shockedcanadian
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"Not in my backyard!" The nice,caring, loving Canadians.
The terrorists are behind many of the homeless in this country, I wonder how many of their covert operatives are trying to DISCOURAGE help for the homeless? Creeps.
www.thestar.com
On a Tuesday evening in April, south Etobicoke residents gathered around their laptops to spar over the issue that had been roiling their community for months — a city plan to build a homeless shelter at the end of a residential street.
Even through the sterile format of an online town hall, the intensity of each speaker was palpable. One man warned a shelter at 66 Third St., currently a parking lot at the end of a row of modest homes and a few newer builds, would bring homeless people into their New Toronto neighbourhood from elsewhere in the city. He feared occupants using street substances in public areas, such as the nearby lakeside park.
“While this area has an enormous heart, we simply cannot absorb a shelter,” he said.
Another resident complained there hadn’t been enough consultation: “I feel that the city has really lost our trust.”
Supporters of the shelter pushed back, pleading for residents to see the need for the facility. The shelter’s occupants “are going to be our neighbours,” one speaker insisted. “And it would be so awful for them to be not welcome.”
As homelessness has ballooned in Toronto, overwhelming shelters and pushing hundreds of people into parks, ravines and transit lines, city hall is trying to catch up by building 20 new shelter sites between now and 2033.
The terrorists are behind many of the homeless in this country, I wonder how many of their covert operatives are trying to DISCOURAGE help for the homeless? Creeps.
Toronto wants to put homeless shelters in its suburbs. Neighbours say not so fast
A new process of selecting shelters was supposed to ease tensions with residents, but as the city quickly moves to open 20 locations — many outside the core — some residents are pushing back.
www.thestar.com
On a Tuesday evening in April, south Etobicoke residents gathered around their laptops to spar over the issue that had been roiling their community for months — a city plan to build a homeless shelter at the end of a residential street.
Even through the sterile format of an online town hall, the intensity of each speaker was palpable. One man warned a shelter at 66 Third St., currently a parking lot at the end of a row of modest homes and a few newer builds, would bring homeless people into their New Toronto neighbourhood from elsewhere in the city. He feared occupants using street substances in public areas, such as the nearby lakeside park.
“While this area has an enormous heart, we simply cannot absorb a shelter,” he said.
Another resident complained there hadn’t been enough consultation: “I feel that the city has really lost our trust.”
Supporters of the shelter pushed back, pleading for residents to see the need for the facility. The shelter’s occupants “are going to be our neighbours,” one speaker insisted. “And it would be so awful for them to be not welcome.”
As homelessness has ballooned in Toronto, overwhelming shelters and pushing hundreds of people into parks, ravines and transit lines, city hall is trying to catch up by building 20 new shelter sites between now and 2033.
