Now wrecking Red Deer;
The Fabricland store has announced they will be leaving their Railyards location this summer, in search of a new location.[…]
Proulx says the store has faced numerous challenges since the opening of the Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) across the street in 2018 and the temporary shelter in their connecting unit during the pandemic.
She says the store initially moved to the Railyards as their previous location in the south end was too small.
However, she says the store has lost many customers since then due to discomfort from daily incidences.
“All of the homeless roaming around and harassing our customers and things; it’s been a rough 10 years here because of this and it just got worse and worse over the years. We have hired a security service and that is helping them not come in the store but still they’re out in our parking lot and such; just makes life a little difficult,” she said.
Proulx says customers, ranging from high school students to older individuals, are consistently panhandled in the parking lot and at the front entrance, requiring their security guard to escort customers back to their vehicles. She says they have also experienced increased thefts within the store and needled-drug use on their entrance staircase.
More: DES Fire Safety Codes Officer Andrew Towers said in December 2022 that it was unclear whether the person who started the fire “was simply trying to keep warm” and added that businesses should try to keep building exteriors well-lit to deter such activity.
Build it and they will come. Reason 869 to eliminate the welfare state.
I worked in Red Deer for a number of years. It’s a beautiful city with a great river valley and walking trails that is being destroyed by about 150 homeless drug-addicted non-resident miscreants. I had many a conversation with these leeches and they repeatedly stated that all their necessities were catered to in Red Deer so why would they move anywhere else.
The sad thing is that even when all the problems were identified to the city council at meetings, the elected hand-wringing naive foolish members just didn’t care. The addiction/poverty industry would bring out their spokespeople and talk about “one life that could be saved” and that would be it, argument over, and another shelter/feeding station/flop house/injection site would be established.
I eventually moved as a result. I got tired of meth heads in the alleyway behind my house. Of a continuous stream of vehicle “door checkers”. Of deranged screaming lunatics at Superstore. Of the zombies walking around downtown. I remember that one guy that tried to move along a meth head who was stealing empties from this yard got arrested for assault. That was a final straw.
Seattle, Vancouver DTES, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Red Deer….why we have allowed the non-taxpaying addicted losers to ruin everything good people have built will be a question for historians. As Aaron Clarey says, “Enjoy the decline.”
We used to lock these people in nuthouses. People who are a danger to themselves or others shouldn’t be forced to live on the streets. That is inhumane. Every province used to divvy up the government work. The lunatics in Alberta were in Ponoka and the retards in Red Deer. If a retard was sexually aggressive his nuts ended up in the dumpster. The safety of people was a prime consideration. Today it is irrelevant.
Forced to live on the streets? They aren’t forced to live on the streets, they choose to live on the streets. Here in Prince George last year, the city rented a hotel for them at the beginning of winter, which they somewhat trashed. When the weather warmed up in spring they all moved back onto the streets.
50 years ago this would never have been tolerated. But the loony left has been gradually gaining influence and power, and now they’re firmly in control, and we suffer the consequences.
Gentlemen … herein lies the problem …
In the wintertime, they try to come in and get warm. I feel for these people, don’t get me wrong, I do, but I’m not in the business to handle those kinds of issues. They have a place to go and they’re just causing so much trouble for stores and business people,” she said.
It’s so sad how we have misplaced our compassion. Because these people are “homeless” … we have to FEEL for them. Sorry. I don’t “FEEL” for these people … because we, as a society, already “FEEL” for them via all the generous services we offer. I don’t “FEEL” for people who continue to make poor choices that are socially corrosive. But this is the problem … we have too many people misplacing their “feelings” and excuse this cultural degradation because of their shallow unthinking emotions.
It’s the same thing with rampant shoplifting … ohhhhhh mommmaaaa … the suburban girls moan … “who can blame the poor from shoplifting?” “We have failed them as a society”. … this utter nonsense has penetrated our cultural psyche’ and now we simply PERMIT rampant theft and burglary. We have walked away from Law and Order … because we “FEEL” or something. Couldn’t be more insane if we tried.
You know your life’s pretty much in the toilet when you’re stealing stuff from Fabricland.
Then again…I’m sure blankets, quilts, and pillows would be hot items.
My financial guy told me they had the exact same scenario in downtown London Ont. so they pulled up stakes and moved four or five blocks down thinking it would be a safer location for their staff and customers. Thought wrong…panhandlers simply followed them.
Can’t win.
I think I know your financial guy. The Health Unit put a “safe injection site” next door to his financial planning practice in clear violation of City guidelines and bylaws. The ONLY ethical response to addiction is treatment, not enabling, but only for those that want it. Escort the rest to the 401 as often as is necessary.
Ah, Dead Beer. Not a bad place to visit, especially if you like craft beer. Or a quick stop at Peter’s on the way through.
Live there? Nope…
In Danielle Smith’s Alberta.
Indeed.
