21 h. ago City homeless report sees crisis, dismisses public with ‘lazy’ language 

“The homelessness crisis in Toronto is worsening,” a recently released report says – and people are blaming immigration, drug use, NIMBYism, housing and affordability. The “stakeholder engagement report” is meant to provide information about the City of Toronto’s upcoming five-year homelessness plan. While the full 84-page report sheds little new light on the state of […]

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53 h. ago City council ruling adds 'more chaos' to homeless encampments

City council's decision to end the scheduled service depots runs the risk of alienating homeless campers and increasing their desperation

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53 h. ago City council ruling adds 'more chaos' to homeless camps: Advocates

City council's decision to end the scheduled service depots runs the risk of alienating homeless campers and increasing their desperation

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2 w. ago Black public servants to appeal court decision dismissing $2.5

The plaintiffs alleged that Black government workers suffered systemic discrimination in the federal public service.

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2 w. ago As council weighs homeless camp's fate, resident wants to stay put

As London city council is set to weigh in on a proposal to clear one of the city’s largest homeless camps, people living there and residents who live on a nearby street are unsure about what could come next. A city council committee backed Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister’s emergency motion to close the city-run […]

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2 w. ago California mayor suggests giving homeless ‘all the fentanyl they want’ to ‘purge’ problem

A mayor in Southern California is under fire for comments he made about eliminating his city’s homeless population. Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris said he wants to wipe out the city’s homeless numbers by giving them “all the fentanyl they want.” He then doubled down on his suggestion, telling KTTV that homeless criminals “need to […]

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3 w. ago Liberal government’s high immigration policy created housing crisis: report

The federal Liberal government is belatedly trying to fix a  housing affordability crisis it created though immigration policies which caused population growth to far exceed Canada’s capacity to build new homes to accommodate it, according to a new Fraser Institute study. “Despite unprecedented levels of immigration-driven population growth following the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada has failed […]

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