I sure hope Council votes in favour of this project and does what is right for these people and does not listen to the "not in my the neighbourhood" residents.

NIMBY=Not in my backyard, Turn this down and they will be sleeping in their backyard. Might just as well have a shelter for them to sleep in verses actual backyards. This is a good thing despite the rampent ignorance shown by the neighbourhood.Go city Council.

We as a society created these people and we as a society must pay the price. The shelter needs to be close to downtown the hub of social services. Should have spoken up before our politicians let the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. This is going to get much worse in time. You'll be glad to have a shelter within five years. Mark my words.

While we are at it lets turn MR. P.G. into a giant slot machine. The raised arm can be the lever and the chest can house the spinning wheels. It would make a perfect tourist attraction that screams we like increasing addictions problems! Come to P.G. and join us. What a joke. We a;ways reap what we sow...

Let the lowlifes freeze and starve,If they do not want to work then they are not worth keeping alive...Let my Tax money pay for roads, medical, Not keeping some drug infected lowlife alive. Let the bleeding hearts invited them home, if they are so worried about them, Do not use my tax dollars.

How very Christian of you, Don.

Merry Christmas.

REALIST says "..We as a society created these people..." blah blah..

Really?? Did we then also create the people that aren't like these idiots? So therefore we have the right to jam them together even though they are incompatible?

Well then why now let someone start up a whorehouse or (faint) a pub next door? We created those people also, and the decision of the neighbours on this matter doesn't matter either.

How far does REALIST want to go with land use that doesn't care about the neighbours? Looks like it is wide open, so I'm voting for REALIST!

Ata boy!

(I hire a couple street people every year, but they don't ever vote.)

DON MACKENZIE--FOR MAYOR.

Backpacker decision tonight? I thought the decision was made months ago and we're just now getting to the end of the dog & pony show (with my sincere apology to dogs and ponies).

A done deal.

REALIST says "..We as a society created these people..."

-They created themselves by the individual decisions they made not by what society has done. Society didnt choose for them to shoot drugs up, drink, steal and be useless. Those decisions my friends are personal ones not societys. There are lots of resources to get people of the streets and be productive.There are lots of sucesses where people have turned themselves around. So as a member of this society im sick of it when someone blames these problems on the rest of us. I think the only shelter most of these people should be going to is jail! Last time i checked public drunkeness,drug use, violence and theft was a crime!

Lumps of coal for Don and Giterdun.

Your idiocy knows and respects no boundaries.

Well it just goes to show there are clowns in either side of the fence on any issue from 'let'm freeze, to the ignorance of the neighbourhood'. I live a few doors of Fort Georg Park and I doubt I'll be affected, but I do question the location. This is a facility for those who are trying to help themselves, people with drug and alcohol addictions and depencencies. Putting these people at 17th and Queensway is simply putting them in harms way. To help these people, one needs to separate them from their dependencies and their network. With the street drug activity at 17th and Queensway, I don't think so.

I've gone to the public hearings and when I asked BC Housing 'What was the criteria used to determine the need for this type of facility and what was the criteria for choosing the location?' All I received as an answer was 'whenever we've built these facilities, they've always improved the neighbourhoods where they've been constructed. When asked 'Were any other sites looked at'? Yes, one on 4th Ave. (another poor location for the same reason) but we were not able to settle on a price. Now we've put a price tag on the bottom end of society, which is particularly gawling when we are subsidizing private liquor stores to $35 million per year (reduced taxes) to make them 'more profitable' and not to mention the hundreds of thousands of civic tax dollars that have gone into that monstrosity on 7th Ave. The Backpacker was purshased as a foreclosure.

There were good comments that came out of the meetings and one being to copy what Kamloops did when BC Housing tried to ram the same thing down their throats. They formed a committee of citizens from around the city and with city staff and BC Housing found a suitible location an build it.

This is the direction I hope city council goes in determining a suitable location for this facility.

I live in the neighborhood. I see how even in the last few months George St has gone from bad to extremely bad. Some idiot thought a needle exchange would help. There is lots of the "lets help the druggies" people that make the decisions and don't consider the cost to people who actually contribute to society. Yes, something needs to be done to help these people, but do they even want help? We see that they need help but until they see it, they'll never change. Mark MY words. Northman, I agree with you. Except that society has removed the 'bite' from the law and there are no longer consequences for the crimes. I STRONGLY object to how the gov't so freely spends our money on the few and ignore the needs of the many.

o all those people puttin wn 'NIBYs" If you dont live in the neihourhood, dont be so damn righteous. You people are
transparent. It may be necessary to locate these things i peoples neighourhoods but lets not start ptting people down when hey have legitimate concerns and actually stand to lose something. It is easy to be a liberal when i doesnt cost you anything.

Sorry about the missing letters in the previous post. Kids + Keyboard = disaster.