Tag: Homeless
Letters to the Editor: October 4, 2022
We’ll miss Ernie
Need for OSHaRE greater than ever, board member said
With OSHaRE feeding around 300 people a day, many of them twice a day, the organization needs to raise around $300,000 this year to cover expenses. Dozens of Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort supporters took to their feet Friday afternoon on one of two five-kilometre fundraising walks which started behind city hall. Last year’s […]
Letters to the Editor: September 14, 2022
Vote for core action
Letters to the Editor: August 10, 2022
Stonewalling
Homeless advocates moving forward with hunger strike
A planned hunger strike is still a go for next week following a “sorely disappointing” meeting between #TheForgotten519 and city officials Tuesday.
Owen Sound to look at providing downtown toilet open 24/7
City council agreed Monday to look at providing a public toilet that would be available around the clock, after a man asked for one on behalf of homeless people. Council quickly agreed after Ray Botten, a sometimes controversial local advocate of homeless people and one-time mayoral candidate, addressed council during a public question period. “We […]
Critics rip city hall silence on winter homeless shelter controversy
As concerns grew about how London handled contracts to look after the homeless during the pandemic, and millions in taxpayers’ dollars flowed to one agency hired to run a winter shelter,
How city hall proposes spending $2.35M to help London’s most vulnerable
Contracts worth a combined $2.35 million to offer programs serving the hardest-hit Londoners during the next year – including mental health and addictions treatment, emergency housing and hoarding programs – are up for political approval at city hall next week. All the funding comes from Ottawa and Queen’s Park, but flows through city hall’s housing […]
Allegations, questions swirl around agency that ran homeless shelter
When The London Free Press began asking questions in February about the change in management of a winter homeless shelter, city hall manager Kevin Dickins emailed his colleagues
Homeless advocates’ message to city: Let’s work together to help people
London’s homeless people aren’t like daffodils that simply reappear when the weather warms ups, a group of frustrated health care and outreach workers said Thursday. But it’s time to stop arguing with city hall about numbers and start working together on human beings, they said, extending an invitation to other organizations and the city to […]