Watch for Turtle Island News coming indepth feature on Brantford’s Homeless By Donna Duric Writer BRANTFORD-A six-month-old homeless camp just off Greenwich St. in Brantford is no more after police evicted residents from the site, which was subsequently set on fire in response. On Dec. 4 at 9 a.m., Brantford Police executed a trespassing order issued by the owner of the private property adjacent to the encampment and in response, one of the residents of the camp set a makeshift shed on fire. “I lit my shack on fire,” Johnny, one of the camp’s residents, told the Turtle Island News, as police, fire crews, volunteers, and residents milled about in the aftermath of the fire. “I just wanted it to be recognized what the city was doing to us. We…
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