Homeless campers arrested after invading vacant Nanaimo school

Nanaimo RCMP were in the process of removing protesters from the roof of Rutherford Elementary Saturday with the help of a fire department ladder truck after they broke into the vacant school a day earlier.
All of the protesters were being arrested for break-and-enter and mischief, said Nanaimo RCMP Const. Gary O’Brien.
The school will be boarded back up.
Homeless advocates occupied the empty school for a “schoolhouse squat” just hours after the province announced it would prov