Life on the 900 Block of Pandora Avenue is a daily parade of human misery. Victoria is right to confront its encampment issue
A small population of homeless people continue to try and live in tents and makeshift sleeping areas along Pandora Ave. in Victoria , B.C., on Sept. 19.Julian Daly has dedicated his career to helping society’s neediest people. He doesn’t have to go far to find them.
Visit Pandora on a weekday morning and it is easy to see why. A middle-aged woman with bright blonde hair punches at the air, muttering to herself. A young man stands in the middle of a bike lane, slumped over from the waist like a marionette, the posture of someone in the depths of heavy drug use. A sun-browned guy sells packaged blankets boosted from a big-box store.
Fires often break out among the tents and tarps. Fights and overdoses are common. In Kingston, Ont., this month, two men were killed in a violent incident near a local encampment. The effort got a push this summer when a man being treated by paramedics kicked one of them in the face. For a while, first responders refused to go to Pandora unless they had a police escort. In a street sweep, the police seized drugs, cash, knives, air guns and bear spray, making 50 arrests over a couple of weeks.
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