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Recommendation 3:
Implement directives related to the confiscation of belongings from people who rely on public space, which recognize that this practice has continued potential for harmful and discriminatory impacts.
- In the rare event that belongings must be confiscated, directives should clearly detail how City staff are to protect the rights and dignity of those who are impacted, including rights to procedural fairness.
- City staff must provide at least 24 hours of advance notice prior to seizure.
- If someone’s belongings are justifiably confiscated, City staff must provide a receipt that details what was taken, and clear instructions on how to retrieve personal belongings.
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Recommendation 4:
Implement cross-cultural marketing that is specific to programs and workshops, and engage across socio economic and cultural lines.
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Recommendation 86:
Implement better educational supports:
- Expansion of the Head Start program for Indigenous families.
- Guarantee a school breakfast and lunch food program in all public schools that is free, nutritious, and culturally diverse.
- More Indigenous-focused schools with Indigenous teachers, Indigenousbased educational methodology and curriculum, and that is supportive to urban Indigenous students needs and contexts.
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Recommendation 15:
Implement an Indigenous reparations tax on top of property taxes on residential, commercial, and industrial properties, with all revenues going to implementation of an Indigenous poverty reduction plan.
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Recommendation 139:
Immediate independent investigation into the VPD practice of street checks with the goal of ending street checks.
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Recommendation 1:
Identify the needs of different community members to be better able to serve across parallel systems; leaving it solely to the free market will continue to gentrify the area and exacerbate existing cohesion problems.
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Recommendation 19:
Guarantee access to affordable, healthy, and nutritious foods especially fruits, vegetables, and meats in the DTES. This means more community gardens, food banks, nonprofit grocery stores, and providing discount cards for regular super markets.
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Recommendation 203:
Guarantee a 24/7 mental health and addictions counselling program that is low-barrier, drop-in based, available on demand, and includes overnight street-based counselling in the DTES.
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Recommendation 22:
Guarantee a 24/7 Indigenous mental health and addictions counselling program that is low-barrier, drop-in based, available on demand, and includes overnight street-based counselling in the DTES. Also ensure long-term mental health and addiction services, ranging from prevention, early intervention, treatment, crisis care, home visits, and aftercare.
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Recommendation 161:
Gladue is a legal requirement. All levels of government have an obligation to ensure that all Indigenous women in the DTES have timely, appropriate, and high-quality access to Gladue reports when involved in the criminal justice system.
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