Helping problem gamblers avoid temptation Submitted. We all struggle with willpower when dealing with our addictive tendencies. Keeping our hand out of the cookie jar if we’re dieting. Staying away…
Release. The B.C. Government, through its three-year Provincial Domestic Violence Plan and A Vision for a Violence Free BC strategy, recognizes the need for relevant services and supports to prevent…
By Mike Archer. Former Mayor Bruce Banman once told me it was awfully hard to put a positive spin on the Abbotsford economy with Abbotsford Today publishing the monthly unemployment…
UFV conference opens international dialogue on positive change in communities By Nadine Moedt (The Cascade). Two years ago, UFV’s social work faculty envisioned hosting an international conference to facilitate a cross-cultural…
Research suggests the answer is deeper than apathy or laziness. By Geoff Dembicki, Julie Van de Valk is just the type of young person that Canada’s major progressive political parties want to…
The Vancouver Observer is reporting that a University of Victoria chemical oceanographer has detected miniscule amounts of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of the BC coast. [excerpt] Radiation from the…
By George F. Evens. Homelessness alludes to the comprehensive problem and its many causes, which to most, is so overwhelming it poses barriers to remedy and sadly the political will…
By Catherine Sas, Q.C. Canada’s new immigrant selection system for economic immigrants, Express Entry came into effect on January 1, 2015 and has dramatically changed our immigration program. What used…
Friday, on the Abbotsford News, Alex Butler wrote: “Before the case went to the Court of Appeal, Const. Ian MacDonald told The News that there were real costs to having…
The Vancouver Observer is reporting that BC’s sturgeon fishers are upset over the gravel excavations on the Fraser River near Seabird Island. Sturgeon anglers despair over mining of Fraser River…