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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

21 days

New from me: the EPS’ scorched earth response to encampments has been futile and cruel. #abpoli #yegcc

Opinion: Edmonton's encampment evictions did more harm than good

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

There are not 1,771 shelter spaces open in Edmonton. Again, Minister Nixon is incorrectly adding transitional and short term supportive spaces into his calculation. Those spaces require application forms and sometimes even nightly fees. They are not emergency shelters.

Jason Nixon

@JasonNixonAB

8 months

Shelters in Edmonton are currently under-capacity and not turning people away. As of last night, January 12, there are 1771 shelter spaces open in Edmonton and provincially funded spaces in Edmonton were at 72% capacity yesterday.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

Sheriffs and transit peace officers are waking up people who are sleeping on LRT and running their name for warrants. I’ve witnessed this twice this morning. Hard to see this as anything other than criminalizing poverty. #yegcc #ableg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

if by the year 2025 I am not riding choo choo to play black light mini golf before getting wine drunk at old spaghetti factory in the world's greatest mall™️ I swear to God cheryll

Cheryll Watson

@CheryllYEG

3 years

As Mayor, I will pause the West Valley LRT line. Here’s why: 🧵 COVID has changed nearly everything in our lives. I’ve been consistent from the beginning of my campaign that I will be a leader that brings a fresh perspective, one that will question and challenge the status quo.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

4 years

Starting to hear about landlords threatening to issue eviction notices to tenants for non-payment of April rent despite #COVID19AB . Tenants, remember landlords need to take u to Residential Tenancy Dispute Resolution Service (or court) & get an order before eviction = enforceable

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

If someone commits a violent crime in an apartment building, you don’t evict everyone in the building.

Danielle Smith

@ABDanielleSmith

9 months

This recent story is going to be difficult for many to read. Vulnerable people in and around these gang-operated encampments are victims of crime and abuse, it can no longer be tolerated. I fully support the decision by the Edmonton police service to remove illegal encampments

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

Edmontonians did not elect Chief McFee and they did not elect any UCP MLAs.

Tom Engel

@TomEngel18

8 months

3 @Alberta_UCP cabinet ministers on the stage & one unofficial one - @DMMcFee . No one from City Council. It's time for Council to decide how encampments will be handled & then inform McFee of the decision intead of the opposite. #houseless #Homeless #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

Hard for me not to wonder whether this is retributive, given that Boyle and Bissell were two of the three social agencies whose leaders provided affidavits in opposition to the City’s/EPS’ mass encampment closure plans in December.

Lauren Boothby

@laurby

6 months

Just in: Edmonton is not renewing funding for Bissell Centre & Boyle Street day shelter services. Impacts could be significant. More to come… #yeg #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

sometimes i like to think about what it would be like if #yeg had a shelter & housing workers' union. putting out press releases with the same frequency as the police association.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I'm starting a thread to post some of the evidence that came out in the @coalition4jhr 's encampment legal action that raised my eyebrows. It's all filed in court, so it's all public. I'll return to this thread and add more later.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

11 months

Edmonton displaced more encampments than Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, or Ottawa in 2022 and 2023 so far, according to this excellent reporting by @zac_goudreault of @LeDevoir . #yegcc #abpoli

Zacharie Goudreault

@zac_goudreault

11 months

Depuis 2021, ce sont 12 879 campements de personnes en situation d’itinérance qui ont été démantelés par les forces de l’ordre et des employés municipaux dans les 5 villes les plus populeuses du pays #polcan

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

Minister, I read all the evidence that @CityofEdmonton and @edmontonpolice brought in defence of their encampment eviction policy. I can tell you there was not a shred of evidence that forced evictions lead to a reduction in the number of people staying in encampments.

Jason Nixon

@JasonNixonAB

7 months

The Federal Liberal Government has appointed a “housing advocate” who believes that living in an encampment run by gangsters and drug dealers is a human right.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

@JasonNixonAB There are not 1,771 shelter spaces open in Edmonton. You're adding in transitional/short term supportive spaces (which require application forms and aren't always free) and funded spaces that aren't actually available yet.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

Do the UCP think unhoused folks are making sheltering decisions based on the mayor’s public statements?

