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EDMONTON, VANCOUVER and MONTREAL -- Laws across Canada controlling and policing panhandling vary widely depending on the city, but the unwritten rules on the street amongst beggars are pretty much the same wherever you go. From Montreal to Edmonton to Vancouver, "panners" often respect a kind of beggars' code: rules that govern how and where they can raise money. They may in most cases be only collecting coins, but it's clearly a profitable business. For Louie, who makes roughly $7 an hour, adding up to $200 a week, his "office" seven days a week, four hours a day is the entrance to Granville SkyTrain station in Vancouver's downtown. Estimates of how many "panners" there are in Vancouver vary but some say it is a hardcore group of about 75 regulars. They know each other, and respect each other's territory. Louie says he secured the Granville Street site only when his predecessor "retired." Being there day in and day out for three years since has officially staked the 53-year-old's claim. Print Edition - Section Front There's an unspoken rule not to "cut another guy's grass," he explained. It's one person per 100-metre radius, and first-come, first-served - with trumping rights going to panners with seniority. But there's still a gentlemanly aspect to this street code. In Montreal, panhandlers protect their corners of concrete like office workers treat their cubicles - with a few punches thrown in. Herman Allen begs in front of Schwartz's deli, Montreal's famed smoked-meat shrine. The 57-year-old takes turns sharing this prime panhandling spot with one or two other men. They have banded together to keep interlopers out. "We've been here so long it's like it's ours," said Mr. Allen, who often unrolls the deli's awning and sweeps the sidewalk before customers start arriving toward 9 a.m. "Other guys stop by but as soon as they see us come up, they leave. They don't argue." No one knows exactly how many people are living on the streets in Montreal - estimates vary wildly from a few thousand to 30,000 depending on whom you count. And the way they spend the money in their upturned caps and cups varies too. Many support drug and alcohol habits, others buy cigarettes, while others pay debts or the rent on an occasional room. 555 Belomorkanal Bond Camel Chesterfield Dallas Davidoff Dunhill Epique Esse Gauloises Karelia Kent L&M Lucky Strike Magna Marlboro Marlboro Mild Seven Monte Carlo More Pall Mall Parliament Peter I R1 Rothmans Russian Style Salem Sobranie Sovereign Viceroy Virginia Slims Vogue West Winston
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