Volunteer outreach workers are worried the City of Fredericton’s stance on tent encampments will make life more difficult for people living on the streets, particularly with the closure of a 33-bed overnight shelter as of Friday. The shelter, located on the grounds of the New Brunswick Exhibition, was slated to close at the end of […]

Toronto has seen a substantial drop in the number of homeless encampments in the past year, according to city data, but advocates for unhoused people say that doesn’t mean homelessness is decreasing. In a statement Wednesday, the city said the number of encampments on its properties decreased year-over-year from 283 in March 2025 to 84

Members of the town council in La Ronge said they’ll consider ideas brought forward at a public forum last week before deciding Monday night whether to create a campground for homeless people. About 40 people attended the public meeting at the Mel Hegland Arena, including residents, business owners, RCMP and paramedics. “It’s important for us

As one of North America’s largest homeless shelters faces overwhelming pressures, the Calgary Drop-In Centre (DI) is considering major changes. The DI has stood in Calgary’s East Village for a quarter of a century, and it’s signed on to remain there until at least 2050. But in a shelter sometimes used by more than 900

The City of Ottawa has come up with a strategy to deal with the ongoing challenge of homeless families, a problem that’s seen hundreds sleeping in motels for months at a time. As of March 2026, 664 families — including more than 1,200 children — were in the system, the strategy points out. That’s a

What once was a program designed simply to offer more warm spaces for Calgary’s homeless population during the city’s coldest days, is looking at expanding after recording its highest number of individual users yet. The Calgary Homeless Foundation released data from the fourth year of its Extreme Weather Response (EWR) program on Thursday. Despite this

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