Showing posts with label homelessness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homelessness. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2025

Word volley on the social crisis from the local newspaper, in order

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Wal_172619 Pixabay If words in a newspaper could solve the social crisis on our streets, we'd be on our way with the back-and-forths tha...
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Thursday, October 09, 2025

Can we be (Instagram) friends?

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  Bylaw sweep is on in Victoria and this man has to run to get to his stuff before it's gone A communications strategist living through ...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Pump up the volume on the social crisis

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Gerd Altmann, Pixabay I wrote a letter to the editor to the Victoria Times Colonist that they ran Sept 27 as an opinion piece , which I then...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2025

When "passing" isn't an option

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Pixabay - Roninmd The concept of “passing” has presumably been around since whenever the first person on the outside of the dominant social ...
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Friday, July 04, 2025

Life's a mess for people on the streets. But at least they've got friends

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Bianca van Djyk, Pixabay I spent a bit of time on “the block” this past weekend, that stretch of Pandora Avenue that is currently one of the...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

My radio interview on - surprise! - the toxic drug crisis

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Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20, Pixabay Anyone else like a radio opportunity that gives free range to say whatever you want to sound off about,  but th...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Lock 'em up: Everything old is new again

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Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay And just like that, institutionalization is back.  My head is in a whirl. After untold hours of my ear...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

In case you were wondering: A surfeit of social realities to explain (a bit) about how we got here

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Image by  Taken  from  Pixabay I haven't worked as a full-time journalist for almost 20 years now, but people still pay me to go find th...
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Sunday, December 18, 2022

The crisis is now

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The perfect is the enemy of the good, as Voltaire noted back in the 18th century. His wise words came to mind when I saw the Vancouver Sun...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Homelessness is still a problem. Gee, go figure

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Ten years ago now, I was part of a major initiative to address homelessness in Victoria. The Mayor's Task Force on Breaking the Cycle ...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

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P roject Connect 2009 stats Here's an interesting document I did up for the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness as part of my...