Monday, April 17, 2006

Toronto to Inventory Their Homeless


"Toronto plans to count homeless because they don't know what else to do with them"

The Harpoville Post reports that Canada's largest city, Toronto, plans to spend this Wednesday inventorying their homeless. Toronto's City Hall has decided it needs to know how many homeless they really have so, they've decided to spend $1oo,000 senting teams of counters out onto the streets to count them.

The Harpoville Post spoke to a representitive of Toronto's City Hall who told us, "Well, for starters we know there's a lot of them. I mean you walk into work in the morning and they're all over the sidewalk, you have to be so quite in case you wake them up. Then once they're up it's have ya got a quarter and hey buddy I need some food. We know we've got a lot of them around here but we don't know for sure just how many so, we've decided to count them. I guess it's just something else we can spend money on." We asked if they'll be tagged once counted so they aren't counted twice and he said, "I'm not sure but that's a very good idea. Do you mind if I say it's mine?"

The Harpoville Post reports that in Canada's most expensive city the homeless problem has been ballooning out of control with Government welfare cut backs and climbing rents and utility costs rising so high people have to move out of their homes and live out on the street. The cities food banks and shelters are max'd to the limit with no end in site. They survive on private and corporate donations plus volunteers who offer their time to help the needy.

The Harpoville Post spoke to Beric German from the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee who told us, "This is just a public relations event for the city of Toronto. They already know we have thousand and thousands of homeless, probably hundreds of thousands who rely on the food banks and shelters to live. Shit, I rather they give us the 100,000 dollars they plan to spend on this stupid inventory and guess."

1 Comments:

Blogger Malcolm said...

Thanks James, I guess they had strict orders to count the homeless not the hungry. Why? The former you do in the dark, the latter you got to ask.
Malcolm
Harpoville Post

2:36 PM  

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