Alberta is, perhaps, 20-30 years behind the rest of the country in terms of societal rot. Calgary & Edmonton, though, are much further along in their decay. Look at that dingbat mayor of Calgary for instance.
Honestly, it’s likely too late for AB to save herself even if she were to separate tomorrow. The red infestation has taken root.
Red Deer has always been a convenient transit stop and distribution centre located midway between Edmonton & Calgary for drifters, drug dealers, and junkies alike. Setting up an “Overdose Prevention Site” was nothing more than adding fuel to the fire and invited the worst in society to stay and set up shop instead of moving on.
Red Deer’s “redneck” characterization by the Progressive Left across Canada has made it a priority 1 target by the left to neuter and reprogram the area to fit “acceptable thinking”. Which of course is attempting to steer Red Deer towards a Sanfransicko style crime ridden, piss & sh*t stained drug addicts Utopia.
One suspects that the situation is not to be solved.
It is in the interest of the poverty industrial complex for this to continue.
There would be a lot of unemployed social scientologists if things improved.
In fact there are so many people paid by the governments on every level that it is virtually impossible to stop or even affect small decline in the activities. Not gonna happen if they have any say in it.
The drug uses.
It appears by any variable that drug use is, if not encouraged, is tolerated to the extent of being normal.
The deaths, the killing, the poverty is just a collateral damage and as anybody who is interested in the affairs of men, knows, that it does not matter, though it is something the politicians can pump their chests about that they are going to solve the problem.
Have you read in the past about certain Newsom, then elected mayor, that he was going to eliminate it in Frisco?
Have you checked the difference of then and now?
There needs to be change of hart in the population. Solutions are drastic and draconian, other than that things will continue on the downhill track.
What’s happening in Red Deer is small compared to this.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/how-looting-in-san-francisco-turned-the-city-into-a-ghost-town/
What was once one of the most desirable cities in the world has become a toilet. Donald Trump was wrong. It’s not that there are shithole countries. The United States is full of shithole cities – all of them governed by Democrats. Perhaps the most blatant of all is Detroit. Compared to what it was, Detroit has lost more than 2/3rds of its population. It is now a city of abandoned ruins.
It’s not clear that Canadian cities are prepared to resist this, certainly not Toronto formerly ruled by John Tory. At least some reform has begun in Ottawa with the abject flight from Ottawa of both former Mayor “Himbo” Watson and the thoroughly corrupt city manager.
@cgh – “It’s not clear that Canadian cities are prepared to resist this….”
Western countries flood military arms and money to protect the borders of foreign countries while neglecting our own borders & infrastructure – resistance becomes a moot point.
Out of control debt, devalued dollars, shrinking manufacturing along with over regulation of resource industries (Alberta’s Oil & Gas industry) is what “Progressive” corrupt Liberal governments have imposed on us all.
The best hope going forward is that the Globalist Elites who are nurturing these foreign wars don’t escalate the current situations to landing Nukes in our backyards.
Many people may not know that Red Deer HAD always been Alberta’s/ Western Canada’s central Oilfield Service hub, providing the main Service headquarters for most large service companies such as Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Slumberger to smaller midsize startups and many many more….now most are gone, either relocated or reduced to shells of themselves.
That represented a huge loss of business/ personal tax and the consumer base for the small city, which has translated to store & business closures from oilfield parts and safety gear to haircuts, restaurants and all else that floats a society.
Democrats/African Branch
This is what happens when everyone takes a lax view of hard drugs.
And Our Overlords want this for the largest city in Canaduh, Toronto.
Seeing who can out San Francisco each other.
Chaos is what they seek, the better to ride in on a White Horse to save us but with strict Totalitarian conditions.
Chaos that They helped create and foster.
Trade freedum for safety.
Nuke Vancouver to start with.
That might fix a few things.
Take those who have a permanent addiction to hard drugs, and place them in a facility where they can be given a room and an iv with a drug dispenser that gives them all that they want, for as long as they want. Place it in the middle of nowhere on one of the islands up north, and leave them be.
/would never fly in this “enlightened” age
Can’t have that.
The poverty industrial complex needs to be in your face.
If they are removed to no see, no hear places, those with the social scientology education would lose the only source of income.
Can’t have that.
Round the homeless up. Fence them off and see how long they will survive. I got nothing anymore, I hate stupid and all I see daily is stupid. We talk and talk about nothing and let the shit continue.
Who the hell shops at Fabricland anymore? Doesn’t matter where they’re located, they are the worst. Happy with their jobs? Really? I have never, ever met a happy employee at any Fabricland I’ve visited. Miserable lot. They were the absolute worst during Wu Flu with their lineups, masks, and sanitizer. Everything is overpriced and most of their crap is from China. As a sewist, I sometimes receive a Fabricland gift card. I went in one day and, when I went to look at a pattern catalogue, an employee said I had to use hand sanitizer first. I said “No thanks; I don’t live in fear. Good-bye.” I won’t miss them when they’re gone.