one million cheers to the good Samaritans.
another crack addict on the ram page.
which by the way is common in P.G. Thanks to the Liberals who cut them all off welfare. At least when they were on assistance they were never heard. Nor seen.... Thank-you Liberals for all our unsafe streets..... Thank-you Liberals for our unsafe railways.....Thank-you for our high gas price fixing.....Thank-you for your two tier medical. My heart goes out to all seniors who are subject to this.I wish I could fend for you all, but I'm not this government.

BTW. More thoughts are coming.

Wow! someone else who can see the truth about British Columbia's Weapon of Mass Destruction!! I welcome you to the comments! Get ready for complaints from those who still foolish enough to believe the lies they are told by the lieberals. Let's stick together and try to educate some of these individuals who are unable to see the truth. Given enough of us we might even get this bozo out of office and actually get someone in who will work for the people and not corporations!!! Boy, have we got our work cut out for us!! Don't forget the lieberals welfare cuts that has created a whole army of individuals who are so poor they are just ripe to be the customers of the drug trade. The drug trade has the best partner they could ever imagine in the B.C.Liberals. It is yet another downloading of a problem off the backs of all society and onto individuals who become terrible victims. Not an intelligent choice if you ask me.

Tip: Next welfare wednesday have the police watch the welfare place at 5th and carney. Their suspect may show up to get her cheque.

"Their suspect may show up to get her cheque."

ndian says the Liberals "cut them all off welfare" (mean spirited) and he is thanking them for doing so.

If he is right (I doubt it) she will not show up.

Suspect described as "native". That p's me right off. Way to go you dumb bi.c.!! One day a decent native woman will really be in trouble and need assistance and the whole dam world will walk away from her. It god dam well better not be MY daughter......and the natives WONDER WHY THEY HAVE A BAD RAP.

BTW - I am a decent hard working part native person with good morals who pays taxes and every single time some white skinned person snubs or shuns me I know exactly why they do it, one of two reasons. A - being that I am part native, or B - being that they just have no manners and are bred of ignorance.

...but don't the police also say "white female" or "a person of asian decent", or "a black female" when describing criminals on the loose? I didn't see that particular sentence in the story as racist, just factual.

...whnotyou...sorry, I may have misread your meaning...I'm not really sure what you are angry about.

Realist, we could always go back to being a "have not" province if we vote in the N.D.P. again, and then all go on welfare like before. I just wonder though, if everyone is on welfare, who will pay for it? There are plenty of jobs around right now for anyone that is willing to work. Half the places in town are begging for workers. Why can't they get any? In my opinion it is because we have too many social programs that pay too much money to a lot of people that don't truly need it.

Well, you are entitled to your opinion. If you would rather people who resort to crime be working, how on earth do you expect to get them to work? The reality is that welfare was originally created to lend a form of social control to those who for one reason or another can or will not work for a living. Campbell's ideology does not nor ever has it taken this fact into account. As for the N.D.P. why do you assume I support them? The reality is if we do not do something to combat the legions of poor and addicted, the Campbell government have helped to create, when the world comes to Vancouver for the Olympics we will be like a third world country. Asking an addict to start work on Monday is much the same as asking your unfixed dog not to impregnate the neighbour's dogs. It simply does not have a chance in hell of working. Until this is understood and the stupidity of complaining that desperate people should work instead of using their learned survival instincts is just not going to work and no amount of wishing will change this fact. A combination of supportive recovery combined with welfare rates that a person can actually live on are the only way. Until this happens we will continue to hear people complain about the crime and theft and the incorrect blaming of the sick individuals who commit the crimes. If you want someone to blame, look in the mirror and see that we have sown (our society) what we have reaped (elected).

