When the encampment Kat Salmon had been living in for months in Brandon was recently torn down, she lost much more than her home.
“They destroyed a whole bunch of our stuff,” Salmon said. “My tent was wrecked, the poles were wrecked. One of my laptops, one of my neighbour’s laptops were wrecked. A bunch of other stuff was missing and wrecked. We’re not happy.”
Salmon, who has been living on the streets of Brandon for six years, had most recently been living at a campsite with four others near the railway tracks by Pacific Avenue. The site was hidden behind a hill in the
