Toronto

A Toronto court is ready to hear the arguments of a group of homeless men and women living in tents who are rejecting the city's attempts to remove them from parks. The group, which includes activist organizations, wants an interim order to allow the homeless to continue living in the camps until a constitutional challenge to a city charter is heard. The central issue is an ordinance that prohibits living or camping in parks after midnight. The city says the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not entitle the group to live in parks. He says he has worked very hard to make shelters safer during the pandemic and has found temporary or permanent homes for hundreds of people living in camps. Since the pandemic began, hundreds of people have fled shelters in fear of contracting CO...