Homeless

Author of the article: Jim Gurnett Publishing date: Mar 09, 2021  •  March 9, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  14 Comments Two camp residents share a hug after being evicted from the homeless camp near downtown Edmonton known as Camp Pekiwewin. Police and peace officers closed the camp down…

“This is what they have done,” Robert Busch writes with weary outrage as he forwards me a photograph of a group of nuns, one of them wearing a “Stop the Steal” button, cheerfully joining President Trump’s January 6 rally in Washington, D.C. Busch, who lives in Redwood City, California, recently…

Over a third of privately operated emergency homeless shelters in the capital had fire safety issues when they were inspected by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE). A failure to update fire logs, to display emergency evacuation routes and to supply fire blankets and carbon monoxide alarms were all noted…

TORONTO -- Anglers from a popular fishing hole in southern Manitoba are providing hot meals for Winnipeg's homeless after a bountiful season on the ice. For weeks, thousands of anglers have crowded the ice on a particular part of Lake Winnipeg near the town of Riverton, saying the fishing has…

(CNN)Less than five minutes' drive from downtown Salt Lake City sits the quiet neighborhood of Fairpark. The area hosts an annual state fair, a regional campus of Utah State University and modest homes with small yards. On one of those yards sits a random group of tents where people experiencing…

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…