Hotel program provides indoor housing for Toronto homeless
Toronto’s latest hotel program, Pathway Inside, is moving many of its homeless residents into hotel spaces provided and run by the city. .
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Scavenger hunt lets families enjoy supporting food bank
On April 3, the Mississauga Food Bank will be holding the Scavenger Hunt, an initiative that aims to raise food for people in need.
Newmarket homeless shelter and kitchen stays open during COVID-19 outbreak
Providing outreach support to people experiencing homelessness is particularly difficult — yet crucial — during the coronavirus pandemic, according to medical professionals.
Homeless and in a wheelchair, Toni Corrado navigates Toronto’s drop-in shelters
At 4 a.m., the lights are dim as soft snores and whispers travel the floor of Sistering’s 24-hour drop-in centre.
How a toque can help combat homelessness
Volunteers sold toques all over Toronto for the annual Toque Tuesday campaign to prevent homelessness.
Vigil for homeless Toronto woman killed in clothing donation bin
More than 100 people gathered on Thursday Jan. 10, 2019 to mourn the death of Crystal Papineau in the back alley of Bloorcourt Village, the location of a clothing donation bin where she died two days earlier.
Anti-poverty group calls on government to fix shelter issues
An anti-poverty activist group is calling on the city, province and federal government to solve the crisis in Toronto’s homeless shelters.
Leaside United Church chooses cold to keep homeless warm
By spending a night in the cold, Tanya Wiles-Bell hopes to bridge a generational gap in her church community while raising awareness about homelessness.
From streets to Sanctuary
Patrick Sullivan dedicates his life to raising awareness about marginalized people to students and youth in the GTA through his business Bridges for Youth 2. His business, Bridges for Youth 2, operates out of Sanctuary, a church on Charles Street with a unique way of carrying out their mission to help Toronto’s poor.
Putting a face on voicelessness
It’s the holiday season and the homeless shelter at Yonge and Sheppard is eerily empty. The majority of the women and girls who usually populate the YWCA have left to join their families. Except for Elisheva Passarello. She walks the halls by herself once again; it has been five years since she has seen her son, let alone spent a holiday with him.
“What was hard was homeless people often have someone; I had no one, not even my own son,” Passarello said. “What’s more difficult was that he didn’t have me.”