Surely they gave them places to live and help with their health issues? They didn’t just move them and expect the problem to fix itself, right?
They didn’t move them at all. That would cost money. They are expected to leave o. Their own or be arrested for interference or something …
However, Davidson also ruled there must be enough room in homeless shelters for displaced people and the camp must receive notice prior to the evictions. Without space in shelters police may only close those canps at risk to public health and safety, the judge added.
Now, the question is how the matching will work, if there’s any plan to match them.
Oh. The problem did fix itself. You don’t have a homeless problem if all your homeless are frozen to death.
This is why, statistically, northern countries have lower homeless population… They die off every winter.
(I am now not sure on my stats)
Canada has become such a complete shit hole and I am ashamed that this government continues to debase this country so hard.
Too busy sucking corporate cock of oil barons to do anything for their fucking constituents.
Oh Canada. I always looked up to you as a kind of USA but where people actually would like to live. This is news i would’ve expected of your neighbours.
This is Alberta, the conservative part of Canada
This is also Edmonton, the most progressive city in Alberta.
Yeah, but police in progressive cities are still generally regressive shitbags
No argument from me there. However, I’m pretty sure this is at the behest of the city, not the police taking actions on their own.
Doesn’t make it sound less horrible though… And even more murican 🙁
Sometimes it is necessary for public safety and sanitation reasons. The camp in that video certainly looked like a bonfire waiting to happen. The reality is though that this just moves the problem somewhere else. It is not like kicking them out magically creates a better, safer, warmer place for them to go to.
It would be necessary for " public health and sanitary reasons" to help those people somehow. Not just, like you concluded, just shove the somewhere else. Or just disperse them.
Sure, it might look like a bonfire, but none of those people probably actually WANTED this, if they’ve had the chance to voice their opinion.
Good.
Why? A take that spicy needs backup.
Because the answer to homelessness isn’t to leave them on the street when it hits 20-30 below. But guess what, it’s not EPS’s job to fix the situation with shelters or any of the other problems. But if the government is unwilling or unable to keep homeless people off the streets, that doesn’t mean EPS should just sit back and let them build tent cities all over the place.
Why do you separate Edmonton Police and the government?
EPS is civic jurisdiction, public health is supposedly provincial jurisdiction. Based on every action they’ve ever taken, it’s fair to say the Alberta government doesn’t care whatsoever about public health, and they seem especially contemptuous towards the city of edmonton.
Sending the police is absolutely not the right way to deal with this, I’m not trying to defend that. The key problem is that the city simply doesn’t have the resources to pick up the slack left by the province refusing to do their damned jobs, even though they are the ones being put under enormous pressure by business owners & suburbanites to do something.
If it gets that cold this year.
Because the answer to homelessness isn’t to leave them on the street when it hits 20-30 below.
Agreed.
But guess what, it’s not EPS’s job to fix the situation with shelters or any of the other problems.
Technically an accurate description of the current structure of the government.
But if the government is unwilling or unable to keep homeless people off the streets, that doesn’t mean EPS should just sit back and let them build tent cities all over the place.
Why not? Obviously the homeless prefer it over… actually, what’s the alternative again?
