I get interesting email ideas and questions from students spanning grade school to university about homelessness, addiction and mental health. This is due to the fact that if you google Abbotsford and homelessness, at or near the top of the results is homelessinabbotsford.com with its email link to me.

Below is a letter sent to me via www.homelessinabbotsford.com by Anonymous.

One size does not fit all. BC Housing is in the process of forcing the Emergency Shelter in Abbotsford to switch to a 24/7 (hours/days) schedule and adopt operational policies dictated by BC Housing.

… Your first reaction to a report from your own handpicked advisers is
to make excuses rather than consider and address the issues they highlight as
needing action. Exactly what happened with the report released December 13, 2007.

Having a firmly held world view based on one's Ideology is like travelling
through life and the world around you wearing a set of blinders. It narrows
your vision down to tunnel vision, denying one a full and true view of the real
world existing around you.

"Are you spending Christmas with family?"

With my sisters in the Toronto area and my brother in Newfoundland the answer would appear to be "No", but is that true?