Petition for apology found here. Please consider signing
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Tune in live to hear them discuss how we can work towards root cause solutions.
Discussion will be livestreamed by Simcoe Community Media and can be viewed on their YouTube channel live or and afterwards.
youtube.com/@simcoecomme...

the lack of affordable housing, lack of accessible accommodation, the increased criminalization of the poor and the cost of this reactive approach to dealing with the crisis facing our community.

Each of our panelists bring their own unique lived and living experience to the conversation.
2/

The cost of this and other encampment evictions would be better invested in proactive solutions such as the building of supportive housing units.

Healing starts with housing, and housing solves homelessness!

#HousingSolvesHomelessness
#StopTheSweeps
#Cdnpoli
#onpoli
#Barrie

due to a police investigation and environmental concerns. These residents have been displaced twice now without any offered permanent housing or shelter accommodations that meet their unique needs.
There was a heavy police presence on site today, along with multiple contractors.
4/

The length of those vouchers was not made clear, and all the offers were only temporary options. None that we spoke with had been offered housing.
Some of the residents being displaced today were residents of the Flat Rock encampment, which was cleared less than a month ago
3/

Of the residents we spoke to on site none had been offered housing, the best that was being offered was a shelter bed, some as far away as Collingwood and Wasaga Beach and some had been offered temporary motel vouchers.
2/

Forced treatment doesn't work! It never has and it causes harm. And how can we even be talking about involuntary treatment while people wanting help are dying while on waiting lists?