this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
39 points (91.5% liked)

Canada

10792 readers
332 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

It seems so simple. So basic of an idea that you wonder why it has not been implemented yet.

It is involuntary care.

As communities across the province grapple with street disorder and a sense of insecurity, involuntary care is seen by many as a solution. Politicians of all stripes have offered it up to concerned residents and businesses as a path forward.

The problem is it is unlikely to be what people are expecting. The expectation is that it will be a panacea; the reality will be quite different.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Nobody thinks involuntary care will fix anything except having to see homeless people. The people advocating for involuntary care know what they're doing and they're despicable. If this doesn't work they'll just send them to jail.

They also know that involuntary care and jails are MORE expensive than housing. They don't care. Suffering is the point.