The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 476

MolsonExport · #**9501** Posted **May 16, 2017, 5:08 PM**

135A Street ("the Strip"), Surrey

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TorontoDrew · #**9502** Posted **May 16, 2017, 5:43 PM**

What the hell? That's really depressing.

Acajack · #**9503** Posted **May 16, 2017, 5:54 PM**

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135A Street ("the Strip"), Surrey

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Is that an outdoorsy shop showing off the tents it has for sale?

niwell · #**9504** Posted **May 16, 2017, 5:58 PM**

Unfortunately not... I had no idea such an area existed in the suburbs until MolsonEx posted about it a few weeks back: https://goo.gl/maps/Zsqv9SEC7CA2

Acajack · #**9505** Posted **May 16, 2017, 6:11 PM**

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Unfortunately not... I had no idea such an area existed in the suburbs until MolsonEx posted about it a few weeks back: https://goo.gl/maps/Zsqv9SEC7CA2

That kind of phenom... it almost... seems... American.

Please don't hurt me.

Rico Rommheim · #**9506** Posted **May 16, 2017, 6:39 PM**

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Seriously? That's almost unbelievable. Why Surrey of all places?

edit: just read about it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-135a-street-1.3928538 This is simply stunning.

whatnext · #**9507** Posted **May 16, 2017, 7:33 PM**

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Seriously? That's almost unbelievable. Why Surrey of all places?

edit: just read about it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-135a-street-1.3928538 This is simply stunning.

Its kind of hard to feel sympathy for the couple who are "both on social assistance and she says they have trouble finding permanent housing because they have two dogs." Maybe they should just give up the dogs instead of dragging them into their circle of misery. Seriously?!

This is where Canada's rejects end up folks. If you're going to be homeless you're not going to do it somewhere winter temps are well below freezing.

O-tacular · #**9508** Posted **May 16, 2017, 7:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Its kind of hard to feel sympathy for the couple who are "both on social assistance and she says they have trouble finding permanent housing because they have two dogs." Maybe they should just give up the dogs instead of dragging them into their circle of misery. Seriously?!

This is where Canada's rejects end up folks. If you're going to be homeless you're not going to do it somewhere winter temps are well below freezing.

Yeah — those miserable homeless people! How dare they have the comfort of animal companionship!

Franco401 · #**9509** Posted **May 16, 2017, 8:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Its kind of hard to feel sympathy for the couple who are "both on social assistance and she says they have trouble finding permanent housing because they have two dogs." Maybe they should just give up the dogs instead of dragging them into their circle of misery. Seriously?!

This is where Canada's rejects end up folks. If you're going to be homeless you're not going to do it somewhere winter temps are well below freezing.

Everywhere on the internet, I find people don't seem to have any idea how poor/homeless people live. Case in point

Not to mention the textbook classism, this persistent idea that the system is just so great, anyone who works hard will be successful and people's situations are their own fault.

Give me a straight answer: Do those people sitting outside in the cold deserve to be there? Because they're "rejects"?

O-tacular · #**9510** Posted **May 16, 2017, 10:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Franco401

Everywhere on the internet, I find people don't seem to have any idea how poor/homeless people live. Case in point

Not to mention the textbook classism, this persistent idea that the system is just so great, anyone who works hard will be successful and people's situations are their own fault.

Give me a straight answer: Do those people sitting outside in the cold deserve to be there? Because they're "rejects"?

Really no different than the Republicans south of the border who claim not having Medicaid will motivate people to save. The ignorant self righteousness of the morally bankrupt.

SignalHillHiker · #**9511** Posted **May 16, 2017, 10:34 PM**

That Surrey scene reminds me of Boston. Come round a random corner downtown, and the sidewalk is literally blocked, no room to even step between them, with sleeping homeless people.

O-tacular · #**9512** Posted **May 16, 2017, 11:06 PM**

GeneralLea · #**9513** Posted **May 17, 2017, 1:17 AM**

Oh my!!! I hope they make a film adaptation of this fight between the Residence de Soliel and the Jakka (or whatever Mecca Tower) of Doom.

O-tacular · #**9514** Posted **May 17, 2017, 1:57 AM**

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Oh my!!! I hope they make a film adaptation of this fight between the Residence de Soliel and the Jakka (or whatever Mecca Tower) of Doom.

I asked myself today if I was to make like a Society6 page or something would anyone buy a Clockzilla mug or T-shirt?

Loco101 · #**9515** Posted **May 17, 2017, 2:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Its kind of hard to feel sympathy for the couple who are "both on social assistance and she says they have trouble finding permanent housing because they have two dogs." Maybe they should just give up the dogs instead of dragging them into their circle of misery. Seriously?!

This is where Canada's rejects end up folks. If you're going to be homeless you're not going to do it somewhere winter temps are well below freezing.

I know the things with dogs seems strange but most of the people living like that have mental health issues so things don't always make sense to most of us.

niwell · #**9516** Posted **May 17, 2017, 2:23 AM**

Many homeless also have dogs for protection - if you are sleeping outside you are much less likely to be robbed if a dog is present. This is moreso the case for the longer-term "voluntary" homeless (vagrants / hobos). Getting food is apparently not that hard most of the time, although vet services would certainly be an issue. The latter goes for many people with low incomes though. Not trying to advocate anything here, fwiw.

ssiguy · #**9517** Posted **May 17, 2017, 5:01 AM**

The above is very true. Even if there were enough emergency shelter spots in Greater Vancouver {which there aren't}, many people with good reason do not want to go there as they fear for their safety. They may very well run into the pimps, drug dealers, and violent characters they have been trying to avoid or fled which may be part of the reason they are homeless in the first place. Many people who are homeless due to a mental illness and many feel too confined and claustrophobic in such a small and crowded spot. Also people who are drug addicted are not allowed into homeless shelter so the streets are often their only option.

Acajack · #**9518** Posted **May 17, 2017, 9:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Yeah — those miserable homeless people! How dare they have the comfort of animal companionship!

A good question is why a country like Canada has so many homeless people to begin with.

kool maudit · #**9519** Posted **May 17, 2017, 10:11 AM**

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A good question is why a country like Canada has so many homeless people to begin with.

It didn't used to but now it does. But hey: we're playing in the big leagues now, right?

Supertallz.

Acajack · #**9520** Posted **May 17, 2017, 10:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

It didn't used to but now it does. But hey: we're playing in the big leagues now, right?

Supertallz.

Well for the past 25 years we've invested relatively speaking very little in affordable housing as a country. (Compared to what we used to.)

Mental health facilities have also been slashed and even eliminated, which also put a lot of people on the streets.

We have other priorities I guess.