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Originally Posted by EdwardTH
It's wild. I used to come here because it seemed like a place for intelligent urbanists to share insights and have actual intelligent debate. But this issue comes up every week and it's always the same outdated boomer mentality of "let's just move the poors somewhere else where we don't have to look at them", moving the problems around instead of actually addressing the underlying issues. Total shame what this forum has become.
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Here! Here! Yes, they actually believe closing a vendor is going to solve downtown's issues. Solving poverty, homelessness and income inequality, or at least making a start at it will do much more to resolve the downtown problems. Rather than getting all excited about the garbage floating around and someone dancing stoned in the middle of the street, start thinking about what are the root causes of these issues. Waggy and crew get all excited when anyone mentions the provincial government role, but let's be serious, the current government has shown a complete disregard for the city and it doesn't look like that is going to change. In a city like Winnipeg, and a province like Manitoba, a completely laissez-faire approach is always going to fail.
And thank god Esquire has now ruled out the Duarte-style death squads.