Today's letters: Drug problems in the ByWard Market are driving people away

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And here lies the ongoing problem of council after council, the one that keeps us a class “B” capital city: Ottawa never sees the entirety nor deals with the roots of any social problem. In this case, safe-injection sites are only part of the solution. They do a little bit, then often hand the ball to a private interest such as a Business Improvement Area or a landlord. The problem is getting and keeping people off street drugs. That takes creativity. That takes primary education about drugs.

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Today's letters: Drug problems in the ByWard Market are driving people awaySaturday, Aug. 27: On the city\u0027s refusal to confront the roots of social problems\u003B Sweden in NATO\u003B and public servants who don\u0027t work. You can write to us too… No, what we are told by the media is some dudes role playing in an empty church are driving people away, not the drug addicts with discarded needles, or the gun violence or the thefts Clean up the Market. This is a pretty disingenuous title.
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