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Vancouver Homeless Death toll at 2
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by kate | December 19, 2008 at 04:36 pm
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We all read this morning about Tracey, the homeless woman who burned to death last night when trying to warm herself over a candle. I am now posting this via David Eby's blog, about the fact that there was another death which didn't make the news, which happened on Tuesday.
From Stephanie, a regular reader and plugged in DTES resident, worker and observer:I'm sorry to report this, but there was a death Tuesday night that didn't make the media - I found out about it Wednesday night from a colleague who works for an agency that serves people with mental illness. Three people went to sleep together, and only two of them woke. Apparently the young man who died was here from up north and had only been in town four or five days.
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at 17:14 on December 19th, 2008
When the weather gets as cold as this, we need to have more emergency shelters and cold weather beds open to accomodate everyone, even if they have pets as I know that some homeless don't want to spend the night in the shelters because they can't bring their pets. This needs to be changed so that no one needs to suffer a similar fate to these people described here.
at 23:21 on December 19th, 2008
There is no easy fix to the homeless problem and in this freezing weather it becomes deadly. Vancouver new mayor and council are heading in the right direction by trying to make available temporary shelter .
Vancouver's downtown east side has many other problems that are not easy to address and the new council has their work cut out for them.
at 18:12 on December 19th, 2008
it really sad to read this
at 18:17 on December 19th, 2008
it really sad to read this and it not happen in the sdeveloping country..
at 18:18 on December 19th, 2008
It really makes that government advertising slogan -- "Best Place on Earth" -- seem pretty hollow. This is very sad.
at 20:11 on December 19th, 2008
This is terribly sad. Thank you for sharing this underreported story.
at 14:01 on December 28th, 2008
Every year good people die only because they are poor or mentally or physically ill in our streets.
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