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[Mike K.]

We also have a former seniors lodge in Oak Bay getting razed in lightening speed.

[On the Level]

We also have a former seniors lodge in Oak Bay getting razed in lightening speed.

 

UVIC is empty....tons of rooms there.

[Sparky]

That's the David Shebib property. I don't know if he rents it or owns it.

He was a renter... but not anymore.

[Nparker]

UVIC is empty....tons of rooms there. 

You'd have thought the woke folks at UVic would have been offering up their vacant accommodations since the pandemic began. It reminds me of the relatively quick removal of the encampment at Centennial Square. It seems the "truly compassionate" are at heart NIMBYs.

[Sparky]

That's the David Shebib property. I don't know if he rents it or owns it.

I think I got this wrong. Shebib rented across from the Observatory road in the 5000 block. I think Spanky123 is referring to another residence closer to Prospect Lake in the 5100 block. It’s another real mess.

[Mike K.]

Ah, thank you.

[lanforod]

No homeless services nearby and relatively few property theft opportunities too. Not sure what to make of it.

[On the Level]

You'd have thought the woke folks at UVic would have been offering up their vacant accommodations since the pandemic began. 

 

I find it really bizarre that this hasn't come up long ago.  As UVIC moves away from traditional acidemia towards social activism, they have generated a large activist component. You would expect those activists to be chaining themselves to the front door in hopes of fixing housing and poverty. 

[Victoria Watcher]

https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling

 

[JimV]

I think Stirling is wildly optimistic if he thinks council will be held to account by the mush brained voters of Victoria.  By October 2022 most of them will have forgotten everything and will tick their ballots based on name recognition, as usual.  Even during the byelection only 17% of them bothered to vote. And that clearly was an unusually important election.  Unless an organized, credible opposition appears within the next 8-12 months we’ll probably have this sorry band of fools for another four years.

[Victoria Watcher]

I think Stirling is wildly optimistic if he thinks council will be held to account by the mush brained voters of Victoria.  By October 2022 most of them will have forgotten everything and will tick their ballots based on name recognition, as usual.  Even during the byelection only 17% of them bothered to vote. And that clearly was an unusually important election.  Unless an organized, credible opposition appears within the next 8-12 months we’ll probably have this sorry band of fools for another four years.

 

i suspect you are right.

 

although i think dubow will be booted.  probably by TV before the election maybe too.

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria’s new Russell Street Transitional Shelter opened Monday (May 3) to the first 30 campers moving out of city parks. With room for 60 residents, the facility at 225 Russell St. features individual and couple pods, plus laundry, washrooms, showers, three meals per day, outdoor courtyard, two overdose prevention strategies, 24/7 staff and 24/7 security.

 

 

with VIDEO:  https://www.vicnews....tional-shelter/

[Nparker]

Victoria’s new Russell Street Transitional Shelter opened Monday (May 3).

And its best feature of all: it's not in my 'hood.   

(don't worry, we have 3 others)

[Tom Braybrook]

I think Stirling is wildly optimistic if he thinks council will be held to account by the mush brained voters of Victoria.  By October 2022 most of them will have forgotten everything and will tick their ballots based on name recognition, as usual.  Even during the byelection only 17% of them bothered to vote. And that clearly was an unusually important election.  Unless an organized, credible opposition appears within the next 8-12 months we’ll probably have this sorry band of fools for another four years.

from 2014...but might as well ahve been written yesterday...90% of the time municipal incumbents are re-elected...that's just the way it is

 

https://torontoist.c...cy-for-the-win/

 

gives a good take on what it takes to unseat an incumbent - organization, money, and a grass roots ground game

[Tom Braybrook]

from 2014...but might as well ahve been written yesterday...90% of the time municipal incumbents are re-elected...that's just the way it is

 

https://torontoist.c...cy-for-the-win/

 

gives a good take on what it takes to unseat an incumbent - organization, money, and a grass roots ground game

more reading 

 

https://www.cambridg...025806FB9189CE5

[Tom Braybrook]

so, barring some unusual behaviour by the electorate, we can expect 7.2 of 8 councillors to be re-elected

 

last civic election was an odd duck - 2 incumbents did not run and 1 was defeated (madoff)

 

notably, a well-organized, well funded, slate of 3 successfully grabbed all three seats

[Nparker]

... a well-organized, well funded, slate of 3 successfully grabbed all three seats

And have been actively destroying the CoV since election day.

 

But you're right, they will probably be re-elected,

[On the Level]

so, barring some unusual behaviour by the electorate, we can expect 7.2 of 8 councillors to be re-elected

 

last civic election was an odd duck - 2 incumbents did not run and 1 was defeated (madoff)

 

notably, a well-organized, well funded, slate of 3 successfully grabbed all three seats

 

UVIC will be in full swing.  The hundreds of new "residence".  Helps and Issit will be doing high fives about warehousing the homeless.

 

Don't lower your guard.  Can you imagine the devastation if they get back in with a new agenda?

[Victoria Watcher]

For some, making the move indoors is a challenge.

Ronald Beland got the keys to a bachelor apartment in supportive housing last week, but he’s decided to continue sleeping outdoors temporarily so he can look out for the community that remains in Stadacona Park.

Beland said staying indoors reminds him of his time spent in prison. “I don’t like that door closed and the walls around me.”


https://www.timescol...pens-1.24314722

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 May 2021 - 02:27 AM.

[Nparker]

...Ronald Beland got the keys to a bachelor apartment in supportive housing last week, but he’s decided to continue sleeping outdoors temporarily so he can look out for the community that remains in Stadacona Park.....

This is why CoV bylaws need to be enforced, so that these "communities" no longer exist in city parks.