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#18041 A Girl is No one

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 04:53 PM

Meanwhile in Beacon Hill park, there is clearly a new concentration of tents around Superior and Douglas. Seemed to me like a significant increase from yesterday but some other tents elsewhere in the park are no longer there. Not sure if the ones no longer elsewhere are the additional ones at Douglas/Superior or if the ones that have left are now at Paul’s and the void in. BHP got filled immediately.
I saw one abandoned tent.

#18042 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 05:33 PM

75 rooms at paul's.

 

15m/75= $200k per room.



#18043 Nparker

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 05:40 PM

Another nail in the coffin of the CoV's moderate budget tourist business.

Should also delight the new residents of HP-1 having the recently homeless as neighbours.
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Posted 02 June 2020 - 05:55 PM

Paul’s Drive-In was known in the 1950s for its car-hop service and a restaurant. Its 30-foot-tall plastic advertising sign was billed as the tallest of its kind, the hotel’s website says.

 

 

i guess that is pretty impressive if it was fabricated as one big piece of plastic with no seams.

 

https://www.timescol...less-1.24145677



#18045 spanky123

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 06:48 PM

Wow. Just wow.

 

What is the over / under on the first fire?


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#18046 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 06:53 PM

somehow i still feel the red lion could sell.



#18047 A Girl is No one

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 07:18 PM

From BC gov open data
On March 31 2019:
Victoria had 1357 homeless beds
Saanich: 97
Sooke: 25
Esquimalt: 11
Colwood: 1
Salt spring: 14
Everywhere else: 0

Since then, Victoria has added hundreds more. Why is our city council so obsessed with creating yet more homeless housing inVictoria? I’d say we have done our part.
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#18048 Redd42

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 08:25 PM

somehow i still feel the red lion could sell.

 It's in Saanich, not Victoria.



#18049 On the Level

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Posted 02 June 2020 - 10:57 PM

From BC gov open data
On March 31 2019:
Victoria had 1357 homeless beds
Saanich: 97
Sooke: 25
Esquimalt: 11
Colwood: 1
Salt spring: 14
Everywhere else: 0

Since then, Victoria has added hundreds more. Why is our city council so obsessed with creating yet more homeless housing inVictoria? I’d say we have done our part.

 

As Lisa Helps stated at council, city staff have told her that the homeless are from Victoria.  Why would other municipalities want to pay for what could be thousands of CoV homeless?



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Posted 03 June 2020 - 02:51 AM

It's in Saanich, not Victoria.


yes. but can’t it still be a candidate?
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Posted 03 June 2020 - 06:38 AM

As Lisa Helps stated at council, city staff have told her that the homeless are from Victoria.  Why would other municipalities want to pay for what could be thousands of CoV homeless?

 

We might know a little more if the 'coalition' released the homeless survey info that they promised more than 2 months ago. 


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#18052 Mike K.

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Posted 03 June 2020 - 09:52 AM

A woman called in to CFAX at around the 10:20 mark and said she was leaving the city. She says she’s been traumatized by what she called jungle-like behaviour in the downtown core and feels less safe living in downtown Victoria than she did living in downtown Toronto.

She also said raising the issues caused her to be labelled as intolerant. So she’s out. I would peg her age as being in the 30-45 age bracket, just based on her voice, but it’s tough to say.

She did raise the point that Helps won in the last election due to vote splitting and appeared to lay much of the blame for downtown’s erosion on the mayor.

CFAX repeats broadcasts at 7PM so you can tune in at around the 8:20 mark if you want to listen to that segment.
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#18053 Nparker

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Posted 03 June 2020 - 10:01 AM

...She did raise the point that Helps won in the last election due to vote splitting and appeared to lay much of the blame for downtown’s erosion on the mayor....

I can't really argue with these points.



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Posted 03 June 2020 - 10:36 AM

She did raise the point that Helps won in the last election due to vote splitting and appeared to lay much of the blame for downtown’s erosion on the mayor.
 

 

Downtown was already heading this way pre-Helps/TV but they've just accelerated the process.



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Posted 03 June 2020 - 10:41 AM

Months into the job Helps announced a tent city was coming to Topaz.

I would peg that as the starting point for the transition period we are now seeing.
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#18056 Nparker

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Posted 03 June 2020 - 11:50 AM

Months into the job Helps announced a tent city was coming to Topaz....

She's the worst.


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#18057 Nparker

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Posted 03 June 2020 - 12:16 PM

Paul’s has been bought: https://www.cheknews...omeless-672412/

Not a lot of support in the CFAX poll.

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#18058 Love the rock

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Posted 03 June 2020 - 12:50 PM

As Lisa Helps stated at council, city staff have told her that the homeless are from Victoria.  Why would other municipalities want to pay for what could be thousands of CoV homeless?

This might be true because of the insanity of  council making  Canada’s homeless a citizen of Victoria after 12 months .We all know homeless ,mentally ill and addicts would have no reason to lie .



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Posted 04 June 2020 - 05:56 AM

A commentary by the president of Splashes Bath and Kitchen on Hillside Avenue, between Douglas and Blanshard streets.

 

Yesterday, an individual stumbled off the street into our retail store and, ignoring the repeated requests of our staff, pushed past our COVID-19 protocol barrier, located a display toilet, and relieved himself. A number two, not a number one.

 

https://www.timescol...lems-1.24146448


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Posted 04 June 2020 - 05:58 AM

The B.C. government’s purchase of Paul’s Motor Inn to provide temporary housing for people without homes could spell the end of Paul’s Diner by Fol Epi at the same location.

 

Owner Clif Leir said he’s still assessing the impact of the sale on his restaurant, which was forced to shut down in March due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“I fear this may be the nail in the coffin,” he said.

 

“We were just starting to work on a plan to re-open … and then finding out about this has been a real kick in the teeth.”

https://www.timescol...iner-1.24146439



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