Homeless deserve respect too
I’ve taken all I can stands, I can’t stand no more.
As a person who works for the City of Vancouver, my job entails that I, on a semi-regular basis, walk the streets of our fair city. I walk through the richest and the poorest neighbourhoods and I can tell you without hesitation that the people of filth that the condescending Calvin Pitre refers to are some of the most thoughtful and respectful human beings I encounter on a regular basis.
I will walk the length of Robson Street at peak hour and be totally ignored; I can walk the same distance in the Downtown Eastside and I am frequently met with smiles and “good morning” and “lovely day isn’t it?”
With all their shortcomings and personal hygiene issues that you so vigilantly attest to, I will say these people are twice the human being you are Calvin.
I see acts of charity and kindness between persons that have a bare minimum and I have yet to see any judgment being passed around like you so self-righteously throw around.
Mental health and drug issues are hugely prevalent in the lives of the filthy people you refer to and to suggest that your inconveniences are relatable to the life these people have to endure shows me how unbelievably out of touch with reality you are.
Have some compassion and humanity for God’s sake and take your self-righteous head out of your pretentious ass and be thankful you only have to suffer some dirt and inconvenience and not a life of pain and disdain from assholes like you.
–Rob Hewitt
Drug addicts at library need to go
Thank you for speaking up so wonderfully and so well. We are certainly long overdue for a big change. Libraries are not a crash pad, nor a drug den, nor a place to conduct deals.
Time for the criminals and crackheads and so-called homeless to go! Like lots and lots of other Vancouverites, I am sick of open drug use, outdoor toilet habits, filth and disgusting behaviour, non-stop panhandling and vagrants with a serious sense of entitlement.
Write to the police chief and the mayor and the premier! This has got to stop.
–Betty Atwell Power
Small town life has much to offer
RE: Back to the land 2.0, Jan. 29, 2015
I have just read the article and was very pleasantly surprised to see the very positive reference to life in Lillooet. We purchased 10 years ago and although we love our part-time life there, it has been quite a rollercoaster ride. To read about newcomers (especially younger) moving in and praising what it has rather than has not, made me very happy.
–Linda Quinn
