“Sometimes I think that being a social justice lawyer means getting up everyday and pushing as hard as you can against a really big mountain. Today we moved the mountain…
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The Abbotsford Police Departmet’s (APD) refusal to hand over documents to the BC Supreme Court because, according to the APD, the cost of surrending those documents could run anywhere from…
Abbotsford’s long standing tradition of criminalizing mental illness, alcohol dependence, drug addiction and poverty have to stop. Church leaders, business leaders and politicians in Abbotsford have either stood by and…
By DJ Larkin, Pivot Housing lawyer. Last Friday, the Chief Justice of the B.C. Supreme Court heard the City of Abbotsford argue that our Pivot-led lawsuit seeking to have access…
Jeff Gruban, of the Abbotsford Dignitarian Society (Abby Digs) made a presentation to the Abbotsford Chapter of the BC/Yukon Drug War Survivors on Tuesday, June 10, regarding the Abby Digs…
The City of Abbotsford has been engaging in, what Pivot Legal Society lawyer DJ Larkin refers to as, “considerable delay” in the trial regarding Abbotsford’s overnight camping bylaws which the…
A mixture of responses to the injunction to move out of Jubilee Park appeared to be in progress Saturday afternoon as some of those occupying the Drug War Survivors camp…
Elsiewhere in Abbotsford. THE SHERIFF (in New Westminster Court, December 17, 2013) “The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine.” Nurse Ratched, in the movie,…
By Mike Archer. There are people living in the battered, tattered and torn tents of Jubilee Park, huddled against the arctic wind, who would rather stay together in safety than…