[Airboy]

The numbers do tell quite the story. Under funding in YEG has been an issue since the Klien years. And then you take away support services like addiction and mental health you just create the perfect storm.

I am still blown away by the numbers of new horseless people.I volunteer serving dinners at an inner city facility outside of the DD core, away from most of the other shelters. Every time I'm there we have a few new people come in. Young and looking shell shocked. Not drug users just had something happen that put them on the street. You want to do something for them but recourses are just not there.

 

[David A]

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall the additional spaces are not permanent. Of course, homelessness is not just a seasonal problem that magically ends when the weather warms up.

If they are temporary, it just means the hordes wandering the streets will just return in a few months. Of course, the sudden increase in available spaces will take time to fill as people have become habituated to staying elsewhere for a long time (outside, tents, etc...), in part due to the lack of other options in the past.

 

[EdmTrekker]

Province gives money to shelter providers to create the spaces. 1642 are actual spaces that are operational.

Many of those are seasonal are they not?

 

[Greenspace]

I don't believe so, but demand in summer may go down. I can ask next time I have a chance.

 

[Airboy]

Talking with a friend that works with the inner city. They are getting reports that the Suburbs are reporting an increase in camps. I saw evidence out nar Lois Hole Park the other day.

 

[MacLac]

The city should just buy bus tickets for as many homeless as possible to other cities….ie, YYC and YVR…..that’d be the quickest and easiest…..half of them wouldn’t even know their getting on a bus. If a 3rd party bus company is not available….then charted a fleet of buses ….make them someone else’s problem…..just saying.

 

[MacLac]

I always what the medical definition of this is called……

The crackhead shuffle…..

 

[buildings]

driving along west SPR yesterday there seems to be a pop up camp centered around the old, closed, Klondike hotel at 153st.

 

[Gronk!]

3 security guards injured by man with knife at downtown Edmonton library

Three security guards were injured as they tried to remove a man armed with a knife from the Stanley A. Milner Library on Tuesday.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

 

[MacLac]

Who the hell would ever want to be a security guard working in our downtown now?

 

[IanO]

3 security guards injured by man with knife at downtown Edmonton library

Three security guards were injured as they tried to remove a man armed with a knife from the Stanley A. Milner Library on Tuesday.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

Who in their right mind would take their family to the Milner these days given the issues in and around it.

 

[Gronk!]

I saw quite a few families in the Milner when I was there about 4:30 pm. Some of them were going to the Oilers/Hab game that occurred last night, and we all know how many Franco-Albertans in the rural areas visit Edmonton when the Habs are in town.

Speaking of last night's game:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770300716315500957

 

[MacLac]

Wow wow Wubzy! Where were the Cops getting paid Double time and a half at?

 

[TAS]

Recent security guard death in parkade was probably thought by many to be dt crime was in fact not a homicide.

Death of security guard in Downtown Edmonton parkade not a homicide: police

The death of a security guard who responded to a series of vehicle break-ins in a downtown Edmonton parkade has been deemed non-criminal.

www.google.com

 

[kcantor]

Three security guards stabbed at downtown Edmonton library

Three security guards were injured in a stabbing incident at the Stanley A. Milner library in downtown Edmonton on Tuesday.

edmontonjournal.com