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flowerishness · 5 months

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Hydrangea paniculata (panicle hydrangea)

This hydrangea is usually snow white in the summer but in the fall it becomes totally pinked-out. Personally, I think this dash of color makes it look more attractive at this time of year.

#flowers #photographers on tumblr #hydrangea #Music from the Big Pink #gardening #fleurs #flores #fiori #blumen #bloemen #New Westminster #Vancouver #Canada

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allthecanadianpolitics · 9 months

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With summer temperatures rising every year and the B.C. government handing out air conditioning units to vulnerable people, some renters in the province are being told by their landlords that they cannot have air conditioners.

Ryan Le Néal has been living in an apartment in New Westminster since 2008 and said he has been using a portable AC unit without issue for three years.

“The suites below me were vacant,” he told Global News when he moved in.

“No air conditioning or no insulation, nothing. And it was just heat radiating up through the floor. 38 degrees, almost touching 40 degrees Celsius, you know, and that’s even before we had the heat (dome).” [...]

Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid

#cdnpoli #British Columbia #New Westminster #tenants' rights #housing crisis #landlordism

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annapolisrose · 6 months

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Queen's Park band shell.

#queen's park #autumn #band shell #new westminster #autumn leaves #empty benches #greater vancouver #local #photographers on tumblr #original photography on tumblr

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rustiewilsontattoos · 7 months

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yakuza slowpoke by @rustiewilsontattoos

New Westminster bc

#slowpoke #pokemon tattoo #pokemon #anime #anime tattoo #japan #new westminster #Yakuza pokemon #Video game tattoo #gamer tattoo #nintendo tattoo #vancouver tattoo artist

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oldshowbiz · 9 months

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Susan Chew of New Westminster, British Columbia was at the center of one of Canada's most famous racial discrimination cases.

#new westminster #british columbia #front page challenge #cbc #canada #canadian #canadian history

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hubofeverything · 4 months

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This is the first time I've met fursuiters, back in 2022!

It's also an photo edit - I replaced my hooman self and composited the model of my wolverine fursona, Hubble, in. Then I matched the lighting and the white balance, and voila!

This was taken in New West Pride 2022. The two fursuiters beside me are RouterHyenaWolf and Myllo_Foxcoon (both on twitter).

I made this a while ago (Aug 22 2022) but I haven't showed it since I got burnt out. :P

It's not perfect, but I've gotten several people confused as to whether this photo is real or not, and I'm real proud of that.

#wolverine #gulo gulo #new westminster #pride parade #photo edit #photomanipulation #blender #blender 3d #furry art #furry #fursuit

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marleyhutchinson · 6 months

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New Westminster, B.C. 2023

#marleyhutchinson #New Westminster #Canada #2023

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 3 years

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“Lend Me Your Ears By R. D. BOUCHETTE,” Vancouver Sun. March 2, 1931. Page 6. --- There's Still Hope - Artistry Re-born - Sir Charles Chaplin - Trouble in Zion --- Those who fall to discern the tiniest gleam of hope for humanity, might pay a visit to the formidable grey fortress, which is the British Columbia penitentiary, on New Westminster's outskirts.

There, under the kindly but watchful eyes of Col. C. E. Edgett, the warden, is going on a process of human rehabilitation, of which we know very little. We, for the most part, are ignorant of it because we cease to interest ourselves in a man once he becomes a number. We forget that if the penitentiary fails to cure that man of his anti-social aliment we shall pay for it.

Warden Edgett's mission is not so much to punish the criminal, as to make him a law-abiding citizen. He does not, however, speak of it as his mission. He says it is the purpose of the Canadian penitentiary system.

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Facts speak for them selves, and how well Warden Edgett is succeeding in his work is revealed in the figures.

During his two years as "premier" of this limbo state, Col. Edgett has discharged 200 men from New Westminster. Two of them are again behind the highly-polished steel bars. Another two are in Oakalla. Four more are doing time in the United States.

This means that more than 90 per cent have reformed their lives. We know that they have reformed, for if they still followed lives of violence, sooner or later they would be in the hands of the police.

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Out at New Westminster penitentiary, last week, I saw George Paradise, serving a three-year term for selling narcotic drugs.

I remember speaking to Paradise two years ago at police headquarters, just after he had "beaten the rap" on a drug-possession charge.

"Why don't you quit taking dope?" someone asked him.

"Quit dope?" Paradise laughed bitterly. "You may take a child from its mother. but never will you take the love of that stuff from me."

Paradise was almost boasting. Less than a year later, in Assize Court, he asked the court to send him to the penitentiary so that he might be cured of his lust for drugs.

Paradise was a sign painter and artist. When I saw him at the prison last week he was in the church, paint brush in hand. He had completed a mural design, a background to the altar. He looked quite happy. He has gained about 20 pounds in weight. His eyes are clear.

He glanced proudly at his work. "I haven't done anything like that for 20 years," he said.

Then he showed me toys he had fashioned with his hands. There was a mechanical turtle, an elephant which raised and lowered its trunk when it was moved, several reproductions of Spanish galleons. Last Christmas Paradise made scores of children happy with the toys he constructed.

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Paradise, now, does not feel that he wishes to retain the love of narcotics. He has never been more content in his life.

"How are things outside?" he asked me.

I said they were "not so good," there was a lot of unemployment.

"I guess I ain't missing much," said he.

In England they are talking about knighting Charlie Chaplin, the prince of pantomime. It strikes me as being a pretty good idea. Surely, if a man deserves a knighthood for brewing beer or distilling whisky or manufacturing soap, it is not unfitting to reward him for creating Iaughter. Compared to some knights I know, Chaplin could handle an earldom very nicely.

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Mark Hellinger has story for those who "like their irony served piping hot." It is about a Jewish real estate man who, in boom years, built three very white apartment houses in New York.

Along came the depression and our real estate man found himself with three very large and very white elephants camped upon his bank account.

The sad part of it is that he cannot live in any of the apartments himself. They are restricted against Jews.

#vancouver #new westminster #british columbia penitentiary #coercive rehabilitation #rehabilitation #life inside #sentenced to the penitentiary #reformation #dope addict #illegal possession of narcotics #charlie chaplain #antisemitism #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #prisoner autobiography

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robmoses1 · 1 year

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Together New West

I was walking down the street in New Westminster one night taking pictures. I couldn’t help but notice the sign from across the street. There were cars parked on the street so I couldn’t shoot a photo of the entire painting from the other side of the street, that would have been ideal. On top of that I only had a 50mm lens with me so this was as wide as I was going to get haha. I’m actually happy…