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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