Personal advocacy and resource/information sharing website of Regan Sunshine Brussé
About Me
Where our Federal and Provincial aids hold gaps, we must persist.  Where our local government needs time to change, we must loudly be patient. Loudly, so they feel our support for change. Loudly so they may know our desires and evolve towards them.
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​Because we do evolve, and in this moment, I'm thinking, we are.
​Our world and lives are all in their own variants of chaos. So let's come together on the smaller levels to assure each others care. With innovation, transparency & willingness there is a beautiful way through this all.

Coming soon! 

Report:

Rethinking Municipal Responses to Encampments:
Building a Human Rights Approach in Ontario

Human rights & Housing fights:
rethinking municipal responses

As presented on November 28, 2025
by Laura Pin, Mauleek Bhatt, and Sidney Macdonald
to the Waterloo Wellington Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee
  • Why are there encampments in municipalities across Canada? 
  • Why are encampments a human rights issue? 
  • How can we address encampments in a manner consistent with respect for human rights? ​

Petition:
​Demand Waterloo Region pass a public camping bylaw

"... ​immediately create and adopt a Public Camping Bylaw that upholds the rights and dignity of unhoused people in our communities...."
​Click here to view & sign this petition
online at Change.org

Dear Region of waterloo:
​your bylaw is faulty

(& your politics kinda suck)

​More of my thoughts and ramblings on this topic...
​Convieniently posted and published in no particular order! ​

​Dear City of Cambridge (CC: Region of Waterloo):

​Canadian alliance to end homelessness 2025
​& more Cambridge encampment Evictions

​More of my thoughts and ramblings on this topic...
​Convieniently posted and published in no particular order! ​

Other (IN BUILD) "nickels" In this "Jar":

a "Must Watch" documentary:

Bridging divides

Voices & Visions About Homelessnesss in Mid-Size Cities

​Realizing the Right to housing:
Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments 

Realizing the Right is a multi-year community-engaged project focused on understanding of how Ontario municipalities are responding to encampments.

City of Cambridge initiating Encampment evictions *during extreme heatwave*

Notices issued June 20, 2025
These individuals, already failed by our flawed social infrastructures, now face further danger due to their forced displacement and increased exposure to the elements. Stripping away their personal efforts and ability to maintain even the most basic form of shelter amidst an overwhelming housing crisis at all - let alone during an extreme weather event - is not only deeply unjust, but a clear violation of their rights.

What this says of our own lacking humanity really frightens me... We should probably talk about this.


​Related Pages:

Dear City of Cambridge... (CC: Region of Waterloo)
RE: Cambridge Encampment Evictions - Heat Wave June 2025

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-...

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— THRIVE HIV (@thrivehiv.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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​More of my thoughts and ramblings on this topic...
​Convieniently posted and published in no particular order! ​

Open Letter (to Region of Waterloo CAO):
​Seeking aid for Unsheltered people in face of current Extreme Weather Crisis

As sent by email January 29. 2025 (PM/After Office Hours)
Dear CAO of The Region of Waterloo, 

We’re reaching out to discuss the dire situation taking place currently for our unsheltered Waterloo Region community members. 

It is cold outside, with wind chill factors posing an undeniable risk. The potential for harm clearly increases when an individual faces little to no relief from the extreme weather elements at play. 

While municipal policy contains responses intended to be enabled in times of communal duress, this policy contains substantial gaps....​

Sign the Petition: 

Click the image below to vist Change.org where you can add your name
​to this message too! 

January 2025: Extreme Weather & Relief Needs

January 21, 2025
It’s difficult for me to view our failure to adequately and quickly respond to the extreme weather our unsheltered community members are currently facing as anything but negligent..
We have the tools to address situations of community risk, yet the municipality is right now failing to use them. This is a choice - one that directly impacts the wellbeing of others. 

It’s brutally cold right now....

Bits and pieces ("recently" collected/ in "sorting"/to be added)