#TRINITY BELLWOODS SACRED FIRE CODE#

I wonder how much that costs? Choppers aren't cheap. this morning.Īs of 3 p.m., they're still up there, hovering away, monitoring hundreds of officers and corporate security guards as they attempt to clear multiple homeless encampments from one of Toronto's largest parks.

#TRINITY BELLWOODS SACRED FIRE CODE#

Under Section 608-13 of the Toronto municipal code sleeping in a city park is prohibited as is erecting any 'permanent tent, structure or shelter' without a permit.Police helicopters have been audibly circling the area above Trinity Bellwoods Park since at least 7:30 a.m. Drug Toxicity is the leading cause of death for people living on the streets of the city in 2020. Neighbors cited lax security for an increase of crime in the neighbourhood caused by the hundreds of tenants.Įstimates this year claim that there are over 10,000 homeless people in Toronto. In August, the city vacated several temporary homeless shelters which were due to be cleared out for redevelopment. 'I am not a fentanyl user any more, but if I see anybody in this park that uses fentanyl, I will not criminalize them for using a drug they got addicted to,' he says. J told BlogTo that he has overdosed once, but also claimed he had not used the drug many times. A friend of J's, who has been on the streets for longer, told the author a hundred. J claimed to have known at least 25 people who've died from fentanyl overdoses. J told Honoridez that his friend died in the Dog Bowl in the autumn of a fentanyl overdose. This is a safe park and a safe space,' J says. 'I'm the type of person that will look after my community and my area. J claims that he distributes extra material to others who need it. I'm not there to make a mess.' Even though the homeless in Toronto receive an abundance of clothing donations. As long as they’re not locked up underground, if their bins are outside.

We survive on lots of trail mix if we have no food.' He says that the Encampment Support Network have been '.delivering water, Gatorade, and trail mix every day, in the summer they brought us ice. J told BlogTo he walks to The Meeting Place at Queen and Bathurst to do his laundry and shower, and he uses the bathroom in the Trinity Community Recreation Centre.

In the statement, the city also reiterated the dangers of makeshift shelters that have sprung up at encampments, saying they '…represent a significantly increased danger to those who use them and anyone in the vicinity if these structures were to be involved in a fire.' The city said it will be adding 620 additional shelter spaces over the winter, as well as a warming centre for when there is extreme cold weather.

We continue to offer people, on an individual basis, safe indoor space.' 'It’s unfortunate there is a campaign like this that is circulating misinformation and unnecessarily causing homeless people undue worry,' Ross said. In a statement to CP24 earlier this month, city spokesperson Brad Ross said the city has no immediate plans to clear out any encampments. Image courtesy of BlogToĪccording to BlogTo “All are welcome in the encampment no one is turned away unless they are causing problems for the others, at which point they are politely asked to leave…if a person doesn't return to their tent for five days, he considers it abandoned and cleans it up for someone else to use.” I messed it all up by choosing addiction over them,' he tells Honoridez. I was almost married to a woman with kids. 'I got to this point in my life from a cocaine addiction. He claimed he used to live in a suburb just outside of Toronto but became homeless after a relationship broke up. There, Honoridez met 'J' whose legal name is Jeremy, but since becoming homeless he has preferred to go by J which he claims is '…the youngest of the alphabet.' J is 32 and claimed to have been living in shelters and the street since his late twenties. Leaning against the shelter is a poster of Bruce Lee and under it is written 'Welcome to Bruce Lee City.' Image courtesy of BlogTo Meanwhile, activity in the park from joggers, cyclists and more pass by the encampment. The author of the piece, Mikhail Honoridez, said that the park shelter closest to the encampment is covered in graffiti tags. Recently, a writer from BlogTo claims to have met the ‘mayor’ of the encampment. Trinity Bellwoods Park, in Toronto is home to ‘Bruce Lee City’, a homeless encampment made up of about fifteen tents and tiny shelters.

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