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Research conservatively estimates that 35,000 Canadians experience homelessness on any given night, with an average of one person sleeping outdoors for every five individuals staying in a shelter. As an occupational therapist with front-line experience working on a community mental health team in Toronto, I have witnessed peoples’ daily battles with discrimination, surveillance and policing. And my experiences have taught me that compassion in Canada often depends on who you are or how you a...

Toronto mobilizes parks ambassadors to clear encampments Toronto mobilizes parks ambassadors to clear encampments Housing activists say theyve noticed increased "surveillance" of people living in parks By Julia Mastroianni Photo Courtesy Ginger Dean Parks ambassadors, in the yellow vests, called on Streets to Homes workers and the police to approach encampment residents under the Gardiner Expressway in 2020. Around the start of COVID-19, at an encampment on the property of Holy Trinit...

Downtown resident Edwina Taborsky has watched a large blue tent structure take up residence in St. James Park, near King St.

Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. The TTC has been making an effort to be more diverse and inclusive, which has included examining the ways in which systemic racism plays into its day-to-day operations And, unfortunately, new data from a third-party review into enforcement on public transit in Toronto has found that there has indeed been severe racial inequity, especially when looking at who is being stopped by fare ...

Posted: Apr 03, 2021 1:00 PM ET | Last Updated: April 5 Toronto Public Health says the city cannot make referrals to the shelter hotel at 45 The Esplanade because it has a COVID-19 outbreak. After the outbreak was declared, the city paused its plans to clear encampments in parks.(Sam Nar/CBC) The city of Toronto has paused its plans to clear encampments in parks next week following a COVID-19 outbreak at a shelter hotel where the city had been offering space to unhoused people. Toronto Public ...

Posted: Mar 31, 2021 11:03 PM ET | Last Updated: April 1 In a six-page letter addressed to Mayor John Tory and four city councillors, Mike Layton, Gord Perks, Joe Cressy and Kristyn Wong-Tam, the lawyers say they are prepared to take legal action if the city dismantles encampments.(Paul Smith/CBC) A group of lawyers in Toronto urged the city on Wednesday to call off its plans to clear encampments, saying such evictions would violate the rights of unhoused people living in parks during the pande...

City launching new program to help those living in encampments move to secured spaces in hotels by News Staff Posted Mar 16, 2021 11:05 pm EDT A homeless encampment is pictured in Toronto on Thursday December 10, 2020. With Torontos shelter system running at its capacity of 6,000 beds, and despite the city having moved over 2,000 people into permanent and temporary housing, there is an estimated 1,000 people sleeping outside in the Toronto. Recently the city announced that it estimates 600 ...

City of Toronto secures space in hotels for every person living in 4 priority encampment sites The city says it now has enough space to move every person living in four major Toronto encampments into emergency shelters set up in hotels across the city — and its launching a new program that will help them make the transition.  Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Mar 16, 2021 7:28 PM ET | Last Updated: March 16 A complex of insulated shelters and tents is pictured in Alexandra Park, in Toronto...

Toronto is launching a new initiative to help people living at some of the city’s biggest encampment sites move into city-run hotels.

Toronto is launching a new initiative to help people living at some of the city’s biggest encampment sites move into city-run hotels.