Jeepers. Surrey Monday night council now adjourned to Wednesday night after meeting collapses just minutes out the gate. Never seen anything like it in more than 30 years of reporting in Surrey.
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Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum had 22 resident speakers disconnected during Monday night's council public hearing, 12 of whom called for his resignation. The last speaker called him "worst mayor ever."
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Surrey residents will have their say on a binding referendum on Surrey’s controversial policing transition after Elections BC has approved an initiative petition application that has been launched by the widow of a Surrey murder victim.
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Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified the 5 stages of grief as denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke appears to have reached Stage 5 related to the policing transition. .
Rough start to Surrey Monday night council meeting. Calls for Mayor Doug McCallum to resign. He says no. Much heckling; he calls a recess and we're what, seven minutes in?
A group of Surrey Mounties standing outside Locke's party at the Mirage banquet hall in Cloverdale had "no comment" about the results but smiled at the question.
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke issues "sincerest" apology to 7 residents who were banned from participating in person in council meetings under former mayor Doug McCallum's watch.
Brenda Locke says if she's elected as Surrey's mayor, along with her Surrey Connect team, the city's transition to the Surrey Police Force from the RCMP will come to a "screeching halt."
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Resident calling in to Surrey Public hearing on Monday night: "Mr. Mayor, I'm tired of you cutting people off..."
Mayor: "Next speaker."
She was the third cut off tonight, the fourth being the fellow right after her.
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Assistant Commissioner Brian Edwards, in charge of Surrey RCMP, is expected to deliver a presentation re the "framework for maintaining the RCMP as the police of jurisdiction in Surrey" to council Monday. Corporate report not yet posted to city's website.
Surrey’s general manager of finance Kam Grewal told council Monday that Surrey taxpayers would’ve had no tax increase in 2024 had the Surrey Police Service not existed, and the city was “still in the RCMP-only world.”
Former Surrey mayor Bob Bose slamming Mayor Doug McCallum on the Uber file, claiming McCallum “clearly over reached his authority and has exposed the City to potential damages.
"He, McCallum, has become an embarrassment for the City, regionally and nationally,” Bose charges.
Locke says until Farnworth "understands that under the Community Charter I have a responsibility, and a requirement and an authority, he is actually declaring war on the city of Surrey. I’m appalled at the behavior of this solicitor general."
From Asst. Comm. Brian Edwards, Surrey RCMP: "Surrey RCMP is aware of a photograph of protected police information shared by the Surrey Police Union on social media. The matter has been brought to the attention of Surrey Police Service to initiate and conduct an investigation."
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke sang the praises of the Surrey RCMP on Monday night after viewing the city’s first-quarter crime statistics for 2024: “It will come as no surprise to many that crime continues in Surrey to trend down under the RCMP’s watch.”
Weird. Earlier today Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum's public mischief fix date for trial was adjourned to April 21. Several hours later, a 7-day trial is now set to proceed Oct. 31, with dates to be "formally confirmed" by JCM next week. I'll say it again: Weird.
Mayor Brenda Locke concerned Surrey taxpayers could potentially be on the hook for $500M related to SPS replacing RCMP if costs surpass the up-to $250 million the provincial NDP government has earmarked under an agreement struck earlier this month
Fireworks at Surrey council meeting tonight. "You are not a very good example of a mayor," Councillor Steven Pettigrew tells Mayor Doug McCallum.
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South Surrey MLA Elenore Sturko says Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth is unable to tell Surrey residents what policing in their city will look like in six months.
Surrey Police Service offering $10K signing bonus to the first 10 experienced constables who sign up for frontline patrol duty with the fledging police force as it readies itself to replace the Surrey RCMP as the city's police of jurisdiction on Nov. 29.
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke is threatening to call for an inquiry Monday night into the city’s policing transition debacle after discord between herself and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth went from somewhat heated to volcanic on Monday morning.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered the City of Surrey to rewrite its constentious political signage bylaw after a group of Surrey residents challenged its constitutionality in court.
Surrey Councillor Brenda Locke presented a lengthy notice of motion tonight calling for a referendum on the Surrey Police Service but Mayor Doug McCallum ruled it out of order and adjourned the meeting. "Oh my gosh," was Locke's response.
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Locke says she and her team have a "great plan" to keep the Surrey RCMP as the city's police of jurisdiction. "We will not leave any of the SPS officers behind, we will pick them up."
Surrey council meeting starts with Coun. Doug Elford asking Mayor Brenda Locke to resign. "OK, finished?" Locke replied. "Great." And then she asked that the agenda be adopted.
Sebastian Sajda explains why boxes containing 800 pairs of jeans are being donated to MCC Thrift Shop in Surrey and what it has to do with a legal fight with the City of Surrey.
Hope Latham, public affairs officer for B.C.'s Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, says "No OIC (Order-in-Council) has been deposited in relation to the Surrey police force."
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Former Surrey mayor, flanked by elected Safe Surrey Coalition councillors Mandeep Nagra and Doug Elford, on the 84 Avenue connection and other projects "that need to be done."
Assistant Commissioner Brian Edwards: "In addition, Surrey RCMP is simultaneously investigating the origin of the photograph and will conduct a security review of the incident."
Doug McCallum’s fate now in the judge’s hands. Judge Reginald Harris will render his decision on the former Surrey mayor's public mischief charge on Monday, Nov. 21.
Out for my walk today, constantly stepping aside for
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who have this you-move-I'm-not attitude. Getting tired of being the only adult on the sidewalks.
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