[David A]

^I go to the Winspear often. EPS and Peace Officers are there all the time. They usher them out and then they come back again in 15 minutes. It's an endless cycle.

Officers can ticket or remove individuals from loitering on transit property, but often they choose just to move them along. If they need social supports they're directed as such. Rarely do they charge someone under a provincial summons anymore for racking up multiple fines. That used to be fairly common but now it is more frowned up as clogging up the judicial system, and often folks have their cases dismissed for the lengthy delays they face.

While there is some overlap, there is a difference between people lingering because of accommodation problems who need social support and those lingering for criminal reasons who IMO need incarceration.

 

[ADob]

^I go to the Winspear often. EPS and Peace Officers are there all the time. They usher them out and then they come back again in 15 minutes. It's an endless cycle.

Officers can ticket or remove individuals from loitering on transit property, but often they choose just to move them along. If they need social supports they're directed as such. Rarely do they charge someone under a provincial summons anymore for racking up multiple fines. That used to be fairly common but now it is more frowned up as clogging up the judicial system, and often folks have their cases dismissed for the lengthy delays they face.

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying a complex problem etc., etc., yadda, yadda, but instead they're clogging up our transit (and other) infrastructure, causing filth and destruction, and FFS enough is enough. I realise I sound like an angry old right winger instead of the exhausted middle-aged leftie that I am on this topic, but I have had enough.

 

[MacLac]

We’ve all had enough but have been to “scared” to say anything g without getting branded a right wing nut job…….incarceration, spade and neutering, buying bus tickets….anything to stop this is insanity game we’re playing

 

[David A]

We’ve all had enough but have been to “scared” to say anything g without getting branded a right wing nut job…….incarceration, spade and neutering, buying bus tickets….anything to stop this is insanity game we’re playing

Yes, but if we don't want to be called a nut job, lets stay away from the middle option (I think that was humour though).

The first should be done more and the third one in some cases, for instance people who are released from prison here should go back to the communities they were from.

 

[Windermere]

Literally have to step over people to get to the platform.

 

[Whatup]

We’ve all had enough but have been to “scared” to say anything g without getting branded a right wing nut job…….incarceration, spade and neutering, buying bus tickets….anything to stop this is insanity game we’re playing

This comment is fascinating - so if people want pragmatic crime policies, safe communities and consequences for people who break laws they are "right wing nut jobs" - If people want less government, more effective government that doesn't throw money at its virtue signalling pet projects, doesn't give city places 30 word names that no one (including indigenous people) can pronounce - they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want to develop our very valueable and in-demand resources by building more pipelines they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want basic scientific recognition that there are two genders and want women to be safe in their public spaces and during sports competitions they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want a meritocracy and not DEI racist hiring policies they are "right wing nut jobs. If people vote for the UCP or Conservatives they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want tighter controls and oversight of loosely regulated immigration they are "right wing nut jobs". If people don't like a man-child sliver spoon virtue signalling PM illegally using the Emergencies Act on law abiding citizens and freezing their bank accounts during a national crisis they are "right wing nut jobs". Okay got it. It's become quite obvious that the most intolerant and combative people in western society are not conservatives but "left wing nut jobs" who endorse cancel culture for anything they disagree with, love to tear down national icons like #99 simply because of who he chooses to be friends with, keeping our "climate disaster" resources in the ground even though they are the number one commodity we have and endorses groomer school teachers/ councillors to have secret chats with children to see if they might be in the wrong gender body, and let's give opioid addicts free access to tax payer funded drugs and see how it goes. Sounds pretty nutty to me.

 

[Whatup]

We’ve all had enough but have been to “scared” to say anything g without getting branded a right wing nut job…….incarceration, spade and neutering, buying bus tickets….anything to stop this is insanity game we’re playing

I guess the lefties at the ATA think Paul Brandt is a "right wing nut job". Better cancel him - the ATA cancelled his speech to teachers as a speaker at the Alberta teachers' union conference. He was supposed to speak about his work to fight child human trafficking, but someone didn't like his politics.


David Knight Legg

@KnightLegg

While the creeps running the ATA union use membership dues to leer at men doing ‘drag bingo’…. teachers who care about vulnerable kids and music star Paul Brandts work on how to end child trafficking can still learn all about Paul’s award winning work right here: http://notinmycity.ca And he explains the lyrics of a song about independence he wrote years ago as a cultural - not political - statement - w/ Ben Mulroney at 15.23 on this link: https://globalnews.ca/videos/national/program/the-west-blockHere’s to Paul and all his good work. And to new, less creepy union leadership for Alberta’s teachers as soon as possible.