Jason Nixon

@JasonNixonAB

8 months

It is dangerous for the mayor and others to continue to suggest that vulnerable Albertans do not have anywhere to turn. This is false and will lead to more folks choosing not to seek out shelter because they fear they’ll be turned away. (1/4)

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

this is misleading. the minister is factoring in transitional and short term supportive housing into his calculation of emergency shelter spaces. and, of course, not factoring in the real qualitative barriers to people accessing/being safe in emergency shelters.

Jason Nixon

@JasonNixonAB

8 months

Alberta’s government has provided funding for over 1700 shelter spaces that has flowed from the province to shelter operators. There are currently over 1400 shelter spaces in Edmonton. Another couple hundred spaces will be opening early this year to reach 1700 spaces. Shelters

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

This win brought to you by @avnishnanda and @devyntaylor94 who worked absurdly hard to achieve this as well as @AnnaJaneL , @coalition4jhr , @RachelleGladue , @shayla_yeg @GaleJudi and others.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

so edmonton, calgary, and alberta have now each spent 100s of millions subsidizing the private assets of ultra-wealthy sports team owners while hundreds stay outside without housing, and many struggle under the heavier and heavier burden of uncontrolled rent hikes 🆒

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

1 year

The billionaire owners of the Flames took not only the people of Calgary to the cleaners for their new arena, but the people of Alberta as well. Here's the cost breakdown. #ableg #yyccc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

Justice Martin granted the @CityofEdmonton 's application to strike my client the @coalition4jhr 's legal action against the City's encampment eviction policy on grounds that the Coalition lacks public interest standing to bring the action on behalf of people living in encampments.

Trevor Robb

@TrevorRobb_

8 months

Alberta court kills Edmonton homeless encampment lawsuit #yeg #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

The Court of King's Bench has awarded the @CityofEdmonton over $11,000 in costs against the @coalition4jhr for its legal action against the City's encampment eviction policy. The Coalition will have more to say soon, but for now, a few thoughts from me 🧵

Advocacy group to pay City of Edmonton more than $11K in costs after failed encampment lawsuit |...

A human rights organization that unsuccessfully sued the City of Edmonton over its removal of encampments has been ordered to pay $11,500 of the city’s legal bill.

www.cbc.ca

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

If this goes ahead we are going to need help documenting EPS’ actions and the impacts of those actions on people living in encampments and on the shelter and healthcare systems.

Lauren Boothby

@laurby

8 months

UPDATED: City police are escalating the teardown of hundreds of homeless encampments in Edmonton as the province opened a reception centre & created a triage system to take in displaced residents. More details from me & @reportrix #yeg #yegcc #ableg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

Also, in response to recent election promises to add 100-150 more officers to downtown edmonton, I’d like to highlight that five officers responded to one sleeping unhoused person in this instance

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

4 years

I also hope #covid19alberta gives us more reason to consider some kind of a basic income that can respond flexibly to pandemics as a way to: protect folks living in homelessness and the precariously employed, and (to some extent) fulfill treaty obligations to Indigenous peoples.

Anna Lund

@AnnaJaneL

4 years

I've been thinking about what it means to care for our community during a time of social distancing. Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact that Covid-19 and our responses to it will have on already vulnerable members.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

New media release from @AlbertaCTLA on #yeg transit safety & disorder. Data from ETS does not show an escalating crisis on Edmonton transit. 1/3

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

The @CityofEdmonton really needs to have its lawyers take another look at the legality/constitutionality of this shit. #yegcc

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

1 year

NEW: Edmonton sets new record in cruelty by clearing unhoused folks from same encampment twice in six days. #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

Over 50 years later, one of Lillian Piché Shirt’s children, Raymond Shirt-Yellowbird, acted as one of the @coalition4jhr ’s ten witnesses with lived experience in the legal action against the City of Edmonton’s encampment eviction policy.

