http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/hintonburg/ Taking Back Aboot One Eh At A Time Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:17:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/hintonburg/#comment-11146 John Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:42:07 +0000 http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/?p=553#comment-11146 Hi, I just read this now. Thanks for sharing your stories about life back in the day in Hintonburg. While I'm a Centretown resident (and have been for many years now), I also used to live in Hintonburg back in the early 1990s so I remember the flavour of things back then. I guess that for me (in spite of experiencing several break-ins, street violence, etc.) part of this is as you say - sometimes part and parcel of living in the urban core of a city. Anyway, I just wanted to let you that none of those of us who are opposed to this shit law, at least among those who are organizing against it that I'm aware of, are or were part of the gentrification or vigilante / 'false gun reports' club. For my part I've been fighting the NIMBY crowd for all my adult life because of the self-interested and 'holier-than-thou' perspective that they tend to have. Some of us who have more of a live-and-let-live philosophy (which cuts both ways, of course) organized to provide an alternative voice on this that was missing. But as far as I know, the gentrifiers who don't give a shit about people's housing rights are still alive and well and living in Hintonburg (and elsewhere), and the HCA still supports SCAN and similar measures. Anyway our point is the same as yours - we don't need these kinds of Orwellian laws to solve problems. Hi, I just read this now. Thanks for sharing your stories about life back in the day in Hintonburg. While I’m a Centretown resident (and have been for many years now), I also used to live in Hintonburg back in the early 1990s so I remember the flavour of things back then. I guess that for me (in spite of experiencing several break-ins, street violence, etc.) part of this is as you say – sometimes part and parcel of living in the urban core of a city. Anyway, I just wanted to let you that none of those of us who are opposed to this shit law, at least among those who are organizing against it that I’m aware of, are or were part of the gentrification or vigilante / ‘false gun reports’ club. For my part I’ve been fighting the NIMBY crowd for all my adult life because of the self-interested and ‘holier-than-thou’ perspective that they tend to have. Some of us who have more of a live-and-let-live philosophy (which cuts both ways, of course) organized to provide an alternative voice on this that was missing. But as far as I know, the gentrifiers who don’t give a shit about people’s housing rights are still alive and well and living in Hintonburg (and elsewhere), and the HCA still supports SCAN and similar measures. Anyway our point is the same as yours – we don’t need these kinds of Orwellian laws to solve problems.

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