In spite of two votes by city council calling for 90% or less shelter occupancy for people without homes, Toronto bureaucrats with strong backing from Mayor John Tory are running a system effectively ...

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Advocates and clients call Toronto's shelter system 'dehumanizing' and push for more inclusive conditions. (Martin Trainor/CBC - image credit) Two Toronto housing advocacy groups are urging the city ...

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A Toronto shelter for people experiencing homelessness has closed for two weeks after COVID-19 killed two men who were staying there and infected 18 others. Executive director Bob Duff says St.

On Jan. 5, the temperature in Toronto set a record low at -23 degrees Celsius, or -9.4 Fahrenheit. Environment Canada advised those outside to cover up; at that temperature frostbite occurs within ...

Toronto residents have been advised to shelter in place, under restrictions that rise and fall according to the pandemic, since March 2020, when the coronavirus first reached North America. That ...

(RNS) — For the next three months, a group of Muslim volunteers is driving through the streets of downtown Toronto in a repurposed coach bus to offer the city’s homeless population a refuge from the ...

The rapid spread of Omicron across Canada is taking an especially terrible toll on the homeless population, with major outbreaks reported in shelters in Toronto and British Columbia in recent weeks.

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Two Toronto housing advocacy groups are urging the city to improve the "inhumane" conditions and ...

Months after a report showed violence in Toronto's shelters has spiked 280 per cent over the last decade, the city is proposing a three-year plan that it hopes will make shelter clients and workers ...