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SECTION 7 OF THE CANADIAN CHARTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ~
THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE ONESELF WITH SHELTER IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT!!!
WHAT THE CITY IS DOING IS IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THOSE RIGHTS!!
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
26 Nov 2025
Closure of two Victoria parks to overnight sheltering challenged in court dlvr.it/TPTJK0
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
25 Nov 2025
The petitioners say the city's bylaws are procedurally unfair and violated both charter and international rights.
cheknews.ca/city-of-victoria…
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It’s official! 🎒♥️
The backpack project is up and running and has a donation box in every single municipal hall throughout the greater Victoria region!
Please consider donating new or gently used items to our project! And please share!
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7 Nov 2025
An urgent call is going out to address the addictions and housing crisis in Cowichan, as those who get people off of the streets struggle for funding.
cheknews.ca/i-am-desperate-n…
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
16 Oct 2025
Sleep's primary purpose is recovery and repair, it's impossible to recover mentally and physically without it.
Do you know what makes addiction, mental health and public safety issues worse in our communities?
SLEEP DEPRIVATION & HOMELESSNESS ....
I can't believe some people can't understand this!
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
3 Oct 2025
It's more humane and a HUGE cost savings on tax payers to house people who are homeless rather than letting them survive on the streets ...
- Prison: (provincial) -$326/day or $9,780/per month.
- Shelter: - $167/day or 5000/per month.
- Hospital (acute care) -$833/day or 25,000/month.
It's impossible to recover from any health condition without having a safe place to live.
3 Oct 2025
Toronto's Dunn Street supportive housing saved $413,000 in ER costs and $1.66 million in hospital costs in 1 year. A partnership between UHN, nonprofits and government. Supportive housing is smarter, kinder and better for taxpayers compared to the ER, hospital, shelters or jail
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
22 Sep 2025
In the Waterloo ruling RE: encampments, Justice Valente set out that any offer of shelter to encampment residents must be truly accessible to meet their unique needs. It isn't adequate to simply hold any shelter space in to meet the legal requirements. /1 ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/art…
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Homelessness is a policy failure. #raisetherates
In 2023, the province raised shelter rates for people living on PWD, from $375 a month to $500 — but it’s a stark contrast to the current rental prices that many in B.C. pay to have a roof over their head. vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0…
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
27 Aug 2025
Court rules that Montreal’s Notre-Dame encampment allowed to stay until final court ruling ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/…
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Source: CBC share.google/crVjQBeYoHzG34k…
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
21 Aug 2025
An important update for all of Ontario re: homelessness: the Superior Court has ruled in favour of encampment residents in Waterloo Region.
The Region is restrained from enforcing a by-law to clear an encampment until the constitutionality of the by-law can be determined.
👍The Court has granted an injunction for the 100Vic Encampment Case! The Region is restrained from enforcing its Site-Specific By-law until the constitutionality of the bylaw can be determined following the hearing in November.
Read the decision at: wrcls.ca/3878-2
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
11 Aug 2025
Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
16 Jul 2025
This is shocking. Since @fordnation shut down supervised consumption sites, drop-in programs are seeing massive increases in overdoses — including a 288% increase just last month.
Overdoses don't go away; they get moved to spaces with fewer supports and resources.
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
18 Jul 2025
My article in The Tyee today about the city’s plan to gentrify the DTES: Downtown Eastside Residents Didn’t Ask for This Plan | The Tyee thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/07/1…
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
12 Jul 2025
They're tackling and detaining people based on their skin color. Nothing more.
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The Back Pack Project Victoria BC retweeted
5 Jul 2025
“No one that voted for decampments, no one that voted for supportive housing bans, no one that voted to get rid of the integrity commissioner is welcome in my party. I oppose task force barrage.”
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5 Jul 2025
"A #BC Supreme Court judge has reserved his decision following a three-day hearing that concluded Friday in which the city [of #PrinceGeorge] is seeking an order allowing it to close a #downtown #homeless #encampment & remediate the site" #BritishColumbia cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…
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Couple who lived in Penticton homeless encampment for a year survived on love pentictonwesternnews.com/loc… via @PentictonNews
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Wow! Look what you can do if you REALLY want to! In #yyj its lies & broken promises & whining that it’s out of their hands.
All while our friends and family suffer and die at the hands of police & bylaw.
Shame on them all.
Vote them out.
#housingisahumanright#yyjpoli
Update: Motion passed unanimously.
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
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