P.S. Our status as a "Have" province is because we are resource rich and the world is currently screaming for these resources. Despite what we are fed in the media (in an attempt to apparently effectively brainwash an ignorant public)government policy has little to do with the ups and downs of the economy. To voice credit for our current "booming" economy to Campbell is just an indication of ignorance and gullibility on the part of those who repeat the lies. If Campbell is responsible for our economy, why are most of the worlds no-waring countries also experiencing a boom? Surely you can't believe that Gordo is responsible for the world's upswing. Don't just accept what you are being spoon fed as facts. To do so is to expose oneself as someone who can not think for themselves or look under the thin veneer of the lies to see reality.

should have been reaped before sown. Brain working to fast and typing wardsback.

There are those who for legitimate reasons can not work and can not contribute to society by supporting themselves. Fine.

Then there are those who wouldn't take a job even if there are ten Help Wanted signs on one block of a downtown city street. The province is booming; if there is no suitable job here one can go on a bus north, east or south and nail one down within less than a week.

Or, one can bitch and whine and throw around wild accusations of plots and goals to turn people into legions of poverty and addiction.

Rather than sit around and wait for government support, how about standing one's your own two feet and support oneself with the labour of the two hands that one was born with?

Or is that asking too much of an adult able- bodied person?

buzz, I guess my anger is more at the losers who choose to hurt the hard workers, the elderly, and the children. And when I hear a "native" has harmed someone, I get angry because on the other foot "there has always been a lot of noise about how poorly treated they have been" however rightfully so.

IMO, they have been highly enabled into becoming drug addicts, alcoholics, and bingo addicted gamblers on welfare weds while their kids go hungry and turn out stealing, robbing, assaulting and in general "striking out at, and hurting, the very society they claim is racist against them" and then have the gall to actually blame their circumstances on everyone else but themselves.

My belief is that WE ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO WELL WITH WHAT WE HAVE. Those who choose to do nothing, deserve nothing, and they should not be allowed to "take" it from the rest of us. Thanks, I'm all vented out now!!

Oh, one more thing, we can all sit around and blame the stupid government for the crisis we are in, but as long as we are all just complaining and "doing nothing". Then Nothing ever really Gets Done!! It is a helpless feeling sometimes. One small change at a time??

That is why I do what I do. I am part of the solution. I am around street people and addicts constantly with work related issues and I have learned first hand. I am doing something as well as educating those who talk without any real knowledge of what they speak, only repeating the lies they are told. The solutions are plain to see if only those with the ability to do something would listen. I guess they are too busy spewing crap to baffle those unable to think or learn for themselves and feathering their own nests to really want to help people. Hearing the opinions of many who think the problem is laziness and taking advantage of others only allows those with the power to do something, the public acceptance of making things worse instead of better. Keep thinking the way you have been thinking and nothing gets better only worse. Look around you and open you eyes and your mind.

Blah blah blah....while you are all yacking, we have arrested the perp.

* The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

* What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

* A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

hey realist, education is the key. Absolutely. But, until they start putting the education where it will actually do some good, nothing will change. Sure, they have all kinds of programs in the schools for the children but nothing ever changes for the children. For six hours a day they get to pretend they live in a "safe environment". They get to pretend that what happens to them when they go home at night doesn't really happen because who wants to have to face that if they don't have to?

Then, yes, they get to go home and live with people who rape and abuse them, where there is little or no food, no real warm or decent clothing. And NOBODY hears them when they cry, if indeed they even cry anymore.

So keep your self righteous "I'm doing something better than the rest of you guys'" attitude and just keep doing something.....it's everybody's problem. We all live here and we are all human.

I agree whynot I'm with you. I just get tired of hearing the same old words "welfare, Bingo, Cheats" etc. coming from people who do not have a clue. There really are some out there who are making a difference. It's just that the mouth breathers are preventing us from making progress and then it is the same people who complain when something happens to them they don't like. Ignorance and selfishness are allowing our politicians to continue to fleece the people while creating an environment where poverty and disenfranchisement flourish.

Realist, why is it that you think everyone that is on welfare is either a drunk or a druggie? That is not the case. I know a lot of people that are collecting welfare that are neither. Some people just do not want to help themselves. They think the world owes them a living because they have taken a bad turn one time or another. Also, why is it that as soon as the N.D.P. came into power we went from a have province to a have-not province? It can't all be because of the economy of the rest of the world. I am not a supporter of Campbell either, but we are a lot better off with the Liberals in power than the N.D.P. I was a strong supporter of the Bennett government and the Vanderzalm government until the do-gooder social program idiots got rid of them. We would be a whole lot better off if the Social Credit were still in power.

