We demand safe spaces now! Accessible shelters! Affordable, accessible housing for all!
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Al White
11 years ago
Lets equitabley make the shelter system safe and accomodating at the same time.
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Kathleen Edwards
11 years ago
The most vulnerable people in our city need these spaces, they need the support. There aren't enough beds available and we need to work to provide more beds quickly. With every day that passes, there is a higher risk of illness and death for those on the streets during these cold and wet months. Not only that, but providing a safe space where these individuals can rest without the fear of violence is crucial. We've heard a lot from the Tory campaign about making Toronto better: the world class city we claim to be. A world class city helps the vulnerable and takes pride in providing services to all citizens.
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Audrey Batterham
11 years ago
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Despite sensitivy trainings and trying to address oppressions, shelters and drop-ins remain unsafe spaces for people of marginalized identities. Women are sexually harrassed, queer and trans folks are shunned and bullied, and people of colour experience racism. Toronto needs the opportunity to create really intentional spaces that are more successful in creating safety.
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Aurora Filipescu
11 years ago
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Matthew Rickwood
11 years ago
New Socialism
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Louise
11 years ago
This is 2014, why we still need to be fighting for basic roofs over our heads in Toronto - a world city? We can definitely can much better in protecting our vunerables.
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Noel Corinne Smith
11 years ago
I don't want to see any more deaths, injuries, rapes, assaults, or trauma in my city.
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A.J. Withers
11 years ago
This is an avoidable crisis. Open shelter beds, open 24 hr drop-ins, build housing!
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robin
11 years ago
God help us!
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Ann Hart
11 years ago
I voted 4 u. u can make a difference
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Robyn Peterson
11 years ago
Long ago we were known as "Toronto the Good". Let us not earn the name of being "Toronto the Heartless".
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Alex Balch
11 years ago
Providing adequate shelters for people to escape the freezing cold is one of the most important tasks of municiple government. The City of Toronto's disregard for their most vulnerable citizens is a disgrace.
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Tracy
11 years ago
For our children who are the future! Mothers need a safe place to raise them!
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Grissel Orellana
11 years ago
Housing is a human right for all
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Amanda Knoepfli
11 years ago
It is both cruel and inhuman that people are living in such terrible living conditons. Housing should be a right for all and people should not feel insecure and worried about their sleepign situations. I boggles my mind that shelters were set up for emergency situations. Now people are living in them as "permanent" forms of shelter. This housing crisis NEEDS to be addressed in Canada
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Helen Nowak
11 years ago
The city requires more spaces, particularly space that is accessible for people with disabilities.
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Katherine Edmund
11 years ago
Make you term count. Make history.
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Milan Kang
11 years ago
We demand safe spaces now!
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Elizabeth Canfield
11 years ago
There are too many people begging on the street corner they need homes!
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Lauren
11 years ago
everyone deserves access to a safe, afforable place to live!
Lets equitabley make the shelter system safe and accomodating at the same time.
The most vulnerable people in our city need these spaces, they need the support. There aren't enough beds available and we need to work to provide more beds quickly. With every day that passes, there is a higher risk of illness and death for those on the streets during these cold and wet months. Not only that, but providing a safe space where these individuals can rest without the fear of violence is crucial. We've heard a lot from the Tory campaign about making Toronto better: the world class city we claim to be. A world class city helps the vulnerable and takes pride in providing services to all citizens.
Despite sensitivy trainings and trying to address oppressions, shelters and drop-ins remain unsafe spaces for people of marginalized identities. Women are sexually harrassed, queer and trans folks are shunned and bullied, and people of colour experience racism. Toronto needs the opportunity to create really intentional spaces that are more successful in creating safety.
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New Socialism
This is 2014, why we still need to be fighting for basic roofs over our heads in Toronto - a world city? We can definitely can much better in protecting our vunerables.
I don't want to see any more deaths, injuries, rapes, assaults, or trauma in my city.
This is an avoidable crisis. Open shelter beds, open 24 hr drop-ins, build housing!
God help us!
I voted 4 u. u can make a difference
Long ago we were known as "Toronto the Good". Let us not earn the name of being "Toronto the Heartless".
Providing adequate shelters for people to escape the freezing cold is one of the most important tasks of municiple government. The City of Toronto's disregard for their most vulnerable citizens is a disgrace.
For our children who are the future! Mothers need a safe place to raise them!
Housing is a human right for all
It is both cruel and inhuman that people are living in such terrible living conditons. Housing should be a right for all and people should not feel insecure and worried about their sleepign situations. I boggles my mind that shelters were set up for emergency situations. Now people are living in them as "permanent" forms of shelter. This housing crisis NEEDS to be addressed in Canada
The city requires more spaces, particularly space that is accessible for people with disabilities.
Make you term count. Make history.
We demand safe spaces now!
There are too many people begging on the street corner they need homes!
everyone deserves access to a safe, afforable place to live!