Posted: Jul 22, 2021 8:36 PM ET | Last Updated: July 23
Demonstrators attempting to topple a fence are pepper sprayed by Toronto police officers enforcing an eviction order at an encampment at Lamport Stadium park on July 21, 2021.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Aliya Pabani is just one of many people who think there has to be a better way to handle Toronto s homeless encampments than the mayhem that broke out at Lamport Stadium park on Wednesday.
That s partly because Pabani, a volunteer with a group called Encampment Support Network Toronto, was right in the middle of it she was pepper sprayed while several other demonstrators were hurt as police and the city forcibly cleared the site.
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Housing and tenant advocates are calling on Ontario to keep a ban on residential evictions in place even though the province's stay-at-home order has lifted.
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 pandemic.
In a six-page letter addressed to Mayor John Tory and Coun. Mike Layton, Gord Perks, Joe Cressy and Kristyn Wong-Tam, the lawyers said they are prepared to take legal action if the city proceeds to dismantle the encampments.