To Whom it May Concern,

     Notes:

     Respect was not shown physicaly, verbaly, or spacialy and must be. The residents Human Rights were violated in these areas, and there were open refusals to curtail these criminal actions. The management and those who oversee these failing facilities have failed to ensure that they operate witin the required norm. I am pressing charges.

     Residents should never be penalised when incidents or situations outside of their active control cause tardiness or other occurances. A proper approach is to be maintained, and is always manditory, when comunicating with the residents. These standards are govorned bt Canadian Law. Allowances for a timely explanation of any such concern of importance were provided on many occasions to the staff and dis-allowed in favor of violating the law and residents such as myself further. It is an important fact to note that proper time periods were not permited to the residents for explanation of issues of importance, if any oportunity was granted at all.

     Also, information that should have remained entirely private was forced publicly, under the false guise of policy, and commit to illegal record, where none should be kept. This is a serious offence and a dangerous abuse of the residents Rights, not only causing harm in act, but later suffering also. This I have witnessed.

     These areas of human freedom, are not to be trod apon in any instancer, no matter what the circumstance, and this has been a regular occurance at the shelter. If there is a matter of importance or a happening of concern to a resident, within normal guide lines, then matters of curfew and meal time must always be flexible for there are Human Rights to be respected in those areas. There were many unjust implifications and improper or false reasons for consequence and punishment at the shelter, also, many people were forced into hunger and to sleep withought proper bedding. There were conditions present in many areas that are serious Canadian Health and Safety Violations.

     Peoples basic survival as well as personal needs should be met and no one should have to spend their personal needs entitlement on food or necesary transportation gaurenteed by the Canadian Govornment such as Police Service needs, any other legal need, or gauranted right of necesity.

     These basic needs have not only been outright denied, but illegal pressures have been forcibly imposed to pry criminaly into the private lives of the residents, and as it concerns me in the most grave fashon, into fragile personal teritory, outside of protection, where information of a sensitive nature has been forced openly from a fragile person of need, and from an area no one has any right to force discussion. This has occured and is commenly forced in front of other residents and members of the public. Sensitive information of this nature taken from residents who have been put on the spot when in need is intolerable, and in instances of emergency where they or another could have suffered extensive, immesurable damages should they not have recieved emergency care and transportation that they did not recieve. Halting these occurances is a must.

     The staff who have violated these residents are in no way qualified to handle information of this type. There is not a reason to ask information of this sort from a person under any circumstance from such a position, a doctors note at some time in the future will always suffice. To demand this type of information of a person in public, with blatent evidence and admission at hand that it will be handled illegaly and not profetionaly, is a serious crime, especialy with claims of authority and qualification to do so. Personal information should through no method, action, or error, ever be made public or forced from the hands of another, or put in those of any unqualified individual.

     Created by this also, are damages exterior to the clients that are not to be ignored, that must be spoken to and compensated for, where serious matters were adversely effected such as police work, and other peoples lives. When people outstep the boundaries of law damage is done to the comunity.

     Freedoms govorned by Article 25, of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as that to the stable right to a proper and balanced nutritional diet, and to be free from discrimination of any kind, have been severely violated. I am a strict vegetarian, and due to the uncontienable complete lack of vegetable protien, and by times, any food at all that did not contain animal products, I starved painfuly and severly in an unallowable way, helpless to deter the staff from forcing people to eat meat when not their choice. Hunger is hard to ignore in the fifth day, as the months progress, it very difficult to maintian life physicaly, and definately, the lack of allowable food within regular dietary limits, is a danger to the residents health safety and a cruel punishment where none should occur. It is commen that with vegetarian food in sight, a person is not allowed to eat it knowing it will help stop the tortuous pains of starvation, because their not "special" and should eat "normal".

     The severely unbalanced meals, with those unallowable, or innedible (due to the physical lack of needed components of the digestive processs), combined with misconduct, and violations of the Health and Safety Standards, contributed to emergencies out of my control. It is intolerable to see young people in tears forced to eat what they believe is wrong and being forced to suffer further if they ask again for their right to "cruelty free food" that is also much healthier. Vegetarians have been proven to live longer than omnivores. A suposedly healthy omnivorous diet in comparison to vegetarianism, is more harmful on average than smoking compared with not smoking. Approximately ten years saved on average compared to seven. Not that the diet of the omniverous variety was within Canadian Food Guide Limits.

     Positions of authority are not permited, and it is a crime, written in Canadian Law, to state needs guarenteed to be covered separately from personal needs, as the purpose of said entitlements that are meant for important personal items such as food, clothing, necesary transportation and sanitary items such as soap towels or face cloth, as the purpose of such, and drawing the personal use of such funds during debate is a crime. Social use of Personal Entitlements is more than permisable it is expected, and these choices are of a private nature.

     No act of labour is permited to be forced as punishment where it is recognisable as an infliction and not a positive, constructive contribution. For egsample, forcing the disabled to labour, forcing tasks in a demeaning, derogatory or negative way wether this infliction be delivered through wrongful tone, speech, aproach, gesture, or address. This crime is more severe and dangerous when dealt as a punishment of the right, proper, or legal action or any other occurance within the rights of, or outside the control of, the private individual.

