Bear Clan Patrol (Beaver Hills House) + HARES — Indigenous-led / anti-cop outreach

Original source: https://www.jhcentre.org/news-and-events/2022/3/21/bear-clan-patrol-edmonton-beaver-hills-house ; https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/spreading-good-love-bear-clan-patrol-now-serving-on-the-streets-of-edmonton/ ; https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/community-fridges-meals-edmonton Retrieved: 2026-07-05

Bear Clan Patrol Edmonton — Beaver Hills House. Indigenous-led community-safety and mutual-aid group, serving downtown since November 2020. Provides necessities to people living downtown "with an emphasis on traditional food and cultural supports"; mission is to foster "a sense of safety and community solidarity." Volunteer-run and donation-supported; many members have direct lived experience of houselessness. It models community safety WITHOUT police — a living alternative to the carceral answer. (Note: the Bear Clan has publicly clashed with EPS — a YouTube record of the group claiming Edmonton police removed them and unhoused people from a transit station — underscoring that non-police safety work and the police apparatus are not partners here.)

HARES (Harm Reduction Society, formerly Treaty 6 Outreach). Began in 2020 in response to the closure of city, volunteer and charity services for the unhoused. A mutual-aid collective providing food, clothing, toiletries, camping supplies and harm-reduction supplies. Distinctive on the record: HARES is "strictly anti-cop" and does not involve police in any of its activities — the sharpest expression of the abolitionist principle among Edmonton's outreach groups, and a direct rebuke of the funded-police model council locked into a formula.

These are the ground-level, non-electoral community-safety and survival groups: Indigenous-led, volunteer, donation-funded, several explicitly outside and against the police relationship — the material form of "community safety" that the escalator's dollars never bought.