I do not think "everyone on welfare is either a drunk or a druggie", the average person on assistance is only on it for a short time, usually due to being a working poor individual who suffers a small setback. Yes, there have been some that fleece the system but in today's world they are few and far between. I have never said the N.D.P. are the answer. In fact they were the one's who started us down this ridiculous privatization ideology. As for the switch from a have to a have not province let me say this again, politicians have only the minimalistic effect on the economy. The economy is globally controlled not locally or provincially. We would be a have province right now even if the marijuana party had won,(this is an extreme example and highly unlikely), but the reality is if the world wants and needs resources, those with them will boom. My point is that we need leadership that strikes a balance between the needs of business and social welfare. Right now we have corporate power running the province and as such the priority is to make as much money as possible regardless of who you fleece. The number one objective of corporations is to make money. Nothing else matters. This is why Campbell has failed the people of B.C. so completely and thoroughly. It is going to cost a huge amount of money to fix our social ills which have been neglected under the Campbell watch. Sadly, due to the ridiculous tax cuts for corporations, the money to fix our society will have to come from the taxpayer. Those few who are reaping wealth from the Campbell government are going to cost our children huge amounts of tax monies to fix what needs to be done, but the money will be long gone into todays friends of Campbell. To fix our society we need to address the problems at the roots i.e. Parents who are forced to work while others raise the children, stress of living in poverty and near poverty, sexual and violent abuses etc. If we worked to fix these problems now then we will reduce the number of problem cases in the future and thus, repair society; acting preventively and not retroactively like we do now. By electing any politician who will not face these obvious facts we only delay the inevitable and make the job for our children harder and harder. We must learn that the economy is here to support society and that society is not here to support the economy.

I'm glad the police caught the person responsible. Whether she was native or not.....mixed race, oriental, black...who cares? What she did was descpicable and I hope she goes away for awhile.

The NDP promoted and followed a policy of *leaving everything in the ground* - in fact, it still is the NDP policy.

If the government shuts down mines after they have been given permits to build and operate and promotes a general anti-profit, anti-corporation, anti-development ideology it DOES make a big difference who is in power, and in fact it DID!

While B.C. steadily declined the rest of the country, including the Maritime provinces, advanced steadily in positive growth.

But, I guess excuses can be made up for just about anything.

"The number one objective of corporations is to make money."

Yes, indeed. That applies to the whole world, even communist China! The pension plans of workers depend on the profits as much as the shareholders.

If a corporation doesn't make money it will be non-existent faster than you can spell the word bankruptcy.

But, if one wants to disagree and take on the whole world on such a fundamental issue, well, good luck to whoever it is.

Yup, this is a global disease. It will end with mother nature putting her foot down and then it will be too late. Either, an epidemic or environmental failure. Sadly, I agree that humanity is simply not mature enough to do the right thing. Greed is too powerful. But just because it seems the world does not want to change,is no reason to give up on idealistic pursuits. If we fail to try we are part of the problem.

We can rail against greed, consumerism and the fact that the world is reluctant to change! We can be hopeful and optimistic and point out that there will be consequences, but in the meantime we need jobs and earn money to put bread on the table.

We can rail against injustices, past and present - but to blame everything on the present government and nothing on the different one we had before isn't a very intelligent and credible way to go about things, in my opinion.

Even the NDP wasn't all bad - at least they raised the speed limit on provincial highways, even though they didn't put any real money into maintaining them. They did another two or three good things, except I don't remember what they were, sorry. They were probably of minor significance, anyways.

Most of all we have to remember that B.C. (and its economy) is wholly dependent on the outside world which isn't going to pay much attention to our relentless complaining about how the whole world is totally out of whack, full of greed and just plain ignorant.