Coronavirus Homeless

• Five COVID-19 cases reported at Vancouver’s Union Gospel Mission

  Four of the cases involve staff, while a fifth was a person staying at the Union Gospel Mission's East Hastings St. shelter.

  Health

  Oct 29, 2020
  
• Coronavirus: Brock Mission, overflow shelter bed program in Peterborough reopening next week

  Peterborough's Brock Mission and its emergency overflow shelter will both reopen on July 22.

  Economy

  Jul 16, 2020
  
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• City of London allowing temporary homeless encampments during coronavirus pandemic

  Since the coronavirus pandemic made its impact in mid-March, the City of London paused its ban to allow homeless encampments.

  Canada

  Jun 14, 2020
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• Camp cleared at Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park, but advocates say housing fight ‘not over’

  The province says about 265 people have been moved to temporary housing, but one homeless advocate says the province housed the most visible, not the most vulnerable.

  Politics

  May 9, 2020
• Spiked fences go up at Oppenheimer Park amid plan to house homeless campers

  The province is moving residents of the camp and two homeless camps in Victoria into safer temporary housing, including rooms at six hotels. 

  May 1, 2020
• Province has no plans to issue deadline for vacating Kelowna homeless camp

  The province set a deadline for homeless camps in Vancouver and Victoria to be vacated amid the pandemic.

  Apr 30, 2020
• Vancouver Island cemetery becomes homeless camp amid COVID-19 concerns

  About 18 people have set up tents in the graveyard between Parskville's St. Anne's and St. Edmund's churches in Parksville.

  Apr 22, 2020
• Homeless activists arrested after occupying Vancouver elementary school over COVID-19

  Some of the activists, who are calling for safe housing for Vancouver's homeless to stay isolated during the coronavirus crisis, made their way to the roof.

  Apr 19, 2020
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• Médecins Sans Frontières to operate in Canada, assist with Toronto homeless amid COVID-19

  The group's executive director said the impact of the novel coronavirus on vulnerable groups, like Canada's homeless population, has created an acute need for help.

  Canada

  Apr 13, 2020
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• ‘Assume it’s here’: Advocates urge action as COVID-19 reported in Downtown Eastside

  "It was never a matter of if, but preparing for when," said community advocate Karen Ward.

  Apr 9, 2020