The Conference Board of Canada is predicting that, while Eastern Canadian cities experience decline or slow growth due to their declining manufacturing base, Western Canadian cities are going to lead…
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Economic Development Grinds To A Halt. Fresh on the news yesterday that we still have the highest unemployment in Western Canada, it seems the rest of Canada appears to be…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. On June 12 the Abbotsford News wrote an editorial saying, “We are led to believe this was the work of a handful of lower level authorities in…
After a short stretch of less-bad news in 2011, when costs to Abbotsford taxpayers of the Abbotsford Heat and the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre (AESC) dropped from $3.4 Million…
By Mike Archer. It was interesting watching and reading the economic news Wednesday. The airheads on TV were fixated on the fact that the Dow Jones had hit its highest…
After Mr Stephen Butz, president of the YMCA in Vancouver, agreed to an in-depth interview with Abbotsford Today, a debate has been going on between Today columnist Walter Neufeld and…
By Mike Archer. While it is sad that the City of Abbotsford feels it needs to hide behind the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act when citizens and the media…