Indigenous Archival Photo Project

@PhotoIndigenous

6 months

After eviction from her apartment in Edmonton, Lillian Piche holds one of her children after setting up a teepee in Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square in 1969 to protest housing discrimination against Indigenous people in Edmonton. Photo: Unknown | © Toronto Star Archives

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

This caught people off guard. The closure at 95 st and 101a Ave is going ahead, despite the extreme cold. This is reckless, and possibly in breach of Justice Davidson’s interim injunction order, which requires EPS to consider cold weather before closing encampments.

Jim Gurnett

@Jimgurnett

8 months

It takes a very cold heart to go ahead with destroying people's shelters on a winter morning like this- but #yeg is doing it at 95 St & 101A Ave right now. Witnesses needed #homelessness #yegcc @ECOHH_

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

This bylaw will maintain the status quo or escalate bylaw enforcement against unhoused Edmontonians. As the data shows, bylaw enforcement is already primarily against the unhoused:

Lauren Boothby

@laurby

8 months

Edmonton would ban public drug use, loitering on transit, panhandling by roads in new bylaw #yeg #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

The Court’s decisions, first, to deny the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights standing to act on behalf of our neighbours who live in encampments, and now, to award the City costs against the Coalition will enable a harmful and unconstitutional government practice to continue.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

The Court’s decisions should be troubling to all Albertans. But, they will not deter the @coalition4jhr from continuing its important work advocating on behalf of marginalized people.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

This is a consequence of our province’s “sharp end of the stick” approach to public safety, and municipal bylaw prohibitions that target unhoused people, such as the transit bylaw’s feet on the seat or loitering prohibitions.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

On one hand, the Court recognized it is difficult for unhoused people to bring legal actions to assert their rights. But on the other, the Court dismissed an action brought on unhoused people’s behalf by one of the only non-profits in Edmonton willing, able, and qualified to act.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

These are the people now setting policy in Edmonton for where hundreds of our low- or no-income unsheltered (65%+ Indigenous) neighbours are permitted to exist and how often their essential survival property should be taken and disposed of.

Jeremy Appel

@JeremyAppel1025

6 months

NEW from me in @ProgressAlberta : I obtained a recording of @ABDanielleSmith ’s remarks at the Ranchmen’s Club in Calgary, in which she made wild, unsubstantiated claims about extortion, arson and rape at encampments #ableg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

Does anyone really believe these problems will be solved by forcing our unhoused neighbours to pack their tents and relocate every few weeks? Encampment evictions seldom (if ever) reduce dangers but they always increase vulnerability.

Danielle Smith

@ABDanielleSmith

8 months

Guns. Deadly fentanyl. Sexual assaults. It ends now! Violent and organized gangs are terrorizing our vulnerable populations within encampments. This is not safe for anyone. My government will continue to do what is necessary to restore public safety throughout Alberta. Read

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

All I want to say about that western standard guy who tweets pictures of unhoused folks on #yegtransit , is that all his pictures depict: 1) an ETS that ALREADY criminalizes the behaviours he complains about, and 2) an edmonton that lacks adequate housing, shelter & SCSs.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

For any folks/organizations in Alberta who are out there making FOIPP requests for general information in the public interest, here's a template for requesting a fee waiver:

Public Interest Fee Waiver Request Precedent.docx

Public Interest Fee Waiver Request Applicant: [organization or individual making the request] Public body: [Public body in Alberta] Re: FOIPP Request [number] [Date of Fee Waiver Request] I. Backgr...

docs.google.com

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

The GoA (homeward trust’s biggest funder) had homeward trust remove their publicly available shelter data so the GoA could post this instead. No breakdown of the shelters counted at all. What a joke.

Lisa Johnson

@reportrix

8 months

Compared to the numbers previously published by Homeward Trust, (Minister Nixon has said those were "wrong") this provincial data is VERY general. It does not provide facility-specific bed numbers, nor the type of shelter beds being counted. #ableg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

5 years

The "vision" of the UCP on Indigenous issues is to pretend the law doesn't preserve Indigenous peoples' special rights under s 35 #abpoli #cdnpoli #AbLeg #BetterOffWithRachel

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

Special thank you to all the community agencies who put out statements about this closure. That took courage and it made a big difference.

chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

A good article summarizing the result. Thanks to everyone who made this happen and who supported the @coalition4jhr ’s efforts.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

I made a FOI request on the clearing of the @CJEdmonton river valley rd demonstration. Happy to share the results with anyone.

