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They could designate housing as a health emergency and get on it fast if they wanted to. Because it is a health emergency.

Homelessness should not be an epidemic in Canada. I find some mainstream priorities that persist pretty disgusting in light of the fact that there are over 60,000 unhoused people in Canada.

Who cares about a budget deficit?! Help people first!

The pipelines will be built before the necessary housing is.

There are 2,500 empty condos in Vancouver, already built, just sitting there. Nobody wants to buy them. The govt could negotiate to buy them and turn them into low income rentals. They could consider it an investment into people.
 
I’ll start making bumper stickers. Housing is a Health Emergency. I’ll let you know when they’re done and if anybody wants some dm me and I’ll arrange to send you some. Or you could just go ahead and do that. If people see that message around it might start to stick.
 
As for mental health - I think being unhoused for a period of time - even a week for some - would be traumatic and I can’t see anyone’s mental health not being impacted. It’s a basic need even before health care services because not having a roof logically leads to other personal health issues. And here we are set to expand MAiD into mental illness in just over a year. It’s disgusting, really. It makes me furious. It is a health emergency.

And temporary shelters are needed but really - just build affordable housing already.

And people who lose hope use drugs to escape the pain. They don’t want to die, they just don’t want the pain that homelessness and hopelessness causes. And nasty people prey on that pain. The public scapegoats them. Society as a whole needs to stop blaming people stuck in that circumstance and look in the mirror.
 
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
And people who lose hope use drugs to escape the pain. They don’t want to die, they just don’t want the pain that homelessness and hopelessness causes. And nasty people prey on that pain.
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The FBI has raised the reward for Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding to $15 million.

Wedding, a former 2002 Canadian Olympic snowboarder, is accused of running a billion-dollar transnational cocaine network with Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.

U.S. and Canadian officials called him a “modern-day” Pablo Escobar, responsible for trafficking 60 metric tons of cocaine annually.

He is believed to be hiding in Mexico under cartel protection.

New indictments allege he ordered the murder of a federal witness, who was shot five times before testifying, and that his lawyer, Deepak Paradkar from Ontario, advised him to carry it out.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Yes. It’s everybody’s problem and it’s been caused by decades of free market capitalist greed.
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We’ve become a society that worships money and making money and doesn’t “really” give a s**t about people, and doesn’t acknowledge luck and privilege as factors. Some worse than others but as a whole, I believe that’s where we’re at as a society. The love for humanity is hanging by a thread. The whole idea that billionaires “earned it” and poor people on the street must “deserve it” and should pull themselves up by the bootstraps - that seems to still be the assumption people operate on even if they’re barely conscious of it. We do need government and good policy because society just isn’t going to come together to solve these problems thoughtfully, with care, without it. Devolving into anarchy will not solve it.
 
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WhyCzar said:
Nothing like a good government with good policy to save the day EH!
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Yeah, there’s (almost) nothing like it these days, but it is impossible to change that. Without cohesive (and fair) policy we have cat-herding getting in the way of actually solving some solvable problems - like housing - that needn’t seem impossible.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Without cohesive (and fair) policy we have cat-herding getting in the way of actually solving some solvable problems - like housing - that needn’t seem impossible.
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Perhaps the policy makers need to hire some more consultants to speed things up.
 
WhyCzar said:
Perhaps the policy makers need to hire some more consultants to speed things up.
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LOL. If consultants actually speed things up, they might not get to charge more billable hours. :rolleyes::cautious: See my comments about eHealth in Ontario in another thread for how effective hiring consultants is (and, yeah, I'm kind of assuming you're being sarcastic here).
 
Luce NDs said:
If we are completely free of governor's would corruption evaporate?
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No, because corruption starts lower down. It starts with humans looking for an advantage, for a chance to get ahead or enrich themselves. That gives them a motivation to undermine the social order to get that. It might be a different kind of corruption in an anarchic society, but there would be corruption. That would include what @Kimmio Laughterlove suggests, people trying to undermine the anarchy to gain power for themselves.
 
Mendalla said:
No, because corruption starts lower down.
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Good things do too. The whole MO of corruption is to gain unfair advantage to climb up though. It makes sense that if the ladder itself is corrupt you’ll find the most corruption at the top. However, without any rules humans just don’t seem to know how to come together and cooperate fairly for very long.
 
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