Vulnerable Populations

• Lethbridge businesses offering free winter clothing to vulnerable residents

  Mitts, toques and scarves are some of the essential winter items being offered by downtown Lethbridge businesses to those who need it most.

  Canada

  Nov 22, 2023
  
• Closed due to heat, Ark Aid looks to reopen next week with installation of temporary AC

  Londoners are being invited to join in and eat their lunch or dinner in Victoria Park to call attention to the lack of cool places where the city's vulnerable can go.

  Canada

  Jul 21, 2022
  
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• ‘COVID-19 is still out there’: New clinics in east Calgary aimed at getting more kids vaccinated

  COVID-19 vaccination clinics are being held in Calgary this summer for pediatric and adolescent doses.

  Health

  Jun 24, 2022
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• Kingston RN working to get N95 masks to vulnerable populations

  Kingston registered nurse Deb Lefebvre has started a GoFundMe account to purchase N95 masks to distribute to vulnerable populations.

  Canada

  Jan 22, 2022
• Coronavirus pandemic exposing health inequities among Canadians, experts say

  The coronavirus pandemic is exposing health inequities that have long existed, experts say, while non-profit organizations predict a variety of supports will be needed for a long time.

  Health

  May 25, 2020
• Oppenheimer Park campers say province’s housing plan leaves out those in more urgent need

  Advocates for the Downtown Eastside camp say the plan is only focused on the most visible of Vancouver's homeless, and that thousands more need those hotel units first.

  Apr 25, 2020
• COVID-19: Vancouver, Victoria homeless camps must be emptied by early May, gov’t orders

  The transition — meant to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus within groups of people already at risk — will be a temporary one with the goal of moving people into longer-term housing at a later date, officials are promising.

  Health

  Apr 25, 2020
• Coronavirus: BC Housing to move homeless people out of Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park

  Social Development Minister Shane Simpson is expected to make the formal announcement on Saturday at 10 a.m.

  Health

  Apr 24, 2020
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• Saint John one of four sites for national violence against women project

  Saint John is one of four Canadian cities taking part in a national project on violence against women.

  Canada

  Nov 30, 2016