By Mike Archer. The City of Abbotsford, its police force, as well as members of its business community, its church community and its care community are all, whether they understand…
Last year Abbotsford Today published a satirical piece based on a number of reports that Justin P. Goodrich was running Mayor Bruce Banman’s re-election campaign. While we believed those reports…
By Shaheen Shivji. Over 100 concerned residents packed an Abbotsford school gymnasium on Thursday evening to learn about the Abbotsford Dignitarian Society’s (ADS) plan for a housing village for the…
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…
Mayor Banman’s Task Force on Homelessness has come under fire for a number of reasons of late. Most recently it was criticized for meeting on the very day that a…
By Mike Archer. Councillor Henry Braun, who announced his decision to run for mayor June 10, has enjoyed somewhat of a honeymoon with Abbotsford citizens since being elected to council…
On Thursday, July 31, 2014, the homeless men and women who lived by the Happy Tree were evacuated from Gladys Avenue after the City of Abbotsford had posted No Trespassing…
A Well-Orchestrated Removal Of An Annoying Problem In Banman’s War On The Homeless By Mike Archer. When Mayor Bruce Banman said that the City had learned from its experience with…
Editor’s Note: One of the central tenets of the Mayor’s Economic Action PLan was to take the task of providing economic development for the City away from the public eye…
By Mike Archer. If the BC Government needs homeless people removed from the legislative grounds in Victoria they call on the provincial police force – the RCMP – not the…