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RSS FeedsRosie DiManno: The merit in those safe injection sites? They save lives
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20 august 2018 03:47:56

 
Rosie DiManno: The merit in those safe injection sites? They save lives
(The Star Science)
 


Sunday morning coming down in Moss Park.Where the ragged people go.Turned out, in daylight hours, from mission flophouses. Venturing out from decrepit rooming houses. Picking themselves up from laneways and doorways and park benches. Shaking themselves awake, if barely. Drowsing and drooping over cigarettes burning down to their fingertips.Muttering. Twitching. Trembling. Cursing at apparitions.A man smacks himself in the head. Another, pushing his cart of junk, empty milk jugs banging together, delivers an oratory to a disinterested audience. A woman, her paralyzed left arm hanging uselessly — stroke? — uses the other hand to hold up tatty trousers.Some lie prostrate on the grass, dead to the world. Others take shade under trees, smoking, with wet coughs deep in their lungs.Used syringes are strewn about.A Meals for Humanity van pulls up, the Sikh Sewa Society offering vegetarian food. A line forms — so much of their mean, miserable lives revolve around queuing for alms, for sustenance, for medical attention. A fight breaks out between the orator and a middle-aged indigenous male. Wild swings mostly miss. They don’t really have the energy for violence. But some are, violent. Here, in what is probably the most down-at-the-heels, seedy, squalid corner of the city.It has always been thus, around Queen and Sherbourne Sts., even as the pauper zone has been squeezed by gentrification to the south, oozing condos east and west, and merchants who seize upon cheap rents to open shops, restaurants, home décor emporiums, dental offices, all the services and diversions sought by an ever-expanding, shoehorning populace, young professionals mostly, who want to live downtown but grumble about the shabby rabble who were there first. And this must be remembered — they were there first.Everybody has to be somewhere, take up a bit of space. All over a city of plenty, there are similar urban blights, if maybe not so deeply entrenched, the acutely ...


 
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