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Election candidates announced!

The deadline for candidacy for local office in Surrey has ended. Here’s the preliminary list of candidates for Mayor, Council, and School Board. Candidates can be legally challenged or can withdraw from the race for the next week. Mayor Viramjit … Continue reading

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Editor Paul Hillsdon running for School Board

Hey there readers of Civic Surrey! I, Paul Hillsdon, the creator of this site, will be running for Surrey School Board in the November municipal elections. As some of you may know, I ran back in 2008 for City Council … Continue reading

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Wither the Surrey Civic Coalition?

Last week, major political news broke when two Surrey Civic Coalition school trustees broke off from the left leaning political party to join the new, non-partisan coalition party Surrey Education First, modelled after Mayor Watts’ Surrey First team on City … Continue reading

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SD36 HQ making construction progress [pics]

The School District’s new headquarters, officially known as the District Education and Conference Centre, is getting closer to completion. The $40 million LEED Gold project consists of a four-storey, 125,000 sq. ft. building that will house administration, district education programs, … Continue reading

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Surrey election ’08 results

In order of most votes. Full results can be seen at the City’s website.  Mayor Dianne Watts (Surrey First) Council Judy Villeneuve (Surrey First) Tom Gill (Surrey First) Barbara Steele (Surrey First) Linda Hepner (Surrey First) Mary Martin (Surrey First) Barinder Rasode (Surrey First) Bob Bose … Continue reading

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