Maple Ridge mayor urged to apologize for saying addicts are ‘raping and pillaging’ community
Mayor Mike Morden posted a 34-minute interview last week claiming 80 per cent of the city’s homeless are addicted to drugs. Continue reading
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‘Not accurate’: Housing minister fires back at Liberal leader over homeless supports in Maple Ridge
By Richard Zussman Online Journalist based at B.C. Legislature
Housing Minister Selina Robinson has written a letter to B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson to correct ‘”inaccurate statements” he has made about planned modular housing units in Maple Ridge. Continue reading
Anti-poverty group slams luxury Toronto Gardiner Expressway dining experience
By Jamie Mauracher Reporter
Protesters said they take issue with the fact the pricey dinners are being held about a kilometre from where the city of Toronto recently dismantled a “tent city.” Continue reading
Advocates for Toronto’s homeless population criticize ordered evacuation of tent city
City officials are in the process of handing out notices to homeless residents living in tents or other temporary shelters on municipal land, giving them 14 days to vacate. Continue reading
Woman suffers burns in 6th fire in 18 months at Maple Ridge homeless camp
By Simon Little Online Journalist
Firefighters say the city is looking at heading to court to enforce fire regulations they say the campers are flouting. Continue reading
Texas detention centre for teenage migrants to stay open into 2019
The announcement was made Wednesday about the Tornillo facility, which opened in June in an isolated corner of the Texas desert. Continue reading
Backyard soup kitchen ‘Stone Soup’ helps people in need one bowl at a time
By Abigail Bimman Global National Ottawa Correspondent
A Nanaimo, B.C., couple brought the stone soup fable to life, running a soup kitchen out of their backyard seven nights a week. Continue reading
U.S. authorities held immigrant children in a ‘tent city’ for months: court filings
More than 500 children have been housed in tents near Tornillo, Texas since August, and 46 have been held there since June, according to a Friday court filing in Los Angeles federal court. Continue reading
Nanaimo tent city evacuated after possible bomb-making components found
By Simon Little Online Journalist
Police said the components were “nothing as sophisticated” as a pressure cooker or pipe bomb, but “enough that it could cause serious harm or death to somebody.” Continue reading
Nanaimo tent city eviction deferred by one week
By Simon Little Online Journalist
The city has agreed to give the campers and extra week while their lawyer argues for a longer extension in BC Supreme Court. Continue reading