Avenuer
Senior Member
Agreed, and people that continue to complain about Downtown vagrancy, crime, property damage, etc. yet vote for the UCP are hypocrites.
Is there even a 7-Eleven left in downtown? The one he references as remaining is also closed.
Given the location of their wards I'm a bit surprised Coun. Cartmell and Hamilton were selected as city reps for this work. But given it's a UCP task force, maybe that is part of it - just pure and unsubstantiated speculation that probably has no business being made in this forum.Cabinet task force to tackle Edmonton social issues
December 13, 2022 Media inquiries
The Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force will address social issues through a coordinated response between the province, city and local partners.
Addiction, homelessness and public safety issues have affected every community in Alberta, with Edmonton being especially hard hit. To address these issues and build on the province’s recovery-oriented system of addiction and mental health care, Alberta’s government is forming the Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force.
The task force will implement a series of initiatives in the Edmonton metropolitan region as part of a $187-million commitment to address addiction and homelessness in Alberta’s urban centres. In Edmonton, $63 million of this funding will go toward dramatically increasing access to addiction services and supports over the next two years, and $19 million has been allocated to combat homelessness.
“Addiction has become one of the most urgent social issues facing our province, and one of the most complex. This task force will bring community partners together to implement a series of recovery-oriented initiatives, enhancing public safety and improving addiction and mental health care in Edmonton.”
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
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Task force members are:
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
Mike Ellis, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services (chair)
Jeremy Nixon, Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services
Rebecca Schulz, Minister of Municipal Affairs
Chief Billy Morin, Enoch Cree Nation
Chief Isaac A. Laboucan-Avirom, Woodland Cree First Nation
Tim Cartmell, pihêsiwin Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Sarah Hamilton, sipiwiyiniwak Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Dale McFee, chief of police, Edmonton Police Services
Kerry Bales, senior program officer, Provincial Addiction and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services
Graeme McAlister, associate executive director, EMS Operations, Alberta Health Services Edmonton Zone
Susan McGee, chief executive officer, Homeward Trust
Also invited, pending City of Edmonton approval:
Andre Corbould, city manager, City of Edmonton
Joe Zatylny, fire chief, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services
Certainly a political move (statement).'Not approved by city council': Sohi blasts UCP over new Edmonton social issues task force
The Alberta government has a new 12-person team tasked with addressing addictions, crime and homelessness in the capital, but the city's mayor is not happy about how it's being done.edmonton.ctvnews.ca