Lucky Honu

You are looking at someone's home- yes that's right, the pile of a sleeping bag and things under the stairs of this warehouse. That's the scariest picture I can imagine in one of the richest provinces of Canada.  This is in Edmonton, where the average winter temperature is -15º C. Low temperatures of -34º C occur on average three or four times per year. The Edmonton Joint Planning Committee on Housing has been working hard to keep count of the homeless and plan services.  But last fall, more than 200 people were living in a tent city on the south side.  What happened to them over the winter? Now that the frost is gone, Edmonton's Mayor has vowed to prevent a new tent city from cropping up in the warm weather.  Does anyone care?

Recently 500 ducks were killed when they landed in a oil tar sands tailings pond.  It was all over the media, and yes it was terribly sad and should have been prevented.  However, last year 27,000 women and children were turned away from women's shelters here in Alberta.  Where is that in the news?!  I just hope that home we see pictured above was not one of their homes. 

Okay.  I'm off to look at a picture album blog and try to think about something else.