{"id":826470,"date":"2025-02-12T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/bc-civil-liberties-association-challenges-vancouvers-daytime-shelter-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:13:13","slug":"bc-civil-liberties-association-challenges-vancouvers-daytime-shelter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/bc-civil-liberties-association-challenges-vancouvers-daytime-shelter-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Civil Liberties Association challenges Vancouver\u2019s daytime shelter ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\tThe BC Civil Liberties Association is taking the City of Vancouver to court, claiming its ban on daytime sheltering for homeless people is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Paul Johnson reports \u2013 Jan 30, 2025<\/span>
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The BC Civil Liberties Association says it has filed a lawsuit against the City of Vancouver to challenge the municipality\u2019s daytime ban on outdoor sheltering, calling it \u201ccruel, dehumanizing and deadly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It says in a news release that the lawsuit was filed alongside three individual plaintiffs and claims the ban violates sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n

The association says it is challenging three city bylaws that \u201cmake it illegal for unhoused people to shelter outdoors during daytime hours\u201d saying such a ban puts people\u2019s health and safety at risk.<\/p>\n

It says the city engages in daily sweeps to enforce the ban, destroying encampments and seizing their tents and other personal items, which it claims violates the Charter section that protects people against cruel treatment by the state.<\/p>\n

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The city says on its website people without housing are allowed to set up temporary shelters in parks from dusk to dawn, but they must be removed at sunrise \u201cto make parks available to support the health and well-being of the whole community.\u201d<\/p>\n