Advocates gather in support of homeless as City of Toronto clears hazardous encampment
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- čas přidán 23. 11. 2023
- Dozens of homeless advocates gathered outside a church near Kensington Market on Friday, in response to the City of Toronto’s plans to clear out a hazardous encampment.
In a statement, the city says the encampment outside the St. Stephen-In-The-Fields Anglican Church would be serviced in the morning due to what it calls an “immediate and continuing public safety risk.”
In just the last 10 months, the encampment has experienced three fires.
The plot, however, has served as a home for several vulnerable people in the last two years, with advocates worried the evictees will be subject to further trauma and displacement as they relocate.
Global’s Catherine McDonald reports.
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That was nice of the advocates to offer their property and houses for the homeless to move into
If the bleeding hearts, including Matlow are so concerned they can move them into their homes. Problem solved.
How human of you.
@@ScottPomroy494 How many live with you.
@@georgesimon6041 A family of 5. You?
@@ScottPomroy494 That not homeless, keep virtue signaling.
I have two homeless people living with me at present. I've had as many as four. I buy the groceries, sundries, clothing at a used clothing outlet as you can find loads of new or next to new there. I also pay all the bills. I've just retired and am now on a fixed income so I'm not sure how much longer I can continue 🙃 I've been doing this for tento eleven years now.
The advocates should let them move in with them. Put your money where your mouth is instead of just grandstanding.
I have two individuals living here with me now and I foot the bill for everything and everyone
@@TO3EAST1987do you vote liberal?
Actually I would never vote Liberal with the clowns we have at present and no, I don't vote Liberal nor do I have any plans to do so. We need a strong government which will address real issues not a government that bows down to its Supreme Leader and swallow every lie and mistrust that comes out of his lying mouth
This is not the only encampment in the area. Bellevue Square, Alexandra park, Randy Padmore, all have been destroyed. 3 yrs of this insanity. Stolen Bikes, stolen propane tanks, needles everywhere, street fights, fires, smashed business windows, mentally ill people screaming in front of people’s houses late at night…And All of these clowns virtue signalling in the interviews don’t live in the area and clearly have no interest in telling the real story here nor do they care about the homeowners and their families who live nearby.
And the worst part of this is several of the downtown councillors like Malik have fought against removing these people for 3 yrs straight thinking that these public spaces are for the mentally ill and crackheads. Who voted for these clowns????
How can they vote if there run down don’t you need ID to vote I don’t know any homeless crackheads but I doubt they carry ID
Maybe people with hearts big enough to encompass more than their immediate tribe and pocketbook, but that's just a guess.
I would imagine they're the same people from this area who constantly vote liberal.
@@alweedo8377 They vote NDP in our area. A Big reason is because of the huge TCHC campus Atkinson coop. Who wouldn't vote NDP when they are given townhouses in the middle of downtown Toronto while every other sucker pays 800-900k for their little box in the sky.
@@SillySongs4Everyone2001 Yes. And the councillors in this area are women. Who votes for these people???
How much of our money has been sent to Ukraine so far?
That has nothing to do with Toronto homelessness.
Aren't Chow and Matlow millionaires who already own homes with paid off mortgages?
Why don't they help these people? Instead of preaching to the vast majority of Canadians who are struggling to afford groceries/rent.
The vast majority of people aren't struggling lol
Half of these homeless looking like they are fraud. They just want a free one million dollar house to gift them . Why don't they start working and start making money like I did I been working 7 days two jobs so they can
you cant count someones personal money what and how they do with it is up to them. Her money is her own she just got into office. Cant blame a person for being personally rich. I wouldnt know Im poor since the moment I was born. House? Never ever lived in one.
@@judawan Whose a good little worker drone? Yes you are! Get a third job and Daddy will let you ride in his new yacht!
