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#25841 lanforod

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Posted 18 March 2024 - 12:31 PM

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Does not all of this ring very hollow to anyone who has a functioning memory? Observers from outside Victoria were exhorting the city to change course ASAP even during the 1990s.

And yet in the year 2024 we're being warned by astute commentators about the dangers of complacency? In the year 2024 we're reminiscing about the good ol' days back in 2008, even though back in 2008 those very same form letters to the editor re: "I left town because everything is terrible now even though everything was wonderful when I first arrived" were already a long-established element of the ongoing drama?

 

Politics and short memories fit like hand in glove.

 

It's because the slippery slope has practically become a sheer cliff.


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#25842 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 21 March 2024 - 08:15 PM

Days after his release from a provincial jail for threatening to kill Canada's deputy prime minister, a Vancouver man with a history of mental illness is behind bars again — accused of stabbing a stranger in the heart of the city.

 

Vancouver's mayor joined Vancouver police Chief Adam Palmer Thursday afternoon to announce charges of assault against Kent Douglas Meades, a 46-year-old who was on probation at the time of the attack.

 

Palmer said the 61-year-old victim of the stabbing was released from hospital after being seriously injured, but "the emotional trauma will likely remain for a long time."

"The victim and the suspect in this case are total strangers to each other," Palmer said.

 

"I want to acknowledge the concern and fear that some people may have ... What we're learning is concerning."

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...g-b-c-1.7151420


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 March 2024 - 08:16 PM.


#25843 Mike P.

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Posted 22 March 2024 - 05:24 PM

Just like our very own "random" stabber, (the one who pulled the alarm at the downtown daycare before stabbing a cyclist in front of VicPD headquarters)... he is a convicted murderer. What was he doing on the streets months after taking someone else's life?


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#25844 Nparker

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Posted 22 March 2024 - 05:52 PM

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Posted 25 March 2024 - 12:07 PM

An advocacy group and others are making a final plea to the City of Vancouver to hold off on its second phase of a plan to clean up the site of a homeless camp in Crab Park.

 

The group called Stop the Sweeps and residents of the encampment oppose the move, saying they’re being offered small, fenced pens to live in while the city bulldozes their community, which includes a warming tent and kitchen.

 

An open letter that was sent to the city on Friday was signed by 450 individuals and groups, and says if the 40 tents at the site are moved it will be replaced by a managed tent city where no new residents will be allowed to live. It instead calls on the city not to destroy any structures and to allow park residents lead the cleanup themselves.

 

Vancouver officials announced earlier this month that dozens of homeless people staying in the city’s only legal encampment would have to temporarily move because the site had become unsafe and unhygienic.

 

Vancouver’s deputy city manager Sandra Singh said the plan to shut down the section of park designated for the encampment this week will allow equipment to be brought in to clean piles of debris and unsafe structures.

 

 

https://www.cheknews...leanup-1196612/



#25846 Nparker

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Posted 25 March 2024 - 12:32 PM

Small, fenced pens - for free - seem better than the mess I see along the 900 block of Pandora. Literal beggars cannot be choosers.



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Posted 26 March 2024 - 09:58 PM

Area around Goolden Hall has become a slum

Re: “Alix Goolden Hall has become a ­fortress,” letter, March 22.

 

You might say the letter regarding the effective siege of the Alix Goolden Performance Hall next to Our Place on Pandora Avenue has struck a chord with me.

 

I used to attend many enjoyable concerts at the hall; now it has been made impossible.

 

Many artists were genuinely impressed with the venue. Emmylou Harris referred to it as “a jewel box of a building.”

 

Through the benighted negligence and unwillingness of our politicians, particularly our municipal politicians, to take firm and effective action, this area has become a slum, one that is visibly metastasizing throughout the downtown area and beyond.

 

The “OUR DTWN” banners are sadly laughable. Someone else has been stabbed in the centre of town at midday and many are afraid to go downtown.

 

And “Tiny Town” is set to reopen after many broken promises that it was only temporary and that there would be increased and effective security.

 

Residents must now brace for the resumption of elevated levels of crime in the North Park neighbourhood. It has been reported that it will be run by Our Place.

 

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

 

Ian MacDonell

Victoria

 

 

 

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#25848 Nparker

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Posted 26 March 2024 - 10:09 PM

On the plus side, there will soon be bike lanes on Blanshard Street!  :thumbsup:

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#25849 Mike P.

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Posted Yesterday, 03:57 PM

Victoria in its entirety is a disgrace. There should be a fence around the "our place" proprerty and no tents/drug allowed outside that fencing. Do they not have a social obligation to keep the surrounding area clean and livable? I cringe every time I see that red hair clown running the show on tv. Zero accountability and thinks he does a great job.

 

Area around Goolden Hall has become a slum

Re: “Alix Goolden Hall has become a ­fortress,” letter, March 22.

 

You might say the letter regarding the effective siege of the Alix Goolden Performance Hall next to Our Place on Pandora Avenue has struck a chord with me.

 

I used to attend many enjoyable concerts at the hall; now it has been made impossible.

 

Many artists were genuinely impressed with the venue. Emmylou Harris referred to it as “a jewel box of a building.”

 

Through the benighted negligence and unwillingness of our politicians, particularly our municipal politicians, to take firm and effective action, this area has become a slum, one that is visibly metastasizing throughout the downtown area and beyond.

 

The “OUR DTWN” banners are sadly laughable. Someone else has been stabbed in the centre of town at midday and many are afraid to go downtown.

 

And “Tiny Town” is set to reopen after many broken promises that it was only temporary and that there would be increased and effective security.

 

Residents must now brace for the resumption of elevated levels of crime in the North Park neighbourhood. It has been reported that it will be run by Our Place.

 

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

 

Ian MacDonell

Victoria

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...y-raise-8509262

 


Edited by Mike P., Yesterday, 03:58 PM.

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#25850 Mike K.

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Posted Yesterday, 05:01 PM

Mike, this isn’t the sort of place to be rude like that.

We’ve hidden a few of your posts in recent days, and we’ll have to ask you to tone things down.
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#25851 max.bravo

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Posted Yesterday, 10:42 PM

Victoria has the street problems it deserves. We voted for politicians who did exactly what they told us they’d do- increase homeless services, give out free drugs, remove the stigma, make downtown inhospitable to cars, stop arresting street criminals, criminal sentencing by race, make hard drugs legal, etc

#25852 Nparker

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Posted Yesterday, 11:00 PM

Not we voted, THEY voted. For at least the past 5 years, in each opportunity where I have been able to cast my vote - municipally, provincially, federally - I have tried my best to select the people who did not support the things listed above. Almost invariably, my preferred candidates were not elected. I accept no responsibility for the excessively poor choices of other voters nor the consequences these choices have had on the world around me.



 



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