     These acts are punishable with stiff sentences, large fines, forced compensation, and this is especialy and increasingly the case where the damage is clearly and fully expressed to the court. Negative tone as punishment where none is due is also punishable with stiff and long term sentences, expressly guided by scales marking the severity of negative impact, and corrective time needed, as are many actions present throughout our Social Justice System. Subversive treatment is unfortunately a mainstay prevalent through the Hostel System and repeated attemps at subversion have been made by the staff of Youth Without Shelter. The residents would not be without shelter if these crimes against them were dealt with properly and emediately. This for their protection.

     There are standards of conduct and requirements that are made of all facilities that open their doors as public housing facilities throughout the system, and there are specifics that apply with regards to the housing of youth or children that are to be strictly and always adheard to. Any violation of the basic standards is a serious offence and the offender must be assesed by the courts to see which form of rehabilitation may be appropriate and how to compensate the victims for their losses. Also the violations of commen occurance are of a Human Rights nature in many cases, and people young and old who have commit no offence at all are being forced into starvation where they should have been fed, while having no access to clean facilities, or any direction to them, this with violent harrasment should any person want to eat properly after days of forced starvation and mistreatment, in the said substandard facility, withought proper bedding, outside of Health and Safety Standards, without proper access to entitled basic needs as Canadian Law dictates.

     Leaving so many without access to proper nourishment with unbalanced systems lacking most of what composes a properly balanced and nutritional diet, and leaving them unable to function creates a dangerous situation. Many people are lost to hunger this way yearly, not only are people losing their temper, but many having not been able to function at a normal capacity or even close to one do to forced deprivation of the main and necesary dietary components, become fatigued, prone to danger, severely depressed, and even suicidal.

     It has been proven that this will not happen if basic needs are provided, and their is not an abusive barrier between the people and basic necesities of life such as proper food and water. It is accepted and proven, you can ask doctors and medical scientists that run the tests, that many of the youth lost to accidental death or suicide, a leading cause of death in our country especialy of youth, have been in deep stages of starvation and food deprivation. These are cases of forced starvation, and discrimination against them was prevalent in positions of power. It is evident that these people had been trying to locate their "entitled" dietary needs but have not been permitted them, and from the very source supposed to provide them.

     Easily provable also, is that even with food in their stomach every meal, after these horrible torments and discriminatory violations, it can take days and even weeks to recover to a point of regular sustinance and health on what is concidered a healthy and balanced dietary meal for a person eating properly. After said forced starvation even waiting short periods for a meal can be excruciating, after having eaten proper consecutive meals or what is supposed to pass for them, as the body uses needed nutrients emediately. Any delay in dietary administration causes painful physical and neural dysfunction. Teenagers lost to forced starvation in front of multiple witnesses while the inflictions of cruel and unjust punishment of their right actions, or abusive treatments of no definable cause at all, but still criminaly neglegent actions that can be responcible for actual death of minors. In many cases from the verbal interaction, these individuals can be found to have taunted and abused the victims for years or even their entire lives while transmiting or transfering information illegaly that though not factual and irrelevent, equaled power and control adversly effecting them while the mountain of lies piled higher, misleading any that came to help while these minors were forcibly kept in squalor, and blamed for it too. Though competent to head their own lives they were unable to escape abuse.

     All persons have a right to cleanliness, food, shelter and clothing. If incident's do not permit individuals to match a basic scheduel, allowances must be made and all persons have a full right to privacy regarding personal or medical matters, this should be obvious, and these rights should never be violated. Any person in an emmergency situation has many obvious rights and youth at YWS were haveing these rights violated regularly. They were forced into uncomfortable situations having to share personal matters in front of others that were not qualified and had no right anyway. Not only for an emergency transit fare, but for a place to exist at all. These types of commen and painful violations where a criminal in authority holds food, shelter, or transportation out of reach unless people submit, inthese instances minors had to submit information of a private nature and importance such as medical or other and none of this is forgivable.

     There can be loss of life attributed to such violations of children, youth or any one by such an unskilled and unqualified persistance of crime against fragile boundries, while extracting information that they are not qualified to handle profetionaly at all and that they spread neglegently often with falsity, if w3hat they spread isn't entirely false. The illegal application of pressure I often observed obtains information that is not addmisable as evidence as the traumatic acts of abuse bring about many different painful reactions. The only admisable text is that of the primary offence. Without a legal and properly obtained warrent, on paper, explained properly and within proper legal boundries, there is no position of formal right or any other that allows in any instance the sort of repetative violations of space and person I witnessed at the above mentioned shelter and many others.

     Any afore mentioned required absence can be easily substantiated at a time of convinience in the future that the resident is free from the pressure or trauma of the moment such as in the case of a family emergency. There were youth forced to divulge detailes to people that abused them they should never have had to speak. There is no recovery of such a violation.