A dangerous situation: Ontario mayor outlines city effort to curb panhandling [Video]

It is not uncommon to roll up to an Ontario intersection and see someone asking for help, and one city is taking steps in an effort to put an end to the practice.

“It’s a dangerous situation and it’s an illegal situation,” said Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati, while citing the Safe Cities Act. “You cannot be walking through canvassing in intersections.”

There was a successful court challenge to portions of the Safer Streets Act last year, but the ruling judge upheld a ban on walking onto a street to ask drivers for money.

Niagara Falls erected signs at the intersection of Morrison Street and Dorchester Road a couple of months back that ask people not to give money to panhandlers, while also including the logos of a local food bank and a local soup kitchen in the hopes that people will contribute there instead.

“If you want to …