A group of Hamilton doctors is continuing to call for the city to allow tent encampments during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's also cleaned up belongings outside the FirstOntario Centre in downtown Hamilton, where inside, it has set up a makeshift 50-bed shelter. The Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team (Hamsmart) and Keeping Six, which represents people who use drugs, says the city should just leave them be. Nrinder Nann, Ward 3 (central lower city) councillor, asked that it include how it measures up to the UN Special Rapporteur's new report on COVID-19 and homeless encampments. Hamilton doesn't want to allow encampments and become "like San Francisco," he said.

Source: CBC News July 14, 2020 19:52 UTC