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Old Brewery Mission says its mobile health clinic has intervened 2,691 times to help homeless people in the community in its first year.

Providing more than just coffee and a warm, safe space to those in need, the Old Brewery Mission Café also provides access to the internet, laundry machines and even counselling.

The Hôtel-Dieu site will no long serve the unhoused in the downtown east population, leaving users of the more than 100 shelter beds in limbo.

A craft brew non-alcoholic beer for dogs is being brewed up at a canning facility in Fredericton, N.B. and shipped to bars, restaurants and retail stores across Canada.

Suzanna Parsons believes recent renovations to the second floor of the Old Brewery Missions' Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion will mean the world to women who stay here.

Montreal's oldest organization serving people without housing says it can no longer afford to serve meals on weekends.

The homeless crisis across the province is getting worse, especially in Montreal. The provincial government will be investing $9.7 million to help tackle it.

The iconic red flower will be blooming once gain on lepels as the annual poppy campaign kicks off across the country honouring the veterans.

Experts say as the homeless and opioid problems worsen more services will be needed to help the vulnerable, so a solution needs to be found, fast.

Nearly four months after a homeless encampment under the Ville-Marie Expressway was dismantled, about two-thirds of the people who were evicted are still unhoused.

Chez Doris is temporarily pausing some day services until December at the earliest because of staffing shortages.

The STM's special constables already carry telescopic batons, but the authority says the gel would be a better de-escalation tool during interventions involving people in crisis.

Residents and business owners of yet another Montreal neighbourhood are raising concerns about an explosion of drug use on the streets.

More than 100 police officers, including members of the Vancouver Police Department and RCMP, responded to the high-profile incident. Five people were charged in the aftermath.

According to a scientist from McGill University, women who have served in the Armed Forces represent a disproportionate number among Canada's homeless veteran population.

Inflation has made dietary staples like bread and cereal up to five times costlier than their gluten-containing counterparts, according to Celiac Canada.

In addition to medical services, a new mobile unit making rounds in Montreal will offer help for things like getting identification cards, health cards and preparing taxes. 

Witnesses described seeing the victim snatched as he exited a Port Moody gym and beaten by men in masks as they pulled him into a van and drove away.

Donald Tremblay and other advocates fighting on behalf of the unhoused are disappointed that a solution still hasn't been found since last fall.

A group of people encamped under the Ville-Marie expressway have scored a small victory against the Quebec government after the province made plans to evict them.