Over 100 people gathered in front of the Shaw Building in downtown Charlottetown to protest the Community Outreach Centre. They demand the closure or relocation of the centre due to safety concerns and inadequate staffing.
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — More than 100 people protesting the Community Outreach Centre gathered in front of the Shaw Building in downtown Charlottetown on Oct. 28.
Carol McDonald, a city worker and one of the speakers addressing the crowd, said she doesn't reside near the center but has experienced issues related to it in her downtown workplace. Over a hundred people gathered in front of the Shaw Building, in downtown Charlottetown to protest the outreach centre on Oct. 28. Their goal is ‘to shut the outreach centre and move it somewhere else,’ said one of the protesters.During the Oct. 28 rally, similar issues were raised, including from another protester who said she chased away from her property one of the outreach centre users after he had stripped. Hailey Gallant said it makes her scared for her daughter.
Hailey Gallant, one of the protesters at the Shaw Building on Oct. 28, says she attended for her seven-year-old daughter. - Vivian Ulinwa/SaltWire Charlottetown Mayor Philip Brown, who attended an Oct. 28 protest, said the issue of the Community Outreach Centre falls within the province's jurisdiction. - Vivian Ulinwa/SaltWire
“We have been trying to work with the local operator, and that's the Adventure Group, to find what are their responsibilities and to ensure that they're serving the needs of the clients that do use that facility.”
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