condovo
Senior Member
Personal insults aside, I don't see these encircling charities as having a particularly positive impact on the square itself, which by night is thus transformed into a human disaster zone.
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Nathan Phillips Square Homeless Issue
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Personal insults aside, I don't see these encircling charities as having a particularly positive impact on the square itself, which by night is thus transformed into a human disaster zone.
gristle
Senior Member
Are you suggesting doing absolutely nothing?
So people try in their own to help human beings who for whatever reason are homeless, and you suggest that they have sex with them?
I'm just more than a little curious about why you possess such a poisoned attitude?
condovo
Senior Member
Umm...before the "cost-effective" Streets to Homes program, the city was already spending $200 million a year on homelessness. Hardly nothing. The city was overrun with homelessness before "cost-effective." The city is overrun with homelessness after "cost-effective."
Of course, by "sleep with them" I meant having the homeless sleep under Osgoode's and Holy Trinity's sanctified and sanctimonious roofs instead of out in the square on benches and in boxes. Stop sexualizing homelessness.
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Northern Magus
Active Member
Note the complete lack of denial regarding havig a poisoned attitude.
Perhaps our braying jackass wants to go the Jim Flaherty route and have them all arrested.
Or, better yet, perhaps he should actually go and do something about it like volunteer or invite some into his home.
But no, that'll never happen: that would take far more guts and integrity than just kvetching on the internet.
condovo
Senior Member
How sensitive and socially conscious of you to insult those with whom you disagree.
As you have done, I'm sure. Didn't think so.
As you are doing now.
Northern Magus
Active Member
Oh poor little you. All you want to do is crap on the homeless unopposed, and now you're clearly thinking of yourself as a some kind of victim because decent people object to reading that kind of garbage. Don't me yak.
It really does take a special breed of loser to target the homeless and homelessness programs with the particular degree of contempt that you obviously have. So if you want to start a little web forum for homeless haters, go do it somewhere else.
And as for your sad attempt at tu quoque, I know for a fact that I'll never see you volunteering in a soup kitchen with me: poltroons never do.
Automation Gallery
Superstar
I dont understand why everytime that someone on UT doesn't agree or mentions, Homeless People, Panhandlers, Graffiti Artists, Community Housing, Shelters etc. etc. etc......Certain members here have to start trash-talking. Crazy shite
alklay
Senior Member
I am not sure what any of this has to do with this construction project.
fouronesix
Active Member
I dont understand why everytime that someone on UT doesn't agree or mentions, Homeless People, Panhandlers, Graffiti Artists, Community Housing, Shelters etc. etc. etc......Certain members here have to start trash-talking. Crazy shite
I agree. When did this forum stop being a place where people could have mutually reaffirming conversations about really tall buildings? I mean this is a site about urban Toronto, right? What does homelessness have to do with that?
Automation Gallery
Superstar
Youre right, there is very little we can do about it....lets leave this subject for the higher powers to take care of.
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
Homelessness, graffiti, community housing and such are all very real urban issues, and tall buildings are just a small sampling of what is discussed on UT.
alklay
Senior Member
A debate about homelessness does not belong in this thread (I am not sure how anyone could have concluded that it was not an urban issue).
fouronesix
Active Member
I would argue that discussing homelessness in Nathan Phillips Square is germane to its revitalization. It calls into question how we define revitalization, which I think can be thought of as solely concerned with physical redesign, or perhaps the relation between phsycial design and how and by whom a space is used.
And as for the "homelessness not being an urban issue" thing, I was being facetious.
Northern Magus
Active Member
Because whenever someone takes shots at the vulnerable, silence is consent.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Great idea - Osgoode's Upper and Lower Barrister's Lounges would make lovely dorms wouldn't they? Convocation Hall, because it's much bigger, would be even better - and the high ceiling and stained glass windows would make it a charmingly romantic place to bed down with new friends. Why don't you suggest it to the Law Society?