Exploring Theme: "Homelessness"

Space for family, involvement in culture tops lists of most-wants Joanne Mason (left) and Lucille Bruce studied the housing options of Indigenous seniors in Winnipeg for two years. Photo: Haley Lamy  APTN News: A growing number of Indigenous seniors are homeless before finding an affordable place to live in Winnipeg, according to a study released...

APTN News: Dressed in a black hoodie and shorts, Kathleen takes a drag from her cigarette under the midnight sun. On this night, she has nowhere to go and nothing to do in downtown Yellowknife. “You feel like you’re thrown out like the garbage,” Kathleen said. Originally from Kugluktuk, Nunavut but for the last five...

APTN News: Advocates who work in Montreal’s shelter system say 33 unhoused people have died in the city over the last three years – many of them were Indigenous women. David Chapman, executive director of Resilience Montreal, said the housing crisis makes the situation worse. “Another factor is the increase in the more dangerous drugs...

APTN News: A new report by the Montreal Indigenous Community Network says there are still gaps in the system that the people it serves are falling through.  According to the report, Indigenous people make up 12 per cent of the homeless people in Montreal despite only making up .6 per cent of the population.  “It’s...

APTN News: Canada’s housing advocate says a staggering number of Indigenous people are part of the country’s growing homeless population. “Manitoba reported that in Winnipeg in 2018 two-thirds of people experiencing homelessness were Indigenous and that number climbs to 94 per cent in Thompson,” Marie-Josée Houle told Nation to Nation. “In Saskatoon an estimated 90...

Dickie Nelson’s death in a tent city as temperatures plunged last December came as more homeless people in northern B.C. – many of them Indigenous – are showing up in smaller communities in need of shelter. Dickie Nelson froze to death in a tattered tent in Terrace, B.C., last December on a night when the...