Homeless

Oilers owner had filed $5M lawsuit over funding for inner-city drop-in centre Get the latest from Jonny Wakefield straight to your inbox Published Jun 11, 2025  •  Last updated Jun 11, 2025  •  4 minute read A file photo of the since demolished Boyle Street Community Services building on 105…

While most people picture urban centres like Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver when they think of homelessness, rural areas like New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula are also seeing an increase. Cédric Landry, development director for the Acadian Peninsula Regional Service Commission, says his organization has been made aware of more requests for…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Street Roots. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. As the city of Portland, Oregon, clawed its way out of the pandemic, it faced a new set of crises:…

Pebetsi Matlaila, a former Skeem Saam actress, joined the growing number of local artists who are having difficulty in the entertainment industry in March. Matlaila is one of the few people who has publicly disclosed that she was homeless and living in a shelter in addition to having financial difficulties.…

"In the past we've had people showering at 6:30 in the morning when our sprinklers come on, and we're better than that in Saskatoon." Published Jun 10, 2025  •  Last updated Jun 10, 2025  •  3 minute read A shower trailer and a cooling and warming station are being set…

A Toronto man who has lived in the same High Park apartment for decades says he now fears for his livelihood after being denied permission to appeal his eviction to Ontario’s top court. Andras Henye, who is disabled, partially blind and dealing with declining health, has lived in the same…

N avi Mumbai: A 60-year-old homeless man was bludgeoned to death, his head smashed with a stone while he was sleeping on the pavement under a bridge at Belapur, around 4 am on Sunday. The man accused of the crime was intoxicated, informed the police. A mob of local slum…

VANCOUVER — Seventy-one-year-old Roger Oake sat on a bench outside the Union Gospel Mission shelter in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after breakfast. He had been sleeping at the shelter for about a month "this time" and said that after several years of homelessness, walking "the beat" during the day when the…

A Sinn Féin TD has accused the Government of ‘not wanting to solve the housing crisis’, after new figures reveal thousands of vacant council homes across the country.  The figures released to Cork North-Central TD Thomas Gould reveal that there 2,749 empty council homes, all at a time when there…

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