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by Barry Artiste | March 21, 2009 at 06:54 am
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And this is my fault how? Canadians certainly didn't shove a needle into this woman's arm, and to think bright and cheery surroundings at $600.00 a square foot in pricey digs with a waterfront view among other condos costing a million dollars would have prevented her Drug induced Demise is Stupidity on any part. Build more housing for homeless and more will come and die from all over Canada. Common sense lost on everyone but a few of us who encounter more and more every day!
Put it this way, once these million dollar apartments are built for the homeless, many drug addicts will still die everyday in Vancouver, just in nicer digs!
VANCOUVER -- Money hasn't saved Canada's most blighted neighbourhood, the drug-infested Downtown Eastside. Resources aren't wanting; it's estimated that $1-million is shovelled into the area every day to pay for myriad services and examples of social housing not seen in other communities.
All that money didn't save Wendy Desjarlais. She died there last month, inside her subsidized, roach-infested apartment. A 54-year-old drug addict, Ms. Desjarlais was found in her bathtub. She had been there for days, but no one knew until water began dripping into an apartment below.
Her death was barely noted. Indeed, Ms. Desjarlais might seem just another Downtown Eastside casualty. She'd been alone, in terrible physical condition and in a constant state of paranoia, thanks to years of heavy drug use.
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Barry Artiste
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at 14:52 on March 21st, 2009
Come on Barry! If she lived in a nice waterfront condo she would not have died because the place would have been full of her junkie friends who whould have been there to save her life when she OD'd. Either that or they would have stripped the joing clean while she was doin the funky chicken.
at 16:37 on March 21st, 2009
HA, then if her and all her friends OD and died at her swanky waterfront digs, it would be on a scale of Rev Jimbo Jones style massacre. Thanks for the input