Homeless

If you’ve lived long enough, you’ve likely realized that no one is perfect. People wrong us and screw up. Friends and family do things that are disappointing. But if there’s respect and love there, and ownership of one’s mistakes, it doesn‘t have to be the end of a relationship. On…

The director Chloé Zhao’s films have been described as poetic. That could mean that her work seems always to be seeking the sublime: in the wide, luminous stretches of South Dakota’s Badlands, where her first two features, Songs My Brothers Taught Me and The Rider, take place; in the dancing…

By Michael Potestio, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterKamloops This Week Thu., March 4, 2021timer2 min. read A first-of-its-kind grassroots networking event has a youth social agency in Kamloops confident it has the ear of government, with a summary report forthcoming. Staff from A Way Home Kamloops Society, who have experienced homelessness…

Northern Ontario is on high alert amid a rise in COVID-19 cases that has hit the homeless community in the Thunder Bay area particularly hard. Northern Ontario is on high alert amid a rise in COVID-19 cases that has hit the homeless community in the Thunder Bay area particularly hard. …

There isn’t much in the way of dignity for the dead in Navotas Public Cemetery. Remains are stacked in cinder-block holes five levels high. Their openings are cemented shut and painted in blue, yellow or pink pastels. Those whose families can’t afford a plaque have their names scrawled in black…

Alex has been homeless on and off for 10 years, but when the pandemic hit he lost his job as a lorry driver and found himself living in the back of a van. A UK government scheme, Everyone In, has helped to house thousands of people during the pandemic. But…

Shas­tri Boodan A preg­nant woman and her fam­i­ly are home­less af­ter her shack on a river­bank was torched on Thurs­day. Vicky Boodram, 36, who is eight months preg­nant said around 3 pm her house on Riv­er Branch Trace, Kel­ly Vil­lage was torched. Boodram said at that point she con­tem­plat­ed sui­cide…

LABUAN: A 70-year-old woman who had been stranded for over 30 years in Sarawak finally returned home and reunited with her family here today, thanks to a mercy operation. The woman identified as Salmah Adeh (pix), left Labuan 32 years ago in search of a better income in Sarawak. However,…

Conwoman Melissa Caddick, who is suspected of committing suicide while being investigated for ripping off dozens of investors, will likely have left her family homeless.  The 49-year-old counted her parents, husband and brother as her closest confidants, but now their luxury properties are likely to be seized by authorities.  After…

Author of the article: Taylor Blewett Concerns about the Tabor apartments (120-140 St. Denis Street) arrangement range from the absence of a competitive procurement, to the lack of tenancy rights, to living conditions at the property. Photo by Jean Levac /Postmedia A choice looms over two council committees, meeting Tuesday,…