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@Diana_C_McNally
Jul 20, 2021 • 31 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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It's happening today: #encampment eviction. Members of the public: residents have not requested defence. Watch this space for now, but stay home.
Clearly dozens of officers and security already, plus kettling fences, eight horses. Not a response to "protestors," as @JohnTory might claim.
So far two arrests. Otherwise fairly quiet, as far as state violence can be.
Surveillance camera stationed above the ""HCH" sign, across the street from the park on Bathurst. Apparently went in at least a week ago. Image
Arrest of a resident in progress.
Entire park is fenced off, same tactic as last time: it's not a 'kettling' exercise if you create an exit. Currently only one visible toilet.
"Support."

"Respond, if needed."

Again, dozens of police, 20 - 40 residents. How much does this operation cost?
Why are dozens of cops necessary to support City staff? Or 8 horse-mounted officers?
🚨UPDATE🚨 Come bear witness to #encampment evictions at Alexandra Park. Will also be speaking alongside @DesmondCole, members of @HPAP_Ontario, performance by @cadenceweapon. Details, location TBD, but nearby.
From legal observers: police, security are planning to force out all non-residents, or charge with trespass. No timelines given. Non-resident volunteers aren't here to protest, they're here to support people packing and moving their belongings.
Volunteers are being grabbed and removed from the kettling cage for "getting too close" to police.
Volunteers being thrown out of the kettling cage. How will residents inside be supported to move? Will they be in there alone with police and security?
Residents with their belongings outside the cage. Where are city staff helping them to move? None in sight, only community members and other volunteers here.
My apologies, here comes the "help" for folks being displaced: a garbage truck. Again, no social workers in sight.
Hearing some volunteers were cuffed while being removed from the park. Cuffs taken off once outside the cage, though. At least two volunteers issued tickets for trespassing, comes with $65 fine, 90-day ban from the park. ImageImage
Meanwhile, at @cityoftoronto comms ...
I'll be on @globalnewsto with @KWardTV at noon speaking to what I'm seeing here today. In short? That @JohnTory chose a paramilitary response over a #HumanRights compliant approach to #encampments.
Now @cityoftoronto is denying the press access. Freedom of the press is essential. Shame on @JohnTory @bradrossTO
Setting up. Come down to Ryerson and Queen St., we'll start at 11 am.
@DesmondCole speaking now. "This is not compassion." Image
Thank you, Sam, for your words. 🙏 Image
@TommyTaylorTO speaking the truth.
@cadenceweapon and my good friend Swannie live now.
More @cadenceweapon 🙏🖤
Dreads is speaking about the "homelessness industry" -- it serves the purposes of the powers-that-be to keep people unhoused to keep the industry going. Image
Thank you, Nanook, Isaiah, and Nichole. 🙏
The aftermath: a bulldozer in the background, only a few residents left inside. "No Trespass" signage is prominently displayed. What an absolute waste, and an egregious choice by @JohnTory today.
If you can, get out to @TPS52Div. We want to see our friend @Gruesomebrat released.

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🧵@AMOPolicy has released a devastating report about the state of homelessness in Ontario, which gives us our most accurate figure of how many Ontarians are currently homeless: 81,515 — a 25% increase in two years — of whom 41,512 are chronically homeless. amo.on.ca/sites/default/…Image
As with any exercise in enumerating homelessness, 81,515 is an undercount. However, we can see a sharp rise since 2021, with overall homelessness increasing by 11-14% every year since. Homelessness in Northern Ontario has grown by 204% since 2016 — a clear geographical disparity. Image
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Similarly, homelessness in rural Ontario has increased by 154% since 2016. By contrast, urban homelessness has increased by 11%. While homelessness is increasing overall, rural and northern communities are being hardest hit. Image
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🧵Let's be real. Most people who use drugs are not unhoused. Not every unhoused person uses drugs. Every Conservative narrative that aims to conflate drugs and homelessness doesn't care about the wellness of either unhoused people or drug users. This is what it's really about: /1
ON has no #homelessness strategy. @fordnation touts a $202 mil. investment in the Homelessness Prevention Program, but this ultimately meagre amount of money is just for supports, i.e. staff salaries, in supportive housing — not brick-and-mortar housing. This isn't a strategy. /2
.@fordnation's housing strategy will also see a substantial decline in housing starts, and most of the housing starts the PCs have been taking credit for were initiated under Wynne. We're currently at ½ the housing starts needed to reach the PC's own goal of 1.5 million homes. /3
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🧵 I visited asylum seekers at 129 Peter Street today. How people are being forced to live every day is shocking. We handed out lots of supplies — chicken, sandwiches, fresh fruit, water, Gatorade, menstrual products — but the need obviously far exceeds mutual aid efforts. /1
People are sleeping directly on the sidewalk, exposed to the elements. Security guards on-site won't let people fully cover themselves in tarps in the rain, citing a "security risk." They won't let people tie tarps between the trees to shelter under. People will get sick. /2
There are ≈50 people at 129 Peter St. Only ten people are allowed to shower each day and washroom access is one at a time. Menstruating women told us how difficult it was for them to stay clean under these conditions. Washroom/shower access is also only between 8 am and 8 pm. /3
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Nov 4, 2022
I do not consent to be governed by anyone who treats our constitutionally-guaranteed rights as barriers, or frames our exercising these rights as "illegal." We are not your pawns to manipulate/undermine, @fordnation; we are rights holders, and we do not relinquish these rights.
For children, who were out of class for 27+ weeks due to @fordnation's pandemic mismanagement; who are being used now as a bargaining chip to withhold the rights of education workers who deserve a livable income.
For seniors, whose autonomy and lives are subject to the will and negligence of private long-term care, and who are finding themselves isolated at vast distances away from their chosen communities and the loved ones who keep them connected and well.
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Mar 23, 2022
The more that I field requests for "de-escalation training," the more that I realize how little the social services sector fundamentally understands about the people with whom they work. /1
What seems evident is that people are seeking quick fix approaches to immediately and easily end someone's anger. I can teach that good support is rooted in calm, honesty, and empathy, but what they want is a figurative button they can push to suddenly end a "violent" crisis. /2
It doesn't work like that. Part of the problem of social services is that we've veered so far away from community development approaches that we've adopted a highly medicalized model of service delivery. We don't understand that our work is based in relationship building ... /3
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Sep 28, 2021
We knew that a better approach to supporting people was happening in #DufferinGrove #encampment. But to @anabailaoTO's comments, this park *is* receiving preferential treatment vs. Moss Park, other parks. This approach must be applied everywhere. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
I'm also obligated to point out @anabailaoTO's voting record at @TorontoCouncil on June 8. Bailao voted against @JoshMatlow's motion to make shelter safer, and for @stephenholyday's motion of achieving "zero encampments."
Most importantly, @anabailaoTO voted against adopting a collaborative approach to working with #encampment residents as presented by @m_layton — the very approach now being used exclusively in her ward.
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