BinzyBoi

Resources for the homeless in Edmonton have always been terrible, speaking as someone who was homeless there twice now. There's a lot of people wanting to make a difference, but as for organised supports in getting housing, there wasn't a lot when I lived up that way.

When you compare the resources available for the homeless in Edmonton to those available for people in Calgary, it's essentially night and day. Even with government assistance, I remember waiting over four hours on two occasions to get on Income Support in Edmonton, whereas in Calgary, we were in and out of the office in maybe fifteen or twenty minutes.

Mind you this was a few years ago, but still.

If by chance you mean communities you moderate, I think there is a button to do that when you view a community on a remote instance.

Not sure what the procedure is like otherwise as I've never used it myself.

"Democracy dies in darkness, and we're on the side of darkness"

A lot of lakes here don't get the respect they deserve for how pretty they are. Like you have world-renowned ones like Lake Louise and Morraine Lake that get a lot of attention, but other places I wish would get some more respect like Lac La Biche, Wabamun Lake, and the Wabasca Lakes.

Glad that these ones got some attention.

This is the issue with the Heritage Fund. When Peter Lougheed established it and started funding it, the funds were supposed to be put towards investments in other sectors of the provincial economy so that we didn't have to rely on the boom-bust oil cycle.

Premier after premier has failed to address the issue of the fund. We just hit $30 billion in the fund last year when the value in 1985 was $14 billion. We have done fuck all to diversify the economy here, it's been all talk, with the only action being backwards investments like a new AI data centre that'll end up costing more money than it's worth.

Counter-point, council meetings and open events not being a part of politics radicalises people and further exacerbates the issues we see with political extremism since people become more prone to the thought that politicians aren't working for them, something that could actually potentially happen when politicians don't meet with constituents face-to-face.

Ordinary Sausage lookin' ass.

If he can talk about the issues of American hegemony at Davos, he can hold true to that word in a statement like this.

Oh no, the U.S. is gonna negatively affect trade with us... as if Trump isn't literally out there threatening to abandon CUSMA, a deal that he made in his first term to replace NAFTA.

If their word never seems to matter, why should we hold ourselves to their standards?

True, but isn't it the city's responsibility to properly allot that funding? Or are you saying that the cities are underfunded by the province, which I wouldn't be surprised by.

I don't know if Australia is facing the opioid crisis the same way Canada is, but if these public washrooms are going to be accessible to the public, the government needs to take drug addiction seriously and properly address it with the money and laws that it deserves.

I recently moved back to Edmonton briefly before coming back to Calgary, and where I remember public washrooms being accessible, they were all closed off, or too monitored to make me comfortable. Washrooms that used to be public in bus terminals and downtown pedways were always conveniently "out of service", and the open ones I did come across offered by the city had two security guards sitting directly outside them.

People wash their clothes in these washrooms, inject and snort drugs, and sleep in these washrooms. Here in Calgary the Exeloos are a running jokes because they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they're never available because they don't want people dealing with addictions abusing them.

Seems like a great step in the right direction, but what would happen if someone on the register were to get pregnant? Would they be legally required to surrender their children on birth?