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It's charitable. Cold snaps in Prairies can pretty easily hit -35, dropping down to -55 with windchill. You'll get frostbite on exposed skin in 2 minutes at tho
by somerandomqaguy 2y ago
It's charitable. Cold snaps in Prairies can pretty easily hit -35, dropping down to -55 with windchill. You'll get frostbite on exposed skin in 2 minutes at those temperatures.
Most homeless will either take stay in one of the shelters available in the cities, or sneak onto the many freight trains heading towards the cities with milder climates when it starts getting cold. They'll head back when it starts to warm up again. A bus ticket is just enables the journey to be a lot more comfortable.
- drjasonharrison 2y agoCharitable! Hah. The process was operated more as a "don't provide shelters for these lazy bums, send them elsewhere." https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/12/can-d22.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/12/can-d22.html "In a 16-month period in 1993-94, the province’s welfare rolls were cut almost in half. One tactic used was to offer recipients a one-way bus ticket to leave Alberta."