I've never much cared for stopping at the Tim's location on 22nd and this information simply confirms the reasons why. Over the past 10 years, residents have witnessed the steady transformation of Saskatoon's 22nd Street from major commercial corridor to gang hangout and check-cashing district. I suppose the aboriginal-art-on-light-pole urban renewal solution is just around the corner. It certainly worked its magic on 20th.











It will be very interesting to see if some entrepreneurial lawyer will come up with a suit against Tim's: Inteferring with a customer's attempt to take his medication?
"Aboriginal-art-on-a-lightpole", LOL.
Black light makes it harder to see the big blue vein as well, so other nefarious solo activities will be curtailed.
Guess wankers will have to find some other place to roll up the rim.
Wow; and here I thought we addicts were just there for the caffiene fix.
Maybe they should try this at the free injection sites.
Black light makes white objects such as the toilet and toilet paper stand out, [...]
If it makes it easier to aim, I'm all for it.
At free injection sites here in Toronto, Jack and Olivia take turns tatooing bulls-eyes on the best vein. Wouldn't want the down and out to be short changed....
And this makes the news? They did this in Vancouver at Mcdonalds 6-8 years ago. Small town news makes it national?
And in other news, there was a car accident. No injuries reported.
This is more in the lines of the symptoms, from a lack of Justice or legal system.
The fact that crime or punishment including rehabilitation (which looks more like a con game. By certain groups for there own livelihood, than ever before.) is ever more in the hands of elitist, monolithic, government controlled organizations.
Ours currently, is based not on offense or crime, but race or social motivation. The crimes with there legions of victims, are meaningless in this milieu.
The left leaning courts rely on Collectivization of law instead of personnel responsibility. Unlike the old English common law was.
Thus the move to ever down grade the use of juries, in favor of the Judge alone decisions.
The plea bargains. Making crimes legal to skew stats. Racial quotas. Hate crimes as opposed to real assault. All are arrows in the quiver of socialist pandering, to the criminal element.
It allows them to “free" the jailed in the name of race, Rehabilitation or saving money . Thus making us all part of one big jail. While making us the working people, the prey of these narcotic psycho’s & there liberal friends.
Why you ask do they do this? Money for nothing & a free ride if caught pilfering themselves. Besides its the normal citizen that’s the instigator of crime. Only the elite are not bigots, or prone to prejudice. There gods after all.
So now unless you live in a gated community, you too are now in the crowbar motel with its inmates running wild with guns the populace have been denied, as well as the right to defend themselves.
A black light for the ever more Ultraviolet underpinings of the left.
Just my opinion.
The use of black lights in washrooms is racially discriminatory. White people will be able to see their skin for injections, but "people of colour" will be disadvantaged. The Human Rights Commission must investigate.
Black lights in washrooms ... reminds me of bars in Montreal [hetero bars, but possibly including strip joints] in the 1960s where washrooms had black lights. Your jackets looked like a mess. How embarasing! It was like an ad for Head and Shoulders! They also had guys who would sweep off your jackets from dandruff and other detrius [dust?] and expect a tip. It was all kind of funny ... especially after a few beverages. I'm not sure that the 22nd street crowd will be repelled. Too bad the area is deteriorating ... used to live in Fairhaven, a nice middle class place. Now, ??
Black light makes it harder to see the big blue vein as well, so other nefarious solo activities will be curtailed.
How do you figure? The black light just makes the emissions look all the more bright, pearly, and groovy. Or so I imagine.
Saskatoon, what a nice place to live. An extremely high crime rate, break and enter, assault, murder, drunk driving. I'm afraid, for my children. What's wrong with this place? Well 30 years of socialist government handing out welfare to anybody who feels he doesn't want to work or little miss marry whom can't keep her legs closed and has 5 children by the time she's 21. What we need here is a responsibility act. And it goes like this. Anyone who is getting provincial government social aid (and this goes for subsidized housing) has a set of rules to follow like these. you may not commit crimes like, drinking and driving, shoplifting, assault, break and enter, and any number of more serious crimes. If you do you will be banned from collecting any type of assistance from the government for 24 months. You see if an individual wants to victimize the very same people that are paying taxes to help him then the help will be denied, thus the responsibility act. If you have time to drink and drive then you have time to get a job.
As for black lights in Tim's washroom, what will they think of next.
Perhaps when the Natural Governing Party next takes power they can set this location up as a ferderaly funded safe injestion site. Free coffee & donuts for all.
First, no smoking, now this..what is a drug addict to do these days? Saskatoon is a beautiful city but like any city, it has it's dark parts.. THe people that live, work or play in these parts of the city are well aware of the hell hole they live in. I am sure if many of them could find a way out, they would--particularly the children.
If you look closely at the composition of the Supreme Court, you will find two ethnic groups over represented, and the Ottawa River Valley geographic area over represented, The question is why? Obviously this Supreme Court is handpicked for their knowledge and application of the ludicrous Constitutional laws that one narcisstic, socially retarded PM stiffed us with. The application of real criminal justice is not part of their purview.
Kids have been stabbed to death and the killers have received as little as two years jail. A woman in BC received two years probation for killing her commonlaw husband. However a Two Hills Alberta man recently got 16 months in jail for his website bad mouthing Jews.
Apparently some ethnic groups do not have an equivalent to the ditty, 'sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will nover hurt me'.
I would think that there should be some resignations by some present judges if they do not want to apply the justice that the people of the country want.
And Vic Toews is on the right track in creating a new selection process since the present closed one has failed so miserably. And if the Chief Justice doesn't like it, she should be the first to resign.
Hey anon.
This is news to me.
And if I see a black light in a restaurant washroom now, I would most probably want to leave.
The business' that suffer such behavior have my sympathy but there is a limit to what I can stomach when eatting out and the thought of junkies hitting up in the washrooms pushes beyond that limit.
Black Lights are fairly common in washrooms now, perhaps not in Saskatoon but go to any larger center or shopping mall and they are there. People, unless you want to shoot up, don't notice them.
And don't think you can avoid the problem by going to 'better' areas of Saskatoon. It's everywhere and a sympton of our times. It's just a better class of drugs but it is still drugs.
As for the Tim Horton's on 22nd, their old location (they just moved to a new larger store) has had them for years as has many others.
Enjoy your blog and is on my daily read list but I think some of your readers should get out a bit more and see the changing nature of Saskatoon and Regina. We aren't as bad as downtown Calgary (watching people in business suits steping over the sleeping homeless is quite an eyeopener) but with effort I think we can get just as bad.
Canada is unique amoung industrialized nations in that the rural crime rate exceeds the urban crime rate.
As the cities establish urban reserves this will even out.
murder rates in the most "reserved" provinces and territories are the highest in the national stats.
William: It is just as bad as Calgary--most of us just don't want to admit it. I agree with you--real change is coming in Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw, North Battleford--and it is going to get ugly. Read the papers--including the ones directed at First Nations--and you can tell there is a lot of anger, fear and an unwillingness to learn about each other. The next 10 years are going to be very interesting in terms of what direction this province will be heading.