By Mike Archer. News from the BC Supreme Court this month on the homeless front did not provide a lot of hope for the City of Abbotsford or the APD…
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By Mike Archer. This now infamous video of the shooting of one of Abbotsford’s best known members of the homeless community, Roy Roberts, was shot April 16th, 2014 and shows…
UPDATED 4/22/2015, 16:45 Abbotsford Drug War Survivors Launch Major InitiativeTo Draw Attention To The Plight Of The Homeless In Abbotsford Abbotsford, BC 22/4/2015 – This week the Abbotsford Chapter of…
By Mike Archer. The City of Abbotsford has reportedly been involved in serious behind-the-scenes discussions since the beginning of January in order to follow through on Council’s direction to staff…
By Mike Archer. A lot of people assumed that, under the leadership of our new Mayor, and, with direction from council, the City of Abbotsford was trying to get out…
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…
From Facebook. Tomorrow, we’ll [Pivot Legal Society] be in the court of appeal defending a lawsuit seeking to protect the constitutional rights of homeless people in Abbotsford and arguing for…
The Abbotsford Police Departmet’s (APD) refusal to hand over documents to the BC Supreme Court because, according to the APD, the cost of surrending those documents could run anywhere from…
By Ron Kneebone, Meaghan Bell, Nicole Jackson,Kneebone, Ali Jadidzadeh. From The Homeless Hub In 2008, Calgary was the first city in Canada to institute a 10-year plan to end homelessness….
By Mike Archer. After another fire at the homeless protest camp on Gladys Avenue there will be more calls to do something about the situation. And so there should be….