Release. The Abbotsford Chapter of the BC/Yukon Drug War Survivors (DWS) announced today it believes that Mayor Banman’s Task Force on Homelessness is a sham and an insult to DWS…
By James Breckenridge. From 2006 – 2014 the recommendations of Abbotsford’s Social Advisory Committee to City Council were, in the words of members of the committee, ‘disappearing into a void’….
From Facebook. Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) remains committed to pursuing low barrier supportive housing in Abbotsford. Why? Here is one man’s story. I met John one morning as he was…
Dear Mayor Banman and members of Council for the City of Abbotsford: I have been involved in politics for close to sixty years. I have lived through food rationing, the…
By Mike Archer. It took Bruce Banman less than five minutes to shut down Henry Braun and demonstrate that his allegiance seems to lie firmly with the small group of…
By Mike Archer. It has been two weeks since Mayor Bruce Banman stepped in to kill the low-barrier ACS/BCHousing proposal for 20 homeless men. By some accounts, the blowback from…
By Mike Archer. If Abbotsford were to buck the trend of virtually every other municipality which has allowed homeless shelters in their downtown, and suffer lower real estate values for…
Opinion – By Mike Archer. It is an exceptionally controversial thing to say and many people involved in the day-to-day, hands on work with the homeless in Abbotsford have whispered…
Walter Neufeld has done the math behind Mayor Banman’s decision to go against the majority of council and torpedo the smallest low-barrier housing project in the history of the province….
doesn’t get much better… Walter Neufeld is known for his advocacy work as president of the FVRD Citizens Association and his work against the gravel industry lobby. He also founded…