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Author: Laura Track

A right to exist: BCCLA joins Abbotsford homeless case calling for equal access to public space

  In 1894, French novelist Anatole France wrote: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the […]

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