Mayors urge Ontario to declare state of emergency to address homelessness, addiction

[shockedcanadian]

They are going to make me homeless soon, these criminal thieves.
I did my best to speak the truth to allies and it is well known. Ontario is going to collapse and it will be a huge domino in Canada which is going to create some outrage at the horrible management and division with the U.S that many arrogant criminals created.

Save some of us please, we are being persecuted here with zero sympathy.

MSN

TORONTO — The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" created by homelessness, mental health and addiction.

Ontario Big City Mayors urges the province to provide more funding and engage more actively with cities and other stakeholders in a motion passed unanimously on Friday.

The mayors caucus says municipalities covered more than 50 per cent of the $4.1 billion spent on homelessness and housing programs in 2024.

Caucus chair Marianne Meed Ward, the mayor of Burlington, Ont., says it is not sustainable for cities to continue funding at this rate and they have already "dug deep."

She says addressing homelessness should not depend on property tax dollars, but municipalities are committing the resources because it is "simply unacceptable for us as leaders in our community who care for everyone to let those people suffer on the streets."

A spokesman for the minister of municipal affairs and housing says the province has already made heavy investments to respond to homelessness.

Michael Minzak said Ontario is spending $75.5 million to build supportive and affordable housing and create more shelter spaces, in addition to $1.7 billion provided to municipalities to improve supportive housing, including through the Homelessness Prevention Program.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

They are going to make me homeless soon, these criminal thieves.
I did my best to speak the truth to allies and it is well known. Ontario is going to collapse and it will be a huge domino in Canada which is going to create some outrage at the horrible management and division with the U.S that many arrogant criminals created.

Save some of us please, we are being persecuted here with zero sympathy.

MSN

TORONTO — The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" created by homelessness, mental health and addiction.

Ontario Big City Mayors urges the province to provide more funding and engage more actively with cities and other stakeholders in a motion passed unanimously on Friday.

The mayors caucus says municipalities covered more than 50 per cent of the $4.1 billion spent on homelessness and housing programs in 2024.

Caucus chair Marianne Meed Ward, the mayor of Burlington, Ont., says it is not sustainable for cities to continue funding at this rate and they have already "dug deep."

She says addressing homelessness should not depend on property tax dollars, but municipalities are committing the resources because it is "simply unacceptable for us as leaders in our community who care for everyone to let those people suffer on the streets."

A spokesman for the minister of municipal affairs and housing says the province has already made heavy investments to respond to homelessness.

Michael Minzak said Ontario is spending $75.5 million to build supportive and affordable housing and create more shelter spaces, in addition to $1.7 billion provided to municipalities to improve supportive housing, including through the Homelessness Prevention Program.

How in the heck can you be homeless in Canada without freezing to death?

 

[shockedcanadian]

How in the heck can you be homeless in Canada without freezing to death?

I'm going to find out very soon.

A nation that is evil does not deserve economic assistance and subsidies from free nations.

 

[shockedcanadian]

The Creepy Ones are paying attention to me it seems.

My "local" default today on the CBC website:

 

[Dragonlady]

They are going to make me homeless soon, these criminal thieves.
I did my best to speak the truth to allies and it is well known. Ontario is going to collapse and it will be a huge domino in Canada which is going to create some outrage at the horrible management and division with the U.S that many arrogant criminals created.

Save some of us please, we are being persecuted here with zero sympathy.

MSN

TORONTO — The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" created by homelessness, mental health and addiction.

Ontario Big City Mayors urges the province to provide more funding and engage more actively with cities and other stakeholders in a motion passed unanimously on Friday.

The mayors caucus says municipalities covered more than 50 per cent of the $4.1 billion spent on homelessness and housing programs in 2024.

Caucus chair Marianne Meed Ward, the mayor of Burlington, Ont., says it is not sustainable for cities to continue funding at this rate and they have already "dug deep."

She says addressing homelessness should not depend on property tax dollars, but municipalities are committing the resources because it is "simply unacceptable for us as leaders in our community who care for everyone to let those people suffer on the streets."

A spokesman for the minister of municipal affairs and housing says the province has already made heavy investments to respond to homelessness.

Michael Minzak said Ontario is spending $75.5 million to build supportive and affordable housing and create more shelter spaces, in addition to $1.7 billion provided to municipalities to improve supportive housing, including through the Homelessness Prevention Program.

But you have investments in REIT's. How can you possibly be homeless? Why don't all of these government agencies in the USA you've been supplying information to save your ass Big Guy?

Ontario is not going to collapse asshole. Nobody is going to save your lying ass and nobody is persecuting you either.

 

[shockedcanadian]

But you have investments in REIT's. How can you possibly be homeless? Why don't all of these government agencies in the USA you've been supplying information to save your ass Big Guy?

Ontario is not going to collapse asshole. Nobody is going to save your lying ass and nobody is persecuting you either.

You are only here for my entertainment. You clearly have not been informed of the harm done.

