@rodmickleburgh@VaughnPalmer Not all the rules are about safety, many about the place running smoothly. People are more likely to bring those things than weapons, which go w/o saying, which is why theyβre more front and centre on the site. I assume you know all this and are just being contrary for sport.
Anyway, it does surprise me that you of alll people would pile on sending a message that "we're not going to provide needed health care for this group because they're a minority of trouble-makers who brought this all on themselves." Or do you not remember AIDS and the '80x
I notice you have nothing to say about any of the overdose-prevention sites operating elsewhere in the city. No voters or contributors there you need to appease?
Did you try at all to work out a good solution for both issues with Vancouver Coastal Health? Or did you all decide it was just a smart campaign move to block an OPS near some of your prominent donors and a voting pool you're trying to hang on to?
I would be interested to hear what the city did to ensure that people who need it can continue to get health care in a fixed location in the area with the second-highest death rate in the province, while also working on ensuring that location was not a magnet for public disorder
Peter - Just so surprised to see you doing this kind of thing to try to justify the ABC move to block the new overdose-prevention site on Helmcken. Focusing on spreading fear and encouraging the public to treat some people are anonymous sub-humans.
@RobTheHockeyGuy At the matches they have been 100% welcoming people to βVancouver Stadiumβ on the loudspeakers and referring to it that way when touting attendance, etc.
Your council voted against making it easier to build social housing across the city, paused supportive housing, want to use public land for high end market rentals, and voted against increasing the empty homes tax- which brings units on the market and funds affordable housing
Imagine how much youβd have to hate Canada to say we have a bad PM because heβs not quickly landing a deal with a capricious, insane, pedo, greedy, lying, petulant baboon. Imagine blaming the revered, educated and accomplished PM but not Donald. This is why Cons are reviled.
Disappointing News for Canada's most negative person - Pierre Poilievre. He's praying for a recession that is not happening. Perhaps he will meet a voter at an airport telling him we're in recession, despite assessments of Canadians who do math.
@MarcNixon24 Incredible that yβall think you have moral leverage or any semblance of what most of our civilized society think and feel. But, hey, fill your boots.