Johnathan Simkins
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LETTER: Latest police investigation a witch hunt: former chief
TBNewsWatch
71Mark…in how many of those cases, many of which were re investigated 2,3 and 4 times was initial result found to be incorrect? The answer would be none. I’m curious if you’d like an investigation as to why nearly 500 people have needed to be saved out of that river by cops and firefighters who risked their lives to save them? If First Nation leadership really cared they’d be looking to figure that out.
5- Johnathan Simkins
FWFN blindsided by Kakabeka generating station redevelopment
TBNewsWatch 63Love it. Keep building and ignore the complaints from the peanut gallery
7- Johnathan Simkins
LETTER: Mayor Boshcoff’s “feelings over facts” approach harms us all
TBNewsWatch 64Mr. Wilson, while your stats regarding homeless individuals who are indigenous is accurate you intentionally or unknowingly ingnore that many of these individuals came here with no housing and become the cities responsibility according to some. This needs to be addressed as we cannot be responsible as a city. We also need to talk about the individuals who have been BCR’d (band council resolution) which kicks members out of their First Nation for various reasons and they are not allowed back. Those individuals come here and again have no where to go. The only way any progress can be made on these issues is if everyone is able to have conversations based on all the facts not just the ones that help a particular side or viewpoint
3- Johnathan Simkins
LETTER: City homeless services expansion and the welfare magnet effect
TBNewsWatch 61When an individual provides examples and facts in support of an argument and all your able to do is accuse him of “limited intelligence” and a baseless accusation of a privileged upbringing you make it very obvious who lacks intelligence between the two of you.
4- Johnathan Simkins
Child struck by stray ball at Chapples Golf Course
TBNewsWatch 56Glad to hear the boy is going to be ok. The idea that something needs to be done is a little silly. Your fully aware a golf course is right there, of course the chances of something like this happening are extremely remote and the idea that all sorts of protections need to be implemented at a course that has operated for decades under the current setup is silly.
3- Johnathan Simkins
Wage disparity between emergency services featured on billboards
TBNewsWatch 32I understand that paramedics have dealt with assaults against themselves but to make the statement that they face the same dangers as police is laughable. Yes they respond to the same call but they only enter the scene once police or fire have dealt with the situation. I’m sure their are some examples where that has not been the case but 99.9% of the time they are not dealing with anywhere near the same level of danger and to make that claim is an insult to what police and to a lesser extent firefighters deal with
26- Johnathan Simkins
Officer acted out of frustration when punching man, judge says
TBNewsWatch 55Isn’t it interesting how tbnewswatch frames certain events. It ends the article stating that a separate officer was found for guilty for assault for punching an intoxicated indigenous male but in this incident no race is reported…..why is the race reported in one instance and not the other? Seems again like a certain narrative is being pushed by the media
3- Johnathan Simkins
Are new parking regulations impacting you?
TBNewsWatch 15Call the whambulance. These businesses will be fine. It’s just the typical loud whining crowd in tbay who represent a small minority of people. Welcome to the rest of the world where it costs some money to park
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Forester leaves city due to 'mismanagement'
TBNewsWatch 8Is anyone else wondering how this article came about? This is definitely not standard practice for media to reach out to city employees who have resigned. Also incredibly disingenuous to not provide context to the limb falling on a vehicle, that limb fell as a result of a massive wind storm that rolled through town. Whats the agenda or personal connection here?
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Compassion for homeless underway 'with few resources'
TBNewsWatch 49The guy living in a tent on Riverview for 1.5 years has a cell phone and barbecue….also has turned down indoor housing multiple times….how come no one in the media asks why that’s allowed?
3- Johnathan Simkins
City considering $4 million for temporary shelter village
TBNewsWatch 49Absolute insanity being proposed here. This is not a municipal responsibility!!!! Many people are coming here with no where to live. A massive failure by both the provincial and federal governments (the feds are responsible for on reserve housing and because of decades of failure our city is dealing with that failure) the funny thing is we have a provincial cabinet minister and a federal cabinet minister from our city both of whom have done absolutely zero on this issue.
3- Johnathan Simkins
Letter: Time to get serious about ending homelessness
TBNewsWatch 45Thank god this guy was soundly defeated last election. He doesn’t have a clue. Spend the money once? Are you kidding me, no where in the world has anyone ever solved homelessness, it has existed for as long as there have been people on earth. The LPH is owned by the province and it is now illegal to involuntarily commit someone to a facility unless a judge allows it, you can’t force someone to help themselves. First Nations have largely washed their hands of the issue once their people end up in Thunder Bay without a place to stay and our local federal minister of indigenous services has been silent, our other provincial minister Kevin Holland has never found an issue he’s not happy giving no comment on and that co timers here. Weak leadership in all 3 levels of government locally at the moment. The onus is on the province and the feds with this issue.
6- Johnathan Simkins
Hajdu 'thrilled' to see city addressing homeless crisis
TBNewsWatch 47So this is a new issue for Hajdu and she’s not aware of there is federal funding available? Seriously? We know 80% of homeless are indigenous, she’s the federal indigenous minister……did anyone ask her what she’s done to this point, which is clearly zero. At least powlowski has the guts to actually take a position, the relationship between those two is hilarious, her ego rivals trumps
4- Johnathan Simkins
LCBO workers fighting to protect public revenue and "good jobs"
TBNewsWatch 25lol benefits, pension. Zero skills required. This is why stuff costs so much in Canada
25- Johnathan Simkins
SIU terminates investigation into Thunder Bay Police
TBNewsWatch 45The cop(s) should be able to sue this guy for putting them through an investigation. Probably doesn't have much but I'm getting so sick of cops being punching bags for criminals.
5- Johnathan Simkins
Premier to visit city on Thursday
TBNewsWatch 41The property is large, the problem is only a fool would want to take on the asbestos filled decaying beyond repair lph building. The demolition of that building would be 10’s of millions of dollars. Why would the city take on that liability?
7- Johnathan Simkins
GFL to work with people concerned about new recycling carts
TBNewsWatch 31This is crazy that this “issue” is being given coverage. This exact bins are used all over the province and country…….are we pretending that somehow we have some extraordinary circumstances that other communities don’t? Please stop making this a story
16- Johnathan Simkins
Municipal Sunshine List membership jumps to
TBNewsWatch 24Such an outdated threshold. It’s only clickbait now.
22- Johnathan Simkins
City pre-qualifies potential builders of new indoor turf facility
TBNewsWatch 10Here’s taxes once again misleading people about the state of city infrastructure to serve his own purposes. Maybe next election you’ll finally learn the voting public sees through your misdirection, time for a new strategy
35- Johnathan Simkins
Local restauranteurs say evening parking fees hurt business
TBNewsWatch 9Everywhere else in the world it costs money to park. Why should tbay be any different?
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