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Province has no plans to issue deadline for vacating Kelowna homeless camp

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After the province set a deadline for homeless camps in Vancouver and Victoria to be vacated amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no plan to make a similar order for the Recreation Avenue camp in Kelowna.

Instead, a hygiene centre has opened and hotel rooms are being tapped as temporary accommodations. Last week, the province mandated three camps in Vancouver and Victoria be vacated by May 9.

By issuing the ministerial order, the province effectively gave itself and city governments a deadline to get campers into temporary accommodations.

However, the province has no plans to set a similar deadline in Kelowna. It appears the province doesn’t have the same concerns about Kelowna’s Recreation Avenue camp as it does the camps that are being

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