Toronto respite centre plans change
Plans to convert an empty commercial building in downtown Toronto into a 60-space, 24-hour, low-barrier respite centre have shifted to become a 50-space shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
Saint Elizabeth improvises in launching homeless hospice
Like a healthcare jazz band, the Saint Elizabeth Foundation, the charitable arm of SE Health Care, has improvised its way around provincial funding priorities to launch a new hospice for the homeless in Windsor, Ont.
Halifax extends shelter initiative through summer
With an ever-growing housing crisis in Nova Scotia, the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth has extended its emergency shelter initiative.
Pandemic or not, St. Peter’s parish is there for those in need
Quite simply, pandemic restrictions or not, St. Peter’s Church in Nanaimo, B.C., will not shirk its duty to look out for the needy in society.
Francis Campbell: Halifax diocese writes its own Nativity narrative
It’s coming on Christmas and the Halifax-Yarmouth archdiocese is writing its own inspirational story of Bethlehem.
Halifax takes unique run at housing crisis
Halifax parishes are working to fight homelessness by offering church property as the sites for emergency shelters to house those in need.
Sr. Sue Moran, co-founder of Out of the Cold, remembered at funeral
The woman who demanded Toronto meet its homeless citizens face-to-face and heart-to-heart has died. Sr. Sue Moran, co-founder of Out of the Cold, died of a sudden heart attack Sunday night, Dec. 19. She was 78 years old.
Homeless shelter volunteers put wheels in motion
Food bank use continues to rise
More than 840,000 Canadians got food from a food bank in March this year. That isn’t the number who needed food they couldn’t afford. It’s just the number who swallowed their pride and figured out when and where they could collect a box of groceries consisting for the most part of stuff grocery shoppers didn’t want for themselves.