Patrick Penner

1 week ago | thespec.com | Patrick Penner

Port Moody’s 10th annual Ribfest has a specific fundraising focus: combating local food insecurity. The event remains the Rotary Club of Port Moody’s biggest fundraiser event, bringing in roughly $1 million since it was founded in 2015. “It’s absolutely our number one project. . . . It’s grown every year,” said Glen Brown, rotary member.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Patrick Penner

Port Moody is joining a growing chorus of local governments calling on the B.C. government to enshrine housing as a human right in provincial law. On June 10, city council unanimously endorsed a motion from Couns. Amy Lubik and Diana Dilworth to send a resolution to the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) convention this fall, asking the province to follow the federal government’s lead and formally recognize housing as a human right in legislation and future housing strategies.

1 week ago | pentictonherald.ca | Patrick Penner

A Coquitlam landlord must pay more than $36,000 to his former tenants after the B.C. Supreme Court upheld a Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) ruling that he took too long to move into the home he claimed for personal use. In a June 6 decision, Justice Sheila Tucker dismissed Harjinder Bhangal’s petition for a judicial review, ruling the RTB arbitrator’s finding – that Bhangal failed to comply with statutory timelines after issuing an eviction notice – was not patently unreasonable.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Patrick Penner

A new proposal to build a six-storey mixed-use building just steps from the Moody Centre SkyTrain station has been submitted to city hall, though staff caution the project may be trying to fit too much into too small a site. The application for 2805–2811 St. Johns St., which aims to rezone two single-family lots into a 52-unit mixed-use development, was before Port Moody’s land use committee on June 2.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Patrick Penner

A Coquitlam landlord must pay more than $36,000 to his former tenants after the B.C. Supreme Court upheld a Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) ruling that he took too long to move into the home he claimed for personal use. In a June 6 decision, Justice Sheila Tucker dismissed Harjinder Bhangal’s petition for a judicial review, ruling the RTB arbitrator’s finding – that Bhangal failed to comply with statutory timelines after issuing an eviction notice – was not patently unreasonable.