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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 are perceived. For example, the Ontario Safe Streets Act is meant to keep citizens safe from “aggr...

Toronto mobilizes parks ambassadors to clear encampments Toronto mobilizes parks ambassadors to clear encampments Housing activists say they've 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 Trinity Church in Toronto, residents received certification papers from church leaders verifying they wer...

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 inspectors. According to a new report for which U of T researchers examined customer data over 10 y...

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 Health says the city cannot make any referrals "at this time" to the shelter hotel at 45 The Esplan...