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- Homeless set up camp in city park
- Canada News, 8 August 1999. In a Toronto downtown park Saturday night, dozens of homeless people made a political statement by doing together what they do alone every night all over the city—sleeping outside.
- Unfamiliar to Canada'lack of roofs
- By Julie Finnin Day, Christian Science
Monitor, 14 January 2002. Tent City is a patch of
industrial land in Toronto's port district where some
50 people live in homes cobbled out of scrap wood, donated
DuraKit
shelters, and anything that can be nailed to a two-by-four. The shantytown is an icon of a new social reality: Many of Canada's cities are beginning to resemble the ugly side of America. - Shelter from the Storm
- CBC TV, [2002]. Last winter, a handful of
Toronto—homeless people living in tents and lean-to's
on a plot of industrial land close to the lake shore, banded
together to try to get a roof over their heads. Declaring
the homeless crisis a disaster, a group of city housing
activists joined forces with the residents of
Tent City
and began lobbying for disaster housing to replace the tents and lean-tos. - Toronto Tent City Draws Focus to Plight of Homeless
- By Cameron French, Reuters, Saturday 10 February
2002. Not far from the 80-story bank towers and majestic
Art Deco hotel facades that stand proudly at the epicenter
of Toronto, there is a poisonous nugget of frozen land
that is generating more than its fair share of
interest. The media calls it
tent city
and it houses a chunk of the city's growing army of homeless.