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

3 years

We have reached out to the Edmonton Police and requested information on how much injunction related enforcement took place today. Will report back if/when we hear anything. #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

The extent to which inadequacies in our provincial income support programs contribute to houselessness cannot be overstated.

Andrew Green

@YEG_daredevil

9 months

So, I have been reading about homeless encampments. Those involved in the work to protect people have a great analysis, but I'd like to add my thoughts. Many homeless people are disabled. Most are not on benefits like AISH because it is a tough system to access.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 years

If ur an Albertan who wants pipelines, you maaaaaaay want a leader who knows the Crown's basic constitutional obligations to consult, accommodate and even acquire consent from First Nations #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #dutytoconsult

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

The UCP, EPS, and City admin have a new, unwritten scorched earth policy to encampments in Edmonton. Especially encampments in Boyle-McCauley. Most empty lots in Boyle-McCauley where unsheltered folks used to erect shelters for themselves have now been fenced off entirely.

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

7 months

The UCP and the EPS's encampment sweeps have reached a fever pitch. How rounding up homeless people's possessions and constantly throwing them away is going to solve homelessness is still not clear.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

There is insufficient shelter space to meet peoples’ needs. And the city often displaces people who stay in encampments on city land. So, if not in a shelter, not in an encampment on city land, not in private property, and not on public transit, then where should they stay?

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

Heartened to witness a security guard at MacEwan station checking on sleeping folks' wellbeing, telling them they can stay as long as they like (if they don't smoke or nothing), and telling them there's a warmer spot upstairs if they prefer.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

This is one of the worst decisions the city has made so far as part of their policy of prioritizing the comfort of people who don't use drugs, over the lives of people who do.

Madeleine Cummings

@madcummings

2 years

City-contracted outreach workers are no longer allowed to hand out clean needles and pipes in transit areas and pedways. #Yeg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I am grateful to my co-counsel @avnishnanda . I'm a long time fan. I'm still in disbelief I've had the opportunity to work with him on this. He's everything I aspire to be. Smart, kind, funny, generous, practical. His focus is always on others, never on himself.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

To paraphrase @Jay_Scherer ’s & @rylankafara ’s brilliant writing on the topic, the Ice District has always been about a continuation of the settler-colonial project of taking land from Indigenous peoples:

Omar Mosleh

@OmarMosleh

7 months

This is stunning - Katz Group (owner of the Edmonton Oilers) launches court battle with Edmonton homeless organization over $5M donation because they allege the shelter "didn't try hard enough to fundraise on its own" From @paigeeparsons

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

That’s a lot of space that could be used for permanent supportive housing

Lauren Boothby

@laurby

6 months

The Katz Group wants to keep two using longstanding vacant plots of land north of Rogers Place as surface gravel parking lots for up to five more years, requesting an extension from the city for the second time. #yeg #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

Thank you @ProgressAlberta for covering the council meeting on the public spaces bylaw today so thoroughly! A monster thread ⬇️

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

7 months

We will be closely following the City of Edmonton's council meeting about proposed new 'public spaces' bylaws today. @jimstorrie is on this one. Watch this thread for updates.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

A good article summarizing the result. Thanks to everyone who made this happen and who supported the @coalition4jhr ’s efforts.

Judge orders slowdown in removals of Edmonton homeless camps | CBC News

A court battle over a plan to dismantle a number of Edmonton homeless encampments this week ended with lawyers reaching an agreement that will allow tent removals to go ahead — but at a slower pace.

www.cbc.ca

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

The City moves encampments from City land despite inadequate shelter beds often gives 1hr notice & disposes of anything people can’t pack takes peoples’ propane tanks, forcing people to use open fires or suffer frostbite moves encampments during extreme cold. It has to stop.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

New data from the @CityofEdmonton about the impacts transit policing measures had on safety and on unhoused and Indigenous folks in 2022 out today.

