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Asylum seekers are sleeping on Toronto streets again. How did we end up here?

Hundreds of people — including those seeking asylum — have once again taken to sleeping on Toronto’s streets in front of shelters and churches.

The city’s shelter system is once again at capacity, turning away nearly 300 people a day, the city said Thursday. While it’s continuously moving “dozens” of people from overflowing churches to shelters, hotels or permanent housing where possible, it is nowhere close to meeting demand, said Lindsay Broadhead, the city’s chief communication officer.


Pic. Just up the road from me is a Citizenship and Immigration office.

On Saturdays a hired bus arrives and unloads what I suspect to be newly arrived “asylum seekers” as many as 30 0r 40 wait outside for processing.

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