Homeless

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Feb. 21, 2026, 6:00 AM EST By  Hussein Ibish The inaugural meeting of the President Donald Trump-led “Board of Peace” on Thursday was fittingly described as a “show” in the White House readout circulated to the press. It was indeed merely a show. And while it is supposed to address…

Article content As a result, growing numbers of people with developmental disabilities are in homeless shelters or hospitals, said Robin Meyers, executive director of Total Communication Environment, a local developmental services agency in Ottawa. Article content “Locally, we are seeing people with developmental disabilities living in shelters for extended periods…

By: The Canadian Press Posted: 3:17 PM CST Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 Last Modified: 4:17 PM CST Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 MONTREAL - The City of Montreal is changing its approach to unhoused people, promising to tolerate some homeless encampments instead of dismantling them.  Read this article for free: To…

CRUSHED: A truck crashed into a resident's home, causing significant damage. Picture: SUPPLIED SIBULELE MTONGANA & SUE MACLENNAN  More a month after their house was destroyed by an out-of-control truck, a family living in Joe Slovo, Nemato, is still homeless with rebuilding efforts at a standstill.    Around lunchtime one day in early January, a tipper truck crashed into Elvis Magadaza’s house, flattening part of the structure.   …

A homeless man was found with burn injuries in Claxton Bay on Wednesday evening. At around 8:30 p.m. a witness observed a man, known locally as “Crazy,” inside a makeshift wooden structure along Connector Road, Macaulay, Claxton Bay. The man, believed to be in his mid-50s and of East Indian…

Dramatic surveillance footage shows the terrifying moment an 18-month-old girl was  seized by a man inside a supermarket in Bergamo, triggering a frantic struggle with her parents. The incident unfolded at the Uscita supermarket as the family was exiting through automatic doors. A 47-year-old homeless Romanian man lunged toward the…

On any given night, 60,000 people in Canada will go to sleep homeless. Research estimates that more than half of them have had a brain injury at one point in their lives, most of them being injured before becoming homeless. An estimated 22.5 per cent live with moderate or severe…

A high-pitched noise device has been installed at a Perth underpass in what critics are calling a disturbing example of hostile architecture targeting homeless people. The device, located at the Lord Street underpass next to a train line in East Perth, emits a piercing buzzing sound and has been installed…

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