Opinion: From Vancouver to Toronto, tent city dwellers carry on despite the constant threat of being swept aside

In Toronto, more than 20 years ago, I lived in a shantytown that was then North America’s largest. Then as now, people with no other place to go are villainized – but increasingly, encampments are treated like the new normal

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