ARLENE

@guyfelicella @BeaLionAlways we should all get free food and houses then

@BeaLionAlways I didn't say that at all. However those are the basics that everyone should have access to

I don’t care if you work a “minimum wage” job or no job at all. Food, water, shelter, and healthcare are human rights... not rewards. Full stop 🛑

@guyfelicella room service too? Does the food have to be cooked?

@ProtectWard2n3 having compassion for people who choose this lifestyle and mainly lifetime welfare receipients is just low IQ stupid thinking. Everyone has a choice in life. I would prefer money spent on those disabled who had no choice and suffering.

This is the same thing do Saskatoon and Cynthia! They have all the compassion for “homelessness” in OUR community! When will they start “helping” in THEIR community? The shelters are scamming vulnerable and taking free money to do nothing!

@RevRobYXE well when the City offers enabling what do people expect? Of course more people will come!! It's like fishing, you put bait on the hook to catch more. sheesh. Stop offering handouts and discourage people from flocking here!!

Yesterday at Council was definitely interesting. I'll start by providing an update on the debate that occurred regarding the First Avenue BRT concept plan. There were a number of presentations along with many questions and concerns, but it became evident that several Councillors wanted more information before making their decision. To that end I made a deferral motion that essentially ensured there was more collaboration with affected stakeholders, and for an operations plan that would address the numerous concerns with the concept. I asked how long it would take administration to provide the information and the response was a detailed operations plan was required and it would take a year, implying an excessive delay to our deadline. It should be noted that Saskatoon's deadline to implement the BRT by 2028 is self imposed. The Federal funding is actually available until 2032, and keep in mind the City itself will be paying roughly 27% of the costs involved. As such, I think it is entirely reasonable to have the delay to ensure we make the right decision. Council defeated my deferral motion, so the next step was to then vote on the concept plan itself and as I was not alone in wanting more information, it was also defeated. In the end, Council voted to have administration share the plan with the Accessability Advisory Committee (this was in my deferral motion), and provide an overview operations plan to address the critical issues and concerns with the concept (which was also essentially in my motion). Once that plan comes back to Council, we can then consider how to proceed. I also want to add that we had a report on our City's Homelessness Response. The report was well done but it also highlighted to me a major concern. From 2024 to 2027, the City will have spent over $15M on our Homelessness response. To be clear, the Homeless need all the support and opportunities to improve their lives and more needs to be done. The Feds and the Province have also spend money on this, but there is a more critical core issue at stake. Municipalities do not have the resources nor the revenue streams to address complex issues like social services. While the Province has all the responsibilities for this area of concern, they also have multiple revenue streams to address it. Saskatoon essentially has property taxes, and it's based on a reassessment program that is essentially broken and unsustainable. Add to this, we are a hub city and we have people from all over the Province making their way here for various reasons, including more and more of those who are homeless, forcing our city to address escalating issues that are also reaching a breaking point. And then added to this is the Province has no actual plan to reduce homelessness. What they have is an annual consideration to fund shelters and some supportive living, but there are no baselines, no targets, no accountability measures, no aggredated data, etc. The longer this continues without a reduction strategy, the worse it is going to get and more it is going to cost, and the Province is not reimbursing the City's expenses. What is needed is a coordinated Provincial plan that has actual targets for reduction, significant investment for transitional, supportive and affordable housing, expanded long term addictions and complex needs treatment, expanded policing and social programs that address the real needs of those who are vulnerable and need help. This is definitely possible. We already have success models with responsible service providers, including numerous indigednous organizations, that could be expanded with the right investments. This will also provide the opportunities to reduce temporary shelter beds that are cosing us millions and reallocate that funding to replicating successes that promote opportunities for people to improve their lives. I'll hopefully have more to share in the near future regarding ideas on how this could be done.

@BrianKrzyzaniak they have kids to collect more welfare.

Drug exposure deaths in Saskatchewan children under five prompt warning | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11823067/… 100% PROOF that some people should not be having children > the brains of these so called adults,are TOO IMMATURE, to bring up children PROPERLY

@FNCGlobalNews @BWBailey85 propaganda. nice try though

RECORD HATE: Canada records record levels of antisemitic incidents as the Carney govt is slammed for not doing enough. A new report highlights the growing hate—critics say current action isn't enough. Report by @BWBailey85 foxnews.com/world/record-a…

@kinsellawarren lol wow

Spoke on a panel with some brilliant lawyers today in front of 120 other brilliant lawyers of many faiths. All agreed that we have a big antisemitism problem in Canada - and that it's time to use the law, in a smart and targeted way, to shut down the haters, and to push governments to do more.

@DennisRoxPod ??

@agentladya Arlene, you've been looking for our bunch for all your life. Don't say we didn't tell you.

Mike says it bluntly in Episode 197 (Alcoholism): “Drinking is not the problem… the problem is the things that cause you to do it.” Listen to Episode 197 (Alcoholism) if you’re ready to stop negotiating with the thing that’s quietly draining the life out of you:

@brandiadams4 @CTVNews who hasnt had trauma? Most people don't chose drugs or alcohol to cope. It's a choice

@CTVNews The vast majority of addicts don’t get addicted because they took a prescription for pain and got hooked as they’d have you believe. The either have trauma or a previous addiction issue. Psychiatric help is needed. Stop demonizing opiates and refusing needed pain meds.

Father who lost son to overdose says compassion is what’s missing in saving lives of addicts ctvnews.ca/health/article…

@guyfelicella @CTVNews get lost

@CTVNews Heartbreaking, and preventable. Without access to both harm reduction and recovery services there will be a lot more pain in our society.

@DennisRoxPod let me know when you do a podcast with people who experienced trauma, pain, abuse etc.. and chose NOT to be an addict. I will tune in and share 100%

@agentladya Did you listen to the episode? You might not want to answer that because based on everything you rambling on about here tells me that you didn't, and even if you did it would be hard for your to comprehend.

@DennisRoxPod whats so hard to comprehend? No I don't listen to constant victimhood nonsense

@DennisRoxPod perhaps instead of focusing on victimhood, you should talk to people who achieved success under the same circumstances. Ever think of that? Society just wants to focus on enabling and funding. It's insane.

@agentladya sound good Arlene, sounds like you got it all figured out. Good luck.

jɛws put our brother @LetsGoBrando45 in a rough spot simply for telling the truth & eduicating on the teachings of Christ. Don't let them silence us. Share from Brandons page & if you can donate to help his defense there is a link in the quoted thread.

@surphs__upp @CTVNews disciplle kids and have boundaries growing up stops bad behavior. yup.

@agentladya @CTVNews You can’t hammer addiction out of an addict

@DennisRoxPod you think everyone hasn't had pain? yup, we are all victims of circumstances. People choose how they deal with it. period.

Pain? Have you ever thought that we as humans are always looking for ways to minimize and avoid pain? It happens to be that drugs, alcohol, food and many other things in life have this intrinsic effect on the human psyche to slow the pain down, minimize it for the moment? Your blanked statement "society just needs to understand this and stop making excuses" is a very uneducated take Arlene. You should start listening to our podcast if your arrogance allows it, it can help broaden your view and help rid you of the anger I'm sensing.

@MarcNixon24 landlords nightmare.

I REJECT the liberals vision for Canada 21 people living in the same house. 🏠 They have destroyed Canada 🇨🇦 and offering us a dream of POVERTY and OVERCROWDED living condition.

5 years…0 bodies