«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a
black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window
into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.
Ania and I went to buy bread and in one block's distance we saw about 15 tales of insanity, drug abuse and poverty: a homeless man with one leg shooting up on the pavement; an old women dragging 50 filthy plastic
bags, vomiting
into the sewer grate; five tranny hookers sitting in a hotel stairwell, wearing nothing but g - strings, making cat calls at the passing traffic; a crackhead walking in circles, talking out loud to no one in front of a fruit stand; little boys, none older than 11, all huffing shoe glue out of
black plastic
bags to get a 10 - minute high; and a group of plump ladies sorting through
garbage in the street, looking for old produce that can be re-bagged and re-sold at discount prices.