By AmbrÖse Bierce. The decision by Abbotsford City Council to create a whole new zoning for agricultural sales and retail (N36) in the middle of a residential-zoned area is a…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. This summer the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), despite a steady stream of hot air from the Fraser Valley Regional District’s (FVRD) reigning pseudo-environmentalists, gave permission to…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. With the announcement this week that the AbbotsfordFIRST Society is a new force with which to be reckoned in municipal politics in Abbotsford, Abbotsford Today is going…
Dear Editor. The commentary by AmbrÖse in your paper alludes to an ongoing existing perception about ‘Factory Farming’ and in turn local media’s lack of attention afforded to less than…
By Ambroese Bierce. So; just as everybody left town for Spring Break, Mayor Bruce Banman let a little press release slip out announcing he had struck a Task Force on…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. Oh to be a fly on the wall in Mike de Jong’s office. Imagine what a kick in the knackers it must be to shove your weight…
By Walter Neufeld. Abbotsford Today published an anonymous letter recently by a writer who challenged the legitimacy of Ambroese Bierce’s ongoing critique of Abbotsford’s local government for, “…decisions we’ve made in…
By AmbrÖese Bierce. Who Do You Think You Are? That’s the gist of the correspondence I received this week and have decided to publish, unedited, because I think, whatever the…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. A number of Abbotsford business people have approached me over the last year asking me why the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce and the Abbotsford Downtown Business Association…
By AmbrÖese Bierce. It appears Bruce Banman has done such a mediocre job as mayor that almost the entire city council of Abbotsford is considering running against him in 2014….