The department of community services and some municipalities are working with service providers across the province to help people experiencing homelessness cope with the heat. Open Arms Resource Centre, in Kentville, is making a special effort to support the steady traffic they’ve seen this week. Staff are particularly concerned about people who don’t have proper […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to publicly apologize for the discrimination faced by First Nations children and their families because of the federal government’s child welfare policies, CBC News has learned. Trudeau outlined the government’s plan for the apology in a June 17 letter to Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak. “I

City politicians passed new rules Tuesday for where homeless people can pitch a tent, but not before a marathon debate about restrictions that could impact the current 120 people and 15 pets living in camps in London.  The three-hour discussion included debates over amendments and amendments to amendments, before councillors ultimately voted to pass the community

A proposed 27-room boarding house in Iqaluit would be an affordable place to call home for people who currently live in shelters, says Laurel McCorriston, executive director of the non-profit housing organization Uquutaq Society. The City of Iqaluit’s planning and development committee voted to grant a development permit to Uquutaq during its meeting Tuesday, where

Nestled against the fence of a tennis court and steps from an elementary school sits an encampment with some 30 tents filled with people without a home. Not long ago, François Moissan was one of them. “I was in the same situation. I got out of it, but now I kind of [give] back. I bring food to the people who

Public computers and shower facilities are two of the new amenities coming to the Windsor’s Homelessness and Housing Help Hub (H4) this summer, part of a council endorsement to expand services at the hub and improve the downtown core.  The city said Tuesday that as part of the Strengthen the Core plan approved by council

A series of fires that have burned multiple tiny homes and other shelters in a homeless camp is being described as “odd” by the fire chief in Prince George, B.C. Over the course of two weeks, from May 27 to June 10, seven shelters were destroyed in five separate fires in the Moccasin Flats homeless

The mobile Mikinakw clinic is more than just medical services. With educational services, cultural animators, traditional healers, and intervention workers, and more, Jennifer Brazeau of the Lanaudière Native Friendship Centre describes the mobile clinic of as their own “mobile friendship centre”. The need for this project was recognized during the pandemic when the Friendship Centre’s

A Sudbury man is building portable toilets to help people in the northern Ontario city who are experiencing homelessness. Holland Marshall said there aren’t many public washrooms available in the city’s downtown core that are open to anyone. “From Monday to Friday there are no public washrooms open at all, [for] 12 hours a day,” he

Every day, Sabrina Robichaud rides her bike to a mural she made in downtown Moncton for friends who died struggling with homelessness. She tidies up the area around the fence on Dominion Street where she made the mural, and all too often, she’ll add a new name to the list. In the weeks since she started