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This is happening in London Ontario, I see. Something similar happened here but was closed down. It was between downtown and a dense residential area. Neighbours started to have complaints - some helped with the original effort. Some who stayed there were sad to lose their little village. It looked pretty colourful and cute (better than this one) but it after a while people lost patience with the problems it attracted - lots of which aren’t homeless peoples’ fault. Homeless advocates point out that they were shelters, not homes. I think the idea was to move people into more permanent housing - and efforts were being made before they shut it down.

This one looks to be away from town - ostracizing? It’s a band-aid, but they didn’t even try to make it look pleasant. Looks like a camp.

www.ctvnews.ca

First look at Micro-Modular Shelter community for homeless Londoners before opening next week

The first residents will move into London’s Micro-Modular Shelter community next week.
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
This is happening in London Ontario, I see. Something similar happened here but was closed down. It was between downtown and a dense residential area. Neighbours started to have complaints - some helped with the original effort. Some who stayed there were sad to lose their little village. It looked pretty colourful and cute (better than this one) but it after a while people lost patience with the problems it attracted - lots of which aren’t homeless peoples’ fault. Homeless advocates point out that they were shelters, not homes. I think the idea was to move people into more permanent housing - and efforts were being made before they shut it down.

This one looks to be away from town - ostracizing? It’s a band-aid, but they didn’t even try to make it look pleasant. Looks like a camp.

www.ctvnews.ca

First look at Micro-Modular Shelter community for homeless Londoners before opening next week

The first residents will move into London’s Micro-Modular Shelter community next week.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
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We have something similar for a few years now. It looks a bit homier, but same idea. A house with kitchen und served meals and washroom and laundry facilities. It’s fenced in with a wooden fence, so you can’t see through and has a guard at the gate. Built on a parking lot. Right downtown and in walking distance of the hospital and the stores. Units are somewhat accessible ( ramps), half of them is filled with a Queen size bed, the other side is storage, a desk, a fridge.
I had a patient there once, looking at when to discharge them. They were walking with a walker and the issue was walking through the elements to the kitchen house and the bathrooms. They didn’t look as cheap as the one in this video.
Not everyone will choose to live in a gated community….
To get a spot here, one has to demonstrate willingness to work on getting out of homelessness.
 
There's a song about looking for a home ... those gathering wealth do not wish to contribute as it would suggest giving up something in return ...

Thus that given-take rush before the collapse into a bare messy situational ethic ... po' ethics? Thus tump ends!
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
We have something similar for a few years now. It looks a bit homier, but same idea. A house with kitchen und served meals and washroom and laundry facilities. It’s fenced in with a wooden fence, so you can’t see through and has a guard at the gate. Built on a parking lot. Right downtown and in walking distance of the hospital and the stores. Units are somewhat accessible ( ramps), half of them is filled with a Queen size bed, the other side is storage, a desk, a fridge.
I had a patient there once, looking at when to discharge them. They were walking with a walker and the issue was walking through the elements to the kitchen house and the bathrooms. They didn’t look as cheap as the one in this video.
Not everyone will choose to live in a gated community….
To get a spot here, one has to demonstrate willingness to work on getting out of homelessness.
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I wouldn’t call that a “gated community”. It’s a far cry from the suburban variety attached to that term.

The expectations sound cruel. I don’t think people realize that these expectations are unhelpful for addressing basic needs. Find people safe, stable housing, first, then help them look at options to help them improve their circumstances from there.
 
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Interpretations vary vastly ... practical if you'd like to shut the brute forte out ... innate blast .. ephemeral! Some say they are in flight because of lack of gentility on all sides!

It can't be helped in a brutal environment ... the thing that goes around ... ban ED? Belted out of sight because of practical abuse? Improper theory ...
 
Parliament was in back in session today, January 26, 2026 11:00 a.m. ET.

Question Period (QP) started at 2:15 p.m. ET.

Prime Minister Mark Carney did not participate in Question Period.

He was in Ottawa briefly - for a grocery store affordability announcement.

He then traveled to Toronto to meet with Premier Doug Ford.

