Excuse my language, but it's true, literally. An article in yesterday's Vancouver Sun newspaper talked about frustration over homeless people in Abbotsford, B.C., and, by way of illustration, described how Abby's municipal workers more-or-less carpet-bombed one homeless person's campsite with chicken manure. The article cited a separate incident where police pepper sprayed another homeless person's campsite. With the incidents in the press, Abbotsford's Mayor, Bruce Banman, expressed his disapproval over how the municipal workers acted, and Police Chief Bob Rich said his department was investigating the pepper spraying incident. Today, however, The Province newspaper, in their editorial, suggested that Abbotsford had a long history of harassing it's homeless people, which currently are thought to number about 200, in a general population of over 133,000 (2011). Ironically, according to the Wikipedia article, Abbotsford has been named by Stats Canada as the nation's most generous city in terms of donations for nine straight years.
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