The anniversary of my Dad's death from #covid cardiac arrest is coming up again in June. If anyone wants to support me & my family with our remembrance of my Dad & also help support us in long battle for justice from unmasked #SaanichPolice - please add me on your Signal - phoenixserenity.54

I'd like to compile a bunch of audio messages & any kind of artwork for this year's ceremony of beloved remembrance for my Dad. He died after getting infected by unmasked staff in local hospital. Unmasked cops, including the lead cop, Jason Whittaker - who is president of the SPD union abused us. I also want to compile something to let Saanich PD know - I am not fucking letting this go.

Please record:
Fuck you, Jason Whittaker & add whatever you want to rest of audio recording.

Please create Fuck You, Jason Whittaker or similar messages to #Saanich Police & tell them what you think of their antimasking egotistical loser of a 'leader' they chose to represent them.

Just made my monthly phone call to shout at #SaanichPolice to remind them I will NEVER FORGET how their #policeUnion boss led team on night my Dad died & refused to put a mask on & refused to leave our home despite first arrival cops & paramedics determining it was a full medical cardiac emergency requiring ZERO COPS. I WILL NEVER STOP REMINDING #SAANICH PD HOW THEY COMPLETELY FUCKED UP & TRAUMATIZED US MORE ON NIGHT MY DAD DIED!!!

#StopStreetSweeps #HumanRights

Street sweeps of the homeless are just another form of taxpayers funded, state sanctioned, social murder. These inhumane actions have never worked to alleviate homelessness crisis, nor lowered crime rates, nor have they improved our community safety as a whole. People die from street sweeps. We have desperate needs for both more social & transitional supportive housing for folks living at & below poverty lines. We have desperate community needs for mental health & addictions recovery/support services to be funded better & access to services be fast-tracked. There's long waiting lists for folks seeking help & that's been an health care issue for decades - under 2 swinging door governments. There's still too much stigma & ignorant judgements towards our most marginalized citizens.

A society that chooses to judge, ignore, dehumanize & ostracize the most marginalized folks within it, is a sick society. It really does take a village of diverse kind citizens to help heal it. You can always make a small ripple of difference to help out in your own local area

We need more #SocialHousing.
We need our local, provincial & federal governments to stop using the term "affordable housing" because it's just PR crocktalk to avoid funding more social housing for elderly & disabled folks on low fixed incomes, in addition to more social housing for low income families & individuals, living at or below poverty lines.

Politicians love to use the "affordable housing" term a lot. It makes it sound like they may care, to the public. Yet, their idea of affordable is out of reach for citizens who are poor. They don't really care about poor people. It's not affordable if only privileged folks can afford to rent.

Call out your governments who aren't investing in much social housing developments. We are in a housing crisis. People need access to more social housing - immediately.

In #VictoriaBC - you get in trouble from bylaw officers if you cook/feed the poor & houseless folks in Summer. You don't get in much trouble & usually left alone in cold, freezing weather in Winter because bylaw officers won't patrol much when conditions are miserable out. I learned that from past lived experiences when trying to cook outside to feed #hungry & #houseless folks.

I wouldn't feel the need to keep trying to feed people here if our governments, & our society as a whole, didn't treat houseless folks like they're not human & not deserving of kindness, compassion & understanding. Some of us citizens have got in trouble for trying to feed people - when the people trying to punish people like me aren't doing much to help feed & house the folks who need to be fed & housed the most.

I'm not a criminal. The heartless governments & ignorant people who #stigmatize hungry, houseless folks, while doing shit all to help out, are the real criminals in our society.

I will ALWAYS try to feed the hungry, without judgements. I hope more people will also go out to feed the hungry, without judgements. We - the grassroots citizens, who care - are local humanity in action. We need to keep trying to help folks in our own communities, as much as we can. We need to keep resisting the fascists who try to destroy our efforts.

Cruel fascists are no benefit to any community. Whether they're elected officials or not. The houseless are part of all of our communities. They don't deserve to be ignored & treated like lesser than humans.

Two changes that could change all local #MunicipalGovernment systems for the betterment of all citizens:

1. #BanCorporateLobbyists - corporate lobbyists are awfully corrupting at every level of government. Municipal governments are certainly not immune to that

2. Ban all mayors from chairing or being on any municipal #PoliceBoards - it's a huge conflict of #PublicInterest to have public elected #mayors sitting as chair on any local police board. It's ripe with corruption. It leads to more unnecessary #PoliceFunding & decreases more beneficial #CommunitySafety funding.

Demand that your municipal, provincial & federal governments include #PeopleWithDisabilities as part of #ClimateCrisis caused #NaturalDisasters & #EmergencyEvacuation planning. We are almost always left out of these critically important #EmergencyPlans - we deserve to be considered & included. We are all part of the communities we live in. We don't deserve to be treated like an afterthought.

All levels of governments need to consult with us & learn from us a lot more. All levels of governments need to learn to heed our very valid concerns. We don't need fluffy PR shit. We need to be included in decision making processes. NOW.

#HouseTheHouseless #HousingFirst

My dentist's office is 2 blocks away from the street encampments on Pandora in downtown #VictoriaBC. My dentist has provided a lot of free dental services to many of the #houseless folks who live in tents on this busy street. I wish everyone was as kind & compassionate.

#YYJ is a bourgeois government city & capital city of BC. There's so many empty buildings all around downtown core & also around the surrounding municipalities - which could be used as housing for many houseles individuals & houseless families.

Much of the so called new 'affordable housing' developments being built/built very recently are totally out of range for many folks who aren't even houseless. There's more than a few houseless folks who have either PT or FT jobs too. #StopHomelessnessStigma & #StopHouselessStereotypes

Please keep putting pressure on your local, provincial & federal governments to fund more housing for houseless citizens.

Please don't be cruel to houseless folks & help them, if you can. Almost everyone is only a few paycheques or one horrible life changing accident away from being houseless.

Be kind You should never be looking down on anyone with less than you - unless you're giving them a hand up

Good news! Unanimous vote for quick build bike and roll lanes on Shelbourne in Victoria (to connect Haultain bike and roll route with Saanich's new protected lanes on Shelbourne). https://www.cheknews.ca/victoria-council-asks-for-quick-build-bike-lanes-on-shelbourne-before-summer-2025-1188984/ #yyj #yyjpoli #yyjbike

Downtown housing opens for people experiencing homelessness in Victoria

The six-storey building features 46 studio units

The six-storey building is called the Juniper and features 46 studio units located at 1176 Yates Street

https://www.vicnews.com/local-news/downtown-housing-opens-for-people-experiencing-homelessness-in-victoria-7115756