With an election in 2022, it's worth considering the mayor's mealy-mouthed defence of Toronto police’s violent "clearing" of park encampments and where we want to be as a city post-pandemic
Jul 25, 2021
Enzo DiMatteo
Plus, crying foul on park encampments, acts of kindness against anti-Muslim hate and advice to pandemic pet owners in reader mail
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If it's not Black and Brown people being oppressed by police, it's the homeless population
The city claims that parks are "private property" and “trespassers” can be removed, but the city's powers are not grounded in property ownership
Estair Van Wagner
The city's insistence that Adam Skelly pay $165K in policing costs related to the shutdown of his restaurant last November is turning into a bad PR exercise
The political fear of being seen as “soft on crime” often runs so deep that it overtakes more sensible and less expensive community safety responses to policing
Abby Deshman
