Juno News - October 17, 2021


Is Toronto doing any thing about the illegal tent cities？


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A large tent camp has formed in Dufferin Grove Park and the city is trying to get the occupants of the camp to come indoors before the cold winter weather arrives and the tents start to creep up on the residents.

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00:00:00.000 Well we're here down at Dufferin Grove Park where a very sizable encampment has formed in recent
00:00:11.340 weeks. Many of them have come from Alexandra Park and Trinity Bellwoods Park which of course
00:00:17.700 were cleared out over the summer thankfully. The bad news is that there are dozens of tents here
00:00:23.820 and people because of the very balmy October weather seem to be having a good time kind of
00:00:29.580 playing the music and partying. The good news is that the city is down here. Municipal licensing
00:00:36.340 and Streets to Homes people trying to convince the occupants of the tents to come inside. We met
00:00:42.960 up with a couple of municipal licensing and Streets to Homes officers who said that over the next two
00:00:49.500 weeks they will be continuing to talk to the occupants of the tents and convincing them to
00:00:56.040 come indoors before what could be a very very cold winter strikes. And we're hoping to do with
00:01:06.540 everybody in the park so for the next two weeks once that happens things may escalate. Everybody's been
00:01:13.560 approached. So right now the big reason why we're here is we're trying to deter new residents from taking place.
00:01:20.700 Because right now everybody's been accounted for. Everybody's got a system home representative that
00:01:26.280 they're engaging with on a regular daily basis. And everybody you know we know what they need.
00:01:32.280 Everything is mapped out basically. So right now we're trying to do is prevent new people from coming in.
00:01:39.060 And then if they come in and we can't deter them from leaving we'll add them to the list. But that's what we're trying to do as of right now.
00:01:47.700 The other good news is that we were better received today than the last time we were down here when a group
00:01:54.240 of Indigenous people chased us out of the park and we were forced to call the police. That's probably because 1.00
00:02:00.640 there is a municipal licensing officer presence here. They are also here they told us to convince people
00:02:08.360 who try to erect a tent that it's illegal to do so. Let's hope all the tents are cleared out in the next couple
00:02:15.460 of weeks. For True North News, I'm Sue Ann Lee.