How Black-led groups quickly moved more than 200 asylum seekers off a Toronto street to shelter

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As a group of more than 200 asylum seekers slept on the street in downtown Toronto amid a funding stalemate between the city and the federal government, Ainsworth Morgan told himself the situation couldn’t continue and got on the phone. 

Morgan, co-founder of the 100 Strong Foundation, a non-profit that aims to empower Black boys to become leaders, was moved by the sight he saw outside the city shelter intake office on Peter Street, and jumped into action.

“As Canadians, the vast majority of us, we all have an immigrant story,” he told CBC Toronto. “Seeing myself in them, I wanted to do

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