FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, October 14, 2026 SURREY, BC — Mayor Locke has entered her fifth full day of hiding from the media and questions about her involvement in the termination of former Police Chief Norm Lipinski. As more facts come out, Mayor Locke needs to come clean on exactly what she
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, October 14, 2026 SURREY, BC — Mike Starchuk today committed to defend Surrey’s libraries: longer hours, new branches in the neighbourhoods that have none, and a commitment in writing that no politician at City Hall tells a librarian what belongs on the shelf. Surrey’s Conservative Party and
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, October 14, 2026 SURREY, BC — Young British Columbians for Better Governance (YBC4BG) has endorsed Mike Starchuk for mayor and the full Imagine Surrey council team, three days before Surrey votes. The youth advocacy non-profit backs municipal candidates who put young voters’ priorities first. It says Starchuk’s plan gives
By Sobia Moman Incumbent Surrey mayor Brenda Locke is facing renewed scrutiny days before the election about what advance knowledge, if any, she had earlier this year when the police board moved to terminate then-Police Chief Norm Lipinski at a closed meeting. Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk noted Tuesday that
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, October 13, 2026 McCallum and Locke scandals put them in Annis’s company. Starchuk says that Surrey deserves better than this chaos. SURREY, BC — Surrey’s election campaign escalated to new heights on Tuesday evening as new information has come to light on Doug McCallum and Brenda Locke.
We need 50 km of new sidewalks. I’ll build them. By Kevin Wilkie I’m a new dad. This year I learned something about Surrey I hadn’t noticed in 30 years of living here: how many streets have no sidewalk at all. You notice it fast with a stroller. You notice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, October 13, 2026 BRENDA LOCKE’S COUNCILLOR CHAIRED THE MEETING WHERE LIPINSKI WAS FIRED. WHAT DID HE TELL HER? SURREY, BC — Mike Starchuk today asked Surrey Connect Councillor Rob Stutt to tell voters whether he discussed Chief Norm Lipinski’s employment with Mayor Brenda Locke before the Surrey Police
Brenda Locke’s pants are on fire. Let’s put it out this Saturday. By Mike Starchuk I spent my working life in the fire service. You learn early that when the story changes every time you ask, something is still burning. Brenda Locke’s story about the firing of Surrey’s police chief
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, October 12, 2026 SURREY, BC — In an extraordinary admission at the CKNW Surrey Mayoral debate, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke blurted out, “I knew that they had an important meeting” in the lead up to the firing of Norm Lipinski. She further said that she did “not
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESunday, October 11, 2026 SURREY, BC — In a single hour on the CKNW Surrey mayoral debate on October 9, Mayor Brenda Locke gave three different accounts of what she knew before the Surrey Police Board fired Chief Norm Lipinski. Asked directly by host Jas Johal whether she
