Phil Tank: Forget taxes; survey says homelessness top Saskatoon issue

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Phil Tank: Forget taxes; survey says homelessness top Saskatoon issue
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A survey of online panellists in Saskatoon suggests homelessness as the top issue, followed by crime and safety and then road maintenance.

You can see some overlap here with homelessness, housing, crime and addiction all linked to some extent. Add all of them up, and the number is 43 per cent.Article content

As for homelessness, it’s perhaps surprising that it ranks so high in Saskatoon, since we have not had a high-profile mass encampment that prompted police action like other cities, notably Regina onBut it’s proving impossible to ignore the camps along the South Saskatchewan River, including one under the University Bridge that resulted inThe fire department counted 452 encampments up to Aug. 1, on pace to eclipse the record 512 in all of 2022.

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