Opinion. Demonstrating a deep and meaningful understanding of the day-to-day lives of Abbotsford’s homeless commnunity, Mayor Banman’s Task Force on Homelessness, when searching for a date for a closed-door meeting…
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By James Breckenridge.It isn’t the 8 years of ASDAC work disappearing into the Void of city hall, mayor and council. It isn’t the 2+ years prior to the creation of…
From Elsie K. Neufeld. Re: Into The Void – Hear, hear, James! He who knows homelessness from having lived it. I think it would be good for members of this…
Mayor Banman chose two councillors who have each grown long in the tooth watching the City and the Abbotsford Police Department (APD) take a criminal approach to social policy by…
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’….
The full court press put on by the Abbotsford News this week, in telling the power structure’s version of the Abbotsford Homeless Crisis, is reminiscent of the work they did…
By Jesse Wegenast. My name is Jesse Wegenast, and I am a pastor at The 5 and 2 Ministries. Earlier today, myself and Ward Draper (also with The 5 and…
By Mike Archer. As the community searches for positive outcomes to the Abbotsford Chicken Manure Homeless Incident one of those positive outcomes may be that residents have become more aware…
By Mike Archer. At last Wednesday’s Abbotsford Social Development Advisory Committee (ASDAC) meeting, Sheryl Guthrie, of The Guthrie Consultants Group Inc., asked what had happened to the Affordable and Accessible…
By Mike Archer. City Manager George Murray was quite clear that the City of Abbotsford intends to deal with its most public of embarrassments in decades – the Abbotsford Chicken…