By Dave Brindle Last year, at the beginning of winter in Edmonton, where the number of street kids is close to 225, Andrew Gagnon was visiting a friend who works with local at-risk youth. “What can I do? What do you need?” he asked her. “Coats,” she said. Gagnon went to his Facebook page, and […]
Wake Up Call
Jodi A. Shaw “I think, if luck were real,” David Arthur Johnston says, “that I’m one of the luckiest people on the planet. To have a grand scope in my head, that’s weird, but makes me feel like a superhero most of the time. “A lot of people love me, though most of them think […]
Wake Up Call – page 2
Continued from page 1 January 24, 2004: From David Arthur Johnston’s Journal of the Occupation of St. Ann’s Academy Last night I had gone to bed early (around 8PM). Around 9PM a security guard came up and fervently asked me to leave. SG- “Please leave. I must ask you to leave. You cannot stay here. […]
Wake Up Call – page 3
Continued from page 2 December 5, 2008: From David Arthur Johnston’s Journal of the Occupation of St. Ann’s Academy The ‘order’ is something all parties involved in the Charter case must sign to finalize the case. The city says its going to ask the judge to amend the ruling to add the words ‘at night’. […]
Supernatural! Downtown Eastside!
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside United Nations envoy Miloon Kothari, on a tour of Canada to examine homelessness, said he visited Vancouver specifically to assess whether the Olympic bid’s pledges “are being kept.” “Vancouver said, ‘If we get the Games, we commit to leaving a positive legacy,’ and we [at the UN] are taking that at […]
The empty moral space
Let me get this straight: the prairies experience a turn in the weather cold enough to take the lives of a homeless couple (who asphyxiated from carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to keep a bus warm) and Edmonton’s response is to dispense second-hand mittens? Seriously? Are they serious? Meanwhile, Edmonton’s spanky city hall with its […]
