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Keeping B.C. safe
for poverty pimps

A post-election look at the junkie culture linking addicts,
opportunists, criminals, B.C. Health, B.C. Housing and
community destruction

Greg Klein | November 9, 2024

 

Most Canadians might be transfixed by what happens south of the border, but here’s a belated post-B.C. election roundup of poverty pimp news from Nanaimo.

Yes, Nanaimo. Vancouver’s probably the world’s poverty pimp capital, holding stature comparable to Manchester in the Industrial Revolution, Silicon Valley in the tech sector and Port-au-Prince in misery. But documenting Vancouver vignettes—the really disturbing but increasingly common behaviour that ranges from grotesquely vicious to just plain shitty—would require a full-time staff inured to despair. Nanaimo provides a more manageable microcosm of a really nice place steadily sinking into junkie squalor, spurred on by tax-funded opportunists who profit directly and/or hate normality. So a quick Nanaimo news roundup helps encapsulate B.C.’s destruction.

 

Wanted by police:
Drug dealer and NANDU worker Kerry Wallace Chang.

 

If you see this guy, call 911. He’s a fairly big-time and definitely a long-time purveyor of poison, on the run since his September 20 sentencing hearing. Sometimes, just sometimes, drug-dealing can provoke even a B.C. judge into ordering prison time—regardless of whether the drug dealer works with the Nanaimo Area Network of Drug Users.

That’s the local spinoff of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, both founded by Ann Livingston, whose example suggests that anyone in B.C. with more nerve than intelligence can create one’s own poverty pimp opportunity. NANDU, like VANDU, does little more than advocate drug dealing and drug addiction. Livingston relocated to Nanaimo after her Vancouver success, which also made the inarticulate bubblehead a respected media source with that city’s journalists.

It’s not clear whether Kerry Chang’s still with NANDU, and whether his participation is or was volunteer or paid. But he’s not the only long-time criminal associated with the poverty pimp org.

It was through NANDU that Joseph Raymond Richards, a more traditional kind of pimp, teamed up with a hooker to beat up and rip off johns. A separate assault on a security guard added another charge to the three most recent additions on this guy’s already-lengthy rap sheet. In keeping with B.C.’s bizarre theories of justice, Judge Brian Harvey spared the perp jail time.

Speaking to media on September 18, Richards blamed his actions on his addiction, not himself. His implication follows the doctrine that junkies can’t be held responsible for junkie behaviour.

A junkie who did get jail time, however, was Kyle Gordon Ordway. Manslaughter got him all of two years in addition to pretrial credit, for a total of about three years. It’s really immaterial whether B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Power felt compassion for the second-generation junkie, denigrated his junkie victim or simply followed the Canadian judiciary convention of decriminalizing crime. Her October 28 decision did go along with Ordway’s lawyer, who portrayed the killing as a “near-accident.” The near-accident consisted of Ordway deliberately shoving his girlfriend off a cliff.

The 27-year-old victim came here from the Maritimes as part of Canada’s westward migration of junkies and potential junkies. At one point she helped Ordway beat up another female junkie. She also drew paycheques from two Nanaimo groups as an “outreach worker,” a job title often used by poverty pimps.

 

A photo of Peter Jonathan Cameron Ludvigson circulated
by police with his 2020 Canada-wide warrant for parole violations.
The junkie’s most recent crime wave brought nothing but compassion
from Nanaimo Judge Tamara Hodge.

 

Even luckier than Ordway is junkie serial criminal Peter Ludvigson. He’s one of those really brazen shoplifters/looters who steal openly and repeatedly, even after getting arrested and convicted repeatedly, and then defying every court order, bail condition or probation requirement that comes their way knowing full well they’ll get off again and again.

On October 18 Nanaimo Judge Tamara Hodge proved him right, sending the serial scumbag to Penticton (his choice of location) for “treatment.” The process generally includes a free home and income for life (a standard junkie entitlement). Meanwhile Judge Tamara’s confirmation that the Criminal Code barely applies to career criminals like him explains why career criminals like him exist—and why they comprise an ever-expanding sub-class of Canada’s junkie caste.

Junkie Ludvigson might be playing on Judge Tamara’s naivete (or condescension? ideology? ambition?), since drug treatment can’t work unless the druggie actually wants to kick drugs. And, apart from the controversy of whether opioid addicts can be treated at all, there’s the problem of whether any kind of treatment provided by the “caring” professions can work. Elite flakery has infected psychology and psychiatry as much as the judiciary and every other establishment institution.

One example comes from the Canadian Mental Health Association. It runs a Nanaimo drug-consumption centre that was also a major crime centre, according to local cops.

 

The Canadian Mental Health Association runs this mental health-destroying
drug consumption centre. A large-scale drug bust inside led to the arrest
of two suspects, one an employee.

 

On-premises evidence consisted of a loaded gun, 430 prescription (diverted “safe supply”?) opioid tablets, and $950 along with quantities of suspected meth, cocaine and fentanyl. Arrested on-site were Gerid James Gregory-Allen and Sara Lynn Koshman. A related search at a nearby motel room found more drugs, “an abundance of other weapons” and $15,000.

