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Originally Posted by flameswin
This happend in Vancouver, so it is perfectly acceptable to bring up the fact this happened in Vancouver.
Also incorrect, is to state "This happens everywhere". Bad things happen everywhere, yes, but this happened in Vancouver, and hasn't been reported anywhere else. This is currently a Vancouver issue, one of many that city filled with dooshbags has on a regular basis.
This is the same defection that Vancouver residents use all the time when their citizens go full ######, and was expecially prevelent during teh 2011 playoffs.
Yes, riots have happened in other cities. Yes, there are bad fans in every city yes, there are issues with voilence towards homelessness in other cities.
But no other city has bad/dooshy behaviour happen as frequently and as dooshily as Vancouver.
In closing, it is perfectly acceptable and very appropriate for the OP to mention that this happened in Vancouver.
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Yes, it is appropriate to mention that this one particular incident happened in Vancouver, but perhaps you didn't see corporatejay's original post before he edited it and thus you're responding to me without the proper context. The thread's original title also included "(in Vancouver of course)" at the end, and the OP included the line, "Stay classy, Vancouver". It was an unnecessary and petty slam against that city when the reality is the problem of violence against the homeless is not at all unique to Vancouver. In fact, as reported by the Calgary Herald in 2009 (the original article is now offline, but you can find an excerpt from it at the link below), our city has a very real problem in this area.
http://www.edmontonsocialplanning.ca...6/func,fb_pdf/
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A recent Calgary Herald article reports that the city's homeless population experiences a high rate of violent attacks:
A significant majority of the city's chronic homeless population has faced a violent attack on the streets, according to an in-depth survey conducted by the Calgary Homeless Foundation that gathers information about the health of people living on the streets.
Sixty-eight per cent of the 137 people surveyed throughout the fall said they have been a victim of a violent attack since they've become homeless.
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In fact, Calgary's rate of violence against homeless people is higher than any American city that has done a similar survey.
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"It's darn near close to twice the rate found in other places."
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