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[Victoria Watcher]

Retail giant London Drugs says it is shutting down its location in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as of Feb. 1, citing a "careful assessment of safety and operational conditions" at the store.

President Clint Mahlman says in a statement that the store in the Woodward’s building "faced persistent safety incidents and significant operating losses" and keeping it open is not sustainable.


https://www.timescol...itions-11711165

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 January 2026 - 02:28 AM.

[Mike K.]

Here’s a video of street encampments in Miami, posted just under a year ago. How does Victoria compare?

https://youtu.be/-ve...KwhyuiubejnhwpN

[Mike K.]

Have a look at the garbage strewn around the sidewalk. It was never like this. There is a growing sense of disdain for the public realm and it builds, and builds and builds.

https://www.facebook...mibextid=wwXIfr

[Mike K.]

I guess the guy in the account above had his phone stolen? Have a look: https://www.facebook...mibextid=wwXIfr

[Mike P.]

I guess the guy in the account above had his phone stolen? Have a look: https://www.facebook...mibextid=wwXIfr

 

Methanie and Druglas enforcing the law on Pandora... Ahem, "their" law. 

[Mike K.]

Elon Musk calls the homelessness industry a scam: https://youtu.be/d91...pw5qk5h1IEP3TAH

He says the industry is incentivized to grow the number of clients it serves, and says “it’s not clear how to turn this thing off.” He claims the money is around $900k USD per person, for the industry in San Francisco. He also says police are in on it, by supporting the system.

Lisa Helps famously said that the new services and housing-first would reduce the costs per individual in the system to a small fraction of a million dollars, and she had made a comment to the tune of calling an example as Million Dollar Larry, or something like that.

[aastra]

Helping a homeless person or any person who needs help (spoiler alert: that's each and every one of us at one time or another) isn't a scam. But obviously the industrialization of any crisis is about human nature being human nature. Despite rumours to the contrary, human nature remains the same as ever. There isn't an administrative system in the history of the world that ever met a crisis it couldn't aggravate and/or turn into a self-justifying situation one way or another.

 

At this point the homelessness crisis monster is all about sustaining the homelessness crisis.

[aastra]

^And if a crisis itself should happen to wane, then the monster will sustain the perception thereof.