70% of Edmonton transit tickets, warnings went to people with no fixed address | CBC News

People found drinking alcohol on or around transit, urinating, smoking, using drugs, loitering, littering, panhandling, trespassing, or not paying a fare may get a ticket or warning from the Edmont...

www.cbc.ca

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

Well said

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

1 year

NEW: An Indigenous person was nearly 19 times more likely to get a transit ticket than a white person in 2020-2021 in Edmonton. #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I am grateful to our legal team @AnnaJaneL , Devyn, and DJ for believing in this case and putting so many hours (evenings, weekends) into it. Each member of our team is crucial and we couldn't have gotten here without each other. We shared a lot of stress but a lot of laughs too.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

This is the EPS’ annual budget for this kind of PR content. $2,700,000. For context, that’s a little less than the GoA’s funding for the 100 NigiNan spaces and a little more than the GoA’s funding for the 100 Enoch spaces.

Elaine Hyshka

@ehyshka

6 months

Would love to see my municipal tax dollars go to pay the rent of a few people for a year rather than spent on this strange anti-homeless PR campaign. #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

It is all the more troubling that, on top of that, the Court has now granted the City costs against the Coalition in response to the City’s argument that costs are needed to deter future legal actions brought by groups claiming standing to act on behalf of unhoused people.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

A little off topic, but to any shelter/housing/outreach workers at #yeg social agencies: consider organizing a union so you all can present a unified, credible voice in opposition to these people. Feels like they have all the power right now. Time for you all to find yours.

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

6 months

EXCLUSIVE: The Progress Report has obtained audio of Premier Smith's address to the Ranchmen's Club at an exclusive black-tie event held on Feb. 15. The assembled Calgary business elite applaud Smith as she brags abouts about tearing down encampments in inner city Edmonton.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

cc. @CityofEdmonton #yegcc

dustin

@dustbobgod

7 months

Homeless Miamians get $300,000 settlement after city trashed their personal property

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

i love my dad for a lot of reasons, but one of the best is that he's lived in Calgary for about 30 years and has never once considered going to the stampede

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

91 frostbite amputations in 2021-22. Horrifying. #ableg #yegcc

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

2 years

Frostbite amputations hit 10-year high in Edmonton last winter, new data show. Vast majority of amputations happened to unhoused people. #ableg #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

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Subject to possible appeal, this would be the end of our legal action. For now I'm feeling sentimental so i just want to express gratitude to some folks in the meantime.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I am grateful to everyone living in encampments who talked to me and the Coalition as we were preparing this action. Their stories informed our work and they shared them out of love for their brothers and sisters because they thought it could make a difference.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

For the journos / academics out there who might be interested, I did some quick math on these data from the City (these exclude encampment closures along the LRT line bike path, because those are done by Transit Peace Officers and weren't in the Park Ranger's possession).

chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

Here are the numbers of active encampments on City land the @CityofEdmonton closed, assessed as "high risk", closed during extreme weather, and assessed/closed as abandoned Oct 2021-Oct 2023

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

Also, as @avnishnanda said, he’s adding in spaces that are funded but not actually available for use yet. Very misleading.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I am grateful to the @coalition4jhr for being willing to stick their neck out and bring this legal action on behalf of folks living in encampments. They did so at great risk to their organization. They are brave and dedicated advocates who are a pleasure to work with.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

@CTVCalgary using a pic of shandro avec moustache is kinda adding insult to injury guys

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

5 years

@GarGar4YYCEast @ElectionsAB The grace you've demonstrated here is really powerful. Thanks for being a bright spot in an election season full of dark spots, @GarGar4YYCEast .

