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No stone is left alone By Theresa McManus
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The Royal City is doing its part to honour soldiers who fought for freedom and to ensure that their acts of bravery aren’t forgotten. Launched in Edmonton in 2011, the No Stone Left Alone project aims to place a poppy on soldiers’ headstones across the county. It’s expected that more than 7,500 students across Canada will lay 51,827 poppies on soldiers’ graves in 100 cemeteries across Canada in time for Remembrance Day. “This is an amazing project,” said Karen Baker-MacGrotty, who spearheaded the initiative in New Westminster. Continued on page 8
PAYING HIS RESPECTS: Trevor Bodnar, 14, places a poppy on a veteran’s grave at Fraser Cemetery. Bodnar was there as part of No Stone Left Alone, a project launched in Edmonton in 2011 that aims to place a poppy on soldiers’ headstones. Karen Baker-MacGrotty spearheaded the initiative in New Westminster. PHOTO LISA KING
LOT OF ISSUES TO DECIDE
City dives into how to handle new pot rules How old should people be to legally smoke marijuana? Where should people be able to buy pot? What should the government do to address drug-impaired driving? These are some of the questions the city is pondering in preparation for the new federal Canna-
bis Act, which will make the production, sale and possession of non-medical cannabis legal across Canada by next summer. “I think council wants to actually approach the issue of legalization of cannabis very similar to how liquor sales and liquor consumption are controlled in the city. In the same way the city going to deal with applications for beer and wine stores, or even in
terms of how things are consumed in the public, at least that generally seemed to be where council’s direction was that would be the closest alignment of how we’d want to regulate it in New Westminster,” said Mayor Jonathan Cote. Council recently provided staff with feedback for a questionnaire being done by the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General regarding the regulation of non-
medical cannabis. Council members expressed a variety of views on cannabis, but generally agreed it should be distributed through a mix of private and government retailers. “Each of the individual councillors have various opinions regarding cannabis. Some similar, some different,” Cote said. “I think, from our perspective, the more interesting discussion will be once
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