If you're going to exemplify yourself as some platonic circumstance invalidating all others, at least make it a little more appealing than economic subjugation.
remember when chow and layton lived in subsidized housing while making big bucks
Talk about kicking people when they are down. If our homeless problem is this bad why hasn’t immigration stopped until we solve our homeless problem?
Because one person in particular needs votes. One million undocumented people in Canada.
immigrants will accept living 3 families where previously only one person would live.
These people don't want help or don't want to move out of toronto where there are cheaper options
The problem is dynamic due to the variety of reason for homelessness. Mental illness and drug abuse being the primary causes so compassion as a civil society is always paramount, but enabling and not forcing these types of people into treatment is idiotic. All these encampments do are contribute to urban decay, lawlessness and health problems that destroy communities driving taxper residents and businesses away. San Francisco is the pinnacle of failed Liberal policies exactly like this with no end in sight and after billions of dollars already spent. Trudeau’s been record spending for 8yrs on a plethora of Liberal pet projects yet Canada has dramatically declined under him. Accountability for return on investment funding would eliminate a lot of these self serving so called harm reduction organizations that provide zero result but constantly demand more funding that so far has only benefited them.
How well do you respond to being forced into things that are "for your own good?" Would you not also cling desperately to what little autonomy and agency you still had in your crumbling life, and rebel against authoritarian oppression? That may sound a little dramatic, but think about it from their shoes. You're technically right about what programs they probably need, but practically wrong in that forcing those solutions would render them ineffective even assuming you've actually chosen the right actions to justify revoking their freedom.
If you want the horse to drink you make water available. And then you wait patiently.
Oh but good job making the plight of the homeless all about you and your partisan politics. So sorry you had to acknowledge the existence of ugliness and suffering in the world, and even pay taxes.
Kingston Ontario for example is a liberal stronghold. Many people are shocked to see the growing levels of homelessness here. Will anybody think about that the next time they vote?
@@alweedo8377when it finally affects the individual HARD, people will no longer vote to “be kind.”
See: Argentina.
yeah whatever parrot.
Throw around more media-invented language to say absolutely nothing at all.
@@yaukerhas Canada improved or declined over the last 8 years ?
Imagine the fire risk if they had homes? These people CANNOT look after themselves.
that's why I refuse to live in an apartment building, can't trust the other tenants.
"Canada is back"
Justin Trudeau
Most definitely....not. JT forgot to finish his sentence. It will take us years to get back what we've lost just in the recent past and that's a scary thing 😕
"Sympathetic" Govt at it's best as usual, They waited till it winter to do this? Till its literally TOO COLD to survive unsheltered.. Again, Way to Govt!! You really hit this one out of the park this time...
Toronto is going from bad to worse !
Going?
No it’s already hit rock bottom
Funny, why is it we have to pay to put our property(car)on the street and these people don't have to pay to put their stuff on the street?
And no surprise, there was quite a fire in the encampment at Bellevue Square. All those activists with hearts, thank you for letting the drug addicted mentally ill embrace their freedom.
Failures of the past?? What does he think is happening in the present? A big failure I’d say.
Blackface's Canada. Can anyone tell me a policy that this government has implimented that actually helps the people living in Canada? Everything this Liberal government has done is taken directly out of the WEF handbook.
Ontario isn’t controlled by liberal, rental and housing arestill under provincial jurisdiction. Remember how Ford removed the rental cap?
Move them to the federal buildings and land, there problem solved.
The “advocates” should take them in their own homes and backyards.
You can be come homless in a second .hope u meet your tipe.😂
@@andreakazar637
Yeah! And?
Failures of the past? Who's? Theirs?
What the hell blue collar workers do not make the money landlords want for rent in one month for small houses what do you expect tents are the only affordable option
"Advocates gather" yet they are still homeless lol
Liberals are so kind to offer their homes and provide them with money
The advocates should put some skin in the game…offer their home, pool your money and rent a room…it’s easy to point fingers but let’s see solutions. Otherwise this is just another virtue signal…
Stop listening to advocates
Need to build more highway off ramps, more places for people to beg for money .
