Nick Gurr Susan Stevenson I park my car, 5 days a week, in spitting distance from the tents in those photos

I walk those blocks every single day

I buy lunch and other things from the businesses on that block and surrounding blocks

My elderly parents visited me in that parking lot (with their car!) to

It’s heartbreaking to learn that Alaska reported a 45% rise in toxic drug overdose deaths year-over-year.
Conservatives won’t blame Democrats for failed policy, because it’s a Republican State. They can’t blame “safe supply or decrim” because they don’t implement those policies.

If you have a little extra to spare this week, pls consider helping a member of our community, Colin In London, retain his housing & receive much-needed medical support. We all need to know we’re not alone when we’re hit with sudden challenges in life: gofund.me/9d2f4196 #ldnont

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Unregulated drug deaths began skyrocketing while Pierre Poilievre was in PM Harper's Cabinet

Why? Shift to illicit fentanyl spurred by the 'crack down' on pharmaceuticals (e.g. Oxycontin) and 'war on drugs' disruptions/seizures

Since then, the genie has been out of the bottle

This tweet provides real insight into Susan's beliefs.

For her, it's a battle between the 'haves' and the 'have nots'. She sees people experiencing poverty as an inconvenient mess that needs to be cleaned up.

Success in Susan's mind is the old adage: 'Out of sight. Out of mind'

BC: “We’re taking action to keep parks safe from public drug use.”

Also BC:

The first overseas assignment I shot was Nigerian governments failure to provide affordable housing strategies and the resulting improvised communities that were arising due to it

NEVER did I imagine I’d see the same thing happen here wherein politicians were cheering about it

$672 million for police to reactively ‘clean up’ encampments? Push them down the road you mean, solving nothing for anyone. This is the vision City of London?Increased criminalization & harm to folx already marginalized by systems of oppression? Where are they supposed to go?

When people who hate marginalized folks trot out the word 'respect' (like respecting property, respecting taxpayers, respecting our awful councillor), they mean that second thing. When compassionate people use the term 'respect,' they mean the first. This disjunct means so much.

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Where did the people go? Evicting people from their tents is NOT a solution to homelessness unless they were all placed in safe/affordable/supportive housing. Were they City of London ?

Its absolutely inhumane and disgusting to see a sitting city councillor gloat about kicking our unhoused neighbours around again.

Its just another example of this councillors want to continue to abuse them.

Where should they go that is 'acceptable'? they have nowhere.

11:29pm Friday: “left with…a tender heart”

2:27pm Saturday: “THANK YOU” to everyone for disappearing unhoused people so we don’t have to see them! “You made a difference & brought hope.”

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Where were they forced to go?
Do you think they feel hopeful?

Another example of London is not paying enough for planners. Cornwall is hiring a Planning Supervisor for $104-117k per year, while London is still trying to hire at $61-89k for functionally the same role.

Cornwall: atlas.workland.com/work/37639/sup…

London: careers.london.ca/job/London-Sen…

Government are in the midst of a housing and affordability crisis. Rather than fix it, they wanna scapegoat drug users. Whether it's street sweeps, decampments or bans on public drug use, this is all about that old desire to ban poor people from sight.

One year of war in Sudan and more than:
* 14K have been killed
* 14M are in need of humanitarian assistance
* 8M have fled their homes
* 17.7M face acute hunger

Join us to #KeepEyesOnSudan !
Wonderland Road N at Farrah Road near Costco

Sat Apr 27 11:30 am to 12:30 am
#ldnont

Action Alert ‼️

Unlike her federal cousins, who have proudly worn the keffiyeh in the House of Commons in solidarity, Marit Stiles is proving to be Ontario’s weakest and most ineffective opposition leader in recent memory.

We have received reports that she has actively