Victoria homeless camp stages block party on planned eviction day
VICTORIA — Homeless campers on the grounds of Victoria’s courthouse staged a block party Thursday as they faced eviction from a tent city where more than 100 people have lived for months.
The party got off to a rough start as police cars arrived with sirens blaring to investigate a disturbance at one of the tents at the camp.
Police were not commenting about an alleged assault.
The B.C. government gave campers a Feb. 25 deadline earlier this month to move, but police and the province say they’d prefer people to leave voluntarily for shelters as opposed to a forced eviction.