These people should take them all in
Bandaids got us here.
Long term solutions require the less fortunate to step things up and we as a community need to give things up to balance life. It's not about being wealthy or the envy from those who aren't. It's about life.
Just clear an area so they can build slums.
Really? That's your soloution?
Involuntary detox for addicts, no methadone…or they can admit themselves to detox and receive methadone
Drug tests for welfare recipients
Was Trudeau there?
All the politicians should house them in their homes
Thats what I have also been saying. 👌
Why are they homeless? That’s the real problem.
Mental and drug abuse? Also, some of them got evicted because Ford remove the rental cap
Because government social services and housing are not working for canadians... they are giving help to foreigners only
These "advocates" need to get their wallet out and pay for these culls - the taxpayer should nont be forced to do so!
You go girl with your sassy advice.....now go get some fries
It's a problem with few or no solutions until affordable housing is realized
Treatment or jail. Enough of the evil ! All that tax for what. ?
I've lived in a couple encampments now and do you know what I see?
Mostly COPS CAUSING the problems they claim they want to solve.
I hear Algonquin park is nice this time of year
Start building asylums. Never mind housing for newcomers.
I'm a believer in second chances but not 3rd and 4ths
Maybe you should get involved.....you can make a t-shirt that says that and walk around all day handing out flyers that say that.....there you go problem solved
NO FURNACE, NO LIFE!
Many people trying to help the homeless are actually trying to help themselves at this point. Help themselves get to heaven. It's more about them than helping the homeless with the key word being "helping". Treating the symptoms of homelessness is not the same as actually helping them restore their lives.
There is one fix and one fix only when we speak about the homeless drug addicts. >>>> Treatment. Plain and simply put, this country can't afford to treat the number of drug addicts.
To make things worse each and every day more people are becoming addicts. No amount of money spent trying to get the message out is better than viewing drug addicts dying on the streets but some how they say to themselves, hey maybe those drugs are for me. What a mess.
We can't afford _not_ to do what we can to curtail the problem at the source and get people above the poverty line before addiction sets in. In the long run, chasing symptoms will be _way_ more expensive regardless of what we and our government is willing to pay. We won't get to opt out of the lost economic output, and there's no way a problem this large is comprised primarily of people who can't be (or couldn't have been) healthy contributing members of society.
I don't mean to say it's the most immediately important thing, but I should think that's a perspective that speaks to any valid (coherent) political tribe or party platform. In the same vein, real investment into making treatment available - and providing a path to access it that exercises however much compassionate patience is needed for the treatment to work - is likely a good investment on top of being the human thing to do.
@@HonoredMule Yes, I'm pretty much in full agreement with you. I would like to mention though that the expensive of chasing the symptoms [currently] in a way is being put onto the public rather than any Federal funds. In terms of crime and the association stress placed on society by the homeless. Every single person that has had something stolen, property damage etc not to mention always having to live in fear. That is a large part of the problem actually. Citizens are just expected to deal with it. Folks are becoming fed up and I for one don't blame them having had my motorcycle stolen just recently. This fact becomes clear to anybody living within ten blocks of any homeless camp.
Same old virtue signallers Matlow and Chow who talk and do nothing
CHOWNADA
They will be placed somewhere good and nice, don't worry people.
BAFFIN iSLAND@@daniel_trang
🙏🙏🙏
Many homeless people in Canada 🇨🇦 are richer than the middle class in China.
- Some homeless people are not poor. They just want a *life with freedom.*
True
when I was on the street, that's what I saw, some of these "homeless" are trust fund babies.
Correction: a life of no responsibility.
@@sdub300
Prodigal children who pissed away their parents' inheritance.
Liberalism has consequences.
