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A little over a decade ago, I lived in the Nipigon area in northwestern Ontario, and worked at a college campus. Coming from the then-less-troubled south-central Ontario, it shocked me to find out that pretty much everything that could even remotely possibly be abused in a convenience store or pharmacy (so, all pain/allergy/cold and flu relief, mouthwash, peroxide, hand sanitizer, shaving equipment, glue, aerosol containers) had to be requested from a locked cabinet behind the cash register. At the college, the ashtrays in the smoking areas were frequently cut out of their bases and dumped out on the walkways, because people were sorting through butts. And the wildest part was that all the hand sanitizer dispensers in the college were stocked with a very watery foaming hand soap (if anything), because people would actually break them open and take off with the pouch of hand sanitizer to consume it. Now, I'm seeing similar steps being taken in this region and in Guelph. At what point do policymakers start giving a shit?
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(10-30-2025, 04:13 PM)Silie Wrote: A little over a decade ago, I lived in the Nipigon area in northwestern Ontario, and worked at a college campus. Coming from the then-less-troubled south-central Ontario, it shocked me to find out that pretty much everything that could even remotely possibly be abused in a convenience store or pharmacy (so, all pain/allergy/cold and flu relief, mouthwash, peroxide, hand sanitizer, shaving equipment, glue, aerosol containers) had to be requested from a locked cabinet behind the cash register. At the college, the ashtrays in the smoking areas were frequently cut out of their bases and dumped out on the walkways, because people were sorting through butts. And the wildest part was that all the hand sanitizer dispensers in the college were stocked with a very watery foaming hand soap (if anything), because people would actually break them open and take off with the pouch of hand sanitizer to consume it. Now, I'm seeing similar steps being taken in this region and in Guelph. At what point do policymakers start giving a shit?
This is fucking wild.
And a massive shame for a country to that calls itself part of the G7. Ghetto7 is where we are heading.
Drastic steps need to be taken. Help those with addiction - rehab until it works. Get homeless off the street.
Our Mayor is spending time thanking the Blue Jays and im sure enjoying every minute of the WS and that's fine, we deserve to have something positive, but more energy needs to go to solving the issues that face our community right now.
This has gotten out of hand.
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While this thread is clearly dying, looks like sympathy for homelessness in the region has reached a new low
https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...ed_at_the/
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(02-13-2026, 02:57 AM)Momo26 Wrote: While this thread is clearly dying, looks like sympathy for homelessness in the region has reached a new low
https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...ed_at_the/
This entire forum seems to be dying. Which is sad...just at a time when there are increasingly few online communities that aren't reliant on the good graces of tech oligarchs.
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I wouldn't go to /r/kitchener for any form of empathy; /r/waterloo have their heads on (a bit more) straight.
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(02-13-2026, 05:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: (02-13-2026, 02:57 AM)Momo26 Wrote: While this thread is clearly dying, looks like sympathy for homelessness in the region has reached a new low
https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...ed_at_the/
This entire forum seems to be dying. Which is sad...just at a time when there are increasingly few online communities that aren't reliant on the good graces of tech oligarchs.
Dying? I think the rumours about this forum's death are rather exaggerated. Posting traffic is lower at the moment, but it's quite understandable given the reduced construction activity.
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Nah, this forum is more or less dead. It's not really related to development proposals and all that. Now, it's just a tiny handful of people at this point. There's nothing to bring anyone here since there are many ways to follow development updates and more instantaneous ways to have a conversation with people of all viewpoints, which offer more free and neutral discussions. Discussions about anything now always end up taking a similar side/point of view, since most people here share the more or less exact same opinion and people who think outside of that little cube get told they're wrong, uneducated, unempathetic, fascists, racists, homophobic, right wing etc. There is an obvious slant towards middle-upper class, urban, white, neoliberal capitalist demographic within the discourse, which turns the vast majority of people off.
It started off alright and fun, with lots of differentiating views and opinions on what was happening in the region but turned into this tiny echo chamber of maybe a dozen regular users. That's nothing to do with how the forum was administrated by Spokes, of course, he kept it up and paid the bills all these years. It's down to the culture that was fomented and moulded by a segment of regular users.
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