It's is an odds on favorite that they voted for No Plan B Miller.....one of his flunkies is their local councillor. Both the mayor and Bussis should stand up and support the drop in center but they won't because this crew are part of cabal that support Miller; waterfront condo owners, island squatters, social in-activists, city unions, etc.
Affluent freeze out homelessBeach residents threaten legal action to stop church's plans for a once-a-week `Out of the Cold' drop-in centre
Joseph Hall
Toronto Star
A Toronto church's plan to feed and house 12 homeless people one night a week during the worst of the winter has been put on hold after residents of a tony Beach enclave threatened it with a legal injunction.
As part of the Out of the Cold program, which is run in churches and synagogues across Toronto, the temporary shelter was to have opened Jan. 8 at St. Aidan's Anglican Church on Silver Birch Ave., at Queen St. E.
But the three-month program has been delayed until at least Jan. 16, when a community meeting will be held to discuss details and other potential sites.
Rev. Stephen Kirkegaard, a priest at St. Aidan's, invoked the Christmas story to describe the motivations behind the shelter proposal.
"There's the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus, and there wasn't any room for them at the inn – they were homeless in Bethlehem," Kirkegaard said.
"Fortunately they were given some shelter that night. So for Christians, it's pretty clear that we're called to reach out to people who are at risk because they don't have shelter."
Kirkegaard said the program was "very modest in its scope" and was to have housed both men and women on Monday nights over a 12-week period.
"If anyone is scared, there is really nothing to be scared of," he said. "And if all we do is save the life of one person, well, that modest project made a big difference."
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