Encampment

ISBN: 9781552455043

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Encampment

Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community

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Maggie Helwig shares what it’s like to advocate for the unhoused people who set up an encampment beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market, where she is the priest. It introduces us to the Artist, to Jeff, and to Robin: their lives, their challenges, their humanity.

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Maggie Helwig

Maggie Helwig is an Anglican priest at the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields in Kensington Market since 2013. She is a human rights activist as well as a writer, and has worked for the East Timor Alert Network in Toronto, the Women in Black network, and War Resisters' International.

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Helwig discusses the dehumanization of homeless people in the city of Toronto and the difficult circumstances under which they must survive, including the limitations of shelter and affordable …
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This chapter explains the history of Toronto’s Kensington Market and the church, St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, that homes the encampment referred to throughout the book and for which Helwig is the priest.
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 12 $1.20
This chapter outlines COVID’s continued effect on Toronto’s homeless population and how it contributed to the growing number of encampments around the city.
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 32 $3.20
Helwig discusses the disproportionate instances of missing person cases among the homeless population, highlighting a few cases in particular.
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 14 $1.40
In this chapter Helwig urges the reader to overcome things such as power, greed, fear, in order to maintain hope within, and bear witness to, our difficult world.
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Helwig outlines the many difficulties that the encampment at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church faced and continues to face. This includes complaints from neighbours, interference of City staffers …
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Helwig highlights the importance of focusing on things such as love, light, and patience, and caring for the world just as the world cares for us.
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Helwig describes how extreme cold alerts affect Toronto’s homeless population, including increased incidences of encampment fires.
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Helwig catalogues some of many occurrences of loss for those living on the street – from the loss of personal possessions to the loss of life, safety, friends, family, and loved ones.
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 23 $2.30
This chapter describes the city’s attempt to clear the encampment at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church in order for a community group to plant a garden on the site.
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Helwig describes the ever-changing environment of the encampment and details some hardships in her own personal life. She reiterates the importance of persevering and not losing faith.
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