Ray Farness Says: Tell me who in Abbotsford gets treated better then these people? They get free food,get to leave their junk in the street, commit crime and are not…
Re: Georgia Straight’s column ‘Reasonable Doubt: Should the law protect the homeless?‘ “Hopefully the cases in BC Supreme Court, Small Claims Court and before the BC Human Rights Tribunal from…
Nancy Gallagher of the Abbotsford Dignitarian Society (Abby Digs), together with the 5 and 2 Ministries, and Positive Living, has been running a committee to help sustain and manage the…
By Mike Archer. Last week we witnessed one of the ways people become homeless. A 75-year-old woman from Squamish, whose crime was to fall and injure herself, was ‘dumped’ at…
By Abnor. Sunday morning I wandered by the property Mayor Banman and ‘No-Permit-Paul’ want to re-zone so they can plop down the ACS/BCHousing proposal, which the two of them successfully…
From Jason Kidger. Regarding the landowner who owns the [Valley Road] property where the proposed cabins would go … wouldn’t it be beneficial to the homeless as well as the…
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…
Release. The B.C. government is funding the opening of an additional 30 shelter beds for men at the Harbour Lights complex in Vancouver operated by the Salvation Army, effective today. The…
By Mike Archer. Abbotsford Mayor Bruce Banman told the Abbotsford News that today’s ruling by the BC Supreme Court that his City’s decision to deny Abbostford’s homeless citizens their day in court is a…
Pivot Case Will Go Ahead BC Supreme Court chief justice Christopher Hinkson ruled today that the case against the City of Abbotsford brought by Pivot Legal Society on behalf of…