didn’t work something out with the various districts and municipalities so there was proper inspection and so on,” Conroy said Monday afternoon at a council-in-committee meeting. Meanwhile, the landlord of the building — the address of which the Tri-Cities NOW has chosen CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
It’s a very large operation. –Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart
Dying without a will can turn a tragedy into a disaster. Preparing a thorough, well-planned will is one of those critical things in life that too many people put off until it’s too late. We all die, but it’s totally unnecessary to reach this point unprepared. Donald A. Drysdale
Don has a busy Wills and Estates practice. He also teaches courses on the subject of real estate, wills and estates.
Passing on without a clear statement of what is to happen to all you’ve built makes an already tragic situation even worse. I’ve helped thousands of families develop a thorough, tax effective estate plan. If you’d like my help, please call me.
www.dbmlaw.ca
604.939.8321
Good advice. Good Law. Good People