The cheque's in the mail

A few months ago, the Tories axed a billion dollar mittful of government programs to make Stephen Harper feel like a big man, and to pass out tax cuts to their rich friends. Among those programs was the Supporting Communities Partnership Strategy, which funds 23 social service agencies in the Lower Mainland. Supporting Communities is supposed to be replaced with something called the Homelessness Partnering Strategy, but Ottawa isn't saying when the money is going to be released.

According to federal sources, the money is supposed to be released by the end of the year. Given the tight-fisted and belligerent nature of the Conservatives towards people at the margins of society, that would be when hell freezes over. If people in the Vancouver area thought this winter has been awful...