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[dasmo]

By taking that stance you are placing the onus on a person who is already turning to drugs,alcohol, or sufferers from mental issues to act responsibly within the confines of society.
They have already proven that they cannot and require society to assist them. That is fine but society as a whole should do that with stringent guidelines that are adhered to.
In other words “ if you can’t do it yourself then society will do it for you.”

No. I am taking the innocent until proven guilty approach. If you can live your life without harming others there is no harm in that. Locking people up because they don't have a job is a dystopian prospect indeed.  Downtown is pretty dystopian. I would rather not just swap dystopias. 

If someone is an alcoholic they don't deserve prison time. If they are crapping and barfing on the sidewalk they do..... 

[mbjj]

Two schools I went to backed onto that Somenos area. What a sad sight. There's also a bird sanctuary a little farther along on the highway. 

[Love the rock]

Why is a guy from Alaska in Duncan?

Exactly my question has he got citizenship if not deport him .

[davidN]

I think you are misconstruing what I said and wearing rose coloured glasses. No where do I say lock someone up because they don’t have a job
I am saying if you can’t function in our society and choose to “live free” and outside of societies boundaries then society should step in and help you by setting and enforcing you to comply (for everyone’s benefit. If incarceration is the end result the so be it. At the end of the day , your actions will determine the result. But at least you will be alive.

[Victoria Watcher]

Nanaimo council unanimously approved a motion looking to ban camping and temporary shelters in two more parks.

The motion directs staff to amend the relevant bylaw to ban temporary shelter and overnight accommodation in Nob Hill Park and Deverill Square Park.

Currently, overnight shelter is banned in Maffeo Sutton Park, Gerogia Park, Queen Elizabeth II Promenade, McGregor Park, Kinsmen Park and Departure Bay Seawall, and the City Hall and surrounding grounds.

https://cheknews.ca/...-parks-1328659/

[dasmo]

I think you are misconstruing what I said and wearing rose coloured glasses. No where do I say lock someone up because they don’t have a job
I am saying if you can’t function in our society and choose to “live free” and outside of societies boundaries then society should step in and help you by setting and enforcing you to comply (for everyone’s benefit. If incarceration is the end result the so be it. At the end of the day , your actions will determine the result. But at least you will be alive.

Do we have to wear white jumpsuits and shave our heads?

[Victoria Watcher]

‘It’s shocking’: Homeless camps fill protected wildlife area of North Cowichan

https://cheknews.ca/...wichan-1328241/

Paul Fletcher walked into a usually lush Somenos Marsh Tuesday, but what he found was hardly recognizable. Large homeless camps have now cleared trees and native species to make room for living rough.
“This is my first time ever being right in the camp. It’s shocking. It’s well established. I mean they’ve got dug out trails, they’ve got armchairs, a toilet. Yeah, it’s hard,” says Fletcher who is the executive director of the Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society.
The society has spent hundreds of volunteer hours restoring the nature-filled area that spans over 200 hectares of North Cowichan.

Parents suspect foul play in ‘strange’ death of their Duncan teen


Tony and Kathy Crocker, are determined to find answers about their 17-year-old son Jeremy’s mysterious death, in North Cowichan’s Somenos Marsh.
Thursday, they returned to the place where his body was found on May 8, asking unhoused people who live in the marsh if they saw anything.
“He would go out of his way to help anyone who needed it, he was passionate about fitness,” says Jeremy’s mother, Kathy Crocker.
“We did everything together. It’s hard,” says Jeremy’s father, Tony Crocker.
Jeremy Pywell Crocker was about to graduate Grade 12, and was a day from turning 18 when he died. He’d had troubles as a teen, but his parents tell CHEK News that he was walking a straight path, and often ran the dyke in Somenos Marsh to revisit friends from his childhood, now living in tents there.

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The teen was found in a bog of knee-deep water, an estimated 50 metres from the dyke.
“Eyewitnesses seen him jogging at 9 o’clock in the morning, at 11 a.m. they found him, deceased. Drowned, in the water,” says Tony. “So isn’t that strange?”
“The funeral home said the clothes were drenched and he had no shoes. The shoes were gone,” says Kathy.
“The coroner has told me he thought it was foul play to begin with, so he wanted all the autopsies done,” says Tony.
https://cheknews.ca/...n-teen-1328780/

[Mike K.]

Folks, we need to tamper down the article pasting a bit. I’ve removed a few paragraphs from the above.

Thank you

[Mike K.]

So what did the autopsy find?

[Victoria Watcher]

So what did the autopsy find?

 

Not due until August.

[davidN]

Do we have to wear white jumpsuits and shave our heads?

[davidN]

Lol
That’s what I thought!
When pressed no reasoned retort to a post about a demand that one take responsibility for one’s own actions even if this action are in the long run beneficial (keeping one alive). After all why not blame society for my predicament and expect well meaning but misdirected others to support me?

[dasmo]

I thought I was being funny. 🤷🏽

[Victoria Watcher]

Changes are coming to a contentious property at 250 Terminal Avenue in Nanaimo which has operated low barrier temporary housing for eight years.

“Eight years of a lot of health and safety disruption and it’s on-going. It just comes with having low barrier supportive housing,” said Karen Kuwica who founded the Newcastle Community Association.

BC Housing plans to build two new buildings consisting of affordable and supportive housing. The local Newcastle Community Association is advocating for dry housing on the site.

 

https://cheknews.ca/...o-site-1329160/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Today, 01:38 AM.