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Tom Tang, a 76-year-old former art teacher and street portraitist from China, now lives in a park in Richmond, B.C. He doesn't quite know how he ended up there.

If the injunction is granted, the province would have the legal authority to evict the roughly two dozen people living at the encampment and clear the site.

A recent report conducted by a group of Nova Scotia and Alberta researchers finds about one in four Canadian post-secondary students experiences some form of homelessness.

As BC Housing continues to move residents out of a single-room occupancy hotel on the Granville strip, one man says a family member has been evicted into homelessness.

Nine supportive housing units are being built to offer at-risk youth a safer and more stable place to live, and is being called the first of its kind in New Brunswick. 

Safety concerns, along with poverty and homelessness, were among the top reasons cited for the decline.

The decision by Justice Alexandre Pless also affirms the constitutional rights to safety, security and dignity of people experiencing homelessness.

In 2023, the provincial and municipal governments signed a landmark deal to upload the costs of the two highways, as well as funding for homelessness, subways and light rail. 

The new collaboration between UHN and the Toronto Public Library is aimed at helping people get the help they need, especially for those who are vulnerable like the homeless.

North Edmonton residents are concerned after an apartment fire in April has left them homeless and without answers on if they can get their belongings back.

An Anglican priest has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book detailing her fight to allow an encampment to remain in the yard beside her church.

Mayor Ken Sim was unavailable for an interview Thursday and his office told Global News it was unable to comment on this specific case in question.

More than 8,200 people are living without stable housing in Winnipeg, according to a new report, which says the number of people becoming chronically homeless is on the rise.

New numbers released by the Quebec government are showing that homelessness has increased across the province, with the sharpest rises outside Montreal.

York Regional Police say the investigation, dubbed Project Great One, was led by its financial crimes unit in partnership with Regional Municipality of York.

Crews used heavy machinery to start moving structures and debris at the Abbotsford encampment after erecting yellow fencing around the area on Tuesday.

Police in Amherst, N.S., say they're still looking for the suspects in a fatal shooting outside a homeless shelter in the town on Monday evening. 

In February, the town of Smithers said it was selected as one of the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs and BC Housing’s HEART and HEARTH communities.

The public inquiry was launched following recent deaths of unhoused people in Montreal, including two who died within 24 hours early last week.

The province's application for a court injunction to evict the roughly two dozen residents and dismantle the camp, along a busy stretch of Highway 97, has been postponed.