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THUNDER BAY — Provincial announcements around housing and strong mayor powers hogged the spotlight at a recent conference of Ontario municipalities, but members of Thunder Bay’s delegation say the meeting also delivered important headway on issues like addictions and guns and gangs.
The city’s AMO delegation included Mayor Ken Boshcoff, Couns. Kristen Oliver and Shelby Ch’ng, and city manager Norm Gale. Coun. Brian Hamilton also attended as a representative of the District of Thunder Bay Social Services Administration Board. “We still need to work on some details about that, but we are receiving two full-time police officers to help us deal with guns and gangs.”
Local health groups champion safe sobering site Oliver said she was cautiously optimistic Minister of Health Sylvia Jones had proved receptive after a discussion with Thunder Bay delegates around a safe sobering site proposed by local health organizations. The proposed safe sobering site is separate from a mental health and addictions crisis centre that local health groups have also proposed, and that local leaders have said is badly needed — but has struggled to attract provincial funding.
It called on the government to immediately increase social assistance rates, increase the supply of deeply affordable community housing, and continue to increase base funding for the emergency shelter system through the Homelessness Prevention Program.
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