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When pleading guilty, 19-year-old Hiram Carrero admitted to intentionally setting a piece of paper on fire that harmed the victim, who was sleeping when the incident occurred.

After years of drug, disease and homelessness-related crises in the Island Lake region, the Anisininew Grand Council declared a public health emergency.

B.C.'s Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs said they know more needs to be done to help the most vulnerable members of the province's communities.

A judge last month ruled that a local bylaw created to allow the region to remove about two dozen homeless people from the encampment violates their Charter rights.

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.

Five days after the twin quakes, questions loomed about whether the cash-strapped government will be able to care for thousands of people who have been left homeless.

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.

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Mayor Valérie Plante's administration had originally approved the project, but the current administration under Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has decided not to move forward.

Hearings continue today at New Brunswick's legislature into the systemic failures of the Social Development Department. 

The mayor says the funds will allow some 150 households to access up to $5,000 in loans repayable over five years.