Ontario is conversative🤦
Does that guy know what that scarf means? Let’s keep politics out of this, and focus on humanity and dignity.
if done humanly humans make fantastic fertilizer mixed with mulch....or sewage
How about sending them up to Ottawa so they can be with the guy they voted for.
MAKE Canada BETTER again. After 1990 Canada is worse place to call HOME.
The parks are for the citizens of the city. The people that live in apartment building, and these parks are for the citizens to use (walking, enjoying the outdoors, etc). I feel sorry for the people who are having “trouble” affording to live, but why is it up to everyone else to pay for them? How much of our city’s budget goes to pay for this? Has the administration become a permanent job/career? Let’s get back to basics! I am hoping that our Liberal governments will stop being so far left, and start looking after the middle class again. I worked hard to get job, work harder to keep my job, and get fed up of paying 50% of my income on taxes. You want to be part of Canada, it’s not a charity!
The homeless have too much stuff. Why can't they just own nothing and be happy?
Oh my God you have just solved the Homeless Problem.....where have you been all this time?
@@nigel65deck For food try Loblaws, the sandwiches are ketp out in the open, inviting you to eat them.
I’m all tapped out, Trudeau has my money.
Take them home because Trudeau don’t care, he’s one to blame for a such mess
And they have to do that during the winter months ,shhhy6ttttt
go woke go broke....looks good on them
Empathy turning into enabling is the problem.
When I was drinking and drugging my enablers cut me off and I was forced to live or die.
Empathy must have limits.
People who work for a living are being controlled by drug addicted homeless people??
THOSE ARE ALL PEOPLE WHO WHERE ONCE IN SHELTERS HOW DO I KNOW? I WORKED IN THE SETTING THESE PEOPLE WHERE GETTING KICKED OUT FOR VOICING THERE CONCERNS! I SAW IT ALL! THEY WOULD GET KICKED OUT IF THEY SPOKE UP AGAINST THE HATE THEY RECEAVED FROM THE STAFF! HELL THE STAFF WOULD EVEN STEAL THERE FOOD! GO ASK THEM! THERE NOT THERE FOR NO REASON THEY WHERE ALL THROWN OUT OF THE SHELTERS!
This is true. Some get kicked out for not giving up their phones to staff....unreal
they turned one of the biggest hotel programs into housing and kicked everyone out who used to much. Example they hand out the supplies like water and then blame the people why do they use? Because you Enforce it by giving it out. The only thing they give out is Needles! everything else is struggle. @@JessTheory
Where does this happen? What specific place? @@JessTheory
Everyone there cares until its time to actually do something..the goverment fumbles the balls, and thats the bottom line..
The government has been fumbling the balls terribly for a long while and it's going to take years to get our country back to a good place. We're not wanted at international meetings, we're laughed at and our standing in the world has decreased.
@@TO3EAST1987 I agree completely with u..
What should the roll of government be in your life ?
It appears there is no individual responsibility. If you have a problem just upload it to the government.
Other than the mentally ill . Who I believe should be compelled into treatment . You have a choice in this society . Living like animals in public spaces is not the solution.
There seems to be a lot of advocates who want to do something about that . Unfortunately they want to do it with other peoples money . I don't wish to fund your poor choices in life.
All the advocates should gather together and crowd fund for the homeless.
I know this seems harsh . Be careful with saddling government as the provider of all your needs . You will inevitably wake up one day in an un-Democratic society.
"Who I believe should be compelled into treatment."
"You have a choice in this society."
Which "you" has what now?
"Be careful... You will inevitably wake up one day in an un-Democratic society."
On that we can agree. It just turns out there's more than one turn that leads to authoritarianism.
How come in Europe, Asia, Middle East, etcetera, I hardly notice any of this homeless crisis? But in Canada and the United States, the homelessness problems are everywhere, with lazy bums, the mentally ill, and drug-addicted losers causing all kinds of trouble and crime. Why people, why? Lol
It's the American dream of clawing your way to the top with a few kicks down on the way. Leaving people behind to focus on personal gain is a core value built into Western ethos to a far greater degree than you see in any mature developed cultures which survived this long by having a greater allegiance to community.
