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…
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By Dave Loewen. The ACS Housing proposal has generated much discussion, but at the same time, there still appears to be a measure of cloudiness around two bylaws: 1. Bylaw…
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 Mike Archer. For anyone who thinks that Abbotsford Council’s unanimous decision to end it’s nine-year-old Anti-Harm Reduction Bylaw means an end to the City’s mistreatment of drug addicts and…
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….
By AmbrÖse Bierce. Councillor Dave Loewen has been Tweeting again. Recently he shared the good news (see below) about the comparative per capita expenditures on parks and recreation by BC…
By Mike Archer. In an Op Ed piece in the New York Times this summer, NYT columnist Paul Krugman wrote about people’s disengagement from the political processes which govern their…
Jubilee Park in Abbotsford has been the scene of some true ugliness when it comes to the way the city treats it poor, its homeless and its addicts but Saturday…
From Saturday afternoon at 4:00 pm to Sunday morning at 10 am Jubilee Park will be ground zero for a public event designed to raise awareness of the civil rights…