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sleepy,” said Howell, who assumed her puppy was tired because they had taken a twohour walk that morning.
With two weeks left in B.C.’s mail-in referendum on electoral reform, the Tri-Cities’ voter turnout is trailing most of the province. While 6.5% of ballots were returned across B.C. as of Wednesday, only 1.7% of registered voters in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody had mailed in their packages. But the low turnout may not necessarily be a sign that Tri-City voters are procrastinating, according to Maria Dobrinskaya, a spokesperson for the Vote PR campaign, which supports a shift to proportional representation. “A number of those folks didn’t get their ballots until well into the second week of distribution,” she said, noting parts of Vancouver Island and rural communities received their ballots earlier. “We are seeing higher returns in areas that received their ballots the week of [Oct. 22] as opposed to those that have just arrived.”
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Dina Howell with Rosie near the location at the Dr. Charles Best secondary school field where she suspects her eight-year-old Labrador ingested marijuana.
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Pooches & pot don’t mix, Coq. dog owner finds Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News
Pot and pooches don’t mix. Dina Howell found that out the hard way last weekend —
and so have many other TriCity residents in recent years. Howell had Rosie, her eightmonth-old black Labrador, on a leash while she was watching her daughter’s soccer
labs is they eat everything that smells good,” said the Coquitlam resident. “Dogs are quick to pick up anything.” When they returned home, Rosie started looking “super
game at the field at Dr. Charles Best secondary school when she noticed Rosie licking something off the ground, but didn’t think much of it. “The only problem with
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