The City of Saskatoon can proceed with dismantling a homeless encampment in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood after a Court of King’s Bench judge dismissed an emergency injunction to keep it in place.
In his Sept. 29 decision, Justice Richard W. Danyliuk rejected an application from advocates Crystal Fafard and Sheela McLean to prevent the city from clearing encampments at 301 Avenue K South and two nearby sites at 1112 and 1202 19th Street West until residents could find shelter.
The judge found that neither applicant had established standing to bring the case and that their evidence did not justify temporarily halting the city’s actions….