[news] Vancouver: A Bad Time to be Poor

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

[Cameron] Bishop said he'd been living on the streets since 1997 without any problems from the [Vancouver] police. But starting last summer...cops began making life more difficult for him. From his bag, he pulled out a handful of tickets citing him for city-bylaw violations like "loitering" and "solicitation"...[H]e believes that a "war" has been declared by the city against poor people like him. "Why can't they just leave us alone?"

  


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