City of Victoria streamlines impounding rules, drawing conce

The City of Victoria has made changes to its impounding process as it grapples with an increasing load of items picked up off the streets — but poverty advocates are raising concerns that they give too much power to bylaw officers to throw away the belongings of unhoused people.

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