After many years of lobbying and protest action, homeless people in Kitchener, with the help of the Alan Ryan Defence Brigade, took advantage of so-called Canada day in July 2020 to take control of Victoria park, named after the genocide queen of England, and restored it to its indigenous name of Willow Creek island, dubbed ‘tent city’, with the intention of creating a safe place for people who have found themselves homeless. A space to erect tents for the dual purpose of providing shelter for themselves and to also highlight how the homeless situation has been aloud to reach this point of crisis. The response from those tasked with providing safe and affordable housing has been nothing short of shameful and shocking. After years of denial, platitudes and downright lies, the powers that be have waged war on ordinary people instead of addressing the issues that have forced them to live in this most dangerous way. First they used the courts to try silence the homeless an...