Victoria mayor faces furious Topaz Park crowd

Mayor Lisa Help and fellow Councillors met with people opposed to Topaz Park ‘tent city’.

It was no walk in the park for Victoria politicians who met the wrath of Topaz Park area residents on Thursday night over a proposed temporary tent city for the homeless. The walk-about planned by politicians in the sprawling Topaz Park — where people batted baseballs, swung hockey sticks and climbed play equipment — devolved into a political flogging as a majority of the about 300 people gathered rejected the idea of a tent city.

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Source: Times Colonist