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#24501 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 January 2023 - 11:21 AM

An employee at Row, one of New York City's best-known hotels, became a whistleblower Wednesday after he released video and photos of illegal immigrants trashing the hotel and leaving fresh food out to rot.  

 

"It’s a disgrace," Row NYC employee Felipe Rodriguez said on "The Ingraham Angle." 

 

"The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs," Rodriguez said. 

 

He also said that the Row is struggling with "domestic violence" among migrants, young people "having sex in the stairs," and a fight between a migrant and a hotel security officer. 

 

 

https://www.foxnews....s-whistleblower


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Posted 12 January 2023 - 11:24 AM

Migrant v. immigrant:

The word migrant refers to someone who moves to other places in search of work or better living conditions. The word immigrant refers to those who have moved to foreign countries permanently for work or for better living conditions.



#24503 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 17 January 2023 - 03:26 PM

Rewards for those who are good citizens

 

 

Re: “Bashing the homeless solves nothing,” letter, Jan. 6.

 

The author is quite right when she describes the weird, imaginary alchemy of transformation from sentient individual into a drug-addicted, dumb, lazy, non-person when (s)he becomes homeless. It is a notional hump that those of us who are somewhat comfortable (for now) must get over.

 

However, that is where the sympathy ends.

 

People must understand that in order to live in this world (or any other one they may dream up), you must work to earn your keep.

 

Very simply put, if you don’t work, you don’t eat. (Exceptions abound, but I am not addressing the exceptions.)

 

When you work for someone, you are paid money; the amount of money is usually in proportion to what your labour is worth to the employer. One uses that money to purchase shelter, food, and the other necessities of life, in a scale proper to that income.

 

If one’s income is small, one lives in a basement apartment with a roommate in Langford or Sooke. One does not expect sole occupancy of a one bedroom in Fairfield. When income is insufficient to meet one’s needs, one needs to earn more money, usually at a cost of extra time spent on the job.

 

The system, with a few exceptions, does not reward the “greedy and the predatory,” it rewards those who do their work well, have planned, behave responsibly, and are good citizens.

 

That is simplistic, but it reflects the realities of life. Simply wishing it weren’t so does not change that reality.

 

Harsh words to write; harsher to read. But ultimately, true.

 

David Hansen

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https://www.timescol...escuers-6382118


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#24504 Mike K.

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Posted 17 January 2023 - 03:37 PM

The reality is if you’re on the intake list, you get a free unit in a brand new BC Housing-built facility in Fairfield.
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Posted 17 January 2023 - 04:23 PM

Or at North Park Tiny Town. Then you never get a job, never move out.
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Posted 18 January 2023 - 04:39 AM

Vancouver councillors have unanimously approved funding for its Uplifting Chinatown Action Plan, in an attempt to revive the historic neighbourhood. 

 

The plan focuses on enhanced cleaning and sanitation, graffiti removal, beautification and other community supports. 

 

Costs for the plan this year are expected to be about $2.1 million for what the city says is an urgent "strategy to protect Chinatown, which has experienced significant challenges in recent years, including anti-Asian racism and public safety concerns."

 

The plan includes a "safewalk program" to support seniors and residents walking in the community, a feces collection service, funding for expansion of the Chinese policing centre, and graffiti prevention and abatement. 

 

 

https://www.timescol...ourhood-6392989



#24507 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 January 2023 - 04:43 AM

If you want something, work for it

Re: “Homeowner grant nears $1B, critics call for end,” Jan. 13.

 

Economist Marc Lee of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is correct, the party that proposes to eliminate the homeowner’s grant will be slaughtered at the ballot box.

Homeowners have worked hard and adjusted their lifestyles in order to buy and maintain a home.

 

I was 26 and my husband was 30 when we bought our first home. Yes, houses were cheaper back then, but wages were also much, much less than they are now.

 

We made the decision to save for a down payment, and two years after our son was born, with our saved down payment, we were able to buy a home with a yard for him to play in.

 

Times have changed, but some people’s priorities have not. Some people like to go out, eat out, go to Starbucks for their lattes, party, travel, have fashionable clothes and new cars, and also some families decide to have the mother stay at home and raise the children and/or single women who make a decision to have and raise their children on their own.

 

I have been told by some people that they preferred to rent as they did not have to make repairs to the house, pay property taxes, pay for house insurance and were not responsible for the upkeep of the property.

 

In our case, both my husband and I, like many others, opted to work for what we wanted. I would have loved to have stayed home with our son as many other working mothers would have.

 

It has been announced that $500 million was being set aside for the purchase of more properties to accommodate low-income people. When are all these handouts going to end?

 

There are signs all over town looking to hire workers. If you want something, go and work for it like the rest of us have had to do.