CBC, explicitly noted that he skipped QP on Parliament's first day back to prioritize the bilateral meeting, which led to the Pizza Nova photo op in Etobicoke which went like this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015867044256768444
 
I once did a presentation as an alternate serve ... entitled: "Who Cares"!

I seems few really give Adam ... it all feeds into the mystery ... Ava? Wait until the sun falls ...
 
WhyCzar said:
Prime Minister Mark Carney did not participate in Question Period.

He was in Ottawa briefly - for a grocery store affordability announcement.

He then traveled to Toronto to meet with Premier Doug Ford.
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So you would rather he be in Ottawa answering mostly inane questions from the opposition (based on what little I see and hear of QP anymore) than meeting with the premier of the largest province both by population and economy who is pissed over the Chinese EV agreement (well, and just generally pissed off, which seems to part of Ford's MO)?

And photo ops are as old as politics. Politicians were probably doing them before there were even cameras. Just going to the pub to shake voters' hands and be visible. Yeah, they can be a bit stupid and vacuous and a guy like Carney would probably rather not do them, but it's part of the job.
 
WhyCzar said:
For the entertainment value - yes I would.
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He's not an entertainer. He's a national leader. When I want entertainment value I listen to music or watch a TV show. I would rather have Carney actually doing his job, and the value of question period to doing that job is becoming dubious. Meeting Doug Ford probably accomplishes more than being in question period.

Yes, he should be there to answer questions sometimes. I do not think he needs to be there all the time given the existence of cabinet, to whom he delegates responsibility for various things and who can quite easily answer questions about those things.
 
WhyCzar said:
For the entertainment value - yes I would.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016253560355488136
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Rita, all Poilievre has are slogans. There is no substance behind the man. He's just a suit and a smarmy grin.

It's not a contest between Carney and Poilievre. Well, there was one, but Carnet won it convincingly, after Poilievre had a massive lead in the polls.

It was Poilievre's to lose, and lose it he did. It was a fumble of epic proportions.

So sure, Poilievre wants his mini rematch, and he'll get it at some point, but no one is seriously expecting it to go well for Poilievre. Carney has been kicking ass on the world stage, received standing ovations for his Davos speach, is clearly working on new trade deals being announced weekly, and has nothing to prove against Poilievre any time soon.

You get your opinions from Conservative mouthpieces and you dutifully bring that crap here. We've seen this before.
 
chansen said:
So sure, Poilievre wants his mini rematch, and he'll get it at some point, but no one is seriously expecting it to go well for Poilievre.
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Right now, I suspect Poilievre is upping his game and trying to put on a good show because of the upcoming leadership review, though all evidence is that he will survive it barring some last minute push to oust him. What I like about Carney is that he is focusing on actually governing, not playing games. Yes, actually governing involves playing games in and of itself as we've been seeing a lot recently, but at least the games he's playing are actually productive and have some measurable results.
 
Now here is a good example of Carney and Poilievre actually showing some leadership. No hostility, no barbed attacks, just both speaking on the Holocaust and the bigger problem of the hate that caused it and is still with us. And I love that Carney made the point that Canada is not an innocent in the events of that era. Jews died because we wouldn't take them as refugees. Nice job. Wish we saw this happening more often.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

Carney says Holocaust Remembrance Day a time to remember Canadian complicity

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Holocaust Remembrance Day is a moment to remember the consequences of ignorance and hatred.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
 
Mendalla said:
He's not an entertainer. He's a national leader.
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The two are synonymous IMO

QPs are a core democratic tool of (allegedly) unscripted political theatre IMO

IMO they are entertaining in a Punch and Judy kind of way and I prefer that the lead actors participate.

I also watch UK PMQs - the most famous / theatrical in the world.

There is a scheduled time for QP (PR stunts) in Parliament for all that enjoy the access.

Private meetings and preferential PR stunts do not have to coopt that schedule.

Carney fielding questions in Canadian Parliament - on schedule - is all part and parcel of being a leader IMO.
 
It is all for show ... what counts runs very deep and destructively!

The foundation for hate is washing out ... domestic terrorism set it up ... they wished a flushing ... it is the constitutional ...
 
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