‘We take care of each other’: Voices from Montreal’s Cabot Square

‘We take care of each other’: Voices from Montreal’s Cabot Square

In Montreal’s Cabot Square, where homeless Indigenous people have gathered for decades, news that a member of the city’s police services (SPVM) had been suspended for urinating on homeless Montrealers was greeted largely without shock. Regular visitors, as well as outreach workers from the various organizations serving unhoused populations in the west of downtown, describe relations between homeless people and police in and around Cabot Square a…