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When it comes to the poor — tally preventable death. It is a shameful example of while Toronto city councillors debated a budget that is harmful to the city’s most vulnerable. One item they voted on was a motion to increase funding to the shelter system by just over $1 million, and to increase staffing by 10. Not surprisingly, it didn’t pass. But how could we expect anything better from Mayor Tory’s where people laid flowers and candles in remem brance.
A 28-year-old Indigenous man died in the previous week. He went to St. Felix Centre, one of the two 24was over-capacity when he arrived. He declined a re overdose.
This death came only days after Mayor Tory was that Toronto needs more emergency shelters. The sig armories as a temporary solution.
The mayor also ignored multi-faith leaders, Social compassion and their call for the provision of addi tional shelter immediately. never ending neo-liberal austerity regime?
It is a sick irony that the homeless person died Items.
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Over 800 homeless people in Toronto have died since the mid-1980s. This latest one was another to what is wrong with the city’s shelter and support sys Socialist Action demands immediate action to stop preventable deaths of homeless people:
• Mayor Tory: Open up the armories!
• Provide decent housing for all!
• Provide immediate support and resources for drug • Stop the war on the poor! Tax rich property own ers, land developers, giant corporations and banks! n