A New Front?
Homelessness, Poverty, Affordable Housing, Hunger are social issues about which Abbotsford City Council uses all the right buzzwords while accomplishing nothing – or at least nothing of a positive nature. Thus you have Olympic housing rolling through Abbotsford on its way to provide affordable housing in Chilliwack. And the opportunity of $11 million dollars of [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2012
Misconstrue
It is clear from Ms Patterson’s letter (below) that she fails to understand that the Heat are not the issue, merely evidence of City Hall’s financial mismanagement and flawed priorities. I really don’t care enough about the Heat as an organization to be either negative or positive about the Heat. On the other hand I [...]
Continue reading...8. April 2012
Panhandlers curbed in Abbotsford
Screamed the eye catching headline on the front page of the Abbotsford News Friday April 6 2012 edition. A headline that enticed me into reading the article, which brought to mind some thoughts on the clarification that currently manifests on the Abbotsford Today website. It would seem to me that if Black Press is concerned [...]
Continue reading...30. March 2012
Harm Reduction
Reading Simon Gibson’s recent comments on harm reduction had me wondering if someone ought to inform Mr Gibson that ‘I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out’ is a Joke, not a statement of reality. Change is uncomfortable, conspicuously so in instances necessitating changing one’s mind. It is far more [...]
Continue reading...19. March 2012
Ignored to Death
During a conversation several members of the homeless community posed a question of ethics, an ethical challenge about the behaviours and actions of the people, institutions and organizations in dealing with an individual – and the fact that these types of behaviours and actions were not unique to this individual. The ethical challenge applies not [...]
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16. May 2012
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