Carry on, as you were.

 

[Dragonlady]

You are only here for my entertainment. You clearly have not been informed of the harm done.

Carry on, as you were.

I am far better informed that you are, and I actually live here.

I will continue to point out your lies and hypocrisy. I'm going to assume you won't be in a position to continue posting here as you're about to become homeless.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I am far better informed that you are, and I actually live here.

I will continue to point out your lies and hypocrisy. I'm going to assume you won't be in a position to continue posting here as you're about to become homeless.

There will be reasons why I will not be able to post here. There will not be any surprises, I am well aware of how this is going to proceed so no not to worry or play coy.

Unfortunately for Canada, the very prediction that I made, once coming to fruition; will confirm to quite a few agencies just what I suggested was occurring here. Considering it a scenario of mutually assured destruction, our global goodwill, reputation and economic future greatly harmed by the abusive hubris of a nation in sharp decline, your reward of nepotism notwithstanding.

I will obtain a horribly small return for the suffering I have had to endure. I did not make the rules, I only worked within the confines and exposed a glut of people.

 

[DennisPTate]

How in the heck can you be homeless in Canada without freezing to death?

That is exactly the big question here!

One of the possible answers to this crisis may lie in an economic experiment that took place in 1932, during the Great Depression?

[The Truth About Money: The Money SystemIsnt There a Better Way?
by Francis and Lia Ayley] :

"City in Austria Printed Local Currency
Worgl, like many other European towns and cities, was hit hard by the Great Depression. There was mass unemployment; four of the five local factories had closed, and the people were starving in the streets. Nobody had any money to buy anything. One of the features of an economic depression is that there is not enough money in circulation to ensure that people can meet their basic needs, and in the 1930s, the shortage of currency in many countries of the world became catastrophic.

The mayor of Worgl, together with local businessmen, decided to try to break this economic impasse by creating their own local currency. They printed and issued 60,000 Austrian shillings worth of local currency. These shillings could only be spent in Worgl, so they remained in the local community and were exchanged over and over again.

The positive impact was immediate and surprising to everyone. In only six weeks, unemployment disappeared, all the factories had reopened and everyone had food. For the inhabitants of Worgl, the economic depression was gone. This dramatic transformation became known as the “miracle of Worgl.” Surrounding towns, inspired by the success of Worgl, immediately started printing their own local currencies.

Sadly, the miracle did not last long. When the Austrian Central Bank heard about Worgl’s local currency, they initiated legal proceedings against the mayor and local businessmen. According to Austrian banking law, it was illegal for anyone except the Austrian Central Bank to issue money. The bank won the court case, and the mayor was ordered to shut down the local currency, which he did, under threat of imprisonment. The town then returned to the devastating economic depression of the 1930s, with all the human pain and suffering associated with this catastrophe. Factories closed, and once again, the people starved.

Alternative Currency in the U.S.
Irving Fisher, an American professor of economics at Yale University, visited Worgl before the local currency was suppressed and witnessed the ‘miracle’ firsthand. When he returned to the United States, Fisher spread the word by traveling and lecturing across the country, advocating the use of the Worgl ‘scrip’ everywhere. Inspired by his vision, hundreds of communities began issuing their own currency, and by 1934 there were over 1,000 local communities using ‘scrip’ throughout the U.S.

Every one of these communities experienced a tremendous rejuvenation of their local economies. They thrived while others suffered. Fisher then met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, proposing the implementation of government-sanctioned local ‘scrip’ in every community in America. When FDR consulted with his top financial advisors and bankers, however, he was advised to shut all the ‘scrip’ systems down, which he did. Instead, he borrowed large amounts of money from bankers, at interest, and used it to pay for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the other work-creation projects, which collectively came to be known as the ‘New Deal.’ So ended the last widespread use of a local currency within the U.S.

This pattern of economic collapse and re-emergence of local currencies has occurred thousands of times in many parts of the world. When these currencies have failed or have been suppressed, banks have not always been to blame. Sometimes, local currencies fail because they have been badly designed or implemented. Sometimes, people lose interest in them when the mainstream economy recovers. But they have always returned in one form or another during times of economic failure.

Our present world situation is uniquely different. Despite a relatively prosperous and stable world economy, a quiet monetary revolution has been occurring around the globe over the last 20 years. Awareness is growing about the flaws in our current monetary system, and people are re-creating viable alternatives. We are witnessing for the first time the worldwide creation of money systems designed by the people who use them, instead of by central banks.

Time Dollars in Whatcom County"

[ The Truth About Money: The Money SystemIsnt There a Better Way?
by Francis and Lia Ayley}

Concerned citizens in the City of Calgary Alberta have made some progress toward doing something with this idea.

www.CalgaryDollars.ca/

Could homeless people in Ontario be organized into a film production cooperative and could an alternative currency note or blockchain database be used to partly finance realiity films designed to get them into homes over time?