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

Thank you @JanisIrwin and @RachelNotley 🙏

Janis Irwin

@JanisIrwin

9 months

. @RachelNotley and I are calling on the UCP Solicitor General to immediately put a stop to the plans to evict unhoused Edmontonians from their encampments. We must stop criminalizing poverty. We can’t enforce our way out of the housing crisis. Statement:

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

Most unsheltered Edmontonians (>65%) are Indigenous people whose ancestors have lived here since time immemorial. For them, encampment evictions are not just harmful, ineffective social policy. They are part of a long, cruel, colonial tradition of forced displacement.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

Can't wait til my grandkid is premier so they can dig up my shitty song about Whyte Ave and make it part of the K-6 curriculum at the next generation's expense

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

I didn’t notice this at first, but the officer who woke up the sleeping person was EPS. So five officers total from @edmontonpolice , sheriffs, and @CityofEdmonton transit peace officers were all collaborating on one detention of a sleeping unhoused person.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

Despite that the Court will not hear the @coalition4jhr 's case against the encampment evictions on its merits, I hope we have persuaded some of this truth: Forced encampment evictions hurt far more than they help, especially when there are inadequate emergency shelter spaces.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

why did they need a whole helicopter to track their own bait car

Edmonton Police

@edmontonpolice

3 years

Officers from our TRAP team arrested a car thief Thursday night, who said he stole the car ‘because it was cold out’. The vehicle had been left running around 170 Ave and 127 Street and was tracked thanks to @EPS_Air1 Don’t leave your car running unattended. #OperationColdStart

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

This felt like the lowest point of the special law society meeting today.

Dennis Buchanan

@LawyerBuchanan

2 years

Current speaker: Not concerned about the content or even the intent of the path, but objects to the fact that he was required to complete it. Compares mandatory CPD to sending Indigenous children to residential schools.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

We must all stay engaged. Though encampments are less visible downtown than they were in early January, hundreds continue to lack adequate shelter & housing and experience perpetual cycles of displacement.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

It is incumbent on all of us to pressure governments respond to this crisis with the urgency and resources it requires. We must continue to advocate and organize for better treatment of our unhoused neighbours.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I am grateful to @shayla_yeg , @RachelleGladue / Tawaw Outreach, @BradLafortune / @PIAlberta , @ECOHH_ , and everyone who helped turn our legal action into a groundswell of public action and advocacy against the City's encampment evictions.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

4 years

@MattWolfAB @davecournoyer An eviction can take 30+ days, but under the law (assuming rent is due on the 1st) a 14-day notice can be given on the 2nd. I have plenty of experiences with 3 week eviction turnarounds. Please don't use generalizations as an excuse to withhold protections from vulnerable tenants

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

big time happy to be moving back to Amiskwaciwâskahikan (AKA shredmonton AKA calgary sucks) end of June but sad that the Empress closed wtf u guys

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

Bringing back a transit loitering bylaw, so that TPOs can ticket & ban our unhoused neighbours as they please again, will not make transit safer. Tell your #yegcc councillor.

Opinion: Make Edmonton Transit safer by targeting behaviour instead of people

edmontonjournal.com

Edmonton Journal

@edmontonjournal

3 years

City council has now made policy. It unanimously decided, for good reason and at city administration’s recommendation, to repeal the transit loitering bylaw. It should remain repealed. #Opinion

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

6 months

While the outcome is not what we hoped for, my co-counsel @avnishnanda and I are so grateful for how folks organized and took action, especially in response to the mass encampment evictions in December and January. Thank you to everyone who spoke out.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

This is an important piece, and we need more public attention to the ways that "red tape" in the AISH & Income Support programs leads to eligible Alberta being unjustly cut off. #ableg

Lauren Boothby

@laurby

2 years

Alberta is the only province or territory where people need a permanent address to receive money from government social programs, and an expert says this creates a major barrier to breaking the cycle once people become homeless. #yeg #yegcc #ableg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

Beautiful pink sunrise over downtown this morning.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

5 months

I need a long walk to recover after reading this. Absolute moral depravity from the EPS and UCP.