We'll get there eventually too, whether it be the easy way (growing up and broadening our scope of genuine concern) or the hard way (rebuilding after society collapses or is toppled and replaced - possibly within our lifetimes, possibly by generational displacement which at least is peaceful).
@@HonoredMule Being chased down by the angry, violent, dangerous, thuggish, and useless bums out on the street, is not the American dream, more like the American nightmare. Lol
You obviously haven’t been to Paris, London, Dublin,…… it’s everywhere!
@@garethgoodchild2643 That's where physical conditioning and martial arts come in. Hey, at least in the "Good Old Of USA", we have the 2nd amendment i.e., Lock & Load. Peace out brother!
The homeless are left to fend for themselves outside the capitals and resort towns where they can't be an eyesore.
Too much freedom and not enough responsibility.
A nation that worships real estate like Jesus gets the mess it asks for
There is no reason to be homeless in Toronto. There are many jobs in Toronto and government and health services are mostly free. These people don't want to work and prefer everything handed to them freely.
Do you honestly believe what you just typed??? Your ignorance of the facts is really obvious. NOBODY gets up in the morning and says "I think I'm going to give up everything I have and live as a homeless person ' There are factors that cause this to be the end result but wanting to live in a tent and take assistance from the government in this country are not two of the reasons.
They want to do drugs with other people's money.
@@TO3EAST1987False. Most prefer to stay homeless because they want to continue using drugs, which they cannot do at shelters and government housing. Many are violent criminals.
Agree
@wellyforpm If someone gets to addiction stage I would agree in part but what about the teenager who ran away from home because her step-dad is coming to her bedroom when her mother is working nights? She's living on the streets as is the young man who was sold out by his parents for money and right next to them is the single mother who lost her min. wage job, started sleeping in her car then it was broken into and not safe anymore. She brought her daughter to live with a relative who promised to care for her but because of the cramped living situation and the addiction she now had was sleeping outside. People don't just go homeless because they want free drugs, there are all sorts of tragedies that cause someone to take to the streets and sleep in a cardboard box to be out of the snow
So sad to know that Toronto has turned into like this.
These bums should be in jail.
That’s what they do in Japan
Could be your turn next. It can happen to anyone in todays Canada.
The reverend and the church advocate should know that “cleanliness is next to godliness”.
That’s not even biblical
While the exact phrase is not found in the Bible, the concept is clearly expressed. In the Old Testament, cleanliness wasn't just “next to godliness,” it was wholly part of it. You see, the standards that God established concerning cleanliness touched on every aspect of the people’s lives. Personal hygiene and spiritual purity are intricately linked because cleanliness, both ritual and actual, was fundamental to the establishing and preserving of holiness in the biblical community.
THank GOD they need help not being ignored on a corner street. If they sat there they would have died from overdoses this is Not GOOD!
This is disgraceful america
This is canada
@@LiamT725 Maybe they meant "disgraceful america" as one phrase rather than a direct address. I mean, it works. 😛
These people are human beings just like us and it is time for people to open their eyes.
Every one of them was offered a place in a shelter. I’m sorry but that disaster needs to be cleaned up.
@@josephsmith594 So every single one of them was offered a place in a shelter. If they all had shelter, this would not be an issue right? How many didn't make the cut for shelter?
@@ScottPomroy494 They didn’t want to go to a shelter. Many homeless people have mental illnesses including paranoid schizophrenia, they’re not just on the street simply because they can’t find a bed. The people who live in that community can’t be expected to carry that in their neighbourhoods.
I can only imagine the door to your place is open to them all?
@@josephsmith594WOW 😮😮 just WOW!!!!
White culture
Put trudeau in jail
Whoever is opposing the clearance the homeless need to be relocated to his neighborhood