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.