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Garbage Dumpers, Getting Shot in the Foot, The Homeless Survey

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

2006_4_17bluffers.jpgBluffer’s Park dumpers, you’re on notice. The Star reports that there’s evidence on who has been dumping huge amounts of garbage at Scarborough’s Bluffer’s Park and the city is keeping an eye on it.
Two bodies have been found in North York in the last two days. Police say bodies are often found in the spring thaw. This fact totally creeps out Torontoist.
A 17-year old was shot in the foot during his sister’s birthday party. No one is talking but the shooters weren’t invited.
Hazel one-ups David (Miller) in the heroics department. Remember a couple of months back when our mayor saved a man holding a knife to his throat and straddling the second floor rotunda at City Hall. Well this weekend Hazel talked down a 65 year-old man who was on a roof and in a standoff with Peel region police. McCallion showed up and defused the situation.
A lot of people have been writing about the city’s homeless survey including the Post and the Globe. The one-night survey of people on the streets has its share of problems: activist and advocacy groups don’t like it, there aren’t enough people in the burbs doing it and many others wonder whether accuracy is even possible.
Will stringing streetcars together make King St. a better transit corridor? Transit activist Steve Munro doesn’t think so.

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  • danbi

    April 19th (this wed) is the next Street Needs Assessment date. I dunno for sure, but isn’t any survey better than no survey? Yes, surveys must be carefully conducted bla bla, but at least the city is attempting to assess the situation somehow, given the limited resources.
    One criticism, however, is that it is heavily reliant on volunteers and I didn’t sense a strong call for volunteers from the city over the course of the recruitment time. This is probably why it has to be one day only, as a mass survey for a longer period would require a lot of expended resources (months of planning and co-ord) and could lead to volunteer burnout.
    If anyone is interested in Toronto’s homelessness past, read Homelessness by Jack Layton. A good primer on the issue…

  • http://toronto.ontariotenants.ca Toronto Tenants

    There is some very interesting information about the homeless on the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee website http://www.tdrc.net .
    I heard the webmaster for the Ontario Tenants Rights website http://www.ontariotenants.ca on a call in show and his concern was that he had heard the Toronto homeless survey did not include important questions such as “when did you last eat?”