UPDATED 12/06/13 – The Abbotsford Chicken Manure Homeless Incident went from just getting international coverage last week to being listed in Harper’s Magazine’s Weekly Review of world events.
- Harper’s Magazine (Weekly Review)
- Sun Media
06/06/13
From Walter Neufeld on Facebook. Abbotsford’s public display of chicken shit governance spread worldwide.
Walter Neufeld shared the fact the Independent newspaper in the UK has now covered the Abbotsford Chicken Manure Homeless Incident taking the coverage, so far, from local to provincial to international for a City badly in need of a break when it comes to its reputation.
Abbotsford City Council: Public display of Chicken Shit governance spread worldwide
[excerpt]A local authority in Canada has apologised after dumping chicken droppings in an attempt to drive away homeless people.
According to CBC, the ploy – near Gladys Street, in Abbotsford – came to light when homeless activist James Breckenridge wrote a column about it on the Abbotsford Today website titled “This stinks.”
Breckenridge told The Tyee website: “Besides the dumbness of using chicken material in light of bird flu and then the big avian kill we had here not that many years ago, this camp is beside one of (the) major thoroughfares: there’s a set of railroad tracks and this is a path that most people use to cut across it.
“So you’ve got all this material being gone through by all these people and tracked all over the place in the city.”
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Mayor Banman says “the responsibility lies with the Mayor
and City Manager.
I say, “what about council member/s, who were likely approached
by the business community about moving the homeless from this
location?
Mayor Banman, says “it was a lack of communication.”
I would say more like a case of city staff/committee member/s
and Councillor/s going over the head of the Mayor and taking
matters into their own hands, something, which seems to be
the “normal way of doing business” at #Abbotsford City Hall.
It appears the a person/ people involved in development in this city,
at the City Hall level and Business community, who is/ are desperate
to drive development in this city is/are now the very person/people, who
have put our city in a negative light, once again!