I bet everyone is shocked at this news. Obviously Toronto needs more “progressive” policies.
LEVY: Toronto City Hall has turned the Esplanade into a “crime hot spot”
Meanwhile the Toronto Star is excited that the creepy looking Ontario Liberal Party leader, is promising to change the election laws so his party is always in power. Something like Justin’s dictatorship.
So how did the good citizens vote this year?
Let me guess hmmm….
The Esplanade used to be moderately high end. Met my wife in a bar there back in ’83 (Scotland Yard). Still together despite her love of Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson etc and my love of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath etc.
Met my husband in ’87 right across the road from Scotland Yard at the Muddy York. Hubby has the same appalling taste in music as your wife, which just shows that some differences can be lived with!
I guess in ’83 we met in the middle and were able to dance to ’80’s new wave. Back when people actually danced together and someone like me had to work up the courage to ask that hot chick if she wanted to dance.
Imagine what the building’s maintenance people are dealing with.
It’s well-documented that this phenomenon is happening elsewhere.
Yes indeed, the former Roehampton Hotel at Eglinton and Mount Pleasant has led to the same problems in that neighbourhood. I used to go to St. Lawrence Market in the Esplanade neighbourhood when I lived in Toronto – it was a nice area then.
That virtue signaling sociopath, personifying the shitty milkshake party better hope the plumbing continues to work there or it could get messy. The urban human herds that he is sheltering at taxpayer expense aren’t shy about where they drop deuces.
“No matter how much I feed these damn birds, there’s always more of them the next day!”
Iron Law #1: You get more of what you reward, and less of what you punish.
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oh, c’mon… you mean to suggest throwing a bunch of mentally ill drug
abusers into one locale doesn’t make for a better neighbourhood?
shame on you.
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No, not shocked at all and if Los Angeles or San Francisco are any kind of barometer, people of Toronto would sidestep human puddles and other matter on the way to the theatre and still think it’s just a small price to pay to live in the cultural hub of the Universe.
They’re that weird.
Haven’t been there in 15 years and I don’t see that changing.
Our newly “permissive” society … read: where we no longer incarcerate BIPOC criminals – because that’s “racist” … is going to force the population into fortified ‘camps’. The well heeled and the NORMAL people will further FLEE the multi-culti wasteland engineered by the Left. Into the suburbs, and into the hinterlands. Homeowners and small communities will erect walls and gates to screen out the lawless horde. The police and the courts won’t help.
Yes, the result of a breakdown of Law and Order will be an END to our ‘open’ and pluralistic society. Ironically … the “equality” *cough* *cough* … “Equity” … BIPOC radicals seek will only deepen the cultural and racial divide. These IDIOTS are causing a further division of the races, instead of uniting us. Morons!
What do you expect from what passes as college graduates these days ?
When you shut down the economy for two years and destroy peoples’ livelihoods, don’t be surprised when there’s an increase in demand for homeless shelters.
It seems that the locals are experiencing differently the cultural norms of the guests. It is enjoyable to see them getting what they asked for good and hard
Isn’t “diversity” the acceptance and enjoyment of other’s different ways of life?
In Vancouver, when they we converting a hotel to a homeless shelter the cops told my son to expect a 100% increase in crime. At a local commnunity hearing the politicians told the public there was nothing to worry about and crime would not go up.
Guess who was right?
Tory. A Conservative out of the same yellow shit mold as blubber douggie, scheer-the-steer, pinky no’tool, shenzi kenney, and pal-licker … the same as 99 percent of our politicians.
Ottawa is following the same path as Toronto. Guess what has happened in the area around a “safe Injection” drug site run by the city? From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper three days ago.
“The man says he thinks the shootings are part of a drug turf war. He says the problem has gotten worse since a safe injection site opened in 2018 at the Somerset Street West Community Health Centre on nearby Eccles Street.
“This neighbourhood has always had its challenges. You expect that. But since the safe injection site came it’s been like night and day. There’s so much drug activity.”
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/neighbours-worried-by-latest-cambridge-street-shooting
Justin is not a dictator. He’s the choice of the dumb ass voters of Canada.
Will Il Duca put it to a vote of the populace, or will he just inflict it upon us?
when the homeless are done wrecking the place it will have to be torn down
Hotel California…c’mon. It writes itself.
Describing the public housing sewers on the Esplanade as a “Vibrant Community” is a disservice to reality. The fentanyl junkies have only made it worse.
Stay away!