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Toronto mobilizes parks ambassadors to clear encampments


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 were allowed to live there.
But Teanna Macintyre, a resident at the time, says city parks ambassadors came by almost daily to try and force everyone off the property. ....

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Lawyers urge city not to clear encampments, saying move will lead to 'prolonged court battles'


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.  ....

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