From Observation Re: “CBC Focuses On Abbotsford Political Issues CBC’s story reports that Abby’s unemployment in 2012 was 10.5%. They go on to say it is now over 8 %…
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Comment Of The Week – Claudia Evens Says: [In reference to That’s The Whole Problem Mark, Dave]Gerda, I don’t always agree with you but just being able to say that…
Abbotsford’s long standing tradition of criminalizing mental illness, alcohol dependence, drug addiction and poverty have to stop. Church leaders, business leaders and politicians in Abbotsford have either stood by and…
By Dan Levitt. Tom Watson, who turned 65 this month, made the cut at the 2014 British Open and finished at 1-over par, 18 strokes behind the Open champion Rory…
In elections past we’ve watched as the vote against the power structure candidates who many believed were doing so much damage to the community was split among such a large…
From Gerda Peachey. Thank you Mike, for hammering away on this business of ‘closed meetings’. All government business should be considered the business of those who pay for the elected…
… what an ostentatious start to the mayoral race. One of the serious contenders starts his campaign with an unidentified survey. (Unless of course there is a serious 3rd contender)….
By Wendy Bales. At its March 3rd /14 meeting, Mission Council unanimously carried to third reading an end to our community’s moratorium on barging, and also the industrial rezoning of…
By Walter Neufeld. Re: Banman Determined To Fight For Right To Discriminate Against Homeless, Mayor Banman claims, “…the city [he] won’t be dropping the controversial anti-loitering bylaws,” and yet the…
By Jim Sinclair, President, B.C. Federation of Labour. Recently I was able to visit with workers from Cascade Aerospace. When the company is in operation, it is one of the area’s largest…