Montreal soup kitchen to stay open after securing emergency funding from province

By Staff The Canadian Press

Posted January 3, 2024 7:13 pm

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An Old Montreal organization serving people without homes says it will be able to continue offering hot meals seven days a week until the end of March after receiving emergency government aid. The Accueil Bonneau shelter is seen Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, in Montreal. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press

An Old Montreal soup kitchen operating since 1877 says it has secured funding from the Quebec government to keep offering hundreds of daily hot meals through at least March.

Fiona Crossling, general director of Accueil Bonneau, says her group was promised emergency funding during a meeting Wednesday with Quebec’s minister responsible for social services, Lionel Carmant.

Accueil Bonneau had said financial pressures would force it to stop serving meals on weekends and that it would have to shut down its soup kitchen — which feeds about 400 people every day — next month.

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Carmant says the government recognizes Accueil Bonneau’s food services as “essential” and that he will help the regional health authority find long-term solutions to the non-profit’s financial challenges.