Asylum seekers staying in federally-funded hotels will soon have to check out as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says that funding will end on Sept. 30. The department says it will help people staying in hotels find housing,

Single adult male asylum seekers who refuse to move out of hotels into "suitable alternative accommodation" will risk becoming homeless, the Home Office has said.

Witnesses say one of the pro-immigration protesters near the Brook Hotel had approached the much larger group wearing a balaclava - in seconds, the pent-up fury spilt over as an angry crowd surged towards the police.