Koshman and Gregory-Allen now face 33 trafficking and weapons offences.

The addiction-enabling centre, conspicuous for its clientele, their behaviour and related criminal activity, sits directly across the street from constituency offices for NDP MLA Sheila “Situation Tables” Malcolmson and the rarely seen or heard NDP MP Lisa Marie Barron. The CMHA helps junkies remain junkies under contract from the B.C. government’s heavily ideological Island Health authority.

 

Suggesting poverty pimp arrogance, the CMHA
evaded questions about an employee’s criminal charges.

 

Two months before the September 11 arrests Koshman announced on social media that she worked at the centre. Soon after the arrests, CMHA local executive director Jason Harrison denied her statement. When one reporter asked him about Koshman’s social media post, Harrison showed poverty pimp accountability by refusing further comment.

In wake of the arrests and possibly referring to either or both of the accused, a (later unsuccessful) Nanaimo B.C. Conservative candidate stated that B.C. Housing gives drug dealers free homes which they inhabit only the last week of the month, to handle Welfare Wednesday business. That’s highly plausible, given BCH’s twisted priorities and corruption.

As the provincial government’s chief financial backer of poverty pimps, B.C. Housing positively stinks of ethical and likely financial corruption. Yet another fatality hardly enhances its credibility. Amid the background of junkie arson attacks, an apparently accidental October 3 fire killed a resident in Nanaimo’s newest junkie home. Run by B.C. Housing contractor Connective Support Society, it’s enthusiastically supported by local politicians who consider it the paragon for several more junkie residences planned for the city.

 

Just four months after opening, this model for other Nanaimo junkie residences
lost its first resident. Questions remain about staff qualifications and hiring
practices for the operator, the B.C. Housing-funded
Connective Support Society.

 

This one provides upgraded facilities for junkies from another Nanaimo junkie home set up after Nanaimo’s deliberately imposed, poverty-pimp-led junkie invasion of 2017. Neighbours were told the original residence was temporary, to be dismantled after two years. Five years later it’s still there, a testament to poverty pimps’ dishonesty. And there it will remain until that same site gets a permanent junkie residence, a testament to poverty pimps’ community destruction.

B.C. Coroners Service will investigate the Connective fatality, but might face pressure to avoid questions about the society’s tax-funded, unionized babysitting staff, their qualifications and how they got their jobs. Corruption runs easily in B.C. thanks to the lack of checks and balances among all political parties, the courtier media and supposed “activists.”

B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad’s campaign promises included an audit of B.C. Housing. That had been overdue even before the PHS Society scandal of 2014, and the need continues after the Atira Women’s Resources Society scandal of 2022. But Rustad might have been referring to finances alone. Certainly that’s a crucial matter, especially with NDP Premier David Eby’s multi-billion-dollar expansion of BCH, its housing society contractors and of course the union jobs that prop up Eby and his party. But client favouritism and staff hiring practices also need scrutiny. Then there’s the incalculable community destruction caused by BCH colonies of lawless psychos.

B.C. Housing, its empire-building contractors and their unions make up the largest component of the province’s poverty pimp industry. This is the public sector unions’ greatest area of growth and Eby’s strongest power base, the sector he’s been sucking up to since his earliest days as a social justice phony with the Pivot Legal Society and B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

It’s also an aspect of B.C. culture little understood by Rustad and his Conservative candidates. They can’t grasp the industry’s enormity, its function as a means of power for unions and the NDP, and its ideological mission to destroy normality. In fact the Cons often seem to believe the NDP whopper that junkies become junkies due to “un-met housing needs.”

Nor can these rebranded Liberals fathom our society’s decline, demonstrated by both elite flakery and underclass self-ruination.

Probably a small proportion of addicts came that way through prescription pain killers. Too many others had untreated mental illness prior to their addiction. But the spectacle of street life suggests most addicts started out as very stupid, profoundly confused characters who made an imbecilic but increasingly common life-altering decision.

 

Every new addict encouraged by David Eby complements his power.

 

The number of prescription addicts has likely dropped off due to greater medical vigilance. As for untreated mental illness, Eby has done nothing significant to address the problem despite being an MLA for 11 years, a cabinet minister for five years and premier for two years. If there’s an exception, it’s the money he provides for housing societies to hire political activists and their equally unqualified friends as highly paid unionized babysitters.

To the majority of addicts and potential addicts, people with an alarming lack of intelligence and common sense, his government offers an array of inducements. Freebies abound including disability pensions, myriad services, food and other necessities, drug paraphernalia, drugs themselves and the prospect of free homes. Supported by Eby is the judiciary’s extraordinary leniency.

All that encourages very stupid, profoundly confused people to devote their lives to getting high. Every one of these broken wrecks enhances their masters’ condescending sense of superiority. More importantly, new addicts increase the power of opportunists, advocates of big government and ideologues who revel in society’s destruction.