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Encampment Support Network call for public statement against removal of encampments – SHJN Statement

December 4, 2020May 3, 2021

The Encampment Support Network has put out a call for various groups with a unified voice to make a public statement against the removal of encampments. See the flyer below for more details. Please send the call out to your various networks and organizations to ask that they support this action.

SHJN Public Statement on Encampments

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cathyacroweCathyCrowe@cathyacrowe·
29 Jun

More specifically @dixon_hall I recommended @RobinBPotts (the new local city councillor) and @ChiefPeggTFS immediately get involved. This is the kind of thing you could actually call 911 for requesting Fire Services to attend. https://twitter.com/shjnetwork/status/1541897136350134272

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It is being reported that the The Bond shelter-hotel is breaking fire code. Please follow this thread. https://twitter.com/BondResidentsTO/status/1541875394504265728

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SHJNetworkShelter and Housing Justice Network@SHJNetwork·
28 Jun

It is being reported that the The Bond shelter-hotel is breaking fire code. Please follow this thread.

Voices from The Bond@BondResidentsTO

Fire Code (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/070213);

Maintaining access free of obstructions:

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ImpacTorontoIMPACToronto@ImpacToronto·
20 Jun

In spite of insistences from each that they didn't decide these things together, there was a major argument between Toronto Corporate Security and Toronto Police over securing fence.

In the link here: https://factchecktoronto.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/1-dwayne.pdf

Including the image below, part of the argument: 1/

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ImpacTorontoIMPACToronto@ImpacToronto·
20 Jun

Police and City officials, as so often, tried to deny knowledge at Trinity Bellwoods (and later at Lamport) that they used chemical attacks against unhoused people and their supporters.

They knew.

Link to more full discussion with Councillors: https://factchecktoronto.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/5-cook-to-councillors.pdf 2/

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SHJNetworkShelter and Housing Justice Network@SHJNetwork·
21 Jun

Imagine, just imagine if the Toronto Fire Department followed these Coroner’s recommendations like other City’s have? (ie Winnipeg(How many lives would have been saved? The inquest was June of 2018. 4 years ago.

IMPACToronto@ImpacToronto

Has the Toronto Fire Department been politicized?

The Grant Faulkner Coroner's Inquest recommended distributing "safe heat sources" for encampments.

City and Fire Dept have refused, even as other Canadian jurisdictions have done so.

Their reasoning:

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