The Back Pack Project Victoria BC
@TheBackPackPro1
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The BPP is a local initiative which provides mutual aid and humanitarian aid to community members who live without homes. Trolls will be blocked…
Victoria BC
Joined May 2020
SECTION 7 OF THE CANADIAN CHARTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ~ THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE ONESELF WITH SHELTER IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT!!! WHAT THE CITY IS DOING IS IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THOSE RIGHTS!!
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Closure of two Victoria parks to overnight sheltering challenged in court
timescolonist.com
The City of Victoria did not have enough information when council voted to close Victoria West and Irving parks to overnight sheltering last year, says a lawyer representing unhoused people.
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The petitioners say the city's bylaws are procedurally unfair and violated both charter and international rights. https://t.co/vTVJ12VjY2
cheknews.ca
The lawsuit calling the City of Victoria’s incremental restriction of sheltering in parks illegal, was heard for the first time in a Victoria courtroom Monday.
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It’s official! 🎒♥️ The backpack project is up and running and has a donation box in every single municipal hall throughout the greater Victoria region! Please consider donating new or gently used items to our project! And please share!
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An urgent call is going out to address the addictions and housing crisis in Cowichan, as those who get people off of the streets struggle for funding. https://t.co/jeOHJMD9UI
cheknews.ca
An urgent call is going out to address the addictions and housing crisis in Cowichan, as those who get people off of the streets struggle for funding.
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Sleep's primary purpose is recovery and repair, it's impossible to recover mentally and physically without it. Do you know what makes addiction, mental health and public safety issues worse in our communities? SLEEP DEPRIVATION & HOMELESSNESS .... I can't believe some people
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It's more humane and a HUGE cost savings on tax payers to house people who are homeless rather than letting them survive on the streets ... - Prison: (provincial) -$326/day or $9,780/per month. - Shelter: - $167/day or 5000/per month. - Hospital (acute care) -$833/day or
Toronto's Dunn Street supportive housing saved $413,000 in ER costs and $1.66 million in hospital costs in 1 year. A partnership between UHN, nonprofits and government. Supportive housing is smarter, kinder and better for taxpayers compared to the ER, hospital, shelters or jail
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In the Waterloo ruling RE: encampments, Justice Valente set out that any offer of shelter to encampment residents must be truly accessible to meet their unique needs. It isn't adequate to simply hold any shelter space in to meet the legal requirements. /1
ctvnews.ca
Residents and supporters are pushing back as the city works to clear a long-standing encampment at Toronto’s Dufferin Grove Park.
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Homelessness is a policy failure. #raisetherates In 2023, the province raised shelter rates for people living on PWD, from $375 a month to $500 — but it’s a stark contrast to the current rental prices that many in B.C. pay to have a roof over their head.
vancouver.citynews.ca
It has been an ongoing battle for people living on disability in British Columbia, as inflation and prices continue to rise -- but assistance rates remain the same.
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Court rules that Montreal’s Notre-Dame encampment allowed to stay until final court ruling
ctvnews.ca
According to a report by Noovo Info, the Notre-Dame encampment in Montreal will be allowed to remain in place until a judge rules on the case at the end of September, giving people experiencing...
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An important update for all of Ontario re: homelessness: the Superior Court has ruled in favour of encampment residents in Waterloo Region. The Region is restrained from enforcing a by-law to clear an encampment until the constitutionality of the by-law can be determined.
👍The Court has granted an injunction for the 100Vic Encampment Case! The Region is restrained from enforcing its Site-Specific By-law until the constitutionality of the bylaw can be determined following the hearing in November. Read the decision at: https://t.co/3RXALYm88L
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Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.
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This is shocking. Since @fordnation shut down supervised consumption sites, drop-in programs are seeing massive increases in overdoses — including a 288% increase just last month. Overdoses don't go away; they get moved to spaces with fewer supports and resources.
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My article in The Tyee today about the city’s plan to gentrify the DTES: Downtown Eastside Residents Didn’t Ask for This Plan | The Tyee
thetyee.ca
A proposed new plan would allow more for-profit housing in Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood.
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They're tackling and detaining people based on their skin color. Nothing more.
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“No one that voted for decampments, no one that voted for supportive housing bans, no one that voted to get rid of the integrity commissioner is welcome in my party. I oppose task force barrage.”
vancouver.citynews.ca
Kareem Allam -- Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's former chief of staff -- has officially launched his own political party, with the goal of dethroning Sim in next year's municipal election. Jack Morse has...
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"A #BC Supreme Court judge has reserved his decision following a three-day hearing that concluded Friday in which the city [of #PrinceGeorge] is seeking an order allowing it to close a #downtown #homeless #encampment & remediate the site" #BritishColumbia
cbc.ca
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has reserved his decision following a three-day hearing that concluded Friday in which the city is seeking an order allowing it to close a downtown homeless encampment...
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Couple who lived in Penticton homeless encampment for a year survived on love https://t.co/sVWq4oJO1l via @PentictonNews
pentictonwesternnews.com
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Wow! Look what you can do if you REALLY want to! In #yyj its lies & broken promises & whining that it’s out of their hands. All while our friends and family suffer and die at the hands of police & bylaw. Shame on them all. Vote them out. #housingisahumanright#yyjpoli
Update: Motion passed unanimously. HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
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