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A pungent odour hangs in the air of dark, dingy hallways that lead to shared washrooms with missing doors and suites locked from the outside with chains.
That's the atmosphere people encountered when they entered the Manwin Hotel on Friday afternoon, following a protest just outside where community members called for better living conditions within the Main Street building.
"This isn't the way people should be treated, this isn't the way people should be living," said Victor Mondaca with the Sabe Peace Walkers, a foot patrol focused on Indigenous-led non-violent crisis interventions.
"If this is what our city is doing, then we should be ashamed as a city collectively."
Barb Guimond organized the protest to call for the hotel to be closed. She was among four dozen people outside the hotel while some drummed and danced.
The Manwin has been the scene of stabbings, assaults and deaths several times over the years. Two people were killed in separate incidents earlier this year - two of at least four homicides in the space in the past six or so years.
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