By Abnor. I was wandering through Jubilee Park Saturday and I couldn’t help notice how empty it was. It made me wonder why Mayor Banman was so angry about homeless…
Mayor Banman this week struck a Task Force to solve homelessness in Abbotsford made up of the people who spent between six and ten years ensuring the homeless problem in…
From Meg Coughlan Hernandez: Les Barkman, Bill MacGregor, Bruce Banman and John Smith turn down $15.3 million for small low-barrier home for 20 homeless men. Discussing the homeless at a…
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…
Walter Neufeld has done the math behind Mayor Banman’s decision to go against the majority of council and torpedo the smallest low-barrier housing project in the history of the province….
doesn’t get much better… Walter Neufeld is known for his advocacy work as president of the FVRD Citizens Association and his work against the gravel industry lobby. He also founded…
From Wendy Bales. The Director for Area C of the Fraser Valley regional District showed us this week she has a sense of humour when she sent us this brilliant…
The Mayor, the ADBA and several citizens opposed to the ACS/BC Housing supportive housing proposal have repeatedly claimed that ACS ‘sneaked’ the proposal through without letting the ADBA or anyone…
The Abbotsford Homeless Crisis has taken many twists and turns and one of it’s major milestones occurs Monday Feb 17 when City council votes on the rezoning proposal by Abbotsford…
Citizens living downriver from Chilliwack are wondering when Abbotsford’s environmentalist councillor, Patty Ross, is going to stand up and protect them from Chilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz’s proposed toxic waste facility….