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A designated homeless encampment site staffed around the clock would require significant resources and could pull support away from other efforts to address homelessness, a new City of Winnipeg report says. In December, city council voted to have the public service study the creation of a managed encampment pilot site, including identifying potential locations, estimating […]

Nine months after discovering it would need to find a new home, BeTheChangeYYC has found a new location for its headquarters. The street-level outreach group said on Wednesday it has secured a new space at 840 7th Ave. S.W. along the CTrain line in downtown Calgary. The group, which launched in 2015, distributes emergency essential

At 61 years old, Jacqueline Turbitt never thought she would be homeless at this point in her life. But when she was renovicted from her longtime apartment in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley earlier this year, she says she had nowhere to go. Turbitt has since stayed at a shelter in Kentville, N.S., and says the

Women, Indigenous and Black people account for a growing proportion of Vancouver’s record homeless population, according to a report headed to city council on Tuesday. The numbers are drawn from the 2025 Metro Vancouver homeless count, conducted over a 24-hour period in March of last year, but drills down into Vancouver-specific data and provides a

Winnipeg’s homeless community may be growing despite efforts to reduce some of the pressures forcing people onto the street. End Homelessness Winnipeg says there were 8,248 people using shelters, temporary spaces or living on the streets as of the end of March. “We know Winnipeggers are deeply concerned about our unsheltered relatives,” End Homelessness CEO

A cluster of tuberculosis cases in Saskatchewan, which has one of the highest rates in Canada, has been traced to a homeless shelter in Prince Albert. “In a recent shelter investigation, 11 cases were found over a period of 12 months,” Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, said. Shahab said there is not

The conversion of a downtown Winnipeg building from a college into a transitional housing facility is getting a thumbs up from some of its neighbours, even though they don’t know much about it. The provincial government purchased the former Booth University College at 447 Webb Place — near the corner of Colony Street and Ellice

The Town of La Ronge is considering building a campground for homeless people this year, hoping to reduce encampments elsewhere. “We’re noticing an increased amount of camping in our parks and green spaces during the warmer months,” community services director Connor Tessier wrote in an emailed statement to CBC. The town has received complaints from

Facing a looming closure, the social service organizations that operate a temporary winter shelter and drop-in centre, called the Hub, in Nanaimo, B.C., are proposing to create a permanent, year-round shelter — but it wouldn’t be ready for months, and the proposed location is already facing opposition. At city council Monday night, Deborah Hollins with

Housing emerged as a dominant issue this week at the first Baffin Mayors’ Forum in 14 years. “There are more and more homeless,” Sanirajak’s Deputy Mayor Manasee Ulayak said Tuesday during one of several roundtable discussions held at Iqaluit’s Aqsarniit hotel during the three-day from that ended Thursday. Although the leaders have not finalized the