For two years an encampment has taken over what was once a beautiful family-friendly park in the Entertainment District of downtown Toronto.
Residents are absolutely fed up. At a media conference Tuesday, they begged to be heard by their tone-deaf councillor Ausma Malik and Toronto’s socialist mayor Olivia Chow, who so far have ignored their pleas to have it cleared.
Residents told True North that the squatters in this park — where fires, violent incidents, feces, fights and vandalism are rampant — have been permitted to remain. To make matters worse, under Toronto council’s Homeless Encampment Strategy — which has declared that enforcement is a last resort — the city has sent in a phalanx of social workers and security who hold court out in a shed built for them.
This is yet another example of a city that is deteriorating rapidly under the “leadership” of socialists and progressives.
