01-16-2023, 07:29 PM
(01-16-2023, 11:51 AM)ac3r Wrote: I don't think it takes a genius to tell when someone is in a bathroom using drugs versus doing something with a colostomy bag. Gimme a break.
Problem is, people that want to see it will see it all the time will see it all the time -- and people that want to pretend that it mostly doesn't exist (or simply isn't that bad) just won't see it. It's somewhere in the middle.
That said, I did work in DTK for a number of years, and I know for a fact that drug usage was daily at: The TeenTown washrooms at Victoria Park (by the Pavilion), the other public washrooms close to The Boathouse, City Hall washrooms (main floor) and skate pad washrooms. Duke and Ontario garage also had daily problems (several times a day) and was so bad that the city had to close those washrooms (and I think they're still closed).
This isn't a dump on the homeless or the addicts - just a reality that many of them don't care about anyone else. I had a co-worker stabbed by a syringe and never did come back to work (no idea what happened to her - just that she got really sick).
We have a real problem with leadership in this Region - with Redman and our 3 mayors (includes that two that are no longer mayors) being pretty ineffective at just about everything they did. However, I do reserve judgement for the mayors of Waterloo and Cambridge as they are new and just getting her their wet.