Bill 60 is outrageous in a province already inundated with mass homelessness.

It further limits justice for tenants at the LTB, expedites evictions, and further incentivizes Landlord's Own Use evictions by slashing compensation to tenants.

Unconscionable!

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In a ruling released today, the Ontario Land Tribunal found that the proposed tiny home community is inconsistent with existing planning guidelines and dismissed PATH's appeal while denying a temporary use bylaw which would have allowed for 24 tiny homes to be erected at the Lansdowne St. property.

read this.

this is a political analysis.

It was drawn to my attention today by a CBC reporter that Sylvia Jones has apparently issued a statement claiming that there has been a 41% decrease in overdose deaths since the safe consumption sites were closed. I found this hard to believe, so I looked at the figures from the Chief Coroner.

The public should know how aggressive and cruel these City evictions are becoming. At this one, by-law officers were laughing while evicting tents and calling themselves “the teepee police.”

'We can't take the bus with our stuff': Encampment evictions continue across Peterborough; enforcement costs unknown

This was never meant to provide shelter, it's to justify the further disenfranchisement of some of the most vulnerable in our community through enforcement and evictions. Councillors are not being consulted and costs for enforcement are unknown to date. A report should be public later this month.

seeing more law enforcement types taking credit for the drop in fent overdose deaths even though what finally turned the tide was a public health response that liberally distributed narcan to anybody who asked for it

No level of enforcement will get us out of a crisis of human security. Meeting human needs creates community safety.

Dr. Piggott: "the costs to the healthcare system for people experiencing homelessness who are admitted to hospital, citing a cost of $17,000 per admission, ... can exceed the cost of housing someone elsewhere for an entire year."

This week, Peterborough City Council voted to cut funding for Trinity Community Centre – an emergency shelter that has served over 400 people in under one year – because it is inclusive.

Also this w/ @zoedodd.bsky.social discussing how propaganda helped us arrive at this moment.

There were opportunities to slow it down but national newspapers have played their role. 12/
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this crisis has always been a test of our humanity. and we have failed.

At some point you have to recognize our interconnectedness and how sacrificing anyone is sacrificing everyone and only feeds the authoritarian machine.

You cannot stave this off by feeding people into the maw. We stand together or we all fall.

drug policy is public policy and public policy is foreign policy

hey hosers somebody call the fentanyl czar because I'm pretty sure we fucked up

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Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.