No Exits, part two. In late June, police and private security evicted 20-25 homeless residents from Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park, just one of several downtown tent encampments that appeared during the pandemic.

The temporary fencing erected during the eviction remains up around the former encampment site, which continues to be patrolled 24/7 by security guards. Many Canadians want to know where the city's priorities lie, when the city’s vulnerable are taken by force, multiple arrests are made and a community garden is destroyed in a show of force by city hall.

Cathy Crowe is a Canadian Street Nurse, educator, social justice activist, and filmmaker specializing in advocacy on homelessness in Canada. She is the author of two books: Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out and A Knapsack Full of Dreams. 
Cathy received the Order of Canada in 2018 and is currently a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University. She continues to fight for the right to shelter for everyone and for a fully funded national housing program.

For more information on Cathy Crowe and her work in Toronto, visit cathycrowe.ca; Cathy is also on Twitter, @cathyacrowe and she writes for Rabble at https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathycrowe/2014/12/socks-are-not-enough...

This is the second episode in a three-part series on homelessness in Canada. A warning that some of the anecdotes shared are hard to hear.