13 names added to the Toronto Homeless Memorial today.

13 names - since the November Memorial.

From the Toronto Star (article below):

After championing activist demands to strengthen the plan, Coun. Gord Perks (Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park) and Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 13, Toronto Centre) backed off a motion that would have asked council to declare homelessness an emergency and for the mayor to immediately call a summit with the other levels of government.

Instead, the committee supported a motion from Mayor John Tory’s affordable housing advocate Coun. Ana Bailao to recognize the situation as a “critical issue.”

"13 names is the highest monthly body count in the 20-year history of the memorial. This is a marker of an emergency," says long-time street nurse Cathy Crowe.

We have hit 15,000 names on the petition. We now aim for 25,000.

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