Exploring Theme: "Homelessness"

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...