“Wellness Centre”

18 Replies to ““Wellness Centre””

1. I’m sure that Mayor Charlie can fix that by putting in a few more miles of bicycle lanes.

2. Wellness Center, Healing Circle, Outreach Center, drop-in, Crisis Center…. how do you know you’re getting close to skid row?

   1. Just like when in the States, stay away from any street labelled MLK or MalcolmX. You are in the wrong ‘hood.

3. The Paris of the Prairies is now the San Francisco of the Steppe.

4. DTNYXE is a bloody disgrace…sad that the city keeps degrading and deteriorating.
   Like SK,
   Like CAN,
   Like the “West”

5. Immediately behind Lethbridge’s City Hall is the recently vacated RCMP headquarters. If Lethbridge City Council still wants to have drug injection facilities, that’s the place it should be.

   1. Oh, me likey!

6. It sure ain’t the same Saskatoon I lived in 40 years ago. Back then, most of downtown was a reasonably safe place to walk around in at night.

   I do remember when one of my mates and I went to the King Eddie for beer in the early 1980s. That was one place where one was well-advised to sit with one’s back against the wall as nobody could stab you from behind.

   1. Oh, I’ve known a few places like that, in Saskatoon and elsewhere. For some years I was part of a regular Friday crowd at the Red Fox in Calgary; still a functioning bar and always a respectable one, but famous in those days for having the cheapest beer in central Calgary, which made it a magnet for, shall we say, a wide range of people. When I turned up there on a Friday I made it my practice to sit with my back to door, on the basis that the people I had to worry about were already inside drinking.

      1. I lived in Calgary in the late 1970s, and I don’t remember the Red Fox, so that place might have been after my time.

         Then there was a certain–ahem–establishment on the south side of downtown at that time….. No further comment, and, no, I was never there.

         1. It’s the bar in the Ramada Inn downtown, and they had a cheap beer policy right through the 90’s. It wouldn’t have been noticeable in the 70’s when all beer was cheap, but by then it was the place where your welfare (or panhandling, or purse-snatching) money got the biggest bang for the buck, and people noticed.

            As for that other place, I think I know exactly what you mean, though I’m sure I’ve never heard of it.

7. “His preference to operate elsewhere was largely so the shelter could have some distance from “negative things” clients might find downtown…”

   True enough. Couldn’t they have found a nice spot in some highbrow district where lawyers, judges, and bureaucrats live?

8. In my experience, every time there is a “wellness center” or “halfway house” put up in a neighbourhood, it just means that all the dregs and dirtbags can shit, puke, piss and fuck within the same general area without having to worry about the cops.

   1. ” ….it just means that all the dregs and dirtbags can shit, puke, piss and fuck within the same general area without having to worry about the cops.”

      Hey. Stay on topic. This thread is about homeless shelters. Why are you talkin’ about the Parliamentary Press Club?

9. BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME!

   Next, a ‘safe’ injection site for the deadbeats and losers. Will it come with Lazyboys, Big Screens, and handmaids too?

   1. No, they stuck that beside the hospital so the junkies could be closer to their source of income — stealing from patients.