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Dean McIntosh, 53, pleaded guilty to two offences — visiting a casino and staying out past his curfew — before PoCo provincial court Judge Shehni Dossa today (Thursday).

Police say 50-year-old unlawfully at large after failing to return from day pass to forensic psychiatric hospital

Numerous complaints about lack of delivery, communication and substandard merchandise

The judge ruled it didn’t matter that the battery was dead or that the driver was not using the phone.

The informal meeting will run from 7 to 10 p.m. at Coquitlam City Hall, and will not have a set agenda.

Port Moody city council will be the 21st B.C. municipality to send a letter asking major fossil fuel producers to pay for the damage inflicted by climate change.

Port Moody will consider a maximum of five cannabis stores in the first 12 months — once amendments to the city’s zoning and business licensing bylaws are adopted — after council approved a new corporate policy at its meeting Tuesday.

Both Port Coquitlam’s fire chief and mayor say significant wait times plague the system.

Ten licensed childcare centres in the Tri-Cities were investigated last fall by Fraser Health, including a Coquitlam facility where two children wandered away twice in the same week.

While the new Port Coquitlam recreation complex is shaping up from the outside, city staff are now making plans to outfit the interior for the first-phase opening later this summer.