'Cultural' problems. It looks like Canada may have taken in too much immigration from 'bad countries'. Violence on the rise in Canada's libraries - CBC News: The National " 'Put the knife down!' A man know waves a knife. Police move in. Video captured in a Toronto public library. Hostile incidents are happening in Canada's libraries more often than you might think. Surprising perhaps for some. But par of the course for many. 'I've seen books thrown at staff. ... I've had to call police for, like, people bringing knives... fighting among each other.' The librarian spoke to us confidentially, worried about repercussions if she speaks out. She's had to respond to aggressive behavior, suspected overdoses, and threats. 'Just profound anger... and we're there. And it's directed at us.' And these incidents are on the rise. CBC News obtained data from a number of public library systems across the country. Between 2022 and 2022, Winnipeg saw a 21 percent increase in the number of incidents. Vancouver, a 14 percent increase. And Toronto, a 71 percent increase. 2,334 incidents total in Toronto. Or about 45 incidents per week, across Toronto libraries last year. The number of suspected overdoses in Toronto's public libraries? Up a staggering 529 percent. 'I've never had to call 911 before for someone I couldn't wake up.' The growing crisis isn't just in urban centers, but in small towns too. In Amherst, Nova Scotia: Chantelle Taylor, Cumberland Public Libraries: 'We've probably called the police more in the last 2 years than we have in the previous 5. UFT professor Siobhan Stevenson (University of Toronto) has researched this trend. She says it's a sign of the times. And that libraries are often the only free place for the most vulnerable people in our communities to go. 'This is not a library problem; this is a political problem, this is a social problem.' She says governments need to spend more money on shelters, affordable housing, and food banks. " Library workers punched, spat on as security incidents rise, data shows , Anya Zoledziowski, Kimberly Ivany, Lori Ward - CBC News, August 23, 2024 At this rate, Canada might have to start shutting down its libraries and public places. Public places are becoming overrun with homelessness and this type of craziness. More than half of this is due to too much migration from other countries.
More and more people are being forced into a situation of homelessness........ ..... a public library is one of the only places where these homeless people can legally go to get warm on a cold day. I do believe that this could be turned around quickly if Mr. Jagmeet Singh would take a serious look at what his predecessor Mr., Jack Layton taught...... Dennis Tate for National Leader of Canada's Conservative Party. "We never should have privatized our debt and turned it over to the private banks, we should have kept it in the hands of the Bank of Canada, at least a major part of it, because then we would have been paying interest back to ourselves." (NDP Leader Jack Layton)
