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...

NationTalk: AHMA agrees with statements made by the First Nations Leadership Council and the Federal Housing Advocate related to upholding the dignity and human rights of encampment residents. We share concerns about the displacement of CRAB Park residents and call on the Vancouver Park Board to honor their commitments to reconciliation and immediately prioritize a...

NationTalk: Taproot Edmonton – The United Conservative Party government describes its recently-launched homeless reception centre as a success, but some advocates for people without housing strongly disagree. The province launched a navigation and support centre out of a Hope Mission building in January. Jason Nixon, minister of seniors, community, and social services, said the centre was in the works...

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...

Police tearing down a homeless encampment in Edmonton. Photo: Chris Stewart/APTN.  APTN News: Undefined Indigenous cultural supports and liaisons to be offered at a navigation centre to be opened to support homeless people removed from encampments being torn down in Edmonton are not good enough says the co-founder of Tawaw Outreach Collective. “Given most unhoused...

‘Unhoused people have the same rights as anyone else,’ says lawyer who launched a lawsuit about encampment removals Sign saying “affordable housing for sale” beside an encampment. Photo: Danielle Paradis/APTN  APTN News: The Coalition for Justice and Human Rights (CJHR) initiated legal action against the City of Edmonton regarding its policy of encampment removals where...

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...

The BC Assembly of First Nations – is pleased to welcome the recent verdict in Prince George (City) v. Johnny. Once again, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled against the City of Prince George’s attempts to dismantle an encampment, known as “Moccasin Flats,” located within a vacant lot in Prince George. After losing...