By Mike Archer. The Abbotsford Police Department (APD) has suffered a great deal of criticism in these pages for their broken relationship with the city’s homeless population. It must be…
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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…
First came John Smith’s announcement to the national media that he had instructed the APD to handle homelessness in downtown Abbotsford; then the Abbotsford Shuffle – otherwise known as Chief…
Here we go again. Unable to find homes or shelter for the men and women who suffer from mental illness, alcohol dependence, drug addiction, poverty and other issues which make…
Submitted. The land along Gladys Avenue where camps have been set up for the past number of months is both public and private land. The Abbotsford Police Department (APD) has…
By Mike Archer. The tense standoff between Abbotsford’s homeless, the City and its police force had settled into a seven-month unofficial understanding which appears set to be blown assunder by…
Const. Ian MacDonald of the Abbotsford Po0lice Department (APD) this morning denied reports that a body bag was removed from the home on Gladys Avenue into which AFRS officers in…
UPDATED: 05/13/14 20:22 From Facebook – Thanks to Jeff Gruban and Paul MacLeod of the Abbotsford Dignitarian Society (Abby Diggs) Faye Bentley, whose tent and belongings were destroyed by fire…
While the world has grown accustomed to Abbotsford’s reaction to homeless camps taking the form of police raids, pepper spray and chicken manure, Saturday’s Gladys Road cleanup presented a different…
On Monday, January 13, Bruce Banman told CKNW that beds have been found for some of the homeless at the protest camp that was set up and then dismantled in…