Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁

Proud ‘dad’ of a dog named ‘Ed’ Former assistant ND at Global News Kingston. Recovering alcoholic. Gave up cigarettes, too.

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@IsaMary2021 Looks like quite the adventure!

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@rachaelsdrkside Hope you’re okay.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

My thoughts...

Canada wants to end homelessness within 10 years. For context, here's what Finland accomplished and how much work Canada has ahead of us to achieve this goal.

Finland introduced Housing First in 2008 and reduced homelessness by approximately 57% over 15 years. That's an incredible accomplishment, but it also shows how much time and commitment this takes.

Canada is facing a severe housing shortage, rising rents, increasing homelessness, and a lack of adequate mental health and addiction supports.

We need affordable housing, supportive housing with proper services attached, and investments in preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place.

And we need all three levels of government working together, regardless of political affiliation.

Here's something I think people need to understand.

It's not just about how many people we get into housing. It's about making sure we're housing people faster than others are becoming homeless. I'm hopeful, and I want to see this succeed.

However ending homelessness requires more than a 10-year promise, it requires a 10-year commitment backed by action, funding and accountability.

Homelessness isn't inevitable, it's a problem we can solve if we have the political will to do it!

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

When it comes to reducing homelessness, Canada can learn a lot from Finland. 🇨🇦🇫🇮

Finland stopped treating housing as something people have to earn and started treating it as the foundation for rebuilding lives.

Through its HOUSING FIRST approach, they work with individuals to provide stable, affordable housing while addressing their unique needs, including mental health, addiction, employment, and community support.

People aren't required to get sober, find employment, or complete treatment before receiving housing. And the results speak for themselves.

Research has found that approximately 80–90% of participants successfully maintain their housing, giving them the stability to work toward recovery, employment, better health, and rebuilding their lives.

Finland has also achieved major long-term reductions in homelessness.
Housing creates stability. Stability creates opportunity. Opportunity creates hope.

You don't end homelessness by demanding people fix their lives before giving them a home, you give them a home so they have a chance to rebuild their lives.

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

Hey @cityofkingston council, pay attention to this. @glenn_conny

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

When it comes to reducing homelessness, Canada can learn a lot from Finland. 🇨🇦🇫🇮

Finland stopped treating housing as something people have to earn and started treating it as the foundation for rebuilding lives.

Through its HOUSING FIRST approach, they work with individuals to provide stable, affordable housing while addressing their unique needs, including mental health, addiction, employment, and community support.

People aren't required to get sober, find employment, or complete treatment before receiving housing. And the results speak for themselves.

Research has found that approximately 80–90% of participants successfully maintain their housing, giving them the stability to work toward recovery, employment, better health, and rebuilding their lives.

Finland has also achieved major long-term reductions in homelessness.
Housing creates stability. Stability creates opportunity. Opportunity creates hope.

You don't end homelessness by demanding people fix their lives before giving them a home, you give them a home so they have a chance to rebuild their lives.

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@guyfelicella Definitely!

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@charlesadler So sorry for your loss, Charles. Take care.

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

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can help protect
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and though you
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this applies to you too

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@IsaMary2021 Sleep well pal! You have earned it after all that play time!

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

Seems to me the @cityofkingston needs a re do on this.

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[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@maximumperry @LakotaMan1 What Perry said!

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@YGKRogue He had nothing to lose. He can go be whimsical at his day job now.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The ruminant family, and the one job each of them does that nothing else on earth can.

The cow turns a wet hillside into beef and milk, and leaves the soil better than she found it.

The sheep grows a fireproof, waterproof, compostable coat every year, out of grass and rain, and then gives it away for the price of a haircut.

The goat eats the bramble, the scrub and the invasive weed that strangles everything else, and asks only for a weak point in the fence.

The water buffalo makes the milk that becomes real mozzarella, standing in marsh a cow would sink in.

The yak gives milk at an altitude that would kill a lowland animal in a week, and carries your bags up there as well.

The reindeer feeds and clothes entire peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss, in the dark, for months.

The bison built the deepest soil on the planet by walking across it and eating.

Seven animals, one gift each, and not one of them can be replaced by a crop, a machine or a sachet.

Every one of them is classed, this decade, as a liability on a spreadsheet by somebody who has never been cold.

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@ForMYCanada Sorry, but it’s not. IMO

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@Feisty_Waters Thank you!

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@BertsLegacy Good for you! Well done!

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@Swordwall Me too, until at least after the orange turd 💩 and his admin are gone.

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@PrabSarkaria You and @fordnation are F’ing idiots.

[Mark Ladan 🇨🇦🍁 @mladan]

@rachaelsversion Cute kitty. Ed approves!

[Coach Robyn @CoachRobynRab]

A suggestion: If you’re planning on clearing out & donating items to make room for holiday gifts, consider doing it now rather than after the holidays. Your older/gently used items might make a perfect & more cost efficient gift for someone else who’s shopping for their holiday.