The Man Has No Name

Off to spend the week with leaders from across the country who are working with CAEH on building systems, data infrastructure, and governance that can create provable community reductions in homelessness.

This will be multiple days of intensive learning, engaging, and networking.

Did anyone else in Halifax or Dartmouth hear that?! I’ll tell you what it was when I’m sitting in my office.

A very long, very loud, simultaneous HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

Leaving Yellowknife in NWT this morning after reviewing a homelessness service provider to provide them with a path forward towards service improvement. I have loved every time I have been able to work in Yellowknife. This is no different.

I don't want to get political, but I answered all of my emails today, and none are unread. #worklife

Well, off to Yellowknife, NWT today to examine one of their shelters with a team of experts in homelessness and indigenous culture. Sometimes this job feels like pushing the rock hopelessly uphill. Sometimes it feels hopeful. This is a hopeful day.

Holy shit. Someone watching their videos on their phone in public was my age! I feel so betrayed. I was very comfortable blaming boomers and kids.

Another day, another time I have to listen to someone's video blasting on their phone.

Once in awhile, I get annoyed and complain that Canadian stereotypes aren't accurate.

Then I have breakfast somewhere with these forks.

I know people who voted UCP purely because they were concerned about a tax raise.

They are paying way more than any tax raise would have been (which wasn't on the table, really, BTW) in the various policy foul ups of this administration now.

#ableg

It finally happened. I left a person on a reply to an email that shouldn't have been.

Nothing too embarrassing, but a lit less formal than I would have liked.

My introduction at #CAEH24 speaking about my experience in homelessness.

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Edmonton to-be municipal political party PACE’s new logo revealed late yesterday afternoon at the official merger announcement with TAPYeg. About 100 people came to the event at the Derrick Golf & Winter Club.

(I wrote about the merger last week 👇🏻) #yeg #yegcc #Edmonton #Alberta #ableg

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

Here's how much Alberta exports to the United States With the United States being Alberta’s top trade partner, sweeping 25 per cent tariffs proposed by President-Elect Donald Trump could have a major effect on the province’s economy.

Almost 90% of the exports #Alberta go to the United States. The Province where Donald Trump's policies are the most popular will be the place the hardest hit.

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Ending homelessness is possible when we work together.

Housing is a human right, and every step forward brings us closer to a world where everyone has a safe place to call home.

We got this.

#endhomelessness #housingforall

The people in #alberta who want control of our education system also believe that the system is failing.

Alberta is 2nd in the world in science and reading, 7th in the world in math.

They have created a boogeyman, created a scapegoat (woke?) now are rolling out their policies to "fix" it.

Dragging an Indigenous led and operated org doing incredible work in his own constituency? What was he thinking?

This is so gross.

"Challenge Authority before Authority challenges you. "

Listening to Peggy Vermette speak at the Community Approaches to Housing & Homelessness Conference in Saskatoon.

#spittingfacts

This is what happens when we violently rip down encampments, throwing all belongings away, all while having ZERO plan for where they can go. Where the F is our humanity. We as a society need to do better. Our provincial government needs to stop cutting the funding and programs they need. #ableg #yeg

During my keynote today at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan's Community Approaches to Housing & Homelessness Conference I posed the below to the crowd.

Is homelessness a choice?

Yes.

But we as Canadians make the choice, they just have to experience it.

Saskatoon, never change.

When you go to a professional conference trade show - what are you actually looking for?

To network?

Find services?

Get new ideas?

Have fun?

What draws you in?

What booths have had you walking away thinking about them for a while?

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A year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s.

I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever.

Here is a snippet of them:

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Just did something I hadn't done since I was a child to begin to correct a major regret in my life - I took a French class. It was stressful, but a little fun. We shall see how this goes.

Great second day at the BC Housing Central Conference 2024 where we are making connections and sharing the good word about our Encampment Response Service and our Training and Consulting Services.

One of the more fun parts of working a booth at a tradeshow is the strange friends you make out of your neighbour booths.

Just chatting over the fence like the old days, just that this fence is a metal form with black cloth hanging from it.

It really is. I just can't understand the thinking that gets you there.

Welcome! So strange question...but what do you know about scurvy and homelessness?

I've landed in #yvr for the @bcnpha.bsky.social Conference and I couldn't be more excited. We will be at booth #28 so feel free to come by and talk training, homelessness, lived expertise, encampments, and so much more.