By Mike Archer. The need for the kinds of economic development and planning changes on which Mayor Henry Braun as well as the AbbotsfordFIRST candidates campaigned has never been more…
From CMHC. The British Columbia economy is forecast to expand 2.8 per cent in 2015 and 2.9 per cent in 2016, compared to projected growth of 2.3 per cent in…
By James Breckenridge. Abbotsford has location, an international airport, the US border and the Trans-Canada Highway which are all assets that should make Abbotsford THE city businesses want to locate…
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…
By Mike Archer. So; Abbotsford suffers from six solid years of declining building permits, housing starts and employment numbers and the Abbotsford News doesn’t share much of that information with…
By Abnor. After a friendly soul bought me a coffee downtown I wandered across the railway tracks and over to the ‘MCC Dignity Village’ Teepee over on Gladys. Man those…
By Mike Archer. I’m continually struck by the fact that people refer to Abbotsford as a city of 140,000 people in a catchment area of 170,000 (which, for some reason,…
By Mike Archer. One of the terrible things which has happened to public discourse since the advent of the Mad Men of the last generation is that just about everybody…
By Mike Archer. There is no city in BC that has put so much of the cost of economic growth and development onto existing residential taxpayers as Abbotsford. There is…