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B.C. court rules that homeless people can camp in city parks

canadianpress.google.com — Survival is a human right. The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled Tuesday (October 14) that, with insufficient capacity in Victoria's shelters, a bylaw forbidding homeless people from setting up tents and sleeping in city parks deprives homeless people of life, liberty and security in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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  • app103, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1If they did something like this in NYC it would make it a lot easier to round them up and send them to shelters in the winter, when it drops below a temp that could cause them to freeze to death.

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