Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow on Thursday outlined some of the city's next steps to try to find housing for refugee claimants who were previously camped outside a downtown shelter intake office.
As dozens of refugees and asylum seekers continue to camp outside a downtown Toronto shelter, a group of more than 20 advocates is calling on the head of Toronto's shelter system to resign over "repeated mismanagement" that they say has exacerbated the crisis.
Some 200 refugees and asylum seekers who had been living on the street in downtown Toronto are now staying at a church in North York, while the federal government committed another $97 million to help the city house an influx of newcomers.
The emergency allocation of funding comes in response to public outcry over hundreds of African and Afro-Caribbean refugees that have been sleeping on Toronto’s streets for weeks.