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Emergency personnel rushed an Occupy Toronto participant to the hospital after an apparent drug overdose just days after an overdose left a 23-year-old woman dead at Occupy Vancouver.

Police and emergency services were called to St. James Park Tuesday morning around 10 a.m. where they found a man in his 20’s in distress. His condition is not life-threatening.

It was one of the few times police had come to the site — another was when a drunken martial arts instructor had become violent — but for those who had been occupying the site for some time, the incident came as no surprise.

The large tarp complex in the centre of the park where the man overdosed was known as the jungle gym and was inhabited by people who often flouted the rules, other protesters say. This group had copious amounts of trash and had damaged the trees, violating an agreement with the city and nearby church to protect park property. They were associated with drugs, specifically meth, protesters said.

“The tent had become a source of concern,” said Antonin Smith, a 34-year-old student at the University of Toronto and Occupy Toronto police liaison.

Recently, he said, those in the tarp complex had stolen supplies from the organizers to make “fire retardant bricks out of cardboard boxes and shaving cream.” They also stole deodorant, he said.

Smith said that marshals, part of the park’s ad-hoc security body, had repeatedly told those in the tarp complex to shape up or ship out, but were unable to affect change. This week, the population in the complex had peaked.

Phoenix Laforest, a 26-year-old self-described trans-female, was sleeping in the tent where the man overdosed Tuesday morning. “I woke up when the EMS crews were taking him away,” she said.

But she fell back asleep. “I’m an insomniac,” said Laforest, “sleep is like gold to me.”

After the man overdosed, the so-called jungle gym was dismantled and Occupy Toronto organizers held a meeting to discuss safety protocol and the coming cold weather.

One of the items on the agenda was the tent privacy policy. “How do we check if there are alive or not alive people?” said Ryan Markel, a 31-year-old occupier, “we have to check to make sure tents are safe.”

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Usually, the Occupy security team handles safety issues. However, if a situation gets out of hand, the marshals can escort the offender to the fountain on King St., where police often wait.

The system, said Smith, is working well. As for what happened Tuesday, though, he’s less impressed. “I came here to do politics,” he said, “not pick up after drug users.”