The Progress Report

@ProgressAlberta

5 months

EXCLUSIVE: A case study in misinformation -- How the sexual assault of a “young nurse” was used by the police and premier to justify encampment sweeps #ableg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

1 year

To everyone whose response to this is “trains aren’t homeless shelters”, I don’t blame you for feeling that way. But, I’d like to bring to your attention this info that City Admin provided in a report to Council on May 1…

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

This data is important, because encampments that the City considers high risk, again >80%, are closed ASAP with no minimum notice requirement to residents, they don't get housing services from the Encampment Response Team, and they're subject to closure during extreme weather.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

According to city admin’s online survey results, most people are not even concerned with bikes on sidewalks. #yegcc should be highly skeptical of the public support for the bike use prohibitions in this new proposed bylaw.

Chris On A Bike

@ChrisOnABikeYEG

7 months

Under the new public spaces bylaw, it will become illegal to ride your bike across the grass, with a $250 fine attached. The fine for riding on a sidewalk will also increase by 150%, which we know is used in Edmonton to target low-income, Indigenous, and Black folks. #yegbike

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

as a person who loves xmas enough to have begun listening to my xmas playlist early-November, I could not care less about where yeg's xmas tree is or how big it is or who pays for it. Unhoused folks face mortal danger without shelter/housing. #yegcc (& #ableg ) must act.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

the AB NDP's position on nuclear energy is that it...should be privatized??

Shannon Phillips

@SPhillipsAB

3 years

Ok, but why does the GOV’T have to pay for it? The private sector can deliver lowest-cost new generation to the grid. Us consumers/taxpayers don’t have to subsidize nuclear. Do competitive auctions & let the market sort out what they deliver most reliably&lowest-cost. #ableg

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

what even is GDP? The only gross domestic product I'm familiar with is the ketchup chip

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

After Pekiwewin, the City/EPS are fearful of another protest camp arising. They have/are working on a specific "protest camp" response policy. Apparently, some officers think this policy authorizes the taking of signs expressing Indigenous healing.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

3 years

Which made sense to me cuz T1Diabetes seemed like a low bar for getting a whole fancy ass drum set for free. But anyways I got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine a bit early today cuz of the 'betes and at the end of the day that's enough of a wish-come-true for me

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

a couple of our unhoused witnesses lamented how officers assume that their property is stolen. Turns out, they do! When assessing whether there is criminal activity in an encampment, officers presume some property to be stolen based solely on discretion.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

OH, big omission. Thank you to our experts. Drs. Damian Collins, @SandyDongMD , @andreasereda , Yale Belanger, and @KaitlinJSchwan for lending significant time and expertise to this legal action.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

In 2022, Transit Peace Officers gave people with no fixed address 3,509 trespass tickets (87% of all trespass tickets), which would have amounted to $2,105,400 in fines.

chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

9 months

New data from the @CityofEdmonton about the impacts transit policing measures had on safety and on unhoused and Indigenous folks in 2022 out today.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

The federal housing advocate released her final report on encampments. ⬇️ cc. #yegcc @CityofEdmonton

Office of the Federal Housing Advocate

@HousingLogement

7 months

#Encampment residents are facing a dire human rights crisis. The Advocate’s final report highlights the concrete actions governments must take to uphold their #HumanRights obligations & eliminate the need for encampments. Read the calls to action ➡️

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

7 months

Grateful to everyone speaking up about the proposed public spaces bylaw. Email your councillor if you haven’t already!

Lauren Boothby

@laurby

7 months

Restrictions for protests, spitting in public, and biking on parkland grass could be in store for Edmonton if city council approves a new bylaw this week. #yeg #yegcc

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

2 years

These numbers alone don't give a clear picture of the scale and causes of transit disorder. But they cast doubt on recent public perception of an escalating crisis and calls for more policing in response. 3/3

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I am grateful to the @BissellCentre for hosting questioning for two of our unhoused witnesses. Thank you.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

8 months

I am grateful to @GaleJudi . She does so much for our unhoused neighbours. I couldn't have gathered as much evidence from people living in encampments without her and the relationships of trust she has worked so hard to build in the encampments.

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chris wiebe 🌲🌲🌲 (he/him)

@ChrisWiebe780

4 years

Also, to repeat what @yegsadie said: if low income folks need legal advice about potential evictions, free telephone advice appointments available @ECLCLaw 780-702-1725

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