I’m not sure how these are different from already existing psych holds?

No case yet, I was given a warning not charged.

I’ll still reach out, they’re likely tied into the right people.

Is still vehicle, but makes less traffic, takes less space, and requires less signalisation.

Specifically I was on a two lane road on front of a Tim Hortons. Because where else would a cop be hanging out.

No set fine, it’s a court appearance; according to the cop who pulled me over.

E-bike then 🤣

I mean, that’s an option too. Bike could pay 1/8th-1/12th the amount cars do based on amount of road used.

Of course, there’s the whole problem of cars don’t fucking pay for the roads. In Ontario, vehicle registration is a whopping $32. Since the average car lifespan in Canada is around 11 years, Ontario vehicles pay less than $3 per year (less however much of the registration fee is administration and overhead)

Since bikes take up abouth 1/10th the road, they would pay $3 for registration.

I am more than happy to pay road tax by fourth power law axle weight on all my bicycles.

Also the wealth hording.

In Québec a convience store is called a dépanneur.

At the same time it could become unreasonable for individuals to research all the local ordinances they may encounter in a 20 mile trip.

It is extremely reasonable. Drivers are always responsible to learn the laws of places they drive. Are you only required to follow the law of your plate’s state/province? Is turning right on red in NYC okay if you are plated outside the city?

Then buy you beer from a dép.

Faceplate screws in places I’ve worked: | | | | |

Faceplate screws in my own house: | / \ X = √

Ontario and Québec are still very much on the bagged milk train.

Source: my fridge.

Specific to the USA “70-78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” source

One of my coworkers believes bicycles cause car congestion. All car congestion, even the stuff on highways.

In Kingston, I’ve heard to janitorial staff needing to clear needles and remove tresspassers off the grounds at the boys & girls club, and a school that are the closest to the SCSs. I don’t know how the volume of cleaning compares to schools farther away from the SCS. My data is also hearsy, but comes from someone who works with the community.

I’ll also say Kingston concentrates support services geographically, which leads to concentrations of people using these services geographically. This is something I didn’t see in other cities where services are more spread out around.

Yes, I mean to say the organizations are volunteering to fill this health requirement. I think there was a long in translation theirs.

All of these organizations: https://ohrn.org/meet-our-networks/

Some are publicly owned, most aren’t, none of them are provincial.

if the choice is between having the safe consumption site close to your kids’ school and having people doing their drugs in the open near your kids’ school and leaving their used needles lying on the playground, which are you going to pick?

SCS

Often, these places are where they are because that’s where their clients already are.

Are they? Or is it just close enough the areas where underfunded volunteer organisations are able to get a physical site.

You may also want to measure out the radius of 200m from every school or daycare in your town or city on a map and see how many places are left where they can park SCSs.

This is neighborhood dependant. Somewhere like Sud-ouest in Montréal? Impossible. Somewhere like a Kingston suburb, a lot of real estate.

But that’s a great point, allow me to rephrase, the SCS sites should be an appropriate safe distance from schools; what that distance is is going to vary greatly between neighborhoods and their densities; and even the day trip programming of these schools (as an example if daycare always does their walks north to a canal which has playgrounds, then a SCS any distance along that route isn’t great, but a site to the south could be super close.

Figuring out where they’ll do more good than harm is more important than enforcing arbitrary limits.

Agreed, but this needs to be looked at holistically, not solely for the clients. That requires understanding the communities these sites are going into, and funding sites appropriately so selection isn’t based on funding.