By AmbrÖse Bierce. The decision by Abbotsford City Council to create a whole new zoning for agricultural sales and retail (N36) in the middle of a residential-zoned area is a…
By Abnor. A week or 10 days ago there was a meeting with between the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) and Metro Vancouver. The meeting was the set up of…
News Item: Premier Christy Clark has long said, for Northern Gateway and other pipeline projects to be accepted by her government, it would need to meet five conditions, including world-class…
By Walter Neufeld. Many people now wonder what the City of Abbotsford has planned for the homeless this Easter. Recently it managed to hollow out the meaning of Christmas for…
By Abnor. It seems the talk about the City ending the Heat contract has put all the discussion of the City’s mistreatment of the poor on the backburner for a…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. Oh to be a fly on the wall in Mike de Jong’s office. Imagine what a kick in the knackers it must be to shove your weight…
By AmbrÖese Bierce. Who Do You Think You Are? That’s the gist of the correspondence I received this week and have decided to publish, unedited, because I think, whatever the…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. A number of Abbotsford business people have approached me over the last year asking me why the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce and the Abbotsford Downtown Business Association…
By AmbrÖese Bierce. It appears Bruce Banman has done such a mediocre job as mayor that almost the entire city council of Abbotsford is considering running against him in 2014….
By Abnor. While enjoying a quiet beer at one of my favourite water holes in Abbotsford (yes there are more than one) I was surprised to hear about the BC…