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Working on writing yet another few angry letters to government sellout assholes. I don't even know why we have any governments anymore when politicians feel free to break laws whenever they want without any real living consequences.
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Please don't call the cops on homeless folks, who you may see/run into at some parks, if they're not bothering anyone at all & are trying to keep to themselves. I've met several different homeless folks all around this large urban park & never felt scared around them. I sometimes bring them free foods & first aid supplies.
We desperately need more social & transitional supportive housing in #VictoriaBC. All municipalities should be working on this - together. This is a shared social responsibility & it crosses every municipal border. Demonizing, dehumanizing & criminalizing homeless folks hasn't helped at all - it is also very unkind & lacking of humanity.
#HouseTheHomeless #YYJpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HousingCrisis #SocialHousing #TransitionalHousing #WarOnThePoor #PovertyIsNotACrime #ClassWar #PSA
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@kimlockhartga We, the citizens, deserve much more public accountability & public transparency on cop crimes & cops abusing their power. We deserve municipal, provincial/state, federal governments who don't keep increasing police budgets - using our public tax dollars. All those budget increases have never helped to reduce crimes nor increased public safety. Those budget increases just help cops become more militarized & lack of accountability makes them even more arrogant & makes them more prone to exploit their authoritative power over citizens.
#ACAB #CopCrimes #AccountabilityNow #PublicTransparency #CriminalCops #JailThePolice #ArrestCops #YYJpoli
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Just how small is 33 square metres? It’s about 350 square feet, or the size of a studio apartment in The Janion, specially built for short-term rental use in #VictoriaBC.
But a staff report to the City of Victoria is recommending that council consider allowing developers to build micro-units in new projects with minimum standards in place.
It’s an effort to create more units in a tight housing market, says Mayor Marianne Alto.
Alto says the report will come before council at its next meeting and, if approved, would have to be incorporated into the city’s official community plan.
Find the report here.
https://pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=e2585636-3493-4f9f-b71b-417631fc7bb8&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English&Item=13&Tab=attachments#YYJpoli #RentalHousing #HousingCrisis #MicroRentalUnits #TinyApartments #RentalMarket #HousingSolutions #TinyHomes #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #YYJ #Renters #BCpoli #BCHousing #YYJhousing
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We need #BCForestryReform no matter who wins to stop ongoing #deforestation of #BritishColumbia. This is a decades long battle with 2 swinging door BC governments.
Even if you had $100 billion - you can't buy or give funds to First Nations to buy cutblocks & protect them instead of logging them. The way our shady government has set things up - if you purchase cutblock, you're legally required to log it or else you lose your purchase. That needs to be changed. It's a screwed up clause created by former BC Liberals & was kept on books by BC NDP. Only the BC Greens have ever fought to get this amended as part of necessary, overdue BC #ForestryReform.
#BCpoli #BCElection2024 #ImVotingGreen #BCGreens #BCGreenParty #EthicalVoters #VotingForSustainableFutures #YYJpoli #CDNpoli #VotingForGreenerFutures #VotingForHumanity #NeverVoteConservative #NeverVoteNeoliberal #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #LetsGoGreens #StopEcocide
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A dozen #teachers from the #GreaterVictoriaTeachersAssociation are expected to show up for a #rally supporting the #LGBTQ+ community at the #BClegislature on Friday.
The rally is one of a series of events across #Canada that day to counter what local organizers from the groups #1MillionVoicesForInclusion and Finn’s Future call the “transphobic rhetoric” of a previous 1 Million March for Children, which opposes teaching on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or #SOGI in schools.
The teachers will be advocating for SOGI education prior to the noon #Celebration of #QueerExistence rally.
SOGI in schools has generated protests in #BritishColumbia which #GVTA president Carolyn Howe said was part of the reason the #BCgovernment recently brought in rules to keep protesters off school grounds.
She said she doesn’t know of any such protests at local schools, but noted there has been “a worrying uptick in very vocal opposition to -inclusive practices around #GenderDiversity, both in schools and in the wider community.”
“Victoria schools have #queer staff, parents, students and we want everyone in the #2sLGTBQIA+ community to know we stand together.”
#YYJpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli #CommunityRally #SuppportLGBTQ2S #SupportQueerCommunity #HumanRights #StudentRights #InclusionAndDiversity #VictoriaBC #AntiBigotry #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #FightTransphobia #TransphobicsHarmCommunity
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Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.
"Give more respect to those unhoused
I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.
Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.
These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.
Chris Holiday
Victoria"
#YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas
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*Related to my post from yesterday.
#BCNDP's #HousingHub program is coming under #scrutiny after one #TaxpayerSubsidized #RentalBuilding in #Vancouver's #Kitsilano neighbourhood, touted as "affordable", is now listing units for $2,600 per month for a studio & $4,200 per month for a 2 bedroom unit.
The listed #RentalPrices are well above provincial #AffordableHousing thresholds & one #housing #researcher says it's an example of how difficult it is to build #AffordableRental buildings when market prices are so far beyond what average #renters can afford.
The leader of the #BCGreenParty called it an "infuriating" #misuse of #TaxpayerDollars.
The #BCNDPgovernment provided a $31.8 million #LowInterestLoan to Vancouver developer #JamesonDevelopmentCorp. for the 68-unit rental building through the HousingHub program, which is aimed at providing housing to middle-income renters shut out of the real estate market.
#BCPremier #DavidEby, who was the minister -responsible for housing at the time, was quoted in a December 2021 government news release announcing the project.
"Our government is investing in more affordable housing for people who work and live in Vancouver, and throughout B.C." he said.
The building at 1807 Larch St., called the L2, is set to be complete next month & is now advertising units.
