By Mike Archer. Councillors John Smith and Patricia Ross should be ashamed of themselves for insulting the citizens of Abbotsford with the draft report they produced as a result of their months…
By Mike Archer. I attended the public meeting last Thursday, hosted by the City of Abbotsford for the Abbotsford Dignitarian Society’d (ADS) proposal to build a Dignity Village style camp…
An all-too-typical situation has arisen which threatens to put a vulnerable woman on the streets of Abbotsford. Teneille Horning has been evicted from her apartment but has nowhere to go….
Until And Unless We Can Figure Out How To Help Our Homeless Population Within The Parameters Of Social Justice We Must Stop The Endless Persecution Of A Group People We…
“Battling Pivot Legal Society in court because they argue that housing is a human right is a waste of our tax dollars.” – AbbotsfordFIRST Electoral Society. Cover: DWS Protest TeePee on…
The cabin build for Abby Digs on the 23rd has been postponed until we can get everything ready to build. Probably in September. Many thanks to those who volunteered. We…
By Mike Archer and Nancy Weisz. Although the Abbotsford Dignitarian Society (Abby Digs) put out many requests for letters of support and collaboration, we have only received a very few…
Don’t You Dare Keep ‘Working With’ Roy By Mike Archer. Whoever wrote the line, “Roberts, who was not seriously injured, was taken to hospital for treatment and a mental-health assessment,”…
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…
By Mike Archer. It isn’t a matter of cost or inconvenience that the poor are not housed. It is a matter of intense belief, philosophy and intentional policy. It wasn’t…