Mayor feels human rights approach to homelessness isn’t working After retracting comments he made earlier this week, Mayor Ken Boshcoff said on Thursday that he personally feels the city’s human rights approach to homelessness isn’t working. Boshcoff said he understands why council took that approach and he “wishes it was working.” “I unfortunately have to … Read more
Hopefully our high salaried residents of City Hall have consulted the City of Thunder Bay legal staff. The very staff that require taxpayers spending $1 million renovating office space in the Whalen Building. Yes THAT legal staff. I feel that our high salaried residents of City Hall, by designating encampment sites, will expose the … Read more
I have a solution, a permanent solution to the problem of what to do with the “unhoused”. I am surprised nobody has thought of it before, especially all of the bleeding heart anti-poverty groups and their supporters. They can adopt them. Yes, adopt an “unhoused” person. Take one or two home with you. Give … Read more
Population of homeless encampments continues to swell Organizations that provide outreach services to people without a permanent home have never seen a situation such as the one they’re witnessing this summer in Thunder Bay. At this time last year, Elevate NWO had counted 55 individuals living in tents in various encampments around the city. In … Read more
Hmmmm…didn’t Nazi Germany do this in years leading up to and including WW2? Hmmm….. I think Trudeau might have hit on a solution to homelessness. If you just go a little further and include drug addicts in the mentally ill group, a not too big leap, then there we go. Problem solved. I wonder what … Read more
Below is a transcript of an interview of Michael Shellenberger. He talks about the homelessness epidemic in the American major cities. This epidemic is also of great interest to Canadians especially here in Thunder Bay. What I found interesting in the discussion is something that I have noticed myself. That many of the so-called ‘homeless’ … Read more
TBTnews coverage of the Harm Reduction Industrial Complex’s Awareness Day held at Waverley Park. Lives were at stake because of the Ontario Governments closure of many Harm Reduction Centres across Ontario. I believe that the people, the Industrial Complex that has flourished around the addiction crisis, whose very income is depended on perpetual government … Read more
If several hundred of the ardent champions of the unhoused each adopt one, there will be no unhoused in the city. What could be more humane than that? OK everyone, put your house where your mouth is. You got a spare room, an empty basement or a sofa, then step up and be part … Read more
Holly Gauvin is extremely generous with other people’s money. Once again, as I have said many, many times, if you get something for free, it has no value. That goes for lodging, food, clothing or money. If you get money given to you, unearned, then it has no value. You will always get more. … Read more
Another example of how the Indigenous chiefs and community only care when members of their community are in prison, are killed or go missing. Up until then, nobody seems to care. Bruce Wallace Frogg was a member of Wawakapewin, an Oji-Cree First Nation and remote fly-in community about 350 kilometres north of Sioux Lookout. … Read more