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1. I have been to Victoria many times, starting in the late eighties when it looked like a retiree town where many flew the Union Jack (my impressions). Last time I went I looked around and concluded the people that built this beautiful place were gone.

   1. That can be said of Canada as a whole.

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      Let me help with that article… substitute for the words ‘overtaken by junkies.’

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2. ?
   l thought it was renamed Pandora’s Box Avenue.
   possibly went there last time l was in ‘Victodia’ visiting in 90s.
   p.s. ‘last’ both meanings as in ‘most recent’ and ‘never going there again’.

3. My wife had to walk past/bypassed the fringe of this mess when she started working downtown in 2015 (now retired). It’s worse than described.
   At the Center of it all, is Our Place, a social agency that feeds the derelicts and makes constant excuses for their degenerate behaviour.
   Shut down Our Place, and the rats will disperse.
   Silly Council is responsible too, for their permissive behaviour, encouraging the riffraff into downtown and, doing virtually nothing to get rid of them.
   Police are babysitters , not law enforcers.
   Until all these issues are reversed, this scourge will continue. And yes, it has destroyed that sector of Victoria, though, their progressiveness deserved the outcome.
   Where you find progressives, you find the druggies and street anarchy.

   1. “Shut down Our Place, and the rats will disperse.”

      Same problem we have in the Downtown Eastside…everything they want and need is *right there*.

4. My grandson rented his first apartment in downtown Victoria while going to U Vic. He was excited about living in the city after growing up in the sticks.

   Then his car window was smashed in his parkade to steal his skateboard.

   And then he moved.

   1. Quite true.
      For the 22 years we’ve lived in the Westshore, it’s SOP to never leave anything visible in your car, even spare change, unless you want it broken into.
      Sunglasses, gloves, cords, blankets, change, let alone more valuable things.
      It doesn’t matter where you park for something downtown. James Bay, Fairfield, Cook St, Fernwood are also danger zones for breaking.
      Yeah, Vic is San FranSicko North.

      1. I retired to Kelowna 11 years ago and used to enjoy going downtown. Not anymore.
         Mind you, it still beats Edmonton, which I fled, although I would move back to a rural spot if Alberta separates. Pipe dream.

      2. Dan … here in San Francisco and Oakland … we NEVER lock our cars in the city. Nope. And we roll the windows down to keep them from getting busted.

         1. We just don’t go downtown to eat, shop or otherwise. I refuse to participate in pay parking. Silly Council expanded their pay parking hours to 8 at night, 7 days a week. Now they’ve really grabbed the dinner crowd, as the hours used to end at 6pm, and Sundays were ‘free’.
            I do cycle thru here though, that is an obstacle course at the best of times, and tourist season makes it a virtual NOGO zone.
            And, never cycle thru Pandora. Occasionally, I have to ride thru the edge of the insanity, and what you see up close and personal is mind blowing.
            Yes, they are drugged out zombies, in various stages of a downward spiral, ending 6 feet under. So called caring leftist governments allow this to happen in the wide open, without consequences. And in BC, the Progs voted for more of the same provincially and federally.

5. “Opioid crisis”. “Housing crisis”. Both gov’t manufactured events.

   Gov’t used our money to create the crisis, our money to prevent citizens from opposing their idiotic InSite program, and has their agents pushing for the legalization and supply of “safe” drugs.

   In a sane world, the POSs behind these programs would be summarily executed.

   In the same way, gov’t purposely imports millions of low/no skill 3rd worlders, pays them to come here, gives them loans to start businesses, and encourages them to bring their dependents with them. As well as their diseases.

   The only crisis is the treasonous POSs in Canada who collectively work together against our interests. Everything they encourage us to do and believe is harmful to us.

6. Mainstream media has often downplayed the Canadian component of the drug and migrant problems in the US. Typically the drug issue was described as minor because a small % of drugs seized along the Can/US border were identified as being of Canadian origin. On the drug subject, I recommend reading some of the excellent articles on Sam Cooper’s https://www.thebureau.news/. It is actual JOURNALISM!
   Re: the migrant issue, mainstream media often (correctly) points out that migrants entering the US from Canada (pre Trump) were a very small number compared to the southern border. True enough but the part that was almost always left unsaid is that the crossers at the Canadian border who were apprehended in the US were 6 times more likely to be on the Terrorist Watch list. Our Canada has done a piss-poor job of controlling who gets into Canada and then can sneak into the US.

7. The thieves in Lloydminster are getting smarter.
   Someone shot a transformer at a substation, then the power went out, and the break-ins began, at 4AM.
   $1M in damages plus 10,000 L oil cleanup.
   No news on who/what got stolen.

8. Fentanyl isn’t the cause. Socialist government policies are the cause.