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    • Advocacy - Nickles and Dimes >
      • Dear RoW: Your Bylaw Is Faulty (& Your Politics Kinda Suck) >
        • January 9, 2026 Region of Waterloo Special Council Meeting RE: Proposed amendment to By-law 25-021
        • January 7, 2026 Region of Waterloo Special Council Meeting RE: Proposed amendment to By-law 25-021 >
          • Lesley Crompton - January 7, 2026 RoW Council Presentation
          • Safe Tenting Zones and the Waterloo Encampment Case - By David Alton
        • "A Site Specific Bylaw" : Court
        • April 23, 2025 Regional Council Meeting & 100 Vic. Proposed Bylaw April 23, 2025 >
          • Some initial thoughts as published on April 18, 2025
          • A little bit of background before delving in: April 21, 2025 >
            • Part 2 - A little bit of background before delving in
            • Part 3 - A little bit of background before delving in
      • Realizing the Right: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments >
        • Rethinking Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments: Building a Human Rights Approach in Ontario >
          • Introduction - RtR Report 2026
          • Background: What are Neo-Vagrancy Bylaws and Encampment Protocols?
          • Developing a Human Rights Policy Framework for Municipal Encampment Responses >
            • Summary of All Exploratory Questions
          • Research Methods: Identifying Municipal Bylaws and Protocols
          • Findings: Old Bylaws, New Rights Gaps: Municipal Trends Across Ontario >
            • Pillar 1 Findings - Old Bylaws, New Rights Gaps
            • Pillar 3 Findings - Old Bylaws, New Rights Gaps -RtR Jan 2026 Report
            • Pillar 4 Findings - Old Bylaws, New Rights Gaps -RtR Jan 2026 Report
            • Pillar 5 Findings - Old Bylaws, New Rights Gaps
          • Conclusions and Policy Directions: Advancing Human Rights in Municipal Encampment Responses
          • Citations & Additional Resources - RtR Report - Jan. 2026
        • Human Rights and Housing FIghts >
          • Rethinking Municipal Approaches - Human Rights and Housing Fights
          • Human Rights and Housing Fights: Municipal Encampment Responses
        • Realizing the Right: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments - Waterloo Region Snapshot
        • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
      • CAEH 2025 & More Cambridge Encampment Evictions >
        • CAEH Presenters - Local to WR
        • More Cambridge Encampment Evictions
        • Louder for those of you in the back... There are NO Shelter Options Right Now!
        • A Human Rights Approach to Encampments ​for Cambridge (2.0)​
        • Supplies needed - How to contribute ​
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          • Extreme heat and health- Cambridge Heat Wave Evictions >
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          • Eviction Notice Components - Cambridge Heat Wave Evictions
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            • I "Rescind" Nothing: Check your facts
            • Legal Briefcase - Advocacy tools
          • Challenges of Navigating a Dual-Tier Municipal System Cambridge Heat Wave Evictions >
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  • Blue Sky Horse CKMS Radio Segment - July 25, 2020 - Conversation with  Yes In My Back Yard Co-Founder Martin Asling, Unsheltered Campaign member Lesley Crompton and encampment resident Terry Kaan
The Record's look at homeless encampments:
  • "No one that cares enough can do anything and nobody who can do anything cares enough"
  • A difficult line: Municipalities try to balance help for those in encampments with competing concerns
  • ​'Honestly, it's hell on earth': Eddy, 39, has been homeless for about 3 years with no sign of housing to come.

This is a consequence of failing to respond to our housing crisis. https://t.co/ZEcu4esS5u

— Waterloo Region YIMBY (@WRYIMBY) March 21, 2022

CKMS interview aired on April 13th, 2020 - COVID Onset - Host Bob Jonkman
Substance Use and Homelessness
“Safe supply provides prescription drugs to those struggling with addiction. It prevents deaths from unregulated street drugs and allows those with the challenge of addiction to take their focus and time off worrying about getting the drug they need and instead work on other challenges like housing, employment or health care."
​Source: "We've never been here before," say Waterloo Region outreach workers

  • March 9, 2022 Waterloo Police Services Board Meeting​
  • Housing Affordablility Task Force 
  • Living Rough: Encampments
  • ​Living Rough: Washrooms
  • The Housing First Approach
"I want today to function as a bridge of communication for silenced, disenpowered, invisible voices of actual #grassroots, in relation to this issue"

- (2020) Heather Majaury shares with Council a recording of local testimonials of lived experience (Video as set below)
  • Washrooms for the most vulnerable - Region of Waterloo​​
  • Building Better Futures - Region of Waterloo
    • Housing Dashboard 
    • Affordable Housing for All - Building a better future for all
  • Affordable Housing Strategy: Discussion Paper and Recommendations (Page 24) - City of Waterloo
Agenda for above Video included (as set to begin at): 
  • 2:12:50 PDL-LEG-21-70, Policy Review of Region Bylaw 13-050 – Use or Occupation of Region-owned Public Land
Community and Infrastructure Services Committee
​City of Kitchener - Housing for All Program Update
  • City Council Columns - March 2022 - Kitchener Citizen​​​​​

  • A Canadian’s Right to Housing: How Do We Get There - University of Waterloo Alumni Speakers Series (Information about the below video session)

The Right to Housing framework gives us the unique & important opportunity to prioritize human rights in the way we govern ourselves. Click ⬇️ to read @leilanifarha's full comments to Canada's Standing Committee on Finance □□ #maketheshift #righttohousinghttps://t.co/zlRLJv2I8G pic.twitter.com/3nRWWvEICU

— The Shift (@Make_TheShift) March 21, 2022
  • Alliance Statement on Occupation - Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa
  • Young women often feel alone, isolated as they move from homeless to housed: WLU research - CBC News​
  • ​Stories and Narratives Report on the 2021 Point In Time Count

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