The Valley Youth Partnership for Engagement and Respect (VYPER) winter newsletter is out. You’ll find lots of information on the exciting activities that VYPER has been involved with. You’ll be…
From Fair Vote Canada. The 2015 election is fast approaching and who we elect to fill those seats is critical. We need 170 YES votes (a majority) in the House…
The need to ramp up civic literacy is ‘critical.’ By Murray Dobbin. The Harper government’s pursuit of its odious Secret Police Act (Bill C-51) is just another chapter in the most through-going…
Lost without influence at City Hall, the old power structure seems to have simply taken to talking to itself. By Mike Archer. Making a silk purse of a sow’s ear…
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments in R. v. Smith, which concerns the scope of access to medical marijuana products under the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (“MMAR”)….
According to a report in the Abbotsford News Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce president Mike Welte told Abbotsford Council that businesses in Abbotsford “account for 31.6 per cent of the total…
Research shows the least expensive way to help homeless people is to provide them with a home. Despite years of research and reams of scientific research, Abbotsford chose criminalization and…
Film project highlights agricultural concerns about pipeline Submitted. Will the Fraser Valley be “directly affected” by oil-export pipelines? Do we put at risk highly valuable Fraser Valley farmland and salmon…
By Mike Archer. While the federal government cools its heels on instructions from the Supreme Court to come up with a new law on assisted-suicide, Abbotsford’s Margaret Bentley and her…
During the month of February Today Media published a series on the Abbotsford Police Department (APD) and its role in dealing with the marginalized and the homeless in Abbotsford. In…