To most of us a shopping cart is a convenience, something we use for a short time while buying groceries. But for many homeless people, those shopping carts are a place to store all their worldly belongings.
That’s why there is outrage from that community after by-law officers seized nearly two dozen carts in the Leon avenue area of Kelowna. The city says the carts had to go because they were blocking the sidewalks. They say the crackdown is nothing new. But as Kelly Hayes reports, some of the homeless dispute that claim.