According to the building's website, a 400-square foot studio apartment starts at $2,599 a month & a 840-square foot two-bedroom, two-bath unit is listed for $4,299 a month.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7288112
#YYJpoli #VanPoli #YVR #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HousingForAll #HousingCrisis #HousingFirst #EndCorporateWelfare #BChousing #Corruption #BCNDPFailures
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In #VictoriaBC - you get in trouble from bylaw officers if you cook/feed the poor & houseless folks in Summer. You don't get in much trouble & usually left alone in cold, freezing weather in Winter because bylaw officers won't patrol much when conditions are miserable out. I learned that from past lived experiences when trying to cook outside to feed #hungry & #houseless folks.
I wouldn't feel the need to keep trying to feed people here if our governments, & our society as a whole, didn't treat houseless folks like they're not human & not deserving of kindness, compassion & understanding. Some of us citizens have got in trouble for trying to feed people - when the people trying to punish people like me aren't doing much to help feed & house the folks who need to be fed & housed the most.
I'm not a criminal. The heartless governments & ignorant people who #stigmatize hungry, houseless folks, while doing shit all to help out, are the real criminals in our society.
I will ALWAYS try to feed the hungry, without judgements. I hope more people will also go out to feed the hungry, without judgements. We - the grassroots citizens, who care - are local humanity in action. We need to keep trying to help folks in our own communities, as much as we can. We need to keep resisting the fascists who try to destroy our efforts.
Cruel fascists are no benefit to any community. Whether they're elected officials or not. The houseless are part of all of our communities. They don't deserve to be ignored & treated like lesser than humans.
#FeedTheHungry #StopTheStigma #CommunitySocialWork #HelpYourCommunity #BeAHumanitarian #HelpTheHungry #YYJpoli #BCpoli #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #PovertyIsNotACrime #HumanRights #SocialJustice
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Growing up with a #disability and now working as an #accessibility consultant, I notice these types of barriers all the time. For me, and for the estimated 27% of #Canadians who also have
a disability that affects their day-to-day activities (a number that #StatisticsCanada expects to increase as the baby boomers age), automatic door openers are just the tip of the iceberg.In 2019, the federal government passed the #AccessibleCanadaAct (ACA), which aims to make #Canada fully #accessible by 2040. Despite this perception that the proverbial needle of accessibility is moving forward, Canada isn’t as accessible as it thinks it is. Many bars and restaurants still lack accessible washrooms; Braille menus and signage are still uncommon; obstacles make it hard for wheelchair users to navigate public spaces.
New findings from #AccessibilityTechnology company #AccessNow corroborated this reality as part of its #research project, Mapping Our Cities for All. Considered Canada’s largest accessibility #ResearchInitiative to date, the project evaluated the state of accessibility at more than 14,000 sites in #Vancouver, #Calgary and #Ottawa. Released last November, the research found that almost 60% of public businesses were only partially accessible or not accessible. Much like my Toronto café, many of these spaces had some accessibility features, like a ramp, but also barriers, such as a bathroom only reachable by stairs.
https://broadview.org/canada-isnt-as-accessible-as-it-claims-to-be/
#PeopleWithDisabilities #DisabledCanadians #CDNpoli #BCpoli #YYJpoli #Inclusiveness #CommunityDiversity #AccessabilityForAll
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Despite #BCNDP saying they’ve stopped #renovictions in #BritishColumbia they’re still very much happening. After a ruling from the Residential Tenancy Branch #RTB dozens of #Esquimalt #seniors are being kicked out in four months for the new owners to do renovations.
Many of the #renters being displaced are #LowIncome, either on #disability or a #FixedPension. As a result, most of them can’t afford market rent, and fear they could be homeless.
Because the new owner is doing renovations, not a total demolition, Esquimalt’s #Tenant Assistance Policy isn’t triggered. Any stronger policy is the #BCgovernment jurisdiction.
“It’s time for the provincial government to actually stop this from happening. If they really want to stop renovictions, then they need to change the laws,” said Douglas King, executive director of #TogetherAgainstPovertySociety.
King says what’s needed is a BC-wide #TenantAssistance #policy to better #ProtectTenants facing #displacement, but also to prevent #taxpayers from paying for the consequences down the line.
#BCpoli #BChousingCrisis #RentersRights #YYJpoli #PovertyIsNotACrime #StopRenovictions #HousingRights #MarginalizedRenters #BCNewDeathParty #Housing #RentalProperties #YYJHousing #BCHousing #HumanRights #SocialInjustice
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Driving from dentist, earlier. Houseless encampments on Pandora Ave.
Video audio transcription:
Pandora.
People need homes. House the homeless. House the homeless. In such a bourgeois, rich city and a rich country, people should have homes.#VictoriaBC #HousingFirst #HumanRights #HomelessLivesMatter #HouseTheHomeless #BreakTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #YYJpoli #DontCriminalizeHomelessness #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #CommunityMatters #BeingPoorIsNotACrime #CDNpoli
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Tell every nonprofit & charity who currently accepts police monies PR(our tax monies) - you aren't happy about them taking our tax monies from cops for whitewashed shit & want direct methods to help without passing dirty cops hands. Tell them you are going to donate directly to victims & more honest causes instead.
Tell #CopsForCancer there's better ways of fundraising than trying to elevate #ShitAssCops
One of those Shit Ass Cops is president of #SaanichPolice corrupted #PoliceUnion & #SaanichMayor & #SaanichCouncil are #sellout #Bootlickers
https://youtu.be/fT9U6uZ1n68?si=RKDuzrAJ2v5fUflg
https://youtu.be/fT9U6uZ1n68?si=vh5Yu9RQpN00UPIM
#YYJpoli #Racists #Unethical #DeathToPoliticians #Scumbuckets #CopLovingChimps