From Wendy Bales. Did You notice? The FVRD Board Meetings Are Now Webcast. What a change in direction, given that most of the FVRD directors wanted to revert to destroying…
From Gerry Hiebert. A friend posted this article about addiction, which I found VERY interesting. “The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.” [excerpt] It is now…
This week Canada’s Minister for International Trade, Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, and MP for Abbotsford, Ed Fast, stood up to the United States and told them their ‘Buy America’…
Re: Georgia Straight’s column ‘Reasonable Doubt: Should the law protect the homeless?‘ “Hopefully the cases in BC Supreme Court, Small Claims Court and before the BC Human Rights Tribunal from…
From George Evens. Dear Prime Minister, MP, Premier, MLA, Opposition Party Leaders, Publishers, Editors, Reporters, Columnists, Talk Show Hosts, Mayors & Councillors, CEO/FRASER HEALTH, Mr. David Black, CEO & Mr….
By James Breckenridge. Given the current, and future, state of Fraser Mental Health and it’s funding it is vital that pains be taken to ensure that the reporting of the…
Dear Editor. The Mission Downtown Business Association has every right to be concerned when deja vu 1990’s is facing them directly in the face again. Citizens will recall early 1990’s…
By James Breckenridge. Earlier in the day [Thursday December 18, 2014] an inquiry had revealed that, do to a delay in processing paperwork, I would not have money to pay…
Dear Editor. Further to my recent recommendation to amend the current MOA which was entered into March 15, 2012 and would expire on or about March 15, 2017, I am…
Re: Hiring A Homeless Coordinator Is A Bad Idea – I have to disagree with some of this article. Not all persons who are homeless in abbotsford have “their own…