 

Liliane Morgan

Victoria

 

https://www.timescol...l-needs-6393490


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#24508 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 19 January 2023 - 02:23 PM

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"Hard to house" people should never be given space with all the protections of the residential tenancy branch until they have earned it, over an extended period of time.

 

 



#24509 Mike K.

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Posted 19 January 2023 - 02:27 PM

Oh please.

How many years has this been happening? “How is this possible,” the recently voted out politician asks, who spent a decade sitting as a CRD board member.

I don’t know. How were the previous 30 SWAT busts and weapons seizures and drug busts possible?
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Posted 19 January 2023 - 03:57 PM

Mike K. obviously didn't get the memo re: we're never supposed to remember anything from the day before.


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Posted 21 January 2023 - 10:50 AM

Supportive housing facilities in Victoria are too dangerous and threaten public safety, according to Manak.

“Most of these locations have criminals that are embedded within these locations that are exploiting people that are just trying to have a roof over their heads and are marginalized, and vulnerable,” Manak told CHEK News.

This building in the 800-block of Johnson Street is the recent focus of police activity.

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“If people are in a permanent housing situation, that falls under the landlord-tenant act. So the service provider managing that site has less ability to control what’s happening inside that site,” McKenzie said.

BC’s Minister of Housing, Ravi Kahlon, said he’s open to ideas to improve the situation.

“We want to find solutions where we can also keep the people safe, keep communities safe. But of course, at the same time, ensure that if there are people who are being problematic, that we’re able to address those situations,” Kahlon said.


https://www.cheknews...seized-1135525/

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Posted 21 January 2023 - 10:52 AM

I’m sure it’ll all get better next week!





Adults in B.C. will not be subject to criminal charges for the personal possession of small amounts of certain illegal drugs starting January 31, 2023. Health Canada has granted an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to the Province of B.C. until January 31, 2026.

Under this time-limited exemption, adults (18 years and older) in B.C. will not be arrested or charged for possessing small amounts of certain illegal drugs for personal use. The total amount of illegal drug(s) must be equal to or less than 2.5 grams. The illegal drugs covered by the exemption are:

Opioids (such as heroin, morphine, and fentanyl)
Crack and powder cocaine
Methamphetamine (Meth)
MDMA (Ecstasy)

Adults found in personal possession of any combination of these illegal drugs that adds up to a combined total of 2.5 grams or less will not be subject to criminal charges and the drugs will not be seized. Instead, they will be offered information about health and social supports, including local treatment and recovery services, if requested.

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#24513 Nparker

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Posted 21 January 2023 - 10:56 AM

Easier access to drugs will always be the solution.



#24514 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 21 January 2023 - 10:58 AM

Easier access to drugs will always be the solution.


One more step to end the stigma. FREE drugs for all. That program is already ramping up.

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Posted 21 January 2023 - 10:59 AM

...This building in the 800-block of Johnson Street is the recent focus of police activity....

844 Johnson been the focus of police activity from the day it stopped being a seniors residence and became a homeless shelter. To suggest the current situation is something new is patently untrue.


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Posted 21 January 2023 - 11:00 AM

One more step to end the stigma. FREE drugs for all. That program is already ramping up.

Unless your drug of choice is nicotine, then it's double-down on the stigma and ramp up the taxes.


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Posted 21 January 2023 - 11:02 AM

Looks like I picked the wrong month to stop smoking crack.



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#24518 Mike K.

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Posted 21 January 2023 - 11:07 AM

Unless your drug of choice is nicotine, then it's double-down on the stigma and ramp up the taxes.


Don’t forget alcohol! Push it into dozens of new storefronts in Victoria alone by encouraging its sale at liquor primary quantities, then ramp up the taxes.

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Posted 21 January 2023 - 11:11 AM

The sale of alcohol is at least less hypocritical than the stance taken by government on tobacco v. narcotics.



#24520 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 21 January 2023 - 11:15 AM

The sale of alcohol is at least less hypocritical than the stance taken by government on tobacco v. narcotics.

 

 

 

Give an alcoholic an hourly drink: Why a controversial Canadian program is catching attention in Australia

 

A controversial Canadian program that gives a regulated, hourly dose of wine to alcoholics to help manage their addiction and keep them safe has caught the attention of health care researchers in Australia.

 

The managed alcohol programs (MAPs) that have sparked the international interest have been giving new hope and new lives to many alcoholics struggling with homelessness and troubles with addiction in communities from British Columbia to Ontario.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ralia-1.3921655

 

 

"We used to lead the world in harm reduction services," Dolan tells the fifth estate, but "the alcohol field has not progressed as much as the illicit drug use field."


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