EDMONTON- The mayor of Edmonton says he plans to declare a housing and homelessness emergency because the system has reached what he calls a “breaking point.” Mayor Amarjeet Sohi says in a blog post that he has called a special city council meeting for Monday where he will move to declare the emergency. The announcement comes a day after police dismantled the last of eight homeless encampments deemed by the city to be “high risk.” It also comes as the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights, which has filed a lawsuit over the city’s encampment eviction policy, seeks an injunction putting restrictions on the city and police response to camps in certain situations, such as when temperatures get too low. In his blog post, Sohi says the number of people

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