City of Cambridge cc: Region of Waterloo All the peeps you had evicted last week are still suffering out there. Now in the #snow. Now, without the grace of their own efforts to #survive. YOU removed these. YOU destroyed these. #winterishere #dobetter #unsheltered #MoreThanASpecOfWTF #ForRealLife

Crews clear homeless encampment in Cambridge

A Better Tent City asks Waterloo Region for more funding to hire two new staff members

#Unsheltered #HumanRights #Cambridge

"Step 1: Acknowledge Reality" Human Rights and Housing Fights: Municipal Encampment Responses Compiled from presentation contents by Dr. Laura Pin - September 25, 2025 #humanrights #politics #unsheltered #grassroots

🧡On Sept 30, take part in National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events across Waterloo Region. A time to honour Survivors, reflect, and commit to action. #NDTR #EveryChildMatters

#Grassroots #Unsheltered #HumanRights

This visit follows my letters to the mayor and Cambridge city council and to the Region of #Waterloo, encouraging them to adopt human rights-based approaches to encampments.

And Citizens for Cambridge cite Federal Housing Advocate Marie-Josée Houle: “forced evictions and enforcement approaches do not address the underlying systemic issues and put people at risk of even greater harms.” 6/6 mailchi.mp/citizensforc...

Community advocates have written some excellent responses in favour of Cllrs Hamilton and Earnshaw's motion re preventing extreme weather encampment evictions in Cambridge this Tuesday 1/6 pub-cambridge.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...

Upcoming meeting & motion: City of Cambridge Council Meeting September 23, 2025 Highlighting Motion: “Preventing the forced removal of unhoused persons during extreme weather events"

More: www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/resources/ne...

Urgent call to action as reliance on local foods banks hits 40-year high

​I witnessed the destruction of some of these peoples homes and possessions myself. To at all deny these occurrences is not only misleading—it’s an erasure of people’s lived reality and the added traumas as are being inflicted by these municipally led actions. #Cambridge #HumanRights #Unsheltered

“You cannot move homeless (people) somewhere else, when there is no somewhere else,” Paul Born told Luisa D’Amato. Local government must provide land for more encampments. To read the full article, visit: bit.ly/3JNq6FU

"Justice Gibson made it clear there would be a meticulous review of all the evidence before anyone at the encampment is forced to move." - CBC News To read the full article, visit: bit.ly/41Tnwo7

Court rules in favour of Kitchener encampment residents, pausing plans to evict them

Homeless people who live in tents at Weber and Victoria streets in Kitchener would rather move to another encampment than be placed into shelters or motel rooms. Luisa D’Amato finds out why.

“Change is possible,” he said. “It’s not inevitable that people end up being homeless.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Great new!👍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

"These are not simply "issues" to be managed—they are people whose choices, voices, and lived experiences must be respected and meaningfully included in any decision-making process." #HumanRights #CambridgeON #Unsheltered

"We cannot continue to claim we are pursuing a human rights-based approach if, at critical moments like these, we refuse to take responsibility for meaningful change and fail to act in accordance with the very principles we proclaim ourselves wishing to uphold." #HumanRIghts #Unsheltered

​Realizing the Right to Housing: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments - Waterloo Region Snapshot July 2025 "This research snapshot shares our preliminary findings from the encampment survey from people with experience staying in encampments in Waterloo Region exclusively.

Evicting encampments and confiscating/destroying people’s belongings violates human rights and puts them at greater risk of harms

Remember that whole supreme court case that found you can't evict homeless people if there's no housing or shelter options available? 🙄

Today, during a heatwave, Cambridge bylaw and police used heavy machinery to throw out 4 unhoused peoples personal belongings. With no suitable shelter options, they face serious health risks. Evictions should be paused during extreme weather. Learn a better way: homelesshub.ca/book/office-...

