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• Toronto chose expediency over needs of homeless people in park encampments: ombudsman

  Toronto's ombudsman says the city caused undue harm and showed a lack of respect for people living in parks when it cleared three homeless encampments in the summer of 2021.

  Canada

  Mar 24, 2023
  
• Toronto posts new request for private security firm to ‘patrol and monitor’ parks

  The city came under fire earlier this year when it put out a request for proposals to find private security firms to patrol parks.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2022
  
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• Toronto resident at encampment clearing seen in photo of apparent choking by officer speaks out

  'I feel violated. Yeah, I'm just really angry it was a decision they made to use this much violence over something that just didn't need to go there,' Jayme Carter said.

  Canada

  Jul 24, 2021
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• 5 Toronto councillors call for end to ‘violence and extreme show of force’ in encampment clearings

  "You are only moving people experiencing homelessness from parks to laneways, under bridges or into another park," the letter to Toronto Mayor John Tory said.

  Canada

  Jul 23, 2021
• Toronto officials, police under fire for tactics used to clear homeless encampments

  “People were peacefully defending tents and their bodies were used to actually destroy those tents."

  Politics

  Jul 22, 2021