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

Like many friendship centres across Canada, Native Montreal, an organization founded in 2014, is bracing for serious cuts. At the end of March, the federal government’s Urban Programming for Indigenous Peoples (UPIP) funding stream is set to end, and Native Montreal relies on it for operational support. “The potential cuts will definitely impact us,” executive

An annual point-in-time count found 219 children under the age of 12 and 209 young people between 13 and 24 living in Saskatoon without permanent shelter on a single night last October. That’s a total of 428 people under the age of 24, which is more than 20 per cent of the 1,931 people enumerated,

The City of Ottawa is poised to purchase a former downtown hotel for use as transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness. In a report prepared for the city’s finance and corporate services committee on March 3, city staff recommend buying 377 O’Connor St., located on the southeast corner of O’Connor and Gladstone Avenue, to help

Ottawa city staff are proposing a new way to help people experiencing homelessness and addiction while also addressing community safety concerns. The proposed system, jointly governed by the city’s community and social services department and the Ottawa Police Service’s community outreach initiatives, would consolidate what are currently multiple outreach teams and centralize them under a

Kayla DeMong agrees with almost everything she heard at a town hall Thursday night to discuss safety concerns about the supervised consumption site she runs in Pleasant Hill. The executive director of Prairie Harm Reduction listened to an hour and a half of speakers during a meeting that attracted more than 150 people. Some shared

Nicole Chantal Pauluzzo says she almost lost two of her fingers to frostbite last month while trying to stay warm in a bus shelter in Thunder Bay, Ont. Temperatures reached -47 C with the wind chill, she said, during a cold spell which saw the northwestern Ontario city enact a severe weather response. “You can