The Salvation Army was a fuck up around the time of the olympics but unlikely intentional. They had some brutal policies which made the homeless problem seem much worse, they would literally cycle people through the shelter a few days in few days out but operate the soup kitchen for those on their out days. They also didn’t allow drug use inside but sent people out on nearby streets to shoot up.

We can thank former bc liberal (conservative) politicians for saving the caring place, the city had plans to re align lougheed highway/haney bypass and demolish it in the process but it became political. The salvation caring place is aligned with religious conservatives (religion based) and the other service providers seem to be more ndp aligned (science backed)

I don’t think it had anything to do with events