Crime in Calgary

[Suburgatory]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Nope. And even if, you need to not be so small minded and "chase me" all over the forum threads. Honestly, you even created your account name to troll me. It is pretty sad. Now keep to the topic, and avoid getting triggered. Getting into that mode is not positive for anyone, least of all yourself.

You're the entirety of suburbia here and everywhere? Wow, who knew neighbourhoods of houses worldwide banned together and created an intelligence that could post on an internet forum.

[suburbia]

Calgary families sue Revera-owned nursing homes, alleging negligence and poor care
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/c...evera-nursing-homes-negligence-1.4980501

[Suburgatory]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Calgary families sue Revera-owned nursing homes, alleging negligence and poor care
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/c...evera-nursing-homes-negligence-1.4980501

Originally Posted by suburbia

That's from last year.

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[suburbia]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Calgary families sue Revera-owned nursing homes, alleging negligence and poor care
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/c...evera-nursing-homes-negligence-1.4980501

The above article is from January 21st 2019 - three days ago. It came up because I searched Revera after seeing a post about their Scenic Acres project in the cranes thread.

[Suburgatory]

Originally Posted by suburbia

The above article is from January 21st 2019 - three days ago. It came up because I searched Revera after seeing a post about their Scenic Acres project in the cranes thread.

And yet last page you’re giving Deepstar trouble about an article from this year about a death from last year (month). You’re really quite a guy.

[Suburgatory]

Originally Posted by suburbia

The above article is from January 21st 2019 - three days ago. It came up because I searched Revera after seeing a post about their Scenic Acres project in the cranes thread.

Why are you sending this link http://bfy.tw/LyKA by PM. You’re the one unable to use a calendar.

Get what you give.

[suburbia]

Beltline Cannabis demand far outstripping demand:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-cannabis-licence-province-supply-1.4994217

Peter Boyne, managing director of Beltline Cannabis, says he barely has enough product to keep his store open six hours a day, so he was stunned to hear the announcement.

"We have regulars that come in all the time asking for certain products and that's unfortunately the answer, it has been very often, 'sorry, we can't get it yet,'" he said.

[suburbia]

Search for clues continues into Tuesday’s fatal shooting in northwest Calgary

https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/01/...fatal-shooting-in-northwest-calgary.html

The shooting is Calgary’s second homicide of the year. Calgary Police Service’s homicide unit issued search warrants on Wednesday in connection to the case on residences in the Beltline in the 1000 block of 10 St. S.W. and the 1100 block of 12 Ave. S.W., and on Sierra Morena Mews S.W., near the Westhills Towne Centre

[Suburgatory]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Beltline Cannabis demand far outstripping demand:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-cannabis-licence-province-supply-1.4994217

Being out of a product is a crime now? Good grief man.

[Suburgatory]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Search for clues continues into Tuesday’s fatal shooting in northwest Calgary

https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/01/...fatal-shooting-in-northwest-calgary.html

Keep cherry picking inner city items and glossing over the rest.

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by Suburgatory

Keep cherry picking inner city items and glossing over the rest.

Every homicide of the year has been highlighted here. Stop getting irritated. This thread is not about you Suburgatory.

[Suburgatory]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Every homicide of the year has been highlighted here. Stop getting irritated. This thread is not about you Suburgatory.

I’m not irritated. You only post crime related to inner city and usually Beltline to fit your agenda. It’s been noted for years yet for some reason you’re allowed to continue.

[suburbia]

The city made the national news again

Calgary police report rising crime rate [in the Beltline]
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/a...crime-rate-around-citys-sole-supervised/

police reported a 276-per-cent rise in drug-related calls compared to a three-year average, as well as a 47-per-cent increase in violence and a 45-per-cent jump in breaking and entering. Calls for service across Calgary were up 4 per cent over the same period.

[suburbia]

Critics say downtown police station needed to fight drug-fuelled crime wave
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-new...ed-downtown-station-as-crime-rate-spikes

But the newly released statistics suggest the crime wave hasn’t stopped outside the 250-metre zone around the site, with offences in Calgary’s city centre also on the rise compared with the rest of the city.

That’s renewed calls to see police return to a permanent, physical presence in the core, both as a deterrent to crime and to better respond to incidents.
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According to police data, Calgary’s centre city district has seen crime rates related to drugs, violence and vehicle crime all climb well above the area’s three-year average. Calls for break-and-enters actually surpassed the increase in the Safeworks buffer zone, jumping some 55 per cent higher than the three-year average.

[suburbia]

Cause of Enoch Sales fire revealed
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/cause-of-enoch-sales-fire-revealed-1.4282440

The City of Calgary says a squatter lit a fire that destroyed the historic Enoch Sales Home.
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“Somebody climbed into the building to get out of the cold, and lit a fire, my assumption is to stay warm, and obviously that fire got away from them,” says Michael Brown with the Calgary Municipal land Corporation.

[suburbia]

'We're basically at war': Sheldon Chumir's zone of overdoses, needles and fear
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-new...ite-aired-at-emotional-city-hall-meeting

“We’re basically at war right now,” said Murray Shuturma, president of the Park 300 condo. Shuturma said his building, which looks over Memorial Park across the street from the Chumir centre, is broken into on a daily basis. “Nobody is protecting us.

“We’ve had somebody chased with a shotgun in the building,” Shuturma said. “We have people shooting up (in) the vestibule of our building. People are afraid to come in and people are afraid to go out.”

Residents told stories about finding overdose victims in the street, aggressive encounters outside their homes and repeated thefts from vehicles and storage sheds.

One incident required the replacement of a large double-pane window for $1,400: “They walked across the street, broke a window with a club that they took out of their jacket (and) grabbed a book and walked away,” Lawrence said, adding the store has since spent $7,000 on security cameras.

Jessica McEachern slammed one councillor for describing drug dealers as “scumbags” and suggested a lot of criminal activity can be attributed to the fact there isn’t a reliable, safe supply

[BlaineN]

Originally Posted by suburbia

'We're basically at war': Sheldon Chumir's zone of overdoses, needles and fear
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-new...ite-aired-at-emotional-city-hall-meeting

The city and province really need to tackle this issue. It isn't improving, only getting worse.

[DizzyEdge]

I get the purpose of a safe injection site, to reduce things like HIV due to shared needles and the medical emergency cost of sending EMS to every overdose, etc, but are there any metrics as far as treating people using this service to stop being addicts? Like the site should be a safe place while there is a huge push to 'cure' all of the people using the service. That part of it never seems to be reported.

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by BlaineN

The city and province really need to tackle this issue. It isn't improving, only getting worse.

Of course, I only highlighted the aspects relating to crime (given the thread). The "other side" has just as much if not more supporting evidence to keep this things going. The numbers translate to a heck of a lot of lives having been saved - with much of that success being attributed to the appropriate location for this type of service (no matter how you cut it, there is density, there are users and there are abusers - all around this location). The fact it has become a magnet can be shown as a positive as much as a negative.

[BlaineN]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Of course, I only highlighted the aspects relating to crime (given the thread). The "other side" has just as much if not more supporting evidence to keep this things going. The numbers translate to a heck of a lot of lives having been saved - with much of that success being attributed to the appropriate location for this type of service (no matter how you cut it, there is density, there are users and there are abusers - all around this location). The fact it has become a magnet can be shown as a positive as much as a negative.

That's the problem, there really isn't a good location for this. Unfortunately for people in the Beltline, it's the area that makes the most sense. The Beltline was already struggling even before the safe injection site.