In July 2018, Alliance Against Displacement held a panel in Nanaimo called "Poverty and Discontent: The Legal Roots of Anti-homeless Hate.” This panel discussion took place as public hostility against Nanaimo’s Discontent City was simmering. It was another month before this hate reached its boiling…
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