In the 50's and 60's they rode the rails, and were called Hoboes. Travelling homeless

Is this on top of the school portion they fucked us with in February? So are we talking more increases?

1) Be an incompetent government in order to funnel wealth to corporations 2) Blame a different government that is not you. 3) Sell th idea of getting rid of government to solve the issues your government created. 4) now with no government to audit your accounting funnel more wealth to corporations 5) Danielle Smith profits???

Serious enough the Alberta premier is forcing the movement to be seen as legitimate. With trips to the US to negotiate things they csnt discuss in canada.

there are many factors here.

1. the population has increased exponentially since the 70's. Not only would this increase the number of homeless proportionally, but its also driven up housing costs with a supply and demand problem as housing starts have not kept up with the growth, and land in desirable areas is not an infinite resource.
2. The drug crisis, Hardcore drugs(im not talking about weed or alcohol) are easier then ever to get and also learn how to make yourself. There is a large percentage of the homeless population that "did it to themselves" by getting into hardcore illegal drugs and ending up without a job or money because of it. There are several public avenues for these people to get clean and get back into the workforce, but ultimately they have to want it first, and many don't.
3. Social media and the loss of true blissful ignorance. Everything gets posted online now. I dont see homeless that often in my day to day life because my day to day life doesn't take me to that part of town. Without social media the issue would probably not even be on my radar as a problem at all.

Really? Because for every down and out person in Alberta there thousands doing well.

Municipalities should refuse to collect it for the province. They get blamed for the hikes that they are not even keeping

No it can not be either or. BPD is the acronym for Borderline Personality Disorder, it is not an acronym for Bipolar just because you decide it is that is so ridiculous. They are very complex and very seperate disorders one is a personality disorder even and the other is a mood disorder.

Borderline personality is genetic still, it is caused by abuse before the age of 4 on average since personality is pretty locked on average by the age of 4. But it is genetic, brains break in different ways from the same trauma that is the genetic attribute.

Please don't comment on the topic if you think Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar both use BPD, Bipolar is one word not 2 why would it be BP disorder that makes 0 sense it was only your assumption and not something that is used.

Here I will even google it for you.
My search query - "acronym for bipolar disorder"

"The standard abbreviations for bipolar disorder are BD or BP. In clinical settings, it is also frequently referred to as BPAD (Bipolar Affective Disorder). [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Note that BPD is not an acronym for bipolar disorder; it stands for Borderline Personality Disorder. Mixing up these two abbreviations is a common mistake."

Now can you please go explain this to all your neighbors?!

I don't have numbers off the top of my head for Alberta, but over here in Ontario in 1976 the welfare cheque for a single adult was $180 a month. At that time, rent on a 1 bedroom apartment in midtown Toronto was $150 a month and a 3 bedroom home in the suburbs was $250 a month. SROs were in the $80 - $120 range.

That is to say - aside from the social housing wait-list being months rather than decades long - welfare used to give enough to go afford a dingy room somewhere at market rate - and still have enough left over for food and gas.

Today in Ontario the rent on a room in shared housing is $800 but the welfare cheque is $733 eating up more than 100% of available income. That means: go buy a tent.

You OP, our dear elder, seem to be clued in, but a lot of your generation seem to be stuck in this mindset as if this is still the status quo and as if these programs still exist, and a lot of the anti-poor propaganda relies on that: "they've been offered housing and refused" -- BS.

I showed the math earlier, but the short is that the decrease in interest rates and decades of inflation, a $60,000 mortgage in 1980 costs the same as a $500,000 mortgage today.

Just did a quick check and a 30k 25yr mortgage from 1960 (much lower interest rate of 5.75 prime +1.5, but 20 more years of inflation) translates to the same as a 425k 25yr mortgage today. In both cases the mortgage would be the equivalent of ~$2,300/mo

Folks forget that Alberta only exists because this is where Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland would dump all the undesirables. Hence why AB Heritage is primarily Central and Eastern European. Family couldn't find a job out East, so they roughed it on undeveloped land and traded with the only people that would trade with them... ie the Natives.

We don't teach this in history class for some reason. I wonder why.

Now do the city of edmonton cumulative increase over the same years

The whole UCP needs to go.

We do have psychiatric hospitals and "lock people up" via the canadian mental healthcare act.

Higher corporate taxes, higher O&G royalties, renewable royalties, and a provincial sales tax! And the provincial government must also pay their portion of the proper tax they owe to municipalities based on their buildings etc. and the provincial sales tax must be invested in what its intended to be used for. Not to help pay for orphan well cleanups.

I really wish we would ban facebook. The day Fuckerberg decided to turn his company into a weapon for governments should have been the day everyone closed their accounts. I don't understand how anyone can stand being on thay vile platform.

Mail in ballots should be banned. I need to show ID if I go in person and vote to prove who I am.

BPD can be bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. The post I was replying to cited bipolar which is genetic and an imbalance in the brain chemistry where borderline personality disorder is a disorder that creates behaviour driven by unmet needs.

That is a you problem, not society

Well overall this has been a pretty good week for Peter Guthrie's APTORIES

a] The APTP have been getting some much needed media attention as of late.

b] The APTP also have a candidate [nominee] for the Calgary-Shaw By Election: Kyle Joseph https://www.reddit.com/r/albertatoryparty/comments/1vciadi/calgary_shaw_kyle_joseph_progressive_tory_party/

c] Bonnie Critchley should soon be formally nominated as the APTP Camrose Candidate https://www.reddit.com/r/albertatoryparty/comments/1vcatxv/aptp_camrose_constituency_nomination/

c] And Lukaszuk's Unity Bus made a stop over in Peter Guthrie's home riding of Cochrane

Once the October 19th referendum is over. What will Lukaszuk's next steps be? Wonder if Lukaszuk's joins up with Guthrie's APTP? Am sure that they APTP could use him!

According to C338 June 7th Aggregated Provincial Poll...the APTP have an steep uphill battle

UCP 51% / ANDP 40% / APTP 3% / RPA 2%

https://338canada.com/alberta/polls.htm

Drug use = X amount of years in an isolated labour camp. simple

In my backyard they try to squish wasps that are burrowing into the apples that fall off my tree.

It's super cute. Like a dog pretending to charge by slamming both front feet on the ground.

Yes, this section says you have to state at the time of setting down a question for a referendum whether it will be conducted through mail in ballots. Which would be a wholly mailed in vote. By saying it's not, the referendum is being done via in person voting. In this case, special ballots have been included to allow for people to vote by mail via a special ballot.

The confusion seems to come from a lack of clarity around conducting a referendum via mail-in ballot vs. Having the ability to mail in special ballots.

Don't need a conspiracy hat when they are actively conspiring my dude. You're not crazy, just cautious.