• Dyskolos
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    6 months ago

    Oh Canada. I always looked up to you as a kind of USA but where people actually would like to live. This is news i would’ve expected of your neighbours.

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            6 months ago

            No argument from me there. However, I’m pretty sure this is at the behest of the city, not the police taking actions on their own.

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        6 months ago

        Doesn’t make it sound less horrible though… And even more murican 🙁

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      6 months ago

      Sometimes it is necessary for public safety and sanitation reasons. The camp in that video certainly looked like a bonfire waiting to happen. The reality is though that this just moves the problem somewhere else. It is not like kicking them out magically creates a better, safer, warmer place for them to go to.

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        6 months ago

        It would be necessary for " public health and sanitary reasons" to help those people somehow. Not just, like you concluded, just shove the somewhere else. Or just disperse them.

        Sure, it might look like a bonfire, but none of those people probably actually WANTED this, if they’ve had the chance to voice their opinion.