Ok, I've had ENOUGH!

Pressure is mounting against Occupy Calgary as temperatures drop and the city pushes for protesters to vacate Olympic Plaza by today.  (which they have been occupying ILLEGALLY)
The city said it needs to clean the square and prepare it for winter in advance of a Muslim Heritage Day festival scheduled for the weekend.
“We’re hoping they will be responsive to our requests and that they will recognize that if they truly are the 99 per cent they are purporting to be, they will agree to leave if another eligible group needs to come in and needs to use the park,” said Tom Sampson, the deputy chief of the Calgary emergency management agency.
If the group does not vacate, Sampson said the city would evaluate the harm they may be doing to the park before deciding on a more aggressive eviction.  (evaluate the harm?  How 'bout y'all grow backbones and boot their asses out of there?)
“That would be our very last thing. And even having said that, I don’t think we want to go there.”
Meanwhile, a second Occupy Calgary encampment on St. Patrick’s Island has also vowed to stay put, despite nighttime temperatures that are dropping below the freezing mark.
Comprised mostly of homeless people, organizer and former mayoral candidate Paul Hughes said the group is open to leaving the park but the city has not met the group’s demands. Most of the island protesters’ requests are focused on housing for the homeless.  (Hope you never decide to run again, the electorate have a very long memory.)
He said he would like to see nearby empty buildings opened to the Occupy crew before temperatures dropped to dangerous lows.
“I have public health concerns and I have food born disease concerns,” he said as he occupied the park for a 19th straight day. “The city has taken the attitude that they want us to live like animals.”  (You chose the situation that you're living in right now, how come the law-abiding, tax paying citizens in this city should provide you with a warm dry spot?)
The prospect of below-freezing nights and imminent snow flurries has worried homeless advocates.
“My concern is staying outside in the winter in extremely cold weather is very dangerous,” said Tim Richter the CEO of the Calgary Homeless Foundation.  (It's not even that cold out yet, wait for another couple of months.)
“Every year we know people get hurt. There are missing digits and whatnot from frostbite.”
The homeless foundation is in the middle of a 10-year plan to provide housing to all of Calgary’s homeless population, he added. But these programs take time.
“Why would the 50 or so people who have chosen to camp out there be put in the queue ahead of the 2,000 people who are in the shelter?” Richter asked.
In the meantime, the city’s emergency shelters do have space.
“It’s a crummy choice for them to have to make between the poor choice of being in a shelter, which I don’t think anybody would enjoy, or the dangerous choice of being outside when winter comes.”
Yet Occupy Calgary protesters seem to be choosing the latter option. Several homeless people camping at Centenary Park said they would cope with the cold and preferred sleeping outside to the drop in centre.
Lisa Hicks, who has been homeless on and off since she was 13, said she’s spent three winters outside.
The habitually homeless have developed tactics for surviving; they elevate their sleeping bags on cardboard and surround their makeshift homes with foam and leaves.
Hicks said the tents could be cosy if you line them with thick blankets, or use heated rocks in burlap sacks.

“Sometimes I’ve used a little blow torch,” she added, although she wouldn’t recommend the practice as it’s unsafe.
Hicks said she can’t make rent on her disability cheques.
“I’m down here for the cause.”

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