Good Jobs And Real Economic Growth
By Mike Archer. The need for the kinds of economic development and planning changes on which Mayor Henry Braun as well as the AbbotsfordFIRST candidates campaigned has never been more apparent. A...
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Homelessness Is Not Some Horribly Complex Problem
1, 2, 3 to Ending Homelessness By James Breckenridge. To End Homelessness the number of homeless permanently housed must exceed the number of new homeless over a given time period. And you must focus...
View ArticleEnough
By Mike Archer. After another fire at the homeless protest camp on Gladys Avenue there will be more calls to do something about the situation. And so there should be. Cover photo: Roy Roberts’ home at...
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Making A Silk Purse Of A Sow’s Ear
Lost without influence at City Hall, the old power structure seems to have simply taken to talking to itself. By Mike Archer. Making a silk purse of a sow’s ear just seems to come naturally to the old...
View ArticleBill C-51 Reveals Harper’s Inner Bully
The need to ramp up civic literacy is ‘critical.’ By Murray Dobbin. The Harper government’s pursuit of its odious Secret Police Act (Bill C-51) is just another chapter in the most through-going and...
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Sandra McMartin – Seeing The World Through Her Lens
By Arts Editor Doreen Jung. It is really in the details. For photographer, Sandra McMartin, details are the key to the fascination that a subject holds for her. [Click On Image For Full Story] This has...
View ArticleIt’s Called Justice, Alex
Friday, on the Abbotsford News, Alex Butler wrote: “Before the case went to the Court of Appeal, Const. Ian MacDonald told The News that there were real costs to having police collect the documents,...
View ArticleHomelessness – Complex If You Won’t See The Solutions
By George F. Evens. Homelessness alludes to the comprehensive problem and its many causes, which to most, is so overwhelming it poses barriers to remedy and sadly the political will has not existed...
View ArticleI Wish It Were About Buses
By Vince Dimanno. I would really like this column to be about buses and transit. But its not. Politics seems to be getting in the middle of what should be a simple service provided to the people of...
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They’re Just Facts
By Mike Archer. Former Mayor Bruce Banman once told me it was awfully hard to put a positive spin on the Abbotsford economy with Abbotsford Today publishing the monthly unemployment figures which have...
View ArticleParks and Recreation in Abbotsford
During the last election, if you followed the Abbotsford FIRST campaign, you will have heard from us an endless stream of facts and figures about how our City spends the money it collects from you. In...
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Patricia Ross Gets It Wrong Again
On August 26th, the cover story of the Abbotsford News shouted the hard line stance of Councillor Patricia Ross demanding guarantees before pipeline construction could begin (the Kinder Morgan Trans...
View ArticleSmall Business and Abbotsford
Recently, Abbotsford was nominated for an award by the Province of BC in honour of our efforts to welcome small business to our community. Reducing bureaucracy and red tape when in the process of...
View ArticleReally, Really Don’t Want to ‘Ear That
By James Breckenridge. You don’t want to hear a mob boss telling his people to ‘take care of you.’ You also don’t want to hear, if you are among those homeless in BC, Rich Coleman utter the words ‘take...
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