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

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