PERSPECTIVES – Tragedies of Dundas Street: Homelessness, inequality and Canadian neoliberalism
Scenes from Zombie-Land: London Ontario, Dundas Street If you don’t know already, ask any local Londoner: they are likely to tell you that downtown London and especially Dundas Street is the “no-go zone,” “the zombie land.” What they mean is the daily unfolding of the human tragedies of homelessness and rampant drug addiction that have marred the face of downtown. You see numerous people lying unconscious on the side of the street, some going through the notorious fentanyl fold, needles and drug pipes left on the sidewalks. The sad news is that London is not an exception in comparison to other Ontario cities; it is just one of the worst ones. When you look at the numbers, you start to fathom the depth and urgency of the problem. A 2025 report by Western University Centre for Research on Health Equity shows…
