But no, as promised, the Bissell Centre Community Space is closed today. It has been a place where vulnerable people who are homeless could access washrooms, showers, laundry facilities, a cup of coffee and a warm space to be together.
Now it stands empty, helping no one, a criminal waste of resources that helped so many up until yesterday!
Simply because we have a provincial government who would rather pretend that it's solving the homelessness crisis by offering "navigation centres" that make people feel like they're being processed to go to jail, and shelters that are more problematic than helpful (read: unsanitary, unsafe, unstable) for too many people who have no homes.
The other horrible not-an-April-Fool's-joke is this business of taking snacks from children in cancer care in order to be more "efficient." Like a few cookies and crackers are going to balance the books???
Please remember these inhumane acts when the next provincial election comes around and vote out the UCP. A government that doesn't care for the most vulnerable doesn't deserve to govern.
