Imagine having an opportunity to end homelessness and have a lasting legacy of fighing poverty but instead deciding to spend $613 Million to build a house for Billionaire Daryl Katz’s NHL team.
#yeg #ableg #cdnpoli
Imagine selling the naming rights to one of the worst price-gauging telecoms in the world.
#ableg #yeg #yegcc
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Imagine sending your city’s police force to rob Edmonton’s growing homeless population of their few belongings... when it’s below -30C outside.
The next day Daryl Katz would host Mark Chipman at the $613M house #yeg built.
https://t.co/aFAlaTa1d4
The same night that Billionaire Daryl Katz’s sports team plays Busisman Mark Chipman’s sports team, @edmontonpolice clear homeless from a LRT station just a 12 minute walk from the $613M house built for Daryl Katz.
The weather has warmed to -21C.
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Billionaire Daryl Katz is known for his philanthropy.
The year before the Rogers Place arena deal was approved BIllionaire Daryl Katz gave $430,000 to the Provincial Conservative Party.
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Billionaire Daryl Katz may do the same sort of palm greasing—er philanthropy—today, but now he does so through 3rd parties like the Alberta Enterprise Group, which is affiliated with Wellington Advocacy—a lobby firm made of Kenney’s ex-staffers.
https://t.co/a6uL62nvQE
Since #yeg spent $613 Million on a house for Billionaire Daryl Katz’s NHL team, the city’s homeless population was estimated to be between 1971-2252.
#yegcc contributed roughly $272,202.49 to house Billionaire Daryl Katz’s NHL team for each of the city’s homeless.
Remember, in a city with billionaires, the existence of homelessness is a choice.
“[the report said] Calgary, Ottawa and Edmonton each have more than 20,000 vacant properties,”
#abpoli #yeg #yegcc
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#yegcc chose to support Billionaire Daryl Katz’s sports group instead of the city’s most vulnerable.
Instead they rely on the work of non-billionaire private citizens like the Bear Clan Patrol to support the city’s needy.
ratcreek.org/bear-clan-patr…👀
The Bear Clan Patrol shouldn’t be needed in a city wealthy enough for Billionaire Daryl Katz to become a billionaire.
There should be no homeless.
But choices are hard. I guess.
#yeg #yegcc #cdnpoli
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Nevertheless if you see someone outside in the cold in Edmonton in the dead of winter, here’s how to contact the Bear Clan Patrol.
Thanks, @TaylorMadeYYC.
https://t.co/Md5uJXzgXK
Sorry, I linked to @TaylorMadeYYC’s post showing contact info for Calgary’s Bear Clan Patrol.
Here’s the correct info for Edmonton.
Thanks again, Taylor.
https://t.co/jzBw66Trvs
If you’d like to learn a bit more about the Bear Clan Patrol, @UbakaOgbogu prepared a little thread earlier today. Thanks, Ubaka!
https://t.co/r8LShEY89J
I wrote a thread about this phenomenon in Calgary too.
Read it here:
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https://t.co/GwuUdTiu5w
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