City of Cambridge Initiating Encampment Evictions *During Extreme Heatwave* mymothernamedmesunshine.ca/cambridgeextremeheatevictions2025.html "What this says of our own lacking humanity really frightens me... We should probably talk about this." #HumanRights #Unsheltered #grassroots

@regionofwaterloo.bsky.social "Before I get into too many specific aspects and sharing more of my thoughts on the proposed bylaw, I’d like to offer some background to help provide context for a few of the points I’ll be raising within these." #kwawesome #unsheltered #grassroots #humanrights

Currently in closed session but... This meeting and topic is tonight! Meeting info and viewing access in link below

Homelessness is not a crime, nor is it caused by "addiction." Homelessness is caused by a lack of housing people can actually afford, which Poilievre has no real plan to address — no plan for rent control, evictions, supportive housing. Nothing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

April 23, 2025 Region of Waterloo Council Meeting & Proposed BYLAW RE: 100 Victoria Nickels & Dimes: Seeking Change We cannot continue to claim we are pursuing a human rights-based approach if, at critical moments like these, we refuse to take responsibility for meaningful change...

"We urge you to implement any available measures to support those at risk during this crisis as quickly as able." Find the petition here too, where you can add your name to this same relay in support! #Unsheltered #ExtremeWeather #Community #TogetherWeCan #WaterlooRegion #Grassroots

To Region of Waterloo: When will you fulfill your duty to act to protect the well-being of your community members? This is atrocious. www.mymothernamedmesunshine.ca/unsheltered-...

Important words from @reganbrusse.bsky.social: "our failure to adequately and quickly respond to the extreme weather our unsheltered community members are currently facing as anything other than negligence" www.mymothernamedmesunshine.ca/living-rough...

New advocacy from @wryimby.bsky.social: our statement opposing the criminalization of homeless encampments in Ontario. The problem is clear: we have failed to address the root causes of homelessness. The answer is likewise straightforward: build and provide public housing for those who need it.

"In 2024, over half of referrals to our Anti-Human Trafficking Program came from underhoused women & youth. Waterloo Region now has the third-highest rate of human trafficking in Canada, — a grim reminder of the trauma survivors face alongside housing insecurity." www.therecord.com/opinion/cont...

It's not for lack of warm buildings that people are freezing across Waterloo region and beyond. Kudos to the cities of Guelph and London for opening their public buildings overnight to people who have NOWHERE ELSE TO GO. #Priorities #ONhealth #ONpoli

"The closing will mean all services at that location, including counselling, primary care and.. harm reduction, will be lost." So we're losing the CTS site *and* the wraparound services that get people into treatment. No words to describe how evil this is. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

The Ontario Coroner's data continues to reflect the deadly absence of political interest and success in preventing-reducing a leading cause of acute death - accidental drug poisoning. By any metric, a public health emergency with no adults in charge. #ONhealth #ONpoli

Unsheltered: Emergency or Public Health Crisis? www.mymothernamedmesunshine.ca/unsheltered-...

Waterloo region: 2,371 homeless individuals, 589 shelter spaces. No women's shelter. With @ourjoymovement.bsky.social c/o @cbckw.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People will die and they will die fairly quickly after CTS sites close in Ontario. - Michael Parkinson, Drug Strategy Network of Ontario www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Flashing back to the rally at Stirling and Charles following the eviction of an encampment located there.

Just over 3 years ago, the Region of Waterloo cleared an encampment of unhoused citizens in Kitchener as if they were garbage. I joined a protest a few days later & then delegated to Regional council on Dec 8, 2021. Read the transcript of my delegation: www.commonsensedesign.net/newsArticle.php?144

We cancel school buses and wouldn't dare leave a pet outside in this weather, yet we have neighbours who are freezing outdoors with no options for releif.

In an effort to bring Waterloo Region’s projected tax increase under 8%, Council may defer "non-revenue generating service expansions" such as the plan to end chronic homelessness, improvements to transit, and upgrades to improve cybersecurity. That's...not great.